Helio's foray into F1 is ambitious, and in fact, his training on the team simulator is truly impressive.

It can be said to have swept the simulator records run by Jenson Button and Fisichella before the Renault team, bringing the track lap time to a whole new level.

The Renault team management can spend $1.5 million to sign Helio, which means that he has not underestimated his strength. But the current performance still exceeds the team's best expectations, and has even reached the point where Helio can no longer be viewed with the eyes of a newcomer.

Talent and strength have been shown, so that Renault's goal for the new season is also ambitious to beat the Big Three.

After all, last season, the Renault team was already ranked fourth in the standings, but the drivers did not perform well, and they did not win the championship, but they slowly accumulated to the fourth place.

Therefore, the Renault team seems to have no presence, and many fans think that the Prost team has become the fourth big man without looking at the final standings.

The low-key "new team" season is behind us, and the Renault team intends to show its wingman this year. In addition to the improvement at the driver level, the latest generation of racing car Renault R202 has also been born, which is a Renault chassis and engine car, rather than last year's Benetton racing car base.

The biggest difference between Renault and new teams like Toyota and Jaguar is that it has a lot of experience in Formula 1.

As early as the 70s, Renault had become a supplier of F1 race engines, and in the 90s, Benetton's cooperation with Renault reached its peak. Schumacher's first two F1 World Championship titles were won by Benetton.

So whether it's chassis manufacturing or racing engine, Renault can play handy, except for changing the name of the Renault team, the rest is new bottles of old wine.

In terms of strength, capital, heritage, and technology, Renault is worthy of the current big three in the paddock, and it would be strange if it was willing to become a younger brother team.

Prost and Renault Teams, and even Sauber and Toyota Teams, are not willing to be lonely, which has brought a lot of pressure to the Big Three teams this year. If the drivers don't perform well with the cars, the triangle that has been solid for nearly a decade may be broken, and the F1 paddock will usher in a new round of reshuffle.

Among them, the most pressure is naturally the Williams team. Montoya was frantically suppressed by Zhang Yifei last season, and Ralph Schumacher has the strength and can also hit the championship podium, but I don't know why, I always feel a little unreliable.

The only thing that Sir Williams is pleased with is that the new car FW24 is still strong this year, and the new frame chassis is paired with BMW's latest P82 engine, and the test performance is very good.

The Williams team has cooperated with BMW in the past few years, which can be regarded as the last highlight period, and it can still defend the dignity and status of its big three teams.

When BMW bought Sauber Racing in 06 and began to build its own factory team, Williams Racing was forced to choose the backward Cosworth, and at the same time lost BMW's technical support and huge sponsorship.

Since then, the Williams team has fallen from the top three, and this fall has not been up for more than ten years.

"Montoya, this year is the last chance, don't let me down."

At the end of last season, Helio came to the Williams team for a private test and performed very well. Although he is slightly behind Montoya in terms of statistics, considering his status as a pure newcomer and his future potential, he may eventually surpass Montoya.

It's just that Montoya is from the test driver stage, which was cultivated by the Williams team, and there is already a tacit understanding of cooperation, while Helio, an American boy, is simply unruly and can be predicted that he will not be honest and obedient in the future.

Hesitation, coupled with the fact that Montoya is only a rookie who has been running for one season after all, can stabilize the ranks of first-class drivers, and it is too risky to bet on another Indy driver like this, and he is not very obedient.

So Sir Williams, in the end, kept Montoya, but this was also his last chance.

Montoya heard Sir Williams's threatening words, and instead of being as angry as ever, he sat calmly on the sofa in the lounge.

The experience of the rookie season in this year can be said to have smoothed out many edges and corners on Montoya. Let the Colombian superstar, who was originally very wild and irritable, learn what it means to be forbearant and quiet.

Compared to other small teams that can only train on simulators, Sir Williams has made a lot of money this time, letting Montoya and Schumacher Jr. train privately on the track to maintain their feel and improve their skills.

Don't think that F1 private training is as simple as running a few laps, the consumption of F1 car parts, track maintenance, and the labor costs of crew members will require at least tens of millions of dollars to maintain.

The annual budget of many small teams may be tens of millions of dollars, how can they be qualified to burn money for private training like this?

Last season, Williams finished second in the overall points, but did not pose enough threat to Ferrari and lost all three places in the drivers.

Results are the only way for Williams Racing to maintain their status and development, and they must show their strength this season.

"Ralph, so are you, don't always be an uncompetitive brother!"

To be honest, Sir Williams was more disappointed with Ralph Schumacher than with Montoya.

After all, Montoya is just a newcomer, if it weren't for Zhang Yifei's appearance, and now there is the strongest newcomer in Indy's history, Helio entering the F1 paddock, in fact, Montoya's performance is good enough.

But Ralph Schumacher is different, everyone equates him with the expectations of a second Michael Schumacher, believing that he has what it takes to become an F1 World Champion.

Objectively speaking, Ralph Schumacher's results this year are not bad, ranking fourth in the overall points, losing only to Schumacher, Kuthard, and Barrichello. Considering his professional age and age, he is already among the top drivers.

This result is acceptable for a small team, but Williams is a big three team, and the runner-up can only be regarded as a loser, and the fourth and fifth place results are a fart?

And Montoya at least has the fighting spirit, wants to defeat the Chinese kid, wants to become a world champion, and proves his glory as the king of India.

Ralph Schumacher doesn't care at all, he wins or loses like to be a kid and likes to hook up with racing girls in the team lounge. If Montoya hadn't been present on several occasions, and there had been more surveillance than in the seventies and eighties, it would have been estimated that the pit would have staged the "artillery fire" scene of Hunter back then.

Sir Williams has often wondered whether Ralph Schumacher has wasted his talent, or is his own strength just like this?

When Schumacher Jr. heard that he was comparing himself with his brother again, the expression on his face finally changed, but he quickly returned to normal and chose to remain silent.

Many times he does want to surpass Schumacher and get out of the shadow that covers his own light. But after repeated failures, Ralph gradually realized that there may be an insurmountable gap between himself and his brother.

It's not because they are all surnamed Schumacher, talent and strength will definitely be the same, many people regard him as a world champion, which puts a lot of pressure on Schumacher Jr. His choice of laziness and indulgence may also be a way of escaping.

Just like the Internet addicted teenagers in later generations, they use the virtual world to escape the expectations and pressures of reality.

Seeing that neither of the two drivers spoke, Sir Williams snorted coldly and sighed. In fact, he also knows many times that the driver is not performing badly, and the pressure may break the string, but the team has no choice!

This kind of plot also appeared in the McLaren team, but not as directly and under pressure as Sir Williams.

Last year, McLaren Racing won the second place in the driver's and the third place in the team, which seems to be half a pound and eight taels with the Williams team, but the hidden risk is actually greater than that of the Williams team.

Because the two drivers of the Williams team are young and average, they both have a lot of potential and impact. While McLaren only relied on Coulthard to stand out, Kimi Raikkonen was very unbearable.

Coulthard is not a solid driver, having been excellent last year and may be out of shape this season. If Kimi Raikkonen doesn't grow, McLaren has the best chance of falling from the Big Three.

After all, this year, Prost, Renault, and even Sauber are not fuel-efficient lights!

The only good thing is that Ferrari has two drivers who are in perfect harmony and are both in their prime. In addition, this year's F2002 racing car, the laboratory data is amazing, and last year's McLaren-Benz racing car is complete, and it is the absolute "Mars rover" standard.

If this can also be lost, then it's useless to say anything!

If there is one regret, it is that last year's decision to sell the engine for the new season to Prost could be a hidden danger. After all, no one could have imagined that this year's racing engine performance would be so impressive.

With the retirement of time, the 11 team pits were set up, and the seven-day season winter test officially began.

Unlike last year's first round of testing by Minardi, McLaren, and Renault, this year's Scuderia Ferrari intends to test the waters first, they are very confident in their new car, and want to use lap times to tell these ambitious teams this year that Ferrari is still the strongest Ferrari!

Also on the track was the Renault team, and Helio never knew what it meant to be forbearing, he was the kind of person who showed his edge.

This year, Helio is very confident in the strength of Renault's car and himself, and now that Schumacher is on the field, let's go up and meet him to see how the new Ferrari car goes.

The last one to come out was Sauber, and the newcomer Massa sat in the cockpit, with a calm expression on his face, without Schumacher's domineering and Helio's edge.

Massa's reason for playing is simple, Schumacher is his idol, this is the first time he has had the opportunity to compete with Schumacher, so he doesn't want to miss it, it's that simple.

But these drivers immediately attracted the attention of the teams as they drove onto the track, and the speed of Ferrari's new car and the strength of the two newcomers made people curious.