The two cars rushed towards the pit stop one after the other, and when he felt that Yang Long had defended for the sake of defense, Zhang Yifei understood that he had no fighting spirit and planned to pit in this lap, and now it was the final delay.

has already run to this point, Zhang Yifei naturally doesn't want the result to be in vain, he must let Xiong Long understand. There is only one Chinese driver who is the strongest, and that is Zhang Yifei from China!

But this lap to complete the transcendence is actually not an easy thing for Zhang Yifei.

The main reason is that after more than a dozen laps of wear and tear, the super soft tires of the car have basically completed their mission, and the grip has started to decline from the peak. If you don't pit and change tires, you won't be able to maintain grip in high-speed cornering conditions.

Another point is that Zhang Yifei heard an abnormal sound from the rear of the car from time to time. He didn't know if it was the engine, or the chassis or some other factor, but it wasn't a good sign.

So Zhang Yifei didn't have many opportunities left, and he set his sights on the T10 turn of the track, which is one of the few overtaking spots at the Catalan circuit.

The T10 corner is a nearly 180-degree turning corner, where the speed of the car will be at its lowest. If you want to overtake, you must be extremely precise in controlling the braking point and the alignment, otherwise you will rush off the track.

In addition to reducing downforce for straightpoint speed, other things such as lowering the ground height, stiffer suspension and super-soft tires can be seen as enhancing cornering speed.

These adjustments make the car more difficult to handle, but they lead to higher cornering limits. Therefore, at the braking point of the T10 corner, Zhang Yifei stepped on the brake later than Yang Long, and caught up with the Minardi car in an instant, and the two cars entered the corner in a side-by-side way.

"It's time to overtake!"

"The Chinese newcomer finally found a chance, and he caught up with this special thing!"

"The lap speed is more than a second faster on average, and it's not for nothing that I'm a rookie rider can really achieve a triple jump."

"I'm curious now about what the fastest lap is for a Chinese newcomer, and I don't know if the data has been processed by the event center."

Zhang Yifei's overtaking action made many team members on the scene start to applaud loudly, cheering and praising him.

After all, they are all professional teams here, and they know how difficult it is for Zhang Yifei to overtake, and they know how amazing it is for him to catch up. Putting aside all kinds of colored eyes, Zhang Yifei, as a newcomer, impressed these F1 teams with his strength, and deserves to cheer for this Chinese newcomer.

"Kimi, it looks like you've got an opponent on the track."

Coulthard didn't have a playful smile this time, he took Zhang Yifei's strength seriously, and felt that the new F1 season was qualified to be Kimi's strong opponent.

And at this moment, Kimi Raikkonen's face also had a solemn expression. Although he is known as the "Finnish Iceman", his inner desire for victory and championship is as hot as fire.

Zhang Yifei is his own replicator and chaser in the image of the world, and if Zhang Yifei is allowed to surpass the past, then this image will change. Competitive sports are more about results than about pioneering.

In front of the Pit Stop of the Prost Racing Team, there are also full of maintenance technicians, who are all looking at Zhang Yifei on the track with excited and surprised eyes, waiting for this final overtake.

You must know that Zhang Yifei performed well in training before, and even won the French veteran Alessi in the team competition. But none of this proves anything, many people are trained as fierce as tigers, and competition dishes are like dogs.

And the state of the French veteran Alessi last year is not too much to say that it is at the bottom, and not only his personal state, but also among the 22 drivers of the F1 team, he can be regarded as the bottom of the existence, and the will to fight is not as good as the newcomer Heidenfeld.

Defeating such an unmotivated older driver was convincing, but it was not reassuring for the team.

Although the winter test track is not an official race, it is already very close to the state of the official race, and Yang Long is also a rookie driver in Minardi, but he was so crushed by Zhang Yifei.

There is really no comparison, there is no harm, and now after this comparison, the members of the Prost team feel more and more that signing Zhang Yifei, a Chinese newcomer, is a treasure.

Newcomers represent infinite possibilities, only with potential, the revival of the Prost team is just around the corner!

"Run beautifully, go over it!"

"Fly, come on, for the Prost team!"

"The strongest Chinese newcomer, fly to prove yourself!"

Although Zhang Yifei couldn't hear the cheering and shouting, the other team members next to the pit could hear it.

You must know that last season's Prost team was aggrieved, and I felt that I couldn't raise my head in front of other teams, and this year at least there is hope of turning over!

On the track, after Zhang Yifei was side by side, Xiong Long looked at the Prost blue car that appeared next to him, and there was a trace of panic in his heart.

But as a professional driver, this panic was quickly suppressed and replaced by a kind of determination.

As long as this bend can suppress Zhang Yifei, then it is even more impossible for Zhang Yifei to surpass the remaining bends. Behind is the pit stop in the maintenance channel, which means that this duel is over, no matter what, Zhang Yifei cannot be allowed to pass at this point in time.

In order to avoid being overtaken by Zhang Yifei in the T10 corner, he gritted his teeth and kicked the accelerator to speed up, not giving Zhang Yifei the opportunity to overtake.

Feeling the sudden acceleration of the Minardi car next to him, Zhang Yifei felt very different in his heart, his own cornering speed was already very extreme, Zhang Yifei did not dare to guarantee that there would be signs of insufficient grip.

As a result, I didn't expect that Xiong Long was still in this situation, accelerating in order to prevent himself from overtaking. Could it be that there is something special about his car that can maintain amazing acceleration and grip during cornering?

The answer is naturally no, this kind of black technology has exceeded the limit of aerophysic, unless there is any active downward pressure, otherwise there will inevitably be a lack of grip.

So now there are only two options in front of Yang Long, either brake and slow down, or rush off the track.

There is no doubt that normal people will choose the first one, after all, the first one still has a chance to be rescued, and the second one is directly cool. But now the speed is too fast, and Yang Long has no choice but to increase the braking on his feet.

The braking power was on display, and the Minardi racing tires showed signs of locking, and the super-soft tyres were already thin by the time they arrived here. This brake locked, instantly causing the tire that touched the ground to wear through.

With a muffled "bang", Yang Long's racing tires burst, and it was probably the first time he had encountered this kind of problem on the F1 track, and he stepped on the brakes even harder, but forgot to hang neutral.

So the car stopped directly and stopped on the track to "take a break".

"Oh~~~ Brother Fei won!"

Ah Hu shouted excitedly, although Xiong Long is only a paid driver, he is still a newcomer. But at best, it can be regarded as the first opponent that Zhang Yifei defeated on the F1 track, and the victory is always happy.

Compared with Ah Hu's happiness, the other members of the team, or the members of other teams, all set their eyes on the lap time display, wanting to see what Zhang Yifei's fastest lap was.

After all, a newcomer like Yang Long, without the sponsorship of the Malaysian government and business giants, would not have reached the F1 entry standard.

As a normal F1 driver, it is natural to defeat Yang Long, and the lap time represents Zhang Yifei's absolute strength.

Soon on the lap time display, Zhang Yifei's fastest lap appeared, 1:22.617!

This lap result, not to mention surprised many team members on the scene, and even many professional F1 drivers gasped. Because Zhang Yifei's fastest lap has been able to enter the middle and upper reaches of the two track tests, even Schumacher's fastest lap later is only 1:22.245.

Together with Zhang Yifei, Kimi Raikkonen, who is regarded as a twin star driver, had a test lap time on the track before, which was only 1:22.905, and Zhang Yifei opened up a gap.

Of course, these fastest laps do not represent the final strength of the drivers. Because in the first two days of the winter test, it was more about tuning the car than chasing fast laps. Basically, in the last two days of the winter test, there will be a qualitative improvement in lap times, and it is even possible to break the track record.

But who can guarantee that Zhang Yifei will not be promoted later? So this lap time comes out, which means that Zhang Yifei's strength has officially reached the standard of an F1 driver, and no one will look at him with the eyes of a Chinese rookie anymore.

The lap time on the track did not make Zhang Yifei get carried away, and he did not even celebrate the victory. As soon as the duel ended, Zhang Yifei drove the car into the pit stop, which was to overhaul the abnormal noise behind.

Fortunately, it was not the engine problem, but the abnormal sound caused by the loose air wing and the disturbance caused by the strong downward pressure airflow.

This result also made Zhang Yifei breathe a sigh of relief, if the Prost team runs bad once, it will be a bit of a cheat!

On the third day of the winter test, Peugeot Group's R&D engineers flew from the French headquarters to Barcelona to start overhauling the Peugeot engine.

Even Prost, who was outside to talk about sponsorship, called several times a day to inquire about the progress, and he could clearly feel the problems with the racing engine and Prost's anxious mentality.

After all, the team finished last year because of the Peugeot engine, and even lost its main sponsor, the Pan American Sports Network. This year, no matter what, the car can not have the same high failure rate as last year.

Fortunately, after Peugeot engineers checked it, they came to the conclusion that there were no design defects, but there was some misalignment in the assembly and sealing links, and the secondary reinforcement seal could basically ensure that there were no problems in the two races.

After the Peugeot engine was overhauled by Peugeot engineers, although there was still instability in the winter test in the next few days, at least there was no serious problem with the cylinder burst.

In this era, the reliability of the engine cannot be too high, and it can basically be guaranteed to be usable, and it has reached the passing standard.

Of course, this may also be due to the fact that last season, the Prost team lowered the standard of Peugeot engines a lot......

However, in any case, the biggest hidden danger is to be lifted, and the winter test in the next few days was relatively smooth, and Zhang Yifei basically controlled the JS53 car, waiting for the arrival of the new F1 season in 2000!