"yes, I have supporters too."

Zhang Yifei sighed along Ah Hu's words, compared with the last time he won the runner-up and all kinds of inverted colors, today's changes are really embarrassing.

"As long as there are results, there will naturally be supporters, and that's the law of competitive competition."

Junko Takeda said in passing, the runner-up title of Monza station made Zhang Yifei begin to gain supporters.

"Maybe there are feelings."

Zhang Yifei didn't refute, just added with a smile.

When they came to the pit, the people from Toyota's technical team had arrived early, and they needed to overhaul the car in advance to ensure that there would be no problems in the next qualifying race.

Ah Hu and Chen Zhi also joined them for the first time, and the team English dialogue in the past few days has allowed the two of them to overcome many obstacles in speaking, and gradually began to be able to communicate.

Almost as soon as Zhang Yifei and his entourage arrived, Korsell also came to the pit on the back foot.

"How's it going today?"

He first asked Zhang Yifei.

"Not bad."

In this morning's stage, because of the competition, Korsell did not come to the hotel, which is a rare relaxation for Zhang Yifei in the past few days, and he is naturally in a good state.

"Do you remember all the track data?"

"Remember, word for word!"

Zhang Yifei specially put his tone on "word for word", he knew that this was where Korcel was concerned.

"Very good, it's 2:55 a.m., and there's still 45 minutes left before the track, so you can go change into your racing suit and get ready."

"yes, I see."

Zhang Yifei nodded and went to the backstage to prepare to change clothes, while Cowsell came to Renault Racing and said to the Toyota mechanic team: "The suspension is adjusted to the hardest, and the air kit downforce is increased." ”

"Mentor, why is the air downforce still increasing, so that it doesn't slow down the speed of the car out of the corner?"

Yamamoto didn't understand why Waser did this, and it stands to reason that the medium tyres were not as fast as the soft tyres, and if the downforce was increased at this time, the speed of the first few laps would be wider than that of the soft-tyres.

"Air downforce will reduce the ultimate acceleration after cornering, but it can also enhance the grip of the tire in high-speed corners, making the cornering speed faster and more stable, and solving the grip defect before the temperature of the neutral tire comes up."

"Another point is that I called the Heidelberg Meteorological Station, and in the next hour the weather will turn cloudy and windy, and the temperature on the boulevard will probably cool down very quickly, so you have to ensure grip in the corners."

Unlike the sun, the boulevard is accompanied by a change in air temperature. What's more, the dense forests lock in the moisture of the land, and once the evaporation is reduced, the temperature on the boulevard can be even lower.

In this way, the temperature of Zhang Yifei's neutral tires rises more slowly, and the grip of the shade section is even more obvious than that of other soft tires. Therefore, strengthening the downforce of the air package allows Zhang Yifei to reduce the risk of loss of control when cornering at high speed.

"I see."

Yamamoto Youkyo nodded admiringly, they all relied on the information sent by Renault for the direction of the weather, and they all printed the day's temperature changes in the morning, and the timeliness was backward.

Weather forecasting is very difficult, let alone 99 years, even if it is placed in 20 years, it is very common for weather forecasts to be inaccurate.

The junior Formula 1 team, because they are all newcomers and inexperienced, may follow the official data, but as a member of the F1 team's strategy team, Korsell requires the weather to change within an hour.

Therefore, in an official data like this, the error in predicting the temperature and weather changes in the afternoon in the morning is too big.

Zhang Yifei changed into a racing suit and came out, and Korsell explained to him the minor changes in the tuning of the car, and told him to pay attention to the changes in the airflow in the boulevard.

Because of the special relationship between the two sides of the forest, once there is windy weather on the track, the boulevard track is prone to wind tunnel effect, which will greatly affect the handling of the car.

Therefore, when choosing when to change lanes to overtake, or even to turn at high speed, you must be mentally prepared for accidents, and do not panic when you feel the stability of the car decrease.

At 15:40, the Hockenheim Race Command Center issued an order for the drivers to assemble in the grid area.

Hearing this command, Zhang Yifei put on a helmet and sat in the Renault car, and then the Toyota technical team began to ignite the car. There was no tension and solemnity at the Monza track before, and after saying a word of refueling, Zhang Yifei started the car and went to the starting area.

As for Kossel, he just nodded briefly to Zhang Yifei, and then crossed the maintenance channel and the isolation net with Ah Hu, walked to the starting area and waited for Zhang Yifei to drive over.

This time, Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto did not go to the preparation area for the departure as they did at Monza Station before, but found their position.

Before the race, the driver only needs to communicate with his race engineer and chief technician, and the team manager and data analyst are actually the priority of the race. So you don't need to go to the track, just stay in the pits and monitor the car data.

Zhang Yifei drove the Renault car out of the P room and drove to the front maintenance track, through which he entered the starting area of the main track.

But at this time, he saw a 19 number symbol attached to the body of the car in front of him. There was no doubt that this was the Qualifying session at Monza, and the Madu number who wanted to force an overtake but didn't manage to get off the track in the end.

It's really a narrow road.

The corners of Zhang Yifei's mouth showed a sneer, and then he stepped on the accelerator, which was originally just a slow car, burst out with strong power, and instantly caught up with the No. 19 car Madu in front.

Compared with the main track more than ten meters wide, there is not even half of the maintenance lane, and under normal circumstances, it is a single car to pass, and there is never any overtaking here, which is not allowed by the rules.

And the starting order of the qualifying race does not matter, after all, it is just to see the fastest lap in half an hour, who starts first, who follows the car, there is no impact at all, so the maintenance channel, everyone is in the order of the front and back to enter the main track.

Madu also followed closely in front of him, preparing to enter the starting area of the main circuit, intending to show his strength in this qualifying session.

You must know that the last stop at Monza made Madu very annoyed. I thought that overtaking in the corner could eat the Chinese rookie who came out of nowhere, but I didn't expect that the kid was not weak at all, but he couldn't control the corner and rushed out of the track and eliminated it directly.

He didn't even have the qualifications to enter the main race, so naturally it was impossible to have points for the main race, in fact, this is not the most important thing, after all, Madu had no results in the karting professional events before, and many times he was also in the middle of the middle without results, and he had long been used to it.

But this time he was "counter-killed" by a Chinese rookie, which made him feel a kind of humiliation and kept thinking about revenge.

As a result, he really found an opportunity, that is, in the previous street brawl incident, Ma Du used his father's influence to contact several tabloid media and smear Zhang Yifei, which can be regarded as a bad breath in his heart.

It's just that the Chinese guys are so lucky, and they also found the DV video of the conflict at that time, plus the public relations of Toyota behind it, and the image turned over, which made Massa feel unhappy again, and planned to stop Hockenheim this time to let the Chinese know that he was powerful.

Madur's abacus was still playing, but there was a roar of the engine revving up, you must know that because of the sweltering heat, the driver generally does not put down the mask before the official start.

So at this time, Madu is very strange, why does someone step on the heavy throttle in the maintenance channel, can it be said to test the engine?

But theoretically not, it's going to be a warm-up lap right away, and if there's any problem, it's going to be tested on the warm-up lap, not on the current pit course.

So Madu subconsciously looked in the rearview mirror, even if the mask was not put down, it was still difficult to see his face clearly, but the number of the car 13 behind him undoubtedly told who Madu was.

In the entire Renault 2000 European Cup, no one will choose the number 13, only the rookie who comes to China will not care about 13. There is no doubt that this is a provocation by the Chinese Yankees against themselves.

That's right, this is Zhang Yifei's provocation, he has always restrained himself before, although the style on the track is aggressive, but not arrogant. Compared with those F1 seniors who simply crashed directly, Zhang Yifei can be regarded as a good young man.

But the despicable means behind Madu made Zhang Yifei feel very disgusting, as a driver, what problems can be solved on the track, relying on this kind of slander of reputation behind him, it is really a villain's behavior.

Zhang Yifei never thought that he was a soft persimmon, he came out to mix, and said that he wanted to press Madu on the ground and rub it, so he must rub him again.

So Zhang Yifei didn't wait for the qualifying match to start, and the maintenance channel directly began to provoke.

The two cars were directly side by side, Zhang Yifei stepped on the clutch to cut off the power, and once again stepped on the deep throttle, making the engine roar.

Ma Du turned his head at this time, and looked at Zhang Yifei with a pair of eyes, he didn't expect that this Chinese guy would dare to take the initiative to provoke so arrogantly, this may be the first Asian driver to make such a provocative move on the European track.

Zhang Yifei also looked at Ma Du, his eyes were full of arrogance, he just wanted to tell Ma Du that he would eat him today!

This kind of rare scene in the field also made other drivers look sideways, and it turned out to see that the No. 13 car Fei and the No. 19 car Madu were side by side, and it was the Chinese driver Fei who took the initiative to provoke, which surprised many people.

Because the drivers in this area all know the accident that happened between these two people in qualifying, but judging from the results, Zhang Yifei had the last laugh.

Theoretically, to retaliate, it was also Madu who went to Zhang Yifei, but now the situation is completely reversed, is this really the style of Asian drivers?

On the main track, Korsell also saw Zhang Yifei's inexplicable behavior, he cut the channel and asked Yamamoto Youjing: "Fei, what's the situation?" ”

"The previous No. 19 driver, Madu, maliciously overtook a flying king on the track, almost causing an accident, and as a result, he rushed off the track. Later, he seized the opportunity to smear with the media, so there was a grudge between the two people. ”

"But don't worry, mentor, I'll communicate with Yifeijun and let him pay attention."

Yamamoto Ukyo is worried that Zhang Yifei's actions will leave a bad impression on his mentor, after all, he is only a "temporary" status now, and he cannot be considered a team member.

If this kind of thing makes Korsell unhappy, or even unwilling to join the team as a race engineer, it will be more than worth the loss.

"No, so be it."

"Huh?"

"Ah what, it's just a two-foot throttle provocation, if it were when I was younger, I would knock this kid off the track!"

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