The old man in Germany is starting to be yin and yang again!

Zhang Yifei muttered very dissatisfied in his heart, but Corell still expressed a point of view, that is, the French veteran Alessi, who also runs this track, can achieve a lap time of more than one second faster than the current Zhang Yifei.

Then Zhang Yifei has no reason to blame his slow running on the track problem.

If he really wants to dump the pot on the track, he must at least surpass Alessi to be qualified to say this.

"Then I'd better help Prost save some money."

Zhang Yifei replied with a very B number, and then pressed the continue button and started his next simulator training.

However, this time, it can be clearly seen that Zhang Yifei is faster in the corner, and the tangent line is more extreme.

He finally followed Korcel's advice and went through the corners at full throttle.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Prost and his party returned to the team headquarters, and out of politeness, Zhang Yifei and his party also stood in the hall on the first floor, ready to meet with the main members of the team.

Walking in the front was naturally Prost, he saw Zhang Yifei and Cosell and others, and his originally somewhat depressed face squeezed out a smile to say hello.

For Prost, Zhang Yifei is quite familiar, not to mention that he has dealt with him in his life. Even in his previous life, Zhang Yifei was like thunder about Prost's deeds.

After all, throughout the late 80s and early 90s of F1, it was his battle with Senna that dominated the car world. As a professional driver, it's hard to know.

So this time, Zhang Yifei focused more on the several Prost riders behind him, who will also be his future "teammates".

First up is naturally the French veteran, current team No. 1 Jean Alessi.

The French veteran is considered Senna's contemporary, winning the Formula 3 and F3000 championships, joining Trier Ford in 1989 for the F1 French Grand Prix, and then moving to Ferrari, one of the Big Three.

For the next few years, the drivers' total points hovered in the upper middle of the pack, probably 5th, 6th, 7th.

The results are not bad, but they lack some impressive results, and they have only won one Grand Prix in their careers, which is considered a standard blue-collar driver.

He is now at the end of his career, having announced his retirement in 2001 following the collapse of the Prost team. But perhaps unwilling to be left alone, he took part in McLaren's on-track test drive the following year, but was unable to return to F1.

With a polite smile on his face, Alessi greeted Zhang Yifei, after all, in the future F1 season, the two are teammates who fight side by side.

Compared with Alec's politeness, the No. 2 driver Heidenfeld just nodded to Zhang Yifei expressionlessly, which was regarded as a greeting.

The reason is simple, that is, at the end of the transfer period after this season, he will end his contract with Prost Racing. And the person who grabbed his driver's position was Zhang Yifei!

However, Heidefeld did not hate Zhang Yifei so much because of this, because his rookie season in the Prost team can no longer be described as a failure, it is simply a kind of torture and pain!

You must know that before Heidfeld signed with the Prost team, he had just won the championship title of Formula International F3000, which can be described as high-spirited and ready to show his strength in the F1 paddock to prove his strength.

As a result, I never expected that in the debut season of the Prost team, the results would be such a collapse, not a single point was not much, and there were a few fights with the No. 1 driver Alessi in the team.

So even if Zhang Yifei doesn't take his place, Heidfeld doesn't want to stay in the Prost team. Historically, he also signed a three-year driver's contract with Sauber at the end of the season, partnering fellow newcomer Kimi Raikkonen for the gap between Finnish legend Mika Hakkinen's retirement.

Objectively speaking, Heidenfeld performed well in the Sauber team, and the total points advantage that year was 3 points, beating Kimi by a head.

But in the end, Kimi was selected by McLaren, and Kimi went from Sauber to McLaren.

And Kimi began to show his potential, becoming the only driver to threaten Schumacher during the five years of the Ferrari dynasty, putting on an F1 version of a song of ice and fire.

Zhang Yifei can understand Heidfeld's attitude, after all, the other party is leaving, and he is too lazy to be polite about these things.

But the attitude of the next test driver Emile was not as good as that of Heidefeld, he just glanced at Zhang Yifei with a gloomy expression, and he didn't bother to say hello.

If Heidfeld is ready to leave anyway and doesn't care whether Zhang Yifei has seized his position, then the person who really has a direct conflict of interest with Zhang Yifei is Emir.

As the third driver and test driver of the Prost team, once there is a vacancy in the official driver, then the Emir will fill the place.

Seeing the team's poor results this season, as well as the conflict between Alessy and Heindfeld, Emile had already decided in his heart that he would replace one of the two drivers and become the official driver of Prost!

As a result, I didn't expect that Prost signed a Chinese driver Zhang Yifei, who was still running Formula Renault, and this kind of airborne move to grab the position can be said to have shattered Emir's dream.

He couldn't figure it out, no matter how he said it, he was also the F3 champion and the third runner-up in the F3000. It's understandable that a champion like Handfield can't even compare to a Renault junior Formula driver?

Kimi Raikkonen is a miracle, but not everyone can be Kimi Raikkonen.

Emir couldn't understand Prost's approach at all, and couldn't accept that Zhang Yifei had seized his position as an official driver, and he was not convinced by Zhang Yifei's strength and historical achievements, so he naturally showed a kind of hostility.

For Emir's attitude, Zhang Yifei was a little surprised at first, after all, according to the traditional thinking of the Chinese, surface work still has to be done. And in the future, I will still be teammates with him, no matter how unconvinced I am in my heart, it will not be like this when we meet for the first time.

Obviously, Zhang Yifei was wrong, and the other party was not interested in doing superficial work.

Since Emir has this attitude, Zhang Yifei naturally will not go to the hot face and paste the cold PI stock, he also glanced at it with an indifferent expression, and there is no intention of communicating at all.

In this way, after greeting each other, Prost took Zhang Yifei and Cosell to his office and had a private conversation with the two of them.

"Fly, are you still used to the F1 team atmosphere?"

Prost didn't get down to business, but first asked Zhang Yifei how to adapt to the situation.

That's the difference between a driver and a boss, and if you change to Cosell, you have something to say. And Prost, who became the boss, will take into account the emotions of the rookie drivers and add some good impression points.

"I'm used to it, no problem."

Zhang Yifei replied simply, he was more accustomed to Cosell's direct talk.

"It's fine."

Prost nodded, and then got down to business.

"I called you here mainly to tell you that the application for a super driver's license was rejected by the FIA."

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei frowned, to be honest, he had always been concerned about the issue of super driver's license before.

Because of the precedent of Kimi Raikkonen being specially approved only a few days before the official competition, he is far inferior to Kimi Raikkonen in terms of background, connections, and even popularity, and it is theoretically more difficult for him to apply for a super driver's license.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei has been working hard in this direction during this time, including participating in the Ao Island Grand Prix, all for the application standard of the super driver's license.

As a result, I didn't expect that they had already won the F3 championship title, but they were still vetoed by the FIA.

If the F1 season officially starts next year, if you haven't obtained a super license, you may be forced to relegate from the F1 paddock to the F3000 race. Only in this way can you get a super driver's license without relying on special approval, but on your grades.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei has never thought about running F3000 races, and he has already been exposed to the world's top F1 cars, who wants to run low-level races?

"Hmph, if it weren't for the means behind you back then, how could the application for a super driver's license be rejected today!"

Caser said very dissatisfied, now there is a precedent for Kimi Raikkonen's special approval, and Zhang Yifei also won the Australian Island F3 championship. Theoretically, the difficulty of getting a super driver's license is much easier than that of Kimi, and there is a high probability that you will pass it in one go.

However, because Prost colluded with the French president of the FIA to operate in the dark, resulting in the special approval of the FIA driver's license, it was necessary to consider the doubts and influences of the outside world, which was the key to Zhang Yifei's veto!

Hearing Cosell's words, Prost's face showed a trace of embarrassment, but he also knew the bad temper of the old German man, so he didn't argue with him or anything.

"Now that the F1 season is over, I'm going to go to the FIA headquarters in person and lobby the chairman and the committee to give you special approval. Before the start of the F1 season next year, a Super Driver's License will definitely be issued. ”

Prost replied affirmatively, after all, the FIA headquarters is located in the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, occupying a geographical advantage, and Prost has plenty of lobbying time.

His remarks still didn't make much of a difference in Cosell's attitude. Although the events of that year have passed, and Caser is also relieved to celebrate the holidays with Prost, and even joined his team, this does not mean that Caser agrees with Prost's style of acting.

Perhaps the only thing Prost appreciated for Sell was the "stubbornness" that was not understood by the outside world, and in Kossel's view, this is the persistence of a true idealist!

"By the way, what is your purpose in making me the Chief Race Engineer?"

Cosell opened his mouth and asked, Prost is such a calculating person, it is impossible to do meaningless things.

"Competition."

With a meaningful smile on his face, Prost uttered such a word.