"It should be difficult to have a super rookie like Yi Feijun again, but this year's rookie is really strong."

Toyota team leader Ueto Hirakawa replied, and his face was also full of surprise.

In fact, the on-site team management is more optimistic about the strength of these rookies in trial training, otherwise they will not be put in the final test.

However, the results of the current run are still beyond the previous best estimates, and the trial lap times of Helio and Massa are almost equivalent to the race laps of the official F1 drivers.

But don't forget, the two of them are just newcomers! Helio is better, after all, he has the foundation of IndyCar and even the annual champion of IndyCar, and Massa is just a pure newcomer, but he still runs such an exaggerated result, which is what surprises the team management.

"Now it seems that Massa's results are much better than Sato-kun's, should we choose a different target?"

Tomita asked the other team managers, in fact, when they made internal decisions before, they had already agreed on this year's team rookie, that is, Takuma Sato, also from Japan.

Takuma Sato is considered Japan's toughest rookie driver in recent years, except for the Oshima Grand Prix lost to Zhang Yifei, almost swept the world's F3 events, including France and the strongest British F3 race, known as the hope of Japanese formula racing.

Toyota F1 team, as a Japanese factory team, chose Takuma Sato to join the team, in addition to the strength factor, there are naturally some "feelings" factors. After all, if a top Japanese F1 driver can be cultivated, it will greatly enhance the influence of Japanese drivers in the racing world, and it will also enhance the status of Toyota Group in the hearts of the people.

But now it seems that even the strongest Japanese newcomer Takuma Sato seems to be a little under-sighted in the face of these super rookies this year.

There are all kinds of benefits to training Japanese drivers, but only if you can train them! The Toyota F1 team first has to ensure its own results, and then talk about those things about "feelings", otherwise everything is empty talk.

I have to say that Toyota has ambitions in the F1 field and does not want to become a salted fish team that lives in chaos. Later, it signed Ralph Schumacher at the price of a WDC champion, and it was rushed to build an F1 championship team.

It's just that Ralph Schumacher has become a pitfall, thinking that he has the strength of an F1 world champion, but after signing it, it collapsed directly, becoming one of the biggest signing bubbles of all time.

spent a huge amount of money, but never even won the championship, and the Toyota team could not afford to play and had to quit.

Therefore, in the face of stronger drivers, it is self-defeating to consider issues such as nationality, skin color, etc.!

Prost almost ran out of the way, and the Toyota team naturally didn't want to follow in its footsteps.

"I think it's feasible, and Sato-kun has Honda's money behind him, and it's likely that he will end up with the Anglo-American team."

Hirakawa Ueto echoed Tomita's opinion, and before the trial, they predicted that Takuma Sato would be one of the best rookies and was ready to sign the only active Japanese F1 driver from Honda.

But now there may be a better option, and the Toyota team is naturally prepared to change its mind and avoid a face-to-face with the Honda Group.

The outstanding performances of Massa and Helio also attracted the attention of other teams. In particular, the Renault team, which has a very ambitious team plan for next year, is planning to replace one of Jenson Barton and Fisichhella to improve the team's combat effectiveness.

Now there is such a strong newcomer, Renault team must not let go, after all, Renault-Nissan Alliance has the technology and capital that is not inferior to the big three teams, if it is still in the middle and lower reaches of the rankings, let the current world's first car giant face where to put it?

On lap five, Helio overtook Massa again and improved his fastest lap by a full 0.15 seconds. It shows the super stamina and hard power of the Indy champion, and even has a taste of dominating the track.

However, on the sixth lap, Massa also gave up the speed, and once again only bit Helio. Although he could feel Massa's difficulty in improving his lap time, he was able to improve and bite Helio with a slight disadvantage, which already showed his strength and potential.

It is worthy of being another newcomer in the Brazilian car world after Barrichello, who is expected to inherit the mantle of Senna. Massa's performance in the circuit trial did not disappoint the Brazilian fans.

At this time, Alonso was able to break through the lap time of 1 minute and 19 seconds and come to the realm of 1 minute and 18 seconds. If this trial result had been placed in previous years, it would have been considered quite good enough to be selected by the F1 team.

But now that there is Zhuyu in front, and Alonso is still a "back to the pot" who has been running for a year, this kind of achievement is not very conspicuous, and it can even be said that many people are disappointed.

"Fei, it seems that this Spanish driver is not as strong as you think."

Prost opened his mouth at this time, and Zhang Yifei had told him before that Alonso would be much stronger than he imagined.

The facts on the track proved that what he imagined was not wrong, and the Spanish rookie had nothing to show off. On the contrary, Zhang Yifei seriously overestimated Alonso's strength, and his performance was not worthy of being the No. 2 driver of the Prost team, let alone arrogant!

In the face of the boss's words, Zhang Yifei did not answer, because he didn't know what to say.

All of Zhang Yifei's judgments based on strength are from the perspective of God, knowing their future achievements and development, except for the outlier of Helio.

Theoretically, Alonso is stronger than Massa, and the state came out earlier, but the butterfly wings have already been flapped, history has begun to change beyond recognition, Zhang Yifei is really not absolutely sure, Alonso can win Massa in today's game, so he is naturally speechless.

"Helio is strong."

Cosell, who was on the side, said with a twinkle in his eyes, he did not intervene in the dispute between Massa and Alonso at all, but instead focused on Helio.

As far as Helio's performance is concerned, it is almost possible to confirm the rumors that he has trained privately with Williams, otherwise he would not have been so proficient in driving F1 cars, and the line routing of the Jerez circuit is also extremely accurate.

However, even if he trained privately with Williams, he couldn't hide his talent in formula cars. After all, the United States Grand Prix ended in September, and today is only in early December, and it will only be more than two months before the middle is full.

In this short period of time, Helio has the strength of an official F1 driver, and by the beginning of March next year, how much improvement and progress should there be?

For a moment, Cosell even saw Zhang Yifei's shadow in Helio, the same genius boy, the same super newcomer potential!

To be honest, if it weren't for the grievances on the Indy track, then the most satisfying candidate in Korcel's heart now is Helio. If he can join forces with Zhang Yifei, he will become the strongest rookie group in F1 history, a real track twin.

Suddenly, hearing Cosell coldly praise Helio, Zhang Yifei knew very well what this old German man was thinking, and he was very optimistic about this arrogant king of India.

After all, it is not easy to get Koser's praise, and even Zhang Yifei himself is rarely appreciated by Koser. But today, the old man in Germany has recognized Helio one after another, and has revealed his inner thoughts.

Did you choose Helio as a teammate?

This idea also appeared in Zhang Yifei's mind instantly, but he was instantly vetoed. Let's not talk about the grievances between the two people in the United States Grand Prix before, just his face in the sky and on the ground, the most stinking Sima face for me, Zhang Yifei can't bear to face it every day.

Foreigners have a little personal idea, Zhang Yifei is very clear, but to the extent of Helio, it is really a minority. He's like a spoiled kid who centers everything on himself.

In fact, Helio has been touted all the way. And he also used his strength to prove that he could afford these touts. If it weren't for Zhang Yifei beating him at the Indy Track, Helio might be even more arrogant now.

If such a person wants to bring him to his knees, he needs to press him to the ground and rub him back and forth, just as he did with Montoya. Even if Zhang Yifei has this strength, he doesn't have the energy, maybe the two of them are very strong in hard power.

But in fact, it is absolutely impossible to play the effect that one plus one is greater than two, Zhang Yifei is very clear about his character, and he will never compromise. It's just that he didn't write this kind of arrogance and arrogance on his face like Helio.

"Kossel, I'm not going to be teammates with Helio, I'm just going to be an opponent."

Zhang Yifei opened his mouth and said a word, and advised Corpor not to have any ideas.

"It's not bad to be an opponent, at least it's going to be exciting in the game."

Korsell replied disapprerovingly, what he wanted to do, he never cared what Zhang Yifei thought.

As for why he asked why he didn't do this, it was purely clear that Zhang Yifei couldn't conquer Helio in a short time.

There is also a way for the "time bomb" to reach or delay the point in which it will explode. And Helio is directly a "bomb", and the introduction of the convoy will explode every day!

Just when the management of several teams was discussing the strength of the rookie drivers, another unexpected scene happened on the track.

Alonso, who had been lagging behind, actually broke out on the eighth lap and completed the overtake of Helio, with a lap time of 1:18.637, winning the fastest lap on the track so far!

Jerez records just 1:18.135 and most of the riders may not be as fast as Alonso's current fastest lap in the race. So to be able to run this lap time is absolutely amazing, not at all like Alonso's rookie performance last season.

Alonso on the track, after learning his fastest lap through the team's voice.

directly complained excitedly in the public voice channel: "This is called real racing, before Minardi racing was the F3000 level!" ”

When this sentence came out, the audience was in an uproar, this guy complained about his former team so openly?