Listening to Zhang Yifei say these words, the expression of surprise on Alessi's face became even stronger.

You must know that his partner Heidenfield last season is also a rookie driver who is running an F1 race for the first time. In the impression of the outside world, he is far less arrogant and arrogant than the Chinese kid, and he can be regarded as a decent newcomer.

As a result, in the team, Zhang Yifei's strength and modesty were far from being there, and in the face of some of his words, he showed more unconvinced attitudes.

Of course, some of Alessi's words are either cynical or yin and yang, which is very much in line with some characteristics of the French. As a young and enthusiastic young driver, it is normal for Heindfeld not to stand these remarks.

In the end, the situation was that the two people were dissatisfied with each other, saying that everything had a little gunpowder smell, and the various failures of the car and the withdrawal of the race became the fuse between the two people.

In the case of ignition at one point, the dry frame becomes the best solution.

Fortunately, this is a dry fight within the team, and no one is embarrassed to complain about anything, otherwise it is estimated that there is no 30% completion rate in terms of the frequency of the two of them, and the time penalty and ban can make the two people into spectators in the stands.

"By the way, you didn't say why you wanted to help me?"

Zhang Yifei asked again, he was not very used to accepting help from unfamiliar people.

"There's not so much why, it's purely for the Prost team, don't be held back by you rookie."

Zhang Yifei couldn't help laughing at these words, Alessi may have forgotten one thing, whether it was the intra-team competition or the F1 winter test, the French veteran lost to himself.

When it comes to who will drag his feet, it is more likely that he will visually detect Alessi than himself.

Of course, for the sake of helping himself in the front, Zhang Yifei did not say these words in his heart, otherwise it is very likely to stimulate the self-esteem of the French veteran.

Not to mention the recurrence of the scene of dry fights in the lounge, at least the relationship between the two people who eased up a little will drop to the freezing point again. After all, there is still almost a year to get along, and Zhang Yifei doesn't want to face the embarrassment of a Sima face every time he is in the lounge, which is simply a kind of mental torture.

At this time, the team leader Henry knocked on the door and came in, looked at Zhang Yifei and said to Alessi: "The training match will start immediately, you guys come to the pit to prepare." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei and Alessi stood up almost at the same time, and then took the racing helmet hanging on the wall and went from the lounge to the front pit.

At this moment, the two racing cars have completed overhaul and tuning, waiting for Zhang Yifei and Alessi to test on the track.

Korsell saw Zhang Yi flying over and said to him, "Your car has been completely preliminarily tuned according to the requirements of the Albert Park circuit. Medium tyres and the stiffest brakes are used, and the aerodynamic conditions of medium and high downforce are used to ensure grip in corners. ”

"In addition, because the track may cause tire wear, especially the rear wheel wear, I adjusted the braking force of the rear wheel, and now the front and rear wheel braking ratio is 56:44. At that time, the brake ratio will be fine-tuned according to the tire wear after the practice session. ”

"yes, I see."

Zhang Yifei nodded, all the current car tuning is made by race engineers according to their own experience, as well as the team's racing data in previous years.

This is just a preliminary tweak, and it doesn't necessarily fit into the new car and the driver himself. Therefore, the final race adjustment still needs to go through three practice sessions, and the final adjustment decision is made based on the feedback from the track attributes.

Zhang Yifei was ready to start here, and on the other side, Alessi, who also communicated with his race engineer Cod, began to put on his helmet and prepare to sit in the car for the first practice round of the Australian Grand Prix.

The first practice session at the Albert Park Circuit took place on Friday morning from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., an hour and a half in total. However, the duration of the practice sessions is not fixed, but will change depending on the geographical location of each track.

At the same time, there is a lot of difference between the practice sessions and the qualifying and the main races, that is, the practice sessions start from the pit station, and the drivers are not forced to start at the same time. At the same time, there are no hard and fast rules about the number of laps a driver takes, the time it takes, or even the number of laps he has run.

All F1 drivers can freely enter and exit the track for car testing during the one-and-a-half-hour practice session, according to their team's recommendations and strategies.

In general, there are two types of practice rounds: technical laps and timing laps.

As the name suggests, the technical inspection circle is to go to the track to test the power system, transmission system, aerodynamic package and other aspects of the car, and then pass the feedback to the pit station, so that the team can complete the tuning of the car according to the requirements of the drivers.

Therefore, the technical inspection lap does not pursue speed, and it is common for the technical inspection lap to run for more than two minutes on the track that runs in more than one minute.

The timing lap is better understood, and when the technical lap is almost the same, after the pit stop adjustment, it is natural to experiment on the track to see how fast it can run. That's when the track lap time is timed, and there is even a driver's lap ranking.

From the lap time rankings, the audience can also understand the strength of the drivers and the performance of the car in advance.

Of course, this kind of ranking is not an absolute difference between strength and weakness, and can only serve as a reference. The top of the main competition may not win the championship, but there is a high probability that it will not be at the bottom or anything.

At the bottom of the rankings are basically some uncompetitive drivers and teams, and there are also test drivers who are running.

For example, Ma Qinghua, China's first driver to enter F1, once represented HRT and Caterham Racing and ran official F1 practice sessions.

It's just a pity that Ma Qinghua's two practice matches have a bit miserable results. In the case of his first practice session at Monza in 12 years, he was 5.817 seconds behind Schumacher, who was already an "old" driver at the time.

The problem wasn't that much, as Schumacher had set the fastest lap of any driver in that practice session, and was acceptably behind the first place.

What really kept Ma Qinghua from crossing the threshold of F1 test drivers was that he was second to last at the time, which was his HRT teammate de la Rosa, which was almost 2 seconds behind!

The penultimate can be 2 seconds behind the penultimate is really a huge notch, and it is completely out of the qualification line for the official F1 drivers.

In fact, this can't be entirely blamed on Ma Qinghua's lack of strength, after all, he is too far behind on the starting line, and even in order to support his formula training, he has to participate in some RV events from time to time to make money subsidies.

In this case, it is not easy to stick to your dream of racing a formula car, and it is really difficult to run well.

Two green lights are lit on the pit lane, which means drivers can start the grid. If the red light is on, it means that a car is passing, and in order to avoid a racing accident, it is forbidden for the car to leave the pit at this time.

After the green light came on, Zhang Yifei did not start in a hurry, because there was no driver in the qualifying race, and he would run a full shift for an hour stupidly, so there was no physical strength to support the official race.

Therefore, the normal qualifying race is in this hour and a half, and the stop-and-go run is about 20 laps before the work is finished. If the car is not tuned, it can exceed 25 laps, while the fast-adapting driver will only need 15 laps to complete the first practice round.

Putting on the call headset, Zhang Yifei turned to the water cup handed over by Junko Takeda and drank a large sip of water to replenish his water. Before he could put his helmet on, the furious roar of the engine could be heard next to him, and the French veteran Alessi couldn't bear it anymore and rushed out of the pits to start his practice session.

Is this a dead wood spring? Is the French veteran so passionate?

Zhang Yifei looked at Alessi, who was testing first, and after muttering a word, he began to put on his helmet.

As soon as they were ready to drive, the four technicians got the soft tire blankets covered on the tires, and at the same time, Ah Hu took the ignition system and intervened in the switch at the rear of the car, and Zhang Yifei started the ignition.

"Boom~~!" The sound of exhaust gas resounded, echoing in the small space of the pit, and everyone present felt a little trembling heart.

Hang up the first gear, loosen the clutch, and start the oil replenishment, because it was driven out in the P room, so Zhang Yifei didn't do the same as the start of the race, and did something to accelerate wildly with a foot of floor oil. In addition, this is a technical inspection circle, so he slowly started to drive away from the P room and enter the maintenance channel.

When Zhang Yifei's car drove onto the track, there was a small applause and cheers at the scene, and then suddenly there was a more violent inverted color, as if Zhang Yifei was not very welcome.

Zhang Yifei in the car, under the engine noise, and the isolation of the helmet and headphones, naturally couldn't hear these inverted colors. But standing in the maintenance station, Ah Hu and Chen Zhi, who were looking forward to Zhang Yifei's performance, really heard the boos in the stands.

This scene was also very surprising to the two of them, you must know that the last time Zhang Yifei applauded the mainstream, it was at the Hockenheimring circuit in Germany, because of the joint accusation of the drivers, Zhang Yifei was saddled with the infamy of "public enemy of the track", and the audience was naturally not happy with this kind of Chinese driver who appeared out of nowhere.

But as Zhang Yifei showed his strength on the track, this situation was reversed, after all, competitive sports events worship champions and strong people!

It stands to reason that Zhang Yifei's performance has been good recently, and there may be a gap between him and some strong drivers in F1 in terms of absolute strength. But in the past two years, among the rookie drivers, it is completely worthy of the word "brilliant", and there should be no such inversion and boos.

"Brother Zhi, what is the situation, why is the audience hostile to Brother Fei."

"I don't know, is it because of the driver meeting? But Yifei didn't say anything, this is much more low-key than some of Renault's previous remarks. ”

Chen Zhi is also confused at the moment, he thinks that the Australian audience, even if they don't support Zhang Yifei, there is no need to be hostile to Zhang Yifei, right?

The conversation between the two of them was overheard by Charlie, the chief technician on the side, who shrugged his shoulders and said calmly: "Don't you know that Australia is one of the most anti-China countries?" In this context, coupled with the speeches of the flying meeting, it is normal for the audience to show hostility. ”

"A lot of times, Chinese drivers have to face not only technical pressure, but also a lot of off-track pressure. So Fei can still run such a result, from my own point of view, he has no doubt but deserves the title of super newcomer! ”