Historically, the Red Ferrari Army has become the F1 championship team for six consecutive years since 1999 and until 2004.

Six consecutive championships were a miraculous achievement in this era of heroes competing for hegemony, thus laying the foundation for a generation of Ferrari dynasty.

Among them, the team's No. 1 German driver Michael Schumacher also achieved the achievement of five consecutive championships. In addition to the world championship titles from 1994 to 1995, Schumacher won a total of seven-seat drivers, and is recognized as one of the greatest F1 drivers. Later generations were the second F1 driver with the title of the God of Cars after Senna.

He also maintained many F1 records, such as the most world champions, sub-station champions, fastest lap, pole position, etc. In addition, Schumacher also has a single-season record of up to 13 consecutive victories, and in the 2002 season, he has been on the podium throughout the year.

Schumacher is the keeper of almost all the f1 event records that can be imagined.

This terrifying and stable performance almost made drivers of his contemporaries feel desperate. Except for the 2003 season, he was chasing him wildly by Kimi Raikkonen, who was still a young driver, and brought a slight threat. He was absolutely ahead of the other four years, crushed the dominant level, and locked in the driver's championship in advance.

Because of these achievements, the official website of F1 calls Schumacher "the greatest driver in F1 sports statistics", and there is no one behind it!

Now this legendary F1 driver appeared in front of him, and Zhang Yifei didn't know how to describe his mood at this moment.

Zhang Yifei stood there blankly, but Schumacher obviously did not notice the young Chinese driver. He was talking to the Ferrari team technician. If nothing unexpected happens, the conversation should be about the adjustment of the Ferrari test car.

After all, in the five years of Schumacher's rule, in addition to the amazing strength of the driver himself and not giving his opponent any chance, the performance of the car is also an indispensable part.

You should know that many times, drivers who drive "Mars rover" in the f1 paddock are like not running the same race compared to drivers who drive "Earth rover".

The Mars group can leave the Earth group behind the drivers. Even the Earth group behind it is useless to perform perfectly. No matter how hard the racing car is, it cannot catch up with the opponent.

This is why, in history, Fia has crazily banned "black technology" vehicles. Because a racing car developed by a certain team is too advanced, the balance of the entire event will be broken. In the absence of rapid improvement of the small team, banning is the most direct balance method.

"Are you following Schumacher?"

Kossel's voice came from behind, and he had long noticed that Zhang Yifei's eyes were on Schumacher.

But this is no exception. Schumacher has been the world champion for three times and is the first among the current F1 drivers. He maintains an extremely strong momentum. He is the biggest favorite to win this year's F1 season.

As a newcomer to the F1 paddock, it is not surprising that Zhang Yifei will pay attention to or even admire Schumacher, after all, the other party is very strong.

"Well, he's very strong."

Zhang Yifei did not deny his attention to Schumacher at all. If even Schumacher could be ignored, that would be a rare thing.

Many people later believe that Schumacher relies on Ferrari's thighs to achieve five consecutive championships and achieve dominant results.

But the problem is that before Schumacher entered the Ferrari team, he had won two world championships in Benetton, and was the defending champion.

Ferrari made Schumacher, but in the same way, Schumacher established the Ferrari dynasty. There is nothing if the strong man is in. No matter which team he is in, he will eventually shine with his glory, and only historical achievements are real.

And then again, if Schumacher had no strength, he would not have been able to enter the strongest three-big drivers of this era. Just like the later Mercedes-Benz and Red Bull giant teams, can ordinary drivers enter at will? They will only choose the strongest drivers to achieve each other.

So put aside some objective factors, just talking about driving skills, it is not an exaggeration to call Schumacher the strongest driver in F1 history.

"It's very strong, after all, I was a driver who could put pressure on Senna back then."

Kossel said lightly, his impression of Schumacher was no less shallow than anyone else.

Because Senna died in an accident at the Imora Raceway in 1994, and behind his car was Schumacher.

In the F1 season, Senna could already be called a superstar in the F1 paddock, while Schumacher was just a budding star.

The desire for the championship made Senna choose to transfer from McLaren and join Williams, who had the "black technology" of racing at that time. What he did not expect was that the active memory suspension system was disabled, and Williams' racing advantage was instantly lost.

The transfer factor put Senna on a lot of pressure, and he urgently needed to prove his strength in Williams. However, Senna did not win in the first few races in 1994, which was an unacceptable result for the proud and radical car god Senna.

So he faced the pursuit of his junior Schumacher at the Imora Circuit, and his driving style was more radical, so he chose to use a 300km/h speed to turn in front of the corner.

In the end, due to insufficient steering heel loss of grip, Williams racing hit the protective wall in the corner, and the falling fragments of the suspension penetrated the helmet, and the greatest driver of the F1 fell.

Later, many people blamed Schumacher for this, believing that his overly fierce pressure caused Senna's accident. Even when Schumacher faced media interviews, he blamed himself for his overly pressing decision at the time. If there was no such fierce struggle, the accident might not have happened.

Of course, Kossell has always sneered at these remarks. In his opinion, a driver who uses all his strength to compete for the championship on the track is to give his opponent the greatest respect.

Senna's accident is a tragedy and regret, but Cosel believes that if Senna is given another chance, he will still choose to challenge the limit and turn around without giving any possibility of catching up with the opponent behind him. This is what a truly great driver should do.

Just as Cosell and Zhang Yifei were both looking at Schumacher, the team's chief technician Charlie came over, patted Zhang Yifei on the shoulder and said, "Why are they standing here? Let's go to the repair station first to introduce you to the latest js53 racing car."

As a newcomer to the Prost team, Zhang Yifei has never driven and learned about the team's latest js53 racing car in detail.

The reason is very simple, because at that time, the JS53 racing car had not been finalized, and even at this stage, the racing car still needs winter testing. Therefore, for a pure newcomer like Zhang Yifei who has never been involved in F1 racing, driving this prototype for him is meaningless. It will not play any training role, nor can it find some problems with the prototype.

"Um."

Zhang Yifei nodded, then took his eyes back from Schumacher at the Ferrari repair station.

This is no longer the era of my previous life. Now I am also a professional F1 driver, so I can no longer look at Schumacher from an idol's perspective. I should regard him as my strongest opponent!

When we arrived at the repair station, Prost team's new racing car JS53 has been placed in the middle of the repair station. The team technicians are installing the pneumatic kit to prepare for the next test drive.

Now this JS53 car has changed a lot from Zhang Yifei's previous prototype at Monrerey Raceway. The main thing is that it has a brand new aerodynamic package price and has been replaced with a blue team paint.

The body also has sponsor logos such as Acer, Guo's Group, and FFU. However, the largest trademark is on the rear wing, with the Peugeot Group logo, representing this JS53 racing car, which is an engine provided by Peugeot Group.

In fact, the name of the F1 team is mostly abbreviated. The correct full name is to bring the name of the engine supplier, and some of them are even directly the United Team.

For example, the full name of the team participating this year should be McLaren-Mercedes, Jordan-Honda, Williams-BMW, ​​etc.

The reason for this abbreviation is that the f1 race focuses more on racing chassis manufacturers than racing engine manufacturers.

As long as there is money in the engine, there are many suppliers in the market to choose from, such as Honda, Renault, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, etc. Basically, auto manufacturers that can name them can provide F1 racing-level engines.

Because for these auto manufacturers, the f1 racing engine is just a by-product of their R&D. Even if they do not participate in the f1 competition, they still need to invest a lot of money in engine research and development, which is also the foundation of the auto manufacturers.

However, racing chassis is completely different from civilian cars. Various R&D and wind tunnel testing are equivalent to unnecessary expenses. Car manufacturers provide engines that can not only gain the popularity of their own products and make money, but R&D chassis is pure investment, so many car manufacturers do not form their own fleets and simply become engine suppliers.

The most famous one here should be Honda. It has been an engine supplier for decades and finally couldn't help but acquire shares in the British and American fleet in 2006, preparing to go into business under the name of Honda!

As a result, after running for a year, I found that operating the F1 fleet was amazing and it was better to make money by selling the engine alone. In addition, I encountered the economic crisis in 2008, so Honda directly announced that it could not afford to burn, and it was gone, and it went away...

So many times the chassis directly determines the upper limit of a racing car. After all, there are choices for engines, and this one is not enough to have money to exchange for another. However, no one can sell F1 chassis and aerodynamic design, it only depends on the team's own R&D strength.

There has been no major scandal in the chassis of the Prost team in history. After all, it has taken over the legacy of the Ligier team and has experience in design and research. Therefore, the main direction of this winter test is the new engine provided by Peugeot.
Chapter completed!