The driver who made Zhang Yifei stunned was André Couto, whose Portuguese name was André Couto, and he also had a Chinese name, which was Height.

Gao is an Australian Island driver, but he is not a Chinese, but a Portuguese who grew up on Australian Island.

The definition of the nationality of this kind of people is actually a very complicated and contradictory thing, after all, there are many Portuguese people like Gao who grew up on the island, speaking fluent Cantonese, except for their appearance, they are basically no different from the local Chinese.

With the return of the island, they have theoretically obtained Chinese identity, but the problem is that these people all had Portuguese nationality before, and China does not recognize dual citizenship, which leads to a very contradictory loophole.

That is, these "foreigners" with dual nationality, are they considered Chinese?

In fact, there are also types of situations on Hong Kong Island, sometimes I see a blonde foreigner on the street, but he has a Hong Kong Island's household ID card, and I really don't know how to determine his identity.

However, there is no difficulty in defining a high level of identity, as he has chosen Portuguese nationality. Later, when he competed, the Portuguese flag was printed on his chest or belt.

But in this era, Height became the first local driver in the history of the island to win the Grand Prix.

It's just that the year he won the championship was 2000 in history, and now it's 1999. The Renault event has been a year ahead of history, and Zhang Yifei doesn't know if the Grand Prix will be earlier than in history.

Seeing Zhang Yifei holding the altitude information in his hand, Cosell next to him began to introduce: "Height, Aodao driver, has participated in the Grand Prix since 1995, and his results have been steadily improving, and he is very familiar with the track. ”

"To use one of your Chinese terms, it's the head snake. I've seen a video of a Grand Prix before, and I'm very impressed with him, with the ability to win the championship. ”

Zhang Yifei did not refute Kossel's words, and nodded.

Altitude did win the F3 title in the Grand Prix, and later he also won the F3000 title, and was just one step away from becoming an F1 driver.

But it was this step that became a moat for many riders, and height was also one of them. So he later switched to touring car racing, and also won the Japanese SUPER GT championship, which is a very famous driver in Asia.

The reason why Zhang Yifei communicated with him was because of the China GT event held at the Zhuhai International Circuit that year.

Gao was the driver who participated at that time, and the car he drove was the famous "Toei God of War" GTR. At that time, Zhang Yifei was already a well-known rally driver in China, and he was curious about this foreigner driver who could speak Cantonese, so Zhang Yifei chatted with him a few words.

As a result, I didn't expect that I would go back to 20 years ago and become a rival to the Grandprix.

calmed down the unexpected mood, Zhang Yifei saw the second driver's information, fortunately this Zhang Yifei didn't know, otherwise he would really feel that the world is really wonderful.

"Paolo Mudian, an Italian driver, has won the Italian F3 race. To be a Formula Italia champion, you should know how difficult it is. ”

The division of formula racing is like football, with world-class F1, continental events, or national events.

In the national formula race, the two countries with the highest gold content are the United Kingdom and Italy, which are almost equivalent to the five major league levels in football.

For example, Kimi Raikkonen, who completed the "triple jump" before, won the British Renault Championship. If he were to be the championship champion of another country, he would never be favored by Sauber Racing because of the different gold content of the event.

Just like the Chinese Super League champion and the Premier League champion, they can also be regarded as the National Super League, and those with a little football common sense will not think that they are at the same level of strength, which is the difference in gold content.

"Hmm."

Zhang Yifei nodded, agreeing with Cosell's words, but he also didn't take any Italian F3 champions in his eyes.

At least in Zhang Yifei's impression, there doesn't seem to be an F1 driver named Paul Mudian. I even defeated opponents at the level of Massa and Kubica, and I still care about an Italian formula champion?

Soon Zhang Yifei turned the information to the next page, and this driver Zhang Yifei was very familiar with him, and even at the Toyota Youth Training Base in Japan, many youth drivers regarded him as their idol.

He is Japan's talented driver - Takuma Sato!

Unlike the previous height, Zhang Yifei had not seen Takuma Sato in reality, but this did not prevent him from understanding Takuma Sato.

Takuma Sato is not very good in F1, and has even been ridiculed and blamed by many European drivers because of track accidents and cylinder bursts. But that doesn't stop Takuma Sato from being one of the few F1 drivers in Asia, and it's no exaggeration to say he's one of the best Asian drivers.

In the future, the only person who can stand in the same echelon as Takuma Sato in Asia may be Kobayashi Komengwei, who is also a Japanese driver.

Another point is that Takuma Sato's inspirational experience has been appreciated and admired by many people.

Not every driver can have the foundation of some European kart riders, and they have an absolute advantage from the starting line, crushing Asian riders.

Therefore, Takuma Sato's counterattack story of starting from scratch, winning the F3 championship in two years, and entering the F1 team in five years is like chicken soup for the soul, inspiring many Asian drivers, including some Chinese drivers.

It is based on this background that Zhang Yifei naturally understands Takuma Sato's experience better. However, he was a rally driver in his previous life and had little to do with formula racing, so he just listened to it as a story, and he didn't have much respect for Takuma Sato.

Having said that, Zhang Yifei is not very interested in the chicken soup for the soul, and if he must choose an object of worship, he will only choose Senna and Schumacher.

The reason why they were chosen has nothing to do with the so-called nationality, race, etc., purely because they are champions and strong enough!

Sato Takuma's information, Kossell did not speak, but Junko Takeda introduced Zhang Yifei.

As a talented Japanese driver, Junko Takeda is naturally more familiar than Korser, and it is more appropriate for her to introduce her.

"Jun Sato is the best formula driver in Japan at the moment, he only started karting in 1996, but in 1998, he won the All Japan F3 Championship."

"In 1999, Sato-kun landed in Europe and won the French F3 championship, which is also the first Asian driver to win the title in the European F3 class."

And rumor has it that he has been. Team R has a good chance of being the next Japanese driver to join the F1 team. It can even be said that he is the strongest formula driver in Japan in the current service, and you have to pay attention to it. ”

Although Junko Takeda is Japanese, as a member of Zhang Yifei's team, she naturally has to stand in Zhang Yifei's position to remind.

This is not an exaggeration, but historically, Takuma Sato became the 2001 Oshima Grand Prix champion. And because of the British F3 race, he won an amazing result of 13 sub-station championships, so he signed a contract. R Fleet.

It's just that now history has completely changed, not only Zhang Yifei thought that the whole was pushed forward by one year, but even Takuma Sato, who was supposed to participate in the competition two years later, has appeared this year.

The double F3 champion of Japan and France is indeed a formidable opponent. It will also become the third future F1 driver that Zhang Yifei has encountered in addition to Massa and Kubica.

But soon Zhang Yifei will find out that he has met not just three future F1 drivers, but four!

Because the next driver profile is also a Japanese, and his name is Yuji Ide!

When he saw this name, Zhang Yifei couldn't hold back his laughter, in this environment of serious discussion, Zhang Yifei's suddenness made everyone else a little confused.

"Yifei-kun, is there any problem?"

Junko Takeda asked suspiciously, she thought it was her driver's introduction, and there was something wrong, so Zhang Yifei suddenly smiled.

"No problem, I thought of something funny, I'm sorry."

Zhang Yifei hurriedly explained, and then coughed a little, stabilizing the smile in his heart.

The reason why Zhang Yifei couldn't hold back his laughter was because of this Iide Yuji, who can be called a "legendary" driver in F1.

His legend is different from Senna and Schumacher, not because of how powerful he is, but because of the bizarre nature of the dishes!

And Iide is also the first driver in F1 history to have his super license revoked for dangerous driving, and he is also the driver who has received the most complaints from other drivers and teams.

Zhang Yifei's previous public outrage at the Monza circuit was nothing compared to the well-known and well-informed.

At that time, the legendary Japanese driver Akuri Suzuki received the sponsorship of the Japanese foundation, plus the technical support of Honda, to form Japan's first F1 team Super Ajuri.

Akuri Suzuki's idea at the time, like Prost, was to create a purebred Japanese driver. So he wanted to pick two Japanese formula drivers to join his Super Ajuri team.

Japan has the strength of F1 drivers, and at that time, it was full of calculations, and Sato Takuma was alone. Akuri Suzuki had no choice but to promote newcomers from Formula 2, so Yuji Iide came into sight and became the official result of the Super Ajuri team.

As a result, as soon as this guy participated in the competition, it was simply earth-shattering, and the super driver's license was the same as the one he bought.

The wild driving style, coupled with the fast and slow maze of the line, made it completely unclear to other riders.

Making his debut on the F1 track, this guy didn't dare to go up 200 kilometers on the big straight because he was not familiar with the track, and the slowest lap was thrown out by the countdown for 17 seconds!

In Bahrain, on the tenth lap of the race, he was lapped by Schumacher. The back is completely freeing himself, and even when he enters the pit, he can directly knock the team staff to the ground.

The problem is that Ide's operation is not only that, but a series of problems that followed are the root cause of his complaints by other F1 drivers and the revocation of his super driver's license.