Zhang Yifei replied a little helplessly, he is now the runner-up of the Renault sub-station, and he can be regarded as a brother of this age group in Asia.

But that's the reason why there are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are the hegemons, and at the end of the nineties in Asia, there were really no two players who could compete in the European Formula Renault, so there was no other candidate, and Zhang Yifei could naturally be regarded as a brother.

But the problem is that the European kart champions grab a lot of them, and every year there are various Renault series.

In addition to the current Renault 2000 European Cup, there are also such as the British Renault Championship, the Italian Renault Championship, etc., the national championships of these racing powers, in fact, the gold content is not much lower than the Renault European Cup.

You must know that Kimi Raikkonen, who went out of the Renault Championship in the United Kingdom, was directly targeted by the F1 Sauber team and became a first-class F1 driver in the future.

As the Finnish "Iceman", he played against the "fiery red" Ferrari Schumacher and staged an F1 version of the song of ice and fire.

The position of race engineer, which is slightly passable, even if it is placed in F1, belongs to the fragrant bun type.

As a junior formula driver, theoretically speaking, he is not qualified to be equipped with a race engineer, and it is a kind of luck to be able to get Ukyo Yamamoto, a data analyst, to work as a part-time race engineer.

So Zhang Yifei didn't have the luxury of hoping that he could have an official competition engineer at this stage.

Yamamoto Ukyo naturally understood what Zhang Yifei meant, to be honest, at this stage, a junior formula driver is indeed not worthy of a professional race engineer.

But after a few months of getting along, Yamamoto Ukyo saw Zhang Yifei's hard work, tenacity and courage, which is a temperament that no Asian driver has ever had before.

Especially the words of Zhang Yifei in the hotel gym: the winner is not wrong, and the loser is even wrong to breathe! Let Yamamoto Ukyo understand that the root of all these controversies and contempt is strength and results!

If you want to change all this, then Zhang Yifei must have the strength to crush. If it was because of Junko Takeda before, Yamamoto Ukyo was willing to assist Zhang Yifei.

So now, Ukyo Yamamoto really wants to see an Asian rider break all these stereotypes!

So he insisted: "Yifeijun, I have a good candidate, he is Erwin Kossel, a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, and my mentor at the Technical University of Berlin when I studied automotive engineering. ”

"At the same time, he has another layer of identity, in the eighties and nineties, he was hired by McLaren Racing as a vehicle design engineer, and temporarily entered the race strategy team, and has a lot of experience as a race engineer."

In an F1 team, it is likely that it is not one person who formulates the tactical strategy of the race, but a group. In many cases, the title of Engineer of the Competition is accompanied by the word Chief, just like the Chief Technician.

The most famous of these is Scuderia Ferrari's strategy team, which has created many glorious classic examples, such as Schumacher's four-stop tactic.

In the eighties and nineties, the hottest team in F1 was not Ferrari, Williams, or Red Bull, but McLaren, which had Senna and Prost.

McLaren Racing, in the eighties and nineties, swept the team with four consecutive championships, bringing themselves and Senna to a peak.

It wasn't until the emergence of the "black technology" of the Williams team's active memory suspension system at that time that McLaren gradually fell behind, which also became one of the reasons for Senna's transfer to the Williams team.

If it is really as Ukyo Yamamoto said, his mentor used to be a member of McLaren's strategy team, if not the chief race engineer, but he is also a member of the championship team, and he is definitely a strong kind.

Now the question is in front of us, is Yamamoto Ukyo's face big enough, can he make this kind of "great god" level figure become a race engineer for his little minion?

"Ukyo, to be honest, I'm very excited, but I can't think of a reason why your mentor would want to be my race engineer."

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Yamamoto Youkyo did not deny it, but instead nodded and replied: "It's really difficult to convince him just because of my invitation." But if you can show the qualities that impress him, there may be hope. ”

"How do you impress?"

"Potential!"

Ukyo Yamamoto continued: "When McLaren was in its prime, it was struck by another talented automotive engineer, Adrian Newey, who helped Williams design the most powerful F1 car of its time. ”

"Senna's move has made him even more disheartened, and he has stopped playing in F1 to concentrate on his university professor, who has retired to the countryside and runs a miniature golf course when I contacted him last year."

"But I know that the mentor has always had regrets, whether it was being beaten by Newey or the eventual transfer accident of Senna, which has made him reluctant to regain the glory of the McLaren era one day."

"So as long as you can show the qualities and potential that impress him, maybe there is hope that he will come back!"

After listening to Yamamoto Youjing's story, Zhang Yifei didn't expect that there would be such a story, he had never heard of the name Andre, but Newey, the famous F1 technical director, even if he had never participated in formula racing in his previous life, could be described as thunderous.

Nuveco is the only technical director who has won the Constructors' Championship with three different F1 teams, and is a legendary design master in F1.

This guy has a background in aerodynamics, and has held different positions such as race engineer, aerodynamics engineer, technical director, etc.

The moment that really made him famous was when he joined the Williams team in 1991 and built the FW14, a "black technology" car, and even later banned by F1 because it affected the balance.

Therefore, Yamamoto Ukyo's mentor did not lose unjustly when he met Newway, after all, he is the premier legendary master in F1 history.

"If you are reasonable, I don't seem to be able to impress ......"

Zhang Yifei's tone was a little cowardly, Yamamoto Ukyo's resume sounds awesome, although he was defeated by Newey, but he was defeated in the F1 era, and even the most powerful genius designer in the next ten years, this is not a shame!

It's like the average F1 driver loses to Schumacher, which is normal, after all, this is one of the strongest drivers in F1 history, a seven-time champion!

Zhang Yifei thought about his strength for a while, and he still had a bit of B number in his heart, and felt that at the level of Cosell, he didn't seem to have the capital to impress him.

"How do you know if you don't give it a try, the next stop is at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany, and I'll take you to visit the mentor when the time comes."

Yamamoto Ukyo has the stubbornness of the Japanese, and even if there is little hope, he still feels that he should give it a try.

The second race of the Renault Euro 2000 was held at the Hockenheimring in Germany, which was once the home circuit of McLaren.

Since we were going to Germany, we didn't care about taking the time to meet the former McLaren teammate.

Even if he still didn't feel much hope, Zhang Yifei still nodded and turned back: "Okay, I'll go visit Mr. Korsell then." ”