Sitting in the car, Ah Hu looked at the scenery outside the car window with a curious face, Milan as the art capital of the world, the buildings have a strong Renaissance style, which is the first time for Ah Hu to go abroad, it is simply open the door to a new world.

"Phineas, these houses are just like the ones on TV, they're so beautiful."

Looking at Ah Hu's dirt bun entering the city, Zhang Yifei just smiled and didn't speak.

Chen Zhi on the other side didn't put his mind on the street scene, but said: "Yifei, formula racing is a completely unfamiliar field for me and Ah Hu, I don't know what you plan."

Chen Zhi is 23 years old this year, and unlike ordinary car repair shop apprentices, Zhang Zhiguo trained him in the direction of racing engineers very early. A few years ago, with the help of connections, he was sent to the School of Automotive Engineering for further study.

Even before returning to the car repair shop, Chen Zhi also interned in a domestic professional team for a period of time, and has reached the level of a domestic racing technician.

Therefore, Chen Zhi knows a lot about the professional racing maintenance team, and it is precisely because of this understanding that he knows the requirements of formula racing for maintenance technicians. It can be said that he and Ah Hu are not of this type at all, and everything has to start from scratch.

"Brother Zhi, I have thought about this question, and indeed for you in formula racing, everything has to be explored slowly. But I believe in the strength of you and Ah Hu, and the maintenance at the hardware level is not a problem, and it is enough to be able to do this. ”

Zhang Yifei is not an impractical person, he positions Chen Zhi and Ah Hu as racing car maintenance technicians, dealing with hardware-level problems.

There's no doubt that formula cars are high-tech, but R&D and maintenance are two different concepts. The development of formula engines, gearboxes, and the aerodynamic design of the car body are considered to be Zenith technology for the current level of China's automobile industry.

Even 20 years later, China has yet to touch this threshold.

But formula car maintenance is not as difficult as imagined, most of the time it is just a matter of changing the fluid and tires, and it is more about teamwork. Even if the car is overhauled further, Chen Zhi and Ah Hu can slowly master it, and Zhang Yifei has never worried about their strength in terms of hardware.

And then again, F1 even uses only two stops of the engine, and there is almost no talk of overhaul, so it should be replaced, otherwise how can it be worthy of the word "burning money".

"But it's hard at the beginning, and I'm worried that it will affect your progress in the event."

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei couldn't help but smile: "Brother Zhi, this time, all my sub-events will be supported by the Toyota European Motorsport Organization, and they will send a professional racing team to assist, so there is no impact." ”

"When the time comes, the two of you will join the maintenance team temporarily, and you can follow along. If there is any difficulty, I will ask Yamamoto Ukyo, who is my competition engineer this time, a doctor of vehicle engineering from Tokai Institute of Technology in Japan, and he is very good. ”

"Then I'll rest assured, I'm still worried that Ah Hu will hold you back."

Chen Zhi breathed a sigh of relief at this time, he didn't know that the sponsorship agreement between Zhang Yifei and Toyota belonged to the fact that Zhang Zhiguo was suddenly called by Zhang Zhiguo to help Zhang Yifei in Europe, saying that he was joining the formula maintenance team.

As a result, I only saw two Japanese people all the way, and one of them was a woman. This made Chen Zhi muttered in his heart, plus he and Ah Human were full of three people, which was also a professional racing car maintenance team

After about half an hour's drive, the group finally arrived at the famous Monza circuit, which has been the host of Italian F1 races since the birth of Formula 1.

Walking into the Monza field, this is the first time Zhang Yifei has stood on the F1 track as a formula driver.

This feeling is completely different from being a rally driver in my previous life and standing at the Shanghai International Circuit. Because at that time I was just a spectator, and now I will be a participant.

"Phineas, how can there be Ferrari and Lamborghini logos on those buildings, isn't this a formula race track?"

Looking in the direction of Ah Hu's finger, Zhang Yifei also saw two huge buildings with Ferrari and Lamborghini logos on them.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei is also the first time to come to the Monza circuit, and he knows a fart, so he simply replied: "Don't ask, you just don't know." ”

Hearing Zhang Yifei's answer, Junko Takeda couldn't help but laugh and explained: "This is the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museum at the Monza Circuit, because Italy is a supercar country, with many supercar brands such as Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani and Lamborghini, so manufacturers build the brand museum at the Monza circuit to expand their influence." ”

"Hear me, read more books in the future."

"Okay, Phineas."

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The group continued to move forward and soon came to the event command center, where Zhang Yifei and Junko Takeda walked in alone, where they would complete the driver registration.

In fact, Zhang Yifei's file and information have already been handed over to the Renault Organizing Committee by Toyota, but some documents still need to be signed by Zhang Yifei and registered as a driver's file.

So the process of registering a rider is quick, it is nothing more than signing several documents. After all this, a Renault staff member led Zhang Yifei and his party to the garage, where they will accept the leased Renault 2000 racing cars.

At this time, Zhang Yifei remembered that two months ago, he just entered the scene of Toyota's youth training base, which was really a pure budding.

The first time I saw a real formula car, I had to try out immediately, and I didn't even know if the formula car could be rented.

Time flies, and in just two months, he is about to start his first professional formula race.

When you come to the garage, there are dozens of Renault 2000 racing cars, which are similar to the training cars at Toyota's youth training base, all of which have a displacement of 2000cc and horsepower limited to 200p, which meet the FIA (FIA) Formula 3 standard racing cars.

Formula Renault is different from F1 because it is a manufacturer's promotion event, so it is not the team that prepares the car itself, all the race cars will be provided by Renault in France, the difference is that it pays with the team.

Like Zhang Yifei, he is a self-paid driver, and he needs to rent a Renault car to complete the race at every race.

In addition to the rental fee for the car, you will also be required to pay the track usage fee and the rental fee for the pit room. And individual paying drivers, without the support of a strong maintenance team behind them, usually need to buy Renault to provide car maintenance technical services, which is also a lot of money.

After calculating the various expenses, the cost of one stop of Formula Renault is about 500,000 yuan.

And this is still the cost of normal operation, if the driver does something to crash the car, then the price will more than double several times.

That's why the road to F1 is called the road to burn money, and compared to the price of Formula Primary, go-karts used to be like a drizzle. Compared to the future of F1, the current primary formula is actually a drizzle.

Fortunately, Zhang Yifei got Toyota's sponsorship and technical support, otherwise the Renault 2000 European Cup would be finished, and it is estimated that the house will be gone when he goes back.