104 European Dream

Of course, compared with the real F1 level genius driver, Zhang Yifei is still far behind, because his opponent is only 14 years old, but Zhang Yifei can be regarded as 17 years old.

In adolescence, the gap between the ages represents the growth of the mind and the strengthening of learning ability. So although Zhang Yifei is very strong, he has not defeated the height of his peers.

Just like Zhang Yifei's peers and opponents now, the ordinary level is to drive a 125CC kart and participate in regional events, just like the next event that Zhang Yifei will participate in.

The more powerful ones are already driving 250cc super karts and running junior formula races, such as Formula Renault.

And the most powerful group, who have already run F-3 events at this age, are starting to stand out and enter the sight of F1 teams.

You must know that this is not the most powerful, the real genius level may have touched the threshold of F3000, this is the cradle of the reserve of F1 drivers, calculate how many grades Zhang Yifei is behind, and understand how difficult it is to become an F1 driver.

Genius is not an exclusive title in F1 drivers, but a wholesale ......

Turn 1 passed, and soon came to the track Turn 2, this corner belongs to the high-speed corner, is it very low, basically full throttle past, mainly to see the bend cut line.

The tangent lines of the students are quite standard, no matter how perfect Zhang Yifei is, he can't catch up with the gap, so he can only ensure that he will not be pulled away.

Turn 3 is similar to Turn 2, and the real test of the driver's tangential skills is Turn 4 of the track!

Turn 4 is an S bend, and many of these two reverse bends are called S-bends, but there is actually a big difference in angle.

There is a very large angle like the mountain road, like a flattened S, which can be called a hairpin bend. But on the track, the curvature of the S-bend is not so large, which is equivalent to elongating it, and it is more like a slight arc like a serpentine, so as to avoid too much deceleration.

So the S-bend on the track, as long as you find the perfect tangent, you can even walk in a straight line at high speed!

When Zhang Yifei ran Turn 4 for the first time, he was yelled at by Lu Ningping with a roaring voice, because he subconsciously slowed down in a corner. As the saying goes, after half a month of training, Zhang Yifei has gradually overcome some of his wrong habits and began to use the karting profession to corner, and the No. 4 corner can be said to be the first corner he did!

Stepping on the accelerator to the end, without the slightest sign of deceleration, Zhang Yifei directly entered the tangent line through the No. 4 turn, from the tire wall on the left side to the distance of less than three centimeters from the tire wall on the right side, this S bend did not slow down at all, and directly turned at full throttle.

The 125CC kart power is strong, and the weight factor does have a great acceleration advantage, but it can't stand Zhang Yifei's crazy choice of floor oil and tangential line. When this curve passed, among the five students, the last two relatively young students were directly overtaken by Zhang Yifei.

There are more than a dozen corners in the whole track, and the more difficult the corners are at the back, and more consideration is given to the driver's ability to drive corners. According to this trend, Zhang Yifei basically has no opponent who can fight.

Seeing this scene, Lu Ningping didn't know whether to say that he was happy or worried, the reason for his happiness was naturally Zhang Yifei's strength and potential, and the worrying aspect was that the strength of the Wind Chasing Club was still too weak.

This weakness does not mean that the equipment or coaches are weak, you must know that the 1200-meter professional track of the Wind Chasing Club is already the top private track on Hong Kong Island, and many karting events on Hong Kong Island have to borrow the track of the Wind Chasing Club.

Needless to say, in addition to Lu Ningping, a generation of Chinese car kings, there is also a professional retired driver on Hong Kong Island, as well as a coach who has studied professional karting training in Europe, only the last young Xiao Li, whose qualifications are relatively low, is only an assistant sparring partner.

The weak side is mainly the students, because all the students here are the children of Hong Kong and Macao tycoons, and they do not regard go-karts as their future career, but more of an entertainment toy.

Those who have perseverance can persist for a few years, and then stop playing because of their studies, family, etc., and those who do not have perseverance may not be interested in a few months, and treat this as a toy that has nothing to do with driving two laps, which is similar to the mentality of spending money to drive a go-kart in the playground in later generations, but the price is much more expensive, but on the other hand, driving a kart here is also much more exciting than the playground.

In fact, if one or two top seedlings appear, they will also be sent to more professional Europe for training, so the strength of the students of the Wind Chasing Club has always been at a low level.

After all, Hong Kong Island is a small place, and before the development of motorsport in the mainland, it had no way to produce scale effects, so it could only go to more powerful places to train.

The overall strength of the students is low, which will lead to Zhang Yifei not being stimulated by strong opponents in the club and having no room for improvement. Previously, Lu Ningping estimated that Zhang Yifei would train in the Wind Chasing Club for more than half a year, and enter the formula step by step through karting events.

But now it seems that his plan has not been able to catch up with the changes in Zhang Yifei's strength, maybe the Chasing Wind Club is not suitable for Zhang Yifei, and he has to help him find a stronger club to train.

Generally, the number of laps of a normal F1 race is about 60 laps, and the laps of a go-kart race are also 15 laps or more according to the specifications. But now after two or three laps, Zhang Yifei has surpassed all his opponents, and the gap is widening, and he has lost the meaning of the simulated game.

But Lu Ningping did not shout to stop, although there is no meaning of the race, but running laps with opponents, you can also practice Zhang Yifei's overtaking skills, he has been running laps alone for too long, and he needs to adapt to this situation where there are other drivers competing.

Fifteen laps later, the simulation event is over, and the excited little students before are all depressed at this time. They know that Zhang Yifei is very strong, but in the real competition, the fast one was thrown by Zhang Yifei for half a circle, and the slow one was directly more than one lap, this gap is still very uncomfortable.

The kart was parked in the rest area, Zhang Yifei got off with a relaxed face, the 250CC super kart was used to driving, this 100CC entry kart felt like a toy, Zhang Yifei drove very casually.

"Uncle Lu, how is it, is it okay to run?"

"It's barely okay."

"Isn't it, it's almost a lap on average, and that's just barely enough?"

Zhang Yifei originally thought that he could praise two sentences, but it turned out that Uncle Lu didn't have this idea.

"Otherwise, don't look at their average age of 13, and how old are you?"

This sentence directly blocked Zhang Yifei, how can you say that it seems that you have a feeling of punching Nanshan Nursing Home and kicking Beihai Kindergarten?

Looking at Zhang Yifei's aggrieved look, Lu Ningping said with a smile on his face at this time: "What, feel unconvinced?" In that case, would you like to experience a faster speed? ”

"And faster? Uncle Lu, you shouldn't have gotten a formula car, right? ”

"Even if you get a formula car, it's not interesting to let you run alone, do you have the idea of going abroad to develop?"

"Abroad, Europe?"

"Hmm."

Lu Ningping nodded, to be honest, at the end of the nineties, the ceiling of domestic karting vocational training was already here, and Japan could see the scope of Asia, but they were already planning to go abroad for training, so they simply chose the strongest, and Europe was the only choice.