102 Development Drivers
Later FIA has three major world car events, namely Formula F1, Rally WRC and World Touring Car Championship WTC. For example, Le Mans Endurance Race, the level is slightly lower.
Among these three car competitions, the youngest one is WTC, because it was officially confirmed in 2005. It was previously a variety of European RV Championships and World RV Cup events, but it was not unified.
Before the official unification of WTC, the most famous event in the RV industry was the DTM RV race, the full name is the German RV Masters. It was founded in 1984. It is the most successful and popular RV race in the world and the most top RV race in this era. It can be regarded as a scale reduction version of WTC.
As for the title of developing driver, it starts with team segmentation, because a regular professional team cannot only have one or two formal drivers on the court. This is like a team, and it cannot only have only one player on the court, so the team also has No. 3 drivers, preparatory drivers, test drivers, development drivers, etc. These are equivalent to bench players and echelon players on the NBA.
Because the official racing competition is not one, but is divided into different sites. The championship team needs to go to more than a dozen sites to accumulate the highest points.
After a long period of competition, and motorsports are considered high-risk sports in a sense, some substitute drivers need to reserve. Among them, the order priority of substitute drivers is the third driver > the reserve driver > the test driver. The development driver is more like the echelons in basketball and football, and is a youth training driver trained as reserve forces.
But you should know that dtm is already the highest-standard RV event in the world. Before WTC appeared, it was almost as famous as Formula F1 and WRC in Rally.
The strongest domestic professional racing event in later generations was rally racing, but it was just a gangster in Asia who competed in some third-level events to win championships and barely got into second-level events. No Chinese driver had ever entered the world's first-level event like WRC.
The RV race is similar, and even based on domestic racing, the situation is even worse. Although this is just a European RV race development driver, it is almost equivalent to a Chinese player who entered the NBA Development League. Although it cannot be considered a formal player of the NBA, you can't say that he is not strong enough, at least he is very strong in Asia.
Even Zhang Yifei, who was at his peak, was the test driver position of European teams, but before he could officially join, he had already returned to twenty years ago.
"Which team does he join in Europe?"
"I don't know, I think I'm a rich man."
Rich Auto is the Volvo in later generations. However, in the 1990s, Volvo was called Rich Auto in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Just like in the era of Mercedes-Benz, many people called Pingzhi and Lexus Lexus.
Is there a Volvo team in DTM? Zhang Yifei asked a question in his mind. After all, after twenty years, he was not very clear about some things. The only thing he knew was that DTM can basically be said to be a paradise for German luxury cars. The three brothers Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi basically dominated DTM.
"Then why shouldn't he go to Europe to train in Yuen Long, Hong Kong Island?"
Zhang Yifei asked afterwards that since he had the opportunity to join the European team, he naturally had to go to Europe for training and contact the world's top drivers and events to best improve himself.
It’s like joining the NBA and the five major leagues. If you don’t go to the United States and Europe to play football, you won’t even be in the CBA and the Chinese Super League. If you go to a municipal team in a certain provincial league, what is your mind thinking?
"How do I know that these are what Lin Shujie told me before. He regards Wan Chai Car God as an idol, why don't I ask him?"
"No, I'll ask others in the future."
Zhang Yifei rejected Lu Ningjing's suggestion. After all, this kid is of the same level as Lan Zaiming in Zhang Yifei's heart, and he is the same genius, but he is reluctant to accept the loss.
When we returned to Uncle Lu's house, it was almost one o'clock in the morning, but unlike when Zhang Yifei and the others returned home before, Uncle Lu and his wife had already slept directly this time. It seemed that they were quite relieved to have Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningjing.
When he went home to wash up, just as Zhang Yifei was about to go to bed, Lu Ningjing suddenly ran over and grabbed him and said, "Zhang Yifei, why don't you run with Wan Chai Car God? If you win, you will be the most powerful driver on Hong Kong Island. In the future, you will be the Hong Kong Car God, and you will be more respectful!"
"Has my answer been unclear enough before? I'm not interested!"
Of course, Zhang Yifei knew what the girl was thinking about now, she just wanted to make trouble!
After saying that, Zhang Yifei was about to go back to the room and would get up early to go to the club to train tomorrow. However, when he was about to close the door, he turned around and said, "No, I have a problem. You are all brother Yifei in front of outsiders. If you don't have anyone, just call me Zhang Yifei. This attitude changes a bit quickly. What about respecting the traditional virtue of elders?"
"Tsk, you are too embarrassed to be an elder. Have you ever loved you so young? You always bully me!"
"Damn, haven't I rescued you from the clutches of Lin Shao? Isn't this so caring enough?"
"When did he stretch out his claws at me?"
"When you let you know that it was the devil's claw, you were already finished. It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin. You don't know the good people's hearts and go to bed!"
After saying that, Zhang Yifei closed the door and stopped talking to Lu Ningjing. If Uncle Lu wakes up at night, it will be embarrassing.
The next morning, Zhang Yifei still got up at around six o'clock to wash, and then prepared to run with Uncle Lu for a while before having morning tea.
This is also his habit in the past half month. If he persists in many things, he doesn’t feel as hard as the beginning.
On the morning run, Lu Ningping asked while running: "How did you run with Xie Tiancheng last night? Did you win?"
"Yeah, I won."
"Are you overtaking in a composite bend or a triple hairpin bend?"
"Uncle Lu, have you run across the Quanjin Highway?"
Hearing Zhang Yifei's question, Lu Ningping laughed and said, "I have no time to go to the mountain road. It's just that I have been to Hong Kong Island for five or six years, and I have been passing by several times."
"So that's it. I thought you were still old and you were an invisible car god in Damao Mountain."
"Don't joke about my uncle, but then again, it really surprised me that you can beat Xie Tiancheng. You can fully enter the professional team."
"Absolutely, I have the title of the Seven Star Mountain Race God!"
Seeing Zhang Yifei start to float, Lu Ningping knocked his head and said, "Tell you something serious. Today is just the weekend. Several older students from the club will come to train. You have been running the track alone for a while. Let's start the simulation competition today."
Zhang Yifei has been training for karting for half a month. For the past half month, he basically runs alone to overcome some of his technical shortcomings and understand how karting is driven.
After more than half a month, Zhang Yifei improved a lot, and even reached the point where even Lu Ningping was surprised. After all, the karting event was not a single lap. If you want to experience the real competition atmosphere, your opponents need to compete, and the weekend is just a chance.
"No problem, I've been looking forward to a formal run, but they can't compare my 250cc super kart."
"Who said you were asked to drive a super kart of 250cc, and compete with them. You drove a 100cc, and they drove a 125cc."
"What?"
Zhang Yifei was a little surprised. 100cc is simply a children's toy to him.
Chapter completed!