At Tokyo Narita Airport, when Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping got off the plane, it started drizzling in the sky.

This is Zhang Yifei's first time to come to Japan. Because as a rally driver in his previous life, Japan had no rally tracks, so naturally there was no chance to come to this race.

When they arrived at the taxi area of ​​Narita Airport, Zhang Yifei and the others did not go directly to the Toyota fleet youth training center, but found a hotel to stay. Because the trial training deadline was still a few days, they were not in a hurry. Moreover, after a few hours of flight, Zhang Yifei also needed buffer time.

In the taxi, Zhang Yifei expressed his desire to go to the driver in fluent English. It has to be said that Japan in the late 1990s was still better than China in popularizing English, after all, he wanted to leave Asia and join Europe.

Although the taxi driver stumbling in English, he still understood the meaning of the hotel and the communication was a little smoother than he thought. When he got off the plane, Zhang Yifei had a headache about how to communicate with the Japanese. Nowadays, mobile phones are mainly black and white screens, but there is no translation software.

"Yifei, you have good English."

Lu Ningping praised him, those who were born in the 1950s and 1960s basically had no English education. However, in Hong Kong for 50s and 196 years, Lu Ningping could still hear whether English was fluent. He was amazed at Zhang Yifei's oral proficiency.

"Hehe, Uncle Lu, you underestimate me. I am not a waste of life in school."

Zhang Yifei was not humble either, but in fact he was really a waste of time in school. The reason why he had such oral skills was entirely due to his previous life.

Many professional teams in China in later generations would invite some foreign coaches to help train and improve their level. In addition, there are often competitions on foreign tracks in rally racing, which also requires English dialogue. Over time, Zhang Yifei's English level will also improve, at least there is no problem with daily application.

Sitting in the car, looking at the landscape outside the window, all kinds of skyscrapers and bustling traffic. As the largest city in Asia, Tokyo is slightly inferior even in the East China Sea. It has to be said that it has the foundation of an old developed country, just like the gap in the domestic automobile industry.

Looking at all this, Zhang Yifei muttered silently: Twenty years later, the economic scale will be crushed. I hope I can still see the automobile industry crushing Japan in this life.

When I arrived at the hotel, I put everything in it, and it was almost evening after dinner.

However, Zhang Yifei still went to the hotel gym to exercise. Fitness must be persisted every day. Once he finds an excuse to be lazy, he will feel lazy for a while and always feel lazy forever.

It can be said that Zhang Yifei's biggest advantage may be persistence. Even though he often seems careless and mostly jokes, Zhang Yifei is always extremely serious when facing serious business situations.

Just like his usual routine, Zhang Yifei took a shower and went to bed after finishing fitness. There was no special situation, and he couldn't see any tension.

Lu Ningping saw this scene and was secretly surprised in his heart. After a few months, he had already known that Zhang Yifei had strong psychological qualities, but he did not expect that this kid could be so strong that he was "not surprised by favors and disgraces".

You should know that when I first ran a large-scale event in China, I was very nervous before the game came, and Zhang Yifei had come abroad, and there would be a trial to determine my destiny tomorrow. This kid felt more calm than himself.

This is also a good thing. Lu Ningping muttered in his heart, calmness is better than nervousness.

The next morning, I had breakfast after morning exercises. Except for being in Japan, I could only do morning exercises in a hotel, I couldn’t tell the difference between it and Hong Kong Island.

After everything was ready, Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping called a taxi to the Toyota Youth Training Base near Tokyo.

Toyota Japan Youth Training Base was founded by Toyota Racing Division to fight for F1, and was established for only a few months. Currently, it mainly attracts young Asian kart drivers and provides reserve talents for the future F1 Toyota team.

As a new force in the future of F1, Toyota relaxed its requirements for Formula drivers in order to recruit soldiers, which also gave Zhang Yifei a trial training opportunity. Otherwise, with Zhang Yifei's current age and performance, any old European F1 team would not give him a quota for young drivers.

The Toyota Youth Training Base is similar to the Donghai Volkswagen Training Base that Zhang Yifei had seen before. There is a huge brand logo at the gate, but Volkswagen has a VW combination pattern, while Toyota has a Niutou logo, with the English toyota below.

When you enter the base, the first thing you see is a track. Although the Toyota Young Driver Development Plan has only recently begun, this place was the Toyota Motors test yard, so the track and other things are ready-made.

When he arrived at the reception desk of the building, Zhang Yifei took out the invitation letter sent by Toyota before. After expressing his purpose, the receptionist was very polite and took them to the living room, saying that he would notify the fleet manager and let them wait for a while.

"Uncle Lu, the reception is quite polite."

I was bored, and Zhang Yifei began to talk nonsense. I have to say that Japan's service awareness is not bad. I came here to try out a trial. At least the receptionist did not show any contempt at all. Especially when the bow was almost ninety degrees, Zhang Yifei felt a little embarrassed.

"It's good, but the Japanese face and inner rank are two levels, and you will gradually understand in the future."

It can be said that Lu Ningping had accepted the sponsorship of the Japanese team at the beginning of his career. It was precisely because of this relationship that he received news of Toyota's formation of the F1 and also contacted Toyota's youth training camp.

It is precisely because he has had a lot of contact with the Japanese that Lu Ningping gradually discovered that the Japanese pay special attention to details of face, and his foundation is far less beautiful than that of face. Take what he did wrong as an example. He can apologize wildly, but he is sorry for correcting it. This requires layers of advice and taking it slowly.

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei suddenly remembered the famous Fukushima nuclear leak incident in later generations. From the very beginning, he concealed various reports and hid them, which turned into an accident of the same level as Chernobyl.

Afterwards, I bowed and apologized, but there was no way to deal with it. There was nothing that could not be solved by bowing. If so, I apologized and bowed again. In addition to the fraud of the outbreak of Takata airbags, Kobe steel making, etc., the craftsman spirit has become the "craftsman spirit", which Uncle Lu said is really appropriate.

Just as Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping were chatting, the sound of "tick, tick" high heels came, and a woman dressed in a workplace appeared in the living room. She bowed and introduced: "I am Junko Takeda, the manager of Toyota Youth Training Team. Please give me some advice."

Is the team manager a woman? Zhang Yifei was stunned when he saw this Junko Takeda. He was at least a person who had experienced professional racing. As far as the professional team manager he knew or had seen, there was no female.

Because most team managers are drivers after retirement, and professional racing is basically dominated by men, the possibility of female managers appearing is fundamentally cut off.
Chapter completed!