"Uncle Lu, since he has come here, there is no way back. Take one step at a time."

Zhang Yifei also gritted his teeth. Unlike the underground racing before, even if he had never run on the street, Zhang Yifei had professional racing experience and could not defeat a number of street drivers.

But Formula racing is a two-dimensional concept. Not to mention experience, Zhang Yifei has never even touched Formula racing in his two lifetimes. Today is the first time.

"No, this will inevitably lead to a failure in the trial. Why don't I discuss with the Toyota team manager to see if the trial time can be postponed and let you borrow their Formula car to practice for a few days first."

Hearing Uncle Lu’s words, Zhang Yifei couldn’t help but smile and replied: “Uncle Lu, is there such a temporary cram? This is not a track open to third parties, but a Toyota test yard. How could they rent a racing car for us?”

Like the Donghai Volkswagen Training Base where Zhang Yifei visited before, the Toyota Youth Training Center is a team's private track, rather than an international racing stadium open to third-party public.

Only international tracks that are open to the public can have racing rental services, so that ordinary people can spend money to experience the feeling of going on the track. But let alone the test yard of automobile manufacturers, even if it is an international track, it still needs to be a question whether Formula racing can be rented.

With Zhang Yifei's limited understanding, he has only seen the rental of rally cars and karts, and has never known whether Formula racing can be rented. After all, the Formula racing environment in China in later generations was really not very good, and Zhang Yifei had no contact channels.

Time passed by minute by minute. In this situation, there was no choice but to bite the bullet. Zhang Yifei could only grit his teeth.

"Uncle Lu, there's nothing I can do. I'll drive it right away later. Logically speaking, in addition to the difference between sitting posture and speed, driving should be similar to a kart, and supercars also have this kind of sitting posture, so I should be able to adapt."

At this point, Lu Ningping also understood that there was no choice. He nodded and replied: "Yifei, don't feel too much psychological pressure. Just like usual training, no matter whether you can pass the trial in the end, just do your best."

Lu Ningping did not put pressure on Zhang Yifei. He was already thinking about a way out. If he really didn't pass the trial, he would even throw Zhang Yifei into the European drivers' academy at his own expense and fulfill his dream of Formula Racing.

Because of Zhang Yifei's efforts over the past period, Lu Ningping also saw that he had reached the limit of his peers. So whether he passed or not, this was not Zhang Yifei's fault. It can only be said that this is the case with the Asian Formula environment, and the starting line was lost too far.

Ten minutes passed quickly. When Junko Takeda came in again, there were five or six men wearing work clothes around her, with the Toyota bullhead logo on her chest, which meant that they were all from Toyota.

"Yifeijun, are you ready?"

"It's ready to start."

Ten minutes have already restored Zhang Yifei's mood to the point of the past, and calmness is a necessary element for a driver.

"Very good. These are team members of the Toyota Youth Training Program, data analyst Ukyo Yamamoto, automobile engineer Masato Kawaguchi, chief technician Ichiro Komatsu and some technician teams."

"They will be your logistics support team in this trial race. If you have any needs in the race or the problem of racing, you can ask them for help during your trial run."

"I see."

Zhang Yifei nodded. Although he had never run into Formula races, he had never eaten pork and hadn't seen pigs running? Not to mention that he had professional experience, he still knew about the configuration of a team's maintenance team. But relatively speaking, Formula racing's maintenance team is larger in scale and has higher technological content.

Everything was ready, Zhang Yifei got into the car, which was similar to the F1 race scene I saw on TV. Zhang Yifei was left with only one head outside, and he was in a semi-lying position.

At this time, Yukyo Yamamoto, a data analyst at the youth training camp, came to Zhang Yifei and said in fluent English: "The current air temperature is 22°C and the ground temperature is 18°C. The road surface is not water-stacked but slightly wet. There is no need to change the pattern tire for the time being, but the tire warming time will increase accordingly. Pay attention to the grip of the cornering limit speed."

Unlike other sports events, there is actually no coaching position in the real F1 team, because F1 drivers are strong enough that others don’t need to teach them how to drive.

So to be precise, the coach of the F1 team is a variety of analysts and strategists to tell the drivers the race information and data, and the drivers will decide how to drive in the end.

Although Toyota team is just a youth training camp now, and there are still two years left before entering the F1 stadium, everything is built according to the F1 standards. So even if it is an unimportant trial race, there are still data analysts who tell Zhang Yifei about this information to ensure that the drivers can perform perfectly.

"I see."

Zhang Yifei nodded and confirmed the track information, but recalled in his mind that the drizzle that had just got off the plane yesterday was drizzling in the sky. He didn't expect it to be related to today's competition road conditions.

"The trial race is running clockwise. The entire track is 3.7 kilometers long and the whole course is 13 corners. The lap record is 1 minute 24 seconds 23, created by Japanese Formula 3 champion Takuma Sato. Your trial training method is to run 30 minutes and get the fastest lap speed. As long as you can run into 1 minute 44 seconds 23, you will be successful in the trial."

Yamamoto Ukyo then told Zhang Yifei about the track information and trial training standards. Unlike before, he would know the track information early, this time, the Toyota Youth Training Camp pre-race invitation letter did not provide any track information, and it depends entirely on the on-site performance of the trial drivers, because this is also one of the contents of the trial training.

It happened that Sato Dao, the Japanese driver Zhang Yifei, knew that because he was the best F1 driver in Japan in about two thousand years, and it can also be said to be the strongest Formula driver in Asia in this era.

This guy became an F1 driver, which is simply a history of counterattack. Due to family background, Sato Takuma came into contact with karts at the age of 19, three years later than Zhang Yifei.

However, unlike the Chinese automobile industry, Japan has a strong professional racing background. Sato Takuma successfully entered Honda Suzuki Racing Academy and won a scholarship, which helped him solve his financial difficulties.

In less than two years, Sato Takuma went from being a newcomer who had just gotten into kart to become a Japanese Formula 3 champion. This winning speed can only show one thing, that is, a racing genius may not necessarily become an F1 driver, but an F1 driver must be a racing genius.

Finally, in 2002, Sato Takuma successfully stood on the F1 arena, which created a small miracle. It was precisely because of his counterattack experience that Zhang Yifei had heard of his deeds in later generations. Unexpectedly, his first professional trial in this life was facing the records set by Sato Takuma.

After running 3.7 kilometers in 1 minute, 24 seconds, Zhang Yifei quickly converted it in his heart, and the average speed was about 158km/h.
Chapter completed!