"If there is no problem, we can go to the previous lounge to discuss specific signing matters."

Junko Takeda felt Zhang Yifei's excitement. She had seen this kind of performance of young drivers more than once, so she could understand Zhang Yifei very much.

"No problem, you can sign a contract at any time."

Zhang Yifei agreed without hesitation, that was his choice.

He got up and went to the previous reception room. After waiting for a while, Junko Takeda took out the Toyota team's youth training driver contract and handed it to Zhang Yifei.

The contract is available in Japanese and English, because even if it is the Formula Team of Japanese manufacturers, it is actually mainly European drivers. This is why, the entire Toyota training camp is basically mainly English dialogue, because this is the case in the overall environment.

Zhang Yifei took the contract and read it alone, but did not pass it over to Uncle Lu next to him for a look, because although Lu Ningping had been in Hong Kong for five or six years, his English was limited to a level of barely understanding a few sentences.

At this level, it is because he is a kart coach and needs to better refer to and learn European experience. Therefore, Zhang Yifei can only read the contract text by himself, and finally convey the key points of the contract to Lu Ningping.

Zhang Yifei signed a lot of racing contracts in his previous life, so he was not like those completely inexperienced kart drivers. He quickly scanned the contract text and obtained some of the key information.

"Uncle Lu, this is a one-year contract. If signed, I will become a driver of Toyota Youth Training Team. They will bear all the expenses of my Toyota Youth Training Camp. Even if I go abroad to compete, I can get technical support from Toyota Team."

"There is no basic salary and sponsorship share within the contract period, but it can be divided into event bonuses. If you get a good result of the Renault Formula or higher, such as F3, there are additional rewards. Apart from these, the rest are some regular contents of the driver's contract, and there is nothing to say."

Zhang Yifei only talked about the key points, because Lu Ningping was once a professional driver, and the team contract was not unfamiliar to him.

Moreover, compared with formal driver contracts, the content is much simpler, after all, it does not involve commercial profit sharing.

Lu Ningping listened carefully to what Zhang Yifei said about the contract, and he felt very satisfied. To be honest, the terms of this contract were much better than he had expected before.

At the beginning, Lu Ningping's psychological expectations bottom line was that as long as Zhang Yifei could pass the trial training, he could enter Toyota's youth training camp, even if he had to pay for it at his own expense in the end.

After all, most driver’s academies, including those in Europe’s top academies, have this kind of recruitment standard. Drivers can only enter the driver’s academies after trial training, but the racing fees and other things are still paid by themselves, which is similar to the mode of paying tuition fees in the school.

Just like in the school, the best group of drivers will receive a "scholarship". The amount of this scholarship is very large, which can offset the study costs in the driver's academy and can also be regarded as the team's training of potential drivers.

In fact, seriously, in addition to the backward development of China's professional racing industry, the lack of sponsorship of the driver training system is not enough.

As we all know, racing is a money-burning industry, and it is actually very difficult to rely solely on the support of drivers' families. However, European developed countries have high subsidies in this regard. Take the UK as an example. As long as it reaches the top three of the Formula Renault in the UK, the government will give subsidies of 30 to 40% of racing expenditures.

If subsidies are added to the team and sponsors, drivers can run their careers without any worries, which is why European motorsports are so developed.

Even the "developing countries" of motorsports, such as Russia and Mexico, have strong sponsorship systems.

Russian industry giants such as SMP Bank and Mexican Telecom directly explore potential drivers and send them to Italian competitions. In this regard, few industry giants in China are willing to sponsor the development of young drivers.

In fact, if the training of drivers and the development of racing sports is to burn money if it is done properly, but in fact it will not lose money. If you only lose money but not make a profit, the F1 team will have all gone bankrupt long ago.

After all, people do things that lose their heads in this world, but no one does business that loses money.

To put it in a small way, there are so many audiences around the world, and spending money to sponsor advertisements is very effective, otherwise the "small advertisements" on the driver's servers and racing cars would not have been astonishingly priced.

To put it bluntly, motorsports are very helpful in enhancing the development of the country's automobile industry. They can allow automobile manufacturers to develop more advanced technologies and enhance the status of their own auto companies in the world.

The rise of the Japanese car series in the 1980s was related to various international competitions, which gave the world the impression of being strong and became a three-legged stance with the German and American series, which was also a brand effect.

"I think this contract is sincere and there is no problem."

Lu Ningping is not a commercial genius, so he said it directly. Judging from his professional experience, the conditions of Toyota team are sufficiently generous for a newcomer kart driver who has no achievements.

Zhang Yifei also had this idea. To be honest, he didn't expect that the Toyota team's contract was so generous. Generally speaking, it would be great to have free training, which would save him a lot of money.

But what attracted Zhang Yifei the most was that Toyota agreed to provide technical support for future professional events.

In other words, Zhang Yifei can get help from the Toyota racing team in the future. This is not only a saving in money, but also a technical advantage brought by the professional team, but also an invisible wealth.

From this point, we can also see that Toyota is now eager for potential drivers, and the conditions offered make new potential drivers like Zhang Yifei unable to refuse. The more he invests, the more he can see Toyota's ambitions in F1. Are they planning to replicate the glory of Honda's six consecutive championships in the 1980s?

So Zhang Yifei did not raise any objections and signed a contract with Toyota Motorsports. In the next year, he will train in the name of Toyota youth training drivers and compete in the competitions around the world.

After the contract was signed, the Toyota Youth Training Team also held a welcome ceremony for Zhang Yifei that night.

At the welcome ceremony, three drivers who had already passed the trial training before Zhang Yifei arrived.

Two of these three are Japanese local kart drivers. Not every Japanese kart driver has the strength of Sato Takuma. Their strength is very average and they have only obtained the status of youth training students. They will be paid for their own expenses in the future.

The other one is Hank, a kart driver from Australia, who once won the runner-up in the Australian Kart Championship. He was the driver with the best trial results before, only a few milliseconds slower than Zhang Yifei's lap speed. His score was 1 minute, 34 seconds, 57, and he also won the youth training driver contract for Toyota team.

These people are between 15 and 17 years old, and the youngest is the second-place Australian kart runner-up, who is only 15 years old. But it may be that the white man is relatively mature, and Zhang Yifei feels that anyone believes that he is 25 years old.

And compared to the congratulations from others, this white guy felt an indescribable arrogance, as if he was superior to others.
Chapter completed!