Sitting in the car, Ah Hu looked at the scenery outside the car window with curiosity. As the world's art capital, Milan has a strong Renaissance style. For Ah Hu, who was going abroad for the first time, it opened the door to a new world.

"Brother Fei, these houses are just like on TV, so beautiful."

Seeing Ah Hu's native bunny entering the city, Zhang Yifei just smiled and said nothing.

Chen Zhi on the other side did not put his mind on the street scene, but said, "Yifei, Formula Racing is a completely unfamiliar area for me and Ah Hu. I wonder what you planned?"

Chen Zhi is already 23 years old this year. Unlike ordinary car repair shop apprentices, Zhang Zhiguo trained him as a racing engineer very early. A few years ago, he used his connections to send him to the School of Automobile Engineering for further studies.

Even before returning to the car repair shop, Chen Zhi had interned in a domestic professional team for a period of time and had reached the level of domestic racing technicians.

So Chen Zhi is very familiar with the professional racing maintenance team, and it is precisely because he knows that Formula racing requires maintenance technicians. It can be said that he and Ah Hu are not of this type at all, and everything has to start from scratch.

"Brother Zhi, I have considered this issue. Formula racing, it is true that for you, everything needs to be explored slowly. But I believe that the strength of you and Ah Hu and the hardware-level maintenance are not a problem. It is enough to do this."

Zhang Yifei is not an unrealistic person. He positioned Chen Zhi and Ah Hu as a racing maintenance technician, dealing with hardware-level problems.

Formula racing has a high technological content, which is beyond doubt, but research and development and maintenance are two concepts. Formula engine, transmission development, and aerodynamic design of the car body, these are considered to be Zodiac Technology for the current level of China's automobile industry.

Even twenty years later, China has not yet reached this threshold.

But the maintenance of Formula racing is not as difficult as it is. In most cases, it is just about changing oil and tires. What is more important is team cooperation. Even if there is further racing overhaul, Chen Zhi and Ah Hu can slowly master it. Zhang Yifei never worried about their strength in terms of hardware level.

And then again, even the engine of the F1 only takes two stops, so there is almost no overhaul. Change it if it should be replaced, otherwise how can it be worthy of the word "burning money"?

"But everything is difficult at the beginning, I'm worried that it will affect your progress."

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei couldn't help laughing: "Brother Zhi, all my sub-station events are provided by Toyota European Motorsports Organization. They will send professional racing teams to assist, so there will be no impact."

"At that time, you two will join the maintenance team temporarily and you can learn from it. If you have any difficulties, ask Yamamoto Ukyo, who is my competition engineer this time and a doctor of vehicle engineering from Honto Institute of Technology, who is very awesome."

"Then I'll feel relieved. I'm still worried that with Ah Hu will drag you down."

Chen Zhi breathed a sigh of relief at this time. He didn't know that the sponsorship agreement between Zhang Yifei and Toyota was suddenly called by Zhang Zhiguo to help Zhang Yifei in Europe, saying that he would join the Formula Maintenance Team.

As a result, I only saw two people, one of them was a woman. This made Chen Zhi feel confused. In addition, he and Ah Human had three people, which is considered a professional racing maintenance team?

After about half an hour's drive, the group finally arrived at the famous Monza Track. Since the birth of Formula 1, it has been the host of the Italian F1 competition.

Entering the Monza arena, this is the first time Zhang Yifei is standing on the track of f1 as a Formula driver.

This feeling is completely different from standing in the Shanghai International Racing Stadium in my previous life. Because I was just a spectator at that time, but now I will become a participant.

"Brother Fei, why do you have Ferrari and Lamborghini logos on those buildings? Isn't this the Formula Track?"

Looking in the direction of Ah Hu's finger, Zhang Yifei also saw two huge buildings with trademarks of Ferrari and Lamborghini.

But the problem is that Zhang Yifei is here at Monza Track for the first time. He knows it, so he simply replied: "Don't ask, I just don't know."

Hearing Zhang Yifei's answer, Junko Takeda couldn't help but burst into laughter and explained: "This is the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museum of Monza Raceway. Because Italy is a supercar country, it has many supercar brands such as Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani and Lamborghini, so the manufacturer has built the brand museum on the Monza Raceway to expand its influence."

"I heard it, read more in the future."

"Okay, Brother Fei."

...

The group continued to move forward and soon arrived at the event command center. Zhang Yifei and Junko Takeda walked in alone and completed the driver registration here.

In fact, Zhang Yifei's archives and information have long been handed over by Toyota to the Renault event organizing committee, but some documents still require Zhang Yifei's signature and registration to become driver's files.

So the driver registration process is very fast, just signing several documents. After getting these done, a Renault staff member led Zhang Yifei and his party to the garage where they will accept the rental Renault 2000 racing car.

At this time, Zhang Yifei remembered the scene when he had just entered the Toyota Youth Training Base two months ago. He was really a pure newbie.

When I first saw a real Formula racing, I had to try out immediately. I didn’t even know whether Formula racing could be rented. I was so tough on all kinds of things.

Time flies, and in just two months, I am about to start my first Formula Professional Competition.

When I arrived at the garage, there were dozens of Renault 2000 racing cars, which were similar in specifications to the training cars at Toyota Youth Training Base. They all had displacement and horsepower limits to 200p, which were racing cars that met the Fia Formula 3~ Formula Standard.

The Renault Formula is different from the f1 because it is a manufacturer's promotion event, so the team does not prepare the racing cars themselves. All racing cars will be provided by French Renault Automobile. The difference is that it pays for the team.

Like Zhang Yifei, they are self-paid drivers. Every race requires renting Renault's racing cars to complete the race.

In addition to the rental fees of racing cars, there are also track usage fees and P-house rental fees. In addition, individual paid drivers do not have a strong maintenance team to support them, and usually they need to purchase the racing maintenance technical services provided by Renault, which is also a lot of money.

After all the fees, the cost of Renault's one stop is about 500,000 yuan.

And this is a normal cost. If the driver does something and crashes the car, the price will be more than several times more.

This is why, the road to f1 is called the road to burn money. Compared with the price of the primary equation, the previous kart was similar to the drizzle. Compared with the future f1, the current primary equation is actually drizzle.
Chapter completed!