170 Post-match celebration (big chapter)
When He Lang heard Zhang Yifei's tone, he knew that this kid must have been unaffected.
To be honest, what He Lang admires most is that in addition to driving skills, he has strong psychological qualities. It is impossible to tell at all that this is just a seventeen-year-old boy who should be calm and stable.
I don’t know, I thought this guy had been fighting in the track for more than ten years and had been at a loss for fame and disgrace.
But then again, after a while, Zhang Yifei has been fighting in the track for more than ten years...
Then He Lang asked He Ziling about his situation and told Zhang Yifei to take good care of his sister.
Of course, Zhang Yifei is unambiguous in this regard, and He Lang doesn't need to say that he will do it.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yifei went directly to the gym. Although the competition has ended, the physical exercise cannot be interrupted. This is just the beginning. The second stop will soon come.
In the evening, Yamamoto Ukyo and his group also returned from the Monza Raceway. The event had undergone a full post-race inspection and would be transported to the second stop by a box truck soon.
"Brother Fei, although he only won the runner-up, it was the first time he was on the podium. It was a good start. Why don't we go out and celebrate?"
After returning, Ah Hu couldn't help but raise the idea of celebrating with Zhang Yifei. This kid is only sixteen now. If he had not been an auto repair apprentice or the age to go to high school.
After all, this was his first time abroad. After arriving in Milan, he had no chance to leave the hotel gate except for taking a bus to and from the hotel and Monza every day.
At this age, both playful and curious are quite serious. Ah Hu was able to restrain himself before the competition, but now the branch race has been completed, Ah Hu finally couldn't help but want to go out and take a look.
Zhang Yifei also knew Ah Hu's idea. Who has not come from his teenage years old, not to mention that he is only seventeen years old now.
"It's okay to go out to celebrate, but I'm curious about how your English tutoring has been doing these days. Don't wait to go out and don't know how to go back."
As soon as he heard about speaking English, Ah Hu's originally happy expression instantly turned into a frown. He had not graduated from junior high school in China and came to the car repair shop to be an apprentice.
Moreover, primary school English education was not popular in this era, and most students only started to get involved in English in junior high school, so Ah Hu knew it at the same level.
After He Ziling arrived, he had to receive three or four hours of English training every day, and he had to memorize words, memorize grammar, etc. when he woke up in the morning. This was simply a torture for Ah Hu.
But he also understood that Zhang Yifei did this for his own good. The past few days of exposure to professional competition atmosphere made Ah Hu understand how big the gap between him and these top maintenance technicians was before.
Whether it is professionalism, process specifications, or even efficiency and speed, he is far behind, and even Brother Zhi can only barely keep up.
He also realized that all foreign maintenance teams communicate in English, even if the Toyota technical team is basically dominated by Japanese people, it is still the case.
There is no way, who is the world's top technical director and competition engineer, both in Europe. Moreover, the university has a major in racing engineering, which is basically the top universities in Europe and the United States, and the English atmosphere is fixed.
If you don’t have this strength to change it, you can only adapt to it.
In the end, Ah Hu could only mutter guiltily: "Italy doesn't speak English either."
Zhang Yifei naturally heard this mutter, so he knocked on Ah Hu's head: "You guy is getting more and more slippery!"
"Brother Fei, our hometown says that knocking on the head will make people stupid. We are not smart at all, and we won't be able to learn it in the future!"
Ah Hu said this with dissatisfaction. Everyone laughed when they heard it. Zhang Yifei wanted to do it for him again, but he could only stop in disappointment.
"Okay, I'll celebrate it in the evening, but Manager Junko, the Monza station event has ended, so it's not easy to bother Toyota European Racing. I think I have to rent two cars, otherwise it would be too inconvenient."
As early as when I first came to Milan, Zhang Yifei felt that it was inconvenient to have no car, but due to time and because of his lack of a driver's license, he did not go to rent a car.
Now that the Monza station competition has ended, the personnel from Toyota's European Tournament are temporarily evacuated, Zhang Yifei is embarrassed to ask Toyota to send another car to pick it up and drop it off.
After all, he is just a Toyota youth training driver now, and the event is just a sponsor, so he doesn't have such a big face yet.
"No problem, Junko and I will go rent a car."
Yamamoto Ukyo naturally knew the inconvenience of Zhang Yifei. He and Junko Takeda both have international driver's licenses, so renting a car is much easier.
So the group first came to the car rental store and rented a Nissan Junjue and a Fiat-owned company.
Both are very ordinary civilian vehicles, especially Fiat. They are also used in the English translation of Palio in China and have been issued by the joint venture manufacturer Nanjing Fiat.
However, the Fiat brand is really not suitable for the domestic market. In other words, there are few European brands except German brands that meet the tastes of Chinese people. They are always lukewarm and are on the verge of delisting at any time.
In fact, when Zhang Yifei chose, he was given priority to Toyota, who had been to the past. After all, he was a youth training driver under Toyota. Although he had not signed an exclusive agreement for the car brand, Toyota was quite kind to him and it was not good to rent models from rival brands.
But nowadays, Toyota is really a younger brother in front of Nissan Junjue. His sales and market share have been lifted up, and there is no Toyota car in the car rental store at all.
There is no choice, Zhang Yifei can only rent Nissan Junjue. I have to say that there is no reason for good sales. The appearance and interior are one level better than Toyota. No wonder Toyota has to wait until Alpha comes out before it can make a comeback.
After renting a car, the group did not choose a bar at the celebration location because most of them were underage and there was no habit of going to a bar.
Thinking about it, they still had a meal to celebrate together according to the traditional Chinese way, so everyone found a Chinese restaurant in Milan.
The Chinese restaurant is called "Linyuan". It is near the Palace of Milan. It is considered to be a relatively old Chinese restaurant in Italy. It was opened by a Chinese couple who came to Europe in the early years.
When he entered the Chinese restaurant, the decoration style was also in ancient Chinese courtyard style. Zhang Yifei directly asked the front desk waiter for a private room, and then ordered more than a dozen classic dishes. Everyone celebrated happily.
To be honest, Zhang Yifei is still used to this atmosphere. The celebration of foreign bars is really not in line with the traditional Chinese concepts.
However, during the meal, Zhang Yifei found that Yamamoto Ukyo looked worried, which surprised him.
I have known Yamamoto for several months and have to come into contact with it almost every day, so Zhang Yifei is also familiar with Yamamoto's personality. He is a typical science and engineering man's mind. With the Japanese old-fashioned staff personality, basically everything is regular and clear, and he rarely expresses his emotions.
Therefore, Yamamoto Ukyo's unusual expression still made Zhang Yifei notice, and he felt something was wrong.
After dinner, the group prepared to walk around the streets of Milan, especially the two girls, He Ziling and Takeda Junko, who had long wanted to go shopping.
You should know that Milan is known as the fashion capital. Milan can basically be seen at various big-name clothing conferences and stage shows. In addition, luxury brands such as Prada R and Versace were born, which are far more attractive to girls than imagined.
Ah Hu and Zhi Ge were also curiously looking around. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Yifei walked to Yukini Yamamoto and asked, "Youkini, you seem to have something to worry about?"
"Ah? No!"
Yamamoto Ukyo explained in a panic that the effect was even more false than no explanation.
"Come on, you're not the kind of person who can hide it. Just say anything."
Zhang Yifei is too lazy to play any game you can guess with Yamamoto Ukyo. This guy has a simple mind and is more suitable for straightforwardness.
Hearing Zhang Yifei say this, Yamamoto Ukyo also understood that he was not suitable for concealment, so he simply said, "Ikijun, I don't think I am suitable for being a competition engineer."
"What's wrong, I think you're pretty good."
Zhang Yifei felt very strange. Yamamoto Ukyo performed well at this stop, especially for the adjustment of racing suspension, which can be said to avoid rushing to the road shoulder and causing the suspension to be damaged. It can be said that it is completely qualified.
"No, I just fulfilled the responsibility of data analysis and suggestions, and did not formulate the game strategy. It basically depends on your performance on the field."
Hearing this, Zhang Yifei couldn't help laughing, thinking that it was something big, but it turned out that he felt that he was incompetent because of this.
"You Kyo, you're thinking too much. The primary equation is not 1. You need to change the tire and refuel and other tactics to formulate. Renault is done just by running. What strategy can you make?"
"It's not the case. Elementary formulas should also have tactical adjustments. At your current level, a top competition engineer, and can still serve as an auxiliary coach, I can't do all this."
In fact, during the Zhang Yifei's game, Yamamoto Ukyo had already considered this issue, that is, his strength lies in data analysis, rather than making a comprehensive layout.
Or to put it simply, Ukyo Yamamoto feels that his personality is not suitable for being a competition engineer because he is not the kind of person who is good at communication and communication. During the competition, he rarely talks if Zhang Yifei doesn't take the initiative to ask during the competition.
This is obviously not the state that the competition engineer should have. It can be said that he is not qualified.
Now taking orders is just Renault's primary formula. As Yifei said, there are no strategies such as changing tires, refueling, etc., and the competition time is short, so my shortcomings are not obvious.
Even without any communication, there is no problem with Zhang Yifei running on the track alone.
But if you want to go further and achieve outstanding results in the entire 2000 European Cup of Renault and enter the sight of Team 1, then Yifei needs a more amazing performance.
At this time, if a top competition engineer appears, Zhang Yifei's performance will improve greatly.
"Ukyo, I understand what you said, but it's too early to say this now. When you enter the 1st team, there will naturally be professional racing engineers."
Chapter completed!