213 Reno Party (Chapter 1)
After lunch, Zhang Yifei took 1,000 yuan to Zhou Yunhui, which was considered to be paying off the venue fee and car rental fee. Huo Ranwen.a`
This is more than Qian Zhou Yunhui, but Zhang Yifei still forced him to do so. After all, although his old man is not a super rich man, he is enough to be above the middle class in China at this stage. After all, Guangzhou and Shenzhen also have cars, houses and stores.
Zhang Yifei's family is ineffective when he invests tens of millions of dollars in the equation, but Zhang Yifei still doesn't care much about the thousand dollars. Zhou Yunhui must be short of money in Europe than himself.
After saying goodbye to Zhou Yunhui, Zhang Yifei drove the rented Fiat Palio back to Heidelberg.
Now that time is over two o'clock, you can go back before dark, so Zhang Yifei does not pursue speed as he did when he came.
Of course, the reason why I don’t pursue speed is more because I am afraid that this broken car will leave me on the road...
"Zhang Yifei, it turns out that after you took leave from school, you went to Hong Kong Island to race."
During the meal just now, He Ziling also learned about Zhang Yifei and Zhou Yunhui's encounter, as well as some stories about him on Hong Kong Island.
What surprised her was that Zhang Yifei took leave from school on the eve of the college entrance examination and disappeared. It turned out that he had gone to Hong Kong Island.
"Otherwise, do you think my current superb driving skills fell from the sky?"
“I’m really not humble…”
He Ziling gave Zhang Yifei a blank look, but she had a little bit of recognition in her heart. At least in terms of speed on the track, she felt faster than her brother.
"Humility cannot be a chariot god. Whether it is Senna or Schumacher, you can't see much of the shadow of modesty from them."
Zhang Yifei replied with a smile, Needless to say, Senna is hot and radical, he never thinks he is behind any driver, and in the end he even devotes his life to racing.
Schumacher was not much better, and his youthfulness was one of his marks. Even the Ferrari team was the only one who signed the driver's contract to get a car.
In other words, the No. 2 driver must give way to Schumacher when the team needs it, even if it is ahead of him to cross the championship finish line. From this point, it can be seen that Schumacher's strength and unpretentiousness are not at all.
"Schumacher? He's quite awesome, but is he a car god?"
He Ziling asked in confusion. She had just had a rough understanding of racing because of He Lang.
But after coming to Zhang Yifei's team, in order to teach Ahu and Zhige, especially the words about racing, she had a preliminary understanding of the equation.
Not to mention anything else, it seems that Senna is the only one who is recognized as a car god, and Schumacher belongs to Ferrari and has two driver titles.
But there are many people with two championship titles in F1 history, and no one seems to call Schumacher the God of Cars.
Hearing this question, Zhang Yifei realized that he had let it go again. He thought why Ziling was still a racing car novice, but she didn't expect that she had already known about Senna and Schumacher.
You should know that Schumacher truly entered the altar because he won the driver championship for five consecutive years since 2000, and created the unattainable Ferrari dynasty.
Schumacher now can only be regarded as a top F1 driver with great potential, far from reaching the level of becoming a god.
"Not for the time being, but he will do it in the future."
After saying this, Zhang Yifei suddenly thought of something and added: "He may not necessarily be like this in the future."
Faced with Zhang Yifei's contradictory statement, He Ziling felt very surprised, but she didn't ask anything more.
When I returned to the hotel, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, but fortunately, the Fiat palio had withstood the considerations. Apart from the still strange noises everywhere, it did not break down on the ground.
As soon as he drove into the parking lot, Zhang Yifei saw Junko Takeda standing at the entrance of the hotel.
"Yifeijun, where have you been? Why did you come back at this time?"
"I went to the New North Raceway for a run, and I forgot to notify you in a hurry."
Zhang Yifei replied with apologies. When he left in the morning, he originally planned to ask He Ziling to notify him.
As a result, this girl also had to go with her movies, so no one told Takeda Junko and the others. In addition, when they left, they didn't consider going back to such a faraway place in New Taipei, and they didn't bring any mobile phones or anything else, so naturally they couldn't contact each other.
New Taipei?
When she heard this term, Junko Takeda was surprised. She didn't expect Zhang Yifei to go back so far to the north of New York.
However, seeing He Ziling together, she guessed that these two young people were going out to play or "date", and all Takeda Junko did not investigate this issue in depth.
"Today, the Renault event team sent me an email, inviting you to the Renault party three days later. Maybe we have to go to the next stop in advance."
In the 2000 European Cup, the third stop of the Renault race was placed in the Manicur Circuit in France.
France is Renault's base camp and also the headquarters of the automobile. The Renault 2000 European Cup that Zhang Yifei is currently participating in is currently the highest-level Formula Elementary Series of Renault and has been determined to be the main event.
Since we are in the headquarters competition area, Renault naturally needs to take advantage of this opportunity to promote its Renault series.
Therefore, Renault manufacturers plan to hold a dinner to invite various news media and professional teams to participate to expand Renault's 2000 European Cup influence.
The promotion of any automobile event cannot lack the strong support from manufacturers. Why are the equations of brands such as Ford and General Motors Chevrolet far less than Renault?
This is not a gap in the heritage or strength of automobile manufacturers, but a different promotion intensity.
This has to be said that Renault is far ahead of other automakers in building the event brand, and has successfully made the Formula Renault series the most famous and popular Formula event in the world.
But Zhang Yifei was a little confused about the Renault party. He was just a poor boy in his previous life and became a rally racing driver halfway through, so he had no chance to participate in any party.
So he asked Takeda Junko with confusion, "Gallery? Just like on TV, are there some suits and evening dresses for a group of people, and then drink and talk about business?"
"The Renault Gala is a little different. It is mainly to promote the Renault series, so there should be media conferences and drivers meeting these."
"But for drivers, the most important thing is not these, but that there will be many team management teams coming to participate at that time, which is a good opportunity to show off oneself."
How to promote the Renault-type competition has nothing to do with the drivers. After all, it is popular all over the world and will not give Zhang Yifei any dividends or anything else.
For drivers, the biggest advantage of the party that day is that they may contact the management of some top teams. If they can get a conversation, they can even reach a preliminary intention, which is similar to the job fairs of later generations.
So when Zhang Yifei heard this, he became a little interested. He immediately asked: "Does it include the F1 team?"
"It's very likely. After all, the Renault series has a great influence now, but the specific teams will participate. This is the information of Renault's public relations department. You can only know when you go to the scene."
Junko Takeda was not sure about the specific content of the party. After all, Toyota had only had an endurance racing team before, so she had only participated in a similar party in the endurance racing.
However, judging by Kimi's successful jump from Renault to the F1 team last year, it should be a high probability that the F1 team will participate this year.
After all, Kimi won one point in his first F1 station this year. Now most of the F1 schedule has passed. He has scored three points and entered the top 8 6 times.
This result is definitely a satisfactory answer for a newcomer who participated in F1 for the first time, and it also made the F1 team look a little higher for the drivers who came out of the Renault Formula.
"Then let's go to France tomorrow."
Zhang Yifei nodded and agreed. This might be an opportunity.
That night, the team members had already packed their luggage and prepared to go to Paris, France the next day.
Although the Manicur Raceway is located in the middle of Lyon and Paris, the Renault Gala is held in Paris, so Zhang Yifei and his party can only choose to stay in a hotel in Paris.
That night, Zhang Yifei called Cosell, told him about the Renault party, and said that he was about to leave tomorrow, asking Cosell if he would go with him.
After all, Kossel can only be considered a nominal race engineer. In fact, Zhang Yifei does not have a formal team, but can only be considered a temporary gang. It is not the time of the official competition, and Zhang Yifei will not have any requirements for Kossel.
Having said that, he has no qualifications to make a request...
Cosell, on the other end of the phone, heard the news of the Renault party. To be honest, he was not interested. Moreover, the core of this kind of party was that Renault promoted his own events. The drivers and other teams could only be considered familiar with each other.
After all, Renault has only run two stops in the 2000 European Cup, and it is still impossible to determine the most powerful genius driver who swept the race. No matter how "seeking talents" the F1 team is, they will not reach any preliminary agreement with Formula Elementary drivers.
It is a good thing for a young man like Zhang Yifei to have a familiar face. He can also expand his connections in the racing circle. There is no need for this old bone.
Just as Cosell was about to refuse, he suddenly remembered what Adenauer said to him that night. That was the Prost team, now in the most difficult period, is likely to choose to risk introducing fresh blood.
When Cosell was in McLaren, he did not deal with Prost. Even because of the "crash incident", he took the side of Senna without hesitation, which made the relationship between the two drop to freezing point.
But as Adenauer said, after so long time, even Senna let go of the grudges with Prost, what is his little conflict of ideas?
In any case, Cosel and Prost are both old acquaintances. As long as he is willing to come forward, he will not say anything successfully introduced Zhang Yifei to the Prost team, which will at least allow him to join the Prost lineup.
Otherwise, with Zhang Yifei's current status and status, even at the party, he may not be qualified to have a direct conversation with Prost.
Chapter completed!