The process of the post-match award ceremony was the same. After several times, Zhang Yifei was not as excited as he stood on the championship podium for the first time.

Perhaps just like his previous promise, only by hearing the national anthem on the podium of the F1 championship can we truly fulfill our commitment and glory to the motherland.

After the award ceremony, Zhang Yifei did not continue to accept interviews from the reporters because he just wanted to take this opportunity to announce his withdrawal from the competition and did not intend to say anything.

When they returned to the maintenance station, the team members were very excited, especially Ah Hu, who just came up with a bear hug.

"Go ahead and take it easy. Don't do this kind of small scene as if I haven't won the championship."

Zhang Yifei replied calmly, and then silently pushed Ah Hu away, mainly because the boy snot on his racing suit before the race, which made Zhang Yifei feel a little bit of a shadow, afraid that he would do anything else to him.

"Yifeijun, congratulations on winning the championship, but it was still a bit too impulsive to announce the withdrawal from the Renault event in public."

Yamamoto Ukyo still has a consistent cautious style. Although he has made plans for the future before the game, as long as he wins the championship at the Silverstone Station, Zhang Yifei will withdraw from the Renault European Cup in advance.

However, this kind of announcement in public is equivalent to no chance to repent. After all, there is still a theoretical possibility of losing the championship. If something really happens, Zhang Yifei has not publicly announced his withdrawal anyway. He can still come back and run to the stop, get some points, and kill the theoretical possibility!

It is still this kind of public announcement, which is indeed a bit arrogant in the eyes of the outside world. Although Zhang Yifei is now full of lice and is not afraid of biting, and the outside world is almost used to his personal tough style, Yamamoto Ukyo always thinks it is better to be low-key.

"Anyway, it will be announced sooner or later, and it will still cause a surge of heat at this time."

Zhang Yifei replied indifferently, strength is the basis of value, but popularity is the ladder for value increase.

f1 is a competitive sport and also a business. Zhang Yifei came from the Internet era in later generations, and he deeply understood what the word "traffic" represents.

The wine is also afraid of the deep alley, let alone F1 is a sports event with a huge gap between drivers and the "rich and poor".

Zhang Yifei has not yet known how much the drivers are in this era. Due to the lack of Internet and wireless media communication, he does not know. However, he has seen some reports on the value of F1 drivers in later generations.

For example, twenty years later, the salary of the F1 driver in 2019, Hamilton, the top-notch one, can get a salary of 40 million pounds a year. The one behind, such as Alben of Little Red Bull, can only get an annual salary of 130,000 pounds.

The problem is not the worst. At least all drivers still have annual salaries in 2019. In this era, many drivers have no salary and even have to pay for teams, such as those sponsored drivers of small teams.

The difference in salary is of course strength and grades are the decisive factors. But strength and grades can only determine how much maximum salary you get. As for the lower limit, it is not entirely determined by strength.

Because as long as you have enough popularity and without grades, you can still make a lot of money by relying on sponsorship and endorsement. This is the same as the traffic route of "young meat" in later generations. It has no strength and grades, but it cannot resist the number of fans of others. This is also an invisible wealth.

Zhang Yifei did not plan to take the "little fresh meat" traffic route. He thought he was a firm and powerful person. However, the powerful person did not conflict with traffic. It was not a bad thing to gain more attention, and hype was not entirely a derogatory term.

Moreover, Zhang Yifei is short of money now, and the engine needs to be replaced in two stops of the Renault event. Whether Zhang Yifei withdraws from the competition or not, he will have to pay the cost of replacing parts after the game.

Zhang Yifei's deposit before was probably enough to finish the four races, and then settled the cost of renting a Renault racing car. But now the problem is that he replaced a transmission and a complete set of carbon fiber competitive clutch pieces in advance.

I won’t talk about the clutch chip, because compared with the race-level serial transmission, it can be considered a little money. Now it’s this gearbox that costs hundreds of thousands of yuan. Zhang Yifei doesn’t know how to handle it, so he called back and asked the old man for it. He really couldn’t open the mouth.

So Zhang Yifei hoped that he would become popular, and then some advertisements and endorsements came to him. He was really a little poor at this stage!

"Fei, now the competition is over. What are your next plans? Should you go to the French Prost team base for F1 training, or go back home first?"

Cosel asked, "He would not help Zhang Yifei make decisions in matters in general life, but it depends entirely on Zhang Yifei's own opinions."

"Go back to China first."

There was nothing to hesitate about, Zhang Yifei said his choice.

The F1 season is not over yet, and the winter break training period has not begun. The main personnel of the Prost team are still following the drivers and competing in various tracks around the world.

So even when you go to the Prost base in France, there are not many core personnel stationed. After all, the Prost fleet is not like a wealthy Big Three team. Even if it is the team headquarters, there are enough professional personnel left behind.

To put it bluntly, it is a bit difficult for the Prost team to build two teams, not to mention the current competition team.

Moreover, there is an agreement between Zhang Yifei and Prost. He must bring in two million US dollars in sponsorship to allow Ah Hu and Junko Takeda to join Prost team.

Otherwise, even if it is now and then, only Zhang Yifei is qualified to enter the Prost team headquarters. Such a scene is unacceptable to Zhang Yifei.

"Well, there is still one month left before the end of the F1 season, so you can go to China first."

Cosel nodded, as he agreed with Zhang Yifei's choice.

After making the direction choice, Yamamoto Ukyo and others remained for post-match maintenance work, while Zhang Yifei and others returned to the hotel first.

Back at the hotel, Zhang Yifei found a separate time and discussed with Junko Takeda about the cost of the event.

According to the Renault Formula for drivers' parts prices, the price of an engine is 50,000 US dollars and the transmission is 30,000 US dollars.

This price is actually quite preferential. You should know that in this era, an ordinary Santana or Jetta in China will cost more than 100,000 yuan to change the engine, and this kind of racing-level engine is only 340,000 yuan, which is really not expensive.

However, considering the maintenance station and participation costs, the previous trial run rental track, as well as other parts and oil, etc., Zhang Yifei would probably have to prepare at least 100,000 US dollars, which is a million yuan level amount.

This price is also the preferential price given by Renault in order to promote its own events. Otherwise, it would be no surprise to double it if it was calculated completely at the cost price.

After understanding these fees, Zhang Yifei asked Junko Takeda: "What is the last period of Renault payment time?"

"A month later, that is, the end time of the seven races."

Hearing this time, Zhang Yifei was relieved. He had a driver spokesperson fee of 800,000 US dollars. The one-month period was enough for him to return to China and complete the contract terms.

"I can pay with Ukyo first if the money is not enough, so you don't have to worry about the cost."

At this time, Junko Takeda added that now she is in charge of Zhang Yifei's finances, so how much money Zhang Yifei has left, Junko Takeda knows clearly.

At present, Zhang Yifei is in a period of rapid growth. Whether it is due to the relationship between everyone's current team and friends, or Junko Takeda has bet on Zhang Yifei, she doesn't want to have any impact on Zhang Yifei because of the cost issue.

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei smiled, "It's not a month left. I might become a rich man after returning to China."

To be honest, Zhang Yifei is not worried about it with enough time for a month. As long as this trip goes smoothly, not to mention one hundred thousand US dollars or one million US dollars, Zhang Yifei is confident that he can find a way to get it.

Because of the "great achievements" of three consecutive championships, coupled with the early lockdown of Renault's European Cup championship, it is already a gorgeous enough answer. It is estimated that the country has considered promoting itself as the next sports star.

It is indeed just as Zhang Yifei imagined, and not only domestic, but also the entire world's car world are rushing to report on the sudden emergence of this Asian rising driver.

That night, mainstream media such as CCTV, European Sports, Times and other newspapers published news that Zhang Yifei successfully defended his three consecutive championships and locked in the driver's championship.

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The release of various news reports, especially the reports of these mainstream media, has made Zhang Yifei's fame soar again.

Zhang Yifei's identity has changed from a Chinese newcomer to an Asian star. It may be possible that he will become a superstar in the car world in time.

However, just like the cold eyes and ridicule of the past, Zhang Yifei was also very open-minded in the face of these flatteries and praises.

Because he knew that his grades were really nothing. If he had not had the identity of a Chinese driver, he would not have received the current attention. If he were a European driver, he would have caused some small waves at most.

After all, the Renault Series has been held for almost thirty years, and countless drivers have had championship titles, and there are also many drivers who have won three consecutive championships. As for locking the championship in advance, it is even more uncommon.
Chapter completed!