After the Grand Prix of the Island, Zhang Yifei and Huaxia Petrochemical Group released a brief press conference in the racing building.

There are two main contents. First, Huaxia Petrochemical Group has reached a cooperation with Fia and will become a sponsor of the F1 China Grand Prix.

And taking advantage of this opportunity, Huaxia Group will also supply some competition oil and become one of Fia's cooperative suppliers.

You should know that Formula racing represents the world's highest technological car event. It is no exaggeration to say that many of the cutting-edge F1 technologies, even civilian cars, have not been used even in twenty years.

For example, Williams' "black technology" adaptive memory variable suspension, even if it is placed in 2019, can only be seen in some of the most top luxury cars, such as the Audi A8 level.

The variable suspensions that other "civilian-level" can be exposed to are air suspensions and damped variable suspensions. In terms of technological content, these are far inferior to the F1 technology from thirty years ago. From this point of view, we can see how much F1 racing is ahead.

Memory variable suspension is too far from the household level, so the following level is more ordinary. For example, engine multi-cylinder technology, such as v8 and v10, was first born on F1 traffic jams and then applied to civilian-level energy vehicles.

More popular technology is the common components such as disc brakes, hub covers, damping shock absorbers, etc. that have been basically popularized in later civilian vehicles. Many people don’t know that they were also born in the F1 event and eventually they have to be placed in the civilian market.

It is precisely because f1 represents the crown of the human automobile industry that many manufacturers hope to apply their parts to f1 racing cars. In this way, they can use the technological content of f1 racing cars to let customers and consumers feel the technical strength and high quality of their company.

The most conspicuous ones here are various tire manufacturers, such as Michelin, Prost, and Pirelli, who were once tire suppliers of the F1 event.

Through the contract with the F1 event, I expanded my influence and proved my tire capabilities, and eventually became a world giant company.

In the late 1990s, China was basically synonymous with low-end processing and manufacturing. Huaxia Petrochemical Group, as the largest oil company in China, naturally wanted to open up and occupy foreign markets and become oil giants like Shell, Mobil, and Exxon.

This is not only to establish a brand, but also to compete with foreign oil fields and petrochemical plants to ensure domestic energy security.

It is precisely for this purpose that Huaxia Petrochemical attaches so much importance to cooperation with Fia, and even sends a special negotiation team to the UK for negotiation and sponsorship matters with Fia.

The second point is naturally to announce that Zhang Yifei will become the spokesperson for the driver of the F1 China Grand Prix. In the future, Zhang Yifei will appear on the East China Sea F1 event promotion and become a "business card" of China's Formula Racing.

And on the day of the game, Huaxia Petrochemical efficiently transferred the endorsement fee of 800,000 US dollars to Zhang Yifei.

Because the Grand Prix of the Island of Australia won the championship, it caused a sensation in the entire East Asia. For Huaxia Petroleum, it was a treasure that was found. It was a price of 800,000 US dollars. Signing a driver who might affect the world was simply a huge profit!

You should know that the Grand Prix F3 champion is not only one level higher than the previous Renault Formula Champions, but also a crushing impact in terms of influence!

After all, the Grand Prix has a history of nearly fifty years and is the oldest street racing car in the world. Countless famous drivers have experienced fighting on the Oklahoma Island East Ocean Track.

More importantly, this is a competition held at the doorstep of O'O's home. Even if it's the topic of conversation for ordinary people after dinner, it is much more familiar than the Renault event far away in Europe.

Based on these two points, Zhang Yifei's reputation has been greatly improved. The drivers who can only be mentioned in the news have begun to truly appear in the mouths of ordinary people.

In this era, Liu Xiang has not appeared, and there is no foreign ruling sect project, and there has been a precedent for breaking the "monopoly".

However, Zhang Yifei's emergence has undoubtedly seen such a goal. Not to mention the world's top, at least the Odao F3 champion has already stood at the strongest position of active Formula Drivers in Asia.

It can be said that the gap between Zhang Yifei and Liu Xiang may be less than a sensational result, such as the F1 championship!

Once Zhang Yifei can win the F1 driver championship, for the current time point, he will not be the next Liu Xiang, but the first Zhang Yifei!

Of course, these are very distant things, even if they are as powerful as Senna and Schumacher, they have gone through several years of battle before they finally stood on the championship podium.

Zhang Yifei is still far from here. Even for the European and American F1 level, Zhang Yifei is not even an entry-level driver in the eyes of many people, let alone a driver championship.

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On the flight from Hong Kong Island to Paris, France, Zhang Yifei looked at the increasingly small city outside the porthole, and felt a little reluctant.

It is now the third day after the race. Zhang Yifei bid farewell to Uncle Lu and Xie Tiancheng and will return to Paris, Europe, headquartered at the Prost team to receive formal professional training for F1 drivers.

But Zhang Yifei still had a trace of regret in his heart, that is, he did not return to Guangshen and shared with the old man the joy of becoming the champion of F3 of Aodao.

At the same time, Junko Takeda, who was sitting next to Zhang Yifei, closed the notebook she carried with her and spoke.

"Yifeijun, Prost team sent an email in the morning that they have signed a sponsorship contract with Guo Group. In the next F1 season, Guo Group will use the advertiser's share to print the logo on the right rear part of the car."

"Um."

Zhang Yifei responded softly that he was not interested in how the Guo Group and Prost team agreed. However, signing contracts between the two sides means that Ah Hu and Zhi Ge can officially join the Prost team technical team.

In this way, not only will one's own team be reorganized and joined the team, but Ah Hu and Zhi Ge will have the opportunity to get in touch with the crown jewel of the automobile industry. In the future, Formula China will not only have professional drivers, but also the technical team behind it.

"The last stop of this year's F1 event will be held in Abu Dhabi, and it will be in mid-November. The main force of the Prost team's technical team will return to the team headquarters as long as it has to finish this stop."

"But they have allocated some technical members, including a chief technician, to return to the team headquarters, and will assist you in the development, adjustment and adaptation of F1 racing during this period."

"Then I'm basically a test driver during this period?"

Zhang Yifei asked casually.

"It can be understood so."

Cosell, who was sitting in front, answered Zhang Yifei's question.

The test driver is a standard member of a team, but many ordinary people do not have enough awareness of this position.

Most people know that the test drivers are used to run Friday practice races, assist teams in adjusting racing cars and collecting track data, and at critical moments the third driver will serve as the substitute.

But the problem is that many people think this way. Whether it is qualifying or the main race, formal drivers will run, allowing them to familiarize themselves with the track and adjust the racing car according to their own needs. Isn’t this better effect?

It’s like an ordinary person buying a car, of course he has to drive it himself every day to achieve the state of unity between cars and people. What the hell is it that others drive?

This is the difference between top racing cars and ordinary people driving. Formula racing test drivers have a responsibility in the team, which is not just about helping drive a car. They have to collect and feedback a lot of data to the team.

For example, the chassis, transmission, engine, suspension, aerodynamic, etc., what are the advantages and disadvantages? If it were done by ordinary people, it would probably be a simple saying of "good" after driving a few turns, which is faster and too slow."

But for a test driver, he needs to provide very detailed experience feedback. Perhaps a simple question is to discuss with the team's research and development for one day.

And you should know that the research and development of a new racing car is not just a drawing and then arbitrarily made. Even if it is easily made, a variety of pieces have to be designed to test which one is the fastest and most suitable.

This process may last for a year. Formal drivers need to focus on training and competitions. It is impossible to do these things all year round. Moreover, driving a car may be a physical work that is more difficult than moving bricks on the construction site. After an important event, dehydrating a few pounds is common, and it also requires maintaining the physical strength of the formal driver.

In order to balance the gap between strong and weak teams, the FIA ​​later stipulated that drivers cannot drive their own racing cars during offseasons, which requires test drivers to take on the heavy responsibility of collecting data.

Of course, the test driver mainly controls a general direction, and fine-tuning according to different personal needs is still based on the habits of formal drivers.

As a pure newcomer, Zhang Yifei has never even been exposed to the "Tender Bird" in the F3000 level competition.

The main direction he entered the F1 team in the early stage was basically to act as a test driver to become familiar with and adapt to Formula One.

"Test drivers, just try the drivers. After all, learning makes people progress, and I am a hardworking and studious person."

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, the entire cabin was silent as if it was dead, and even Ah Hu, who has always been a "death fan", did not cooperate with him at this time.

Damn, the number one horseman seems to be inclined to be a 25-year-old!

With Zhang Yifei's muttering, the plane landed at Paris De Gaul International Airport.

However, the purpose of Zhang Yifei's trip was not in Paris, but a satellite city next to him.

This satellite city is still familiar to the Chinese people. It is called Versailles. The famous Treaty of Versailles in history textbooks was signed here at the Palace of Versailles.

The headquarters of Prost team is situated in Versailles and is also the only F1 team in Europe based on France. From this point of view, we can also see that Prost's original dream of the **Lantis team.

After getting off the plane, the group did not stop and directly took a business car to Versailles.
Chapter completed!