"Yifeijun, I believe you must be very curious. Why am I here tonight?"

"Well, I'm really curious."

Zhang Yifei nodded. Logically speaking, he and Mian Tomota had no intersection at all. What did the other party want to do if he deliberately found himself?

"I know that Yifeijun, your personality is very direct, so I don't go around the circle this time. Toyota Group is optimistic about your strength and potential, and in a sense, Toyota is also the first stop in your Formula career."

"I also know that the Toyota Racing Division had some unpleasant experiences with you in Formula Renault, but after all, we had a common idea and needed to make a little Asian sound in Formula Racing which dominated by Europe and the United States."

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei probably understood Tomota Miyao’s thoughts, but he did not say it directly, but nodded and replied: “So, President Tomota, what do you think.”

"My idea is very direct, that is, Toyota team enters the F1 paddock, and what they want to build is a world-class Formula team. But the two official drivers of the team, Bernoldi, are a little worse in experience and strength, as a newcomer."

"And Verstappen has reached the verge of retirement and cannot meet the requirements of team performance improvement, so we need to find younger and stronger drivers. In the whole world, I think no one is more suitable for Toyota team than Yifeijun."

Invite yourself to join the Toyota team?

To be honest, if this invitation was placed a year ago, there would be almost no suspense for Zhang Yifei.

After all, Toyota is where he started, and with the existence of Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto, it is reasonable that he will choose to stay in the Toyota team and continue his career journey.

But the situation is different now. He was abandoned by Toyota and went through a very difficult period. Although this incident did not cause Zhang Yifei to hate Toyota, after all, he could understand that standing in the interests of the team, acquiring the Arrows team is definitely much more important than a youth training driver.

But this also cut off the relationship between him and Toyota, and Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto have both left Toyota.

So for Zhang Yifei, the current Toyota team is just one of the other ten teams in the F1 paddock, and there is nothing particularly worth remembering about. Perhaps for historical reasons, he is more familiar with it, but when it comes to key decisions, the Toyota team has no special advantages.

"President Toshita, thank you for your importance, but I had a great time with Prost team and didn't have the idea of ​​transfer."

Zhang Yifei rejected Tomota Miyaki's invitation. Not to mention that it is Toyota now, even if Ferrari comes to invite him, Zhang Yifei is not very interested.

"Yifeijun, don't make a decision so early. I heard that you are still receiving a basic salary of more than 100,000 US dollars, which is a serious underestimation of your value. If you are willing to come to Toyota next season, we will pay liquidated damages and transfer fees, and increase your basic salary to 10 million US dollars per year, and you will also be eligible to share the income of the team."

"Yifeijun, I think this is the embodiment of your value."

In fact, the way F1 drivers poach the wrong corners is no different from other sports competitions. It is nothing more than providing a better environment and spending money on it!

Seeing Zhang Yifei leave, Uedo Hirakawa, who was at the driver's position, spoke, "President, why don't we think of other ways?"

"No."

Seeing Tomoda Miyaki's look a little discouraged, Uedo Hirakawa comforted him: "President, in fact, there are many top newcomers in this year's secondary league, such as this year's f3000 champion Masa, who is very strong."

"You don't understand. The reason why Toyota wants Zhang Yifei is not only his strength, but more because he is interested in his background. Otherwise, how could we spend such a big price to invite a new driver?"

F1 is a commercial event, and the development of all teams is actually centered on commercial interests. The factory team is even more obvious, just to show technical strength in the f1 paddock and increase the popularity and sales of automobile manufacturers.

As the world's number one auto manufacturer, the same is true for Toyota.

In June this year, Toyota finally reached a joint venture agreement with FAW Group and will soon conduct automobile sales in mainland China under the name of FAW Toyota.

Although the purchasing power of automobiles in the mainland is not good, the 1.2 billion market cannot be underestimated. As the best spokesperson for automobile brands in China, Zhang Yifei is the only one!

This is why they are willing to pay a sky-high price of 20 million US dollars and pay Zhang Yifei's liquidated damages and transfer fees. In addition to being interested in Zhang Yifei's own technology and potential, Toyota is more interested in the huge Chinese market.

Whoever signs Zhang Yifei will undoubtedly take the lead.

But human calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Toyota never expected that Zhang Yifei would be so firm and didn't even have a trace of hesitation. It seems that this plan is destined to have an abortion.

"It's over so soon?"

Xie Tiancheng asked Zhang Yifei who was sitting in the car. There were not a total of ten minutes, and it ended a little quickly.

"There is nothing to say at all, so it will end quickly."

"What is Tomoda Miyaki going to talk about?"

"Poaching the corner."

"Poaching the corner?"

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Xie Tiancheng repeated in surprise.

"Well, they wanted to dig me into the Toyota team, but I refused."

"oh."

Xie Tiancheng nodded and then restarted the car.

"Aren't you curious about the reason?"

"If you are curious, you naturally have your own reasons."

"Yes, I have personality, please send me back to the hotel."

Zhang Yifei did not explain. After all, the reason why he stayed in Prost cannot be finished in a few words. Xie Tiancheng will eventually understand it in the future.

From the bay coastline, you can drive to a hotel near Suzuka Raceway, which junctions Osaka and Nagoya. It is almost six o'clock in the morning, and you can vaguely see the sky in the distance white.

"It's almost dawn."

Zhang Yifei glanced at the white sky, muttered in his mouth, then turned to Xie Tiancheng and said, "Thank you today."

"What are you polite to me? Come on the Japanese Grand Prix."

"That's a must, I'll go in first."

"Um."

Xie Tiancheng waved his hand and said nothing pretentiously. The relationship between him and Zhang Yifei has actually reached the level of gentlemen's friendship in ancient Chinese.
Chapter completed!