Lu Ningping looked at Zhang Yifei, but Zhang Yifei's eyes were always locked on the father and son, and his eyes were even a little red.

Once upon a time, I was such a little boy, but I didn’t have a father role, and I was supporting and encouraging myself.

I hope that when this little boy grows up, he can still remember his dreams and expectations today, drive the strongest F1 racing car, gallop on the track, and become the next Chinese driver to the peak!

After a brief stay for a few seconds, Lu Ningping took Zhang Yifei into an office next to him, where a young man in his teenager was waiting. Seeing Zhang Yifei come in, he was obviously nervous in his admirational eyes, and he didn't know where to put his hands.

To be honest, when Uncle Lu said he would recommend a "student" to the driver, Zhang Yifei subconsciously thought he was a kart-level child. Although the club is known as the Formula Club, it is actually in its infancy. All of them only have kart levels, including racing and coaches.

After all, for Formula Racing, every time you increase your level, the scale of money burning may increase in a geometric multiple. Zhang Yifei's family has now been invested in this track. It would be nice to be able to collect all the karts, and he has no money to upgrade.

The biggest source of funds at present is advertising endorsement and sponsorship fees, but you have to wait at least until the season is over before you have time to pick it up and negotiate business cooperation next year.

So in a short time, for the club, the Formula Team is just in planning, and there are still many difficulties in establishing it.

In addition, even if the money is in place, recruiting coaches is also a problem. Karts can also try their best to dig a group of professional personnel from Hong Kong Island and Japan. However, if you want experienced coaches and team members in Formula Racing, you have to go to Europe to have a chance.

Regarding the goal of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Formula Club, Zhang Yifei's standard from beginning to end is to build a world-class racing club and establish a competitive team in world-class competitions.

So at this moment, Zhang Yifei was a little confused. Is this teenage young man in front of him a kart driver?

But the problem is that I have passed the golden age of kart in my teenage years. Although in this world, including myself, Sato Takuma and others, I have only been exposed to karts and subsequent equations at a very young age, and have also become f1 drivers.

But objectively speaking, this probability is still very rare, and individual cases cannot be regarded as universal. Zhang Yifei still trusts Uncle Lu's vision and standards of looking at people. Maybe the boy in front of him has something extraordinary.

After entering the office, Lu Ningping said, "Yifei, this is the driver I want to introduce to you. He is the first student to register for the club, but he has not studied in the club for a day."

"Because of the current club conditions and my coaching level, there is no way to guide him in the car. So I brought him to you and hope you can give him some advice and opportunities."

Uncle Lu can't guide him?

Zhang Yifei was a little surprised. No matter how he said Lu Ningping had the title of "Chinese Car King". It may not be anything else in the world, but in China and even Asian car events, they can be considered the number one figure.

This teenager, who was only in his teenage years, had already made Lu Ningping unable to guide him. He seemed to be a character.

"May I have your name?"

Zhang Yifei asked.

Zhang Yifei dared not say that some well-known drivers in this era or later generations are familiar with them, but at least they have some understanding. Basically, just by reporting a name, he can know "who is the sacred".

"Fei~~Hello, Brother Fei, my name is Chen Congfu (homophony)."

The boy in front of him was a little nervous, so he seemed to stammer when speaking.

However, when Zhang Yifei heard this name, his eyes changed instantly. He understood why Uncle Lu could not teach him. Because the boy in front of him was considered a true genius Formula driver in China in this era, but due to the factors of background and financial resources, he could not gain a foothold in the world in the end.

Compared to Zhang Yifei's halfway monk, Chen Congfu is one of the few drivers in this era who received karting training in his childhood.

He started to get involved in karting for the first time at the age of 6, won the Yanjing karting championship at the age of 12, and became the national champion at the age of 14.

This score is considered invincible in China, but it can only be considered average in the world. Some powerful foreign young drivers have won the intercontinental and even the world kart championship under the same age, and there are many people who have entered the higher level of F3.

In fact, Chen Congfu went abroad in 1999 and participated in the Italian karting event, and only won the 15th place, which was a bottom-to-last place. In the same year, Zhang Yifei participated in the Renault Formula and won the world championship.

But in the following races, Chen Congfu performed well. The next year, he joined the Formula Ford driver in England at the age of 17, becoming the first driver in China to go abroad in history and join the Formula European Team.

Congfu Chen followed up and won the Asian Formula Renault Championship, won the favor of McLaren Team, signed a contract to become a McLaren Youth Training Driver, and at the same time, Zhang Yifei became a formal driver of Prost Team.

It is worth mentioning that there was a very famous youth training driver in McLaren youth training camp last year. His name was Lewis Hamilton. In other words, Cheng Congfu, in a sense, was a teammate with the later car god Hamilton!

Of course, compared with Hamilton's performance, Cheng Congfu is most of the time looking for the taillights of his teammates. After all, Hamilton is an absolutely genius n01-level driver since the kart, sweeping and crushing him all the way, and even F1 did not block his pace.

Becoming a McLaren youth training driver was the highest moment of Chen Congfu's career, but he stopped there.

The reason is very simple. It is that his level of Formula Drivers have caught a lot of each F1 youth training team. There are only two ways to compete for the formal driver seats.

Either he is very strong, crushing a group of competitors and winning the official driver's seat. It is obvious that Chen Congfu doesn't have the strength, let alone the competitive teammate he meets is Hamilton.

Or you can only become a sponsor driver and spend money. For example, later Chen Congfu became a teammate with Indy Power driver Perez. This Mexican driver relied on money to spend money, but Chen Congfu stood outside the threshold of f1.

Without both aspects, Chen Congfu could only follow the old path of some Chinese Formula drivers in later generations, that is, European Formula can't survive, so he returned to China to run RV events as a way out and retirement.

It is obvious that Chen Congfu, who was only 19 years old at this time, had never considered retirement at all, and was still full of fighting spirit and ambition. But he also knew very well that he was not strong enough in the McLaren youth training team, and the result of staying there would be an elimination.

Zhang Yifei of this era has become the spiritual idol and goal of all Chinese drivers. Chen Congfu naturally thought of Zhang Yifei, hoping to seek help from him.

But Chen Congfu didn't know how to contact Zhang Yifei. Fortunately, Lu Ningping is also a well-known figure in the Chinese car world and has a wide connection. So Chen Congfu found Lu Ningping, hoping that he could match him and meet Zhang Yifei.

As an older generation driver, Lu Ningping naturally hopes that the Chinese car industry will have a strong talent in the future. Indeed, Chen Congfu has good strength and talent, and he has the opportunity to become the second Chinese F1 driver, so he agreed and finally this scene happened.

After Chen Congfu said his name, he saw Zhang Yifei just staring at him and not speaking. This situation made him feel a little at a loss. He could only look at Lu Ningping next to him, hoping that he could break the deadlock.

Facing Chen Congfu's eyes, Lu Ningping nodded slightly, and then introduced the young driver's current performance and current situation to Zhang Yifei. But what they didn't know was that even without saying a word, Zhang Yifei knew very well what Chen Congfu wanted to do.

"Uncle Lu, I understand."

Zhang Yifei finally spoke, interrupting Lu Ningping's introduction.

Zhang Yifei looked at Chen Congfu again and asked him expressionlessly: "What do you want to do when you see me?"

There were no ups and downs, but it made people feel like they were not angry and powerful. Chen Congfu looked at Zhang Yifei in front of him. He was obviously only one year older than him, but he felt that he was completely out of the same level. This kind of momentum alone was beyond the reach of the world. He was worthy of being the strongest car god in China.

Taking a deep breath, Congfu Chen looked at Zhang Yifei and replied, "Brother Fei, I want to run f1."

“Say it again.”

“I want to run f1!”

This time, Chen Congfu's tone became much more firm, and his eyes no longer had the beginning of dodging. Finally, he dared to look directly at Zhang Yifei's sharp eyes.

"Almost every Formula driver has the dream of running F1, why do you?"

"Try to never give up!"

"What do you use to prove that you have worked hard and never give up?"

"Give me a chance to try out Prost youth training, and I will prove it with my own actions!"

Chen Congfu stared at Zhang Yifei's eyes. This was what he wanted to get when he met today. He joined the Prost youth training team and approached the idol he admired.

Zhang Yifei did not answer directly, but still looked at Chen Congfu with an expressionless face. This strange situation made Lu Ningping unable to figure out what Zhang Yifei was thinking.

But Lu Ningping knew very well that Zhang Yifei was a very opinionated person, so he did not help but waited for Zhang Yifei to make the final decision.

"Okay, I'll give you this opportunity."

Hearing that Zhang Yifei was so decisive, he agreed without even asking. Chen Congfu, who had been extremely nervous before, had an unconcealed surprise instantly appeared on his face.

"Thank you, Brother Fei, I will definitely prove it to you!"

"Um."

Zhang Yifei nodded and replied: "I'll ask Prost staff to contact you later."

After saying this, he turned his gaze to Lu Ningping beside him.

"Uncle Lu, if nothing else is going to happen, then I'm going to go to the East China Sea."

"Okay, then we'll wait to see you reach the top of the East China Sea!"

“It will definitely be.”

After saying that, Zhang Yifei hugged Lu Ningping and the old man and said goodbye. The members of the Prost crew were already waiting in the car, and there was really not much time to greet him.

Back on the bus, Zhang Yifei told his boss Prost about Chen Congfu's affairs. Prost casually agreed to the request for joining the team's youth training.

Because the quota of youth training drivers is not very important, each team may have to recruit five or six youth training drivers in a year, which is one more, not one less, and one less. As for whether they can run out to become an F1 driver, it depends on their own luck.

It is clear to Chen Congfu Zhang Yifei that if history is changed, he will have the opportunity to become a formal F1 driver.

If a country wants to develop motorsports, it is not possible to rely on someone forever. It is like Yao Ming of the NBA. After his retirement, his overall level declined sharply. This tone did not completely recover even in the 19 years of his later generations.

This is why Zhang Yifei easily agreed to Chen Congfu, just like the concept he has always adhered to, as long as he is a Chinese driver and company, he will lend a helping hand.

Not to mention knowing Chen Congfu's historical strength, even if it were another young man, Zhang Yifei would also give this opportunity.

After dealing with the matters in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Zhang Yifei and the crew members took a flight to Donghai. At Donghai International Airport, he received a grand welcome ceremony from Guanghai International Airport, which is enough to show Zhang Yifei's status and influence as a national superstar.

According to previous habits, Zhang Yifei did not go directly to the hotel where he was staying to rest, but went to the track to take a look. And this time, the transportation method for Zhang Yifei to go to the track was not the same as before, but took the subway!

That's right, it's just taking the subway, because this East China Sea F1 Grand Prix is ​​the first time that China hosts a world-class competition, seven years earlier than the 2008 Olympics.

Therefore, Donghai used the highest specifications to prepare for this event. Even the subway opened two special trains, namely the "Schumacher Special Train" painted in red and the "Zhang Yifei Special Train" painted in blue.

Originally, this classic "blue and red showdown" was staged in 2006 in history. At that time, the special train representing blue was the leader Alonso. However, with the change of history, Zhang Yifei became the driver of the final showdown Schumacher. Even without the bonus of Chinese identity, he was the absolute protagonist on the track.
Chapter completed!