Formula racing, this term seems simple, but most ordinary people don't really know what this "formula is" means.

The literal meaning of formula racing can be simply understood as "specification" or "scheme", that is, a car made in accordance with the technical rules and procedures of the vehicle formulated by the FIA.

Just like the equations in mathematics, formula cars are prescribed, including the body structure, length and width, minimum weight, engine, and almost everything else in the car.

The strict restrictions of the rules mean that it is very difficult for car manufacturers to open up the performance gap with other manufacturers within a limited range, so they must use their latest and strongest technology to make formula cars more powerful and faster, which is why F1 is known as the most high-tech event in the automotive industry.

In addition to the high requirements of the car itself, F1 also has extremely strict requirements for drivers, if you want to become an ordinary driver, as long as you take a racing license, if you don't run a rally, and then spend 100,000 yuan to buy a car, you can be called a driver.

But for F1 drivers, let alone the entry qualifications, they may not even be able to reach the steps under the door. If you want to become an F1 driver, in addition to your extraordinary racing talent, you also need a very rich father, who can make you in a racing environment with a strong atmosphere, and start to be exposed to karting training at a young age.

The next step is to gallop on the track day after day and develop your "car sense" for racing, basically from this time on, the annual cost will be calculated in millions. And because you don't have any visibility, don't think much about sponsoring these things.

With this foundation, it's basically time to climb the ladder, and then it's a formal junior formula training, participating in various formula camps and competitions, and before the age of 16, you have to become one of the best drivers in your age, otherwise you should give up early, because the F1 team will only want the strongest one.

At this point, it can only be regarded as coming to the threshold, and the next step is to enter the advanced formula racing stage before the age of 22. The most iconic event in Formula 3 is called F3, and if you can stand out in F3 and win a few world championships, or at least race wins, you may be in the sights of F1 teams.

If you think that this is considered an entry, it is still too naïve, even if you are lucky enough to be noticed and joined by the F1 team, you can only enter as a test driver, commonly known as a substitute, to use a joke in basketball, that is, a water cooler guardian.

Because there are dozens of officially signed drivers in the F1 team, and there are still a lot of water cooler guardians, if you are lucky or show your strength, you may become an official F1 driver after a few years, if you are unlucky or the level is not enough, the whole racing career may stop here, so it is too difficult to become an F1 driver, even if there is no official F1 driver in China in the future.

Zhang Yifei did not have this opportunity in his later life, or he had already lost to those foreign drivers from the starting stage, but he really wanted to experience what it was like to be at the pinnacle of motorsports, so when he heard Lu Ningping teach karting, he saw an opportunity to get started.

Faced with Zhang Yifei's question, Lu Ningping replied with a little crying and laughing: "Of course it's the junior formula one, even if it's not a professional driver, I haven't reached the point of driving a toy car." ”

After retiring from the professional team that year, Lu Ningping chose to go to Hong Kong, no longer engaged in rallying, let alone enter the professional team. But Lu Ningping has been dealing with racing for half his life, and it can be said that he can't do without cars, and was eventually hired by a club on Hong Kong Island and transformed into a personal trainer for go-karting.

As soon as he heard that Lu Ningping was sure that it was a primary equation, Zhang Yifei was even more excited in his heart, and he changed his mind in an instant. In terms of rally racing skills, in fact, coaching or something is dispensable for Zhang Yifei, he wants to become Lu Ningping's apprentice, more for the banner of Chinese racing, and for Uncle Lu to reinvigorate this kind of personal feelings.

But in formula racing, Zhang Yifei lacks a leader, because it really requires foundation and capital, and ordinary people can't afford to play even the most basic go-karts. In this era of China, there are only a few go-kart clubs in Yanjing, Donghai, Hong Kong and Macao, and these places will inevitably not accept the current Zhang Yifei, and he has no money to play.

It just so happened that Lu Ningping was in the karting club, which was the best opportunity for Zhang Yifei to get started, so he didn't want to miss it.

"Uncle Lu, I don't recommend that you return to the mainland because of me, if you can, I would prefer to go to Hong Kong Island and enter your go-kart club for training, I want to lay the foundation for participating in formula racing in the future."

"What?"

Several other people in the warehouse exclaimed, today was supposed to discuss how Zhang Yifei could become a future rally or track racer, but he actually wanted to enter formula racing, does this kid really not know the difficulty of formula racing, or is he whimsical?

"Yifei, stop messing around!"

Zhang Zhiguo reprimanded at this time, he has also been in the professional circle, and he knows some of the requirements of F1, not to mention other objective conditions, Zhang Yifei does not meet the requirements of the subjective conditions in the first place, without any experience in karting races, it is impossible to compete against those formula drivers.

After all, formula racing has developed to a highly professional stage, which is completely different from street racing, if the gap between ordinary people's driving skills and professional drivers is a trench, then it is across the Pacific Ocean from F1 drivers, so that ordinary people can't even start the car when they sit on it.

"I'm not messing around, I'm a little older, but it's not like I don't have a chance. And the reorganization of the team is as Uncle Lu said, it is very unrealistic, but if I can first enter the professional team to gain a firm foothold, form a logistics team of my own, and recruit Uncle Lu in, it will be much simpler. ”

It is unrealistic to reorganize the team with Zhang Yifei as the core, because it is absolutely impossible for manufacturers and sponsors to pay a huge amount of money for a newcomer, unless Lu Ningping returns to the rivers and lakes and uses his appeal as a Chinese car king, it is possible to do this.

It's just that now Uncle Lu's comeback is almost impossible, one is the age problem, more than forty years old is already downhill. The second is the mentality, he does not have the ambition to compete in the arena back then, and he does not have a navigator with tacit understanding, so the most suitable for him is a coach or data analyst.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei adopted the strategy of "saving the country by curve", relying on his own strength to obtain the status of No. 1 driver in the professional team, so that he could form his own logistics team, not to mention Lu Ningping, even if it was the old man and Lin Mu, he could join his team.

When Zhang Yifei said this, several other people instantly understood his thoughts, Feng Linmu hesitated and said: "Yifei, if you enter the professional team by yourself, it will be difficult for us to help in the early stage, this is a difficult road, you have to think about it carefully." ”

If Zhang Yifei enters the professional team, then he has to start from the bottom step by step, not to mention building his own logistics team, and he is not even sure if he can play. This is all an internal matter of the professional team, and it is difficult for Lu Ningping to provide substantial help, so it can be said that everything depends on Zhang Yifei himself.

"There's no easy road in the world, and I believe in my own strength. Uncle Lu, the current domestic professional racing environment is still relatively backward, even if you don't talk about formula racing, I need Hong Kong Island as a springboard, so please. ”

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