After lunch, Zhang Yifei took 1,000 yuan to Zhou Yunhui, which was regarded as repaying the venue fee and car rental fee.

This is more than Qian Zhou Yunhui originally said that he didn't want anything, but Zhang Yifei still forced it into him. After all, although his old man is not a super tyrant, he is enough to be above the middle class in China at this stage, and he also has cars, houses and shops in Guangshen.

Zhang Yifei's family background is weak with tens of millions of dollars in playing the equation, but Zhang Yifei still doesn't care much about thousands of dollars, and Zhou Yunhui is definitely more short of money than himself in Europe.

After saying goodbye to Zhou Yunhui, Zhang Yifei drove back to Heidelberg in the rented Fiat Palio.

It's early two o'clock now, and he can go back before dark anyway, so Zhang Yifei doesn't have the same speed as when he came.

Of course, the reason for not pursuing speed is more that I am afraid that this broken car will leave me on the road......

"Zhang Yifei, it turns out that after you took a leave of absence from school, you went to Hong Kong Island Racing."

During the meal just now, He Ziling also learned about Zhang Yifei's acquaintance with Zhou Yunhui, as well as some of his stories on Hong Kong Island.

To her surprise, Zhang Yifei disappeared from school on the eve of the college entrance examination, and it turned out that he went to Hong Kong Island.

"Otherwise, did you think that my current superb driving skills fell from the sky?"

"I'm not ...... modest"

He Ziling glanced at Zhang Yifei, but there was a little agreement in her heart, at least in terms of speed on the track, she felt faster than her brother.

"Humility is not a car god, whether it is Senna or Schumacher, you can't see much of modesty in them."

Zhang Yifei replied with a smile, needless to say, Senna, who has a hot and aggressive personality, never thinks that he is behind any driver, and in the end even sacrifices his life to the car.

Schumacher is not much better, his youth is one of his hallmarks, and even Ferrari is the only one who has signed this kind of behavior into the driver's contract.

This means that the number two driver must give way to Schumacher if the team needs it, even if he is ahead of him to cross the championship finish line. From this can also be seen, Schumacher's strength and immodesty.

"Schumacher? It's quite powerful, but is he also a car god? ”

He Ziling asked suspiciously, she only knew a little about racing because of He Lang's relationship before.

But after coming to Zhang Yifei's team, in order to teach Ah Hu and Brother Zhi, especially about the words of racing, she had a preliminary understanding of formula racing.

If nothing else, Senna seems to be the only one who is recognized as the god of cars, and Schumacher is from the Ferrari team with two drivers' championship titles.

But there are not a few people who have won two titles in the history of F1, and no one seems to call Schumacher the god of cars.

Hearing this rhetorical question, Zhang Yifei realized that he had leaked his mouth again, he thought that why Ziling was still a racing novice, but he didn't expect that she already knew Senna and Schumacher.

You must know that Schumacher really ascended to the altar in 2000, winning the Drivers' Championship for five consecutive years, creating an unparalleled Ferrari dynasty.

The current Schumacher can only be regarded as a top F1 driver with great potential, far from reaching the point of becoming a god.

"Not yet, but he will be in the future."

After saying this, Zhang Yifei suddenly thought of something, and added: "He may not necessarily be in the future." ”

Faced with Zhang Yifei's contradictory statement, He Ziling felt very strange, but she didn't ask anything more.

When I returned to the hotel, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, but fortunately it was 500 kilometers back and forth, and the Fiat Palio withstood the consideration, except for the abnormal noise everywhere, it did not break down on the ground.

As soon as he drove the car into the parking lot, Zhang Yifei saw Junko Takeda standing at the gate of the hotel.

"Yifei-kun, where have you been, why did you come back at this time?"

"I went to the New North Circuit for a lap, and I forgot to inform you in a hurry."

Zhang Yifei replied apologetically, when he left in the morning, he had planned to let He Ziling inform him.

As a result, this girl is going to go with her, so no one tells Junko Takeda about them. In addition, when I left, I didn't think about going back to such a far place in New York, and I didn't bring my mobile phone or anything, so naturally there was no way to get in touch.

New North?

Junko Takeda was very surprised when she heard this term, she didn't expect Zhang Yifei to fly back to such a far place in New York.

However, when she saw He Ziling together, she estimated that these two young people were going out to play, or "dating", and all Takeda Junko did not delve into this issue.

"Today, the Renault racing team sent me an email, inviting you to the Renault Gala in three days' time, maybe we have to go to the next stop in advance."

The third round of the Renault Euro 2000 was held at the Manicour circuit in France.

France is Renault's home base and is also home to the automotive headquarters. The Renault 2000 European Cup, in which Zhang Yifei is now participating, is currently the highest-level junior formula series of Renault and has been determined to be the main event.

Now that he has come to the headquarters competition area, Renault naturally wants to take this opportunity to promote its Renault series.

Therefore, Renault plans to hold a dinner party to invite various news media and professional teams to participate in order to expand the influence of Renault Euro 2000.

The promotion of any automobile event is inseparable from the strong support of the manufacturer behind it, why Ford, GM Chevrolet and other brands of formula are far less influential than Renault.

This is not a gap in the background or strength of automobile manufacturers, but a difference in promotion efforts.

It has to be said that Renault is far ahead of other car manufacturers in terms of event branding, and has successfully made the Formula Renault series the most famous and popular formula race in the world.

It's just a thing like a Renault party, Zhang Yifei is a little confused, he was a poor boy in his last life, and he became a rally driver halfway, how can he have the opportunity to participate in any party.

So he looked puzzled and asked Junko Takeda, "Evening?" Is it the same as on TV, a group of people wearing what suits and evening dresses, and then drinking and socializing and talking about business? ”

"The Renault Gala is a little bit different in that it's mainly about promoting the Renault Series, so there should be media conferences and driver meet-and-greets."

"But it's not so much about the drivers that the most important thing is that there will be a lot of team management coming and it's a good opportunity to show themselves."

How to promote the Renault series race has nothing to do with the drivers, after all, it is popular all over the world, and it will not give Zhang Yifei dividends or anything.

The biggest benefit for drivers of the evening was the possibility of reaching out to the management of some of the top teams. If it can be negotiated, it can even reach a preliminary intention, which is similar to the university job fair in the future.

So when he heard this, Zhang Yifei was a little interested, and he immediately asked: "Does it include the F1 team?" ”

"It's very likely, after all, the Renault series is very influential now, but the specific teams will participate, this is the information of the Renault public relations department, you only know when you go to the scene."

Junko Takeda is not clear about the specific content of the party, after all, Toyota only had an endurance racing team before, so she only participated in a similar party of endurance races.

However, judging by the sensation caused by Kimmy's successful jump from Renault to the F1 team last year, there should be a high probability that the F1 team will participate this year.

After all, Kimi scored a point in his F1 debut this year, and now more than halfway through the F1 schedule, he has scored three times and finished in the top eight six times.

This kind of result is definitely a satisfactory answer for a rookie driver who is participating in F1 for the first time, and it also makes the F1 team, for the driver who came out of Formula Renault, can't help but look up to it.

"Then we'll leave for France tomorrow."

Zhang Yifei nodded and agreed, this may be an opportunity.

That evening, the team members had already packed their bags and were ready to leave for Paris, France the next day.

Although the Manicour circuit is in the middle of Lyon and Paris, France, the venue of the Renault Gala is in Paris, so Zhang Yifei and his party can only choose to stay in a hotel in Paris.

That night, Zhang Yifei made a phone call to Korcel, told him about the Renault party, and said that he was going to leave tomorrow, and asked Cowel if he would go with him.

After all, Korcel can only be regarded as a nominal race engineer, and in fact, Zhang Yifei does not have an official team, and can only be regarded as a temporary gang. It's not the time of the official competition, and Zhang Yifei doesn't have any requirements for Kossel.

Then again, he didn't have any qualifications to ask for it......

Cosell on the other end of the phone heard the news of Renault's party, and to be honest, he was not interested, and the core of this kind of party was Renault's promotion of its own events, and the drivers and other teams could only be regarded as familiar faces at best.

After all, Renault has only run two Euro 2000 races, and it is still impossible to determine which talented driver will be the most powerful sweeper, and the F1 team will not reach any preliminary agreement with the junior formula driver, no matter how "hungry" they are.

It's a good thing for a young man like Zhang Yifei to get a familiar face, and he can also expand his connections in the racing circle, and there is no need for him to be an old bone.

Just as Cosell was about to refuse, he suddenly remembered what Adenauer had told him that night. That is, the Prost team, which is in the most difficult period now, is likely to choose to take the risk of bringing in new blood.

When Korsell was in the McLaren team, he didn't deal with Prost, and even because of the "crash", he did not hesitate to side with Senna, which made the relationship between the two people drop to a freezing point.

But as Adenauer said, after so much time, even Senna has let go of his grudge with Prost, what is his little conflict of ideas?

In any case, Korcel and Prost are old acquaintances, as long as he is willing to come forward, not to mention the successful introduction of Zhang Yifei to join the Prost team, at least it can connect him and Prost.

Otherwise, with Zhang Yifei's current identity and status, even if he is at the party, he may not be qualified to have a direct dialogue with Prost.

So the question is in front of Cosell, is he stubbornly following his inner prejudices, or is he choosing to compromise for the sake of Zhang Yifei's future?