138 Disobedience to war
On May 27th, there is still more than a month before the domestic college entrance examination, and the college entrance examination time in this era has not been reformed, and it is still called the black July.
But this day happened to be Zhang Yifei's birthday, and he had been in this world for almost a year.
Alone abroad, Zhang Yifei didn't have any thoughts about celebrating his birthday, just as usual.
As a result, he didn't expect that as soon as he woke up in the morning, he found an unread text message on his phone, which was sent by Lu Jingning, and the time happened to be 0:00 in the morning.
"Brother Yifei, happy birthday, you have to come on in Japan, I want to be the sister of the car god! ^O^”
When he saw this text message, the corners of Zhang Yifei's mouth inadvertently rose, but he didn't expect this little girl to remember her birthday.
During the morning training, several phone calls came one after another, namely the old man and Uncle Lu, and they also congratulated themselves on their happy birthday.
Even Wang Glasses, who was preparing for the college entrance examination, made a phone call, but this kid didn't say a few words, and began to reveal the pain of international phone bills, this kind of door-picking mentality made Zhang Yifei very contemptible.
However, Zhang Yifei was surprised that Junko Takeda and Yamamoto Ukyo came to his dormitory with a small cake in the evening, which was regarded as celebrating his birthday on behalf of the Toyota team.
In fact, an academy driver like him, who has only been in the company for a short time, is generally treated as an ordinary student, and the team management will not specially prepare a birthday celebration or anything.
It's like in a school, there are so many students in the class, how can the school give every student a birthday. Only if you sign up to become an official driver, or run well in the race, will you be eligible to be remembered for your birthday, and maybe this is the cruel reality.
So this kind of birthday celebration can basically be seen as a private act of Junko Takeda and Ukyo Yamamoto, just in the name of the team.
For this, Zhang Yifei is still very grateful in his heart, even if Zhang Yifei's psychological age is far more mature than his peers, but it is still a very warm thing to be alone and have someone congratulate him on his birthday.
The next morning, when Zhang Yifei was training as usual, he saw a crowd of people in the rest area of the track. Today is already the end of the month, and the new batch of test riders that Junko manager said earlier has arrived.
Unlike Zhang Yifei, who came to try out alone, as time went by, the news that Toyota was going to form an F1 team has been officially announced, and the driver development plan has also been released on the official website.
How to say that Toyota is also a world-class car manufacturer, they want to set up a factory team or attracted the attention of many kart drivers, with the surge in the number of registrations, so the Toyota team began to organize a unified trial, today is the trial time for a new batch of drivers.
Zhang Yifei probably glanced at it, there are no less than twenty trial drivers who will come today, and as for how many can be left, only God knows.
Because the trial drivers were going to occupy the track today, the morning track practice was suspended. However, this had no effect on Zhang Yifei, and he went directly to the gym for physical exercise. If you want to run Formula Renault, you have higher requirements for physical fitness, and you must ensure a strong physical condition.
In this way, until noon, Zhang Yifei went to the driver's restaurant for dinner, and today because of the relationship between the trial drivers, the number of people in the restaurant has also increased exponentially.
The drivers who are new to junior formula racing are only about 16 years old, and they are in the energetic age, so the restaurant is more lively than before.
Zhang Yifei didn't like this kind of excitement very much, the main reason was that he was not familiar, but when he went in, he saw a group of people gathered together, and in the middle was the Australian driver Hank, and a group of newcomers on trial were talking to him about something.
Judging by the smug expression on Hank's face, it should be all kinds of flattery.
Whether you admit it or not, white people are currently dominant in the racing industry, and since Japan left Asia and joined Europe a hundred years ago, it can be said that there is a kind of servility to white people, which is much more kneeling and licking than the knee rooting ridiculed by later generations in China.
If you can say that your knees are rooted, it means that a large number of people are not convinced, but the behavior of kneeling and licking Europeans and Americans is a very normal thing in the eyes of the Japanese.
In fact, it is not only Japan, but also the whole of Asia, except for China, which is standing and the Northeast Territory is holding on, everyone else is almost kneeling. Southeast Asia is especially serious, to put it mildly, it has become a backyard and brothel in Europe and the United States.
Hank is not just a white man, he is also the runner-up of the Australian Karting Championship, you must know that Australian karting is also considered to be in the European and American circles, this runner-up is still very golden, and it is not surprising that a group of newcomers tout.
However, as Zhang Yifei walked in, many people in that group of people set their eyes on Zhang Yifei and began to talk about it at the same time.
The reason is simple, although Hank is a white driver, he also has the best career record in history. But I'm sorry, he has been stabilized by Zhang Yifei at the Toyota youth training base, and the track record holder of the youth drivers so far has always been Zhang Yifei.
Only Zhang Yifei can continue to break his own record, and Hank only deserves to catch up behind.
So no matter whether these rookie drivers tout Hank, or don't care about the Chinese drivers, they can't avoid Zhang Yifei, who is the current strongest driver at Toyota's youth training base!
Zhang Yifei has not had a good relationship with Hank for a long time, although he is a teammate of the team, he is not even a surface brother. The main reason is that Zhang Yifei surpassed Hank's results during the trial, robbed him of the limelight and halo, and also got a contract as a youth driver.
As the saying goes, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, Zhang Yifei is not jealous, after all, the academy is not even a small fish pond, and the outside is a broader sea. But Hank is different, showing dissatisfaction and hostility towards Zhang Yifei everywhere.
Due to the rules and regulations of the team, and the fact that the two people did not have any fundamental conflict of interest, there was no further action, and the well water did not interfere with the river water.
However, this balance has been upset when Toyota will select an academy driver to compete in Formula Renault. There is only one place, Hank wants to fight, but Zhang Yifei will not let it, both sides are bound to win this place!
Originally, Hank was touted by the rookie trial drivers, but as soon as Zhang Yifei came in, the goals of these rookies were all on him, and he also vaguely talked about the current youth driver record on the track, which was simply a pain point in Hank's heart!
The "new hatred and old hatred" added up, so that Hank finally couldn't help but start mocking: "What is the youth training record, it's just good luck, you don't really think that a Chinese guy can enter F1, maybe they are Chinese, and they don't even know what the F1 car looks like." ”
This sentence sparked a burst of laughter, China in 1999 was far from the status of 2019, and it would take five years for the first F1 race to enter the country, and indeed the vast majority of Chinese people did not even know what F1 looked like.
But this is definitely not the capital that makes Hank laugh, and even uses such a racist insult as Chink.
Zhang Yifei didn't bother to care about some hostility before, but he broke through his bottom line, so let this kid taste what is called the iron fist of communism!