"Uncle Lu, since you have come here, there is no turning back, one step at a time."

Zhang Yifei also gritted his teeth, unlike any underground racing before, even if he has not run on the street, Zhang Yifei has professional racing experience, and it is no problem to crush a group of street drivers.

But formula racing is two concepts, Zhang Yifei is not to mention experience, he has never even touched a formula car in his two lives, and today is the first time.

"No, this is bound to fail the trial, or I'll talk to the Toyota team manager to see if I can postpone the trial and let you borrow their formula car for a few days."

Hearing Uncle Lu's words, Zhang Yifei couldn't help but smile bitterly and replied: "Uncle Lu, is there still this kind of temporary cramming, this is not a track open to third parties, but a Toyota test site, how can they rent a car to us." ”

The Toyota Youth Training Center, like the Tokai Volkswagen Training Base where Zhang Yifei went before, is a private circuit for the team, not an international circuit open to the public to a third party.

Only international circuits that are open to the public have a car rental service, so that ordinary people can also spend money to experience the feeling of being on the track. But not to mention that this is a test ground for car manufacturers, even if it is an international track, whether the formula car can be rented has to be a question mark.

With Zhang Yifei's limited understanding, he has only seen the rental of rally cars and go-karts, but has never known whether formula cars can be rented. After all, the formula racing environment in China in the future is really not very good, and Zhang Yifei has no contact channels.

Time passed minute by minute, and now in this situation, there is no choice, Zhang Yifei can only bite the bullet.

"Uncle Lu, there's no way, I'll just open it later. It stands to reason that except for the difference in sitting position and speed, the driving aspect should be similar to that of a go-kart, and the supercar is also in this sitting position, so I should be able to adapt to it. ”

At this point, Lu Ningping also understood that he had no choice, he nodded and replied: "Yifei, you don't have too much psychological pressure, just like normal training, no matter whether you can pass the trial in the end or not, just do your best." ”

Lu Ningping didn't put pressure on Zhang Yifei, he was already thinking about a way out, if he really didn't pass the trial, then even if he borrowed money, he would smash Zhang Yifei into the European Driver's Academy at his own expense to complete his dream of formula racing.

Because of Zhang Yifei's efforts during this time, Lu Ningping also saw that he had reached the limit of his peers. So whether it passes or not, it is not Zhang Yifei's fault, it can only be said that the Asian formula environment is like this, and the starting line is too far lost.

Ten minutes passed quickly, and when Junko Takeda came in again, there were five or six more men in overalls around her, with Toyota bull head logos on their chests, indicating that they were all Toyota people.

"Yifei-kun, are you ready?"

"Ready, ready to go."

Ten minutes has allowed Zhang Yifei's emotions to recover as before, and calmness is a necessary element for a driver.

"Very well, these are the team members of Toyota's youth program, data analyst Ukyo Yamamoto, automotive engineer Masato Kawaguchi, chief technician Ichiro Komatsu and part of the technician team."

"They will be your logistical support team for this trial race, and you can come to them for help when you test the car if you have any needs for the event and how to solve the car problem."

"I understand."

Zhang Yifei nodded, although he has never run a formula race, but he has never eaten pork and never seen a pig run? Not to mention that he also has professional experience, and he still knows the configuration of a fleet maintenance team. It's just that comparatively speaking, the maintenance team of formula cars is larger and more technological.

Everything was ready, Zhang Yifei sat in the car, similar to the F1 race picture seen on TV, Zhang Yifei only had one head left, and the whole person was in a semi-lying posture.

At this time, Yamamoto Youjing, a data analyst at the academy, came to Zhang Yifei's side and said in fluent English: "The current air temperature is 22 °C, the ground temperature is 18 °C, the road surface is not waterlogged but slightly wet, there is no need to change the tread tires for the time being, but the warm-up time will increase accordingly, pay attention to the grip of the cornering limit speed." ”

Unlike other sporting events, there is no traditional coaching position in a real F1 team, because F1 drivers are strong enough that they don't need to be taught how to drive.

So to be precise, the F1 team coach is a variety of analysts and strategists to tell the drivers the race information and data, and in the end, it is still up to the drivers to decide how to drive.

Although Toyota is only an academy and is still two years away from entering Formula 1, everything they have built according to Formula 1 standards. So even if it is an unimportant trial race, there are still data analysts to tell Zhang Yifei this information to ensure that the driver can play perfectly.

"I see."

Zhang Yifei nodded to confirm the track information, but recalled the drizzle in the sky when he just got off the plane yesterday, but he didn't expect it to be related to the road conditions of today's race.

The trial was a clockwise course with a length of 3.7 kilometres, 13 corners, and a lap record of 1:24.23, set by Japanese Formula 3 champion Takuma Sato. The way you try out this time is to run for 30 minutes, take the fastest lap, and as long as you can run 1:44.23, the trial will be considered successful. ”

Yamamoto Youkyo then told Zhang Yifei about the track information and trial standards, unlike the previous race that would know the track information early, this time the Toyota Academy pre-game invitation did not provide any track information, and it completely depends on the trial driver to play on the spot, because this is also one of the contents of the trial.

Coincidentally, Takuma Sato, the Japanese driver Zhang Yifei, knows, because he is the best F1 driver in Japan for about 2,000 years, and he can also be said to be the strongest formula driver in Asia in this era.

This guy became an F1 driver, which can be said to be a history of counterattack, because of family reasons, Takuma Sato only came into contact with karting at the age of 19, three years later than Zhang Yifei.

However, unlike China's automobile industry, which is just starting out, Japan's professional racing industry has a strong background, and Takuma Sato successfully entered the Honda Suzuki Racing Academy and won a scholarship, which helped him solve his financial difficulties.

In less than two years, Takuma Sato has gone from being a newcomer to karting to becoming a Japanese Formula 3 champion. This pace of winning only serves one thing, and that is that a racing genius doesn't have to be an F1 driver, but an F1 driver must be a racing genius.

Finally, in '02, Takuma Sato successfully stood on the F1 field, which was a small miracle. It was precisely because of his counterattack experience that Zhang Yifei heard of his deeds in later generations, but he didn't expect that his first career trial in this life was facing the record created by Takuma Sato.

After running 3.7 kilometers in 1 minute 24.23 seconds, Zhang Yifei quickly converted it in his heart, and the average speed was about 158 km/h.

This is really a terrifying speed, worthy of the strength of the Japanese F3 champion, compared to the previous karting events with an average speed of less than 80km/h, the formula can be said to directly double the speed, this is the real speed and furious.