At Tokyo Narita Airport, when Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping got off the plane, it was drizzling in the sky.

This is Zhang Yifei's first time in Japan, because as a rally driver in his previous life, there are no rally tracks in Japan, so naturally there is no opportunity to come to this race.

When they came to the taxi area of Narita Airport, Zhang Yifei and they did not go directly to the Toyota Racing Youth Training Center, but found a hotel to stay. Because there are still a few days left in the trial deadline, there is no hurry for this meeting, and Zhang Yifei also needs a buffer time after a few hours of plane down.

In the taxi, Zhang Yifei used fluent English to express to the driver where he wanted to go. I have to say that at the end of the 90s, Japan was still stronger than China in terms of English popularization, after all, it still wanted to break away from Asia and join Europe.

Although the taxi driver stumbled in English, he still understood the meaning of the hotel, and the communication was a little smoother than expected. When he first got off the plane, Zhang Yifei still had a headache about how to communicate with the Japanese, and the mobile phone was still dominated by black and white screens in recent years, but there was no translation software.

"Yifei, you speak good English."

Lu Ningping praised that those of them born in the fifties and sixties basically did not receive any English education. But in the five or six years on Hong Kong Island, where the Eastern and Western cultures meet, Lu Ningping can still hear whether he is fluent in English, and he is very amazed by Zhang Yifei's oral level.

"Hehe, Uncle Lu, you underestimate me, I'm not a mess at school."

Zhang Yifei is not modest, but in fact, he is really messing around at school, and the reason why he can have this level of speaking is completely due to his previous life.

In the future, many professional teams in China will invite some foreign coaches to help improve the level of training. In addition, rallies often have competitions on foreign tracks, and English conversation proficiency is also required, and over time, Zhang Yifei's English level has also come up, at least there is no problem with daily application.

Sitting in the car and looking out the window at the landscape, all kinds of skyscrapers and traffic, Tokyo as the largest city in Asia, even the East China Sea is slightly inferior, I have to say that there is a kind of old developed country heritage, just like the gap in the domestic automobile industry.

Looking at all this, Zhang Yifei muttered silently in his heart: Twenty years later, the scale of the economy will be crushed, and I hope that I can still see the day when the automobile industry crushes Japan.

Came to the hotel, put everything away, and after eating it was basically close to night.

However, Zhang Yifei still went to the hotel's gym to exercise, fitness must be insisted on every day, once he finds an excuse to be lazy, then there will be a situation where he is lazy for a while, and he has been lazy and has been happy.

It can be said that Zhang Yifei's biggest advantage may be persistence, even if he seems to be a fool many times and mostly jokes when he speaks, but in the face of business, Zhang Yifei has always been extremely serious.

As usual with his usual work and rest habits, Zhang Yifei took a shower and slept after his workout, without any special circumstances, and he couldn't see any nervousness.

Lu Ningping saw this scene in his eyes, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, after a few months, he already knew that Zhang Yifei had a strong psychological quality, but he didn't expect that this kid would be able to be strong enough to "be pampered and not surprised".

You must know that when you ran a large-scale event for the first time in China, you would be very nervous before the competition, and Zhang Yifei has come abroad, and there will be a fateful trial tomorrow, this kid feels even calmer than himself.

This is also a good thing, Lu Ningping muttered in his heart, it is better to be calm than to be nervous.

The next morning, I had breakfast after the usual morning exercise, except that I could only exercise in a hotel in Japan, and I couldn't see any difference from being on Hong Kong Island.

After everything was ready, Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping called a taxi and went to the Toyota youth training base in the suburbs of Tokyo.

Toyota's Japan Youth Training Base was created by Toyota's Racing Division to compete in F1 and was established in just a few months. At present, it mainly attracts young Asian karting drivers to provide reserve talents for the future Formula 1 Toyota team.

As an emerging force in the future of F1, Toyota relaxed the requirements for formula drivers in order to recruit troops, which also gave Zhang Yifei a chance to try out. Otherwise, with Zhang Yifei's current age and results, no old F1 team in Europe will give him a place as a young driver.

Toyota youth training base, similar to the Donghai Volkswagen training base that Zhang Yifei has seen before, there is a huge brand LOGO at the gate, but Volkswagen is a VW combination pattern, and Toyota is a bull head LOGO, with English Toyota below.

The first thing that catches your eye when you enter the base is a track, and although Toyota's Young Driver Development Program has only recently begun, this is a Toyota test ground before, so the track is ready-made.

Coming to the front desk reception of the building, Zhang Yifei took out the invitation letter issued by Toyota before. After indicating their intentions, the receptionist politely took them to the meeting room, indicating that he would inform the team manager and ask them to wait for a while.

"Uncle Lu, this reception is quite polite."

Idle and bored, Zhang Yifei also began to talk nonsense, I have to say that Japan's sense of service is not bad, he came to try out as a nobody, at least the reception did not show the slightest contempt, especially the bow is almost ninety degrees, Zhang Yifei feels a little embarrassed.

"It's good, but the little devil's face and lining are two levels, and you will slowly understand it in the future."

Lu Ningping can be said to have accepted the sponsorship of the Japanese team at the beginning of his career, and it was precisely because of this relationship that he was able to get the news of Toyota's formation of F1, and also contacted the Toyota Academy.

It is precisely because of the more contact with the Japanese that Lu Ningping slowly found that the Japanese pay special attention to the details of the face, and the foundation is far less good-looking. Take doing something wrong, he can apologize like crazy, but if he corrects it, he's sorry, which requires layers of instructions to take his time.

Hearing this, Zhang Yifei suddenly remembered the famous Fukushima nuclear leakage incident in the later generations, and from the very beginning, he had a small problem, and he forcibly concealed all kinds of reports and concealed them to make an accident on the same level as Chernobyl.

Afterwards, there are all kinds of bows and apologies, but there is no way to deal with it, there is nothing that cannot be solved by a bow, if there is, then apologize and bow again. Coupled with the outbreak of Takata airbags, Kobe Steel and other frauds, the spirit of craftsmanship has become "the spirit of craftsmanship", what Uncle Lu said is really appropriate.

Just when Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping were chatting, the sound of "tick, tick" high heels came, and a woman dressed in the workplace appeared in the living room, first bowing and introducing: "I am Junko Takeda, the manager of the Toyota youth team, please give me more advice." ”

Is the team manager female? Zhang Yifei was stunned when he saw this Junko Takeda, he is also a person who has experienced professional racing, as far as he knows or has seen professional team managers, there are no women.

Because most of the general team managers are retired drivers, and professional racing is basically dominated by men, the possibility of female managers is fundamentally cut off.

There is also the possibility that the team manager will only be responsible for the operational side and that the event will be handed over to another assistant. It's just that this kind of private fleet, which generally appears in the private fleets funded by the big bosses, is almost non-existent among car manufacturers, and today this is an eye-opener for me?