It was on this day that Chen Xiangbei finally met his legendary teammate, the former Honda youth training driver named Kobayashi Shuji.

Chen Xiangbei had read Kobayashi Shuji's profile: he started practicing karting at the age of ten and swept through the karting competitions of his peers until he caught the attention of Honda Racing Corporation.

After testing, Honda recognized Kobayashi Shuji's talent and directly promoted him to Europe for single-seater formula training and competition.

Last year, he won the German F4 championship, and was supposed to directly participate in the F3 event this year. However, due to Honda's withdrawal from the European Formula series, he suddenly found himself without team resources or technical support.

Now that Super Dream Team has returned to the European Formula track, Kobayashi Shuji has smoothly transitioned over to race a few Renault Formula events with Chen Xiangbei, keeping his competitive form and touch.

In this era of lower-level formula events, participation is relatively free, and drivers are not required to participate in every race.

This means that if you don't want to win the championship through points, or if you don't have enough money to run the entire season, you can completely choose to participate in a few races and then exit.

Chinese Formula driver Ma Qingye often makes money back home during his runs in Europe, following this operating method.

If Hoshino Yoshi's first impression to Chen Xiangbei was just "cold," then Kobayashi Shuji's impression could be considered quite "arrogant," as he didn't even bother to greet him.

Meanwhile, the original Super Aguri crew members were all revolving around him, providing technical services, as if there were two separate teams within one.

Chen Xiangbei didn't mind this at all, as Super Aguri's initial goal was to build an all-Japanese team.

Boss Suzuki Aguri faced reality after failure, but it didn't mean that the crew members under him could change their mindset similarly, let alone they were unfamiliar with Chen Xiangbei and hadn't witnessed the strength of the newcomer from China.

Emotionally and logically, it's natural for them to be closer to the Japanese driver Kobayashi Shuji.

If the situation were reversed, with a Japanese rookie in a Chinese team, the crew members would similarly be closer to Chen Xiangbei, but they wouldn't make it as obvious due to politeness.

At nine in the morning, everyone arrived at Silverstone Circuit.

The crew members entered the P room to calibrate the equipment, while Chen Xiangbei and Lu Xiaoman headed to the garage to rent the race car.

Renault Formula, as its name suggests, is a brand promotion event by the French automobile manufacturer Renault Group.

During the main race, all teams are provided with standardized race cars by Renault Group, and the car weight is checked to prevent any cheating.

Normally, the Renault car rental is handled by the teams, but Chen Xiangbei's contract with Super Dream is self-funded, so naturally, he has to pay for the rental of the Renault car for the race himself.

The pure rental fee for a Renault car is not very expensive, calculated by the Pound, it's only a few hundred per hour.

However, this doesn't include tire wear and fluid, various insurance and additional technical repair services, nor the cost of car damage.

If the race goes smoothly, Chen Xiangbei will have to spend tens of thousands.

But if there's a crash, then it could cost hundreds of thousands!

After completing the rental contract, Lu Xiaoman looked at the zeros behind the figure for car damage and couldn't help but remark, "Xiangbei, you really can't crash, or the sponsorship money you've worked so hard to earn might all go to waste."

"I'll do my best..."

"What do you mean, don't trust your skills?"

Lu Xiaoman muttered, though she was joking, she deeply trusted Chen Xiangbei's driving skills.

"I can guarantee I won't crash, but I can't prevent others from crashing into me."

The completion rate of Formula racing is actually not high, early on in F1, it once fell below fifty percent.

Meaning that in a race, all sorts of factors can cause more than half of the drivers to retire!

Over time and with technological advancements, the completion rate gradually increased, now it roughly stands at seventy to eighty percent overall.

But still, about twenty percent of drivers fail to finish.

Besides car breakdowns, track incidents make up the bulk of this, even though the overall driver skill in European Renault Formula is far higher than in the Asian circuit.

Yet you still can't prevent the appearance of a few peculiar accidents or disruptions!

"Then there's no choice. If you're really out of money for repairs, I can lend you some."

"Do I have to pay interest?"

Chen Xiangbei asked with a hint of amusement.

"Preferably don't borrow, it's high-interest!"

After leaving this remark, Lu Xiaoman walked away briskly.

Not long after completing the rental contract, Renault staff delivered the car to the P room.

Liang Chi led Ayong and Brother Lei, and they immediately started initial adjustments on the new car according to the characteristics of Silverstone Circuit.

Although Ayong and Brother Lei were interacting with the Renault car for the first time, their actions showed a high level of familiarity.

In the ten days since their arrival at Super Dream Base, they have practiced installation and removal countless times on model cars, to the extent that they were dreaming about repairing and adjusting the cars.

Diligence doesn't necessarily compensate for lack of talent, but without diligence, one surely remains unimaginative!

Taking advantage of the crew's initial adjustment work, Chen Xiangbei went to the rest room to change into his racing suit.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed a problem; that was, throughout the entire row of P rooms, only Super Dream Team was doing practice preparations, while other teams hadn't even arrived.

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