Joining Prema Racing Team
The headquarters of the Prema Racing team is a brick factory building full of traces of time, but it only looks full of traces of time on the outside.
Under the guidance of the staff, Senna walked into the factory and found that the interior of the factory was full of modern facilities, whether it was the decoration or the internal equipment.
Senna came to meet René Rosin, The team principal of the Prema Formula 2 Racing team
When the other party saw Senna, the smile on his face was very sincere. The wrinkles on his eyebrows and eyes indicated that he was in a very good mood at the moment.
"Welcome to Prema Racing, Little Senna! I have been waiting for a long time, and I look forward to our cooperation for this year." As soon as they approached, Rene happily gave Senna a big hug without shaking hands.
Hugging each other and patting each other's back gently, Senna said seriously: "Thank you, thank you Mr. Rene for your trust in me. I will do my best to complete every game in the next season." Rene
Rene smiled and didn't care about the work he was busy with just now. He said directly: "I think you are ready to work. I will take you to handle the entry and deal with the next things?"
After that, he took Senna to the inside of the factory.
Although the F2 car is the same every season, the team will also make certain fine-tuning to the car according to the driver's driving habits and physical data to adapt to the driver.
Today, Senna joined the team. In addition to taking the team's promotional photos and recording a video, he also needed to have his hands and physical data measured after sitting in the monocoque of the car. These measurements were used to customize Senna's steering wheel and racing seat for the season.
These elements are as crucial to a driver as a gun to a soldier, a saddle to a cavalryman, or artillery to a tank. They must be meticulously prepared at the start of the season.
How can a soldier go to the battlefield without handy weapons and armour? The racing seat and steering wheel are Senna's armour and weapons.
Because after a while, it will be time to test the performance of the new car, the running-in between the driver and the car, and the time to adjust the driver. It is just right to test these times to see whether the racing seat and steering wheel are comfortable to use. If they are not suitable, there is still time to adjust them.
Senna was surprised to find out that Rene the team principal personally assisting Senna with the whole process.
It was as if he was not a team leader with heavy work to deal with, but just an ordinary staff member responsible for receiving Senna.
"Senna, there is one last thing, that is the driver number."
Senna nodded and asked: "Do I need to choose a driver number myself?" Renne smiled and shook his head and said: "No, no, no, only F1 drivers can choose the driver number they want, and the driver numbers of all FIA events except F1 are applied by the team. You can only use the number given to you by the team."
At this point, Renne changed the subject: "But the good news is that you still have room for choice, because our team has four driver numbers that can be used, and Mick has already used No. 20. At present, we still have No. 21, 22 and 23 to choose from."
"So, which number do you want?"
Senna made his choice
"Number 21."
"Of course, but I'm a little curious about why you chose this number."
Senna said with a small smile: "My grandpa raced in no 12 so just reverse it..."
Rene was surprised and said with a small smile on his face"Your Choice"
"Okay, the number 21 will appear on your racing suit and car in the future."
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Since arriving in Vicenza and finding Rene, Senna had been busy
Basically, he runs here, tests his physical fitness, customizes a new racing suit, runs there to test his eyesight, and moves to another place to adjust the size of his helmet. In short, he never stops.
However, most of the troubles were solved on the first day. Renne arranged a new dormitory for Senna.
After all, it is just a private racing team. Prema naturally cannot be as rich as Ferrari or Mercedes to build a community for employees to live in.
So the dormitory arranged for Senna is just a local homestay.
Although the living area of this homestay is much larger than that of the employee dormitory in Brackley, it is more than 90 square meters, and there is even a small attic where some sundries can be placed, but the environment is much worse than that in Brackley.
However, because they live in the city, the transportation and surrounding infrastructure are quite complete.
Vicenza is only 60 kilometres away from the famous water city of Venice, so it is understandable that there are some Venetian relics here. After his home and making some arrangements he went out to the local supermarket to buy some commodities. Over there he met with an unexpected visitor standing at a counter to check out the products he brought.
He saw Mick Schumacher, the son of legendary Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher, has a striking resemblance to his father. He is a young man in his early to mid-20s with a lean, athletic build typical of professional racing drivers. Mick has short, light brown hair that he often keeps neatly styled. His facial features are sharp and defined, with high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and a confident, focused expression that reflects his determination and passion for racing.
He is his future teammate in Perma Racing for this season, Mick represented the Ferrari driver academy and joined Prema Racing this year.
Mick noticed someone was looking at him and turned around to find out. When he saw Senna he gave a polite smile to him.
Mick knows who Senna is, the Grandson of the legendary Formula 1 driver and considered a prodigy in the motorsport world and his fame is possibly the same as his, son of 7 time world champion or maybe even higher. He also knows he is his teammate for this season, But for now, he doesn't want to cross his path with him. So after leaving a polite smile to him, he left the store.
Senna did not mind Mick leaving, he knew sooner or later he would be crossing paths with him. In Formula World, the biggest enemy is not your opponent but your teammate.
This Little incident didn't bother Senna, after he finished his work he returned home.
Today's busy day ends here. Senna got up very early the next day. After all, it was his first day at work, and he still needed to give his boss and colleagues a good impression.
Today, Senna's job was mainly to get to know the crew members assigned to him by Prema. In the future, these people will be responsible for Senna's TR, tyre changing, tuning, vehicle maintenance and other work on the track.
It can be said that from today, for the next year, these people will be one with Senna, Winning or Losing all will be together at every moment.
Unlike F1, there are only seven tyre changers in F2, namely the front jack technician, the rear jack technician, and then the tyre changers of the four tyres and the technicians who hold the indicator board for the drivers to see.
These positions are all held by technicians. They have to take on the responsibility of changing tyres while tuning the vehicle. To be honest, it is not easy.
And the tyre changers of two drivers of a team are universal.
Senna's race engineer, that is, responsible for communicating with Senna in TR, has the same responsibility as Jeff who communicates with players in the game "F1 2019".
Her name is Vanessa Fettcher. She is a middle-aged woman. she is about 1.8 meters tall and looks pretty Beautiful. However, her hair is extremely dense and left with a ponytail covering her back
In addition to him, the other one is Senna's chief technician. He is a Chinese named Sui Wentao. He looks 27 or 28 years old. He looks very energetic with a short haircut, well-developed arm muscles, and smiles like Leclerc. There are two shallow dimples on his face.
Although he looks like an Asian, he is actually an Asian British. Because his parents came from China to do business, he was born in the UK and can speak Chinese. You can listen some accent on his speech.
These two are the most important people in this team for Senna.
One provides Senna with key information and more refined data feedback on the car during the race, and the other debug the car for Senna before the race and adjusts the car to the state he wants.
After getting familiar with Senna, they also introduced themselves.
Senna's race engineer Jason Todd was only responsible for sitting on the podium, and he could only sit on the podium because any information on the field had to be conveyed by him to Senna who was sitting in the car.
As for Senna's chief technician Sui Wentao, he was more miserable. He was also one of the tire changers and was responsible for the rear jack of the car.
In addition to these two, Steve and Alvin belonged to Senna's team.
The two of them were responsible for changing the tyres on the left side of the car, and they were also responsible for helping Senna debug the car.
These four people are all the members of Senna's team.
As for the other few people, they were all from Mick Schumacher's team. This time they came mainly because they needed to change Senna's tires during the race, so they came to get to know Senna. After saying hello to each other, the people from Mick's team left, leaving only Senna and four others.
Senna finds out that his team has fewer members than Mick's team and he also knows Mick's position in the Ferrari and finds no wonder as Prema considers to be a little Ferrari in Padlock
Senna smacked his lips and changed the subject: "What are our work contents today?"
At this time, Jason spoke: "Our main task today is to get familiar with each other, and then deal with some miscellaneous matters. After sorting it out, the day's work is almost over.
It will take about a month for the new car of this season to arrive. By then, we will be busy for a while to get familiar with the vehicle structure and redesign the vehicle paint. After that, the opening game of the new season will begin. "
Senna, who originally thought he was coming to work, was dragged out by other staff members of the car group to play for a day, eating and drinking.
Should I say that he is worthy of being a local? Senna originally thought that if he went out to play, he should go to the world-famous water city Venice. After all, Venice is only 60 kilometres away from here, and it takes less than an hour to drive there, but they took Senna to some local tourist attractions in Vicenza.
This place perfectly meets Senna's fantasy of Venice. It is also a village on the water. The water is very clear, there are flocks of flowers and birds, and there are not many people. Most of them are locals, and the food is very cheap. The only disadvantage is that it is remote, and ordinary tourists can't find such a place at all.
Also because tourists don't know about this kind of place, there are few people here and the environment is particularly good.
Under the leadership of the crew members, several people came to a restaurant with local characteristics.
To entertain foreign guests, eating the most famous local dishes is a kind of place to treat guests.
And after all, it's just an acquaintance and the best way for men to get closer is not applicable to Senna
On the one hand, Senna doesn't drink to Keep his diet maintain, an athlete especially an Formula driver has high physical requirements
So the relationship between the first day was very slow, but after the first day of getting along, the two parties were familiar with each other.
On the second day, Henry finally arrived late.
Because Henry Lubos was Senna's physical trainer and was assigned to him by Mercedes, His task to keep Senna in shape and report his status back to Mercedes was not arranged by the Prema team, the Prema team did not arrange a dormitory for Lubos, and they had no obligation to do so.
Fortunately, The Dorm assigned to Senna was pretty big and had an extra room which made it easy for Henry to stay and monitor Senna.
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