The intense physical training continued like this, neither Odetto nor Chen Xiangbei would call it quits.

In fact, Chen Xiangbei had long known the importance of physical training, even before he got into professional racing, he had been exercising by himself at his home in Guangzhou-Shenzhen.

However, there's no shortcut on this path. The speed of physical improvement can't keep up with his leap in the Formula domain. The muscle mass gained in just a year is still not enough to meet the standards of an F1 Driver.

Fortunately, Brawn GP Team has highly professional sports recovery equipment that can maximize the muscle repair for Chen Xiangbei after training, including the most advanced liquid nitrogen cryotherapy cabin of the era.

This equipment originated from low-temperature therapy, where athletes lie in bathtubs filled with ice cubes after the match, using the instant cold stimulus to speed up muscle acid removal, improve anti-inflammatory capacity, and promote muscle recovery.

The domestic public learned about this low-temperature therapy mostly through the NBA. For instance, many media reported earlier that basketball star LeBron James would first rely on the liquid nitrogen cryotherapy cabin to relieve muscle fatigue after a game.

Originally, a private team like Brawn GP wouldn't have the financial strength to afford advanced equipment, even the strong "Big Three" like Williams had fallen.

However, Honda Group left it with a rich legacy, and the development headquarters Blakeley Factory ate away at the old capital until the Mercedes-Benz Group took over for several years.

We must note that in 2005, Honda Group acquired the whole BAR British American Racing Team, transitioning its identity from engine supplier to chassis manufacturer, investing an astonishing 1.3 billion US dollars in three years, topping the list among all F1 teams.

It has not even counted the development costs of its own Honda engines, otherwise, it would be even more exaggerated.

This is why Honda Tokyo Headquarters decided to withdraw from F1 resolutely, even though in Europe the RA109 prototype car was developed but left unused, burning cash too fiercely and hit by the financial crisis, even the landowner ran out of grain.

Apart from the high-intensity physical training, during the intervals when Chen Xiangbei's body was recovering, he was not idle either.

The research engineers of Brawn GP Team provided systematic training about F1 racing for Chen Xiangbei.

Automotive sports and racing engineering are not just two terms, they are two professional disciplines, just like computer science or civil engineering in people's cognition, just more targeted and segmented.

As the old saying goes, a truly top-level driver could never be an illiterate, mastering several foreign languages and automotive knowledge is a basic requirement, otherwise, you can never truly achieve "man and car in harmony."

To give a simple example, the general driver provides feedback on racing cars, usually saying the steering is somewhat imprecise or the feeling of shifting gears is not good, asking team engineers to quickly check where there might be an issue.

But the team engineers are not belly worms inside you, so how exactly to define imprecision and bad feeling?

If drivers can't provide specific directions, then team engineers find it hard to meet the requirements, resulting in situations where the car can't be adjusted well.

Conversely, if this driver has sufficient professional knowledge, he can accurately express the steering angle should be set to how many degrees, the gearbox gear ratio should be what, when team engineers hear it, everything is clear, and both sides don't have to play the "guessing game."

One of the standards for top drivers in the F1 Paddock is understanding racing knowledge feedback and cooperating with team engineers to adjust the car.

In his past life, when driving Formula cars, Chen Xiangbei to some extent contacted and learned some related knowledge.

This is why his feedback on F3 racing adjustments during the Grand Prix event shocked strategy group members including Sawano Hiroyuki, theoretically this is a domain unreachable by low-level Formula drivers.

However, Chen Xiangbei in his past life only drove up to F2, compared to the complex aerodynamic and mechanical principles in F1, there was still a certain gap.

He still needs more learning and guidance from top research engineers to achieve systematic control over the subject of racing engineering.

Otherwise, he will always be blindly driving, not knowing where the problems lie!

The research technical engineers of Brawn GP Team, half of them were from the former Super Aguri Team, considered Odetto's former subordinates.

Having such a relationship, they taught Chen Xiangbei wholeheartedly, surpassing the treatment generally enjoyed by test drivers.

Meanwhile, Chen Xiangbei did not disappoint them, even worthy of admiration!

"Odetto lead, did you previously teach Xiangbei racing-related theoretical knowledge?"

After instructing Chen Xiangbei for a few days, an aerodynamics engineer couldn't help but question Odetto.

Aerodynamics is the pillar technology of an F1 team, possibly prioritized even more than engine development, possessing the largest number of engineers.

After the disbandment of Super Aguri Team, without F1 racing research demand, their aerodynamics department mostly joined Honda Team and then evolved to become members of the Brawn GP Team now.

Chen Xiangbei's foundational knowledge of racing theory is not at all like a newcomer jumping from F3 but more like a rookie who has contacted F1.

What's more exaggerating is that before the Grand Prix event, Chen Xiangbei was not even at the F3 Level, he was just the lowest level Renault Formula driver!

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