Automotive Black Technology Chapter 1568: : Prove it to them
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Looking at the little old man in front of him who was only 1.6 meters tall, he kept arguing about the long-term interests of a car company by participating in F1, and tempted him to form a team. Li Fanyu felt funny in his heart.
Although he has never interacted with him before, it does not prevent Li Fanyu from understanding this person. This guy is probably the stingiest guy in the world and the richest guy who knows how to make money.
Up to 5 billion, down to 50 yuan, there is no money this little old man doesn’t want to make. This guy, who is worth billions of euros, is well-known in wealthy circles for his stinginess and his ability to attract investments.
Before the history of automobiles changed, that is, when Li Fanyu had just obtained Xapp, he remembered that Bernie had sold all his shares in F1 to Liberty Media, but for some reason, in this time and space, this The already old man is still fighting on the front line, fighting for the F1 racing career.
Bernie said a lot, but seeing that Li Fanyu was noncommittal, he couldn't help but wonder: "Mr. Li, as far as I know, Zhengxin Group does not have the financial strength to build an F1 team. Why do you seem to have so little interest in my proposal?"
Does Li Fanyu want to participate in F1?
The answer is yes!
As the world's most powerful automobile racing event, F1 is a hurdle that Zhengxin cannot overcome. Only by dominating this field can Zhengxin have the confidence to challenge the throne of the car king without any psychological burden.
But is now the time?
Obviously not.
Li Fanyu smacked his lips, spread out his hands that were intertwined, and said: "Bernie, look. It takes hundreds of millions of euros to form an F1 team. For you rich people, this may not count. What. But for me, it’s just a few days’ gain.”
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Looking at Li Fanyu’s serious pretense, Bernie’s eyes twitched a few times.
"So, whether I form an F1 team or not has no direct or inevitable relationship with whether I have money. Now the Zhengxin team includes investment in Le Mans, Cadar, FE, as well as F3 and several karting events. Every year The cost is as high as 500 million U.S. dollars. I don’t care about spending hundreds of millions more. Every year, we spend nearly 100 million yuan on training young Chinese drivers.”
Hearing Li Fanyu's naked display of wealth, Bernie was even more confused: "Then Li, why don't you participate in F1?"
Li Fanyu smiled slightly, "Because this time, what we want to show is not Zhengxin's financial strength. It is Zhengxin's technical strength in automotive power as a pure car company! If an F1 team is in the season To win the championship, it must be a combination of advantages in many aspects, such as the driver's level, the team's R&D strength, the performance of the power system... Oh, and finally, luck. However, if you intervene in F1 as an engine supplier, The performance of non-factory teams using our Zhengxin engines has been greatly improved. Do you think this is more illustrative than simply forming a team, spending money, and winning the championship? ”
Hearing Li Fanyu’s explanation, Bernie felt a surge of emotion in his heart.
"Li, are you so sure that your Zhengxin power system can surpass the existing four major suppliers in performance?"
He made a very helpless expression, "I need to remind you that the current engines of F1's four major engine suppliers, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Honda, and Rysfast, have all passed the test of time. Trusted by most non-factory teams. Among them, Risfast has been the power supplier for the shortest time, but it has been a full six seasons. If I remember correctly, Zhengxin Group has never been one. With experience in F1, the confidence you are showing now is really unconvincing. So in my opinion, if Zhengxin wants to get involved in F1, the best way is to directly form a team. What you need is to prove yourself, right?”
Bernie turned the topic back to the team.
As the boss of F1, what he wants to see most at this stage is a highly competitive F1 field with a small gap in strength between them.
But now, as F1 teams invest more and more, small teams are constantly being eliminated. The strength of the entire F1 team seems to have been solidified and stabilized in a ladder shape.
The current F1 continues to be stirred up by an aggressive catfish.
Moreover, although it seems to have unlimited success, F1's financial situation has become increasingly worse in the past two years. As the engine displacement becomes smaller and smaller, and the sound decibels become lower and lower, a large number of car fans have quit. The derivative effects of television broadcasts and various copyrights are also getting worse and worse.
In order to maintain income, Bernie, who is very economical, has even begun to plan to slightly adjust the ticket price and charge for the live broadcast appropriately.
Now that Zhengxin wants to become a power supplier, it will not bring much benefit to F1. But a team is different.
Although his intention was to lure Zhengxin into trouble, what he said just now was not scaremongering.
F1’s power supplier is not that easy to do. Although F1 currently opens up engine supplier restrictions and allows power companies to intervene, almost all teams with engine needs will choose the four major power companies to cooperate.
Not for anything else, just for stability.
Each team uses approximately 100 engines per year, including testing, practice and racing. These one hundred engines are a huge expense for the team.
No team will hand over this order to any stupid supplier easily.
Although the engines supplied by the four major suppliers are outdated products left over from their respective activities, in many cases, outdated products with race experience and accumulation of F1 track technology also represent stability - these are the four competitiveness of large suppliers.
So, from Bernie's point of view, although Li Fanyu is ambitious, he is not optimistic about Zhengxin's engine business.
Li Fanyu was still noncommittal about this.
After chatting with Bernie for a while and specifically requesting the F1 headquarters to approve Zhengxin’s motivation application as soon as possible, Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke said goodbye and left together.
After exiting the gate of F1 headquarters, Li Fanyu couldn't help but chuckle.
Seeing him like this, Cheng Ke was surprised: "Why are you laughing?"
Seeing the curiosity on Xiao Nizi's face, he rubbed Cheng Ke's head vigorously, which aroused strong protest from the latter.
Facing the arrogant and arrogant classmate Keke, Li Fan said with a silly smile: "I finally discovered that no matter what I do, someone will jump out and say no."
Cheng Ke rolled his eyes, "What should you do?"
Li Fanyu raised his hand and looked at his watch, then set his eyes on the gray sky in Vienna.
"Of course, facts prove that their subjective conjectures are just stupid ideas."