All-round Athlete

Chapter 668

On the afternoon of April 29th, local time in France, that is, the third day after the Bahrain race, the FIA ​​World Motor Sports Council finally announced the result of the McLaren team's "perjury gate" incident: suspension of the McLaren team Three games, suspended for 12 months.

The so-called "12-month suspension of execution" actually means that if no further facts about the case emerge within the next 12 months; or McLaren no longer commits perjury in violation of the International Sports Code, it will not impose any penalty on McLaren. In other words, this punishment is only symbolic, which is equivalent to saying "Come on, come on, three glasses of wine!"

The McLaren team and Hamilton escaped a catastrophe. On the same day, the FIA ​​also passed another thing, which is to implement the F1 budget cap in 2010.

There is no budget cap in F1, teams can spend as much as they want. In this most money-burning sport in the world, many small teams are struggling to survive, while large teams invest hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The amount of money burned is different, and the size of the fire is different, especially Burning money every year like Ferrari will certainly achieve the best results.

The salary cap initially set by the FIA ​​is 40 million pounds a year. However, this obviously touched the nerves of the big team headed by Ferrari. It only costs 40 million pounds a year, which is only worth the money of a few sports cars. How can this reflect Ferrari? the honorable! So Ferrari publicly expressed its resistance to the budget cap, and said that if the budget cap is really implemented, Ferrari will not sign up for next year's race.

At the same time, Ferrari has also won the support of other teams, such as Toyota and Red Bull, which have successively stated that they will not sign up for next year's competition. Then Ferrari made a more ruthless move. He summoned members of the F1 Team Association to write a joint letter to protest to the International Automobile Federation.

The F1 Team Association is an organization united by the teams. It can be regarded as the team union, while the FIA ​​can be regarded as the boss. All this move is equivalent to a struggle between the union and the boss.

Ferrari is a giant, they have the capital to compete with the FIA. China Force is an independent team, which belongs to the bottom of the F1 pyramid. The two great gods have nothing to do with ordinary people, so China Power, like other independent teams, chooses to follow the trend.

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"From the data point of view, the gap between other teams and us has further narrowed." Ross Brown held a thick stack of documents, and continued: "Since the beginning of this season, Red Bull Racing has always been our biggest competition. Opponent, Newey is indeed a master of racing car design. Even if the car he designed does not have a double-layer diffuser, it is not too far behind us in terms of speed. On a track like the Chinese race, our car can't even perform well. Too big an advantage. According to the information we have so far, Red Bull is developing its own double-layer diffuser, and once their development is successful, maybe the performance of the car will surpass ours.”

Ross Brawn turned two pages of the document and went on: "McLaren's form is picking up. McLaren had a very poor start to the season, but since they also installed a double diffuser, they've been on the mend recently. The status of the two races has recovered rapidly, and they are currently only using a transitional version of the double-layer diffuser, which means that after they replace the official version of the double-layer diffuser in the future, the performance of the car will be further improved. We'd be a big threat too."

Ross Brown turned two more pages, and continued: "In addition, we also need to pay attention to Ferrari. After all, Ferrari is a real giant in Formula One. Although it seems that the results of this giant this season are a bit horrible , but with Ferrari's strong research and development capabilities, they are likely to start working hard in the middle of the season."

"Okay, okay, I understand. You mean that our opponent is getting stronger, right?" Zhang Guan waved his hand and said.

"Yes, if we want to maintain our advantage, we must increase our research and development efforts." Ross Brown nodded.

Zhang Guan knew that Ross Brown was here to ask for money. Last week, he just asked for money once, but today he asked for money again, which obviously shows that research and development is really expensive.

"It has been prepared for you a long time ago. The sponsor bonuses of the China station have already arrived, and they should be able to support our research and development next month." Zhang Guan continued: "There are new sponsors who are willing to buy both sides of the rear wing of our car. It is estimated that there will be another 10 to 20 million in advertising fees for the advertising space in the position. My agent team is negotiating, and I will tell you the result after the negotiation is completed."

As Zhang Guanzheng was speaking, the phone rang, and the caller ID showed that He Yiming was calling.

"Maybe there will be a result now!" Zhang Guan picked up the phone.

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"Zhang Guan, there is something I need to discuss with you. It's about the advertising endorsement on both sides of the rear wing of your racing car." He Yiming's voice seemed a little hurried, and he continued, "Something went wrong."

"What's the problem, the sponsor doesn't want to buy it?" Zhang Guan asked.

"It's not that I don't want to buy it, but I want to force it!" He Yiming said.

"Forced buying?" Zhang Guan frowned, and he continued, "Brother He, don't worry, just speak slowly."

"The anonymous group that wanted to buy the advertising space of the racing car before showed a strong willingness to buy, so I quoted a price to him. They thought the price was too expensive and asked us to lower the price. I lowered the price a little bit, but They still thought it was too expensive, so I lowered the price again." He Yiming said.

Zhang Guan nodded silently. This is how business is done. Buyers and sellers ask for a lot of money and pay back the money. For example, the remuneration of those movie stars is quoted tens of millions or hundreds of millions, but this offer is definitely not the final buyout price. It is necessary for the producer to counter-offer. Sometimes when you meet a familiar producer, it is normal to give a friendly price.

He Yiming went on to say: "After I sent the quotation for the third time, the Anonymous Group still found it too expensive, so I told them to ask them to set an ideal price, and we will discuss it slowly, but Guess what?"

"They won't be penny-pinching!" Zhang Guan asked with a smile.

"Pull! They gave me back 1 million, but it's still not US dollars, but national currency!" He Yiming said angrily: "I was angry at the time. At first, I saw that the Anonymous Group was quite willing to buy, so I made a deal with it. They've been arguing for so long, they didn't expect to be teasing me! So I replied to them directly, and the deal is not discussed."

Other sponsors buy advertising space on racing cars, but they all invest tens of millions, and they are still in US dollars. For example, Mr. Liu has paid more than 20 million US dollars including the championship bonus. This anonymous group wants to Spending 1 million yuan to buy an advertising space, this amount of money is in F1, and I am afraid that even the salary of the cleaning staff is not enough.

He Yiming on the phone went on to say: "Meeting someone who is 'playing with you', I didn't take this matter seriously, and continued to look for new sponsors, but I didn't expect that this anonymous group would say that this Advertising space, we have to sell it if we sell it, or we have to sell it if we don’t sell it, and it’s 1 million, not a single cent!”

"So arrogant? Does this anonymous group have a backer?" Zhang Guan asked immediately.

"I thought so too, so I sent someone to inquire about it, but before the news came out, a friend reminded me, or someone behind the Anonymous Group sent me a message in this way. A word. Let us agree to this anonymous group." He Yiming took a deep breath, and continued: "The person who brought the words is really troublesome."

"Who is that person?" Zhang Guan continued to ask.

"It's Mr. Wang..." He Yiming said a name, and Zhang Guan had heard of this name before.

"Old Wang? Hasn't he already retired? People who have retired still care about such things? Why do you feel that you are still worried. Can people who have retired still have such great energy?" Zhang Guan continued to ask.

"You don't understand this! Do you think it's an ordinary county-level official who just leaves for tea? When he reaches a certain level, there are countless former students and officials. Before retiring, he will always find some way out for himself." He Yiming went on to say: "Some people really retire when they retire, and some people, they have retired, but they still haven't retired!"

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