Compared with other Chinese auto companies in this era, they are all in the toddler stage. Thinking about how to gain a foothold in the domestic civilian market, Huali Group has already demonstrated its ambitiousness and arrogance to become a world-class auto giant!

He is even in negotiations with Ford, intending to acquire the Swedish car brand Volvo from the other party.

You should know that a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Compared with an old European car company like Volvo, Huali Group is not even a little brother in the world.

But Huali Group not only thought so, but also did it. What’s even more amazing is that it was done in the end!

Therefore, in history, media reports have used this adjective, that is, "snake swallows an elephant"!

Huali Group has arrogance and does everything it does not just acquire the Volvo brand.

Many people in later generations know that Huali Group has created the Chinese performance car brand Lingke 03, but few people know that as early as more than ten years ago, Huali Group was already a maid in the field of performance car, but had a pretty young heart.

In 2003, Huali Group was not sure about buying groceries, so it began its own performance car research and development. The template was selected as the famous Japanese four kings - Toyota Supra, thus giving birth to the Huali "Beauty Leopard".

Judging from the appearance alone, the beauty leopard was definitely outstanding in that era. After all, domestic cars in 2003 all had an indescribable rustic smell. Suddenly, a two-door coupe was released, which felt quite ahead of the times.

But the problem is that in addition to the appearance, performance cars like coupes also have the most important word "performance".

The standard version of this "Beautiful Leopard" of Huali has a displacement of only 1.3l and a horsepower of only 86 horsepower. Even if the 1.5l improved model was later launched, the final horsepower was only 113 horsepower.

Although Japanese performance cars have basically failed and stopped production after entering the 21st century, the performance background is there. Even if the four Japanese sports cars of the Heavenly King level are limited by the Gentleman Agreement, the upper limit of horsepower is locked at 280 horses.

But this does not mean that their upper limit is really just like this. Like the original Toyota Supra 2jz Bull Demon King's head, it is not a problem to change thousands of horsepower.

Even if the Beauty Leopard changes it, the visual limit is 200p horsepower.

So this brings up a very realistic problem. If a coupe "performance car" with less than 100 horsepower encounters provocation on the road, then should I chase it or not?

It would be fine if the other party wants to drive a supercar or other performance car, after all, it is not embarrassing to lose to a "strong enemy".

If the other party drives a grocery car such as Jetta, Santana, or even a Chery QQ, and kicks the accelerator, and fails to catch up with the other party, then this embarrassment may have to break through the sky!

If the launch of the "performance" coupe of the Wallets in Huali Group is already a pioneering development, then it began to build Formula racing in 2006 and held the Asian Formula Huali International Championships. This operation is simply impossible to describe with great ambitions, which is a bit shocking!

Before, I didn’t even play with the grocery car, so I went to build any performance sports car. As a result, even the performance sports car could not meet Huali. It wanted to build the world’s most cutting-edge Formula Racing!

From the bottom of the bones, Huali Group thinks to become a world super giant like Toyota and Renault.

Of course, it's one thing, but the result is another.

The Asian Formula Huali International Championships lasted for two years, but because of lack of technical strength and serious setbacks in the promotion of events, they had to give up.

However, from these little examples, we can see that even though Huali is a weak chicken now, it always has a heart to become a "king"!

In fact, later generations of Huali Group did step by step in this direction, and took ten years to digest Volvo. From the "Beautiful Leopard" that was ridiculed at that time, it created its own performance car Lingke 03, and this process lasted for 16 years.

Therefore, the ambition of Huali Group needs a carrier. A rising star driver like Lin Xiangbei is very in line with Huali Group's current international strategy.

However, Li Shufu saw the process of Cheng Long politely refusing Qi Rui Group, and Huali Automobile also could not provide high-quality technical chips at present.

But Li Shufu has never been a person who easily admits defeat, otherwise he would not have worked hard for 16 years because of a "performance" goal.

So his eyes were always on Lin Xiangbei, thinking about feasible solutions in his mind. Huali Group is never just a Chinese car company, but a world car company!

Lin Xiangbei, on the other side, returned to the maintenance station. The Chinese drivers who stayed to watch the game on the spot came to greet him at this moment.

No one regards Lin Xiangbei as a loser, because only professional drivers can understand what it means to be against the F1 world champion on the track and only 0.2 seconds behind.

It is no exaggeration to say that any Chinese driver who is on the field and running with Patton today will be more than ten times higher than Lin Xiangbei, which means he will be at least two seconds away.

As a Chinese driver, Lin Xiangbei can be a miracle in running at such a speed!

"You're very good in this game."

Han Han also stood in front of Lin Xiangbei at this moment and said to him in an admirable tone.

This is not a politeness or compliment, but he admires Lin Xiangbei's control from the bottom of his heart.

Whether it is the tangent routing before or the full speed extreme drift behind, Han Han is the only venue in China and the double champion of the pull-out force, no one knows better the difficulty and value of driving skills than him.

Han Han asked himself that he could not achieve Lin Xiangbei's level, and even in the Asian range he knew, he could only match Lin Xiangbei's top drivers, etc., perhaps.

In this game just now, Lin Xiangbei was a world-class operation!

"It's not considered awesome if you don't win."

Lin Xiangbei replied lightly, facing these praises and compliments, there was no sign of pride or expansion.

To be honest, after the competition was over, Lin Xiangbei felt an indescribable feeling in his heart when he shouted his name from the audience. However, when he returned to the maintenance station and received praise from this group of professional drivers, he felt a very subtle feeling.

Is it worth celebrating happily these days?

Perhaps for Chinese racing, it is already excellent enough to show the strength to fight the F1 world champion and submit a qualified answer.

But for Lin Xiangbei, losing means losing, there is no reason, let alone anything worth celebrating and pride.

Today I am standing at the home stadium of the domestic Bird's Nest. The audience and car fans don't care about failure, so they can comfort themselves and applause. In the future, will anyone care about these reasons for failure besides the track in a foreign country?

The answer is no. Lin Xiangbei never positioned himself as the "schooler" identity of the track. Seeing others becoming winners, what he wanted to be the protagonist who enjoys victory in the spotlight!

"Do you really think you can beat Patton?"

When Han Han heard Lin Xiangbei's answer, his face looked a little strange.

There are many cheering before the game, which is more of a routine and expectation. No one will really think that Lin Xiangbei can defeat Patton.

Even though Han Han was Lin Xiangbei's "teammate", he never had this idea.

But Lin Xiangbei seemed to take it seriously. Did he really go to this game with the idea of ​​defeating Patton before the game?

Or to put it simply, Lin Xiangbei thought he could win before the game?

"I didn't have confidence before the game, but I thought I could win the process of running!"

When Lin Xiangbei said this, a light flashed in his eyes, and he was completely relieved of the loss and depression he had just gotten off the car.

What is the biggest gain for Lin Xiangbei in this showdown with Patton?

That is definitely not a praise or encouragement, but a confidence to win!

Before the game, Lin Xiangbei was far less confident and arrogant than he seemed on the surface, and even fell behind significantly, many memories of his previous life appeared in his mind.

At that time, he made the decision to drift at full speed to catch up with Patton and be able to bite the other party. At that moment, Lin Xiangbei's mentality completely changed.

I am no longer the f1 test driver who was eliminated, but Lin Xiangbei, a genius driver in China in this world!

Han Han looked at the light flashing in Lin Xiangbei's eyes, and he suddenly understood why Lin Xiangbei was running better and better.

If a driver doesn't even believe in himself, how can he win?

The roc National Cup events continue, just like the historical trajectory, the finals are still played against the German team. In the end, the combination of Schumacher and Vettel won the game with a record of 2:1 and won the three consecutive championships in the roc National Cup.

At the award ceremony, Lin Xiangbei watched Schumacher and Vettel ascended the highest podium from afar, enjoying the thunderous cheers and applause of the audience, with a faint sense of envy in his eyes.

When Li Wenfeng next to him saw this scene, he even wrote his envy on his face.

"To the north, we can be like they are today."

Li Wenfeng murmured and asked, compared to the simple podium of the Hong Kong Island Short Track Rally before, the Bird's Nest National Stadium, which had tens of thousands of people, was at the top of the top.

This is the world champion!

"It's soon, it won't be too long."

A kind of firmness was revealed in his tone. Lin Xiangbei believed that one day, he and Li Wenfeng would be able to stand on the highest podium just like Schumacher and Vettel!

...

After the game, Lin Xiangbei did not participate in the media interview, and even the "King of Kings" duel in the ROC National Cup driver group the next day, Lin Xiangbei did not stay on the spot to watch the game.

Because after the national group competition, Lin Xiangbei led the team members to conduct snow simulation training without stopping. You should know that there is only less than half a month left before the start of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.

Moreover, the rally event requires a week in advance to arrive at the sub-station location, which includes two days of on-site survey, that is, road survey, one day of mechanical inspection, and three days of official competition time.

So after deducting the week before the game preparation, Lin Xiangbei's actual training time may only be just a few days.

The snow track is definitely a difficult challenge for Lin Xiangbei, because he has never been exposed to this type of track environment.

However, the opening match of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship was placed in the Sapporo area of ​​Hokkaido, Japan. It is also in a cold winter and has been covered by heavy snow.

This means that Lin Xiangbei must control the running method of the snow track in just a few days, otherwise he will encounter a Waterloo in the opening game.

So there is no choice. Lin Xiangbei must seize every minute and every second to work hard to improve himself.

However, after the end of the ROC National Cup, Lin Xiangbei still called Feng Bingman. Now the official competition has arrived, and she, as the team's "manager" or "team leader", needs to play.

Because the rally event is not what ordinary people imagine, just run at the branch event point, but you need to communicate in detail with the event organizing committee to determine the time information of each event node.

There are many ordinary road tracks in rally racing. It is not that you drive the better the more you drive. On the contrary, the punishment for arrival in advance may be more serious than timeout, which means you are speeding on the road!

There is currently no one in the team of these things. Lin Xiangbei and Li Wenfeng are drivers, so it is impossible to focus on communicating with the event organizing committee. The old alcoholic is a competition engineer. He needs to formulate event strategies and has no time to do such things.

As for Lezai, Brother Niu is a technician, it is obviously not suitable, and Evans is the same.

The one that can barely be replaced is the data analyst of Genji Ito, but the problem manager or team leader is not only about contacting the event organizing committee, but also about contacting media reporters and sponsors, and even how to arrange and manage the entire team's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

This is why Lin Xiangbei chose Feng Bingman at the beginning. He needed a professional and powerful shopping mall woman to act as a public relations responsibilities to help him deal with similar things.

Women naturally have advantages in this regard, as long as they are not vases.

Another thing is about the Dragon Team. Lin Xiangbei also told Feng Bingman in full, and Cheng Long was still in Yanjing at the moment. If Feng Bingman had any problems, the two sides could negotiate that year.

Feng Bingman on the other end of the phone said nothing, and was very pleased to come to Yanjing and meet Lin Xiangbei and the others immediately, and would talk to Cheng Long about the details of the convoy.

In fact, Feng Bingman also knew very well that she was not a person in the racing professional circle. If Lin Xiangbei felt that relying on personal power to deal with a top professional team, then it would be even more impossible for her.

To be honest, she used to want to be an investor or team management rather than a race group.

Just like the familiar F1 team, the group of staff you see on the TV screen are actually all part of the event group. The team's real management decision-making senior management and shareholders will not compete with the team in most cases.

However, Lin Xiangbei's progress is much faster. Even if he joins the Dragon Team, it exceeds the speed of a team's formation and architecture. Especially in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, such a large-scale event that needs to be run abroad cannot be handled without a team manager.

So just one day later, Feng Bingman flew from the East China Sea to Yanjing, which closed the convoy into the last link.
Chapter completed!