When I heard this, the expressions on everyone's faces became very exciting. I thought Lin Xiangbei would say something inappropriate. After all, it is indeed a bit inappropriate for a professional F1 driver to have a fertilizer brand on his racing suit.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xiangbei’s decision was to “have to increase money”?

"reality!"

Li Wenfeng directly gave Lin Xiangbei a thumbs up. This is the essence of business negotiations. There is no suitable or not. It only depends on the fact that the money is not in place.

"You're really a business genius."

Even Feng Bingman felt amused and crying at this moment. If Lin Xiangbei was not a driver, then he might as well learn to be an investment bank from himself.

Lin Xiangbei did not agree with this reaction at all. After all, he knew that there were condom advertisements on later F1 racing cars. It would not be too much for him to be a small Chinese character and he was sponsored by a fertilizer agricultural manufacturer, right?

Moreover, the commercial sponsorship of professional racing is essentially different from that of celebrity endorsement, because there is no need to shoot any promotional videos and ghost advertisements, just put the sponsor's logo on the racing suit.

At present, Lin Xiangbei has no financial pressure on professional team operations, after all, this is Cheng Long's business.

With Cheng Long's income and fame in the film industry, it may be under great pressure to build an F1 or Le Mans level team, but it is really no problem to build a professional rally team.

Because compared to "burning money" of the big Formula Racing, rally events can be called "poor comparison" games, even the RV race is not as good as the track car race. After all, the latter still needs to pay for track rental fees, which is a considerable expense.

Let’s give the simplest example. Whether the engine breaks or not, one has to be replaced in order to ensure the stability of the car. The price of the F1 engine is about 200,000 pounds, which is close to 1.8 million yuan when converted into RMB.

And you should also know that this is just the material cost and does not include the engine R&D costs.

Because the car company decided to develop a race engine for the F1 team, it actually never thought that it could make money back completely by selling the engine, unless it was sold to a chassis manufacturer, that is, a private team that is not a car brand.

Here comes a knowledge point. Many car fans and racing audiences actually don’t know that the regular F1 team is composed of two parts, namely engine suppliers and chassis manufacturers.

Generally speaking, the well-known team names, such as McLaren, Williams, and Red Bull, are just the names of the chassis manufacturers, not the full name of the F1 team.

If it is not a factory team created by a car manufacturer, then the full name of McLaren Team should be McLaren-Mercedes Team, McLaren is the chassis manufacturer, and Mercedes-Benz is the engine supplier. The combination of the two is McLaren Racing.

Williams is the same. His engine supplier is BMW Group, so the entire process is Williams-BMW team. Red Bull uses Renault engines, so the official writing can also be called Red Bull-Renault Team.

If the car company sells the F1 event engine it develops to its own factory team, the family will naturally only receive and receive engine costs, and the R&D funds will be directly placed in the annual budget.

But if sold to other chassis manufacturers fleets, in addition to the engine itself, the chassis manufacturers will also need to invest a large cooperation fee, which may be as much as tens of millions of dollars.

If these costs are also spread to the cost of replacing the engine, then the F1 race is equivalent to running two games, and the engine cost alone will be tens of millions, and a top rally car will be directly eliminated.

Therefore, the cost of rally racing seems to be quite expensive, but compared with the cost of equations, it is really a big mistake, and the gap between the two sides is too big.

This is why, even if there is no second Formula Team in China in apart from Cheng Long's Le Mans fleet ten years later, it is because the cost is too exaggerated. Most people are interested in and without this financial resources. Few those with financial resources are willing to spend such a large price.

Only when Cheng Long combines financial resources and hobbies and is willing to spend this money can he support Le Mans team and finally win the world championship in the lmp2 group.

Although Lin Xiangbei does not need to worry about the operation of the Dragon Team, this does not mean that he does not need additional financial income.

Because Lin Xiangbei's goal has never been just to be a rally driver, he always looks forward to entering the F1 Formula and fulfilling his dream of standing at the peak of the world in his previous life!

Lin Xiangbei even had a more crazy idea, that one day, he would see a Chinese fleet in the f1 paddock.

This Chinese team will not seem to have the title of "India" like the current Indian Power F1 team. In fact, it acquired the Szegour F1 team and then got the title of India. It is actually the British set from the inside out.

Lin Xiangbei didn't want China's F1 team to be just a name. Not to mention creating a fully-body F1 racing car, at least it must be like other F1 private teams, with the chassis "made    in      china" mark.

This may not only be Lin Xiangbei's crazy idea, but the goal of several generations of drivers in the entire Chinese car world.

Lin Xiangbei naturally did not have this ability and possibility in his previous life, but God let himself go back ten years ago. Lin Xiangbei always felt that he should do more for Chinese racing, so he needed to accumulate some funds.

Even if he takes a step back, this illusory idea cannot be realized, Lin Xiangbei at least had to save some money to repair the old alcoholic's ragged Guangzhou-Shenzhen racing base.

Because he always remembered that Li Wenfeng told him whether he could discuss with Brother Cheng Long to change the environment of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Training Base.

At that time, Lin Xiangbei just joked, but in fact he put this sentence in his heart. If one day he had money, at least he had to repair the Guangzhou-Shenzhen training base. After all, this is the place where his dream begins in his life and the place where the old drunkard wakes up from his dream.

Regarding sponsorship, Lin Xiangbei did not talk much with Feng Bingman. Anyway, the core concept is one thing, there is no problem with advertising, but the money is available!

Commercial cooperation must be based on the spirit of business. Anyway, Lin Xiangbei is very confident in his heart. He is currently an ordinary rally driver and has no quality at all. Naturally, endorsement sponsorship can only be measured by numbers.

As for when I am qualified, it is estimated that under normal circumstances, the sponsorship time of one year will expire long ago, so there is no need to consider anything now.

After the talk, Lin Xiangbei continued his snow practice. As for Feng Bingman on the second day after arriving in Yanjing, he went to Brother Cheng Long to discuss the specific matters about the formation of the fleet.

To be honest, this kind of business cooperation is much more professional than Lin Xiangbei, both Feng Bingman and Cheng Long. So he did not give his own opinions, just wait for the results.

However, after Feng Bingman came back, he did not talk about anything in detail. He just confirmed that he joined the Dragon Team as the leader of the team.

As for why he is not a team manager, Feng Bingman gave the reason that he is not professional in professional racing, and the position of team manager should be left to more professional people in the future.

This reason is very sufficient, but Lin Xiangbei always feels that the real reason is not the case. After all, with Feng Bingman's strong woman's personality, she will definitely not easily determine that she is not good enough, at least she has to try it out before she knows.

However, Feng Bingman himself didn't say it, and Lin Xiangbei couldn't ask too much, and the training time was relatively urgent, so he could only focus all his energy on future events.

A week passed in a flash, and soon Lin Xiangbei and his group boarded a plane from Yanjing to Sapporo, Hokkaido. He will participate in the opening match of the Asia-Pacific Rally Japan Station here. This will be Lin Xiangbei's first official professional competition for rallying.

On the plane, Ito Genji sat next to Lin Xiangbei. In front of him was a laptop computer with information on the competition information of the Hokkaido station in Japan and the main opponents of Lin Xiangbei in this Asia-Pacific Rally.

"Xiang Beijun, due to heavy snow on the Sapporo track, the road map for the event group has changed a lot, and some stage nodes may even be cancelled. It is estimated that we have to wait until we get off the plane and contact the event organizing committee to get the official official road book."

"But when I was in Yanjing, I had already collected the Hokkaido track routes in advance. There may be many changes in them, but you can refer to them. If you feel tired, you can also choose to rest now."

The biggest difference between a rally track and a field track may be the word "change".

The track is fixed and open. You can go on the track open day without any trouble, and you can even choose to book a team, buy a circle, etc. to do everything possible to get familiar with every detail of the track to the maximum extent and control the track to the extreme!

But the rally track is different. It can draw a line from any location. As long as the event organizing committee finds it difficult enough, has a viewing quality, and the local government agrees, it will become a track.

So the rally track is not fixed. It may be the same branch race point, such as the most famous Monte Carlo track in WRC. The route you ran in the previous year is as high as 70% to 80% different from the route you will run in the next year.

It is almost impossible for rally events to win the race based on experience and proficiency in the track.

However, the track route may be different, but the regional environment cannot be changed. Just like when you go to Hokkaido Station in Japan in winter, it is impossible to have a street race environment like Monaco. The sub-station events information from previous years still have great reference value.

"I'm not too tired, so I'd better look at the information first."

Lin Xiangbei nodded and took the laptop from Ito Genji.

The tiredness that Ito Genji said was not that Lin Xiangbei was tired even if he was on a plane, but that the process of doing a plane now may be the easiest moment in Lin Xiangbei's period.

You should know that whether it is to prepare for the ROC National Cup or the Japan Station of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship that is about to arrive, Lin Xiangbei is running non-stop, and he also has to hurry up and practice.

It can be said that Genji Ito has seen many hard-working drivers, especially some Japanese drivers, whose fighting thinking is no less than that of Chinese.

But Genji Ito had never seen that he could be as cruel as Lin Xiangbei for his extreme pressure.

Without comparison, there is no harm. Needless to say, Lin Xiangbei, just talk about Li Wentao. As a navigator, he doesn't need to drive and control it. After completing the training every day, he is so tired that he just falls down.

Lin Xiangbei, after completing the training, did not forget the daily high-intensity physical training.

If it weren't for the normal physical data, even the Japanese, Genji Ito, would feel that Lin Xiangbei would have been overworked one day and "suddenly dying" during the training process.

This is why, he would say that if Lin Xiangbei feels tired, he can choose to take a break. Indeed, this Chinese driver needs a little rest time.

But just like every choice before, Lin Xiangbei did not rest, so he still let himself be in preparation for the event.

Lin Xiangbei quickly glanced at the computer screen. The so-called track route actually did not have much reference significance, so he focused more on the track environment and basic data.

The Sapporo track is very different from other rally tracks. Its race route is basically in the forest.

That's right, it's the kind of forest path that everyone knows, but was set as a track by the event organizing committee at the Japanese station.

The characteristic of the forest path is that it is narrow and curved, and usually there are sharp turns immediately behind the straight road. Moreover, because there are trees and gullies on both sides of the road, it means that the driver has no buffer space, and any mistake may cause extremely serious consequences.

I believe many people know that car collision experiments are generally the smaller the collision area, the greater the damage it will cause. Therefore, 25% of offset collisions have always been a "demonic mirror" of various car qualities.

For example, the famous China Insurance Research Institute test vehicle A-pillar breakage incident, and the 25% bias collision results of Volkswagen's series are all a bit terrible. In particular, Passat, a model that has been dominating for several generations in China, is even a childhood memory in the hearts of a generation.

As a result, the a column was broken and almost 90 degrees bent, which surprised many people.

The collision area will directly determine the consequences of the accident. There is a folk saying that it is better to hit a wall than to hit a tree.

Because it hits objects like tree trunks or electric poles at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, it is easy to tear the entire car like a sharp knife, and any safety measures may be difficult to ensure the safety of the drivers.

Forest tracks like Sapporo Raceway have encountered the snow and ice in Hokkaido in winter, and slipping out of control, which is normal.
Chapter completed!