Chapter 541: Down-and-out Cosworth
After the initial shock, everyone quickly reacted to why the test results were faster than the last time, and even faster:
First of all, cheating is impossible, and the track management is not going to put their reputation on the line for such a meaningless test;
Secondly, with the experience of previous tests, AMC can choose a more reasonable suspension tuning scheme and tire matching scheme for this track, under normal circumstances, this degree of modification and debugging is also everyone's usual practice, in other words, everyone does this, AMC's approach is not "illegal";
Again, after having previous driving experience, the Nelson Piquet and the Swordfish GT-R are more familiar and work together more tacitly.
With the combined influence of these three factors, it is understandable, and even a matter of course, that this test was a little faster.
Thinking about this, I don't know who was the first to start, applauded, and soon, the scene resounded with warm applause, even the factory executives from Ferrari, Jaguar, and McLaren did not skimp on their applause. Everyone is congratulating AMC in this way: in any case, it is a matter of pride for a mass-produced civilian car to achieve such an achievement, not to mention the ability of this "Swordfish" that they are willing to admire.
"Mr. Fernandez, congratulations," a big fat man in a suit and leather shoes squeezed in front of Chen Geng with great effort, and said to Chen Geng enthusiastically: "Your achievements are amazing. ”
"Thank you, thank you very much," although he felt very unfamiliar with the fat man in front of him, but with experience, Chen Geng felt that this guy should not be a little shrimp of a cat or a dog, let alone those people who eat melons outside, he should eat the invitation letter, so he politely asked the other party: "I haven't asked for advice yet, are you ......?"
"I'm the manager of Cosworth UK, my name is Keith Decorvacs, and that's my business card. The smile on the fat man's face became a little brighter, and he lost no time in handing out his business card.
This guy turned out to be Keith Decorworth, the manager and one of the founders of Cosworth?
Chen Geng was really a little surprised, Cosworth's big name, as long as you step into the ranks of "car enthusiasts", there is nothing you don't know, when it comes to Cosworth: Wow! Cosworth?
And people are not only very good at racing engines, but also very good at civilian high-performance engines, Volkswagen, Ford, BMW's high-performance engines, almost all of them ask Cosworth to help tune them, and some even simply ask Cosworth to help design.
In a word, although Cosworth is not very good and worries about finances all day long, but people's technology is a real cow, and the kind of cow that you don't want is a cow.
But few people know that the two co-founders of Cosworth, Keith De Co-Worth and Mike Coustin, were both from the world's top internal combustion engine engine manufacturing and supercar manufacturing company at that time (50s): Lotus (Lotus), and even the employees of Cosworth, which was just established at that time, were basically from Lotus, and their main business was also to cooperate with Lotus, and the relationship between Cosworth and Lotus was similar to that between Ferrari and Alfa Romeo.
Just in the past 1980, because of financial problems, Cosworth had to sell himself to a company called Carlton, which is mainly engaged in communication business, as the saying goes, interlaced like a mountain, you can naturally imagine what kind of scene a company mainly engaged in communications business will be after acquiring a world's top engine manufacturer- Here's what happened: In order to get business, Cosworth's co-founders had to go to this otherwise dismissive place and participate in a test that they thought was completely dismissive, just to see if they could establish a partnership with AMC.
After a moment of astonishment and surprise, Chen Geng held Keith De Co-Os's hand, and was a little more enthusiastic than the whole person just now: "It turned out to be you, Mr. De Co-Os, I really didn't expect to meet you here...... My assistant told me that you're here, and I'm going to have a good chat with you at tonight's dinner. ”
Since AMC sent an invitation to invite everyone to come and see their own X conference, not to mention anything else, at least, transportation expenses and accommodation expenses will always have to be paid, right?
Keith DeEcovacs didn't know if what Chen Geng said was true or not, but it didn't matter anymore, what was important for Keith DeEcovacs was Chen Geng's attitude, which made Keith DeEcovacs, who was originally a little apprehensive, relax a lot, and he said in surprise: "Yes, it's my honor, I ...... I ......"
It's just that before he could finish speaking, Chen Geng was overwhelmed by a large number of reporters who were pressed by the black......
"Mr. Fernandez, I'm from CNN, did you think that this time the test score will be better than the last time?"
"Mr. Fernandez, I'm from The New York Times, do you have anything to say about your sports car once again running eight minutes at the Nürburgring?"
"First of all, congratulations to you, Mr. Fernández, you have achieved a great achievement......"
"Do you think the U.S. R&D and manufacturing capabilities in high-performance sports cars are ......?"
"Mr. Fernandez, when will this car be officially released?"
"Fernandez ...... first"
"Fernand ......"
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Countless reporters frantically flocked to Chen Geng with countless questions, although Chen Geng understood very well why these reporters from major American media were so excited: We Americans have finally made a product in the field of supercars that even Europeans envy......! Look at what else you Europeans have to be proud of......
There is quite a bit of pride in the daughter-in-law who has been boiling up for many years, to give an inappropriate example, just like those who desperately persuaded themselves that the J-8 fighter could pick the F-22 "Niangniang" (otherwise what else could I do? Raise your hand to surrender and admit defeat? But the problem is that there is no rule of "taking the initiative to admit defeat and lose half" in the competition between major powers) suddenly saw the first flight of the J-20, and the excitement was called a tearful eye.