Red Bull Racing is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK, but has an office in Vienna.

Although Zhengxin's Fetype engine is still in trial production, this does not prevent Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke from coming to the door to negotiate first, looking for opportunities for cooperation with the engine.

On the way to the Red Bull office, Cheng Ke muttered a little.

Also as a team operator and manager, she doesn't have a good impression of Red Bull Racing.

"Brother Fan, why did we go to Red Bull Racing first? In the past dozen years, there has not been a year in which Red Bull has not said that its engine is rubbish. Even the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th leagues won four championships in a row, and they were complaining that if Renault's engines were better, they would have set more records. It's a team with no character, and I don't think it's the best choice to work with them. ”

In his heart, Li Fanyu also has little affection for this team that says he played well when he wins and says that he has a bad engine when he loses.

But now in business, looking at the current relationship between Red Bull and their engine suppliers, Red Bull is the most likely team among the current favourites to accept a new engine supplier.

So he didn't have a good impression of Hua Niu, but Li Fanyu still decided to give it a try.

It has to be said that Li Fanyu was lucky, and when they arrived at the Red Bull office in Vienna, the team owner Mateschitz happened to be there.

Mateschitz has been irritable lately.

Of all the F1 teams, Red Bull is the most peculiar. The team was founded with the aim of establishing the Red Bull brand around the world. But as the cost of participating in Formula 1 increases, teams have to make the most of it to keep their teams afloat.

At present, the main sources of funding for the team are three sources: on the one hand, Red Bull's annual allocation of about 100 million euros, and on the other hand, about 300 million euros per year in F1. In addition to that, there are sponsors, and the team's peripheral business.

Red Bull's stance is interesting because they don't make the sponsorship of the car body too small, but instead do the opposite, stretching the page up and charging more than any other team sponsors.

With this, the fleet has about two to three hundred million dollars in revenue per year. But this income is not fixed. Rather, it is charged based on the team's performance, which is the amount of attention.

Now, the team's poor performance has left many sponsors unhappy. Correspondingly, the cost of sponsorship has been significantly reduced.

On the other hand, since Renault formed its own car factory team, it has become less and less concerned about power cooperation. This season, Renault itself uses the latest of its own engines, while the Red Bull Racing team supplies the previous generation.

This gap in motivation has been proven on the track – at least that's what Mateschitz thinks.

Hearing that Zhengxin Li Fanyu had personally visited, Mateschitz was a little surprised.

"Zhengxin, is that the new supplier due to illness?"

After getting confirmation from his assistant, Mateschitz hesitated for a long time before replying.

"Okay, let them wait a while, I can give them twenty minutes after I finish arranging the things in hand. ”

……

When he heard that the meeting he was looking forward to was only a short, almost charity twenty minutes, Li Fanyu's brows furrowed tightly.

Cheng Ke's small face is not good-looking.

"Damn!" In front of the assistant who came to pass the word, Xiao Nizi turned her face directly, "What kind of garlic are you pretending?

If it was herself, she wouldn't feel anything, but the uncomfortable thing was that she was so angry when she saw Li Fanyu come in person and receive this kind of treatment.

Angry, Cheng Ke said directly to the assistant in German: "Please go and explain to Mr. Mateschitz that the person sitting here waiting now is Mr. Li Fanyu, the chairman of Zhengxin Group, the first in the Hurun China Rich List and the sixteenth in the Forbes World Rich List." We're here to work together, not to sell engines, okay?"

Hearing these names, the assistant was startled. The attitude immediately became respectful, and immediately said that it would be conveyed immediately.

Watching the assistant leave quickly, Cheng Kecai waved his small fist, looking like a fox and a tiger.

But just when she was about to go and ask Li Fanyu for credit, Li Fanyu had already stood up from the sofa. And he went out.

"Hey, Brother Fan, aren't you waiting?"

Seeing this scene, Cheng Ke hurriedly asked.

Li Fanyu smiled slightly, "Don't wait, judging from the other party's attitude, they may not want a real independent engine supplier." ”

"......" Looking at Li Fanyu's back, Cheng Ke muttered: "Isn't that a trip for nothing?" Hey, Brother Fan, where are we going next!?"

Li Fan, who was walking in front, didn't reply, "Go to the UK." I don't think there's a convoy that won't turn us down. I'm not sure if they'll be able to work with us, but at least their needs are a little bit more real than Red Bull's. ”

Just as Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke walked out of the door of the Red Bull office, Mateschitz and his assistant came in a hurry.

Seeing the empty reception room, the owner of the Red Bull team was a little puzzled: "What about the people?"

The assistant was even more confused, "They were still there just now,"

Mateschitz made a very exaggerated gesture: "Inexplicable! Does this Li Fanyu still think that F1 is China's automobile industry? What kind of show?"

The assistant shrugged helplessly, and said to Mateschitz: "Sir, I received a few appointments just now, and they are all new independent engine suppliers. One car is Steyr, one is Cosworth, and the other is a GP2......"

Hearing these appointments, Mateschitz waved his hand in distraught.

"Push it all off. Bernie, the idiot, we obviously mean to let the four major engine suppliers of Mercedes, Renault, Rehfast and the Europa League unravel the technical constraints and launch the same engines as their current cars. But Bernie brought in these messy independent engine suppliers. What a joke, Cosworth hasn't made an F1 engine for many years, the GP2 is a big engine and has no technical limitations, but their own team is constantly troubled with it, and they still expect us to use it, push it off! I don't have that much time to delay. ”

The assistant looked at the upset boss and said yes resignedly.

But in my heart, I was too naïve to think about my boss.

In the current F1, not to mention the first echelon such as Mercedes-Benz Europa League to disclose their engines, even the second echelon such as Renault and Reisfast are afraid of ...... I won't be playing Red Bull again next season......