Li Fanyu's positioning as a dark horse of Zhengxin deeply moved Wang Rui and the group of Zhengxin engineers.

Although Zhengxin has pushed the level of automotive technology to the electric era, as a generation that grew up from the era of internal combustion engines, it still agrees with what Li Fanyu describes.

Although many of the people present have experience in the development of FE racing cars and have made pure electric performance cars such as Juque and BMW i8, they still have lingering feelings for traditional engines.

So after Li Fanyu explained the positioning of the dark horse, everyone no longer resisted.

But the problem also followed, the current dark horse is only a factory that has just been built, although Li Fanyu has drawn a beautiful blueprint, but in terms of the current situation of the team, it does not meet the conditions he said.

According to the concept of building a new racing car based on F1 technology, Zhengxin's current accumulation is still a lot. Even the Type engine, which just shined on the Silverstone track, has not yet been fully figured out. After all, less than a month has passed since the group decided to enter F1.

For this, of course, Li Fanyu has his own arrangements.

While everyone was whispering and studying what kind of product to use to interpret the brand's positioning, he had already taken out a drawing board and began to build a new model with lines......

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Just when Li Fanyu was concentrating on the design of the first product of the first dark horse, he didn't know that after the British F1 Grand Prix, his remarks in the face of reporters and media had caused an uproar in the sports car industry in Europe, especially Italy.

"Fanatic!"

"Fool!"

"The King of Big Talk!"

"Paranoid!"

Almost overnight, Li Fanyu has so many more labels in Italy's automotive circles.

Well, that sentence...... After the establishment of this brand, there will only be two sports cars in the world. It really stimulated the Italians.

Before understanding why the Italian sports car circle reacted so much to Li Fanyu's words, it is first necessary to understand what the Italian automobile industry is like.

On an economic basis, Italy is the fourth largest economy in Europe and ranks eighth in the world in terms of GDP based on international exchange rates. Although it is bound to lose every war, it is still a European power in its own right.

On an industrial basis, after the development of the First and Second World Wars, Italy has become one of the few countries on the planet with the most complete industrialization.

For the automotive industry, the country has a well-established upstream industrial chain, and the steel industry is the second largest in Europe, second only to Germany. The rubber industry is home to the world-renowned Pirelli, and the petroleum industry is ranked in the top 50 of the world's top 500 companies. The electronics industry is interested in microconductors.

And the parts suppliers in the automotive industry are even more awesome to explode. The Alcantara material we often refer to as automotive interiors is a registered trademark of Alcantaraspa. Sparco steering wheels, racing suits, and racing seats, which are often seen in racing games and events, are all products of Sparco Spa.

Racing accessories such as Brembo brakes, Lmatisa exhaust pipes, Glangen rear wings, etc., are almost all made in Italy down to the stratosphere.

And in Italy, which has a strong racing culture, with these industrial bases, the supercar industry is even more famous around the world.

If you divide the entire European car industry into a hierarchy, then maybe the German car companies are the most profitable, but if you pull a European and ask him which country's car he likes the most, there is no doubt that the answer will be Italy.

Why?

Because Italians don't seem to care about those small cars that sell a lot of money and can bring a lot of profits, although there are civilian brands like Fiat in China, but the dominance of the automobile industry is still those supercars that are ridiculously expensive and have a performance that breaks through the sky!

It can be said that there is no country in the world that is better at building sports cars than Italians.

They own Alfa Romeo, with world-renowned top sports cars such as Risfast, Lancia, Maserati and many more. In fact, the Italian automotive industry has always been proud of it.

Now, a kid from China openly declares in front of fans all over the world that there are only two sports cars in the world from now on, and the Italians say they can't accept it!

Italians have always been known for their casual style, and at this meeting, there was no need for the media to come forward to help, and after Li Fanyu "made a big fuss", the heads of various car companies jumped out directly!

Rifa's Godfrey was the first to blow the horn to attack Zhengxin, and after the F1 race in the UK, he claimed through the media that Li Fanyu's arrogance made him feel quite bad. In the interview, he admitted that Swiss law lost to Zhengxin in the middle level of competition in the Chinese market, but his colleague emphasized that if Zhengxin enters Europe with supercar products, then Ruifa will teach Zhengxin how to be a car company.

Alfa Romeo's official spokesman Ke Saile also reacted quite fiercely to Li Fanyu's statement: "Li Fanyu has no one in his eyes to irritate, as a long-established sports car brand, Alfa Romeo will use its latest flagship product to fight against any model under the Zhengxin Dark Horse! We will use practical actions to let Li Fanyu know that there is a sports car in this world called Arrow!"

Lancia, Maserati and other sports car brands are not to be outdone, and have issued their own counterattacks against Li Fanyu's remarks.

Among fans, Li Fanyu's remarks caused strong dissatisfaction among many Europeans and Italians.

Almost everyone agrees that it is disrespectful to the entire European market for this too-young tycoon to be so rampant after winning a race with the Type engine.

You know, in the minds of most car fans, each brand has its own uniqueness. As the so-called turnip greens have their own love, Li Fanyu's theory of two sports cars is fundamentally untenable.

All in all, Li Fanyu's indiscriminate release of guns caused huge controversy for this brand when the dark horse brand had not yet entered the operation in a real sense!

And the initiator of this case did not learn of such a violent reaction from the outside world until the first model of his new brand was designed.

Since his opponents are so belligerent, he naturally can't show weakness.

After completing the design draft of the first model of the Dark Horse, he spoke out through his Twitter.

On Twitter, he sent an outline of a car blurred by a horse racing car.

And the tweet attached to this image is......

"A few days ago, some remarks at the British F1 Grand Prix caused many people to be dissatisfied. If I have made you feel uncomfortable because of my remarks, then I sincerely apologize here. God assure, I didn't mean to mock any one car company, or any region or country. In fact, what I want to say is that the sports car products in the whole of Europe, compared with the new models of the dark horse, are rubbish!"