Chapter 1112 Powering the Chinese Fleet
The team was built, but the team alone was not enough, and there were so many things needed for a successful F1 team. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The team management, the team technical officers, the team team and most importantly the drivers do not do anything well, then the team will not want to achieve good results.
As the most expensive sport in the world, as the most technical sport in the world, a successful F1 team is not so easy to build, it takes a lot of money!
But on the contrary, F1 lacks everything for Tang Feng, the only thing that is not lacking is money!
It is already a great investment that other teams can burn two or three billion dollars a year, but in the first year of the formation of the power Chinese team, this new F1 army burned a full 700 million US dollars! This is not counting the cost of developing engines, if you count the cost of developing engines, Power China burned $1.1 billion in the first year of participating in F1.
That's right, in order to allow Power China to completely occupy the entire F1, Tang joined forces with China's Geely Automobile Group in China to set up a special engine laboratory to study car engines. This laboratory is called "Power China Laboratory".
In order to reach the peak of the technical strength of this laboratory, Tang Feng not only held a hoe high to poach technical talents from the world's major automobile manufacturers, but also crammed more than a dozen technical talents engaged in aerospace engines into this laboratory.
The addition of these top engine R&D experts has immediately made the technical strength of this laboratory in the world's leading state. From the application of the basic materials of the engine to the overall development of the engine, I am afraid that there is no laboratory on this blue planet that can have so many professionals.
The F1 car, which is finally equipped with the top engine developed by this "Power China Laboratory", will also go to Princess Belle Island for wind tunnel experiments. The large wind tunnel on Princess Belle Island is not an ordinary wind tunnel, it is the world's top wind tunnel for wind tunnel experiments on spacecraft and launch vehicles!
With Tang Feng not caring about capital investment, the Power China team finally has a F1 car of its own. The two cars that Power China participated in the F1 Grand Prix in 2019 are called "China No. 1".
Of course, it is not enough to have the engine and the body and a large number of technical personnel, if a team wants to develop rapidly, the leadership must also have a very high development vision.
For this, Tang Feng did not hesitate to wave a huge amount of checks, continued to wave a small hoe, and dug the walls all over the world!
Ross. Brown, the legendary professional manager of Formula 1, was not very happy with the Scuderia Ferrari at the time. Todd compares to Rose. Brown is clearly better suited to do technology. But Rose, who was the owner of the Brown GP team. Brown didn't put himself in the right place after returning to Scuderia Ferrari because of his experience as a boss.
He forgot that it was not the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Brown's partner Schumacher was able to inform the entire F1 world because of Rose's success. Brown is the technical director of Scuderia Ferrari, and above him, there is a more capable Jean. What about Mr. Todd.
Although later Ross. Brown quit Ferrari to join Honda and bought Honda in 2009 when Honda was about to go out of business, becoming a F1 team owner. After Brown sold the team and returned to Ferrari, Ferrari, a big family, didn't take Rose seriously. Brown's management skills.
Right in Ross. When Brown was depressed at the Ferrari team, Don waved a huge cheque and the little hoe to successfully defeat Rose. Brown dug into the Power China team and became the first team leader of the Power China team.
Ross. Although Brown only served as the owner of the Brown GP team for one year, he continued to be the team principal of the Mercedes team for several years after the team was acquired by the Mercedes team. Brown's administrative capacity has been further strengthened.
Although he was not successful at Ferrari, Rose. After Brown switched to Tang Feng's command, with Tang Feng's full support, he immediately seemed to return to the mountain like a tiger and swim into the sea.
In Ross. Under Brown's control, Tang continued to wield eye-catching cash checks and a chilling little hoe, and from the hands of his old friend Mateschitz, he brought the legendary F1 car designer Adrian Brown. Nuvey dug in.
Adrian. Nuvey, known as the chief car designer and aerodynamicist in the F1 racing industry today, is a brilliant F1 engineer who has designed a total of 8 F1 championships including F2 European Championships, GTP Championships and 8 F1 championships!
This achievement is unprecedented!
For Tang Feng's digging action, his friend Mateschitz is also helpless, who made Tang Feng not only rich but also wielding a small hoe very well. In this regard, Mateschitz can only smile bitterly. As for getting back on the field, Mateschitz wouldn't be stupid enough to do that kind of thing! After being drunk by Tang Feng once, the old fox Mateschitz never dared to mention Adrian again. This is the case with Newey.
Adrian. After joining the Power China team, Nuvey continued to serve as the team's chief technical officer, becoming the second most important team member in the team. Brown's number two.
And Nuvey is also very comfortable in the power China team, because he has a boss who is not bad for money and is willing to invest regardless of the cost! With such a boss, Nuvey can try many of his racing ideas without any scruples, without worrying about not having enough money to spend!
What could be more enjoyable than working under such a boss?
The team has a team leader and chief technology officer, and the leadership is still short of a bridge that can successfully connect the leadership and the drivers. Schumacher did not hesitate to join the Power China team as team manager.
With Ross. Brown, Adrian. Nuvey and Michael. Schumacher's troika, the whole team has taken shape! There are good cars, and it's time for drivers to bring out the best in those cars!
Speaking of the car, Mr. Mateschitz is again a bitter stomach. That's right, following the Don will Adrian. After Nuvey poached him, he fell in love with the Red Bull Racing driver, who was also trained by Mateschitz as Vettel II. Ricardo.
In Switzerland, Tang Feng also met this young player, and in the past two years, Ricciardo has become a very famous driver in the F1 racing world. Brown or Adrian. Neuvy, or Schumacher, were all in favor of poaching Ricciardo!
As a result, the Red Bull Racing driver was poached again with tears on Mateschitz's face.
After Ricciardo came to Power China, he served as the No. 2 driver, and as for the No. 1 driver, with Schumacher, no one could stop Vettel's determination to defect to Power China!
In this way, in 2019, the power Chinese team, which participated in the F1 Grand Prix for the first time, had a super car with excellent performance, two famous drivers to drive this car, and two Chinese drivers specially hired by Tang Feng as test drivers.
With the support of Tang Feng and the concerted efforts of the whole team, the team championship in the F1 Grand Prix of that year was won by the Power China team! Sebastian Vettel, on the other hand, won 9 races, finished second in 4 races and finished third in 4 races, and once again won the F1 championship! And he improved his overall championship to six times!
Then from 2020 to last year's 2023 F1 races, the Power China team unsurprisingly won four consecutive Constructors' Championships, counting the first time to participate in F1 racing in 2019, the Power China team has caught up with the five consecutive championships of Ferrari from 1999 to 2004! Sebastian Vettel, the team's number one driver, also won two Drivers' Championships again, thus surpassing Schumacher to become the driver with the most Drivers' Championships in history. As for Ricciardo, he also won his first Drivers' Championship last year!
This year, under the leadership of these two drivers, the Power China Team will launch a strong impact on the team's sixth constructors' championship and the unprecedented sixth consecutive constructors' championship!
It was in this context that Vettel and Schumacher came to Rausala, on the one hand, to report to the boss on the current situation of the driver, and on the other hand, to reminisce about the past. (To be continued.) )