After all, the hall was not a good place to talk about these things, and the five of them came to the hotel café, asked for a window seat, and exchanged opinions on the matter while drinking coffee leisurely.

"Now can Mr. David tell us a little bit about Ferrari's plans?" Zhang Lan gently stirred the mellow Blue Mountain in the coffee cup and asked.

"Okay," David nodded, "First of all, I had no idea that there would be such a perfect braking system in this world before I came, so I didn't make any preparations, and I didn't get the team's authorization for this time, so this conversation between us was just a private first contact between our two companies, and I can only say what I think within my power." ”

This guy has been thinking about his responsibilities from the beginning. Zhang Lan laughed secretly in her heart, sure enough, she is worthy of the middle and senior management of a top international team like Ferrari, and she is really experienced, and she actually adjusted her mentality in just one or two minutes.

"Say," Zhang Lan nodded, "I'll listen, don't worry I don't understand, if you find it troublesome in English, you can even speak it directly in Italian," he said and looked at Xiao Chenxi sitting beside him, "My sister understands Italian completely, in fact, she used to be our company's Italian translator for a while." ”

The three of them nodded, but their hearts were already a little numb, the sister and brother in front of them had already given them too much surprise, and now even if Zhang Lan said that he could speak Martian, he would not feel too strange.

"My initial plan is," David cleared his throat and switched to Italian, "that we at Scuderia Ferrari will customize the braking system we need directly from your company, and as for the price, we can come up with a price that is the most suitable one, and it will not be lower than the price of the brakes that our team is currently adopting." ”

"That's it, gone?" After waiting for a while, finding that David had no intention of continuing, Zhang Lan asked in disbelief. It's as simple as that?

"It's gone." David nodded.

"OK," Zhang Lan stood up, "It seems that there is no need for us to continue talking, maybe we can have a good talk with McLaren or Williams." At least with our support, I believe Elton. Senna or Proust might have preferred our gadgets. ”

Throughout the 80s and early 90s, all the stars, applause and flowers belonged to McLaren and Elton. In the eight years from 1984 to 1991, McLaren won seven of those championships. And Elton. Senna won four Drivers' Championships, and Ferrari, which began to dominate in the late nineties, is yet to compete with McLaren.

This year, Scuderia Ferrari's leading driver Proust, who had just left Williams, has made the outlook for the entire season of Scuderia Ferrari bleak, with no future in sight for the entire team.

The team is in desperate need of a better driver to achieve better results for the team, and Ferrari's future superstar Michael Fernandes. Schumacher is just a fledgling F1 kid who has only played a race for Jordan and has just been poached by Benetton, and the young and talented German is not yet on the radar of Ferrari.

Because of this, Zhang Lan can be very sure. Since there is no way to do it at the driver's level, the only way for Ferrari to achieve a better result this year is to work on the car. This has always been a strong point for Scuderia Ferrari in terms of racing power, so what Ferrari needs most now is something that allows the car to stop in time when it needs it most, and its latest composite ceramic brake system, with almost no thermal decay, is what Scuderia Ferrari can dream of now.

Thinking about this, Ferrari is now a fish on its own board, and only has its own share to be slaughtered. This time cannot be postponed even by a year, only this year.

"Zhang, don't go." David was a little anxious, and hurriedly grabbed Zhang Lan, "If you are dissatisfied with anything, you can bring it up." We can discuss it again. ”

At the beginning, David did mean to look down on Zhang Lan and Xiao Chenxi, two children, maybe they are really smart, but how can the two children know about the various twists and turns in the shopping mall? I didn't have the idea of taking advantage of Alice's absence to bully these two little guys.

But as soon as Zhang Lan opened her mouth, she vaguely pointed out the problem that Ferrari is facing now: now you are begging us, now you are not qualified to bargain, we are not sponsors. Need your cars to advertise, we've got what you need!

"That's right," Zhang Lan was originally pretending, if David didn't pull him here, he really didn't know how to play the following scene, and now after David's pull, Zhang Lan immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, "Since it is cooperation, everyone must show sincerity to each other, Mr. David's opinion just now is really unacceptable." ”

"What does Mr. Zhang mean?" David asked with a wry smile, fuck, hunting geese all day long, and today I was pecked in the eye by a geese, I knew it was like this, what kind of heart did I play with just now?

"I mean very simply," says Zhang, "that our company is sponsoring this new braking system for Scuderia Ferrari for free, and that it will help Scuderia Ferrari with a new design and optimisation of the braking system for free. In return for our company's efforts, we asked for an advertising space on the Ferrari body, and in the same way, Ferrari would allow our products to be advertised in the future with the words 'Scuderia Ferrari Designated Brake Products'. ”

"Impossible!" Hearing Zhang Lan's words, David was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he stood up excitedly and screamed, almost knocking over the coffee cup on the table because he was too excited, "You know, any advertisement on our car is charged, even our tire sponsor Michelin, while providing all the tires for our team for free, we also charge $2 million a year for sponsorship, so that they can get an advertising position on our body!" ”

After saying this, David immediately realized that it was not good, God, what did you just say to yourself? I told the most important secret of the company! Hurriedly covered his mouth, but it was too late.

"Good!" Without waiting for the fat man John next to him with a wide mouth to say, Zhang Lan slapped the table suddenly, "Then it's decided, the $2 million sponsorship fee plus free brakes for your team, and the Ferrari team wants to give us the same advertising space as Michelin!" ”

David is really stupid this time, this little guy can really climb the pole!

The sponsorship fee of 2 million US dollars is simply too cheap for the money-burning event of F1, in the face of tens of millions of dollars in sponsorship fees, this sponsorship price is almost equivalent to giving it away, not to mention that there is an advertising position with the main sponsor of F1 Michelin tires, and as long as you have a good relationship with Ferrari, you are still worried about the future? Zhang Lan's little abacus is very shrewd.

Engine, gearbox, chassis and brakes are the four most important basic components of a car, of which the engine and gearbox ensure that the car can run faster, excellent chassis design can ensure that the car is more stable at high speeds, and an excellent and reliable brake can ensure that the driver can control the car freely, and the car can be safely and quickly stopped by the driver at any time needed.

"But," David smiled bitterly, "I don't know anything about this matter, this is a very important thing for the team, and more importantly, our team has not actually tested your brakes, what is the actual use, whether it can meet the requirements of our team, none of us is sure before the actual test results come out!" So I can't say yes to your request. ”

"That's a simple question! It's easy to solve," Zhang Lan said, "Then you can tell me the technical parameters of the braking system you need, and we will customize the brakes that your team needs, and after the braking system has been tested by your team, if the effect is enough to satisfy you, we will discuss in detail under the framework just proposed, Mr. David, what do you think?" ”

"This," David still smiled wryly, "I still can't decide your problem, but I can tell the team manager your proposal as quickly as possible, and he will decide the next move." ”

"OK," Zhang Lan shrugged indifferently, he didn't expect to get things done in such a short period of time, how big it is for an F1 team to replace brakes that have never been seen before, "Well, next month, May 12th, our team will race at your Monza circuit in Italy, and if I can, I hope to invite your team's technical officials and team managers to the site to watch." ”

"No problem," David nodded, he knew what Zhang Lan meant, and hoped to use facts to enhance his persuasiveness, but this was also what he wanted to see, "I will solemnly convey your invitation to our manager." (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )