The only guy who needs such a car designed for rally racing is probably the engine and gearbox? It's a good idea to take the engine and gearbox down and retune it and use it for underground car racing; Or such an engine and gearbox with ultra-high endurance could also be used as their engine by domestic rally and track racers - if the engine displacement limit is not so strict.

The general manager of the team and the second technical director of the team, Ali. Tawanen still calls Zhang Lan every day to ask for news about his drivers, in addition to still having some hope for Peter Hansel - in the history of the previous Dakar Rally, it is not without the example of a motorcycle champion who changed careers to the car class and won the championship, not to mention the four-time Dakar Rally motorcycle champion and the guy with the same name as himself - Luca. Alfang, this guy who plays alpine skiing, Ali. Vatanin had little hope.

Ali. Vattanin really couldn't figure out what his boss, whom he hadn't met before, thought: it was forgivable to look for Peter Hansel, after all, this guy had many Dakar rally experiences and had already won several championships, and maybe he could make a difference in the car group; But what about finding an alpine skier to participate in this kind of motorsport, which has nothing to do with skiing? Do you think you can turn skiing into sandboarding? For all this, Zhang Lan told him the answer: don't be impatient.

As for the problem of racing, Zhang Lan didn't hide it from him too much and told him. The car is now undergoing a secret modification and will be ready to be delivered to the team in early or mid-September, as for now. Several lightly modified Snow Leopard off-road vehicles are already in the final stages of the modification and will not be long before they can be delivered to the team for adaptive training. The place where the team conducted adaptation exercises is located in the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang.

The Taklamakan Desert has almost similar topography to the desert that the Dakar Rally has passed through over the years, and even the desertification and Gobi distribution are similar, and the race in the desert and Gobi stages is undoubtedly the most frustrating and difficult for all the riders. If there is an opportunity for them to practice in advance, it is a godsend.

In fact, after seeing the desert of the Taklamakan Desert with your own eyes. Ali. Watanen has already begun to mutter: Will the organizing committee of the Dakar Rally move the event to China in a certain year?

If it weren't for Zhang Lan's salary, it would be hard for him to refuse. If it weren't for the hope for Peterhansell, if it wasn't for the two remaining drivers and the navigator to still have some expectations - well, in fact, the most important reason is that the salary is not easy for Ali. It's hard to refuse—this guy has been trying to pick on him for a long time. Right here in Ali. While Watanen was happily and painfully awaiting news from the other two drivers of the team, Zhang Lan was closely following the movements of the Hong Kong stock market. In order to be able to get a more accurate understanding of the local situation there, Zhang Lan specially sent a working group to Hong Kong, and if there was any situation, he could directly contact him through his company's local communication satellite -- making a satellite phone call would not cost money, and this was really the dream of all people who were on the go.

The situation in Hong Kong's financial market has reached the brink of the most crisis, and as the news from Hong Kong continues to come over, the "three-dimensional speculation" strategy adopted by a group of international financial predators led by Soros when attacking Hong Kong's financial market has also begun to become more and more obvious: First, in the currency market, these guys have borrowed a large amount of Hong Kong dollars through legal financial means; on the stock market. borrowing constituent shares; Then, in the stock futures market, the accumulation of futures refers to shorts; After all this is done. Then use spot trading in the foreign exchange market to short the Hong Kong dollar, and sell the Hong Kong dollar forward contract at the same time; pressure the Hong Kong government to raise interest rates to defend the linked exchange rate; on the stock market. Sell out the borrowed constituent stocks to suppress the futures index...... Everything, everything. It's exactly the same as when they sniped at the British pound in the UK and when they sniped at the currencies of Southeast Asian countries some time ago.

On the whole, this method has advantages and disadvantages, but based on the close connection between modern financial markets, this "three-dimensional layout" method makes the risk exposure of these greedy predators reinforce each other, and at the same time, it also greatly increases the power of leveraged speculation and returns.

Lao Ma said that if there is 100% profit, the capitalists will take risks; If there is a 200% profit, the capitalists will flout the law; If there is a 300% profit. Then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world. But time has developed so far, this sentence is not so applicable, in the eyes of hedge funds whose goal is to make profits through speculation, in today's increasingly difficult to make money, even if it is only 50% of the profit, they dare to take risks.

On August 13, the Hang Seng Index fell 300 points, falling below the 6,600-point mark, and narrowed its decline at the close, but still fell 199 points to close at 6,660 points.

The entire Hong Kong stock market is thundering every day, falling every week, and the trend of "pushing down" is shocking, and the Hong Kong stockholders who are in it are naturally deeply affected, and the stockholders blindly sell a large number of them, which makes the Hong Kong stock market feel a little worse.

While a group of international financial hedge fund predators led by Soros are desperately adopting various means to lower Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, they have accumulated a large number of short positions in the Hang Seng Index futures market. The advantage of this is obvious, as long as the Hang Seng Index falls by 1 point, each short contract can earn 50 Hong Kong dollars, and in the first 19 trading days on August 14, the Hang Seng Index fell sharply by more than 2,000 points, and each contract can earn more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars!

A group of international financial hedge fund predators led by Soros began to reddened their eyes with excitement: what they are doing now is not building a position, but building a money printing machine!

Things have developed to the present, and no one in the high-level of the mainland government, including the old man, doubts what Zhang Lan once said, and this kid's foresight is as if he can see the future. Prior to this, a large amount of foreign exchange reserves in China were in place, ready to support the Hong Kong government.

Since the Hong Kong Government had already coordinated with the Hong Kong Government in advance the ways in which the mainland would support Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Government was very grateful to the mainland side for its goodwill and support at the critical moment, and everyone was finally completely relieved of their hearts about the mainland's commitment to Hong Kong in the future: From this point of view, there will basically be no problem with the mainland government's commitment to the 50-year unchanged social system in Hong Kong, as stated in the Hong Kong Basic Law enacted by the mainland government. ,

"We're all family!" The old man said, "If our own people are in trouble, can we still stand by and watch?" ”

After the old man made this statement, under the influence of this good news, the Hong Kong stock market miraculously stopped falling and rose on the same day, and at the same time, the Hong Kong government also actively began to mobilize Hong Kong, British and Chinese capital to enter the market, and actively prepared to save the market.

At the same time, a group of tycoons in Hong Kong, headed by Li Ka-shing, are not idle at the moment, and these tycoons who know very well that their interests are closely related to the Hong Kong stock market have made generous donations to help the Hong Kong government tide over the difficulties at this critical moment -- if they don't help, they can't get through this hurdle, and they are ultimately unlucky.

At the same time, the wealthy people in Hong Kong have also called on the Hong Kong people through the media resources in their hands: I hope everyone will maintain their confidence in the government and the stock market, because everyone is standing together, and there is a powerful mainland government behind us.

Of course, the international financial speculators will not stop there, in their opinion, how can this piece of meat, which has been swallowed half of their mouths, be spit out so easily? The statements of the Hong Kong government and the mainland government are just to delay the process of eating the meat in their mouths.

As for the British government, it is obvious that it has not yet accepted the lesson of being sniped at the pound by itself, and even wants to help the Hong Kong government to avenge the revenge of the year: this is better, no one will dislike their own money.

According to the news sent back by Zhang Lan's special working group in Hong Kong, since August 13, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was suppressed to the lowest point of 6,660 points, and the Hong Kong government mobilized Hong Kong, Chinese and British capital that had been prepared to enter the market in a high-profile manner, and launched a battle for the August stock index futures contract with those financial predators hiding in the shadows.

Speculative capital is the Air Force, and what the Air Force has to do is to suppress the index; On the other hand, the Hong Kong government has become an air defense force, and what they have to do is to hold the index, forcing these greedy financial speculators to fail to cash out their contracts at a high level before the end of August, and if necessary, launch one or two air defense missiles to beat down these guys who dare to wander around unscrupulously on top of their heads.

At this point, Zhang Lan was finally relieved, the development of things was exactly the same as the development in history, and she had nothing to worry about. It seems that the defeat of Soros in Hong Kong this time has almost become a foregone conclusion.

After the Hong Kong government entered the market, the first thing it did was to buy a large number of August stock index futures contracts sold by speculative capital, so as to push the price up from 6,610 points before entering the market to 7,820 points on the 24th, an increase of more than 8, higher than the average opening price of 7,500 points of investment capital.

In this thrilling battle for the financial markets, the Hong Kong government has won an initial victory, backed by Hong Kong's billionaires and the mainland government's vast foreign exchange reserves, while the hedge fund predators, led by Soros, have tasted defeat for the first time since their long-brewing financial carnival in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia in July.

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