Before the powerful racer scout opened his mouth and just wanted to say something to Zhang Lan, with Zhang Lan's chuckle, a Citibank check was placed in this guy's hand.

This guy, who knew what he should do most at the moment, disappeared from Zhang Lan's eyes very consciously, so fast that Zhang Lan thought that he was hallucinating. Of course, the supernatural racer scout took away at the same time, as well as another small note handed to him by Zhang Lan, with the names of two other people written on it: Luca. Alfon and Gilles. Picard.

I have to say that professionals are professionals, and the guys who mix in the racing circle all day long really know a lot about these professional drivers, even if they are not in the same circle, they can find the person Zhang Lan asked him to find through various dizzy relationships.

After getting rid of Peter Hansel and Cotterett, Luca Brown, the world's most famous alpine skier in the 80s and 90s, was having a lot of fun playing downhill skiing. Alfon, a contender for the future Dakar Rally class title, who won the Dakar Rally in 1999 in his first Dakar Rally T1 class, was also pulled out of a snow-covered horn in Switzerland by the Alice Group's almost psychic racing scout.

Historically, originally Lucca. Alfon's decision to switch from alpine skiing to the next year, '199, is the same as all guys who always win in a single event: they want to challenge themselves with a new place and a higher mountain.

But this year, the idea is still only in Lucca. Alfon's mind spun around a few times, but it hadn't really made up his mind. However, we have to admire the persuasive ability of our powerful racer scout. Under the influence of this guy's clever tongue, especially after knowing that even Peter Hansell, the first man in the motorcycle class of the Dakar Rally, agreed to join the Alice "Snow Leopard" team, Luca . Alfon finally agreed to the invitation hesitantly: perhaps, after not finding any new challenges in the world of alpine skiing, he really needs to try something new?

Well, of course, things weren't that simple. Just Luca. Alfang has been in some trouble lately, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to hide and squat in a snow nest in Switzerland where birds don't, and now having a boss with a hard backstage to support him seems to be a very good choice for him at the moment. \\\\\\

After getting the future Dakar man of the year. Luca. Alfon's future golden partner, the talented navigator Gilles. Picard's problem didn't take much effort to be settled by the racer's scout for Zhang Lan.

After receiving the call from these two people, Zhang Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief: four drivers and four navigators are needed for four racing cars, and the racers and navigators have already completed two groups, and the task has been half completed, and now it depends on what will happen to the remaining two groups.

During this hectic and almost uninterrupted time, the team's lubricant sponsor is also in full swing.

Knowing that Alice Automotive Group is in the process of assembling its own Dakar Rally team, some of the world's most famous oil and lubricant companies, including Shell, Mobil, Castrol Lubricants, Lypsol Lubricants and Compton Lubricants, are like wolves that smell meat. Started close contact with Alice (China) Group. Everyone knows the benefits of being a local lubricant sponsor for a Dakar Rally car group manufacturer! Look no further than Plesol, a lubricant brand that wasn't much known in the racing world a few years ago. What a great achievement in the world lubricant market after sponsoring the Mitsubishi team!

Different from those individual teams who are limited to financial reasons and look for sponsorship everywhere, the manufacturer team because of the stronger technical force, so the sponsors choose to take the initiative to find the team's door, because the manufacturer team is based on their own company's strong financial and technical support, far from those individual teams can compare, although there are also examples of individual teams winning the championship. But that's just a handful of cases.

At the same time, we came to the door with these foreign lubricant manufacturers. There are also two domestic oil manufacturers: PetroChina Lubricants Corporation (the predecessor of Kunlun Lubricants) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Lubricants Branch (referred to as Sinopec Lubricants, the predecessor of Great Wall Lubricants).

On the issue of the team's lubricant sponsors. If the level of lubricating oil is about the same, Zhang Lan naturally prefers to use domestic lubricant brands. But to be honest, Zhang Lan really does not have much confidence in these two lubricating oil companies, compared with foreign lubricating oil manufacturers, the technical strength and quality level of lubricating oil of these two domestic lubricating oil manufacturers, compared with these foreign giants are still a little worse.

Perhaps they wanted to take this opportunity to open up the popularity of their products internationally, but Zhang Lan was a little worried that after his team used the lubricating oil they provided, would the car break down in the middle of the road due to the lubricating oil? If it was because of this reason that he failed in the arena, then Zhang Lan would have the heart to find a piece of tofu and kill him!

At this time, the advantages of being a state-level directly affiliated enterprise are reflected, and I don't know whether it is to receive the order from above or what, Sinopec Lubricants Company told Alice Group that they can specially develop high-temperature resistant special lubricants for Alice Group for the Dakar Rally.

This is not a special condition, as everyone knows that the lubricant used in any Dakar Rally car is a special and efficient lubricant specially developed by the lubricant sponsor specifically for the rigors of the event.

Just as the special racing-grade tires provided by the tire company for their sponsors are definitely different from ordinary civilian tires, the lubricants provided by lubricant sponsors for their sponsors are also specially developed products, and the performance is not a little or two points higher than ordinary lubricants, and even speaking, there is basically no comparison. \\\\\\

Just when Zhang Lan hesitated whether to take the risk to support domestic lubricant companies, or to choose foreign lubricant companies more safely, the anxious Sinopec Lubricants Company proposed that if Alice Group could agree to let its company as the lubricant sponsor of the Alice "Snow Leopard" team, Sinopec Lubricants Company would provide the Alice "Snow Leopard" team with a grade not lower than the aerospace special grade lubricating oil as the special lubricant for the team's racing car free of charge. ,

As soon as this remark came out, Zhang Lan's heart was moved: aerospace-grade lubricating oil, that is really the best treasure in the lubricating oil, it is said that a liter of that thing costs tens of thousands of dollars, but the special lubricating oil for racing cars is much more advanced! Although it is not known whether it is true or not, it is a well-recognized and indisputable fact that the quality grade of aerospace-grade lubricants is much higher than that used in racing cars.

Just when Zhang Lan was still a little hesitant when she heard the news, Sinopec Lubricants Company, which had gone out of the country to let its products go abroad, was finally made by Alice Group, which was as silent as an old monk sitting meditation, and finally revealed all her bottom line: if Alice Group took Sinopec Lubricants Company as the designated lubricant supplier of Alice Group's automotive lubricants, Then Sinopec Lubricants will not only provide high-quality lubricants for the cars of Alice Group with quality and quantity, but also ensure that the grade of lubricants not lower than the aerospace level will be provided to the Alice "Snow Leopard" team, and will provide 2 million yuan of sponsorship to the Alice "Snow Leopard" team every year! As long as the Alice team has been in existence, Sinopec Lubricants will sponsor it for an initial period of three years, and then modify the contract as appropriate.

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Lan was taken aback: Good guys, these guys are even sponsoring business negotiations! 20 million yuan, in fact, is not much, the total is only more than two million US dollars, in the Dakar Rally, such a sponsorship amount can only be said to be average.

But this is definitely an unprecedented decision for a super-large state-owned enterprise directly under the central government like Sinopec: in the past, others gave them money, so how could they give money to others?

If he said so, Zhang Lan's heart was moved, and she pondered: This is a very feasible solution. Not only can you ensure the quality of the lubricating oil, but also earn a lot of sponsorship, and most importantly, you can also support your own country's brand, why not? Grandma bear, it!

After finalizing the main sponsors, Zhang Lan once again turned her attention to the other two groups of riders.

Throughout July, not only the smooth modification of the car made Zhang Lan extremely happy, but the continuous good news made Zhang Lan a little excited. The meeting was a satisfying one, and the evergreen tree was very interested in the invitation from Alice Group.

In the past few years, the Peugeot team has not been very satisfactory. Vatanen, always compared to his predecessor, the current general manager of Scuderia Ferrari. Todd to compare.

Although the achievements of the two guys in the field of racing are very good, whether it is a driver or a team manager, as long as his success reaches a certain height, no one wants to be called so-and-so, because that means that in the eyes of those nasty media you are not as good as your predecessor, especially Ali. A guy like Watanen, who often talks about the championship trophy as his own wine glass, absolutely can't accept this opinion of others.

In his opinion, he is himself, what does it have to do with that old guy Jean Todd?

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