In May, the exact date was May 13, the day after the race of the Italian station of the World Superbike Championship, Alice called to inform Zhang Lan that she could let the Harbin Institute of Technology Special Ceramics Research Institute help Ferrari develop two sets of trial composite ceramic brake systems, and the relevant component specifications and technical parameters, Alice directly transmitted them to Xiao Chenxi through satellite, and then re-drawn them by Xiao Chenxi.

"So Ferrari is emotionally interested in our braking system?" Zhang Lan asked excitedly, hearing Alice's call, Zhang Lan knew that the matter was almost done, as long as after the trial, the new braking performance is indeed significantly improved compared with the original braking performance, and he can't think of any reason for Ferrari to refuse.

"How can you say that you are very interested," Alice smiled from ear to ear in the TV with free satellite call capability that Xiao Chenxi had modified, "Don't you see, after watching the race at the Monza circuit, the eyes of the technical director of the Ferrari team at that time were about to pop out, so he came up and grabbed my neck and asked me to quickly make the brakes for them to try, and for the condition you put forward before, Ferrari has already responded: as long as the braking performance is satisfactory to the Ferrari team, You can sign a cooperation contract according to your previous intentions, and it is a four-year contract! ”

Damn, Ferrari is really ruthless! Zhang Lan pursed her lips and began to worry again: for four consecutive years, it seems that the production is a little unable to keep up, so is the construction of his own brake production line a little less? Do you want to add another one?

Thinking of the composite ceramic brake production line, Zhang Lan felt depressed, the two production lines will be fully put into use It will take a month, and due to the particularity of the ceramic brake process, the future output of this thing will not be very large - of course, the market demand will not be very large, because the need for these things is completely the highest-end market, and these owners basically don't care much about money.

"There's one more thing I forgot to tell you." Alice said.

"What?" Zhang Lan was curious.

"The excellent braking performance of our cars has attracted the attention of other teams," Alice is a little worried, "and some teams have already protested to the organizing committee. I'm worried that the organizing committee will disable our brakes. ”

"I'm afraid of a ball," Zhang Lan didn't care, "Is it those Japanese teams?" ”

"How do you know?" Alice Daqi.

"It's a guess, the whole world knows that the Japanese can do such dirty things." Zhang Lan was disdainful. "Don't pay attention to them, just treat it as a pig humming on the side, how should we use it, and whoever wants to use it in the future will let them pay for it from us, anyway, they will resolutely not be their sponsors. Otherwise, why would we bother to research this thing? That's only a little bit of output a year! ”

Knowing that ceramic brakes are the mainstream of racing brakes in later generations, he naturally does not have to worry about this brake will be disabled, on the contrary, it is precisely because of the high efficiency and high safety of this brake that after the composite ceramic brake system brake was introduced to the market, it quickly became popular in the top racing world in a very short time.

"Since you're not worried, then I'm fine." Alice breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way," Zhang Lan suddenly remembered, and there was one thing she forgot to ask, "How is the performance of our team in Italy?" ”

"It's fine." Alice nodded, "The team still scored three points, but this time it was the opposite, Liu Chenglong had one point, and Zhao Ming had two points. ”

"That's good," Zhang Lan was very satisfied, "It's good to get points, not to mention two points in a row." You know, many teams work hard for a season for a point. ”

"It's easy for you to be content." Xiao Chenxi laughed at him, "Why don't you want to win the championship?" ”

"Champion?" Zhang Lan leaned back on the sofa with a smile, "Who doesn't want to?" But now our team doesn't have that strength. From the car to the driver, there is still a long way to go before you can win the championship, not to mention that even if you have the strength to win the championship, you may not be able to win the championship, which depends on many factors. So. Rubbing the back of the sofa, it was so comfortable, "Now I'm content!" ”

The composite ceramic brake system customized for Ferrari racing cars is regarded by Zhang Lan as the most important thing in this period of time, and this matter is too important for the future development of the company. Lest something go wrong.

Since it is a special thing for F1 cars, naturally all the materials needed are selected as the best, price is not a consideration, everything is based on quality and performance.

Adhering to this concept, Zhang Lan instructed them not to be afraid of spending money, as long as it is the right material, no matter how expensive it is! Their bosses attach so much importance to it, Engineer Li and Professor Zhou and Professor Lei of the Institute of Special Ceramics of Harbin Institute of Technology naturally dare not slack off, and the three skilled old experts personally went into battle to ensure that the works can be foolproof this time.

When the two sets of specially customized brakes are ready, the time has entered the end of May, and there is no problem with the air transportation time, but Zhang Lan is worried that the airport will be delayed, and the British procrastination habit is known to the world.

For the sake of safety, in order to ensure that Ferrari can use this new brake in the Silverstone race at the British Station on June 9, Zhang Lan had to ask Alice again to help the two go through the procedures for going to the UK, and she and Xiao Chenxi personally rushed to the UK to deliver the things.

Fortunately, Alice's ability to do things is really not covered, on June 2, in just a few days, Alice has completed the formalities for the two of them to go abroad, Zhang Lan and Xiao Chenxi immediately took the four sets of brakes that had been made and flew directly to London, and met with Ferrari and Alice.

It was already June 3 when we arrived, but fortunately we arrived in the UK in time and left four days for Scuderia Ferrari to have relatively plenty of time to install the new brakes and get the drivers and cars in check-in, so as not to delay the team's free practice session on 7 June and qualifying for 8 June.

The Scuderia Ferrari was quite generous, and warmly invited the main leaders of Alice's company - in fact, the most important ones were Zhang Lan, Xiao Chenxi and Alice - to visit the team. In the end, it is a veteran team, although the team's record in the past two years is not good, but the heritage is still there, the rigor of the Ferrari team is like a precision instrument, everyone operates accurately according to the established work steps, and the combination makes the Ferrari team daunting.

Just a one-day visit, so that the three of them are infinitely useful, just in the book, far less than in the actual to see the shock, through this visit, so that Zhang Lan has a new idea for the future development of the team.

It was only when the brakes were installed and debugged that the performance of the brakes had already been praised by the Ferrari team's technicians, who even said that they never thought that there would be such a good performance brake product in the world. Although it has not yet been tested on the actual track, the brakes have given the Scuderia Ferrari endless confidence.

According to the regulations of F1, the team can only carry out the run-in between the driver and the car during the prescribed practice time on June 7, and the rest of the time is not allowed to enter the track for adaptation training, so although Zhang Lan and the Ferrari team are also full of expectations for the new brakes, they can only wait anxiously until the official practice session on June 7 to really see the peerless style of this brake!

Despite this, Zhang Lan is still full of confidence, not because of anything else, one is because he is familiar with the trend of historical development, and the other reason is precisely because his team is already using this new type of brake products, and his team is the source of Zhang Lan's confidence.

According to the normal trajectory of history, the three years from 1991 to 1993 were the darkest three years in the history of Scuderia Ferrari, because in the course of three years, the Scuderia Ferrari did not even win a race or a pole position in the 49 races of the three seasons. Even in 1995, Ferrari did not improve, and in the span of five years, Ferrari won a total of two races and four pole positions, which was the darkest and worst moment in the history of Ferrari, and it was not until Schumacher joined Ferrari in 1996 that the former speed king of Ferrari finally found his way forward.

On Friday, June 7, in a state of uneasiness, the Scuderia Ferrari finally waited for the long-awaited free practice session, when two drivers, Alessi and Moydri, climbed into their cars and slowly drove out of the pits. At the invitation of Scuderia Ferrari, several owners of Alais were also fortunate enough to enter the Scuderia Ferrari pit room as Scuderia Ferrari staff to watch the actual testing of the two cars on Scuderia Ferrari monitors. (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!) )