Chapter 321: Racing Competition
The world's motorsport is roughly divided into three mainstream parts, one, naturally the world's top F1 event, this event is known as the world's most high-tech, most expensive sports competition, no one, for any team, they have to consider two big questions before joining F1, first, do you have enough money to burn this project? Second, do you have enough research to ensure that you don't fall behind in this project?
In addition to F1, there are also GT touring car races around the world, which have a wider coverage and more participating car brands, because it has a slightly lower barrier to entry, and touring car racing is more or less civilian than the pure aristocratic game of F1. (Read the novel to the leaves・Yo~Yo.YZuU.)
The last one is rallying, such as the World Rally Championship WRC, which is very different from F1, first of all, F1 is a specific model, a specific track environment, and the requirements for the track are extremely demanding, but WRC is not, it stipulates that all participating vehicles must be production cars.
In addition to these three events, there is also a go-kart race under the FIA, but go-kart has always been considered a nursery class in F1, so Zhang Wenhao is not interested in karting.
Take WRC as an example, Dongchen's off-road vehicles of the same displacement, even if they are modified in accordance with the unified requirements of the FIA, have stronger power performance than other brands, and the four-wheel drive system is more stable and scientific than other brands, and can better adapt to various road requirements, whether it is a prototype car or a modified car of C2 or S2 to participate in this kind of event. Dongchen's cars are much better than other brands.
As for F1, Zhang Wenhao is more confident, the FIA requires the use of a 3.5-liter engine, more than 650 horsepower, Dongchen's manufacturing strength, can make the strength of Dongchen engine, beyond Ferrari at least two percent, other technologies. It will also be stronger than other F1 cars in an era.
Even India's Asan can buy an F1 team and call it "Power India" with a vulgar name, so why can't Dongchen just create a team. What about applying directly to the FIA to join these three leagues?
If Dongchen enters the world's three major automobile competitions, then I'm afraid the FIA will have a headache because of this, right? The rules they set for the vast majority of participating manufacturers. It's fair, but Dongchen has the ability to break the balance created by this rule, even if everything is built according to the FIA's requirements, but Dongchen's technical prowess can be stronger than its opponents in any aspect.
In the same class of engines, Dongchen is the strongest; With the same horsepower, Dongchen has the lightest weight; With the same aerodynamic structure, Dongchen has a better drivetrain to match, and once the FIA allows Dongchen to join these three leagues, then as long as Dongchen has first-class drivers. So monopolizing the grand prizes of various events is not a big problem at all.
It takes a lot of money to enter F1, and money is no longer a problem for Dongchen, Dongchen has enough money to burn continuously in F1, and Dongchen has enough financial strength. To ensure that the Dongchen team does not need any advertising sponsorship, and Dongchen has a great advantage over any team, that is, Dongchen does not need to invest a penny in scientific research and development costs to develop any products.
Zhang Wenhao entrusted the matter to the public relations staff of Dongchen Automobile to communicate with the FIA. The FIA was horrified by the situation only after receiving Dongchen's intention to join the three major races.
In terms of the current strength of Dongchen, Dongchen has the qualifications to join any automobile competition in the world, but the FIA is worried that once Dongchen enters the three major leagues, it will completely end the competitiveness and commerciality of these three leagues. …,
It is undeniable that Dongchen now leads the world in all aspects of automotive technology, if Dongchen wants to join any automobile event, they have the hardware strength to surpass other brands and teams, the gap opened by this one alone is fatal, and Dongchen has money, if they are really ambitious to enter the field of automobile competition, they can poach a large number of top drivers, software and hardware, in front of them is not a problem, so this kind of competition, is there any fairness at all?
If Dongchen enters F1, then the result may be a long-term lead, as well as an absolute monopoly on the championship, at that time, the other teams will lose the meaning of staying in F1, they spend a lot of money every year, but can only come in to be a foil for a king, this thankless thing, only fools are willing to do. []
If Dongchen refuses to enter the auto competition, then all FIA-owned events can continue to guarantee its impartiality, but if Dongchen does come, these events will be completely upset.
For the FIA, Dongchen is the company they least want to have to get involved with, but the FIA has no way to directly reject Dongchen, because they meet the participation standards they set down in all aspects, so they do not have enough reasons to reject Dongchen, if they do not play cards according to common sense and categorically reject Dongchen, then the negative impact on the FIA itself is probably also huge, after all, Dongchen now has so many supporters in the world, when the time comes, The FIA is afraid that it will drown in the spittle.
In the early stage of Dongchen's contact with the FIA, we wanted to know whether Dongchen had the qualifications to participate in the three major events, and if so, then Dongchen immediately invested in building a professional team in accordance with the unified standards of the FIA.
In the end, the FIA recognized Dongchen's joining qualifications in advance, believing that Dongchen's current R&D capabilities and financial capabilities have been qualified to participate in the three major events, however, in the next step, Dongchen needs to establish a professional team, with finalized and FIA standard racing cars, drivers who meet FIA requirements and logistics support teams, after the team is established, Once the car and team have also passed the FIA review, then Dongchen can participate in the next year's event.
Since the team is to be established, the development of the car has become a top priority, the GT car is not a big problem, Zhang Wenhao can directly take the existing models of Dongchen to modify, and the same is true for rally, Dongchen hatchback S1, the full range of off-road models can be used as a blueprint for modification, but the only thing that needs to be redesigned and manufactured is the F1 car.
In this regard, Dongchen issued a statement to the world, with immediate effect, Dongchen will set up three teams to participate in the three international competitions of F1, GT and WRC under the FIA, and all three teams are named after "Dongchen", and recruit top team managers, racing drivers, event technicians and logistics support personnel from all over the world.
With the strength of Dongchen's automobile manufacturing, people in the industry have long been speculating about when Dongchen will enter the racing industry, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly, just a few days after the release of SC1, Dongchen has already submitted a preliminary application to the FIA, and although the FIA is extremely painful about Dongchen's application, there is still no reason to reject Dongchen, and now, Dongchen has begun to build its own team!
No one doubts the strength of Dongchen, as long as Dongchen has enough software strength, with Dongchen's unparalleled hardware strength, then its team strength will far exceed other companies in the same industry, for people in the industry, in addition to the news of frightening, there are also many people who see the opportunity, many team managers have been depressed, either their owners have no money, or the owners do not have enough R&D strength, many drivers are the same, drivers want to achieve good results, It's not just a great driving skill, the most important thing is that you have to have a really good car. …,
At that time, Senna finally joined the Williams team because he wanted to drive a better car, but he was born at the wrong time, just after he joined the Williams team, the FIA made forced adjustments to Williams's car, which made Williams's car lose its advantage, and eventually led to Senna's death.
However, it can be seen that the drivers are not stupid to the team, they want to be in a better team, drive a better car, and get a better race position, just like Batistuta, who had been with Fiorentina for many years, eventually moved to Roma for a title.
Not every driver can play alongside the top team of Ferrari like Schumacher, and in F1, each team has only two drivers who can play at the same time, which also means that a considerable number of excellent drivers have no chance to join a stronger team, they can only struggle in second- and third-rate teams, but have never had the right opportunity to prove themselves.
However, as soon as the news of Dongchen's intention to establish an F1 team and join F1 was announced, many current F1 drivers were excited, and if they had the opportunity to join Dongchen Racing, then with their own strength and Dongchen's first-class technology, winning the championship would no longer be just an unattainable dream.
As with football clubs, there is no shortage of outstanding talents in the industry, as long as there is enough strength and enough money, even if they start from scratch, they can attract the favor of a large number of practitioners, such as Dongchen, which already has strong hardware strength, no one in the world will doubt that they have the ability to build the best F1 car in the world.
In just a few days, Dongchen has received a large number of team managers, drivers and other personnel who have privately sent their intentions to join, and more than half of the technicians of the Indian Power Team invested by Indians are even willing to jump ship to Dongchen collectively.
In this case, it should be very easy to build all three teams this year. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )