Chapter 285: Someone Loses, Someone Earns
The rain continued, but the podium was already full of people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Guan stood on the podium and looked at it, and all the spectators were in sight. They stood there in the rain, letting the rain wet themselves, and when Zhang Guan took the stage, the scene resounded with deafening cheers.
"That's a lot of people! I've never seen so many people at an awards ceremony! Rose Brown next to him exclaimed that at this time he finally understood why Zhang Guan insisted on hitting the first place in this race, and even used the strategy of not making a pit stop to fight. With so many enthusiastic audiences, it's really worth it.
Zhang Guan is used to this kind of scene, but habit does not mean indifference, in the face of everything in front of him, his heart is still full of emotion.
It's the best audience in the world!
Bright national flags were waved in the hands of the audience, and the Chinese power team did not have the heritage of Ferrari, nor did it have a special "prancing horse" flag, but one national flag was enough. Because of this race, the champion of the drivers is Chinese, and the champion of the team is also the Chinese team.
The Constructors' Championship is calculated based on the sum of the points earned by the team's two drivers. The first place in the race was Zhang Guan, who won 10 points, and the Red Bull Racing team won the second and third places, with 8 points and 6 points respectively, that is, the Red Bull Racing team got a total of 14 points in this race, and the fourth place in the race was Barrichello of the China Power Racing Team, although he did not have a chance to get on the podium, but he got 5 points, so the China Power Racing team won a total of 15 points in this race, 1 point more than the Red Bull Racing team, so it won the constructors' championship.
So far, in the first three races, the China Power Team has won all the Drivers' Championship and Constructors' Championship, two runners-up and one fourth-place finish, and the team points are far ahead of the other teams by 39 points. In terms of performance, China's strength is much stronger than other teams, and it can even be said that it has a crushing advantage.
As a new team, this is truly unprecedented, and people are amazed, accompanied by other emotions such as envy, jealousy, hatred, and regret.
In Japan, Honda President Takeo Fukui looked at the quarterly earnings report in his hand, his face full of depression. In the context of the financial crisis, Honda's global car sales have also continued to decline, and the financial report in the first quarter is even more miserable.
"Ouch......" Fukui Wai sighed, closed his eyes, and rubbed his temples as his phone rang.
"It's Director Hashimoto." Swift Fukui glanced at the caller ID.
This "Director Hashimoto" is a member of Honda's board of directors and one of the supporters of Waio Fukui on the board.
"Hashimoto, I'm Waio Fukui." Swift Fukui said into his phone.
"President Fukui, I don't know if you tuned in to watch the just-concluded Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix. The Chinese Power team won the constructors' championship again. Hashimoto said.
"Oh, aren't they three in a row?" Swift Fukui spoke.
"Yes, winning all three races at the start of the season is a great result. But this is not good news for us. Hashimoto continued: "I've just received some rumors that there are a lot of people on the board who regret selling the Honda team and think that if we hadn't sold the team, the current championship would have been ours. So they're likely to have an enquiry about the sale of the fleet at the next board meeting......"
"What!" Fukui Wai's face suddenly became embarrassed.
He no longer had the heart to continue studying last quarter's earnings report, but hurriedly ended the call with Hashimoto, opened the webpage, and found the news of the victory of the Chinese power team.
On the picture accompanying the news, it is Zhang Guan spraying champagne.
"Zhang Guan won the championship again, and China Power also won the championship! Three consecutive championships! If I had known that, I would never have sold the team! A deep sense of remorse welled up in Fukui's heart.
Two months ago, Honda sold the Honda team, and two months later, the abandoned team has won three consecutive Formula 1 constructors' championships, leading the group in the overall standings.
China Power proved that they are not only not a team with a belly, but also the best of the team, and for Honda, the sale of the Honda team is a big loss!
Selling a championship team for $80 million is undoubtedly a loss. Moreover, the winning team of Formula 1 cannot be measured simply in terms of money. Moreover, a large multinational company like Honda does not have to wait for $80 million to save its life.
At this time, in China, there are also some people who regret it, but their regret is accompanied by happiness.
"It's millions of dollars again, and it's gone...... Mr. Liu took the calculator and pressed the numbers on it: "The driver champion will be rewarded with an additional $2 million, and this time there will be no runner-up, the fourth place has 5 points, which is $500,000, and the team championship is $1 million, and it is $3.5 million!" ”
Mr. Liu sighed, and his heart was even more painful.
The China Power team swept the top two in Australia, which cost Mr. Liu an extra $4 million, and a week later in Malaysia, Mr. Liu paid an extra $4 million. With the original sponsorship of 10 million, the total is $18 million, which is already 3 million more than the original 15 million.
However, today, another 3.5 million bonus was taken out, which made Mr. Liu feel as if his body had been hollowed out.
But the publicity is definitely there, and it's very good. Especially in the Chinese Grand Prix, countless cars of China Power have appeared in the camera, and the company's logo has appeared on TV again and again.
"This is only the third race, there are still 14 races to come, if Zhang Guan wins a few more championships, the company's cash flow will not have to do anything else next quarter!" Mr. Liu was thinking about it, but the sound of the phone interrupted his thoughts.
"Mr. Liu, as soon as the market opens this morning, our company's stock will immediately rise and fall!"
"Oh?" Mr. Liu immediately became vigilant, and he said: "As soon as the market opens, the price limit will be raised, is it a malicious acquisition?" ”
"No, it seems that because of yesterday's F1 Chinese Grand Prix, I specially checked, and several other teams that sponsor China Power have also had their stocks up and down." Said on the other end of the phone.
"That's why you're continuing to stare at the dot pan." Mr. Liu put down the phone.
However, the next second, the phone rang again.
"Mr. Liu, the call just came from Qingcheng, and the piece of land by the sea that we asked for has been approved over there. Let's go through the formalities. ”
"Is it really approved?" Mr. Liu stood up excitedly, and then asked, "What's the matter?" I've been to Qingcheng no less than seven or eight times in person, and people don't want to let go of that piece of land, why did they approve it? ”
"The staff over there said that there was no approval before, because the leadership team in the city did not understand our company, and people did not dare to let go of such a large piece of land. But yesterday after watching Zhang Guan's racing competition, they realized that we are a big brand, and the advertisements have been played internationally, and even our advertisements are on the F1 cars, so they approved the land, and invited us to visit the local investment environment......"
Mr. Liu's heart suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the feeling of just cutting flesh disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"It's worth it, you can help me get this land, the extra 3.5 million spent yesterday is really worth it!" (To be continued.) )