On the afternoon of April 29, local time in France, that is, three days after the end of the Bahrain station, the FIA World Motor Sports Council finally announced the verdict of the McLaren team's "perjury" incident: the McLaren team was banned for three games with a 12-month reprieve. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The so-called "12-month suspension of execution" actually means that if no further facts about the case emerge in the next 12 months; or McLaren ceases to commit perjury in breach of the International Sport Code, and no penalty will be imposed on McLaren. In other words, this punishment is only symbolic, which is equivalent to saying, "Come on, come on, punish three glasses of wine!" ”

McLaren Racing and Hamilton escaped the same day, when the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) approved another move, which was to cap the F1 budget in 2010.

There is no budget cap in F1, and the team spends as much as they want. In the world's most money-burning sport, many small teams are struggling to survive, while large teams are investing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and the amount of money burned is not the same, and the size of the fire is different, especially like Ferrari, which continues to burn money every year, of course, will achieve the best results.

The FIA's initial salary cap is 40 million pounds a year, but this obviously touched the nerves of the big teams led by Ferrari, which only costs 40 million pounds a year, which is worth the money of a few sports cars, how can this reflect the dignity of Ferrari! Ferrari then publicly boycotted the budget cap, and said that if the budget cap was really implemented, Ferrari would not be registered for next year's race.

At the same time, Ferrari has also received support from other teams, such as Toyota and Red Bull, both of which have said that they will not register for next year's race. Ferrari then made an even more aggressive move, summoning members of the F1 Constructors' Association to write a joint letter to the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in protest.

The F1 Constructors' Association is an organization of teams that unites and can be seen as the Constructors' Union, while the FIA can be seen as the boss, all of which is equivalent to a struggle between the union and the boss.

Ferrari are giants, they have the capital to fight with the FIA. And the Chinese force is an independent team, which belongs to the bottom of the F1 pyramid. The two great gods have nothing to do with the common people, so the Chinese forces, like other independent convoys, choose to follow the crowd.

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"Statistically, the gap between the other teams and us has narrowed further." "Red Bull Racing has been our biggest rival since the start of the season, and Nuvey is a master of car design, and he doesn't design cars that are too far behind us in terms of speed, even without a double diffuser, and on a track like China, we don't even have much of an advantage," Ross Brown said. As far as we know, Red Bull is working on its own double-layer diffuser, and if their development is successful, the car may outperform us. ”

Ross Brown flipped through two pages of the document and continued: "McLaren's form is picking up. McLaren started the season very poorly, but since they also installed the double diffuser, their form has picked up quickly in the last two races, and they are currently only using a transitional version of the double diffuser, which means that in the future they will be able to improve the performance of the car when they switch to the official double diffuser. This will also be a big threat to us. ”

Rose Brown turned two more pages and continued: "In addition to this, we also have to keep an eye on Ferrari, Ferrari is a real giant in Formula 1 after all, although it seems that this giant has been a bit miserable this season at the moment, but with Ferrari's strong research and development capabilities, they are likely to start working in the middle of the season." ”

"Okay, okay, I get it, you mean that our opponents are getting stronger, right?" Zhang Guan waved his hand and spoke.

"Yes, if we want to maintain our advantage, we have to increase our R&D efforts." Ross Brown nodded.

Zhang Guan knew that Ross Brown was here to ask for money. Last week, he just asked for money once, and today he came to ask for money, which obviously shows that R&D is really expensive.

"I've been ready for you a long time ago. The sponsor bonuses for China have already been received and should be able to support our R&D next month. Zhang Guan continued: "There are new sponsors who are willing to buy the advertising space on both sides of the rear wing of our car, and it is estimated that there will be another 10 million or 20 million advertising dollars in the account." My broker team is talking and will tell you the results when the talks are done. ”

Zhang Guanzheng was talking, the voice of the phone rang, and the caller ID was He Yiming.

"Maybe it'll be the result now!" Zhang Guan picked up his phone.

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"Zhang Guan, there is something I have to discuss with you. It's about advertising on both sides of your car's rear wing. He Yiming's voice seemed a little hurried, and he continued: "Something is wrong. ”

"What's the problem, the sponsor doesn't want to buy it?" Zhang Guan asked.

"It's not that I don't want to buy it, but I want to force it to buy!" He Yiming opened his mouth and said.

"Forced buy?" Zhang Guan frowned, and he continued: "Brother He, don't worry, speak slowly." ”

"The anonymous group who wanted to buy the advertising space for the car before, they showed a strong willingness to buy, so I quoted a price with him, and they thought it was too expensive and asked us to lower the price. I lowered the price a little more, but they were still too expensive, so I lowered the price again. He Yiming said.

Zhang Guan nodded silently, doing business is like this, buyers and sellers ask for a sky-high price and pay back the money one by one, such as the salaries of those movie stars, one by one the quotations are tens of millions of dollars, but this offer is definitely not the final price, the producer must make a counteroffer, sometimes when you meet a more familiar producer, it is normal to give a friendly price.

I only heard He Yiming continue: "After I sent the quotation for the third time, this anonymous group is still too expensive, so I told them to let them set an ideal price by themselves, and then we will discuss it slowly, but guess what?" ”

"They're not going to be a dime!" Zhang Guan asked with a smile.

"Pluck! They gave me back 1 million, still not in US dollars, but in national currency! He Yiming said a little angrily: "I was on fire at the time, and I just saw that this anonymous group was quite willing to buy, so I had been arguing with them for so long, but I didn't expect to be playing with me!" So I gave them back directly, and the deal was not discussed. ”

Other sponsors buy advertising space on the car, but they are all tens of millions of dollars, and they are still US dollars, such as that Mr. Liu, counting the championship bonus, has already paid more than 20 million US dollars, this anonymous group wants to spend a mere 1 million to buy an advertising space, this money is in F1, I am afraid that even the salary of the cleaner is not enough.

He Yiming on the phone continued: "When I met a 'teasing you', I didn't go to my heart anymore and continued to look for new sponsors, but I didn't expect that this anonymous group would release words, this advertising space, we have to sell it, and we have to sell it if we don't sell it, and it's 1 million, not much to give!" ”

"So arrogant? Does this Anonymous Group have a backstage? Zhang Guan immediately asked.

"I thought so too, so I sent someone to inquire, but before the news could come out, a friend gave me a wake-up call, or someone behind the Anonymous Group, who gave me a message in this way. Let's promise this anonymous group. He Yiming took a half breath and continued: "This person is really a little troublesome. ”

"Who's that man?" Zhang Guan then asked.

"It's Wang Lao......" He Yiming said a name, and Zhang Guan had heard of this name.

"Elder Wang? Hasn't he already retreated? What kind of thing do people care about when they retire? How do you feel like you're still worried? Can a person who has retired have so much energy? Zhang Guan then asked.

"You don't understand this, do you? Do you think it's an ordinary county and department-level petty official, and people go to tea and cool? When people reach a certain level, there are countless protégés and former officials, and they will always find some way out for themselves before they retire. He Yiming continued: "Some people retire to really retire, and some people retire, but their hearts have not yet retired!" (To be continued.) )