Automotive Black Technology Chapter 1570: : Bullish and coaxing

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Red Bull Racing is headquartered in Milton Keynes, England, but has an office in Vienna.

Although Zhengxin's Fetype engine is still under trial production, this does not prevent Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke from visiting the company for consultations and looking for cooperation opportunities for the engine.

On the way to the Red Bull office, Cheng Ke muttered a little.

As a team operator and manager, her impression of the Red Bull Racing Team is actually not very good.

"Brother Fan, why did we go to Red Bull Racing first? I really don't like their style. In the past ten years, there has never been a year when Red Bull did not say that its engine is rubbish. Even 10 In 2011, 2012 and 2013, the team won four championships in a row. They were all complaining that if Renault had better engines, they would set more records. This is a completely immoral team. I feel the same. Their cooperation is not the best option."

In his heart, Li Fanyu also didn't like this team that said he performed well when he won, but said his engine was bad when he lost.

But now in business terms, judging from the current relationship between Red Bull and their engine suppliers, Red Bull is the most likely to accept a new engine supplier among the current favorites to win the championship.

So he didn’t like Huaniu, but Li Fanyu decided to give it a try.

It must be said that Li Fanyu was very lucky; when they rushed to the Red Bull office in Vienna, the team owner Mateschitz happened to be there.

Mateschitz has been agitated recently.

Of all the F1 teams, Red Bull is the most unique. The original intention of this team when it was established was to establish Red Bull's brand image around the world. However, as the cost of participating in F1 becomes higher and higher, the team has to seek higher profits to maintain the operation of the team.

At present, the team's main funding sources come from three aspects. On the one hand, it is Red Bull's annual allocation of approximately 100 million euros, and the other part is F1's share of approximately 300 million euros per year. In addition, there are sponsors and the team’s peripheral business.

Red Bull's position is very interesting. They will not make the sponsor space of the car body too small, but do the opposite, make the page larger, and charge more sponsorship fees than any other team.

With this, the team has an annual income of about 200 million to 300 million yuan. But this income is not fixed. It is charged based on the team's performance, that is, the amount of attention it receives.

Now, the team's poor performance has made many sponsors dissatisfied. Correspondingly, sponsorship costs have been significantly reduced.

On the other hand, since Renault established its own factory team, it has become less and less interested in power cooperation. For this season, Renault itself is using the latest engine of its own, while the engine supplied to Red Bull Racing is the previous generation.

This power gap has been proven by results on the field - at least that's what Mateschitz thinks.

Mateschitz was a little surprised when he heard that Zhengxin Li Fanyu visited in person.

"Zhengxin, is this the new supplier due to illness?"

After receiving confirmation from his assistant, Mateschitz hesitated for a long time before giving a reply.

"Okay, let them wait for a while. I'll give them twenty minutes after I finish arranging the things at hand."

……

When he heard that the meeting he was looking forward to was only a short, almost charity-like twenty minutes, Li Fanyu frowned tightly.

Cheng Ke’s bunch of little faces don’t look good either.

"Holy crap!" In front of the assistant who came to deliver the message, Xiao Nizi turned her back and said, "Why are you so pretentious? Do you really think we are salesmen?!"

If it were herself, she would feel nothing wrong, but what was uncomfortable was that seeing Li Fanyu receive such treatment when he came in person, she was so angry.

In anger, Cheng Ke said directly to the assistant in German: "Please go and explain it clearly to Mr. Mateschitz. The person sitting here waiting now is the chairman of Zhengxin Group, Hurun China Rich Mr. Li Fanyu, No. 1 on the list and No. 16 on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people, are we here to seek cooperation, not to sell engines? ”

The assistant was shocked when he heard these names. The attitude immediately became respectful, and he immediately expressed his intention to convey it immediately.

Watching the assistant leave quickly, Cheng Ke waved his fist, looking like a fox pretending to be a tiger.

But just when she was about to claim credit with Li Fanyu, Li Fanyu had already stood up from the sofa. And walked outside.

"Hey? Brother Fan, don't you wait?"

Seeing this scene, Cheng Ke asked hurriedly.

Li Fanyu smiled slightly, "No wait, judging from the other party's attitude, they may not want a truly independent engine supplier."

"..." Looking at Li Fanyu's back, Cheng Ke muttered: "Isn't that a wasted trip? Hey! Brother Fan, where should we go next!?"

Li Fanyu, who was walking in front, didn't even look back, "Go to the UK. I think there is a team that will not refuse us. Although it is not sure whether they will reach a power cooperation with us, but at least their needs are It’s more real than Red Bull.”

Just as Li Fanyu and Cheng Ke walked out of the Red Bull office, Mateschitz and his assistant came in a hurry.

Seeing the empty reception room, the Red Bull Racing team boss was a little puzzled: "Where are the people?"

The assistant was even more confused, "They were still there just now,"

Mateschitz made a very exaggerated gesture: "Inexplicable! Does this Li Fanyu still think that F1 is China's automobile industry? What airs are you playing?"

The assistant shrugged helplessly and said to Mateschitz: "Sir, I just received a few appointments, and they are all new independent engine suppliers. One car is Steyr, and the other is Cosworth, one is GP2..."

When Mateschitz heard about these appointments, he waved his hand distractedly.

"Turn them all down. Bernie, you idiot, we clearly mean to let the four major engine suppliers of Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Risfast and Euroleague to release the technical restrictions and launch the same engines as those used in their current racing cars. Engine. But Bernie has introduced these messy independent engine suppliers. Can their engines help us win the championship? What a joke. Cosworth has not made F1 engines for many years, but GP2 is a big manufacturer. And there are no technical restrictions, but their own fleet is in trouble, and they still expect us to use it? Push it away, push it away! I don’t have that much time to delay.”

The assistant looked at the upset boss and said yes.

But in my heart, I thought that my boss was too naive.

In today's F1, not to mention the first-tier teams like Mercedes-Benz Euroleague making their engines public, even the second-tier teams like Renault and Rysfast, I'm afraid... they won't do it again next season. Let’s play with Red Bull...