For Chen Xiangbei’s calm response, Briatore was sowhat unaccustod.
According to his expectations, upon hearing this news, Chen Xiangbei might beco so excited he’d be incoherent.
No driver does not hope to encounter a "Mars Rover," which is the foundation of their championship!
To be honest, Chen Xiangbei was indeed happy, but he had already anticipated it ntally.
Back in the hotel eting room in Australia, when Briatore announced an increase in capital by introducing over a hundred million US Dollars from xican Telecommunications and securing technical support for Ferrari engines, Chen Xiangbei realized the TF110 race car would see substantial improvents.
The reason is simple, the speed of a race car often correlates directly with financial investnt.
Although the Ferrari Team hasn’t won a driver championship after Raikkonen.
But their engine’s absolute performance has consistently ranked among the top in the paddock!
Even the much-ridiculed green tractor Saub Team, in reality, their Ferrari engine’s tail speed isn’t low, and one year their paper horsepower even ranked first in the paddock.
This explains why Leclerc can frequently run a divine lap in qualifying, clinching pole position over Verstappen under circumstances deed impossible by outsiders.
On one hand, it’s due to the driver’s innate speed talent.
On the other hand, under conditions of hyper-powered engine output, the Ferrari car isn’t actually slow.
Just as the race standings in long-distance races aren’t entirely determined by engine performance, just like the TF110 cars previously limited power output, yet both cars entered the points area and achieved positions, Chen Xiangbei even managed to podium in a rainy battle.
Aero kits, chassis design, and even tuning skills are indispensable.
In this world, many things involve equivalent exchange, including all mbers of the team supporting Briatore in bringing in the investnt, resulting in this car with championship performance!
"North, let’s walk the track."
Seeing Briatore talking nonsense, Odetto ca over and urged.
Chen Xiangbei’s rest ti after returning ho this ti exceeded the strategy group’s expectations, and much of the pre-race preparations had not been carried out, including even the most basic morization of track data.
Odetto could understand Chen Xiangbei’s longing for warmth from family after living abroad for races and training for years and wanted to relax his tense nerves.
But too much ti has been delayed!
Tomorrow is the practice session, adapting again to the new car and track, a single day might not be enough.
"OK, let’s walk the track."
Chen Xiangbei nodded and then walked out of the P-room together with Odetto.
At this mont, there are already quite a few drivers walking on the main East Sea International Circuit.
Compared with tracks in Europe and the Middle East, this Oriental track built in 2004 is relatively unfamiliar to many European and Arican drivers, requiring more effort to familiarize.
While talking, Odetto continued to relay track data as usual.
"North, the East Sea International Circuit is 5.451KM long, with a total of 56 laps, featuring 16 corners, the track elevation is very low at only 7.3 ters, and the current fastest lap record is held by Schumacher, taking 1 minute 32 seconds 238."
"This track was designed by the German designer Hermann Tilke, and the overall layout resembles the Chinese character ’Shang,’ characterized by two ultra-long straights, with top speeds reaching 350km/h, demanding high absolute performance from the car."
"The increase in our car’s power perfectly fits the characteristics of the East Sea International Circuit."
Before the Australian Grand Prix, Odetto was already aware of Briatore’s "financing" plan.
The reason he was persuaded and kept it hidden was rooted in two main points.
The first point is that decades of F1 history have proven that teams remaining stagnant are on a path to failure.
Forget about having a "national team," even private teams like Williams are on the verge of being phased out by the tis.
Managerial transformation, professionalization, and comrcialization are the positive cyclical directions for F1 teams.
The second point is that according to the F1 calendar, the third stop, the Chinese Grand Prix, places extraordinarily high demands on car performance.
350km/h is basically the track speed limit in normal F1 circumstances.
To achieve this speed, aerodynamic design and chassis aren’t important anymore; it’s all about the high horsepower output from the power unit.
It’s similar to how Williams "muscle cars" in later years, lacking funds for research in the ground effect era, adopting a public model for the chassis that resembles a flat board, with only a few aero guiding grooves, highlighting a "straight-line king," "corner weak."
Yet, this extre characteristic can be very effective on certain high-speed tracks.
The East Sea International Circuit’s 0.8-kiloter starting straight and the 1.2-kiloter rear straight, without a powerful power unit delivering full output, in an era without DRS, you’d be waiting to be swallowed up by other cars!
What exhaust diffusers or F ducts, those high-tech features, are totally useless on long straights, just flooring the throttle straight through to the engine will suffice.
Of course, this is more exaggerated description, the East Sea International Circuit’s 16 turns, benefiting from the advantage of being built later, actually covers almost all types of corners and speed ranges.
High-speed corners, low-speed corners, combination corners, hairpin corners, etc., can all find templates at the East Sea International Circuit.
Especially the hairpin and spiral turns at the end of the ’Shang’ straight, require the driver to be extraordinarily precise with braking timing and speed control, and even achieve top-tier full-curve trace braking in the T1 to T3 combination corners.
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