Just as Zhang Yifei was about to get up and leave, Prost agreed to the acquisition conditions proposed by Zhang Yifei.

Prost is definitely not an indecisive person to win the four-time driver championship. His conservatism is just to make favorable decisions and judgments under his own calculation conditions, without taking any unnecessary risks.

The price tag that Zhang Yifei gave is the best conditions that the Prost team can get, or even a turning point in the life and death of the team!

"Boss, congratulations on making the right decision. There will be people from China Investment Company soon to talk to you about the specific acquisition details."

After saying this, Zhang Yifei reached out to hold Prost for a moment, then turned around and walked out of the convoy's office.

Before, when he was in China, Zhang Yifei had already established an investment company with Huali Group to prepare for the joint holding of the Prost fleet.

Because Zhang Yifei has been a racer for two lifetimes and has never participated in any high-end commercial activities. Therefore, he is very clear about his business ability. He is definitely not a business genius. If the team really leaves it to him for operation, he will most likely be the title of a business genius in the end.

Professional things should be left to professionals, and I will still be a professional driver with peace of mind. As for fleet operations, it will be jointly controlled by Huali Group and Prost. Whether or not you can "steal" the F1 technology depends on Huali Group itself.

What Zhang Yifei can do is just to create an opportunity for Huali Group to "steal" the enemy.

After finalizing the acquisition of Prost fleet shares, Zhang Yifei also passed the news back to China as soon as possible. Huali Holdings Company will send someone to negotiate the specific contract content with Prost.

And if you have the opportunity, Huali Group will also send some engineers to see if you can participate in the research and development of F1 racing.

However, this possibility is currently very slim. The technical isolation agreement is not so easy to bypass, and if the action is too obvious, it may cause surveillance from the French government and even prevent the acquisition agreement.

To be honest, Prost is fortunately a French team. If it were a British team, there might not be much hope of acquiring shares.

Because compared with other American imperialists, France is considered to be a country that is quite inverse to the United States. Many times, Europe's opposition to the United States is mainly France.

After all, France's ancestors were rich and had their own dream of France. Although it declined in modern times, the title of African overlord was not lost, and it was not so willing to be a dog.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, in 2000, China was really a younger brother, basically based on low-end processing industries, and it seems that people and animals are harmless and do not show any great threats.

Acquisition of an F1 team is more like a way to cooperate with the development of domestic F1 events, and is a type of stupid person and a lot of money.

Compared to directly participating in the research and development of this simple and crude method, in China, Zhang Yifei also formulated a roundabout plan with President Huali, which is a replica strategy for later generations to take Volvo technology.

That is to establish a R&D center in Europe, participate in joint R&D in an indirect way, and use this title to learn from Europe's more advanced automobile industry. If you have the opportunity, acquire several European bankrupt car companies and find ways to extract some technology from them.

Zhang Yifei even wanted to ask Cosel for help to see if he could introduce several big guys in automobile engineering from the Berlin University of Technology to join the R&D center in Europe. This might really bring some epoch-making development to the Chinese automobile industry.

However, the automobile industry is really too expensive. Putting around 10 billion yuan in other industries is an astronomical figure. However, putting it in the automobile industry can only be considered an entry-level level.

For example, the annual R&D funding of Volkswagen in later generations was calculated in a unit of tens of billions of dollars, not RMB. Therefore, it is not completely unreasonable that German cars can sell well, at least others spend a lot of money.

Zhang Yifei doesn’t have the money now, nor does Huali Group. However, Zhang Yifei didn’t think about becoming a fat man in one go. After all, the development of the automobile industry is based on ten years, or even decades.

What he is doing now is nothing more than planting a seed, and the harvest is still early. When Brother Ma turns over one day, Zhang Yifei will become rich and have the capital to join this money-spending game.

Prost is in urgent need of money, and Zhang Yifei and Huali are also in a hurry to send money. In addition, the general direction has been negotiated, so the details are naturally much faster. In just one week, the two parties signed an agreement, and Huali Holdings Company officially acquired 40% of the Prost fleet's shares for a price of 50 million US dollars. Mobile::

When the news spread, it instantly became the focus of the world, because no one expected that the shares of Prost fleet would eventually be acquired by an unknown small company in China.

Moreover, according to equity disclosure, Zhang Yifei occupies 60% of the equity in Huali Investment Company and is the largest shareholder. The other 40% is held by a company called Huaxia Automobile Group.

This means that in fact, Zhang Yifei completed the acquisition of Prost Team Shares. What did a driver want to do to acquire Team Shares at this stage?

So various media reported on the acquisition news, and the current affairs newspapers that can be seen for a while can find relevant news.

The Prost fleet equity sale case ends, and the acquirer is China Capital!

F1's first China-controlled fleet in history, does this mean that the equation pattern will change?

The shareholder behind China Capital is the driver Fei. What exactly does he want to do?

Prost team announced that it will renew its signing with Fei. Chinese driver Fei will continue to play for Prost team in the next three years.

The Prost fleet acquisition case is full of doubts. Could this be a conspiracy from Chinese capital?

Where will the future of the French fleet go?

Not to mention these media were shocked, but when the news was announced, even Ah Hu and Chen Zhi were shocked.

They never expected that the once unattainable F1 team now has a portion of Fei Ge's shares. How did this change be achieved is simply like a dream.

"Brother Fei, does that mean that you are the boss now?"

Ah Hu sat next to Zhang Yifei, looked at the newspaper in his hand and asked.

The macro ambitions behind the acquisition of the F1 team are naturally not something Ah Hu can understand. He just sees the surface, that is, Zhang Yifei is also a shareholder of the team and becomes his own boss.

"No, it can only be considered indirect holdings."

Fleet shares were acquired in the name of Huali Investment Company, and the holding shares did not reach more than 50%, so Zhang Yifei cannot be regarded as a direct shareholder of Prost fleet.

Moreover, Huali Holdings Company elected the personnel who entered the management of Prost team, but it was not Zhang Yifei, he was still the simple driver.

"That's fine, otherwise it would be awkward to make your second boss in the future."

"Get out."

Zhang Yifei ignored Ah Hu's nonsense.

The popularity of Prost fleet being acquired by China Capital has not completely stopped. A few days later, another news was released.

That is, Prost team reached an agreement with Ferrari Group. Next season, Ferrari will become the engine supplier of Prost team, and the two sides will form strategic cooperation.

The popularity of this news is obviously not as popular as the previous public discussion of the share acquisition case, but other F1 teams are obviously more concerned about the cooperation between Ferrari and Prost.

"Simmonds, how much improvement do you think you'll have to replace the Prost car with Ferrari engines?"

After seeing the news, Sir Williams immediately asked technical director Pat Simmonds.

Since surpassing Barrichello and Schumacher, no one dares to treat Zhang Yifei as a rookie. In the Prost car with a lagging performance, the Chinese newcomer has such amazing performance. What if he replaced him with a powerful racing car?

"I don't know that based on the performance of Ferrari engine this year and the R&D strength of the Prost team, the improvement should be very limited."

This year, Ferrari's engine performance did not lead, even worse than McLaren's Mercedes-Benz engine and Williams's BMW engine. It is almost equal to Renault's engine, tied for third and fourth.

But the Ferrari drivers are really strong, and the aerodynamic appearance of the car is also good, so the Ferrari team is still extremely strong and currently has the leading score.

"I see."

Sir Williams felt a little relieved when he heard this.

Zhang Yifei performed amazingly, but after Montoya suffered a blow, he also began to undergo a transformation and recently came to the podium. As long as the racing performance has no advantage, Montoya is not bluffed by Zhang Yifei, let alone Williams team and Ravl Schumacher, not that Alessi can compare! : :

McLaren also asked similar questions, and the answers came out similar to those of Williams.

Even if the Prost team replaced the Ferrari engine, they still couldn't show enough threats, at least there were many more powerful opponents than it. For example, the other two of the Big Three, Renault, which is also powerful in technology, and even the Jaguars and Toyota, which have strong capital.

Rather than worrying about the last-rate Prost opponents, it is better to worry about these stronger opponents.

Moreover, it is uncertain whether Zhang Yifei's outstanding performance in Brazil is a super-level performance or a flash in the pan. Especially after experiencing a track accident, whether it will have any impact on Chinese newcomers is also an uncertain factor.

If you want the front team to feel threatened, at least Zhang Yifei must show stronger strength to be qualified.

As the days passed day by day, Zhang Yifei was slowly recovering. When the summer break ended and the time came to September, the moment when the race horn sounded again, Prost team announced that Zhang Yifei had returned to the track.

Whether you can show stronger strength will soon be known!

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