MTL - A Day In a Japanese Fishing Village-Chapter 608 counterattack

   The headquarters of Minamino Motor Corporation.

"Mr. Chairman, our Lexus series will be launched next month. There is basically no problem with our advertising promotion work. At present, according to market research, our high-end luxury car Lexus is still expected by many customers. But this expectation is not very big. Maybe it is our first high-end luxury car launched by Nanye, and they are a little skeptical." In the conference room, Tsushima, the deputy manager of the marketing department, reported to Nanye Shuichi.

"It doesn't matter. It's the first time our company has launched a high-end luxury car, and it is understandable to be questioned. What we have to do is to vigorously promote and publicize. Our Lexus cars must be perfect! With continuous improvement, we can In the future, the second generation and the third generation will gain a firm foothold. There is still a long way to go!" Nanye Xiuyi said solemnly. He is very confident in Lexus' dedicated turbocharged engine.

"Yes!"

   A group of senior executives nodded.

  …

  Island City TV commercial time.

  Ad break time.

In the    ad, a sports star drives a luxury car, which is a Lexus. The clips of the commercial are showing all kinds of handsome pictures of Lexus cars, as well as its power and so on.

   "A man needs to be handsome and domineering, and a car needs to be full of power, so I chose a Lexus with a turbocharged engine!"

  Island Business News: On the 1st of next month, the high-end luxury car Lexus launched by Nanye Motor Company will be launched soon. Lexus is said to be the first line of premium luxury cars from Southfield Motors. The biggest selling point of this car is the turbo engine! Turbocharged engines have always been exclusive to aircraft engines in our perception. Now for the first time I've heard that the car is also equipped with a turbocharged engine. The first turbocharged engine user Lexus in the history of the car... I believe it must be full of power...

  Meidi Auto Magazine: A new generation car company, Nanye Motor Company, dares to launch a series of high-end luxury cars. Can a car company that can only develop low-end engines develop the high-end engines that high-end luxury cars need? The author hopes that Lexus will only drive a little faster than the crown, and then eat Maserati and Porsche all the time...

   It is not only that many media are not optimistic about the Lexus luxury series cars launched by Nanye Motor Company, but many car companies are also not optimistic about Lexus. Of course, they hope that the Lexus car launched by Shuichi Minano will meet the unpopularity. As a competitor of Minano Motor Company, they certainly hope that the other party will be smashed.

   But they are very jealous of the turbocharged engine developed by Nanye Motor Company.

   Ford Motor Company headquarters.

"I didn't expect that Nanye Motor Company had developed a turbocharged car engine. It's really shocking. We don't care how the sales of the Lexus series luxury cars they launched! But our company is now going to speed up the development of turbocharged engines. I think the future Car engines, turbo engines are definitely a whole new area.”

   "Yes, we can't be left behind!"

   "Why didn't we think of this? Turbocharged engines have always been used in aircraft engines. I didn't expect that the people from Nanye Motor Company would be so bold and apply this to car engines..."

   "Yes, we are indeed behind Nanye Motor Corporation in terms of research and development. No wonder it has become the world's top ten automakers in just seven or eight years!"

   Porsche AG headquarters.

   "I'd love to see how the turbocharged engine works!"

   "How can the power be so strong?"

   "This engine must have a very low lifespan, right?"

   "No, I heard that Nanye Motor Company and a lubricant company have developed a new type of mixed oil, which can effectively protect the wear and tear of this turbocharged engine..."

   Anyway, when Nanye Motor Company vigorously promoted Lexus cars more than a month ago, although many people in the outside world were not optimistic about Lexus. But they are very greedy for turbocharged engines, and now many car companies are stepping up their research on turbocharged engines.

   But Minano Motors' turbo engine is already a big step ahead of them.

  …

"Chairman, our Lexus team will participate in the first F1 race of the year tomorrow. If we can win the first place in this race, I believe that for our Lexus launch next month, it will be A good publicity opportunity." Tsushima said to Minamino.

   "Oh, the game is about to start?" Minano Shuichi asked.

   "Yes Chairman!"

  He went to Africa for a few months, and the F1 race here is considered to start this year.

  The F1 race is not a one-time race to win the championship, it is a year-round race. Therefore, F1 uses a single annual league system, accumulating points throughout the year to determine the performance of drivers and teams in order to produce championships.

   In other words, there will be several or even ten games in this year, and the top three in each sub-station will have points. At that time, the team with the highest accumulated points at the end of the year will be the overall annual champion, which is this year's F1 champion!

   However, you can win the first place in one of the games, that is, the championship, and your reputation will be greatly improved.

  The first race of the F1 race in 1960, that is, the venue for the first race was in France.

   This morning, the auditorium of the competition venue was bursting early.

   Countless F1 racing fans have already captured this place.

  Today is sunny and the breeze is level 3. It is indeed a good day for the game.

   The host is loudly explaining the events of this competition on the host stage.

  The audience above the auditorium screamed enthusiastically.

   "Ferrari, Ferrari!"

   "Cooper! Cooper!"

   "Lotus, lotus!"

   Those spectators shouted the names of the teams, which are the most powerful seed teams competing for the annual championship this year.

  If the trajectory of history has not changed, the 1960 annual champion is Cooper team, the runner-up is Lotus team, and the third is Ferrari team. But now with the addition of Lexus, the standings may change by the end of the year.

   Today is the first race of this year's F1 event in France, and there will be 9 races to follow. They were held in Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Argentina, Monaco, Indianapolis, Italy, and the United States.

   Since participating teams and drivers must hold FIA-approved licenses. Each team will have two cars to participate in the race, and designated drivers to drive the team on behalf of the team. When a racer has an accident, another driver can be designated to participate. But no driver or team can miss the race at will.

   So in addition to the main driver and veteran Feili, the Lexus team also had another young driver, Jack.

   Today is the official race, and yesterday's pre-race qualifying was to determine the starting order of the official Grand Prix.

   That is to say, on the day before the official race, in a designated hour, the drivers of each team will race on the track, and the fastest single lap results will be arranged in order to determine the starting order of the next day. This is very scientific. The qualifying session lasts for one hour, and each car is allowed to run a maximum of 12 laps, during which the racers try to run the best single lap.

   Feili's Lexus finished 3rd, so today he was 3rd in the starting grid. And Jack is a teenager and only got the eighth place, so today's official game got the eighth position to start.

   The points for the first place in each race is 8 points. Today, the first F1 race in France this year, 12 teams want to get 8 points for the first place.

   However, no matter it is the audience or the hosts, all the bigwigs in the F1 event feel that the most powerful competition for the first place in today's substation must be those seed teams.

   After all, their strength over the past few years is obvious to all.

   "The race starts in half an hour, all teams please prepare for all work."

   On the competition venue, each team is closely carrying out the final debugging work.

  Lexus Team Base Camp.

  Fili and Jack are both a little nervous. The race is about to start. Can you not be nervous?

"You two have to have some confidence in yourself! You have to have confidence in Lexus, and you have to have confidence in turbocharged engines! At present, among the world's car engines, only our engines have turbocharging, so you must have confidence in our power. Have confidence." At the scene, F1 Lexus club manager Morimura cheered the two racers.

   "Although Ferrari, Lotus and other teams are very strong, didn't you get third place in our qualifying race yesterday, Feili? So you have to have confidence!"

   "Yes, Manager!"

   Half an hour passed quickly, and everyone in the audience was ignited by the upcoming game.

   Twelve teams and 24 cars have been lined up on the track. This ranking is based on yesterday's qualifying. Phili was third in the starting order and Jack was eighth. The two of them are still relatively advanced!

"boom!"

start!

   The first car was Ferrari, it couldn't start. It was followed by a Lotus car, and the third start was Lexus' Phili...

   "It's started, it's started!"

   "Currently running at the forefront is the Ferrari team! The second is the Lotus team, and the third is the Lexus team..."

   The host took the microphone and explained it **** the stage...

   "It's the first straight-line acceleration, hey~ Lexus is catching up, catching up, it surpasses the second-place Lotus team!"