Chapter 1680 Ferrari boss is angry
"What kind of car is this? How come any car can be tested here now."
Ferrari Rory Byrne, who had just finished the car test, looked at the appearance of a car transported in front of him and frowned and said with some displeasure.
As an F1 racing designer and aerodynamic master, he has been responsible for racing design at Ferrari in the past, while Schumacher drove the racing car he designed and won five world championships.
Because of this, his status within Ferrari can be said to be quite high.
The test just finished, LaFerrari, who was developed by him and Ferrari's chief designer Flavio Manzoni, as the project leader, as the successor of Enzo, and the test results obviously made them quite satisfied.
This is the headquarters of the Apennines Maranello, the famous supercar brand Ferrari, and it is also the R&D center of Blue Automobile in Europe.
After the construction of EMP and Ferrari, Azure Automobile has set up two R&D centers. In China, it is the performance R&D center, which mainly develops the performance-related components such as the chassis of this supercar. In Maranello, the appearance R&D center is adjacent to Ferrari. Here, Ferrari's relevant technical personnel will carry out the appearance design and research and development of related components based on the performance data of the chassis.
In these two R&D centers, there are a large number of engineers in them, absorbing and learning each other's strengths.
It has been a year and a half since the official establishment of Blue Automobile. In this year and a half, the engineers of both sides have completed the running-in work, and the R&D work has become a huge miles a day. The basic design of the appearance has been completed. Now, in the continuous wind tunnel experiments, relying on the collected data to continuously modify and improve the details to achieve the minimum wind resistance and achieve the maximum application of power.
At this time, Bai Ningyuan and Zhang Zilin were at the headquarters of this Blue Automobile.
Just when the country was in full swing due to the Lynx incident, Bai Ningyuan and Zhang Zilin stepped out abroad. First, they went to Kangaroo Country, took a set of beautiful underwater photos on the Great Barrier Reef, and then hurried to Paris, Huadu, where they took a set of romantic wedding photos, and finally completed all the shooting work.
Next, Zhang Zilin will fly directly to Africa and meet with the crew of "War Tiger 2" where the filming work was already underway, and shoot some scenes in Africa.
However, since he came to Europe, he had to visit Mr. Armani. No matter what, he took great pains to make for their wedding. He had to remember this favor in his heart. Anyway, Paris is not far from Milan, so the two of them flew to Milan.
After all, Armani is an internationally renowned design master. Even if Zhang Zilin married Bai Ningyuan, he would still be in the fashion circle in the future, so he maintained a good relationship with him, which would have a great help to Zhang Zilin's career.
Milan is also quite close to Maranello. Since the establishment of Blue Motor, Bai Ningyuan has never visited here. Thinking of this, after visiting Mr. Armani, Bai Ningyuan and Zhang Zilin went to Maranello together.
Of course, it is really unreasonable to visit the Ferrari headquarters after coming to Maranello. Due to the current cooperative relationship between EMP and Ferrari, Bai Ningyuan was still warmly received here.
In fact, Bai Ningyuan's arrival this time can be said to be just right, because today, after a relatively large change in appearance details, the first product of Blue Auto was conducting data testing in Ferrari's wind tunnel laboratory.
One of the reasons why Ferrari was invincible on the field back then was that they had an absolute advantage in the development of aerodynamic kits, and among this factor, their own wind tunnel laboratory can be said to have made great contributions.
Because of this, Rory Byrne was so dissatisfied when he saw the model of Blue Cars coming here for testing, because he felt that this was an insult to Ferrari.
In addition, the arrival of Bai Ningyuan and Zhang Zilin made him extremely angry. What a professional place this place can even come in.
If it weren't for the President Domenicari accompanying him here, he would have spoken out to drive people away, but even so, the anger in the old man's eyes would almost spit out.
When he heard that it was the wind tunnel experiment of Blue Automobile, his face cleared a little.
He has also heard of this project. It is a joint work between Ferrari and other brands. When he formed this project, Ferrari was considering transferring his students to this project, but he refused.
In his perception, it is enough for Ferrari to have only one Ferrari. Although such a cooperative brand, although Ferrari's bloodline is in it, it is an absolute "mix".
In fact, although the design of traditional fuel vehicles also emphasizes the resistance coefficient, most people will not pursue the ultimate in this place. After all, a little increase in fuel consumption will not affect daily use. For electric vehicles, because the endurance can be said to be the most test of their performance, so put aside those shoddy products that cheat subsidies, electric vehicle manufacturers also attach great importance to the research on the resistance coefficient. Data shows that for every 10% reduction in the resistance of an electric vehicle, the car's cruising range can increase by 5%.
However, as supercars like Ferrari that emphasize performance, their research on aerodynamics has almost reached the ultimate level.
Thinking that LaFerrari is also a hybrid model, he was about to leave, so he stopped himself and wanted to see how much this so-called electric supercar is, and what level the products the half-baked designer team has produced are.
The design of Blue Car this time is both a challenge and an opportunity to divert their bold imagination. Because on this car, there is no need to consider the impact of the gearbox, exhaust pipe, engine and other "extra" on air resistance, so they can turn the entire body into a whole lift model to consider and design, and then use the super-large diffuser design that runs through the entire body to convert almost all the wind resistance into downforce.
For traditional fuel vehicles, this is almost unimaginable, but in Azure Automobile, everything has become a reality...
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