He rode a motorcycle and crashed the plane.

Chapter 547 547. Do you like racing?

Faced with Feng Bingman's invitation, Xu Jia did not refuse directly and simply like he did at the Donghai International Circuit.

Because now Xu Jia really needs the help of a "car team", or to be more precise, he needs the help of money!

Professional racing has always been an extremely expensive sport. Rally racing or track racing costs a little less. With extreme compression, millions of cars can compete.

If you really don’t have money, you can still rent a car and run. Just like the plot in "Flying Life", you can rent a car and run for 150,000 to 200,000 yuan for a race. As long as you can win the championship and find some ways to find some sponsorship, you can basically do it. Able to break even.

However, this is the market price of touring car racing or rally racing. If Xu Jia ran a formula like he did all his life, and eventually became an F1 driver, the money he would burn could be described in astronomical figures.

A rough estimate is that if you start racing professional karts at the age of seven or eight and all the expenses are paid out of your own pocket, the number of people who eventually enter F1 will be as high as million in RMB!

This is why there are zero official domestic F1 drivers in later generations. In the absence of a sufficient car culture environment, few families are willing to spend such a high price to train a formula driver.

Xu Jia has been considered to have a good family background in his life, and he has also reduced a lot of expenses through the driver academy training program.

But in the end, it was still somewhat unsustainable. Without enough sponsorship and capital to compete for the official F1 driver seat, we could only stop as a test driver.

Now that Xu Jia plans to take the road of rally racing, the cost will definitely be much lower than that of Formula. But with his status as a car washer, it would be difficult to even spend tens of thousands of dollars, let alone millions.

This is why, in the parking lot at the top of the mountain, Xu Jia very vulgarly proposed to use money as a raise. The reason is that if you want to engage in professional racing, you can't do it without money, and you can't rely on an old drunkard for everything.

As for other ways to make money, Xu Jia had thought about it since the last time he helped Fatty Chen raise money to repair his car, but it seemed unrealistic.

In his previous life, he engaged in professional karting when he was only a few years old. Just like those professional athletes who entered sports schools at a young age, they lacked sufficient social experience. It can be said that in life, besides racing, there is still racing!

The fastest way to make money is to write down a few lottery numbers. The problem is that Xu Jia doesn't know that he will travel through time. How can he pay attention to the lottery numbers from ten years ago in advance?

For other things such as real estate speculation and Bitcoin, without original capital and several years of waiting time, it is just a dream to get a large amount of cash in a short period of time.

As for other more complex capital operations, it's okay, Xu Jia still has a lot of talent in his heart. It is no longer easy to win the title of a talented driver in China in two lifetimes. He does not think that he will be a hidden business tycoon.

So after much deliberation, the only way to start burning money in professional racing in a short period of time is through team support or private investment sponsorship. If Feng Bingman can give herself enough freedom, then Xu Jia can consider joining her team.

Seeing that Xu Jia didn't answer for a long time, Feng Bingman knew that he must be thinking about this question seriously.

Feng Bingman did not interrupt Xu Jia's thinking, and did not even continue to increase his conditions. He just sat quietly in the passenger seat and waited.

Waiting for Xu Jia to give himself an answer.

"Do you like racing?"

After a long silence, Xu Jia did not give a direct answer, but asked Feng Bingman.

Xu Jia doesn't know Feng Bingman, or to put it more bluntly, he doesn't know him, but whether he knows him or not is not actually important for racing cooperation.

But there is one thing that must be agreed upon, otherwise there will be no basis for cooperation, and that is the love for racing!

"Actually, I'm a female rider, and my dream is to ride on the Isle of Man track, so what do you think?"

Feng Bingman looked at Xu Jia with a faint smile. She believed that the other party understood what she wanted to say.

Yes, as a driver, Xu Jia certainly understood what Feng Bingman wanted to express.

The Isle of Man track she talks about is not a track for car events, but a motorcycle event called the Isle of Man TT.

The Isle of Man TT is known as the game of the brave, and unlike other events, the Isle of Man TT did not have any event prize money before 06, and all drivers participated at their own expense.

Even if there is one later, the amount is very small, more like a "funeral pension."

Because the Isle of Man TT can be said to be one of the most dangerous motor sports on the planet, if not one. The only purpose of many drivers coming here is to use their own lives to pursue the glory of knights with their absolute enthusiasm for racing.

To put it simply and crudely, he came to the Isle of Man to seek death.

Without a true love for racing, one would not regard the Isle of Man TT as his life goal. Feng Bingman was telling Xu Jia that she also loved racing and that establishing a team was not just a capital operation.

"Give me some time and I'll think of an answer for you."

To be honest, Xu Jia was a little excited at this moment, but after all, he had been in the racing field for more than ten years, so he was not so naive that he could be fooled into getting on board with just a few words.

If you want to give a positive answer, you must at least have a relative understanding of Feng Bingman.

"Okay, but I believe you will agree in the end."

Feng Bingman still has that confident attitude, quite like a strong business woman.

"why?"

"Women's intuition is generally very accurate."

Hearing this, the corners of Xu Jia's mouth also raised slightly.

"Don't talk to me about the occult."

Xu Jia believed in intuition. It was like when he suddenly saw an old drunkard before, he always felt that he looked like a driver.

If it weren't for the old drunkard's moral character that was a bit shabby, Xu Jia might have already made up his mind.

But Xu Jia didn't believe in such things as decisions, and he could see it intuitively!

"Okay, let's put it in business terms. I think the price I can offer you is the highest, and it is unmatched by any other professional team."

"You can even simply invest and form a private fleet through joint stock ownership. This is something neither Volkswagen 222 nor Donghai FCA can do, and you won't be able to find anyone willing to do this in a short period of time."

Feng Bingman pointed out the key point. It is true that the top domestic professional teams, especially those sponsored by manufacturers, have a mature operating system and will not let drivers get involved in the management.

Without management authority, there is naturally no decision-making power. Feng Bingman is no longer simply signing himself, but turning to cooperation to jointly build a team.

And according to Xu Jia's estimation, he should be able to get his racing license within this month, which means that he will return to the professional arena in a short time. He does not have time to slowly find sponsors or partners.

The timing is really spot on.

Xu Jiadu admired Feng Bingman a little. This woman had definitely done a background check on him in a short period of time. Maybe the race with He Lei at the Donghai International Circuit had already entered her selection of drivers.

But this is inevitable. Strong people are destined to be unable to hide their own light. Just like reaching the level of Senna and Schumacher, can you let them do anything like pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?

Even if they say it's a pig, someone has to believe it.

And even if he speculates on Feng Bingman's motives with the worst intentions, Xu Jia doesn't care about cooperation, because compared to being "bad", he is more afraid of meeting "stupid" business partners, who are really hopeless.

"The conditions offered are indeed very good. You seem to have identified me?"

"It can be said that you are my only target at the moment."

"You think so highly of me?"

Xu Jia smiled and replied.

However, Feng Bingman sat up straight at this time and looked at him with a strange expression.

"Xu Jia, don't you realize how strong you are?"

(End of this chapter)