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The F1 machine at the head of the field went past the track like lightning, its engine roaring.

"Hahaha. What do you say? Our Pefari team holds first and second. The Pefari team's victory in this Morocco season too is a certainty. No one will catch the driver Stefan."

CEO Burnett of Inmos spoke with a delighted face, hopping about like a child in the upper suite box on the start straight.

"Doesn't your chest pound, hearing the engine note?"

CEO Craig Burnett tapped Seong-ho Kim lightly on the chest with his fist and then observed the F1 machines moving in the distance through his binoculars.

The two of them had taken breakfast together and grown close at a rapid pace.

Craig Burnett, who had been wary of Seong-ho Kim at first, had opened the door of his heart bit by bit while talking about F1, and at the networking lunch he had gone so far as to introduce Seong-ho Kim to the other VIPs himself.

At the networking lunch, attended by sponsor-brand executives, global partners and the like, Seong-ho Kim built connections with executives of world-famous brands as well as with royalty from Morocco and the Middle East.

"President Jin."

Jeong-cheol Choi, standing behind Seong-ho Kim and Craig Burnett, asked Dae-hwang Jin in a small voice,

"That… about the conversation we had a while ago."

"The conversation we had a while ago?"

"Yes. About an Arab royal's investment company putting several hundred billion in our country's money into something, and an investment company nobody's ever heard of putting several hundred billion into a tobacco company. Do you suppose they actually mean to do it? Surely it's just talk, the way people trade jokes?"

"It's so far from anything real that I can't tell either whether it's true or not."

Dae-hwang Jin, Sector Head of the Devices Sector, shook his head with an expression of sheer absurdity all over it.

"A hundred million dollars while drinking coffee, two hundred million dollars while eating a steak handed over by a Michelin chef, three hundred million dollars while grinding…