Mistrz Europy w klasie PRO 10,
trzykrotny Mistrz Europy w klasie E12. Dla wielu legenda lat '90, dla
innych twarz firmy Team Orion, dla pozostałych po prostu przyjaciel.
Oscar Jansen. W bardzo osobistym wpisie o tym gdzie teraz jest, jaki
świat go otacza i jak go ocenia. Przekonajcie się sami, miłej
lektury.
Hello
dear friends and RC racers in Poland. My good friend Patrick has asked
me if I had some time to write some articles for his blog, which I am
more than pleased to do. I suppose Patrick know me well and he might be
the best person to introduce me in a story from his side.
Right
now I write you from my office in our Team Orion brushless motor
factory close to Shenzhen in China, and this first sentence sum up where
I spend my time the most right now being a World traveler. It’s either
on a race track, in an airplane or somewhere in a factory. It’s not that
I really like it all the time, but right now there is not too much
choice.
Almost
95% of the RC company products are produced and assembled in China to
offer you better prices, however still all developments are done outside
China. Knowhow and technology is still one of our most preserved
secrets, and however I like Chinese food as well the spirit of China,
it’s for our future very important to keep developments and new ideas
stored in the mind and not ‘distribute’ it.
I
am sure many of you know China very well from the news becoming a new
super power, increasing economy, and it being a communist country which
means people here does not have any voting rights. The government
basically decides everything, which is when you logically think about
it, something very important when keeping 1.4 billion mostly not well
educated Chinese under control.
When
I first came here 5 years ago I had a tough time understanding it all,
it looked all too crazy. A new road? No problem, just remove the houses,
the people can find another home. New subway? No issues, we just do it
and ready in 1 year. Here in Shenzhen they made in one go a new high
speed train network, new subway network and new road systems, all at
once. Just like that, and ready in incredible short time. It’s really
very very amazing to see how fast factories are being build, new houses,
new apartments, new roads. For the people here it’s all normal, the
government decides and it’s like that. For me it was like I was in some
kind of strange movie.
Right
now, 5 years later, it seems I have become half Chinese. Even the
factory owner and business people tell me this very often. Once you have
integrated yourself in the system, look at it from another angle, and
just accept that things can also work if there is not a voting or a
large discussion makes a lot of things very interesting. For me it’s
because all the little details that we have forgotten in our ‘modern’
society today to admire/accept about our progress; I put modern between
‘’ as when you would see how things look in Shenzhen today at once our
system looks old. Just to give you some funny examples below about how
things work here…
1) When you drive a car, there are no rules. When you come from either
left of right to a another road or crossing, you just do not stop and
look left or right if there is place and time. If you wait, you can wait
until your hair gets grey and the black birds come to eat the remaining
parts of your skeleton. There is only one option: just go… This was
hilarious of course for me first time driving, as it’s un-imaginary and
against all logic. But since Chinese driver anticipate on this, it all
works.
2)
If you want to pay toll at a road, you do not go to the place or spot
which is empty to pay the toll. This situation is similar at supermarket
counters. You go to where it is long row… it makes no sense for us, but
in the mind of Chinese where many people are waiting it is good and
fast.
3)
Make a lot of noise when you eat. The more noise, the better the food.
It’s same for talking, the louder, the happier and pleased you are. If
silent, there is no fun and something wrong.
4)
If there is a hole in the road, do not bother about repair. The key is
to remember it, and make sure to drive around it next time.
5) If someone sells something, try to steal his business. Does not matter how. Just try to take it.
The
last sentence makes the point. It’s in the mind here that nothing
belongs to someone, it’s all for yourself to survive. This mind idea
creates a hilarious amount of copies of products, which seem to look all
good on the outside, but the quality in the end is bad. I am sure you
all had already some kind of experience with this. For the distributor
or the producer this is a difficult situation… how to inform the quality
of a product to the customer?
This
is what Team Orion does with racing, its team and its products… create
an image, create products that look different, that work different, that
are something special. This is what I do daily, try to be different and
to understand what it makes to be different. And I can tell you, China
opened in a lot of ways my eyes… and made me think even more different
which also reflects in the products. If you ever have chances to go
there do not hesitate. It will be a lifetime and unforgettable
experience…
You
might wonder why I told you the above story… it has nothing to do with
RC. Or does it? In reality is does. All us racers (and I am/was one of
those) do something which is different, something that does not really
makes sense. There are no books about it, neither a university where
you can study RC car technology. RC racing is something you have to
discover yourself, see yourself, touch by yourself and feel by yourself;
learn and enjoy by your experience and/or with others, and included the
will to be better and win. This is what it makes RC racing so
addictive…There are not so many sports and hobbies which give this
opportunity and sensation, and I wish that someday many many others will
discover the fun of it.
You
see and might feel I am RC car enthusiast and I will forever be… to
understand what and who I am. Wish all of you good luck in racing!
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