On the other end of the phone, He Yiming was stunned for more than ten seconds before he said: "Is it possible that you want to form a team of your own? Zhang Guan, you have to think clearly, that is a team, not a team. Track and field team! A track and field team only needs a venue and training equipment, but a team needs too many things. We need designers, technicians, automotive engineers and technicians, we need venues, we need Materials and equipment, what we want to assemble is a Formula One racing car! Formula One almost represents the most cutting-edge automotive technology in the world. It is more difficult and more expensive to form a Formula One team than to establish a car production company. It’s much more difficult! I’m not that capable of helping you find the right people to form a team for you!”
"Brother He, you are overthinking. How can I have the time to reorganize a team? The team requires knowledge. Look at Ferrari and McLaren, which have been playing Formula One for decades. Then This kind of heritage is not something that a new team can possess. So didn’t the Maliya family buy the Spyker team? It changed its name and became Force India. We also followed their example and spent money to buy a team. Let’s call it Force China! Let’s build a Chinese fleet!” Zhang Guan said.
"Don't tell me, this is really a good idea. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a team is indeed much more cost-effective than building a new team. But why didn't you have this plan earlier! Otherwise, in May this year , let’s buy Super Aguri directly. It’s too late now, the Super Aguri team is probably broken up. As for the remaining teams, I haven’t heard that any boss wants to resell them.” He Yiming After thinking for a while, he then asked: "How about looking for it from other formula cars? Formula 3 cars? Or the GP2 series?"
"No need, just wait two days, and someone will probably sell it! This year's economic crisis has made life difficult for these large car companies. Playing F1 is too expensive, and some manufacturers may not be able to support it soon! Zhang Guan said with a smile: "But if we really buy a team then, the sponsorship relationship will be up to you! Then we will put the sponsor's LOGO on the front and back of the car, which will help us anyway." Let’s make some money back!”
"Yeah, you really think too much! But even if you put trademarks all over the car, you still can't make back half a billion dollars!" He Yiming said reproachfully on the other side of the phone.
"Brother He, you have so little confidence in me! I'm here to win the F1 world championship! By the way, when I accept the advertisement, I have to add this, if I really can win the Formula 1 world championship , they have to give me more money!" Zhang Guan said confidently.
"More money! You should think about how to get a faster car first!" He Yiming continued: "You have always been number one in track and field. I don't want to see that. On the racing track, I saw you being lapped by others!"
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Mumbai, India.
"How's it going? Is there any news about Zhang Guan applying for an F1 super driver's license?" Omi asked his subordinates.
"I haven't received any relevant news yet. I have contacted several other teams, and they have not received Zhang Guan's recommendation request." His subordinate said respectfully.
"Oh, that's strange. It's been so long, why hasn't Zhang Guan made any move? If he wants to obtain an F1 super license, he must be recommended by the team. Naturally, we at Force India cannot recommend him. The rest Among the nine teams, who will he look for? Toro Rosso? Or Williams?" Omi frowned and thought.
Since signing the bet, Omi has been paying attention to Zhang Guan's current situation. For now, Omi is most concerned about when Zhang Guan will become an official F1 driver, that is, when he will get the F1 certificate from the International Automobile Federation. Super driving license issued by FIA!
A super driver's license is a special driver's license issued by the International Automobile Federation. It can also be said to be a driver's ticket to compete. People who cannot even obtain a super license under normal circumstances are obviously unable to participate in competitions. However, there are occasional exceptions. The Toyota team once even had a driver whose super license was issued only after the fourth race after the start of the race, so he drove for three races without a license.
It is worth mentioning that the FIA super license cannot be used as a driver's license for civilian cars. When many drivers obtain a super license, they are not even of legal age to obtain a civilian car driver's license. There are some well-known racing champions who have been racing on the racing track since they were teenagers, but they are not qualified to drive the most ordinary car on the road.
The Formula One super license needs to be applied to the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile. There are main ways to obtain this license, such as winning the GP2 or F3 world championship. If you prove your strength, you can apply for an F1 driver’s license; Another example is that if a driver is very talented and has been recognized by the team, the team can also apply for such an F1 driver's license. The former relies on strength, while the latter relies more or less on relationships. Whether or not this chapter of F1's super license will be issued to drivers in the end depends on whether the Formula One Management Committee is willing to give the nod.
Among F1 world champions, such as Schumacher, Hamilton, Vettel and others, they all came from low-level competitions such as F3000 Formula, GP2 Formula, Formula Three; Raikkonen has not participated in so many low-level competitions. He entered the Sauber team after being appreciated by the owner of the Sauber team. He had just received his F1 super license before the start of the first race.
In the future, the International Automobile Federation will also reform the conditions for obtaining a super driver's license, requiring drivers to obtain certain points through low-level racing competitions. Only when they have enough points can they apply for an F1 super driver's license. At that time, there was a lot of resistance to this reform, because according to the new rules, the three world champions, such as Leightning, Button, and Alonso, could not obtain the F1 super license.
In addition, the "annual review fee" for a super driver's license is also very high. The International Automobile Federation stipulates that drivers who obtain an F1 super license must pay 10,000 euros to the International Automobile Federation every year, and if the driver earns a point, he needs to pay an additional 2,000 euros (originally more than 400, but the price later increased) ). For this reason, in the year when he won the world championship, Raikkonen paid as much as 270,000 euros in "annual review fees" to the International Automobile Federation. The annual review fee is much more expensive than an airplane driver's license. What is certain is that a super license from the International Automobile Federation is definitely more popular than an airplane driver's license.
For Zhang Guan, he has never participated in low-level racing competitions such as GP2 Formula and Formula Three, so if he wants to obtain an F1 super driver's license, he only needs to be recommended by an F1 team.
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"The necessary materials recommended by the F1 team are the 300-kilometer driving record of the F1 car. Written records, live videos, and racing data are required...Then the Formula One Management Committee will use these application materials to determine whether the driver has the ability to drive a Formula One car. Qualifications." Zhuge Wenbo finished reading the materials in his hand, raised his head and said to Zhang Guan: "I can help you find a team that is willing to let you drive, but I can't help you with this 300-kilometer limit! You have to do it yourself Go and drive…”
What is the concept of 300 kilometers? For example, the oldest British circuit, Silverstone, has a single lap length of 5.981 kilometers, and the race requires 52 laps. The total required to complete the race is approximately 306 kilometers. 300 kilometers is equivalent to completing a formal Formula One race. Contest.
A 300-kilometer driving record sounds very simple. Many of our drivers can drive more than that for a long distance. But this is a Formula One car, and it is not as simple as using cruise control to run at a high speed. Some people say that in the worst case, just drive slower, but don’t forget that if the speed is too slow, the Formula One Management Committee will not approve this super driver’s license.
What's more, the engine life of an F1 racing car is much shorter than that of our passenger cars. Passenger cars can run tens of thousands of kilometers without maintenance, but if the engine of an F1 car exceeds 1,000 kilometers, you have to be careful about whether it will suffer from cylinder explosion or other failures. Generally, it is normal for a driver to change engines every three or four races.
The engine of every F1 racing car is worth a lot of money. Scrapping an engine means scrapping a lot of money. Add to that the wear and tear of other parts of the car, and those are also money. It is said that it is running 300 kilometers, but in fact it is better to say that it is burning 300 kilometers! Therefore, no team will give an unknown rookie a chance to run 300 kilometers. Even if you are willing to spend money, they will not be willing to let you ruin their car.
Zhuge Wenbo noticed that Zhang Guan was holding his laptop and browsing the news attentively. He couldn't help but said: "You don't seem to be in a hurry at all! Why do I think you are not worried about the 500 million US dollars at all?"
"Don't worry, don't we have a fleet yet? I have to buy a fleet first, so I went online to look for someone who sells a fleet..." Zhang Guan said.
"Buy a team? What you want to buy is an F1 team! You think you're buying a second-hand car! You're even looking for it online! Do you have any deals? Do you want to wait until Double Eleven to get a cheaper price? I still have some JD points here, maybe I can It’s worth several dollars!” Zhuge Wenbo said angrily. (To make a joke, these didn’t exist at that time)
"Brother Wenbo, don't worry, look, I can't find it!" Zhang Guan smiled and turned over the laptop screen, pointed it at Zhuge Wenbo and continued: "In the Internet age, everything is possible, help me prepare money Come on! Let’s buy this!”
"What? Don't kid me, is there really an F1 team for sale online?" Zhuge Wenbo stretched his head and looked at the screen, which had a string of English titles on it.
"Honda announces its withdrawal from F1"
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