In fact, this money is nothing, there are a lot of 'invisible' expenditures: scientific research fees, design fees, wind tunnel test fees, etc., etc., that are all desperate to burn money, in 2015, when Ferrari in order to catch up with Mercedes-Benz, that year alone R&D budget was 600 million US dollars! This is only one year!

This rhythm of burning money is really not something that anyone can resist, and Toyota, Honda, Renault and other teams have withdrawn from F1, and only ten teams participate in F1 this year. This increases the team's dividends and reduces their risk of losing money.

But there is also a problem with this, that is, there are fewer advertisers and less attention. This is not good for the long-term development of F1. So let Todd find Xiao Peng, anyway, you're not short of money, build an F1 team?

But Xiao Peng was obviously not interested in this interest. There are so many rich people in the world, how many of them go to Formula 1 cars? This is a bottomless pit of extremely risky investment!

Xiao Peng thought for a moment and said to Jean Todd: "Mr. Jean Todd, you just said that I have a very good connection, but have you considered a question? Why did I never ask my connections to promote this matter after the car park was built? Just waiting for the approval of the FIA step by step?"

Jean Todd said without thinking: "That's exactly what I asked, that's why I have this visit, and I want to know what Mr. Xiao really thinks." ”

Xiao Peng replied: "Mr. Jean Todd, you still don't know our Huaxia, if you know our Huaxia racing market, you won't ask this question." ”

Todd was puzzled: "Please ask Mr. Xiao for advice." ”

Xiao Peng said: "Our Huaxia, the real development is actually the last 30 years, the original material life is not rich, at that time it is better to go to a technical school to go to college." Although we have a huge population base and a considerable number of fans, there are really not many racing drivers, after all, racing drivers are burned with money, and it is the luxury of many professional racing drivers to create income through competition. ”

"The fans of Huaxia are divided into two factions, one row is the 'academic' who fell in love with racing because of the popularity of F1 in China more than ten years ago, keen to study the rules and tactics of F1, obsessed with V10 engines, and often complain that the engine restrictions are too strict, and it is too boring to cancel the refueling during the race。。。。。。。 Jean Todd, you are well-known in China because of this, it happened to be the most popular era for Ferrari at that time, to be honest, I still don't understand why you passed the 'cancel the in-race cheers' rule, Ferrari's 'four melee combat' strategy back then was talked about, you single-handedly pushed it to the top, how did you decide to pass this decision?"

"I just want to get the competition back on the track and make the gap between the drivers less. ”

Yang Meng pouted on the side: "Come on! The current F1 is to see which team has a higher investment and which team has a better car." Running in circles, boring to a certain point. At that time, the cooperation between the team and the driver, using tire change, refueling, and the driver's technical cooperation to win the championship! What about now? It is purely the starting position after qualifying! If this continues, F1 is getting less and less enjoyable, how will it develop in the future?

Todd was stunned: "Mr. Yang also likes racing?"

Xiao Peng pouted: "You just treat him as a strengthened version of Sato Takuma." ”

Let Todd stay in a cold sweat after hearing this. Takuma Sato was in the F1 era, and the name of the 'Cylinder King' was not for nothing.

It is said that F1 drivers are worth a lot, but there are exceptions, after all, there are only more than 20 drivers, and there are many people who are qualified to drive in F1 who cannot play, so what should they do if they want to play?

It's not that there's no way ------ spend money on a spot, which is a paid driver.

One of the ways to do this is to sell their seats, which is very common in the racing world, and even Schumacher, the king of the year, was able to enter the industry because of this.

The so-called paid drivers are the drivers themselves who find advertising sponsors, and then the advertisers pay to contact the team for a place to participate. As the economic pressure on the F1 team increases, the big team is okay and is not afraid of losing money, but for the small team, it is necessary to try their best to return to their original cost. As a result, the driver's position is getting more and more expensive, from the highest of 3 million a year, to the current 40 million a year!

Now Covyat and Pérez are such paid drivers, paying their own money to join the team to compete in F1. Huaxia is not without good drivers, such as Cheng Congfu and Ma Qinghua are very good drivers, but because there are no strong sponsors, so far they can only be test drivers.

This Takuma Sato, who is a paid driver, found a sponsor of the Japanese country to participate in F1. It is the billboard which Wakoku will walk in F1.

But Sato Takuma is in F1, it is really mixed like a DOG, when CCTV broadcast F1 live, the driver who was complained about the most was Sato Takuma, and at that time everyone wanted to figure out a question: 'This Japanese devil, can he drive?'

Takuma Sato's driving style is known as the 'suicidal driving style', and it is suspected that his driving skills were learned from the Shen-Feng-Dare-Death-Team, and he is nicknamed the 'King of Cylinders'. Especially in the 2006 Belgian race, he crashed into the car of the 'car king' Schumacher, which caused the latter to retire.

All in all, Takuma Sato existed as an 'F1 joke' at the time. After participating in 91 races in F1 in seven years, he retired 32 for various reasons, scoring only 44 points in total, but did finish on the podium once, in 2004 in the Stars and Stripes, with only eight cars finishing。。。。。。

Of course, Takuma Sato is a joke in F1, but after all, it is also one of the more than 100 people with the best driving skills in the world. His problem is that his driving style is too special, otherwise he would not have been given the nickname of 'Cylinder King'. Later, in 2009, with the withdrawal of the Super Ajuri team from F1, Takuma Sato had no advertisers, so he lost his job from F1.

In 2010, Takuma Sato entered IndyCar, which is known for its violent accidents (or a sponsored driver), and the completion rate improved greatly, participating in 125 races and only one retirement, but the results were also mediocre, until he finally won the Indy 500 championship last year. Of course, this also deserves respect------ after all, he is forty years old!

Xiao Peng said that Yang Meng is a 'strengthened version of Sato Takuma', really because Yang Meng is more enthusiastic than Sato Takuma. This guy may not know where the brakes are! No major accidents have happened, and small frictions are constant. Otherwise, it is impossible for Xiao Peng not to know why Lamborghini car repair is so expensive!

After all, people's luxury car maintenance is one word: replacement, and because of the high price of parts, 4S stores will not have spare parts, and if they need to be replaced, they must be imported from abroad. Of course, the cost of repairs is high. It's all Yang Meng's experience in repairing cars。。。。。。。

However, Yang Meng didn't care about Xiao Peng's evaluation, he was not ashamed but proud!

Xiao Peng despised him in his heart, and continued to say to Jean Todd: "The other fans are learning about racing cars step by step from daily use and even modification, and pay attention to racing cars. These 'grassroots' drivers want the cars on the track to be closer to the cars they use every day. Such car fans make up the majority of our lives. ”

"Nowadays, the most popular racing cars in our country, especially the low-level touring car races, occupy the right time and place in terms of promotion and commercial operation, and the most successful case is the CTCC China Touring Car Championship. Due to the influx of money from car manufacturers, the touring car race has greatly improved the income situation of the drivers, and the number of salaried drivers has increased, so that more and more drivers are joining the touring car race. The formula race has also been ignored, and it has lost its popularity back then. ”

Listening to Xiao Peng's words, Todd had a different opinion: "You can't say that, after all, F1 is the top event in the world of racing." It stands for high speed, high technology!"

Yang Meng snorted coldly after hearing this: "What's the matter? High-speed and high-tech? Can the current F1 be compared with the past? The small-displacement car is playing around, and it can't enter the pit stop to refuel, and overtaking is getting less and less." What could be better than a touring car race? It's a crash and an overtake, it looks better and people are more willing to pay attention to the sport. What about F1 now? Queue up and run in turns, and you can hold your position without making mistakes, which is very boring. ”

Yang Meng is really right, the current F1 is indeed much less enjoyable than before. He said that F1 was a 'small displacement', and he was not talking about it. The FIA has been making a fuss about engines all these years and has been limiting engine displacement.

Many people know that F1 is the fastest motorsport, and they all think that F1 cars are the kind of cars with large displacement and high horsepower, but in fact, this is not the case, and now F1 cars can only use 1.6L turbocharged engines, which is an out-and-out 'small displacement'.

Until 2006, F1 was still a 3.0-liter V10 engine, but in 2006 it was changed to a 2.4-liter V8 engine, and now it is a 1.6-liter V6 engine, but turbocharging is allowed.

Of course, this 1.6-liter turbocharged engine is a serious 'super engine', not to mention such a small displacement, but it can provide 800 horsepower!

The secret to the power of this engine lies in the engine speed. Ordinary family cars enter the red line after 6,000 rpm, and 8,000 is the limit, while this super engine, when idling, is 5,000 rpm, and the fastest is limited to 15,000. However, the fuel flow rate is restricted, resulting in the actual maximum speed of about 12,000.

Of course, this also leads to a very short engine life, and it is normal to change several engines in a season. So F1 burns money.

This super engine is indeed a high-tech embodiment, but it also seriously affects the spectacle of Formula 1. At least for Xiao Peng and Yang Meng, who like large-displacement sports cars, they are very uninterested in this kind of 'super engine'.

Xiao Peng pointed at Yang Meng: "Na, what Yang Meng said just now is what I want to say." ”

"With all due respect, you just said that the Chinese Touring Car Championship, although it is the only national touring car event supported by the FIA, but compared with the international level and F1, there is still a gap. "Let Todd say.

Xiao Peng shrugged: "As long as the sponsors like it, the fans like it, this is the best event." You can question the economic level of the CTCC, but as a commercial event, there is a balance between cost and technology. This is something that CTCC has done very well. ”

After hearing this, Todd frowned and said: "Mr. Xiao, you can't say that, I have watched all kinds of video materials of your car park, and it can be said that your current car park is the top car park in the world, if you don't hold an F1 race, isn't it too wasteful?"

After hearing this, Xiao Peng replied with a smile: "Actually, when I first built this racing track, I thought about building a top-level racing circuit according to F1 standards and making it the best F1 track in the world, but when I knew what was going on。。。。。。 I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been foul. And I said that since I found out that I would have to give you 30 million dollars after running an F1 race, I felt bored, and I was going to give you money to promote it, and I was not interested. ”

Todd listened, "But F1 can bring great prestige to your car park. Convenient for you to make better profits, Boss Xiao, don't you think it's a waste for you to invest so much to build this top car park and not hold F1? If there are not enough races, when will you be able to earn back your investment?"

Before Xiao Peng could answer, Yang Meng had already laughed on the side: "Earn back the investment?" haha, let Mr. Todd, believe us, we may not see that day in our lifetime." ”

"Huh?" made Todd stunned.

Xiao Peng explained: "Investing in the construction of this car park, I have solved a lot of employment problems, and several nearby towns have made profits because of this project, which is enough for me, besides, let Mr. Todd, do you know? Just because of your FIA leader, almost all the car parks now lose money, and the organizers have to pay money to hold a big event, so I am special。。。。。。 I'm sorry to explode again. I'm paying somebody to run a race on my track? Am I that cheap?"

Yang Meng said to Jean Todd: "Mr. Jean Todd, do you now understand what I mean when I say 'I can't see it in my lifetime'?"