Chapter 579: We Are the Champions!
Although the specifications of the award ceremony are extremely high, the award ceremony itself is not that complicated. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Vladivostok - Mr. Mao Zaixing, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Cape Town Rally, Chairman of the Dahua Motor Sports Association, and Executive Committee Member of the FIA Presidium, presided over the award ceremony.
Under his auspices, the President of the FIA and the Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa presented the Gold Cup of Victory to the third and second place winners of the rally, and finally, the Gold Cup of Victory for the champion was presented by the President of the Republic of South Africa himself.
These six drivers are the brightest stars of the rally, so it's only natural that the highest-ranking guest will present the trophy.
The winners from fourth to 10th place were presented by senior officials from the South African government and the FIA.
The Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally does not have any prize money at any level, but the two drivers who win the championship will receive a gold trophy made of five kilograms of pure gold.
This Victory Gold Cup is a gold cup in the shape of a large truck, and the shape of the gold cup is designed after the first coal truck to arrive in Vladivostok in the famous "Snow Transport".
The Victory Gold Cup is made in such a shape, which is also to commemorate the snow field transport team of that year. After all, the world's most famous car rally was developed on the basis of the snow field transport team's desperate fate to deliver fuel.
South Africa is a world-famous gold producer, every year, the South African government will take out ten kilograms of gold to create a rally champion, runner-up and third place victory gold cup, according to the current gold price, the total value of the ten kilograms of gold is more than 400,000 Chinese yuan, converted into the previous life of the yuan, is also more than 3 million......
The runner-up and runner-up winners have the same shape as the champions' gold cups, but they are smaller. The gold cup for the second place weighs three kilograms, and the gold cup for the third runner-up weighs two kilograms.
As for the fourth to tenth places, there were also 21 drivers who took part in the ceremony, each of which received a smaller commemorative gold trophy. There are also two types of commemorative gold trophies, the fourth to tenth gold cups are made of gold, but the weight is only 0.5 kilograms, and it is only the size of a palm, and the remaining commemorative trophies are not made of pure gold, they are made of pure silver, and the size is the same as the commemorative gold cups made of gold.
If you really want to talk about it, the prize money of the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally is really not very high, even if it is the gold cup of the overall champion, its value is only 200,000 Chinese dollars. But the drivers who can participate in this event are basically not bad for money.
Not to mention those professional drivers, behind them, are world-renowned car manufacturers, these professional drivers have the lowest annual salary of 500,000 Chinese yuan, and those top drivers, the annual salary of 3 million Chinese yuan. And once these professional drivers have won the accolade, the team will be rewarded far more than the competition will give.
As for those amateur drivers, do you think that the people who can drive hundreds of thousands of Chinese dollars modified cars to participate in this rally will care about the 100,000 and 200,000 Chinese dollars?
Those amateur drivers don't care about money, they care about enjoying the rally and, of course, if they can get a good result, they care more about the trophy. That's the sharpest weapon in the living room!
Each trophy will be engraved with the winner's name!
Don't forget, the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally doesn't charge any entry fees, and there is no entry threshold for this rally, as long as you can afford to play and dare to play, then you can come.
There is no registration fee, which means that the organizing committee of the competition cannot obtain benefits through the registration fee, and at the same time, the organizing committee also has to set up rescue teams in some dangerous road sections, and the cost of those rescue helicopters alone far exceeds the cost of making these gold cups.
The main source of funding for the organizing committee is the investment of the car manufacturers behind the professional teams.
Vladivostok – The Cape Town Rally is a worldwide race with a level of audience on par with Formula 1, and car manufacturers are investing heavily in developing cars in order to make their teams do well. Similarly, these deep-pocketed automakers are not stingy to invest huge amounts of advertising money in the event to promote their car brands.
Although the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally rarely has live footage, each driver signs a contract with the race board, which means that the video footage from the dashcam installed in their car will be used by the race car free of charge.
The effect of the video data captured by these dash cams is almost no different from that of the first-person camera, so these video materials will be snapped up by major TV stations after the race and used to broadcast on their respective TV stations. The ratings are quite high.
Advertising investment from car manufacturers and the purchase of broadcast rights by major media and television stations are the main channels for obtaining funds for the Games.
The income from these two aspects is considerable, but that is the ability of the organizing committee of the competition. As for the awarding of the championship trophy, it is a tradition over the years and cannot be changed.
If you think the prize money is too small, then you can participate in other events, such as F1, such as the European Touring Car Tour, the World GT Championship, that kind of event has a high prize money, even if you can win a race in a race once, then the prize money is at least 100,000 yuan.
But that's all for the prize money of the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally! Do you love it or not?
But this rally has been held for more than 70 years, and I really haven't heard of a single driver complaining about the low prize money in the rally.
To be able to get a place in this rally, even if it is only a top 50 place, is enough to make a driver proud for half a lifetime!
The pure gold trophy more than thirty centimeters high was lifted by the Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying together, and what they won was naturally a tsunami of cheers and whistles from the audience.
Fang Zhengying's eyes couldn't find eyebrows for a long time, and the meaning of this trophy was really too important to her.
The other drivers are just as happy. More than a month of hard work, in exchange for even a commemorative trophy, is enough to make them excited.
After the trophy was awarded, the national flag-raising ceremony was held as usual.
After the flag was raised, the hostess carried the tray and presented the drivers with champagne representing victory. This champagne is the world's premier champagne from the "La Jouët de Paris" champagne produced in the Champagne region northeast of Paris, France.
AFTER THE CHAMPAGNE CAME UP, EVERYONE HAD A BOTTLE IN HAND, AND THE SOUND OF THE SQUARE ALSO SOUNDED THE SONG "WE-ARE-THE-CHAMPIONS" LAUNCHED BY THE POWER BAND THE YEAR BEFORE.
The song "WE-ARE-THE-CHAMPIONS" by Queen in the previous life has always been the champion song of major competitions, and after being transported to this world by the grandmaster, it quickly became popular all over the world and became the champion song of major sports events in the world.
Now, the tune reverberates over Cape Town's National Botanic Gardens Square, where bottles of open champagne form a magnificent fountain of champions in unison with the audience singing in unison......
PS: Bow and thank "Ziyan Tianjiao" for the big 500 tip, and "Simple Enemy Sheng" for the big 100 tip.