What is F 1?

Some people call the Olympic Games, the World Cup and F 1 the three major sports in the world. The first two are very close to us. We just won 32 gold medals in the Olympic Games. Although China's performance in the World Cup was poor, we finally took part in it. Only F 1 is directly related to China this year. So in the eyes of most people, F 1 is still a very strange sport. To put it simply, the current F 1 is that 20 drivers from the 10 team drive their cars on the track with the support of sponsors.

motorcade

The main body of F 1

All the activities of F 1 are around teams. At present, F1* * * has a fleet of 10. Teams are often supported by big car manufacturers, such as Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz of McLaren, BMW of Williams and so on. The team is equivalent to a complete scientific research institution or company, and some people are responsible for the research and development of racing cars; Someone is responsible for contacting sponsors to raise funds; Someone is responsible for publicity and promotion; Someone is responsible for selling things, but what they sell is not F 1 racing cars, but souvenirs of the team ... A team has hundreds of employees, each of whom is an expert in their respective fields.

A motorcade is a motorcade. One of the cores of F 1 culture is motorcade culture, and the performance of motorcade strength directly determines the performance of drivers. During the race, several people watching TV with headphones in the pit are the core layer of the team except the drivers. They are the main race engineer, the race engineer of two drivers, the chassis technical director of the car, the team manager, the team operation director, the track engineer of the test driver and the vice president of the team. Of course, these people don't sit in the maintenance room every game.

player

Speed machine

Two players from each team participated in the competition. The most familiar racing driver now is Schumacher. By the end of the 2004 season, Schumacher had won seven annual titles.

The drivers of F 1 are "rare animals" in this world, and there are no famous sports in the world in which only more than 20 people are qualified to participate. Research shows that the response speed of F 1 drivers is not much faster than that of ordinary people, but their IQ is higher than that of most people. High-level professional drivers have an IQ of over 90% of ordinary people. According to scientific calculation, colin mcrae, the world rally champion WRC's brain can process 33 pieces of information at the same time. Driving F 1 is more complicated than WRC, because there are more function buttons on the steering wheel of F 1, and drivers need to calculate pit stop tactics. Headphones are constantly sending instructions from the team, and drivers have to compete for corners with close opponents. ...

There are 18 drivers in Asia who have participated in the F 1 race. The first Asian driver was Prince Banuband of Thailand. He participated in the first competition of F 1 held in England in 1950. From 1950 to 1954, Prince Banuband participated in the F 19 competition and scored 8 points. Including takuma sato, there are 16 drivers in Japan. In addition, Malaysian driver Xiong Long participated in the F 1 race in 2002. Up to now, there are 18 Asian drivers in F 1 history.

racing car

The fastest car in the world

How fast is the F 1 car? Last June, 5438+February, Schumacher drove the Ferrari 2003-GA in three races with the famous European fighter "Typhoon 2000". The results show that Schumacher's Ferrari 2003-GA has certain advantages in the distance from the start to the first 200 meters. Another feature of F 1 racing car is its high price. No one can tell how expensive the F 1 racing car is, because it is the top secret of every team. However, if the expenses of R&D and testing are not included, we can roughly calculate the value of an F 1 racing car according to the materials and technology-an F 1 racing car without spare parts costs about 7.5 million yuan. Ferrari has to pay $65,438+0,565,438+0 million for wind tunnel test every year. The team of 800 people worked hard for 65,438+0 years, and the team spent 443.8 million dollars, just to increase the average lap time of the car by 0.5 seconds to 65,438+0 seconds. F 1 Reject any aesthetic elements, and the body has no flashy design. It's all about speed. F 1 The eternal truth is that "fast" means "beauty".

runway

The most expensive pavement per unit area

According to different venues, F 1 competitions are divided into street races and venue races. At present, there are 18 races in F 1 year, which means that there are 18 tracks in the world participating in f 1 race. Monza circuit near Milan, Italy is a famous street race, which is called "street fighting". When there is no race, this track is the normal road. Whenever the F 1 season comes, the whole road will be closed for the F 1 competition. The track of Shanghai International Circuit can be said to be the most high-tech track so far, and it is also the youngest track of F/KLOC-0. Because Shanghai belongs to alluvial plain soft soil foundation, there is no precedent in the world to build a high-standard F 1 track on this basis. In F 1 race, the top speed of the car exceeds 300 kilometers per hour, and the track in the shape of "up" is only 13 meters to 20 meters wide, 14 different turning radii, 9 different combinations, and the maximum road height difference 12 meters, which increases the difficulty of the project. Therefore, the investment in the first phase alone will reach 2.6 billion yuan. Not only on the track, but also on other F 1 tracks.