Almighty Athlete Chapter 350: Trouble for the rich
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In a hotel in the São Paulo wealthy area, the China Force team is holding a dinner to celebrate the victory.
Zhang Guan took a wine glass and walked to Barrichello, and said, "Rubens, I want to thank you very much. If you give me the first place, I won't win the championship."
"This is what I should do, I am the second driver." Barrichello said with a smile.
Zhang Guan can feel a trace of regret in Barrichello’s smile. After all, Brazil is Barrichello’s home country and his home. As a driver who has been driving F1 for more than ten years, Barriche Luo has countless fans in Brazil. Of course he hopes to win a championship in Brazil and give his country and compatriots an account. But in the end he still gave the championship to Zhang Guan, so he made Zhang Guan this season. The thirteenth victory.
Before that, the most winners in a single season belonged to Schumacher's thirteen wins in the season, which means that Zhang Guan has a record to tie Schumacher's. But Zhang Guan's 13-win record is even more gold-rich than Schumacher's 13-win record. When Schumacher set a record of thirteen wins in 2004, there were 18 matches in that year. In 2004, there were no matches between Turkey and Singapore, but there were France, the United States and Canada. This year, North American events have retired from F1, and the French station has been suspended for a few years. F1 games have only 17 games left. Winning thirteen games in seventeen games is naturally more valuable than winning thirteen games in eighteen games.
However, Zhang Guan is not satisfied with these, especially when the Japanese Grand Prix ended and Zhang Guan won twelve wins, a consensus was reached within the China Force team to help Zhang Guan win a 14-game winning streak and surpass Shu. Mach, therefore, had Baricello's car.
On November 1st, in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, the richest place in the world, this year’s Formula One finale battle officially began.
The driver’s championship and the team’s championship have lost their suspense. For other drivers, this race has become a battle of honour, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation. For fans, this race is still full of suspense. : Zhang Guan can break Schumacher's record of 14 wins this season.
A new record was born, and the whole F1 was happy to see it. Even the car king Schumacher expressed his expectations for Zhang Guan in the interview before the race. But not every driver is capable of adult beauty. For example, Hamilton, he was desperately in the qualifying yesterday and got pole position. Today’s race, he once again intends to snipe Zhang Guan, at least let Zhang Guan can not complete the season Fourteen victories.
Unfortunately, God doesn’t stand on Hamilton’s side. On the twentieth lap, the rear brake system of the MP4-24 that Hamilton drove had a problem. He couldn’t control the car on the track. Returned to the maintenance area, and then chose to retire.
Even if it is a civilian car, there is no problem with the brakes, let alone an F1 car with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour. And even if Hamilton dared to drive this problem and continue to drive on the track, the race officer would stop him from doing so with dangerous driving. After Hamilton retired, no one could stop Zhang Guan from hitting the fourteenth championship.
After 1 hour and 34 minutes, after 55 laps of competition, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finally ended, and Zhang Guan also broke the record of Schumacher's 13-game winning streak created by the season.
Red Bull Racing’s two cars performed well, ranking second and third respectively, and Red Bull Racing has thus locked in the runner-up of the season. It's just that in terms of total points, they are a little far from China's power.
"Zhang Guan, congratulations!" Vettel stepped forward to hug Zhang Guan and congratulate him. At that time, Vettel's envious look was personally visible.
"Thank you." Zhang Guan secretly said: "Don't envy me, starting next year, you will have the fastest car."
This season, if it weren’t for Ross Brown to drill the regular loophole and use the double diffuser, Red Bull will be the fastest car, and next year the rules will be more clear, and Ross Brown will no longer have a loophole It can be drilled that Red Bull's design master Newey will show his efforts to create a fastest car, and Vettel will also bring a four consecutive championship to the Red Bull team and become a new generation of car kings.
"Congratulations, I know you can do it." Schumacher also stepped forward and congratulated Zhang Guan. Although Zhang Guan broke Schumacher's record, but at this time Schumacher did not have a frustrated expression, but instead looked at Zhang Guan with a rather gratifying eye.
Just listen to Schumacher and then say: "The season is over, what are your plans next?"
"I have to go back to China first, deal with some things, and then give myself a leave." Zhang Guan said.
"Are you interested in skiing? The ski season in the Alps is about to start, and Meribel is where I go every year." Schumacher continued.
"Skiing? To be honest, I actually don’t know how to ski. In our country, winter sports are not popular." Zhang Guan said.
"It's okay, I can teach you, my skiing skills are not inferior to professional skiers." Schumacher continued: "If you have time, come and relax with me. You broke me this year. It’s a record. I can’t beat you on the field. I have to get me back on the snow!”
Schumacher was very sincere in inviting Zhang Guan. Zhang Guan was really kind but difficult, so he nodded and agreed.
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F1 has entered the offseason. The new competition will begin in March next year. The team’s staff also received a two-week vacation. Zhang Guan also took advantage of this opportunity to return to the country.
Domestic, waiting for Zhang Guan is a variety of welcome and celebration ceremonies, and sponsors swarming with banknotes waving.
Automobile companies come the most. Under the background of the global financial crisis, the sales of commodities such as cars have been greatly affected. Those multinational car brands have not lived well. The traditional European and American markets, The sales of cars have all declined. Only in the Chinese market, car sales have risen against the trend. Zhang Guan returned with the trophy of a Formula One champion, and suddenly became the "sweet bun" in the eyes of the automobile company. The major car companies are not hesitating to make Zhang Guan their spokesperson, and Zhang Guan is waiting for the price to sell, waiting for the car company to give a highest price.
China Force’s revenue last year reached 188 million US dollars. This figure was obtained after deducting the cost. It includes the bonuses received by the team, advertising costs and additional bonuses given by the sponsors. The cost of running an F1 team is actually very high, and every race, the team needs to rent aircraft, rent venues, rent equipment, these are all expensive, not to mention the development of racing cars is a bottomless hole, such as The kinetic energy recovery system burned tens of millions of dollars in Zhang Guan.
This revenue, after paying the team staff bonus and leaving part of the operating funds, is the two major shareholders of Zhang Guan and Ross-Brown. Zhang Guan finally received a share of 100 million US dollars.
It’s quite a lot to earn 100 million US dollars a year. Even the Ferrari team does not have such a high profit, but compared to the 500 million US dollars of gambling, it is really a small amount of money.
Although the original creator Omi has been jailed, the money should still be paid. Omi had no such economic strength, so it was the Maria family who signed the contract. Even if the Maria family didn’t want to spend the 500 million dollars, there was no good way. After all, people all over the world looked at it. .
The world knows about 500 million US dollars, and wants to see if the Maria family is willing to carry out this gambling contract, whether they will owe money or not.
If you let the Maria family choose 500 million dollars or face, the Maria family will definitely choose 500 million dollars. Although it is shameful to owe money, where is the face of 500 million dollars? Even if it is scolded by people all over the world, it may be worth making 500 million US dollars. However, it is written in black and white on the gamble. If the Maria family really does not repay the money, they still have legal means.
For the Maliya family, the simple legal means are not terrible. The Maliya family has industries all over the world. Transnational debt collection is inherently a worldwide problem. There is no alternative.
But when public opinion kidnaps the law, the situation is completely different. The procrastination process can be simplified, laziness can become more efficient, and even things born in the two worlds can cooperate hand in hand.
Not to mention that if you don’t pay the money, it will affect the credit of the Maria family.
Credit is a very important thing. Even the least trustworthy people will desperately hope that others will be trustworthy, so people who don’t trust credit will always be condemned by the public, and honest and trustworthy people will condemn them because their untrustworthiness will be violated. Your own interests; untrustworthy people will also condemn these same kind, the reason is also because their untrustworthy will violate their own interests. This is like a thief, he hopes he can steal the money, but does not want other thieves to steal his money.
This is especially true for people who engage in business activities. In addition to those who do a bargain, compliance with credit is the most basic thing. This can even be regarded as a hidden rule in business activities. For the Maria family to continue to engage in commercial activities, he must obey this unspoken rule.
The Maria family finally returned the money to Zhang Guan, although it will be paid in installments over the next year. In fact, 500 million US dollars is not a small sum for the Maria family, at least their airlines have to buy a few fewer aircraft.
However, what Zhang Guan did not expect was that the 500 million US dollars caused him a lot of trouble.
Trouble for the rich!
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Canteen of the Provincial Track and Field Training Center.
"Come and come, Zhang Guan, often this fried chicken, is the chicken that our team raises, all are free-range, from small to large, without eating a little feed, it is impossible to have hormones. And Xu Da The chef cooked it himself." Coach Zhou transferred the plate of fried chicken to Zhang Guan and used the male chopsticks to sandwich the biggest chicken leg meat with Zhang Guan. He said diligently.
"Coach, you are kind to me, just come by yourself." Zhang Guan took a sip and then nodded: "It tastes really good. I used to eat Chef Xu when I was on the team. The dishes are prepared with less salt and light taste, but the taste is very good."
"Yeah, Chef Xu is a Lu cuisine chef, but he doesn’t like to add salt, which is different from other Lu cuisine chefs. Originally he was not on duty today. I heard that you are here, so I have to come over and make a few for you. "A special dish." Coach Zhou paused, then said: "In the past two years, our team has built a vegetable planting base and a livestock breeding base to provide athletes with pollution-free food. Our table dish, It’s all grown by myself."
"Isn't it? Food safety is indeed too important for our athletes. After more than ten years of hard training, it may be destroyed by eating a bite of pork with Clenbuterol. Now even many vegetables What kind of ripening agent is used, it is not grown by myself, and I really dare not give it to the athletes." Coach Wang said next to him.
"Ah..." Coach Zhou sighed, and then said: "However, growing your own vegetables and raising chickens is not a long-term plan! Otherwise, let's just say that the funding aspect, we can't afford it. Take it. For this chicken, the white stripe chickens on the market will be out of cages in less than 50 days. The time for the grass chickens on the chicken farm will be better, but at most it is three months. And our own chickens are still three months old. No one eats half of the hormone. Our athletes have to eat meat to supplement nutrition~IndoMTL.com~ How can a chicken have to be raised for six months to have some meat, this time cost is a small thing, but this economic cost is too high!"
Coach Zhou said that he picked up a piece of spinach, and then said: "There is also spinach, we grow our own spinach, a lot of pesticides dare not use, if used, I am afraid that athletes will have problems eating. Spinach must be eaten clean by insects before it grows up. The spinach grown on one acre of our land is not as long as others' half acre of land."
"Coach Zhou said yes!" Coach Wang next to him said: "Now the cost of planting and animal husbandry is too high. Fortunately, we are not making money, but it is not a way to lose money. Since After the Olympics last year, sports funds were cut a lot. In 2008, we were able to plant and engage in animal husbandry to feed athletes. At that time, we had a lot of money. But now, I am afraid that it will not be long before it can be sustained Not going anymore."
It is an indisputable fact that sports funds are abundant during the Olympic Games, and after the Olympic Games, it is inevitable to reduce sports funds. The number of domestic sports competitions has decreased a lot, and some tournaments simply cannot run.
This is a drawback of the nationwide system. Even if it wins more gold medals and wins more championships, sports cannot drive the upstream and downstream, and cannot form a sports industry chain. Relying on financial appropriation often appears The situation is: when the money is in place, this sports event will produce results, and the money will be taken away, this sports event will soon hit the street. Of course, there are exceptions. No matter how much money is thrown into Chinese football, it may not be able to rise. Everyone knows that it is not money at all!
Watching Coach Zhou and Coach Wang complaining here, a smile appeared on Zhang Guan's face. He had already seen that these two were singing double reeds in front of themselves.
They are here to ask for money from Zhang Guan! (To be continued.)