The 2024 F1 Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai will be held at the Shanghai International Circuit from April 19 to 21.
In the main race on the 21st, Verstappen won the championship, Norris and Pérez were second and third respectively, and China's Zhou Guanyu finished in 14th place.
Due to the entry of Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu into the F1 field, the F1 Shanghai branch has attracted widespread attention, not only many celebrities went to watch the race, but also the scene was full of Chinese spectators cheering for Zhou Guanyu!
F1 has been more than 70 years, and Zhou Guanyu is the only Chinese driver. Why? Because it's so hard to be a regular F1 driver!
How to become a Formula 1 driver? Huge expenses and super talent are indispensable!
After watching Zhou Guanyu's race, many people are enthusiastic and want to become an F1 driver!
So, what does it take to become a full-fledged F1 driver?
To take a less appropriate example, if you want to become an F1 driver, it is no less difficult than the national football team to reach the World Cup final.
Most of the F1 drivers are ruthless people who have come up step by step by leveling up and fighting monsters, and have super talent!
Because, if you want to get a super license for F1, when you are seven or eight years old, you have to start practicing go-karting, this go-kart is not the kind of go-kart you go to the park to play, it costs about 500,000 yuan a year.
Not only that, but you also have to get a more valuable karting race before the age of 14!
Only then can you get into F4, what is F4?
Formula 4 is the FIA Formula 4 Championship, which is a high-level event for young drivers. In the race, the racers drove the same size cars and raced around the track. Formula 4 is an important stage in developing future F1 drivers, with high technical, physical and mental qualities. Moreover, F4 is also highly spectacle, with fierce competition and exciting overtaking scenes.
Formula 2 is the FIA Formula 2 Championship, which is the cushion race of F1 and an important ladder for drivers to F1, but the competition is fierce.
After that, you can get the FIA Super License, which is very strict, requiring drivers to accumulate 40 points over a three-year period and pass a series of tests and assessments. Only drivers with a Super Driver's License are eligible to compete in F1.
As mentioned earlier, the annual cost of go-karts is about 500,000, while the annual cost of F4 is even higher, generally around 5 million!
The annual cost of F3 is even more expensive, at about 7 million, and the annual cost of F2 is about 21 million.
You think that's the end of it?
Because there are only 20 seats for the main driver of F1, even if you get a super license, you may not be able to enter the main race of F1, which means that you must have super racing talent and excellent performance at all stages!
Why is Hamilton an exception?
To become a full-fledged Formula 1 driver, you need a lot of money and a lot of talent, both of which are indispensable. That is, you must have a good family background that can provide you with a huge amount of money for you to train, and it may not necessarily pay off in the future!
However, there is one famous racing driver who is an exception, and that is Hamilton, a seven-time F1 World Champion.
Compared with other F1 drivers with strong family background, Hamilton's growth was extremely difficult, his father was a black Caribbean, and his mother was white.
Hamilton, who developed a keen interest in racing since he was a child, went on the path of a professional racing driver, however, his parents divorced when he was two years old, and Hamilton lived with his mechanic father!
You know, racing training costs a huge amount of money, and the father, who is a mechanic, in order to support his son's racing dream, almost did anything to work four jobs, and even sold his house!
With his father's support, Hamilton began karting at the age of eight, showing exceptional talent and speed in various motor racing competitions, and by the age of ten, he was already a British Karting National Champion, and later won the Formula Renault Championship, the European F3 Championship, the GP2 Championship, and later F2!
After entering F1, he finished on the podium in the first race and finished third, and then with his super talent, he won seven drivers' championships one after another, tied with Schumacher!
Behind the great racer is a great father, who has only got to this point with great talent!
So it's too difficult for an ordinary person to become an F1 driver, and although it's difficult, Hamilton's legendary experience will definitely inspire many young people to pursue their racing dreams. #头条创作挑战赛#