I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

'Major car companies and enterprises have certain concerns about their projects.'

"Oh."

Medea understood: "If I remember correctly, Hal should have one year left in his term, right?"

'...Um.'

Anna nodded with a grim look on her face. This guy is so unlucky. He brought people to the scene to watch the fireworks. How could the investors still think this project is reliable?

He is in an even worse situation. The investors and advertisers who had already made agreements with him are now wavering. The future of the entire event has become uncertain. His good political achievements may now become a stain, and it will not be easy for him to pass the re-election evaluation.

After all, no one knows whether the Super Formula is a starter that can promote the development of the state, or a super unfinished project.

Chapter 445 Xintianyou

While the progress of the Super Formula in Astar was hampered, the F1 Grand Prix next door had already kicked off.

In order to match this unprecedented competition with a grand enough stage, the state of Alos spent a huge amount of money, vowing with no budget limit to make the F1 event a big hit.

To this end, they built four racing stadiums with the highest-standard professional tracks in their own state, and cooperated with other states to build 15 professional tracks. At the same time, relying on the state of Alos's own advanced technology and equipment in main battle tanks and fighter jets, they have greatly optimized the racing cars.

Several wind tunnel test bases have even been opened for this purpose to improve the aerodynamic design of the racing car's appearance. These projects are free for all car companies inside and outside the alliance. As long as your proposal is approved by the technical team, you can get the usage indicators of wind tunnels and supercomputers.

This is not the bulk of the money spent. In order to make the event large enough, the project team also supported five small car companies that have talent but are not large enough to support the R&D investment of F1 formula cars to form a grand event with 20 teams competing.

The technical level of the racing car has basically caught up with the standards of around the millennium in Medea's previous life, and already has the prototype of a modern formula car.

Of course, the car problem is actually the easiest to solve, but the selection of drivers is more puzzling.

First of all, only magicians of the two races, humans and beastmen, who are below level 1, can participate in the F9 event. The physical fitness of magicians below level 9 has not been optimized and improved. When they don't use magic, they are very weak, and are even not as strong as ordinary men.

This solves the problem of fairness in drivers' physical fitness to the greatest extent, but F1 itself has very high requirements on drivers' physical fitness, which must be accompanied by professional training.

A strong body is the most basic requirement. The Formula 1 series does not currently support electric drive technology, so turning the steering wheel requires more than 30 kilograms of arm strength. Moreover, when turning at high speed, the centrifugal force on the driver's head can reach around 5G.

It only takes 350 seconds for a racing car to accelerate from the lowest speed to 4 kilometers per hour, or to slow down from high speed to low speed. The head will be pushed forward and backward during emergency braking and starting. When braking strongly, the force applied by the driver to the pedal is about 125 kilograms, and can reach up to 160 kilograms.

For example, the driver who has passed the test now has a neck circumference that increases from the initial 35 cm to an astonishing 47 cm after training, which is almost as thick as the waist of a slim girl. The heart rate of a racer during the competition is 195 beats per minute, and it has to last for the entire race.

In order to provide safety protection, the temperature inside the car can reach as high as 50-60 degrees during the race, and it is common for drivers to become dehydrated and lose 5 kilograms after a race.

The most difficult aspect is to ensure the coordination of body and muscles after training. They cannot be too weak, nor too big and strong to add weight to the car. They are required to increase strength without increasing weight. In short, it is a hassle.

Even the overall goal of these harsh conditions is not to win the game, but to protect their lives.

Those who can meet such physical fitness requirements are elite talents who are more than qualified to fly fighter jets and perform aerial maneuvers.

However, no matter how many difficulties there were, with the addition of talents from all over the world, it was still easy to gather more than a hundred initially qualified quasi-racing drivers. They underwent a hellish training for about half a year, and finally less than 30 people graduated with qualifications.

Then comes adaptive training, car companies conduct bidding and ranking contracts to select the starting drivers, and the competition officially begins.

After the heavy advertising campaign and half-price discounts, the first F1 race was packed with people, and a large number of citizens and tourists from all over the world came to watch the race.

Because it was in its infancy and the rules were not complicated, the threshold for watching F1 was very low. You only needed to know that the drivers' results were calculated based on their rankings at each station, with points based on a 10-point system, until all the races were completed and the total score was calculated to get the final champion.

Speed ​​is the thing that is most likely to arouse passion, especially in the close-up live broadcast of the cockpit camera. The roar of the racing car and the violent speed from the first-person perspective will make people's blood boil.

Before entering the track, each driver received warm cheers from the audience. A big brown-haired boy blushed shyly when the audience cheered him on, looking like a steam boiler, which made the audience burst into good-natured laughter.

At the same time, there were some heart-wrenching cheers. Elton turned his head and looked in the direction of the cheers in his native language and waved happily, because he saw his mother and sister.

He is a Demetrian, that is, a former Vatican citizen, but the Vatican was destroyed by the attack of the three countries of Ernesto. It was with the strong advocacy of Seris that they succeeded in establishing an independent country from the established situation of being occupied by Ernesto.

Seris provides economic aid to the world, but not the entire world. There is a part of the region dominated by Ernesto and Surya. As former victims of the Demetria Church, the two countries naturally have no good feelings towards Demetria, so how can they give much aid?

Coupled with the previous economic crisis and the Ponzi scheme, Demetria's economy has been in a slump and needs to be rebuilt.

Their national credit is bankrupt, and their national self-confidence has long been completely destroyed. Coupled with the severe economic situation, Demetria has been in great chaos since its independence, and its level of development has not even reached the level of the Papal State period, which has further aggravated the degree of unrest.

Today, Demetria is synonymous with poverty, backwardness and barbarism. It is the sick man of the main continent and is incompetent at everything.

All this has nothing to do with a small person like Elton, but he doesn't think so. He thinks that although he cannot make the country rich and strong, he may be able to find a way to cheer up the ordinary people of Demetria and rebuild their homes.

"Wow..."

Amid the roar of the engine, Elton, fully armed to the teeth in a closed-body suit, drove the car attentively on the track. The leader's nervous voice came from the headset:

[Elton! According to the Union Meteorological Bureau, there will be a heavy rain soon, visibility is less than 20 meters, slow down and pay attention to the road conditions. ]

"know."

As Elton responded, a drop of rain on the helmet goggles hit the lens, and was quickly blown away by the airflow caused by the high-speed running, and then heavy rain poured down in an instant.

Elton looked at the gradually blurry track and suddenly smiled and said to the team leader: "Maybe I can give everyone a surprise."

【what? 】

All the cars driving in the rain began to slow down to avoid dangerous situations such as tire slipping due to speed. With an average speed of around 200 kilometers, the consequences would be disastrous if the wheels slipped.

But slowing down does not mean that you are completely out of danger. When one car was slowing down to turn, its rear wheels slipped and it lost control and hit the guardrail, causing exclamations from the audience. Fortunately, the speed was not very fast and the driver's life was not in danger. However, this also made everyone aware of the dangers of racing in the rain.

Just when everyone's attention was drawn to the car accident, a car that almost no one was paying attention to began to roar and accelerate, with huge tires splashing huge water. On the slippery road with visibility less than 20 meters, the speed was increasing in an orderly manner.

Each of his laps was one to two seconds faster than the previous one, and he moved from seventh place to the top three, closing in on the second-placed driver.

[Surpassing Nicky! Elton is second! ]

[On the most dangerous track in the world, Elton is approaching the number one driver in the rain at a speed that is fatal! ]

The roar of a powerful engine was approaching, and in the rearview mirror of the first driver, a green car shadow emerged from the rain and launched a silent challenge to him.

[Ayrton has a chance! I think he's going to overtake! ]

As the two cars got closer and closer, Elton still braked one step later than his opponent when approaching the next bend, and instantly kept pace with the opponent at a higher speed and occupied the best angle for cutting into the corner.

[Nanni first, Elton second...]

One step slower, one step slower, in the rain he could only watch the green racing car gradually pull away and take the lead.

【Elton tried to overtake Nani! He did it! 】

【Elton is in the lead! He's in the first place! He's like an elf in the rain! 】

[Ayrton crossed the finish line! Ayrton won! ]

After crossing the finish line, a small group of Demetria people in the stands went completely crazy, waving the Demetria flags in their hands desperately, screaming and cheering, and the audience in the surrounding stands also applauded.

[This young man from Demetria is about to win the first Grand Prix championship trophy in F1 history! He is also the first champion trophy winner in F1 history. His name will be firmly tied to F1! ]

【He is Elton!!!】

There were no fans for the first game, as no one could even recognize all the players. But the champion was very recognizable because there was only one of him, which also gave the public a preliminary impression of Elton.

In the rain, Elton held out the small flag of his country and waved it towards the audience. On the podium, he held up the flag of Demetria and waved it towards the reporters who were taking pictures. The crowd below cheered loudly.

"Elton!"

"Elton!"

【Oh~ Elton is waving his country's flag again. 】

[Let us once again congratulate this young player from Demetria for winning the trophy, Elton!!!]

The stadium, which can accommodate 20,000 people to watch the game, was packed with people and suddenly erupted in thunderous cheers. The audience showed great enthusiasm for this novel way of competition.

Elton's family members were in tears, cheering and screaming desperately, and kept repeating to the audience around them that Elton was their relative. They felt proud to see the envious eyes of the people around them.

Thousands of miles away in the Demetria region, young people who had nothing to do on the streets except fighting and stealing, children playing in the dust and mud, and middle-aged people who were drunk at home or in the tavern, all looked up at the loudspeaker on the street railings when they heard the name of their own country.

In recent years, apart from credit bankruptcy and various defeats, they have lost almost everything they can lose, and even their reputation is only negative.

It seemed like... this was the first time in many years that they were not greeted with insults and boos when they heard the name of their own country in public in another country.

champion...

Maybe, they aren't so bad after all?

They need a lot of things, food, education, hygiene, safety and many more, but what they need most is a little joy, a little bit of happy news.

Now, it's here~

This is what the league hopes to see, and it is also the main reason why the league recruits players from all over the world at all costs.

In addition to enhancing exchanges between countries and providing additional markets, sports competitions also have the additional function of alleviating the rebellious emotions of people in small and weak countries.

In the real world, there may be strengths and weaknesses in military and economic status, and there may be high and low living standards, but at least in the field of sports competition there is relative fairness. We can stand on the same stage to compete with major powers and tell the world that we also have things that we are good at.

Ordinary people watching the game can vent their frustrations in life and relieve their negative emotions during the tense game. They can even become more united because of a sport, or simply change their own destiny.

Whatever you can get out of it, at least it won't be anything negative.

Elton is not an exception. According to the league's sports competition plan, there are many foreign players like him. As a leader, the league's current interim goal is to teach them so that they can independently support one or two projects they are good at, and then achieve the effect of letting a hundred flowers bloom in the future.

Of course, the alliance is not at a loss. After all, as the country least affected by the war, it has no need for reconstruction and is a mature market in itself. It is fully capable of cultivating and taking over the market, and will inevitably get the biggest piece of the pie in the sports dividend.

Seeing the great success of the first F1 race, the governor of Astar was very excited because the tourists attracted by the event also greatly boosted the growth of service industry data and the surrounding souvenirs were sold out every day.

Greedy.

Unfortunately, his Super Formula project suffered a setback and he would definitely not be able to catch up with the enthusiasm for a while. He could only find a way to complete the improvement and assembly of prototype No. 3 as soon as possible, and continue to manufacture prototypes No. 4 and No. based on some data sent back by the exploded prototype No. .

A staggered manufacturing approach is adopted, with one vehicle being used to collect data, one vehicle absorbing the data after debugging, and the other vehicle being used to improve and optimize various defects to speed up the finalization of the mass-produced vehicle.

Compared to F1, the technical difficulty of Super Formula is much higher. After all, the thruster mode has been introduced. It is a big project to allow the thrusters to exist without affecting the shape, structure and weight of the car.

However, the No. 1 prototype still provides a lot of valuable information, such as the feasibility of body variable design, the optimization of body structure strength at ultra-high speeds, and practical data of detonation thrusters, etc.

Chapter 446: The Governor Who Cannot Be Saved by Gods

A country cannot stand without the trust of its people. This phrase alone is used to describe people, but the excerpt is referring to a country. It means that a country will collapse if it does not have the trust of its people.

Medea copied the original versions of many classic works from the previous life to this world for students to study. He used an aristocratic education system that was different from this world to reshape an independent cultural circle as the core for integrating all races.

'this...'

Dorothea understood exactly what Anna meant, so his expression became even uglier, and for a moment he couldn't decide whether he should explain it to Anna.

But Anna was too lazy to argue with him and said directly: "Let's deal with this old man's problem first. If you have any difficulties, just tell me directly and I will help you solve them."

"I want to see how powerful his background is to make you, the governor of GM's old district, give him some face."

Dorot quickly stood up and waved his hand: "No, no, no need to trouble the leader. I will definitely get the compensation back for the old man before tonight and give him an explanation!"

You must be kidding. If Anna really makes a move, he won't be able to run for re-election next time. Even if he is banished to a poor government office, it will be considered a token of appreciation from the alliance for his hard work and great contributions.