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RadarOnline.com can reveal an inside look to the racing team supported by celebrities, Alpine F1.
While F1 gets a grip in the US, celebrities and professional athletes of A-list have taken the opportunity to get hold of a piece of the ever-popular sport.
The controversial investors who support Alpine F1 are NFL teammates Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney, golf legend Rory Mcilroy and British professional boxer Anthony Joshua.
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Alpine investors Rob Mcelhenney and Reynolds co-owner of Wrexham AFC, a professional football team in Welsh.
While the roots of the team date from the 1980s and have titles of the world championship with racing legends Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, the current Alpine name has been racing since 2021.
At the beginning of June, Alpine celebrated its 100th race in Montreal, Canada, where various investors traveled in celebrities to see the exciting race firsthand.
But before the race started, racing team manager Rob Cherry gave a breakdown of the eye-watery costs to compete.
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Transportation costs
Race team manager Rob Cherry said that the Alpine team is flying 34 tons of air freight to each event next to five sea -cost containers.
With events that take place all over the world, the transport of the vehicles is a huge achievement.
Cherry Reportedly Said: “We actually fly here more than a week before the race.
“We fly 34 tonnes of air freight to every event. We also have five sea containers, and that is only for our team.”
Alpine Schelt $ 500 for every 2 pounds of equipment they need to transport to compete, which on average around $ 15.4 million a year.
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58 Personal Team
The team requires that a crew of 58 people is operational for each race.
Although transporting equipment via shipping containers is cheaper than air travel, each container still runs around $ 250,000 each. With five required for a move, that is $ 1.25 million every year.
As soon as all parts are on site, an extensive team effort is required to make a successful race weekend.
Cherry explained: “Fifty -eight people are allowed to be operational in a racing weekend. Through operations, these are those connected to the car, whether it is a mechanic or an engineer. If you have an input about the performance, you will be deemed to be operational.
“Moreover, we have non-operational roles: marketing, communication, catering. It is a logistics nightmare at the Human Resource side of things, ensuring that you have the people in the right place, especially when we do Triple-Header Fly-Aways, and you send people to the next event, and ensure the next event.
Hotel costs for the team for a week can easily be at $ 300,000.
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In addition to the costs, the increased popularity of the sports has caused a demand for more races, which has now been extended to a 24-race, 10 months season.
Cherry noted: “It takes his toll, you are still gone, you are not going home, you are not completely eliminated, but that is falling apart with a day off for everyone. So, yes, it is still difficult.
“If you look at some of these long triple headers that we do, such as Las Vegas to Qatar, the time zone shift is 12 hours. Plus, you put an 18-hour flight in between. It is difficult for everyone, whatever class of travel you are flying.”
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Cherry said having superstars such as Rory McIlroy is back the team ‘a big problem’.
Cherry also noted that the influence of celebrity investors attend races, which contributed to the popularity and visibility of Alpine.
He said: “If they are present, it’s a big problem.
“It increases our profile in the paddock and certainly with the power of social media, when you look at these big names – McIlroy, Mahomes – these people have so many followers and their connection with Alpine is certainly not only spreading on our platform, but on their platforms.
“It was not that long ago that F1 teams acted for a token pound, and now we are talking about teams that are worth more than a billion. It is therefore a completely different world. It all helped to push that ahead.
“And these people would not have been interested, I am sure that investing in the team 10, 15 years ago. There is a reason why they are now interested because there is a lot of money.”
