The inside of the truck is modified with three bucket racing seats, which is different from the other classes, in the professional arena, the truck T4 group, also known as the rescue group.

The rally is divided into categories for cars, and in terms of cars, they are T1/T2/T3/T4 group/open group/new energy group.

Group T1: Pure modified car.

T2 Group: A group that is specially prepared for production vehicles of manufacturers' fleets, but there are rules and regulations for the modification of production vehicles, and they are basically modifications for safety regulations.

T3 group: that is, those ATV, UTV/ATV and other special racing groups.

T4 group: This is a group specially prepared for the production cars of the manufacturer's team, but this group is all trucks, and in addition to the competition, the truck group also has to undertake rescue missions.

Open Category: Professional Baja Racing is in this category.

New Energy Category: Electric Vehicles, which is a new category that has not been available in the past.

T4 is a lifeblood for riders. In the 2011 Dakar, Zhou Yong, who had the potential to set the best result in history, suffered the misfortune of water entering the engine cylinder in the penultimate stage. It was the T4 truck that dragged him back to Daying after 25 hours of ordeal, and finally finished 22nd - the second best result of the Chinese driver that year to write a new history.

T4 is the logistics of the main combat vehicle, and the one who drives and leads the vehicle is the logistics soldier. When Volkswagen participated in the 2009 Dakar Rally, three T4 and two T5 trucks were supporting the three participating cars. "The T4 that serves as an escort not only has the ability to quickly provide backup services, but also has the same super combat effectiveness as the main battleship. In the Kal cross-country race, the T4 is driven by veterans on the battlefield whose driving skills are not inferior to those of the main drivers, and the pilots are all-rounders who can lead the way and repair the car.

In long-distance cross-country racing, there has always been a very human rule: the rider cannot finish the race with external forces, but the riders are not limited to helping each other. Therefore, many teams sign up for T4 trucks not to compete for the championship at all, and the main focus is on how to do the logistics of their own cars.

Why does the truck have three seats? In addition to the driver piloting, there is also a place for the maintenance technician.

The large compartment at the back of the truck can also hold all kinds of maintenance parts and tools.

Shi Hui pulled, Xing Yu and Xue Guodong ran around, and from time to time said that they wanted to drive this truck to participate in a ring tower.

Because these trucks don't have a nose, sitting on them, you can see all the roads at a glance, powerful power, you don't need inertia to rush through all kinds of obstacles, this feeling is like a roller coaster sitting in a row, except for the sky, and the track, you can't see anything.

Rushing uphill, downhill, visual impact, more exciting than off-road vehicles, high perspectives, some stones, puddles, no need to think about avoiding, step on the accelerator and pass smoothly.

The only downside is that the car is too noisy, and the roar of the diesel engine makes the people in the car have to shout out to hear.

Shi Hui, driving a truck, far less handy than driving an off-road vehicle, the steering wheel of the truck is also much larger than the off-road vehicle, and the two hands must keep making circles and correcting the direction to ensure that the vehicle does not lose control.

Xing Yu also got in the car and experienced it for a while, and found that this big thing was really not suitable for him, not to mention rushing down the slope and turning around, which made Xing Yu feel embarrassed.

The huge body, the four rearview mirrors can't see the whole car clearly, holding the steering wheel always has a feeling that someone is going to fall, and there is no sense of car at all when sitting in the car.

The car feeling is a very mysterious thing, driving a habitual vehicle, you can know where the car is without looking at the rearview mirror, side parking, reversing into the garage, are like fingers.

But now, Xing Yu only has the courage to drive around casually, fortunately, it is an automatic transmission, if it is a manual transmission, what one and a half gears, two and a half gears can make Xing Yu one head and two big ......

As soon as Xue Haidong got started, the feeling of being comfortable was basically the same as driving a small car in normal times, and even the speed of reversing on a section of the road was faster than Xing Yu's advance.

"Have you played a game before?" Shi Hui asked with some surprise.

"No, I've always wanted to, but I've never had a chance. Xue Haidong smoothly rushed up a dirt slope before saying.

"And you're a truck driver?" Shi Hui asked with a look of disbelief?

"I drove it for a long time, muck truck. Delong F3000, the first time to open the four-wheel drive, but the manual transmission, I drove more. Xue Haidong said.

Later, Xing Yu listened to Xue Haidong talk about this matter, muck trucks, buses, taxis, and called the killers of the city's three major roads.

Muck trucks are generally active at night, is calculated according to the number of cars, generally on the road to see Xing Yu will be far away, these cars run up you chase me like a race, and the muck truck drivers are not unaware of the dangers of speeding, overrun; the reason why they have to take risks is mainly because the freight rate is too low now, and there is no profit if they do not exceed the limit. And many drivers also said: The treatment of the super must be cured, if it is not cured, it is equivalent to white treatment. I also don't want to run an overrun car, but once someone overruns, it will affect our business.

Xue Haidong said that some places to take out the garbage, you can only reverse along the road all the way in, otherwise there is no way to unload the goods, this road is not a big straight line, there are uphill and downhill not to mention, but also zigzag, if you want to grab time to make money, you can only step on the accelerator to the bottom and pour over.

The roadside is also full of all kinds of construction waste, engineering waste, novices can't pour it at all......

Not only have I driven a muck truck, but I have also driven a coal truck under the mine before. Under the dim mine, when the vehicle enters the empty car backwards, the narrow pit can only allow one car to slowly pour in, and the vision is affected, and the hearing is also seriously affected by the echo of the machine......

It was under such an environment that Xue Haidong's ability to drive a truck was honed, and Xing Yu asked him later, why didn't he have the courage to run a cross-country track race now after the truck had been driven in such a dangerous situation?

Xue Haidong replied: "Who said that I don't have the guts, I'm just too busy now, and I will definitely participate in the competition if I have the opportunity......"

Xue Haidong's technology of driving a truck made Shi Hui admire, this batch of Shaanxi automobile trucks, now the manufacturer deals with them at a low price, and the people who buy the car are some rich idlers, who usually drive off-road, play in the desert and quagmire, but the truck is far behind, so good power, so strong passability, there are still people trapped in the car.

In addition to his own Huo mud, more often than not, he also has to rescue other friends, and there is a car stuck in the mud by the river, which is too deep.

In the end, I had to resort to a large forklift to tow it out.

In the evening, Shi Hui made the east, invited everyone to dinner, and once again expressed his idea of using a truck to run the ring tower.

According to him, there are very few trucks in the ring tower now, and as long as they can finish the race smoothly, they can achieve good results.

The truck group can also better get the sponsorship of some manufacturers' teams, these manufacturers' teams also need to be backed up to guarantee, ordinary vehicles can't fight with the racing car on the track, in case you need help, your own team's T4 group, that's essential.

After playing for an afternoon, everyone's enthusiasm for the truck has faded a little, and many people are very self-aware and will not imagine the scene of driving the truck to the race.

Only Shi Hui and Xue Haidong were very attentive to the game, and the two quickly put aside the other people's happy cups and changed the glasses.

"In the Shaanxi Automobile Factory, there are German original man and KAMAZ as a data model, I have a friend who said that those cars also have to be dealt with, these cars are not allowed to go on the road without procedures, if you want to race, choose these cars, it is much more reliable than the Delong driven today. Xue Haidong, who is not strong enough to drink, is worthy of being a person who has been in the truck business for more than ten years, and there is no rumor outside the internal news of these manufacturers, and he knows it well.

"Man and Kamaz, are they four-wheel drive?" Shi Hui asked with concern.

"Well, it seems that there are not only four-wheel drive, but also six-wheel drive, if you are interested, we will go to the factory tomorrow to have a look." Xue Guodong didn't have any interest in these cars that couldn't get on the road before, so he didn't pay much attention to them, and he didn't dare to make any affirmations when he said about the configuration.

In the 60s of the last century, in order to meet the growing demand for transportation, the former Soviet Union needed more efficient heavy transport vehicles, and at that time there were no manufacturers who could provide such products, and decided to launch a project of heavy-duty trucks with a cargo capacity of 6-20 tons in Tatarstan (Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation) - Naberzhnye Chelny, which was later called the "Kama Heavy Truck Production Program", that is, "KAMAZ".

KAMAZ-MASTER was founded in the 90s on behalf of KAMAZ, originally to showcase the company's products, but soon became the most outstanding team in all the cross-country rallies of the Russian state, and has since represented the national team in various international competitions, showing the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan to the world.

With six World Cup champions and eight world-class team titles in the team, KAMAZ-Maestro is now widely regarded as the number one team in the world's best sporting cars.

In the 2010 Dakar Rally, Germany's MAN card played an important role in the entire Karl Rally, that is, the safety car, which shows that the stability and reliability of MAN trucks in very harsh conditions are very high.

Shi Hui, who wanted to participate in the competition, coveted these two cars for a long time, and if it wasn't for the late hour, he would have liked to go to the manufacturer now.

A prototype car is usually introduced to a new market or a new car, which refers to the remodeling or redesign of the car with reference to other original models of the same brand within the company, or with the development of a concept car. The model he was referring to was a prototype.

At present, the Passat field produced by Volkswagen is designed and produced with the Passat B5 model as the prototype model, after secondary development.

The Passat is good, at least it is their own products, many domestic car manufacturers do not develop their own, buy a model directly from abroad, measure it, and trim the appearance slightly, so they will take other people's design and technology as their own...... Like the T600 and X7, which have been sold the most recently, I don't know what to do with the Tiguan and Aurora......

Shi Hui and Xue Haidong met for the first time to drink, and the two of them already had a tacit understanding, so they got rid of Xing Yu early the next morning and went to the manufacturer to see the car......