Volume 1 Chapter 56: Preparation for the Competition
The day after drinking, Xing Yu was checking the information of Pajero EVO on the Internet, the company was still lifeless, and everyone had not yet come out of this turmoil, Zhou Long came once in the morning, arranged work, and went out.
Now that Zhang Junping has resigned, and the company is not manpowered, Zhou Long can only take Ma Jie to the 4S store that Zhang Junping maintained a relationship with before to get acquainted.
The company left Xing Yu and a few people to stick to their posts, the weather gradually increased in temperature, and the off-season for buying a car has arrived. It stands to reason that the higher the weather, the more you want to have a trolley.
Sitting in the car blowing the air conditioner is more comfortable than waiting for the bus on the road and waiting for the taxi to come, right? The reality is that the hotter the weather, the fewer people come to buy a car. The sun is so strong that people are reluctant to go out and want to stay at home and blow air conditioners.
The whole big market, because of the emptiness, plus the reflection of the vehicles. It's like a big steamer, watching the car for three minutes and sweating for two hours. The black car can be stir-fried on the hood. The few trees that were the only trees had their leaves curled, and the scene that used to be very popular was now surprisingly quiet, except for the occasional chirping of cicadas.
Nowadays, there are more cars than people in the market, and the people who visit are all car dealers, hoping to meet ideal customers in this hot summer.
Those who can come out to buy a car on this sunny day are definitely the most reliable customers. If you don't pay off your life, you can't invite someone to eat, let alone come to the steam room to buy a car.
Xing Yu's phone rang suddenly: "Hello, how can I help you?" After years of sales, I have developed a habit of subconsciously saying this sentence when I call.
"I told you yesterday, let's go to the game together, how are you thinking about it, there are still a lot of things to arrange. Shi Hui's voice came from the phone.
"Brother Shi, how about you go for a few days? I'm going to ask for leave in advance. Xing Yu replied.
"It's just four days, two days early, one day to acclimatize, and then one day back, eight days. Shi Hui said, "But you have to prepare in advance, do you have a racer license? I don't have to study for three days, first take an F photo for emergency, throw away the helmet of your motorcycle, the quality is too poor, it will be fatal." Racer uniforms, there are people on the club's side who can customize them, and they also have to measure the size, and the two of us have to get acquainted with each other, each other, and the ...... of the vehicle."
Listening to Shi Hui's various arrangements, Xing Yu also had a headache. "Why do I still need to get a racer's license as a navigator, and where do I go to study for the exam?"
"You have to, or you won't sign up, now it just so happens that Lao Lu has a class in the city, I'll sign you up first, and you will go to study tomorrow." The tough style brought to Shi Hui by his military career reminded Xing Yu of his father, who was the master of everything and didn't care about other people's feelings at all......
Fortunately, it is the off-season, and when you come to the company in the morning to report, you can find an excuse to go out to see the car and skip work, Xing Yu drove his Cherokee to the study class in the northern suburbs early.
When I arrived at the parking lot, I found that I was surrounded by first-class jeep Wranglers, Toyota Prado, Cruisers, and FJs. His own Cherokee looks a bit out of place here.
Walking into the conference room, Lao Lu was already sitting with a few organizers, and Shi Hui stood up and hurriedly introduced.
Lao Lu Ke is a legendary figure, known as the "Chinese car king" Born in Nanjing in 1957, he joined the army in 1974 and became an airborne soldier. In 1982, he was transferred from the Airborne Forces to the newly formed special police force, serving as the head of the special police scientific research team and guiding the special driving of automobiles.
From 1985 to 1996, he went to the UK seven times to learn professional racing driving skills and was mentored by world champion Colin Mcrare.
During the same period, he participated in the Hong Kong-Beijing Automobile Rally on behalf of the "555 China Rally Team" for 7 times.
In 1986, he won the second place in the Hong Kong-Beijing Automobile Rally and the champion of Group N. In 1993, he won the N-class championship and the N4 class championship in the Hong Kong-Beijing Automobile Rally, and was awarded the "Best Driver in Asia" award.
In 1992, on behalf of the "Mitsubishi Marlboro Racing Team", he participated in the Paris-Moscow-Beijing cross-country rally.
From 1997 to 1999, he represented the "Credit Store Mitsubishi Rally Team" in the National Automobile Rally Championship and the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.
In the three years from 1997 to 1999, he won the individual championship of the National Rally Championship five times and the individual championship of the year twice.
From 1997 to 1998, Lao Lu led the team to win the annual championship of the National Rally Championship twice.
In 1998, in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (China), he won the championship of Group N and Group N4 again, and was awarded the "Best Chinese Driver Award" by the competition.
From 2000 to March 2002, he represented the "Red River Rally Team" in the National Rally Championship and the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.
In the two years from 2000 to 2002, he won the individual championship of the national championship four times and the individual championship of the year once. In 2000, Lu Ningjun led the whole team to win the annual team championship of the National Automobile Rally Championship, and in 2001, he led the whole team to win the runner-up of the annual team in the National Championship.
Since 2003, he has been participating in the Paris Dakar Rally, the ultimate goal of all off-road racers, and has also achieved great results.
When he sees an idol, Xing Yu must shake hands strongly, take pictures, and sign something is also essential.
After sitting and chatting for a while, the classmates came one after another, Pan Minglun also came, he was very happy to see Xing Yu, and after saying hello, he sat next to Xing Yu first.
"You're a fake off-roader, what are you doing here?" Xing Yu wondered.
"If you coax it, I'll take a look, do you know all the classmates in the class?" Pan Minglun asked rhetorically.
Now Lao Lu is basing some vehicles, Xing Yu's desertion is nothing, looking around, I found that the twenty or thirty people who came were basically acquaintances, most of them were playing Cherokee, Beijing 20 jeep all the way, Long Long actually came, I didn't see it just now.
"I basically know everything, what do you want to do?" Xing Yu asked in a low voice.
took out a pen and paper, Pan Minglun began to pretend to listen to the lecture, and he didn't listen to the drawings in his hand, and those who didn't know thought he was taking notes seriously.
"How many bosses, industry elites?" Xing Yu smiled at the note passed by Pan Minglun, it has been so many years since graduation, and there is still a note passed in class.
"Basically, if you don't have money, you won't come here, and the registration fee is not cheap. This time, it was opened in the city, and those who were very busy with work also came. Xing Yu also finished writing quickly.
"Do you know everything? Then introduce me at lunchtime, and now listen to the class" Pan Minglun finished writing quickly, and sat upright, looking like a good student.
Lao Lu talked about some off-road racing related knowledge in the morning, multi-point seat belts, roll cages, helmets, Hans (racing neck protection tools) racer suits and other driving safety-related equipment.
At noon, it was a fast food prepared by the organizers, because it was not good to drink when studying, Pan Minglun took a cola and pulled Xing Yu to get to know him one by one.
"Xing Yu, you're starting to go on the road too, huh, are you here to steal my business?" When he walked to Long Long's side, he grabbed Xing Yu and asked.
"It's Brother Shi Hui, give me the name, we're going to run a race, what kind of business?" Xing Yu looked dazed.
"What about that person you brought with you? You've been handing out business cards, is it the boss of your car dealership? Long Long continued to ask.
"He's a contractor, a friend I know, and I just happened to meet him today. Xing Yu hated others for calling him a car dealer every day, so he never thought that he would also be called a bad name.
After chatting with Long Long alone for a while, Xing Yu also figured out that Long Long and Pan Minglun were not drunkards, but about human cooperation.
They didn't think about going to the life competition, they just knew that there would be a lot of big bosses coming to such a training class, and the purpose of coming was to meet more people and enhance their relationship.
Long Long and Pan Minglun, who had impure motives, sat together in the afternoon, and began to explain some theoretical knowledge of racing in the afternoon, and the explanations of starting, emergency braking, safe driving, and cornering on the gravel track made Xing Yu fascinated.
Walk fast on the sand, walk slowly on the water, and rather bear than fly. In the soft sand, you should increase your speed to prevent the car from getting trapped. It is not clear to understand that the surface of the water should pass slowly, and who knows if there are large pits of stones underneath that will damage the car. When crossing the sand beam, I would rather have a chassis on the slope frame than fly, who knows how high the distance is on the opposite side.
Many of the driving characteristics in the desert are contrary to those of road driving, so you have to experience and master them from scratch.
If the sand has a lot of resistance, the pine oil truck will be slow. Use the accelerator pedal to control the vehicle as much as possible, use the brake sparingly, and use the point brake if necessary. The sand is tight and the water is slow, and only by maintaining speed can the vehicle be effectively controlled.
At the beginning of the entry, the sand beam should be from low to high, and the side slope angle should be from small to large, don't be too excited. Shabu slope rolling beam does not need to be deliberate, mileage car feels, naturally there is a side slope, try to pull it up, only then can there be enough potential energy to do action, choose the route. It is very normal for the body to roll thirty or forty degrees in the desert, and this situation is the precursor to overturning while driving on the road, and the right foot will habitually step on the brakes and go up the direction, so the novice will hang on the side slope and the knife beam, which is relatively dangerous.
Driving in the desert on a road that you can see or judge is the control of the throttle and direction. Following the trend is king, the sideslope loses momentum, and the direction is always downhill, even if there is a pit at the bottom, it is better than overturning.
The choice between the two powers is often encountered, and the desert seems to be soft, but in fact it is extremely strong. When you get stuck in a car, you can go back immediately, change your route, and then move forward. Playing early and slow, taking off the lap and delaying the time is not good for the tires. Reversing keeps the body vertical.
When the speed is fast, try not to press the grass. The grass roots are hard and will bounce the tires.
If you really can't go up, don't rush hard, you can go around. The large and small beams should pass at an acute angle as much as possible, go high and not low, have a good line of sight, and do not fly. Especially for long wheelbase cars, the rolling beam technique is more important. The sharper the knife beam, the smaller the angle of cutting, which I experienced.
When you first enter the desert, you can find the feeling through the knife beam vertically, but with the accumulation of experience, basically all the beam heads are rolled by, safe and dry, hehe. Of course, the structure of the desert is different, and the way to use the beams should be adapted on the spot, and it is inconvenient to wait until summer and winter to open out of the lake.
This is the end of the day's study, and tomorrow I will not sit in the conference room for class, and I will find a venue for practical operation.
Deliberately found a venue with complex roads, this kind of training is not suitable for the kind of track in Weishui Park, and it is not the training of the RV race. I found a track on the edge of the Bahe River in the eastern suburbs that had previously hosted off-road vehicle track races.
Lao Lu first reiterated some driving skills here, and he first performed some skills such as cutting corners, drifting, high-speed cornering, breaking through, and downhill, and began to let people get started directly.
Pan Minglun, a shameful person, slowly rushed up the high slope and didn't dare to come down, which caused everyone to laugh.
The venue is learning, and everyone is much more lively than yesterday. Listening to lectures is not a hobby of these big bosses, off-road driving is. Many people began to show off their skills, which provoked Lao Lu to reprimand him for a while.
"In the game, the most important thing is to play consistently. Safety first, it's a dangerous thing in the first place, and you're still playing thrilling. ”
No matter what, everyone happily completed today's study.
Then there is the exam, there is not much written things, basically or based on actual driving, as long as the skills can be successfully completed, and then by the China Automobile Sports Federation training center issued by the rally driving training certificate, China Automobile Sports Federation issued by the F class rally car sports license, can participate in the China Automobile Sports Federation organized a variety of related competitions.
This time, they are all F-level licenses, and the F-level licenses are: issued by the China Automobile Federation, allowed to participate in the national automobile independent starting events sponsored or approved by the China Automobile Federation (car drift, straight line racing, truck races, etc.) and all domestic "road" races (rally, short track, off-road rally, off-road rally, rally pilot, off-road rally pilot, hill climbing and other independent start races), as well as approved by the Chinese automobile by the province, city, Regional competitions for group or independent starting events hosted by the Autonomous Region.
Through your continuous participation and accumulation of points, you can gradually upgrade to the A-level license.
The dinner party after studying is also indispensable, and this is the time to contact the relationship, Long Long and Pan Minglun were the most excited, and began to toast everywhere with wine glasses, and even Xing Yu received a lot of second-hand car sales orders.
The driver's license was in hand, and he also received a lot of business by the way, which made Xing Yu very excited, no wonder Pan Minglun, who had never been to cross-country crossing once, had to come to participate in a training, it seems that the competition circle has begun to be not pure.