Volume 1 Chapter 57: The Game Begins

"This is different from the road book I learned before?" Xing Yu was in a mess when he got the road book, looking at the road book with only a rough route map, and then told a few iconic scenes, what big stones, herdsman road, three trees...... A road book does not have any coordinate location except for the three necessary PC points.

"I said the little race, do you think it's the same as the one you learned in school? You read the road book well, study it carefully, don't let me run the wrong way, you don't care about the rest, and the training school teaches you the rally stuff, and ours is a cross-country rally. There is no one to teach in the country. "Shi Hui is already used to it.

"If you don't give the coordinates, you have to check the trajectory later, isn't this a hooligan?"

The competition that Xing Yu and Shi Hui participated in was called the Ancient Silk Road Rally, and they looked at the introduction of the organizing committee.

The total length of the stage is 600 kilometers, don't think that this 600 kilometers is very simple, and it may take more than 7.8 hours to run on the highway, but this is a cross-country rally, which gathers various landforms in the northwest region, deserts, Gobi, soft sand, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, canyons and the Yadan landform group with great characteristics, providing a diversity of landforms for the cross-country rally, and the track can reach an altitude of up to 3200 meters.

Participants will be immersed in the charm of the ancient silk road and experience the desolate and rough dust of the northwest. Looking at the scenery during the competition, and looking at the scenery that others can't see is also a feature of the competition, a reason for people to yearn for.

The special stage of this race is about 400 km. A total of 4 stages are set up, of which SS1 is a super short track, the road conditions are Gobi, and the total length of the stage is about 8 kilometers;

S.S.2 is a group of Gobi, soft sand, Yadan landforms and gravel roads, with a total length of 180 kilometers, except for more than 30 kilometers of soft sand roads, there is nothing to worry about, there are clear road signs.

SS3 is a mixture of soft sand, Gobi, desert, riverbed and gravel roads, with a mix of tangible and invisible roads, and the total length of the course is about 160 kilometers.

SS4 will be carried out in Zhangye Desert Geopark, for canyons, grasslands, slow water roads and shaped gravel roads, the total length of the stage is 200 kilometers, of which more than 90 kilometers are competing in the Tengger Desert, and 30 kilometers of shaped roads, just to prepare for the final sprint, who doesn't like speed? The hardships in the desert are over, and it is undoubtedly very cool to arrange such a high-speed stage.

"SS1 is simple, just for the back of the starting order, we just finish the lap, this section is a stylish road, I will completely obey your command, you don't make a mistake, I can't make a mistake. Shi Hui sat on the folding chair and spoke to Xing Yu on the side.

Unzip the racer suit, this one-piece racer suit, Xing Yu is wearing it for the first time, it is too stuffy and too hot. The upper body is directly naked

"It's a stylish track, but it's also an unpaved road, and there are some gravel, dirt, and sand. Isn't it a bit dangerous to go full speed, the organizing committee didn't give us a rally table, in case the dust gets up, I don't know if there are other people's cars blocking our way. ”

"It's okay, there's no master coming. Didn't you ask a lot of questions about the navigator during the training? Don't ask Lao Lu all, you see who cares about the navigator, everyone is about the same level, and I haven't seen any good cars, EVO is already a ruthless character. I'm sure there aren't many navigators who can surpass your expertise. For this competition, Shi Hui is still bound to win.

When they were running in together before, Xing Yu began to tell Shi Hui that 123456 is the direction of the time of the watch. The first on the left is the small curve on the left, the third on the left is the right-angle corner, and the sixth on the left is the turning back. Fly Jump; It's just that there is a dead-end road in front, which is not high, and you can fly over directly with refueling...... Thinking that Shi Hui has also participated in so many competitions, he actually doesn't know anything about the terminology of piloting.

"Huh...... The ones that worked with me in the past didn't work, otherwise I wouldn't have failed to finish so many times. Shi Hui is still obsessed with the past pilot.

What are the responsibilities of a navigator?

To put it bluntly, it is a blind man carrying a cripple on his back, and this is how it is in layman's terms.

Because the navigator is the eyes of the driver, conveying some information on the track to the driver, controlling the pace of the race with the driver, and more importantly, stabilizing the driver's mentality.

Because sometimes, for example, if your driver overtakes a car in front of him, he may be very excited and happy, and then he starts to lose his ability and runs very fast, and then you have to tell him to hold on, because finishing is a prerequisite for finishing the race to get points. So I think it's very important to control your emotions.

The two of them are like a marriage, the most important thing is to fit, and after a race, they basically know whether they will be "happy or unhappy" in their future life. Some people spend their entire careers looking for a pilot that suits them, and it often happens that they change their leader for a race. Some people meet the right person at the beginning, and there are many long-term lovers, and they cooperate with each other, as long as both parties have time permitting, they will not be replaced.

It's still a point of view, matching is the most important, there is no "best", only "suitable"

It can't be said that Shi Hui's previous navigators are not good, it's just that they are not suitable. This also has a lot to do with personality, Shi Hui is too strong, the navigator also needs to have his own opinions, when the racers are too excited, they must organize in time, didn't Lao Lu say?

You run fast, fly high, the car breaks down fast, the chance of an accident is also high, the car breaks, do you carry it to finish the race? If you can't finish the race, what results do you have?

On the first day, the starting order of the SS1 ultra-short course was decided by lottery, and the organizing committee took the lottery with it when it took the road book. There were more than 60 cars in this competition, and 21 people were drawn to start, and Shi Hui was still very happy.

There is an advantage to start in the middle of the race, there are people in front of you to find the way, where are the rut marks, and it is rare to run wrong. Roads are not so badly damaged by vehicles and do not cause any new obstacles.

Although it is a short-distance rally, the organizing committee does not allow participants to explore the road before the official competition begins. This is a test of the vehicle's capabilities, with the rider and navigator cooperating. There are also some small insiders of the race organizers, in order to protect the results of local drivers, and the results of some sponsor teams.

Local drivers, and sponsor teams, may have already run the track I don't know how many times when planning the track and exploring the path, even if the car is not good, they can run better, they all know where to accelerate, where to collect fuel, where to make sharp turns, where to hairpin turns.

In "Initial D", Takumi Fujiwara has been running downhill and racing against others, and he doesn't know how many times he has run this route every day to deliver tofu, and he goes to run the Takahashi brothers' land - Akagi Mountain Road, Nikko City National Highway No. 120 Track, Nagao Circuit, Gunma National Highway No. 18, and it is time to run several times in advance to familiarize yourself with the road before you go to the race.

Therefore, the familiarity of the track is also crucial. Not to mention the familiarity of the vehicle, from changing the racing engine to the Subaru Impreza Impreza that directly replaced the Toyota 86 with a 4WD Subaru Impreza, Takumi has a long time to get acquainted.

Since buying this EVO, in addition to modification and maintenance, Shihui has been constantly familiar with the car conditions in various venues, hoping to achieve the realm of integration of people and vehicles as soon as possible.

After inspecting the car, waiting in line for the departure, Shi Hui took out a small wine jug: "Come on?"

"I'll forget it, you should drink less. Xing Yu didn't care.

What is this, have you forgotten the story of pulling wood in the woodyard earlier?

Such a small race, there are no points from the CAA. Requiring a racer's license and mandating the installation of a roll cage is already much more professional than other competitions.

In this way, no one will take care of you after the car inspection is completed, you drink some, and no one will trouble you, the track is closed at zero hour, and there will be no social vehicles to participate. So the danger only exists between the riders, off-road races, it must not always be a good road, some sharp turns against the cliff, do you slow down or accelerate the corner?

Rallies, especially this kind of not too formal race, are all enthusiasts, enthusiasts come to participate, there are few professional drivers, the competition is who releases the throttle, who loses.

"Racing car No. 021, ready" came the shouts of the referee of the organizing committee from the loudspeaker.

Put on a helmet, fasten your seat belt, start the car, see that everything is normal, and Shihui drives the car directly to the starting platform.

With a half-helmet, the engine was roaring again, Xing Yu held a small book of road books in both hands, raised his voice, and shouted: "Nine hundred meters of full oil, see the left 2 of the tree, and connect the gravel road with half oil." ”

Shi Hui, who was also wearing a helmet, only looked at the black and white flag held by the referee there, and didn't look back: "It's a little louder for a while, I can't hear it clearly." ”

The red lights in front of the starting platform went out one by one, the red lit up, and the referee began to wave the flag: "Departure 021!!"

Release the clutch, throttle to the end, and immediately shift into third and fourth gear. A strong feeling of pushing back, even on the all-inclusive professional seat, Xing Yu felt dizzy.

The 3.5 EVO is not blown, and the speed is instantly increased to 100 kilometers per hour. For the sake of power, the straight-row and large-caliber air intake have been changed, and the roar has drowned out all the movement around it.

"See the tree left 2, gravel, road surface 500 meters, right third, half oil. Xing Yu raised his voice, and his own roar seemed so insignificant under the roar of the engine.