Chapter 775: Liu Zhengfei's Wish
The race started quickly, and of course, this so-called competition did not refer to the official competition, but to the qualifying round.
Each of the drivers who came to these two races today has a world championship title, and no one is worse than the other, so how to decide the starting position, or according to the rules of F1, qualifying.
Whoever runs the fastest will be at the front!
This is the fairest approach.
Of course, qualifying at Diebendorf is not as complicated as qualifying for F1, and this time it only takes one lap to go. These drivers will be given a car every minute to determine their qualifying positions within an hour.
There are 57 drivers, 57 world champions, the oldest of whom is 58 years old this year, having won the F1 championship in 1992 and 1993.
For the fierce sport of track racing, I have never seen a driver of this age in an official race. Generally speaking, it is extremely rare for a driver over the age of 40 to be able to ride the track.
But the 58-year-old driver is obviously not old-hearted, and judging by his size, although he is nearly 60 years old, he still maintains a very good appearance, and even when he puts on the helmet, you can't tell that he is an old man in his 60s.
As for the youngest, Liu Zhengfei, a 23-year-old Chinese who is only 23 years old this year.
The young man's father was a maintenance engineer for the Real Madrid team, perhaps because he was raised from a young age, Liu Zhengfei was madly obsessed with the sport of racing at a very young age, and did not even go to college, and after graduating from high school, he became a test driver for the Real Madrid team of the Cape Town Rally, and became the team's official driver at the age of 20. When he participated in the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally for the first time in 2017, the Grandmaster met this young man.
After two years of training, in this year's Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally, Liu Zhengfei and his co-pilot and navigator drove Real Madrid's classic off-road model "Manniu" 500 modified car, and won the championship of this year's Vladivostok-Cape Town Car Rally with a result of 27 days, 3 hours and 48 minutes.
It also broke the record set in the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally, which had been held for almost 50 years.
In the more than 60-year history of the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally, the shortest time it took for a driver to travel from Vladivostok to Cape Town was 27 days, 7 hours and 23 minutes. This record was set in the seventies of the last century, and no one has broken it until now.
However, Liu Zhengfei broke this record at the age of less than 23 years old, shook the world, and was hailed as the most potential new star in the racing industry.
The first to start was the oldest world champion.
In fact, the competition in the over-40 group is more of a manifestation of feelings, and the result is not important.
These people who once led the trend on the track are now retired, and many of them can't even drive a car, like Claire, who is over 100 years old, but the FIA still invites them to come, which is a great expression of sentiment in itself.
The real highlight was the under-40 competition. Although several of them have retired in this group, they are still in very good shape, competing with those fierce little guys, and no one dares to say who will die.
They may not be as physically strong as the young people, but in terms of experience, they are old enough, and that's where their advantage lies.
Moreover, in these two races, each race is only five laps on the track, even if you add the lap of qualifying, the total mileage is only more than 160 kilometers, which is only about half of an F1 race, which undoubtedly reduces the physical requirements a lot. Even older drivers can easily complete the race.
The order of starting is arranged according to the age of the car, they are all world champions, and it is not good for you to let anyone start the car, just arrange according to the age, and no one can say anything else.
Respect for the elderly and love for the young is also prevalent abroad......
The Grandmaster is the second-to-last among the 57 drivers, and there is only one Liu Zhengfei who is younger than him, and the other champion drivers are all older than the Grandmaster.
Liu Zhengfei is actually a big fan of the grandmaster, in the 2017 Vladivostok-Cape Town Car Rally, he just became the official driver of the Real Madrid team, and represented the Real Madrid team for the first time as the main driver in the Vladivostok-Cape Town Car Rally. It was also on that day that Liu Zhengfei witnessed the Grandmaster and the Lord of Yingyun driving the modified tough guy together and set off first.
In the more than 70 years of history of the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally, there has never been a driver who was the first to start and eventually win the championship, after all, the qualification to start is obtained through entertainment, but those professional drivers really have few entertainment cells, so almost every session of the starting qualification will be won by those stars.
However, in the 72nd Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally in 2017, the Grandmaster and Yingyun County Lord relied on their starting qualifications, and then led all the way, never being surpassed, and finally won the championship of that rally.
This result also broke a race record!
And this record was broken by two amateur riders.
Although Liu Zhengfei knows very well that with his master's driving skills, he is definitely better than the top professional drivers, but when he runs the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally, he really competes as an amateur......
Originally, Liu Zhengfei admired the grandmaster very much, and that year the grandmaster easily won the championship of the rally, which made Liu Zhengfei admire the five-body throw to the ground and became a diehard fan of the grandmaster.
Today, when Liu Zhenfei learned that he would be the last to start, and at the same time he was still next to the grandmaster, Liu Zhengfei was very excited.
Idols are meant to be worshipped, but in what way should they be worshipped?
Fans of each idol have different ways of expressing idolatry, and most fans will be very rational when they see the idol they worship, but there are also fans who will do some unbelievable things.
The most serious are those extreme fans, such as John Hinckley in the United States in his previous life, who did not hesitate to shoot US President Ronald Reagan at gunpoint in order to express his admiration for his idol Jodie Foster......
Liu Zhengfei is certainly not so extreme, but he is also ready, that is, to express the worship of idols in his own way.
Liu Zhengfei is ready to surpass the starting car idol in qualifying!
In Liu Zhengfei's understanding, the greatest respect for idols is to show him his best side......
PS: Bow and thank "Kunpeng 3357" for the big 200 tip, "Proud Wolf Proud" and "Tianxia 2003.2016" for the big 100 tips each.