Chapter 777: Crazy Results
This sudden discovery made Liu Zhengfei's hands tremble, and he almost had a car accident.
As early as two days ago, Liu Zhengfei and more than a dozen other champion drivers of the Real Madrid team came to Zurich, and yesterday he also deliberately ran a few laps on the Diebendorf circuit with several champion drivers who participated in today's race, in order to familiarize himself with the track.
Therefore, Liu Zhengfei knew very well that the red car shadow that appeared on the opposite side was about three kilometers away from his position at this time.
If it is on the straight track, three kilometers is only a few tens of seconds for this kind of high-speed racing, but Liu Zhengfei, who has already run this track, knows that after this straight track is over, it is a series of corners, and the speed of the car cannot be raised at all. It takes at least 100 seconds to complete the three-kilometer course.
And Liu Zhengfei also knew that the last five drivers in the qualifying race were driving no red cars except for the grandmaster's car.
In other words, the red car shadow that suddenly appeared should be the black car driven by the grandmaster.
But how is this possible?
The end of this straight track is less than half of the Diebendorf circuit, and if the red car is really the Grandmaster's car, it means that the Grandmaster has taken nearly twenty seconds less than half of the race......
Although Liu Zhengfei is reluctant to admit this speculation, this is actually the case.
Even the grandmaster, after really driving the Wuqi supercar, has to sigh that this car is really very exciting!
The car's body is made of carbon fiber, so much so that the car's total weight drops to less than a ton, which is only 976 kilograms. This light weight, combined with the surging power generated by the 6.4-litre V10 twin-turbo engine, gives the car a powerful acceleration time of 0-100 km/h in 2.3 seconds. And 1,258 horsepower is enough to increase the theoretical limit speed of this car to a terrifying 460 kilometers per hour.
Of course, these numbers are all theoretical, just like in the case of F1 cars, with a total weight of less than six hundred kilograms combined with an engine of up to 900 hp, which is enough for a F1 car to reach a theoretical speed of 960 km/h.
But in fact, due to the limitations of the track, the top speed of F1 on the track is only 375 km/h, even if the British and American teams tested the F1 car at Mojave Airport in southwest California, the United States, only ran a top speed of 415 km/h.
However, although the black horse has a theoretical top speed of more than 460 km/h, this car has really not been tested to the limit since it came off the production line.
In other words, the Grandmaster's qualifying race this time is actually the first extreme test of the Wuqi series.
In order to run the top speed, it has a lot to do with the muzzle speed of the vehicle at the time of departure. Just like in Formula 1, the first lap of the car is not timed, and only when the car completes one lap and enters the second lap at a very high speed.
Similarly, after the Grandmaster drove the black horse out of the Atdisburg Mountain, with the help of the last high-speed bend before entering this straight, he directly increased the top speed of the car, and then after entering the straight, the speed of the black horse was actually very fast. After another six kilometers of continuous acceleration, the car had reached the end of the straight and was ready to start slowing down, the car's speed had increased to the extreme.
The FIA observers who were sitting in front of the monitors and observing the cars were surprised to find that the big red supercar driven by the Grandmaster had reached the end of the straight that was used to test top speed, and the car's instant top speed had increased to a terrifying 456 km/h!
You can't go wrong with this speed, because at the end of the track, there are two electronic speedometers, and the top speed displayed by these two electronic speedometers is an astonishing 456 km/h!
As a professional test track, in order to provide the most detailed data for the major car manufacturers, a total of 540 high-definition cameras are installed on both sides of the track, with an average of one camera every 50 meters. There are so many high-definition cameras that it is enough to monitor everything on the track.
At the same time, there are as many as 88 electronic speedometers on this track, and two electronic speedometers work together at each speed measurement point to ensure the accuracy of speed measurement.
So when both of these speedometers showed numbers that had never been seen before on the track, the whole monitoring room was boiling.
You know, when the McLaren P1 broke the fastest lap record at Ribbendorf two years ago, the car had a top speed of 389 km/h at the end of the straight, not even breaking the 400 km/h barrier.
The most important thing is that the McLaren P1 took more than four minutes to run to this timing point, and the Grandmaster ran to this timing point in less than three and a half minutes!
Obviously, as long as the Grandmaster doesn't make any mistakes over the next 10 kilometres, the fastest lap of the Dybendorf circuit will be greatly improved.
In fact, by the time the Grandmaster set off, the fastest lap record at the Circuit de Ribendorf had already been broken more than twenty times in a row. The drivers who participated in the qualifying session today are not the test drivers of those car manufacturers, although the level of those test drivers is also very high, but compared with these champion drivers, there is still a certain gap.
And today, these champions are all driving supercars with incredible performance, and none of them are necessarily worse than the McLaren P1, not to mention many more powerful than the McLaren P1.
For example, there was a winning driver in a McLaren P1 who ran 8:45 in qualifying, which was well above the previous record for the fastest lap of 8:57, also held by McLaren P1.
The other champion, the Ford SSC-Ultimate-Aero, who currently holds the record for the fastest speed in a production sports car, set the fastest lap of 8 minutes and 38 seconds, and also increased the top speed of the Ford SSC-Ultimate-Aero from 437 km/h to 441 km/h.
The cars are all the same, but whether they can get the best performance of the vehicle depends on the driver!
Obviously, the test drivers of the car manufacturers are really not half a star compared to these champion drivers.
As for the Grandmaster, when he crossed the finish line in the black horse, chasing the butt of the driver who had started a minute earlier than him, the time was frozen at a terrifying 7 minutes and 57 seconds!
This crazy result also drove all the fans in front of the finish line crazy!
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