Chapter 559: Pivoting

Although a small city, Angoche is an important port city in northeastern Mozambique, built here as early as the 17th century. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mozambique's main agricultural specialties, such as cotton, cashew nuts and sisal, are exported in large quantities from the port of Angoche every year.

The town is built on the seafront, and the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally is located near the southernmost port of the city, which is also the most prosperous area of Angoche.

In fact, when it came to Angoche, the sixth transit city, the cars did not come to this small city in batches, even the drivers of professional teams, by this time, they had already distanced themselves.

The gap between the schedule of one or two days is very common at this time.

It's as if it's March 25 when Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying arrived at the Angochet check-in office, and before they know it, the two of them have been running the rally for a full 29 days, and the second-ranked driver is estimated to still have at least a day's schedule with Grandmaster.

As for the many amateur riders who take their time to enjoy the scenery along the way, some of them have not even finished the first stage.

This is not unusual, the first stage is about 3,000 kilometers in a straight line alone, and even professional drivers need to run about 4,000 kilometers if they do, and as for those amateur riders who don't take their position to heart and are dedicated to "racing second, sightseeing first", they rarely run the shortest distance.

For these amateur riders, where the scenery is good, is where they stay. Even for some scenic spots, they can travel hundreds of kilometers as far as possible. Therefore, the shorter the better, in the eyes of professional riders, is nothing at all in the eyes of these amateur riders.

Some of these amateur riders can run six or seven thousand kilometers in the first stage, plus these riders stop and stop while playing, and there are many people who can't finish the first stage in a month.

Otherwise, there would not be a single elderly couple who drove a rally and only ran it for a whole year.

So, by the time the riders arrive at the last transit city, Angoche, it's usually completely open.

In fact, when you run to this city, basically the final ranking of this rally will basically be determined. After all, the straight-line distance from Angauche to Cape Town is only about 3,000 kilometers, but from Angauche to Cape Town is very easy to walk, as long as you bypass two mountains on the road, the others can basically go in a straight line, and most of the road is grassland or next door, desert, extremely easy to run.

Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying were naturally the first to sign in at the Angochet sign-in desk. After signing in, the two of them went directly to the fixed supply point of the Real Madrid team. Although Angoche is a port city, the whole country of Mozambique is very poor, and there are no decent hotels even in this port city.

Rather than staying in those messy hotels, Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying would rather go to the supply point of the Real Madrid team to rest.

After eating dinner and resting for a while, the Grandmaster spent more than two hours at the supply point to thoroughly overhaul the car, then replenished the necessary supplies, and brought a 100-liter oil drum to the car, so that he could rest with peace of mind.

Now that he knew that there was a defending champion chasing after him, the grandmaster discussed with Fang Zhengying on the way, and in this last stage from Angochet to Cape Town, the two of them rotated in succession without resting.

At most, it was a distance of 3,500 kilometers, and the Grandmaster thought that he would be able to persevere in reaching the finish line.

The defending champions must have learned at the sign-in office in Dakar how far they are from themselves, and the Real Madrid fixed supply points on the road can also allow the defending champions to calculate the gap between themselves and them, so if they rush desperately, the last 3,000 kilometers of more than 3,000 kilometers may really be able to overtake them.

More than 30,000 kilometers of race have been completed, and they have been leading, if they are overtaken at the last moment, the grandmaster is not willing.

Work hard, work hard, anyway, it's the last trembling, as long as you can win the championship, then this hard work is nothing.

It's not a blessing to run this kind of rally itself, but to be happy, a fool will participate in this kind of rally, how good it is to be comfortable from home.

After picking up all the things, the Grandmaster slept comfortably and restlessly, restored his physical strength and energy to the highest level, and early the next morning, the two of them set off in the light rain.

After starting from Angochet, we continued to speed southwest, and although it was raining lightly, it did not affect the sports car. The car was speeding across the prairie, at great speed.

To circumnavigate the Inyanga Mountains between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, as well as cross the Zambezi River and the Sabi River on the southern side of the Inyanga Mountain Range, the Guru had to drive across the river at La Pongwana.

It is easy to say that it is easy to cross the Zambezi River, although this river is the fourth largest river in Africa and the largest in southern Africa, there are still many road bridges on this river.

Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying crossed the mighty Zambezi River with the help of a road bridge over Kaya, an important town in central Mozambique, and then continued southwest from Kaya, where the next river to cross was the Sabi River.

The Sabi River, the boundary river between the states of Manica and Gaza in Mozambique, is the same as the Rovuma River, which the Guru once crossed, and is even worse than the Rovuma River. Because there are no road bridges on the main stream of this abundant river, except for another road bridge near the mouth of the river downstream.

Without a highway bridge, it would be impossible to cross this large river, which is hundreds of meters wide during the flood season, and as for the detour to the mouth of the river, the Grandmaster does not want to detour that way. A round-trip detour, at least 400 kilometers more.

Therefore, the guru decided to cross the river in the mountain town of La Poonwana, where the upper reaches of the Sabi River are located. Located in the southern foothills of the Inyanga Mountain Range, the town is small but has a road bridge over the upper reaches of the Sabi River......

Angauche was a thousand kilometers from La Ponvana, and the Grandmaster hurried to cross the Sabi River from the town at almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

After crossing the Sabi River, walking forward is basically a flat river.

After passing through the valley between the Inyanga Mountains and the Sotpans Mountains in South Africa, there are flat savannahs and semi-grassland and semi-desert areas, which are high in altitude but very flat enough to be used for a sports car......

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