Chapter 432: The Game of the Brave
On the earth in the past life, there was a motor sports project known as "the game of the brave" and "the world's toughest car rally", that is, the famous Paris-Dakar car rally. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Coincidentally, in this world, there is also a motor sport called the "sport of the brave", that is, the famous Vladivostok - Cape Town Car Rally.
Compared with the Paris-Dakar rally in the previous life, the Vladivostok-Cape Town rally in this world is undoubtedly more powerful.
First of all, from the history of the competition, the Paris-Dakar car rally that was only held in 1798 in the previous life was only held for less than 40 sessions before the grandmaster crossed, and it was suspended for a year due to terrorist attacks.
The world's Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally has been held for 71 years, starting in 1945, at the end of World War II, and until now, the world's most famous car rally has never been stopped.
Secondly, in terms of distance. In the previous life, the Paris Dakar Rally had a total mileage of only about 13,000 kilometers, but after the event was moved to the South American continent, the total mileage dropped to about 9,000 kilometers, and the total time of the entire event was only more than half a month.
And the Vladivostok Cape Town Car Rally in this life is remarkable, just from the name, you know where this car rally starts and ends.
The starting point is Vladivostok, located in the northeastern corner of the Asian continent, while the ending point is Cape Town, at the southern tip of the African continent. The distance between the two cities has exceeded 15,000 kilometers in the air, and the total mileage of the actual race has exceeded 30,000 kilometers!
As for the race time, the total time of the Vladivostok Cape Town Rally is usually more than a month, and some drivers take even longer.
In fact, unlike the Paris Dakar Rally in the past, the Vladivostok Cape Town Rally is more of a grand group tour than a car rally.
In the previous life, the Paris Dakar Rally also had various strict rules such as the number of kilometers of the stage, the timing of the stage, and the strict restriction of the fuel used for the race, and each participating car had to complete the race in the specified time in the specified section, otherwise you would not have a place in this race.
This is a different story with the Vladivostok Cape Town Rally, where there are not so many strict restrictions in the world's oldest and most difficult car rally.
Like the stages, there is no such thing as this rally. The starting point is the town square in Vladivostok and the end point is at the foot of Mount Tebul in Cape Town. Once the race begins, the race will be driven along the general route with a gust of wind and whoever can reach the foot of Mount Tebull in Cape Town first will be the winner of the race.
If there is any stage difference, there is. In this long rally, which is more than 30,000 kilometers long, there are also several important transit cities. The main reason for the establishment of these transit cities is to ensure that the general route of the riders is correct. Because the Vladivostok Cape Town Rally is not a straight line, but has twists and turns.
For example, the first transit city is Kultuk, a small city in the southwesternmost part of Lake Baikal, after the driver starts from Vladivostok, I don't care how you run, but you have to sign in to Kultuk, and then from Kultuk, continue along a route to the southwest until you reach Hami in Dahua, and check in again from here.
The third city is the western capital of Dahua on the western side of the Pamirs, which is also the largest city that the rally passed through before leaving Dahua.
After checking in to the Western Capital, the riders can go wild to their heart's content, because the next city to sign in is the small Egyptian city of Kantara located on the east side of the Suez Canal, because the riders have to cross the bridge here with the help of the Suez Canal Bridge on Route 40, so this small city has become the fourth transit city after the Western Capital.
As for the fifth transit city, it has something to do with the Paris Dakar Rally in the previous life, because this fifth transit city is Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
Although there is no requirement for drivers to cross the Sahara Desert, some professional teams will still choose to cross the Sahara Desert, after all, from Kantara at the eastern end of the Sahara Desert to Dakar in a straight line, the distance is the shortest, if the team's logistics are strong enough, then taking this route is the most time-saving.
Of course, for the vast majority of amateur riders, crossing the Sahara Desert is not their cup of tea, and these amateur riders would rather go far than face this sea of death.
But no matter how you run, as long as you can get to the Dakar to check-in, then you are eligible to continue participating in the event.
From Dakar, it is not possible to follow the coastline directly to Cape Town, because the route stipulates that it will also need to cross the African continent once, from Dakar at the western tip of the continent to Angoche, a small port town in Mozambique at the eastern tip of the continent.
Angoche is the sixth and last transit city to sign in. Because after starting from Angochet, no matter what method you use, as long as you can reach the foot of the Tebul Mountain in Cape Town, and your car has the six check-in patterns spray-painted by the organizing committee, then you have completed this car rally that has spared most of the world.
With more than 30,000 kilometres, the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally is the longest car rally in the world, passing through the Siberian steppes, the Mongolian plateau, the Taklamakan Desert, the rugged Pamirs, the Iranian plateau, the Suez Canal and the Sahara Desert, and then crossing the African savannah twice before reaching Cape Town.
In the middle of the more than 30,000-kilometer race, only six sign-in transit cities have been set up, so you can imagine how open and free this car rally is.
In fact, tens of thousands of drivers take part in this great rally every year, and more than half of them can't even cross the borders of Dahua. Of course, more than ninety percent of the 10,000 drivers are amateurs, and they come to participate in the Vladivostok Cape Town Rally purely for group sightseeing......
In history, there was an old couple who took six years to complete the race, and they still ran it in accordance with the regulations. Coincidentally, the old couple was a transit city for a year.
That's what people call playing, the game is secondary, and playing is the main thing......
Therefore, the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally is not only the toughest car rally in the world, but also the most interesting car rally in the world.
Of course, Fang Zhengying knew about this rally, so when she heard this suggestion from the Grandmaster, it would be strange if she was not moved......