As it turned out, the Grandmaster's temporary change of course was quite correct. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Of course, that's a story for another time.

Because when the Grandmaster arrived at the third transit city of the Western Capital with a huge lead, some of the drivers who were still taking the western route according to the plan were made worse than death on the way. The organizing committee also had to dispatch helicopters again and again to rescue those drivers in distress.

The distance from Kultuk to the second transit city of Hami is 1,600 kilometers in a straight line, and from Kultuk to Hami is across two tall mountain ranges, one is the Hangai Mountains in the central part of Northern Mongolia, and the other is the higher Altai Mountains.

To cross these two mountain ranges, you have to follow a road, so this second stage of all seven stages in the Vladivostok-Cape Town Rally is the only one that requires a road almost the entire journey. (PS: The previous clerical error was written as six major segments, which should be seven major segments and six transit cities.) ）

Beimengzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and the situation of ordinary highways is not very good, after all, the highway network in Dahua is very developed, and there are highways, who has nothing to do with ordinary highways. Therefore, in North Mongolia, except for a few ordinary roads that connect important cities, the situation is slightly better, and the other roads, both in width and otherwise, are not optimistic.

Fortunately, after the first stage of the race, the cars can be sorted out in order, otherwise so many cars are crowded on this ordinary road at the same time, and it will really be a traffic jam.

But even though the distance was widened, even though the blizzard had passed for nearly a week, the racers on the Western Front still encountered great difficulties and dangers.

No, because most of the roads on the western route are shuttled through the mountains, and the altitude is much higher than that of the eastern route, and the western route itself is more sparsely populated than the eastern route, so many roads on the western route are not cleared by snow at all, but purely rely on the sun to solve the snow.

If you can sunburn, you can sunburn, if you can't sunshine, then there is no way, it's a big deal, we won't go on these roads.

But it didn't matter if the local people didn't take these roads, the riders who took the western route had to go, and when they went down the road into the mountains, the moldy god immediately came.

There is at least 30 or even 40 centimeters of snow on the roads in the mountains, and this snow has long been turned into solid ground armor under the blowing of the cold mountain wind, and the wheels cannot be pressed. Moreover, the roads in the mountains are generally not wide, and some places are particularly dangerous, so those riders who go into the mountains are lucky enough to be stuck in the road and unable to move, and if they are a little careless, it is not uncommon to plunge down the cliff.

In just one day, three cars slid from the mountain road into the cliff, fortunately they had just entered the mountain, and the cliff on the side of the road was only twenty or thirty meters deep at most, but there was no fatal incident for the driver, but the damage to the car was inevitable.

The leading vehicle in front found that it was too dangerous to continue moving forward, and when it was time to turn around and go back, the road behind was blocked by the cars that were cautiously driving up one after another.

Forward, no one dares to take such a mountain road. Retreating, you can only explain the situation one by one, and then everyone retreats backwards with the speed of a snail.

As a result, just retreating from the mountains to the relatively flat road surface made these vehicles consume nearly two days, no way, although many people know that it may not be easy to take the western route, but the advantage that the western route is nearly a thousand kilometers closer than the eastern route still makes more than 3,000 cars choose to take the western route.

If the western route can run normally, these cars will have no problem taking the western route, the key is that the western route can't run normally, and even professional drivers don't dare to go, who the hell dares to die?

As a result, this block is two whole days.

After these cars were withdrawn, they had to return to Kultuk by the same route and then take the eastern route. If you don't go back the same way, you can't do it, Beimengzhou is this terrain, to the west and south, all are mountains, and the road on the west line is already the best road. Now you can't even go on the road on the western route, if you don't turn around and go back to the eastern route, will you still wait for the snow to melt? At least until the end of April......

In this way, if you go back to Kultuk and then take the western front, you will invisibly walk 1,500 kilometers more than those who take the eastern route, which is another day.

Counting the traffic jams, that's three full days.

And the Grandmaster themselves have been ahead of the fastest rider for four days in the first stage, and with these three days, it's seven days!

Of course, there are also some professional riders who did not covet the short distance of the western route, but like the grandmasters, they decisively changed the route and took the eastern route, and these riders were four days behind the grandmasters.

These things were only learned by the Grandmaster after he arrived in the Western Capital.

After the Grandmaster set out from Ulan-Ude, they continued to push the snow, but the more than 500-kilometer journey from Ulan-Ude to Kurtuk was still relatively easy to walk, so they set off in the morning and arrived at the first transit city of Kultuk in the afternoon.

Kurtuk is located in the southwestern corner of Lake Baikal, adjacent to another small city, Slyudyanka, which is less than two kilometers apart. It doesn't matter if you don't think of these two cities as one city, if they both have their own ancient traditions.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon when they crossed Slyudyanka and arrived at Kultuk, and by this time, it was already dark, and in less than half an hour, it would be completely dark here.

Because it is located on the shores of Lake Baikal, the snow in this small city is not very deep, and in addition, this small city is also the gateway to the northern capital, so there is basically no snow on the roads in the city.

According to the prompt on the GPS, at 5 p.m., the Grandmaster and the others found the intersection of Route 333 and Route 258, which is the transit check-in area.

The check-in office is right on the shores of Lake Baikal, where there is a huge open space with a length and width of more than 150 meters, where vehicles can make a U-turn.

When the modified tough guy came to the small house at the sign-in area with a snow shovel that had been folded up, the staff at the sign-in area were also startled by the grandmaster's car.

"Man, this idea of yours is really this!" A staff member at the sign-in desk praised the grandmaster while spraying sign-in marks on the door of the grandmaster's car, and gave the grandmaster a thumbs up. The other three crew members were amazed by the tough guy who had been modified.

"Did you have a car to check in with you before us?" The Grandmaster asked.

"You guys are the first and the second! It's so powerful, you can still rush over such a big snow, we can't imagine it. In our experience, it may take three days for the third car to arrive at the earliest, and four days if it is a little slower. Man, if you run at this speed, you won't dare to say the whole thing, but when you reach the Western Capital, I'm afraid you will still be in first place. ”

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