Pushing away the Normans who had infiltrated the group, Weiss skillfully calmed the emotions of the participating engineers and workers, allowing them to quickly turn their attention back to the race. On the third day of the competition, the entries in the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Field played very consistently, and basically all the expected points were obtained, which is said to be a good result. However, whether or not you can win the championship depends not only on your own performance, but also on the performance of your competitors, and on the third day of the game, one team suddenly made a strong force, which made it difficult for many participants to match. This team competes in the name of "Northern Agricultural Reclamation Machinery", backed by Dorson Machinery Group - it is enough to compete with Grumman Group and Star Group in the Federation of old industrial enterprises, starting with light industry in the early days, its textile industry once occupied half of the Federation, and after entering the industrial age, especially in the process of changing from the industrial age to the electric age, they are based on the traditional industries in the past, and continue to move towards the machinery industry with higher technology content. Today, Doson's precision machine tools are one of the highest levels of federal industry.

The team sent by the Duosen Group selected a full-crawler agricultural tractor. The performance in the preliminary round was not good or bad, and the final result was in the middle of the 32 participating teams that passed. It is clear that Dosen Machinery Group is supported by the strong industrial strength of the Group. They figured out the reality of the participants in the preliminary round, and the semi-final was like a makeover, showing strong strength. On the first and second days, they were always in the first echelon of the championship and had a very good performance in the off-road events. On the third day, they not only achieved three perfect scores in the off-road category, but also became the first team to successfully challenge the S-shaped track!

The S-shaped track, specially designed by a panel of judges to test the extreme maneuverability of mechanical vehicles, requires participants to pass all the corners in three minutes, and each bend needs to be touched, one less means a failed challenge. As a plus, each team was allowed to take on four attempts, which was twice as many as the normal event, but for most of the participating teams, after only one or two attempts, they knew that the bonus was an unachievable challenge for them, so they wisely gave up the challenge.

Previously, Weiss's advice to the teams of the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Factory was to try to make an unconventional attempt on the S-circuit and the road speed, specifically, to streamline their cars to the extreme, and send skilled drivers to operate them carefully...... Maybe it's not a chance, but it's worth a try.

On the third day of competition, the primary goal of the teams of Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory was to challenge the second challenge of the lost point event, and after the end of this day, they originally planned to use the following rest day to practice the S-curve and sprint events at their own training ground, and strive to let go on the fourth day of competition, hoping for a miracle. As for the previously discussed project of exploiting the loophole of the game to gain extra points, Weiss decisively rejected it - the fairness and justice they have been striving for, and the new Lorraine that they intend to show the entire Federation, do not support them to exploit such loopholes. It wasn't even the fourth day of the race. The team of Dosen Machinery Group opened their eyes: people can imagine the scene of cars, trucks and even horse-drawn carriages drifting in curves, but it is most difficult to imagine that agricultural tractors can also drift, but "Northern Agricultural Reclamation Machinery" has done it. They adopted a strategy similar to that envisioned by the Lorraineans, which was to minimize the load of the entries and remove everything that could be removed, which was allowed in the rules of the contest.

The man who drove them a farm tractor for a blistering drift was a young man named Meyer. The young man was not only sunny and handsome, but also had a good background - during the war, he was one of the ace pilots of the Federal Army's flying units, shot down 9 enemy planes, and recorded 133 effective attacks. Although the record of shootdowns may seem a bit low, it has to do with the small number of aircraft equipped by the Lorraine, and nearly half of the 133 successful attacks were against Norman flying ships. Due to the limitations of battlefield recording methods, in many cases, when a group of aircraft shoots down an enemy's flying ship, it is not certain who is responsible for this record, but it is recorded and commended as a collective honor. In Meyer's combat experience, there are 17 collective honors for shooting down enemy flying ships. This means that he participated in a large number of attacks on the enemy's flying ships with the team, and he survived tenaciously, which is obviously difficult to do without excellent flying skills and extraordinary courage.

At the competition site, someone is more famous and stronger than him, but this person sits on the judges' bench upright, and he can't come down to compete with him, so this young Meyer is a well-deserved "most beautiful boy" that day.

As the first representative of the host and organizers, Weiss has the greatest privilege that his status gives him the freedom to enter and exit the camps of each participating team and interact with anyone. On the morning of a rest day after the third race day, he and Nikolai went to the camp of the Dothan Group team to present Meyer with a golden trophy. This small trophy made of pure gold is prepared before the game to be awarded to the first achiever of a single bonus item.

At the site of the Dorson Machinery Group's participating teams, Nikolai handed the trophy to Meyer, looked at the star of yesterday's extremely dazzling performance with great interest, and jokingly asked him how he could drive such a bulky tractor out of the feeling of a sports car.

"Talent and practice." Meyer replied succinctly.

The words are simple, but full of philosophy. To accomplish such a challenging project, it does require a certain amount of driving talent, and in addition to driving talent, there is a lot of diligent practice to be able to handle this seemingly bulky tractor.

Nikolai then asked why he had left the army to join the Dosen Machinery Group instead of going to the Star Group to continue flying. Meyer smiled innocently and said to the role model in front of him, whom he respected immensely: "If I were single, I would have no worries, and I could serve until old age as long as the army wanted to, but I have a wife who loves me very much." The sacrifices of those who joined the Flying Corps with me, some of my classmates with her, or neighbors who lived on the same block, worried my wife very much. Shortly after the war, she became pregnant, and in order to keep him from spending every day in such endless worries, I decided to give up my dream of flying for the time being. Unless, one day, the state will call me back to the front again. ”

This reason is very similar to the obstruction that Nikolai encountered from his old father. It's just that Nikolai stubbornly chose his own path, and Meyer also chose to sacrifice in order to take care of his wife's emotions. It's hard to say who's right and who's wrong, it's just that everyone has their own understanding of their own life.

"Being able to shoot down 9 enemy aircraft and complete 133 effective sorties is unparalleled in terms of reflexes, insight and control. Such a character to drive a farm tractor is simply overkill. Seeing his name and confirming that he was that Meyer, I wasn't surprised that they were able to set a new record. If you end up losing at his hand, I don't think you need to regret it. Because they lost to arguably one of the best in the federal field of driving. Nikolai said to Weiss in a proud tone.

"Since yesterday I saw Meyer driving a farm tractor around the track, it was an eye-opener for our boys. They didn't dare to talk about going beyond him, they just wanted to be able to follow his path and try what it was like to be flying all over the field with the roar of machinery. It doesn't matter if you can meet the conditions for extra points, the important thing is that everyone sees the beauty of the machine. ”

The brilliance of the field is not enough to have the invincible skills of the driver, but also to have the right vehicle, which is their entry. At the behest of Weiss and Nikolai, Meyer took them to the farm tractor that had shined yesterday. At this moment, it reverted to its rustic and clumsy appearance, as if it were two different things from the magical machine that drifted yesterday.

Recently, Weiss has been working machinery with the team of Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory, and now when he looks at other machines, various points naturally come into view, and he can see one or two without introduction. The entry of Dosen Machinery Group adopts a spring suspension system and structure, which is estimated to be close to the principle of Christie's suspension system. Although it is an agricultural tractor, its chassis construction is quite balanced – the load wheels used are medium in size, with a pair of driving wheels in the front and rear, five pairs of load wheels in the middle, and corresponding balance wheels on top. As an agricultural tractor, its working environment should be dominated by soft and muddy farmland. In order to enhance grip, it uses wide steel tracks, which also have to be of a certain width. If you simply make them into wide models, there will be problems in terms of wear and balance of the machinery. Weiss deliberately misled the Normans' thinking that the staggered load wheels were superior but too fine, while the Dorson Group's entries used parallel load wheels, that is, two load wheels connected side by side, with a thick rubber ring in the middle, which not only met the width requirements, but also played a corresponding cushioning effect.

In the previous race, Meyer and his drifting farm tractor were not all at once. On the first attempt, they had a split track halfway through, and side-by-side load wheels had an advantage over staggered and large-diameter training wheels in terms of maintenance. After more than an hour of repairs, the farm tractor was once again on the field, and this time Meyer finally reached the finish line in one go, a full 17 seconds ahead of the allotted time. In most people's eyes, this is an unattainable achievement, but Meyer did.

With the performance of this farm tractor at the time, many people thought that they could go for the extra points of the race, but somewhat surprisingly, they did not take on the challenge. Maybe it's a reservation, maybe it's too hard to meet such a demanding technical specification in a self-organized internal test, but Meyer hasn't applied for that bonus program so far. Of course, if they participate in and have already passed the speed bonus event, then two consecutive bonus points are enough to kill the suspense of the championship and make all the other participating teams regret.

Out of respect for Nikolai, Meyer enthusiastically introduced her to the driving essentials of this agricultural tractor, which seemed to have some similarities with the piloting skills of a fighter jet. Nikolai looked curiously, but didn't bother to go in and try his skills. Although the cabin of a fighter jet is also greasy everywhere, the feeling of a tractor and a fighter jet is psychologically very different, just like a white swan and a toad.