On the Hazelnut Mountain Road.

Just when Sosuke Araki's thoughts were drifting away, the two cars that rushed out of the starting point one after the other had already ushered in the first corner.

Taichi Shibashima immediately stepped on the accelerator, frantically turned the steering wheel in his hand, and clicked the brakes at the same time.

The front of the RX-10 sticks to the inside of the corner and starts the corner with a very standard drift.

Brake drift.

This is the driving skill that Taichi Shibashima has honed for many years on this mountain trail, and it is as skilled as breathing.

Growing up in Gunma Prefecture, his father had a beer in the middle of the driver's seat every day since he was 13 years old, and he would cross the mountain road to deliver sausages to restaurants in the wee hours of the morning.

If the beer spills or the sausages are shaken, he will be tortured by "broken sausages" when he comes home, so the trail is as familiar to him as his own home.

For racing races such as F1, the routing of cornering is slightly less ornamental, but it is indeed a more efficient and stable way to turn than drifting, but it is ......

On a track like Mt. Haruna, where the whole body often makes 180-degree bends, the only royal cornering skill can only be drifting.

Drifting, also known as tail flicking, is a side-slip driving style in which the front wheels retain grip and the rear wheels lose grip.

For two-wheeled locomotives, especially light locomotives like XJR4000, it is extremely unstable and almost impossible to incorporate into routine operations.

Maneuvering a two-wheeled locomotive to drift, whether it's an imbalance in the center of gravity or a slippage of one of the front and rear wheels, can lead to extremely frightening results.

He had just seen that the XJR4000 used cheap tires, not front and rear wheels with different grips for the sake of creating rotational torque differences.

When the locomotive speeds up, it is difficult for the front of the locomotive to steer, and if you do not use drifting but ordinary bending, you will inevitably lose a lot of kinetic energy.

Just when Taichi Shibashima thought that the other party would lose speed due to cornering and be overtaken by a handsome drift of his own......

The XJR4000 in front of him began to sprint towards the corner at a faster pace.

"With such a speed, is that guy ready to hit the guardrail directly?"

Just as he was thinking this, Sousuke Araki fell in the direction of an inward bend as if he had caused a crash due to an operation error......

With this rather abrupt fall, the "Sengoku Samurai" skimmed the bend in front of him by sticking to the ground at an extreme distance, and disappeared from the RX-10's sight.

"What?!! Can you do this kind of bending?"

Taiichi Shibashima looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, and almost made a mistake.

Through the headlights, he could clearly see that at that moment, Sousuke Araki's knees and elbows were no more than five centimeters away from the ground.

Bending is a very basic cornering technique for motorcycles.

But the basics don't mean it's easy to master.

In addition to the correct bending route and precise control of the accelerator and brake, Sosuke Araki's extreme high-speed bending also requires strong physical fitness and control ability to maintain the balance of the forces on all sides of the locomotive, and to obtain the maximum tilt angle while avoiding accidents caused by friction with the ground.

Does this guy have the Hulk hidden in his body?

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"Brother Araki, is it okay...... After all, he hadn't run this road for almost three years after 'that incident'. ”

At the top of the mountain, Kenjiro nervously watched the taillights disappear in the distance.

"Don't worry, Brother Araki, but I'm the only one who has equaled Brother Takasaka's record."

Ichimoto Miyayuki, who was covering his face with an ice pack, looked up at the starry sky above his head, and didn't seem to be worried about the outcome of the game at all.

"Hmph, you guys are so naïve to use that old Yamaha to win Taichi Shibashima's RX-10......"

Jin Shanzhang, who was on the side, heard the conversation between the two and chuckled disdainfully.

Taichi Shibashima is a god-level driver that the trio have worked hard to recruit to dominate the order of underground racing and the betting market with their amazing driving skills.

"The first corner was the lead...... Is it XJR4000?! He didn't slow down at all, and with a minimum of corners and a tight corner, he was able to maintain a fairly high cornering speed......

At the same time, on the walkie-talkie on the side, a message came from the first corner.

Jin Shanzhang's face suddenly changed.

In normal times, the first corner is enough for Taichi Shibashima to shake off his opponent.

"Your Excellency may not know that a few years ago, there was a popular saying in Hazuna Mountain......"

The city head palace line leaned against the railing and looked up at the sky.

Hearing his words, Kenjiro seemed to remember something, and with tears in his eyes, he continued, "From the moment he leaned over, the game was over." ”

Brother Araki, but he was the only one who inherited the "death sticking to the ground" from that person.

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"The second and third corners are U-shaped reverse chain corners, I see how you can press ......"

On the downhill, Taiichi Sameshima bit the XJR4000 in the rear.

The first corner failed to overtake the opponent, and it was he who underestimated the enemy.

But for the victory, he is determined to win.

After all, his RX-10 uses the latest turbocharged three-rotor engine technology, combined with two electric motors to power the front axle, with a combined total output of 1,030 horsepower.

No matter how good the technology is, it also needs powerful hardware to play.

On the straight road, the RX-10 is like a cheetah waiting for its prey in the grass, clutching the XJR4000 in front of it.

As soon as he enters the outside of the corner, he will rely on the high speed to parallel with the opponent, and when the next reverse corner, the inside and the outside are reversed, and the advantage of the inside position is successfully overtaken.

This is a technique called counter-overtaking.

Facing the successive corners ahead, the RX-10 skilfully drifted through the second corner with a slight swing and immediately entered the second corner with a reverse drift.

Inertial drift.

However, even though he relied on perfect maneuvering to break out of that chain of corners, he found that the opponent's taillights had disappeared into the next corner.

Because the XJR4000, with its terrible bending skill of being infinitely close to the ground, barely slowed down through the chain of reverse corners.

"How is that possible?!! How could he be faster than me in consecutive reverse corners...... That guy can use the technology of moving the center of gravity to such an extreme? ”

It reminded him of a nickname he had heard on Mt. Haruna many years ago.

"Invisible taillights".

"In that case, let's decide the winner in a straight line."

Taiichi Sameshima gritted his teeth, and with the high speed of the RX-10, he soon saw the other party's taillights again on a straight road ahead.

"It's catching up again...... After all, is the performance gap too big? ”

Seeing the rapidly approaching headlights in the rearview mirror, Sousuke Araki sighed slightly.

XJR4000 is a four-cylinder car born in the 90s, known for its powerful sound and refreshing power.

Although Sosuke Araki's XJR4000 has undergone many explosions over the years, in front of the latest RX-10, it is only worthy of being called a "retro sports model".

"Hmph, let me show you that in this fast-paced era, slow-burning classic cars also have their own charm."

With this in mind, Sosuke Araki took his eyes off the rearview mirror and focused on the road ahead.

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