103 Simulated Events

After eating breakfast, Zhang Yifei and Lu Ningping drove a Ford Mustang to the club, after half a month of contact, the people in the club are basically familiar with each other, and when they see Zhang Yifei and they come over, they all greet them warmly.

Especially some little kids in the club, they all treat Zhang Yifei as an idol, and every time he comes over, a bunch of people surround him, quite a kind of "child king" posture.

Today, because it is a weekend, the attendance rate of the students is very high, 18 of the 22 students are present, and five of them are relatively older students, which is also Lu Ningping's greeting in advance.

The kart club has also had a lot of simulated events before, and there are even internal karting events, but today's race is completely different, Zhang Yifei used a 100cc kart to challenge a 125cc kart.

The 100CC kart is equivalent to the entry-level model in the racing kart, which is about 15P horsepower, which is also the racing operation model of many kart outdoor racing tracks.

Many people who have driven racing karts in later generations are basically driving this kind of entry-level kart, which is cheap, has no gear shift mechanism and is similar to an electric car, which is very suitable for novices to get started with ordinary people for entertainment.

Except for Zhang Yifei, the other five students all drove 125CC competitive karts, but unlike the modified 125CC karts that Zhang Yifei drove before, these are all ordinary types, providing about 20 to 25P horsepower, and also using continuously variable gear.

The horsepower difference between the two karts is about 60 percent, but considering that Zhang Yifei is more than 1.7 meters tall and weighs almost 70 kilograms, while other 14-year-old riders generally weigh around 40 kilograms, close to 30 kilograms of weight difference, which is almost equivalent to Zhang Yifei's kart sitting one more person.

In other words, the real feeling of motivation may reach a double gap. For the first time in the years since the establishment of the Wind Chase International Karting Club, this kind of "cross-level challenge" has appeared.

"Uncle Lu, this power gap is really a bit big, you also have to take into account the weight difference. I feel like I'm going to get on this 100cc go-kart, and it's doubtful that I can run it. ”

"Don't doubt it, you're not at the point where you can't pull 15P horsepower."

Lu Ningping replied very indifferently, and changed to the previous posture of the devil coach.

Although the tone is indifferent, Lu Ningping actually values Zhang Yifei very much in his heart, and the reason why he does this is because this kid is too strong!

Half a month of go-kart training, without exaggeration, is worth a year or two of learning for a newcomer with no foundation. Whether it is the choice of cornering route or the restraint of his previous wrong instincts, Zhang Yifei's daily progress is visible to the naked eye.

And Zhang Yifei is a real full-time kart driver, even in terms of the length of training, his real practice time of half a month is worth three months for other students, if you use a kart of the same level, this race may become no suspense.

"Alright then, that's it."

There is no way, Zhang Yifei can only bite the bullet, anyway, in the future karting events, he will not use 250CC super karts, so he should adapt to it in advance.

Following the usual process of go-karting, start by running a few laps to warm up the tyres and familiarize yourself with the track. However, this is an internal event of the club, and everyone is very familiar with the track, so it is just a matter of warming up the tyres.

In the case of an official formula car, the warm-up tyres will be followed by a qualifying session, which will determine the starting order of the drivers. After all, the track is so wide, if there are too many riders, then the back row will suffer too much.

However, at least it will be up to the international second-level events, and there will be formal processes such as qualifying, and the general regional events will omit the qualifying rounds, and they will be ranked directly according to their past results. Because of the low-level competition, the decision point will not be on the gap between the front and back rows, the powerful ones are already far ahead, and it is possible for rookies to be thrown off for a lap and a half, so the ranking is not very important.

Similarly, there was no qualifying match in today's simulated event, and Zhang Yifei was directly ranked in the second row by Lu Ningping. This makes Zhang Yifei very helpless, what about fair competition in good sports events?

Lu Ningping held the remote control in his hand at this time, and there was a type of traffic light device at the beginning of the track, which was also imitating the starting method of F1, as long as the green light was on, it represented the start of the race.

All the drivers were ready, there was no tense atmosphere of the race, except for Zhang Yifei, the other students were very excited. Because this was their first time running such an "asymmetrical" event, the teenagers were always interested in novelties and they were curious to see what the results would be.

The red light started flashing, and all the riders were ready to go, and when the green light came on, all six karts rushed over. Today, none of the six karts have a gear shift mechanism, so there is no such thing as a catapult start, as long as you step on the accelerator to the end, it's all over.

The difference in displacement, coupled with weight and other factors, Zhang Yifei's go-kart can be said to be a roar, quite a feeling of driving a tractor, and Zhang Yifei was directly left behind at the initial stage.

However, this kind of backwardness is also expected, if Zhang Yifei can take the lead in the starting stage, there will be a ghost, and the real place to catch up and overtake is always in the corner.

The track is different from the mountain road and the street, and the track has a much higher frequency of various types of corners, as well as low, medium and high corners at different speeds, ensuring that the driver can get a more comprehensive simulation and training on the track.

So I started knowing that there was nothing behind, and I didn't run a few tens of meters before I started to encounter corners.

Turn 1 of the track is a conventional left-turn arc corner, as long as you find a reasonable tangent, you can cut the curve perfectly, basically no need to brake to slow down, only need to collect oil.

Zhang Yifei's opponents are all students who have been training in the club for more than a year, and they are naturally very familiar with these corners on the track.

But when Zhang Yifei crossed the corner, he didn't have any action to collect the fuel at all, and still pressed the accelerator pedal to the end, and directly turned the corner with all the throttle. The ultimate speed of this 100CC go-kart, after carrying Zhang Yifei's weight, will not exceed 100km/h, to be precise, even 80km/h is difficult.

After experiencing the 250CC super kart training, the impact brought by the speed is significantly reduced for Zhang Yifei. This is just like in the movie "Initial D", Wentai said that Tuohai Qiuming Mountain ran a lot, and it felt that the surrounding objects were getting slower and slower.

The previous relative speed that was amplified by two to three times the kart slowly became normal, and when he was used to the speed of about 150km/h, the speed of 80km/h was simply slow motion for Zhang Yifei.

Full throttle speed, combined with a perfect tangent, cleared the first corner and the starting disadvantage was all recovered.

When he saw this scene, Lu Ningping's hands began to tremble slightly, he thought that this simulated event would not be very difficult for Zhang Yifei, but it would take at least five laps to overtake all the vehicles.

Now look at the first two laps, these student opponents will be left behind by Zhang Yifei. Just like the F1 drivers in this world, they have already shown their potential as talented drivers in the karting stage, and can leave the same batch of students or teammates far behind, and Zhang Yifei has done the same.