135 Japanese street culture

"No, it's not Cinderella time yet."

The so-called Cinderella time, also known as Cinderella time, is borrowed from the fairy tale Cinderella Night Ball, which means that it is not yet after 12 o'clock.

THE REASON WHY IT IS CALLED WANGAN MIDNIGHT IS BECAUSE MIDNIGHT IS THE DAWN OF UNDERGROUND RACING, IT IS STILL EARLY, AND THANK TIANCHENG HAS NEVER BEEN AN IRRITABLE AND IMPULSIVE DRIVER, SO HE TURNED HIS TURN SIGNAL TO GIVE WAY.

The rear car saw that Xie Tiancheng's GTR gave way, and it also quickly overtook the past, and then played a double flash in front to express its gratitude.

This is also some of the conventions of the bay shore, overtaking to play the turn signal, encounter a vehicle in front of the emergency lane change, will play the danger warning lights to remind the rear car not to rear-end, if the other party did not run to take the initiative to give you the line, generally will overtake after a few double flashes to express gratitude.

These conventional cultures and rules, along with the export of Japanese culture, have also influenced the entire Asian Midnight Drag Racing Party, and it can be said that the Wangan is the source.

"It's kind of interesting, the quality of the little devil is not bad."

"It's good, but it's not mainly about quality, but because everyone has no fun if something happens."

In later generations, the most famous street drag racing route in Japan was no longer the Capital Takawan Shoreline, but the Capital High C1 Line, which is generally referred to as Capital High.

It was because in 2004, there was a famous car accident on the Bay Line, a GTR R33, with a speed of more than 300km/h, to be precise, reached an amazing speed of 360km/h, crashed into the guardrail on the side of the road, and finally the car was destroyed, resulting in a serious accident in which the driver and his female companion were both killed.

This is why Zhang Yifei doesn't like to take a female companion in racing, because you can't guarantee safety every time you dance on the tip of the knife, especially at ultra-high speeds, basically any vehicle safety protection does not work, and it is purely because of good luck that you can survive.

Therefore, it is best to do this kind of thing by yourself, rather than involving a familiar female companion in order to be handsome.

However, the R33 driver is well respected in underground circles because he strictly adheres to the underground rules of the shoreline, and the reason why he spins and crashes into the guardrail is to avoid rear-ending a truck.

Of course, this kind of thing is not worth bragging about, after all, the accident is also self-inflicted. It's just that this kind of behavior of the immortal Daoist friend of the Dead and Poor Dao, not everyone can suppress their survival instinct in that situation.

As the longer the distance traveled along the shoreline, the more performance sports cars appeared around, but none of them had the same appointments as before, because Cinderella's time was not yet up, and there was still plenty of time to run in the evening, and midnight was the dawn of the underground drivers.

Xie Tiancheng took Zhang Yifei to the underground garage of a building, where more than a dozen performance sports cars were parked, basically Japanese classics of this era.

Seeing Xie Tiancheng's GTR coming, these underground drivers in the underground parking lot all looked at him, to be precise, at Xie Tiancheng's car.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yifei asked casually: "By the way, don't you drive a Nissan 300ZX, why did you drive a GTR today." ”

"It's very troublesome to transport the car from Hong Kong Island, so this one I drove is a GTR that my master tried running."

"It's no wonder that a lot of cars flashed their lights at us along the way, and it seems that they all know this GTR."

"I don't know all of them, but as Nissan's chief test driver, my master is almost equal to GTR."

After saying a few words, Xie Tiancheng got out of the car and saw that it was a young man driving the car, and there was obvious surprise on the faces of these drivers.

Because Xie Tiancheng mainly focuses on mountain roads, he doesn't run much along the bay shoreline, and his fame is not big, so it's normal not to know him. The main reason is that the fame of this GTR is too great, after all, the F1 driver Toshio Suzuki still has a lot of status.

Zhang Yifei is also looking at this group of underground drivers in Japan, and there is a very obvious difference between them and China, that is, most of the current domestic street riders are very young, with an average age of about 20 years old, mainly rich second generation and mixed society.

But Japan is different, at least Zhang Yifei visually measured that the age belongs to the older kind, and even Zhang Yifei saw an old man with gray hair and estimated to be about fifty, which is very incredible in China.

"Is that also a driver?"

Zhang Yifei really couldn't hold back his curiosity, after all, it was the first time he had come into contact with Japanese underground racing, and he was about to be considered a grandfather at this age in China, and he still came to run underground?

"Yes, Japan is different from China, because of the high inheritance tax and other factors, many people are older when they have the money to buy a sports car. Moreover, Japanese racing culture has a long history, and not every performance car has to be raced, if you subdivide it, it will be divided into four groups. ”

"Which four groups?"

Zhang Yifei asked with interest, it is true that this kind of foreign cultural difference is very curious.

"Long-year group, honki group, bonsai group, night view group."

"Damn, what the hell does this mean, tell me more about it."

Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Xie Tiancheng explained a little helplessly: "The long-term group often goes to the shoreline of the bay, but only occasionally runs. ”

"This gas group is in Japanese, which translates to roughly mean serious group, and this group of people is considered an underground rider in our understanding, and belongs to the category of running with life."

"The potted group is to buy a good car, and then all kinds of fancy modifications, just the pursuit of modification and not the pursuit of racing with others, it is called the potted group, and it looks good there. Japan's famous Daikoku PA is a gathering place for bonsai groups and a pilgrimage site for Asian modifications. ”

"The last is the night scene group, which is generally a luxury car supercar, taking pictures with beautiful women in various colorful night scenes, and many pictures of fragrant car beauties in magazines belong to the category of night view group."

"This uncle belongs to the type of long-term group, and he often comes to the bay shoreline, but only occasionally runs down. Age is not a problem, it is a question of whether you have the heart to pursue speed and passion. ”

Xie Tiancheng's last sentence made Zhang Yifei agree very much, dreams and hobbies are not unique to teenagers, middle-aged and elderly people can also have their own pursuits, it depends on whether you have this heart.

"I didn't expect you to be able to say such philosophical things."

"I'm also a graduate of one of the top 10 universities in Japan, okay?"

Just when Xie Tiancheng was dissatisfied and protested, a Subaru wrx sti GC8 drove in, which immediately attracted the attention of all the drivers present, and it could be felt that it was a well-known character of the bayshore line who drove this car.

Subaru GC8 is not very well-known in China, far less than Subaru BRZ, but this is the strongest performance car of Subaru cars!

The BRZ is only a sister model to the AE86, and both in terms of power and handling, it is far behind the WRX STI.

It is equipped with Subaru's signature boxer engine, a proud full-time all-wheel drive system, and a 2.0-liter turbocharged engine that can output 280P horsepower, which is also limited by Japanese regulations.

The bayshore line is dominated by high-speed bends, and the requirements for horsepower are very high, except for some reluctant JDM high-performance cars, which are basically the world of European and American cars and supercars.

Therefore, small horsepower models such as AE86, BRZ, Civic, S13, etc., most of them go to the capital high C1 ring line, where the road is narrow and there are many bends, and the horsepower will not suffer too much.

In fact, this car is still the car of Fujiwara father and son in "Initial D", Takumi has practiced with it, and the AE86 is still used in the competition, so the reputation is much lower.

To be honest, it's strange.,You're a tofu seller.,Forget about sending tofu with AE86.,Even the Subaru GC8 is on.,It seems that the price of oil in Japan is not cheap......