Chapter 582 Qualifying Round
2017 High Intelligence Formula Car Race, qualifying.
"How's the car inspection going?" Duran didn't participate in such a small matter, leaving it all to Jonathan, the chief technician of the Tianren team.
Unable to hide his excitement, Jonathan gestured ok again and again.
"That's good, then let everyone come early tomorrow, we have to strive for a good result." Duran said. After a period of running-in, although his team is not strong, it can at least make do.
It's finally about to start. Duran is very excited. This is also his first time to participate in such a big competition. Winning through racing should be a completely different sense of accomplishment.
Qualifying, that is, selecting 14 cars that can participate in the official competition and determining the starting positions of these 14 cars in the official competition.
The exciting moment has finally arrived.
Dozens of teams gathered here, ready to fight. This is a battlefield without gunpowder, but there is still blood and danger.
Even for the qualifying, many die-hard spectators have arrived here early to boost the morale of the teams they support, hoping that the drivers they support can get a good result.
The engine sounded, and a team had already started. The qualifying is calculated based on the fastest single lap. The top fourteen drivers can advance, and the others are eliminated, no matter how many laps you run, but you are not allowed to change tires. Anyway, it is based on your best lap, so the cars don’t need to go out all at once, and they can circle one after another.
Duran’s team was doing the last check on Jingwei, and Duran took the time to look around. The Sugo team with Hayato Kazama, the Aoi team with Naoki Shinjo, and the United team with super rich Randall, are all strong rivals.
Of course, the newly emerged team, the Tianren team, was also noticed, but since Duran had no record yet, everyone just paid attention to it. No attention was paid.
Duran saw that Super Asurada was ready to go. As a two-time world champion, Kazama has fully grown into a qualified driver. It is hard to imagine that he is only 16 years old, which means that he was already a champion at the age of 14, a jaw-dropping goal.
Annie Gullit, who is 14 years old this year and participated in the high-intelligence formula car for the first time, can not be the first even if he succeeds to become the champion. That's why he hates Kazama so much.
Watching Kazama rush onto the track at lightning speed and leave all the way, it seems that Super Asurada can already exert its full strength under his driving. As soon as the last champion appeared, he immediately aroused cheers, and the drivers also looked at the electronic screen of the qualifying, wanting to see what kind of results Kazama can get.
Not only the drivers are concerned, but even the technicians of the team stopped their work, which shows how popular Kazama is.
The fastest lap was indeed swiped by Kazama. He and Super Asurada are really close, one minute and thirty-six seconds.
"Sure enough, it's fast. Okay, I'm almost ready to go!"
"Oh!" The four of them worked together to push Jingwei out of the garage and parked it in the maintenance section.
Jingwei, the new car, also attracted the attention of the surrounding teams. They were all estimating the performance of this new car.
Duran had already put on his racing suit, got into the narrow cab, and put on his helmet. His fingers adapted to the shifter, and his feet also found the feeling on the accelerator and brake.
It's OK, Duran gave his companions a thumbs up, indicating that it was OK.
Sliding down the hatch, Duran was finally going. His teammates were more nervous than him. If he didn't get results, then no one could go to the world championships. Come on.
The surrounding scenery was receding. Duran's car was also equipped with an intelligent navigation system, but it was just a common product, far less independent than Asrada, which could even learn the habits of the driver. Although it was poor, it was necessary, because when the car was telling, without mechanical help, the driver could not control the car.
Duran was not going to rely on the smart navigation system to win. He wanted to win with superb skills, cutting into the curves as accurately as a scalpel, and accelerating at the most appropriate time. Whether it was a straight line or a curve, he had to be the most precise.
"Although this Tianren team was not famous before, the performance of the drivers and cars was unexpectedly good." As the director of the Sugo team, Tieyilang was experienced and immediately saw the uniqueness of Duran's racing skills and the high performance of Jingwei.
"Yeah." Fengjian, who returned to the maintenance area, also discovered Duran's strengths, "Uncle Tie, this driver is very good."
Duran basically did not change lanes, and the route he drove on the track was like a surgical scar cut by a doctor on a patient.
One lap was really fast, Duran had returned, 1 minute 36.57 seconds, ranking third. The second was the genius rich man Randall. Behind Duran was Shinjo Naoki.
All of a sudden, all the teams paid attention to Tianren. He was able to run third in the first lap, which should not be underestimated.
Tianren Racing Team was also happy that their boss could achieve such a good result. Duran was also very satisfied. It seemed that he could go to the World Series, unless other people exploded and ran ahead of him, but obviously this kind of thing would not happen. After today, many people would ask about Tianren Racing Team and Duran's background. Duran's terrible machine-like car super-control ability allowed him to stand firmly in the third place without turning on the thrusters. If the thrusters were turned on, this result might be even higher. For a time, Duran was remembered by other drivers.
Qualifying is just a pursuit of a better starting position for top drivers, but for the last few, it is a full-scale battle for the right to qualify.
Therefore, the battles of the last few are often the most intense. Drivers have to calculate the condition of the tires on the one hand and make the car run faster on the other hand. It is an extremely tiring process.
Duran ran a lap and felt that the third place was enough. Anyway, he could compete with these masters in the official competition in the future. It would be irrational to reveal too many cards in the qualifying.
On the contrary, Kazama, the blond rich man Randall, and Shinjo who was overtaken by Duran and fell to fourth place, went out to run a few laps again, trying to refresh the fastest lap time.
But in general, it is difficult to change the qualifying. But it is precisely because they love racing and competition so much that they awaken the "zero field". That realm that humans cannot touch, they can see the short future and listen to the voices of drivers on the same track. It is almost the same as the new humans. These drivers have entered the universe and can drive Gundams directly.
Duran watched them run laps after laps happily, and thought to himself, do these drivers really think that tires are free? Typical of not knowing the cost of firewood and rice until you manage the household.