On November 10, the winter in Hokkaido, Japan was a little gloomy. Lin Xiangbei and his group got off the plane and felt a chill that was prickly.

To be honest, compared to the hot and hot temperatures, Lin Xiangbei is even more uncomfortable with the severe cold. His ten-year career in Formula racing rarely has the experience of cold weather competitions. Even for the FIA, they will find ways to isolate the possibility of hosting competitions in winter.

If the northern hemisphere enters winter, the sub-stop event locations will be located in Australia in the southern hemisphere, or Malaysia and Singapore near the equator. In other words, in the past decade, there has been an additional Russian Sochi track, which has made up for the gap in the low-temperature track.

Because Formula racing has extremely high requirements for various oil temperatures and tire temperatures, if the temperature does not meet the standard, the bald tire cannot melt into a chewing gum state, which will seriously affect the racing grip and cause unpredictable consequences.

For rally, the loss of grip on the ice and snow track has become a unique highlight of the competition and is even more attractive. For example, the famous Monte Carlo track is the ice and snow track, and it is also one of the most popular sub-stop events in WRC.

“The snow in Hokkaido is so beautiful.”

As soon as he got off the plane, Feng Bingman looked at the snowy world all over the sky and praised in a girlish tone.

However, he soon received a straight man's feedback from Li Wenfeng: "Is this snow different from Yanjing?"

"I don't know Hokkaido's movies and love at first glance, I really don't understand romance."

Hearing this, Lin Xiangbei held back what he wanted to say, because he had never watched Japanese love movies about Hokkaido. If he had to say something, plus the word action, he had watched a lot of them...

However, the straight male characters in the team are not just Li Wenfeng and Lin Xiangbei. To be precise, except Feng Bingman, they are all straight males.

After all, a racing team, and a startup racing team, requires more engineers and technicians, professionals with science and engineering thinking, rather than "cultural people" with emotional thinking.

So no one cares about Hokkaido's romance. After getting off the plane, he goes directly to the airport parking lot, where the personnel arranged by Chenglong will be picked up. And this time, the complete team logistics support team will appear at the Hokkaido Station in Japan, which is the complete body of a team.

When I arrived at the agreed location of the parking lot, there were two Toyota Alphas parked on the parking space. When I saw these two cars, Brother Niu muttered unexpectedly: "It is worthy of being Brother Cheng Long, but he actually used Alphas to pick up and drop off."

You should know that Alpha is in China and can be called the first model of commercial vehicles. Normal cars are released for a period of time at most. If you really want to buy one, you will be able to increase the price by tens of thousands at most.

However, Alpha has set a record of vehicle price increase in the domestic market. At the most exaggerated time, you don’t want to add 300,000 to the original price, so you don’t even think about picking up the car. And what’s even more incredible is that many regions can’t even buy price increase, because there is no Alpha quota at all, which simply brings hunger marketing to the extreme.

Many ordinary people in later generations experienced hunger marketing, which may be some mobile phones to buy monkeys, and Toyota directly tricked monkeys into the heads of rich people, and there were so many people who were willing to be fooled, which was also a kind of skill.

"Brother Niu, this is not in China. Besides, don't underestimate Brother Cheng Long's influence in Japan."

Li Wenfeng did not have the surprise or surprise of Brother Niu. After all, with his second-generation rich, Alpha is really not a rare product.

And then again, this model is well-marketed in the mainland and Hong Kong Island, and it is relatively normal in other parts of the world. What's more, this is a local Japanese, so it is impossible for the domestic situation of supply and demand.

As for Cheng Long's influence in Japan, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the peak of Chinese stars. This is considered Cheng Long's second home court in the early days, with countless loyal fans. Some female fans even had extreme behavior such as suicide by lying on the track because Cheng Long's relationship was exposed.

Those "illegal fans" and "extreme fans" in later generations were all leftovers from the Japanese fan circle.

Therefore, Cheng Long has a deep foundation and network of relationships in Japan. It is nothing to do with two Toyota Alphas to pick up the plane. It is far from comparable to later filming "Kung Fu Yoga". He can borrow more than 70 cars from the Dubai royal family, with a total value of more than 500 million supercars.

But at this moment, the side sliding door of one of the Toyota Alphas was pushed open, and Evans, who had always been in a cool style, shouted "my    god" in surprise.

The reason is that there are two foreigners sitting in Toyota Alpha. They were once technicians of the Le Mans Ferrari team. They did not follow Evans to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen training base before, but stayed in Europe. Now, with the official arrival of the competition, the team technicians and logistics team naturally have to gather.

Although the rally car is not like the F1, it has an extremely large team of technicians. Just changing tires by entering the station, 24 technicians need to hold different tools to cooperate in order to complete the tire changes in just a few seconds.

However, the logistics pressure of the rally team is far from being able to be relaxed and determined by Evans and Brother Niu.

You should know that after the several stages of the rally race, the vehicle can only undergo maintenance in the designated repair area for just 20 minutes, and the maintenance process will be closely monitored.

If small faults can be solved, large faults such as engines and gearboxes can be removed for more than twenty minutes.

Even if the race is over, it will only take 45 minutes to get a longer maintenance time. Once the time comes, the car will be controlled in the parking area until the start of the next day. If the maintenance is overdue, there will be an extra time penalty.

If you want to improve efficiency, all you can do is to increase the manpower as much as possible, but if you say too much, there will be no place, so most of the technician teams of the rally team are kept at four or five people, not as exaggerated as F1.

These two are also Le Mans-level maintenance technicians. From this point, it can be seen that Cheng Long has invested a lot of money for the team.

Lin Xiangbei and others went over and said hello to each other, then sat inside Toyota Alpha and drove towards the hotel in the competition area.

This may be the only time when you have the opportunity to stay in a hotel during the Sapporo Race Track. In the future, Lin Xiangbeida will probably live in a tent area outdoors today.

Cars are shuttled through the city of Sapporo, and almost all of the team members have come to Japan for the first time, so everyone's eyes are basically placed outside the car window.

Sapporo is a city known for snow and is also the fifth largest city in Japan, but it does not have the modern urban atmosphere of the Tokyo metropolitan area. On the contrary, there are not many high-rise buildings. Against the backdrop of the snow scene, it has a very similar atmosphere of small and medium-sized Japanese cartoons.

Lin Xiangbei also looked at the scenery outside the window. Seriously speaking, it was not the first time he came to Japan. In his previous life, he had been to the Suzuka Circuit in Osaka several times, but his feelings were different from this.

Because he used to be a bystander, a spectator in the repair station, and this time he will become a driver on the race track, even if the race level is much worse than F1.

Maybe this is an example of a phoenix tail and a chicken head, but Lin Xiangbei doesn’t want to do both, he just wants to be a phoenix head!

About an hour later, Alpha stopped in front of a five-star hotel in Sapporo. The event organizing committee would only arrange designated camping sites for the drivers during the race, and would not care about how the drivers stayed before the race.

So from this arrangement, Cheng Long has really put his heart into logistics support, and he always follows the best standards.

After returning to the hotel to put down his luggage, the team members did not relax and rest. Feng Bingman immediately contacted the event organizing committee to communicate the process of the entire game and the time points of each stage.

Rally racing requires forgetting the "first person who crosses the line wins", this traditional concept of racing is because all the rallying vehicles do not compete directly, and the strongest opponent to really outperform is time!

Yes, every car in the rally starts every one to two minutes, each car will be positioned by GPS and the timing will be entered into the FIA ​​computer. Unless someone breaks down on the road or has trouble, it will be difficult for the racers to meet their opponents on the track.

In a line in "Flying Life", Zhang Chi and his navigator Sun Yuqiang said at the same time: "You are not conquering this land, you are just defeating your opponent."

But Lin Xiangbei didn't think so. He not only wanted to conquer this land, but also outperformed time!

In the hotel conference room, all the members of the fleet have gathered here. Feng Bingman stood next to the projector, and there were pages of ppt document screens on the curtain.

"I have communicated with the Asia-Pacific Rally Organizing Committee. They sent the complete track information, the final A8 group of racers' information, as well as the timer data of various event nodes and official road books."

"Now let's start with the full track profile."

Feng Bingman is not as charming as a big sister in front of Lin Xiangbei and Li Wenfeng at this moment, but instead shows the ability of a working woman.

From contacting the event organizing committee, to renting a hotel conference room for a meeting, and then gathering all the team members, it took less than an hour in total.

To be honest, judging from her current abilities, Lin Xiangbei feels that she is fully worthy of the position of team manager like the team manager. But I don’t know why the result of Cheng Long’s negotiations with Feng Bingman is just a team leader. Seriously speaking, it cannot be called management.

"Last year, the total length of the Sapporo track at Japan Station was 343.69 kilometers, and 29 special stage timing nodes were set up. The heavy snow this year was more severe than in previous years. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of drivers, the total length of the track was shortened to 292.15 kilometers, and the special timing nodes were also reduced to 22."

"But this is not good news, because the three-day game time in previous years has also been shortened to two days, so it has been much more difficult to avoid the coming of the next blizzard!"

After Feng Bingman said this, he focused on Lin Xiangbei. It was obvious that this news could be regarded as "bad news" for a newcomer like him.

Two days means that the stage nodes will be more dense, and Lin Xiangbei has no time to buffer.

Lin Xiangbei did not care about Feng Bingman's eyes, but looked at the time trial stage data on the curtain.

This is another place where the rules of rally and stadium racing are completely different. The so-called special stage in rally is called special stage in English and is generally abbreviated as SS stage.

This stage is a time trial stage in the conventional sense, generally about 10 to 50 kilometers long, and 5 to 10 ss stages will run every day, which is about one or two hundred kilometers.

The result of the driver's decision on the winner is to add up the sum of the time of completing all ss stages, and the one with the least time will win.

But this is just the winner of the single ss track, and the champion of the entire rally event has another result that plays a role, that is, the "driving section", the English name is road     section, abbreviated as rs.

Because the timed section of the rally event is hundreds of kilometers long, if the distance between the non-competitive sections is included, the mileage may be longer, and it is easy to go out hundreds of kilometers.

It is impossible to use all roads for such a long period of roads to be closed for competitions, not to mention that it may also include city streets, and the impact of road closures is immeasurable.

Therefore, the connecting road between the two timing sections and the maintenance area is called the driving section. Drivers will drive racing cars, driving normally on the road like ordinary vehicles, without any racing privileges and are subject to local traffic regulations.

And on the RS-driving section, the event organizing committee provides an accurate driving time. Drivers must drive according to local regulations to limit speeds, in order to prevent professional drivers from driving public roads as tracks in order to hurry up, which may lead to a strange scene on the street.

After all, no underground team racing can compare to the speed and control of a group of professional drivers racing on the street. This is simply blatant illegal racing.

Therefore, the timing of the rs section is one minute. If you are late, you will be fined 10 seconds, and if you are early, you will be fined 10 seconds. Many drivers will have some very low-level timing mistakes in this sudden relaxation environment, so the final result of determining the outcome depends on the overall SSS section and the rs section.

"I'm fine."

Lin Xiangbei did not care about the time changes of two or three days, and he was already well prepared.

"It seems you are quite confident. I wonder if you know the opponent in this game will still be so confident."

Feng Bingman showed a playful smile on his face, and then the ppt on the curtain turned to the next page, with many drivers' photos, personal information, historical records and other information appearing on it.

The one on the top is the name of a British man, Chris Mick, who comes from the Asia-Pacific Peugeot Team.

This British driver has won the Peugeot Rally Rally Championship and the British Youth Rally Championship. He successfully advanced to JWRC (World Youth Rally Championship) in 2003, setting a record of 10 fastest stages.

The most brilliant result at present is that it won the International Rally Challenge Championship this year, which can barely be called the world champion.

However, this guy's consultant is even more amazing. His name is Colin McCree, which is the legendary driver that can be ranked No. 1 in WRC history. There is even a racing game called "Dust". In fact, its full name is named after Colin McCree.
Chapter completed!