169 Our Goals
The ss11 stage ended, and when Lin Xiangbei drove the car into the overnight parking lot, the smoke of the first day of the race also fell silent. He successfully defended the top honor with a time of 1 hour, 34 minutes, 6 seconds, 71, and always maintained the gap with the second place Mick about 8 seconds!
Maybe this is not a final result, but this is enough to show that Lin Xiangbei has the strength. He is not a Chinese rookie, but a de facto Chinese genius driver!
As soon as the vehicle drove into the parking lot, Evans, Niu and other maintenance technicians surrounded him. They did not even celebrate and greet Lin Xiangbei too much, but directly engaged in racing maintenance.
You should know that the overnight maintenance time of the rally event is only 45 minutes, and no matter what the situation is, it must be completed within 45 minutes. Then all the cars will be sealed and no contact will be allowed until the race time starts the next day.
So they don’t have any time to waste, and for a team of top Le Mans technicians like Evans, a first-place Asian rally, to be honest, it is a bit disliked, and there is no need to celebrate it.
However, when Lin Xiangbei walked to the convoy tent, Feng Bingman leaned over first and gave him a warm hug.
"Yangbei, you are so great, you completely satisfy my sister's imagination of a super driver, handsome!"
At this time, Feng Bingman could even feel the stars in his eyes. After all, no matter how impressive the previous operation was, he was just showing off his heroes on the street. Now it is the top professional rally event in Asia, and he can still maintain this kind of driving skills. Lin Xiangbei is really a bit terrifying.
"Sister Man, please don't ignore the role of the navigator?"
Li Wenfeng stood beside him and watched Feng Bingman's "exaggerated" performance. He couldn't help but mutter, after all, he knew many friends, so it would be better to ignore himself like this.
"You are not bad."
“It’s so perfunctory…”
Hearing this sentence, Feng Bingman opened his eyes wide and approached Li Wenfeng and pointed at him. After all, the two of them have known each other since childhood. Even if they have not reached the level of a sibling like Qin Hao, they are actually quite familiar with each other.
Faced with the "nonsense" of these two people, Lin Xiangbei just smiled and came to the old drunkard.
"Uncle Xu, I said it's OK, it didn't disappoint you."
Looking at Lin Xiangbei with a smile in front of him, Xu Lang wanted to say something to him, but there was no way to speak for many things.
It’s not just that there is no disappointment. When Xu Lang absolutely let Lin Xiangbei go, he was ready to withdraw from the competition.
When young people have this momentum, they must have the mentality of paying the price for it, or use a simple language to explain it, that is, paying tuition fees.
As a result, Lin Xiangbei not only did not pay the tuition fee, but actually ran out of the first day of the first stage, and even the biggest lead was in the most difficult SS3 stage.
If nothing unexpected happens, according to Lin Xiangbei's performance today, he will definitely have the hope of winning the opening championship of the Asia-Pacific Rally. The most incomprehensible point of Xu Lang is that Lin Xiangbei's hard power from beginning to end is that the hard power shown by Lin Xiangbei is not inferior to that of British WRC driver Mick.
It is actually very easy to understand when running a good result of a sub-station event, and it is not very difficult. Especially when a single-station event in rallying events can be divided into dozens of stage nodes, making it easier to have explosive performance.
So far, Lin Xiangbei has never felt like he has exploded with a newcomer's aura, but has been confident since the start of the competition.
His performance in China has always been a genius driver, but due to the limitations of domestic racing, no matter how talented he is, the ceiling limit will lock Lin Xiangbei. Can things you have never touched be completely self-interpreted?
Facts have proved that Lin Xiangbei broke through the ceiling lock limit and had reached a state that even Xu Lang himself could not understand. This is the real reason why he did not know how to express it.
"Uncle Xu, I know you are surprised, but at least you are calm and show the bottomless attitude of the old senior, so that I won't be too proud."
Lin Xiangbei joked at this time, and in fact he could probably guess the psychological state of the old drunkard at this moment.
To be honest, even Lin Xiangbei himself only felt the shadow of the F1 driver in his previous life after experiencing the ROC National Cup.
This feeling is not just about improvements in driving skills, but also about confidence and habits. If Lin Xiangbei had been more in the stage of a new car washer before, then he had fought with Vettel, Patton and others. From the bottom of his heart, he thought he was the strongest F1 driver and did not put the opponents of this rally in the same position.
Transformation may really take only one opportunity in many cases. The ROC National Cup gave Lin Xiangbei this opportunity. At the same time, the real professional competition of the Asia-Pacific Rally has inspired many shadows in the previous life.
He may have become stranger again in the eyes of the old drunkard.
"It's just that the first day has ended in segments, what's there to be surprised about?"
At this time, Xu Lang finally felt his disobedience. No matter how strong Lin Xiangbei is, he is now the team's racing engineer and "coach", and he still has to maintain his authority and identity.
This is like football or basketball coaches. If they are allowed to play against the players one-on-one, they will be beaten, but this does not prevent the players from listening to the coach.
So he recovered and returned to his previous attitude. However, in his heart, the old drunkard no longer regarded Lin Xiangbei as a newcomer. This kid already has his own stage in the world car world!
"Take the time to repair your game today and prepare for tomorrow's main game."
The old drunkard walked to the console as he spoke. Genji Ito had collected and analyzed some key game data and spoke directly.
"Xiangbeijun, you are very fast on the track today, but you lack stability, especially in some subsequent corners, which has a lot of unnecessary drift and swing, which has a lot of wear on the tires. This is why you can't continue to expand your advantage later."
Ito Genji's words made Lin Xiangbei nod. In fact, he already knew these problems in the subsequent time trial stages.
In the ss3 stage, Lin Xiangbei received the consent of the old drunkard and was finally able to do his best. In order to open the gap with his opponent, he was actually a little overexcited in his emotions, and pursued speed at the limit.
High-speed drift is very unfriendly to nail tires, and due to insufficient grip, Lin Xiangbei often needs to constantly turn the steering wheel and replenish oil in the corner to adjust and control the center of gravity of the car body.
These extra controls have further aggravated the loss of tires, making Lin Xiangbei dare not continue playing like this in many stages behind.
So in the end, the 8-second gap was a breakout in the ss3 stage. In fact, each stage in the latter stage was more than one second ahead. This may be a big advantage in a single lap in the field race, but it can only be considered weak in the rally, and it is easy to make the opponent recover in a single stage and turn the tables.
And more importantly, this is a relatively simple snow track at the tactical level. If Lin Xiangbei encounters complex road conditions in the future, he will face many tire changes, and this way of running will really cause headaches.
In the final analysis, the hard power in driving skills is still impossible to convert into an absolute victory in completely different automobile projects. Lin Xiangbei still needs greater progress and learning to face the real top drivers in the future.
"I understand that tomorrow I will reduce some unnecessary drift and swing."
Hearing Lin Xiangbei's words, Genji Ito nodded and replied: "Well, there will be several muddy stages tomorrow, which will cause greater tire losses. We must consider tire distribution carefully."
After saying this, Genji Ito added: "But Xiang Beijun, with your current identity and experience, you have already run well enough on the first day of the segmented events. These things are experiences that you need to experience before you can get, and they are not a disadvantage."
If it weren't for Lin Xiangbei to perform better tomorrow, he actually didn't think these problems were considered flaws.
After all, as a new driver, you need to constantly try and make mistakes to accumulate enough experience. It may be that Lin Xiangbei's high-speed drift and swing caused excessive tire loss, but if you don't do this, where can you get the speed advantage to lead?
Motorsports have always been about finding a balance between challenges and returns. The results Lin Xiangbei has made today are a positive return, and it does not exist if he wants to have no risks at all.
"Ito, but in fact, our goal has never been good enough at the moment, right?"
F1 data analysts like Ito Genji joined the team halfway. In fact, former domestic team members, including Lin Xiangbei, maintained a colleague relationship with them and did not reach the level of heart-to-heart talk.
However, with the team running in, many things have already shown their future direction and ambitions. Lin Xiangbei believes that with the experience of Ito Genji's career in the peak event, he definitely does not want to follow a new Chinese driver in the future and hang out in the Asia-Pacific Rally.
So Lin Xiangbei wanted to let Genji Ito know at this moment that he never just pursued his performance in the Asia-Pacific Rally, but a higher world-class stage, or even a peak stage!
Sure enough, when he heard Lin Xiangbei's words, a light appeared in Ito Genji's eyes, and he understood what the other party wanted to express.
For Genji Ito, a somewhat conservative and rigorous Japanese data analyst, he never expressed his attitude except data, but the light in his eyes still revealed his expectations for his heart.
"Our goal is never just good enough for now."
Ito Genji repeated Lin Xiangbei's words, while emphasizing the sentence "Our goal."
Perhaps it was from this moment that his goal had reached a unified goal with Lin Xiangbei, rather than the simple working relationship of colleagues before.
After a few simple words, Lin Xiangbei did not communicate for too long, because the intensity of the rally event was really not inferior to equations like f1.
Or to be precise, f1 is equivalent to sprinting, practice races, etc. in track and field. If you are really tired and need to save your physical strength, you can be replaced by a test driver.
When the drivers really need to explode with all their strength, they are the two games of the qualifying and the main race. During the two hours of the race, they need to withstand extremely high g values and control pressure. In a high temperature and high humidity environment, it is possible to dehydrate a few kilograms at a maximum temperature and humidity.
During the two-hour race, the rally may also face some pressure on g value, as well as the impact of flying jumps, etc. But to be honest, the short-term physical energy consumption intensity is still not as good as Formula racing.
However, this does not mean that the overall intensity of the rally is poor. From the road test to the continuous main race, the rally drivers have no time to breathe at all for nearly a week, just like the long-distance running endurance event in track and field.
Lin Xiangbei still needs to leave at dawn tomorrow. Now, a day after counting the RS section, it is almost evening in the afternoon.
So he must hurry up and take a shower, eat, review the game video, rest and other processes, so that he can have the energy to compete tomorrow.
Even Lin Xiangbei is more of an ordinary driver, and he has an additional physical training process, because his physical fitness requirements are always at the F1 level. As long as he is still in the professional racing field, Lin Xiangbei will not give up his dream of rushing to F1!
After changing into the racing suit and taking a shower, having a simple meal, Lin Xiangbei sat in front of the computer and watched the race scene recorded by the on-board camera today, especially some difficult turns on the SSS3 section, to see if he had any operational mistakes and flaws.
However, after watching the game, he was a little shocked and never thought that he could reach this level by cooperating with Li Wenfeng for the first time.
Perhaps in addition to luck and tacit understanding, there is also the trust that the old drunkard emphasized at the Guangzhou-Shenzhen training base.
To be honest, if the old drunkard had not emphasized this when he was still in the "newbies" stage, but when the competition began, he found out that he emphasized his trust in the navigator, Lin Xiangbei might feel that he would not do this again.
The reason is very simple, that is, the nature of the F1 driver is to trust only himself, and even his teammates are excluded!
Because for an F1 driver, his teammates are his biggest opponents, and there are no partners on the track, only enemies.
When his nature and professional thinking exploded in his previous life, it would be difficult to have absolute trust in Li Wenfeng. Lin Xiangbei would always only believe in his own judgment. Even if he was in a blind spot outside his vision, he would rather slow down and adjust, and would not be ready to go out when he entered the corner.
With this emotion, Lin Xiangbei looked at Li Wenfeng. The kid was also watching the video, but he was watching the previous road surveyor, and accurately proofreading tomorrow's road book again to ensure that no problems arise.
Behind any achievements, it is actually due to continuous hard work and hard work. At least Lin Xiangbei and Li Wenfeng have never done less effort than any car crew!
Chapter completed!