063 Hands-on ability
In fact, it was not Lin Xiangbei who underestimated the difficulty of pulling, but that he had too high requirements for himself.
At least in the eyes of the old drunkard, Lin Xiangbei's ability today is already considered a genius among domestic geniuses.
He has been in the industry for more than ten years and has seen countless newcomers in rally racing, but none of them can reach Lin Xiangbei's current level just after getting started, even if he has the foundation for field racing.
Therefore, Lin Xiangbei's current "newcomer" performance is already terrifying in the pulling world, but he just doesn't realize it yet.
Thinking of this, the old drunkard couldn't help but feel the championship request he said when he was talking about the conditions for modifying RX7, and the boy Lin Xiangbei agreed without hesitation.
At that time, I thought this was the confidence and frivolity of young people. Looking back now, the potential this kid showed is really possible to become a future champion.
Of course, the old drunkard could not tell Lin Xiangbei about this kind of shock. Because this kid is confident enough now, he will be drifting away if he continues to show off.
Not long after Lin Xiangbei got off the bus, Brother Niu drove the event transfer truck to the "accident" location. Looking at the scarred Mitsubishi EVO, he almost instantly understood what was happening.
"To the north, did you jump when you first ran the pull?"
"Well, the posture of the car in the air is not well controlled, so it's like this when it lands."
Lin Xiangbei spared his head and replied a little embarrassedly.
Today, I didn’t even run the entire base in one lap, but I ended up crashing twice. According to this frequency, Brother Niu may have to repair from early to late in the future.
But now Lin Xiangbei also understands why rally racing is so simple and rough in many cases.
It is because the frequency of accident damage is too frequent, and it is too late to repair it slowly!
"Awesome, I jumped straight away in the first practice!"
Brother Niu stretched out his thumb straightforwardly, praised Lin Xiangbei, and then continued.
"I used to see other newcomers training, they all used to collect oil and slow down in front of the slope, or even brake against the ground, and never jumped."
"Yeah?"
Hearing Brother Niu’s words, Lin Xiangbei turned his head and looked suspiciously at the old drunkard.
When the old drunkard called out the word "jump", he did not hesitate at all. Lin Xiangbei felt that it was his level problem without landing. It turned out that novices would not jump at all. No wonder he couldn't resist twisting his waist!
Facing Lin Xiangbei's gaze, the old drunkard ignored it directly, but got off the car and said to Brother Niu: "When the racing repair, let Xiangbei do it with you."
After saying this, the old drunkard passed by Lin Xiangbei and added a sarcastic sentence.
"It's okay if you are young and have poor health, but if you don't have the ability to do it, you'll be useless."
Damn it!
This time, Lin Xiangbei finally couldn't help but gestured to the old drunkard's back and gestured out his middle finger. This guy really couldn't treat him with the mentality of treating his elders!
"Xiangbei, in fact, Uncle Xu has good intentions. The rally driver must be proficient in racing repairs, otherwise the fault will not be handled during the race."
Brother Niu explained to the old drunkard at this time.
In fact, it doesn’t take Niu to say that Lin Xiangbei also knew that the old drunkard’s real intention was to learn racing repairs, because this was almost equivalent to a necessary skill for rally racing drivers.
You should know that the rally event is different from the field event. It divides the entire event into many small sections and then completes within the specified time.
Due to the limitation of the schedule and distance, it is impossible to drive the car into the repair station at any time when a fault occurs, like the track. The rally will only set up a repair area in a fixed position. If the fault occurs outside the repair area or outside the "repair time", only the driver and the navigator can repair the vehicle.
Even if others only help open the cover, they will be punished by complaints and punishments. In the minority, the results will be cancelled directly if they are severe.
Therefore, rally drivers and navigators must have the ability to repair the car by themselves, and must also complete the repair as soon as possible.
The old drunkard asked Lin Xiangbei to repair the car with Brother Niu to cultivate Lin Xiangbei's maintenance ability in advance, which is another difference between a rally driver and a F1 driver.
As an F1 driver, you pay more attention to theoretical knowledge and need to understand tires, suspension, steering, aerodynamics, and even further engine working principles. For example, Otto cycle and related parameter knowledge are all essential knowledge points for top F1 drivers.
As for the hands-on aspect, it is all handed over to more professional maintenance technicians, so Lin Xiangbei understood the principle of modifying the RX7 before, but it was a bit bad to do it.
The opposite of this is the case for the rally driver. You may not understand the high-end things such as engine working principles and aerodynamic design. But if there are minor problems with racing cars, you must be able to get it done as soon as possible.
As for the maintenance method, it doesn’t matter, as long as you can run again!
He installed Mitsubishi EVO again with a race transfer truck. Lin Xiangbei and Brother Niu came to the abandoned factories he saw at the beginning.
When you push open the dusty iron door, the first thing you see is the piles of old tires and various broken coverings. Then you can also see the repair elevator and several oil barrels rolling on the ground.
It was obvious that this was once a repair area, but it was abandoned for a long time, resulting in a look of dilapidated.
"This is the maintenance room where Uncle Xu went to the Dakar Rally. He originally planned to participate in the competition as an individual driver, so he had the training at this Guangzhou-Shenzhen base. Later, he received the sponsorship of Nissan Paladin, so we went to Zhengzhou, so this place was temporarily vacant."
"I thought I would come back here to prepare for the WRC after running Dakar, but the accident that year made Uncle Xu feel guilty and chose to retire, so we never came back."
"If it weren't for your appearance in the north, this Guangzhou-Shenzhen base might have been abandoned forever."
Brother Niu said a long sentence sadly. With his taciturn personality, it is not easy to say these things.
However, it can be seen from the side that Brother Niu’s inner emotions are fluctuating at this moment. He may not have expected that after many years, he would return to the place where the dream began again.
"It's okay, I will regain this place in the future!"
Lin Xiangbei patted Brother Niu's shoulder in a grand manner and prepared to brag about himself.
As a result, the action was a little bigger, which involved the waist injury that had been twisted before, which made Lin Xiangbei's mentality drop sharply.
"Yangbei, are you okay?"
Feeling that Lin Xiangbei's expression suddenly became a little strange, Brother Niu asked inexplicably.
"Just kidding, how could I have something to do?"
"Okay, let's start."
Brother Niu was very nervous and didn't find anything wrong at all. He drove the Mitsubishi EVO off the race transfer truck and then stopped it on the maintenance elevator. While quickly repairing the race car, he told Lin Xiangbei what to do.
The tire blowout, the bumper replacement, and the impacted suspension are adjusted, which takes less than ten minutes to complete. This is the efficiency of a professional maintenance technician.
"Yangbei, are you very hot? Why are your forehead full of sweat?"
After repairing the racing car, Brother Niu finally found something wrong with Lin Xiangbei. He took action in less than ten minutes and he was sweating profusely.
Lin Xiangbei also couldn't say anything about his pain. When he first started, he didn't feel much. As time goes by, especially as Brother Niu bent down to repair the car, he felt that his "sickness" had suddenly worsened a lot.
Chapter completed!