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Chapter 286: Tacit Understanding Cultivated from Scratch

"You have found a long-term meal ticket." Michael laughed when he heard it.

"Of course not. It's a three-year contract. After I finish this contract, my life will be secure." Muller shrugged and said, "At that time, they insisted on signing me for three years. Now I feel happy."

"Well, in that case, it seems that I was just being sentimental." Michael said, shook his head, turned around and prepared to leave. Before leaving, Michael suddenly turned back and said:
"You can fool me, but don't fool yourself."

After hearing this, Muller's mouth twitched, but he still suppressed the urge to speak. It was not until Michael left completely that he clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and looked at the sky outside the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

The next day, the race started as scheduled. While Lin Che and Xiao Hao were waiting for the race to start at the Xiangjiang Hongye Circuit, Chen Hewang, Huo Yuesheng, and Hei Ze, who was called back from the headquarters by Xiao Lie, each brought a team of technicians to the maintenance points set up in advance to make preparations.

At ten o'clock in the morning, as the departure lights came on, all the cars on the field accelerated out.

Nie Ming, who took the pole position yesterday, and Yuri, who was in second place, started their thrusters the moment the race started. The speed of the two Auroras soared after the start, quickly widening the gap with the cars behind.

After Yuri joined, the performance of the Arctic Fox team has also improved qualitatively. In several consecutive races, two cars were able to score points. Therefore, the Russian consortium behind it also increased its financial investment. At the same time, the technical team also dug out a lot of good things from the former Soviet heritage. The performance of the Aurora has also been greatly improved before this game. At this time, with the cooperation of Nie Ming and Yuri, the fully strengthened Aurora showed its power.

After they accelerated, the cars behind, especially those at the bottom, had to speed up as well. After all, if they were lapped during the first ten laps around the track, they wouldn’t even be able to leave the racetrack and would be eliminated early.

"Haha, speeding up right at the beginning? Silver, are the maintenance area settings of each team clear? Where is the first maintenance point of Arctic Fox?"

"The Arctic Fox team's No. 20 maintenance point is set at the 40th kilometer of the road stage. If calculated based on the entire distance, it is at the th kilometer." Silver gave the information, and Lin Che also understood Nie Ming and his team's plan. The tires currently used by the Aurora are the soft tires with the fastest acceleration. At the same time, Lin Che estimated that the Aurora's fuel tank should not be full at the moment. The current running method is to be able to fill the fuel tank at the same time as the first tire change.

This tactic worked wonders when the two drivers got the pole position. Now the pace of the whole race has been inexplicably accelerated. After all, there is a risk of being lapped and eliminated. The cars at the end of the line at the start did not dare to take the risk. After all, this track is only two kilometers long and the risk of being lapped is still very high.

In this way, when the pace is increased, the racing rhythm of those cars that have to accelerate will be disrupted, making it impossible to complete tire changes and fuel replenishment at the optimal rhythm. After all, the tire change points are planned in advance, unlike mini racing competitions where accessories can be replaced at any time.

"The way they run is really infuriating. Ache, should we speed up too?" Looking at the two Auroras accelerating at a roaring speed, Xiao Hao felt itchy in his heart and said in the team channel.

"Why rush? We started the race on hard tires. We won't be able to catch up with them even if we speed up now since we're already behind. We might as well maintain the current pace. It's only after we change to soft tires the next two times that we can exert our strength." Lin Che replied while driving the Tai Chi War Dragon.

The three tire-changing nodes of DRS are set at the 70th, 140th and 170th kilometers of the whole course. Without considering energy replenishment and taking into account the track conditions of the road race, Xiao Lie set the pace of the race to run 140 kilometers with two sets of hard tires, and then complete a 60-kilometer sprint with two sets of soft tires.

"At the beginning of the race, the Arctic Fox team accelerated the pace of the race. They suffered a lot in the last race. After getting the pole position this time, they became the ones who controlled the pace of the race. Now it seems that many teams are still affected." Li Bing said, "For example, the USCF team set the first tire change station at the 45th kilometer. They started with soft tires and did not fill up the fuel. Considering their starting order, they should have thought of refueling at the same time as the first tire change. But now they have to speed up in advance under the risk of being lapped by the Arctic Fox team. In this way, even if they can leave the Hongye Circuit safely, their speed will be greatly affected before reaching the first tire change point kilometers away."

"However, the two AMG-01s currently in fourth and sixth place, the two Pegasus in fifth and eighth place, and the Tai Chi War Dragon and Whirlwind Charge in 12th and 13th place do not seem to be affected by them, and still maintain their own acceleration rhythm." Brother Fei said.

"On the eighth lap, the car currently in the last place will soon be caught up by Nie Ming, the number one driver of McLaren. Muller, who just returned to the track in this race, has already fallen to the last place in the previous eight laps. Will he be the first driver to be eliminated today?"

"It seems that the last injury still has a significant impact on his condition." Li Bing said, "Yesterday's qualifying results can be explained by his desire to hide his strength, but the current situation seems that he has not yet fully recovered from the injury."

"Muller, what's going on over there?" McLaren's technical director became a little anxious upon seeing this. They had high hopes for Muller in this game, thinking that after Muller's return, they would be able to get more points in the standings. But now the game has just begun, and Muller is on the verge of being eliminated?
"Shut up, I know what I'm doing!" Muller said, gritting his teeth and stepping on the accelerator while pushing down the thruster lever. The speed of MCL-C01 soared, and it opened up a little distance from the Aurora. But while accelerating, Muller's foot was already on the brake, intending to step on the brake the moment he saw something wrong.

Soon, after creating a safe distance and raising his ranking to 18th, Mueller turned off the thrusters and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the instant acceleration did not cause him to enter the zero realm again without realizing it.

"MCL-C01 accelerated and got rid of the Aurora, but the USCF's No. 01 car, which was in th place, was not so lucky. Their means of acceleration was to optimize the aerodynamic components. Although the maximum speed was not bad, it could not help them get rid of the pursuers in a short time like the MCL-C did. After the Aurora completed the overtaking, it had to be eliminated unfortunately." Li Bing shook his head with some regret.

"It seems that the racing environment in North America is really not that good. Up to now, the USCF No. 2 car has not been able to finish the race once in the GPX competition." Seeing this, Brother Fei shook his head regretfully.

"As a team led by a consortium, the Arctic Fox team has maintained its strength in the championship zone, but the USCF is in the worst zone. They have not scored any points so far. The performance of the USCF car is not bad. Although it is not as good as the cars of the teams at the top of the current standings, it is far from the bottom. However, they do not seem to have a reliable driver to fully bring out the performance of the car."

"Hasn't the racing environment in North America always been like that?" Li Bing said, "This can be easily seen from Mini Racing, the cradle of racing drivers. While children in other regions are pursuing faster and more extreme speeds, children in North America are thinking about how to destroy their opponent's car today. Can decent racing drivers be cultivated in such an environment?" When commenting on the second WGP, the Aquaman Wand Legion of the Mid-Season Championship broke into the game and wreaked havoc, but Li Bing still remembers the attitude of the American children who flooded into the scene.

"The two Auroras have completed ten laps around the Red Leaf Racetrack. The gate to the outside world has been opened, and the Aurora has run up."

The camera turned and dozens of drones took off from the field, several of which followed the footsteps of the two Auroras.

“The next race can only be filmed by Lin Technology’s professional photography drones. After all, with the speed of the CF racing car, traditional helicopter aerial photography can’t keep up.” Li Bing said.

"The Aurora has entered the road section. Should we slow down? The conditions on the road track are much more complicated than those on the racetrack." Ran said at this time, "Well, it seems that the Arctic Fox team has no intention of slowing down."

"On the contrary, the Red Bull Racing No. 1 car, which was not far behind them, slowed down after entering the road section. However, the Ferrari and Mercedes drivers were very skilled and bold. They took advantage of the time when the Red Bull No. 1 car slowed down to overtake it and catch up with the Aurora."

"In the last lap of the track race, DRS also slightly increased the speed. Tai Chi Zhanlong briefly turned on the thrusters and accelerated the Tornado Charge at the same time. The two entered the road stage in 8th and 9th place."

“After entering the road stage, the intensity of the competition has increased instead of decreased. It seems that the more complicated track has not affected the drivers.” said Fei Ge.

"Normally, there would be a navigator in such road races, but the AI ​​of CF Racing has replaced this job very well. Humans may make mistakes in such long-distance road races, but AI will not. However, this has also come to test the tacit understanding between the driver and the AI."

After entering the road race, the driver cannot be as familiar with the track conditions as in the circuit race, so AI's real-time monitoring of the track and reminders to the driver are very important. On the roads in Hong Kong with many bends, with the speed of the CF car, it is definitely too late to wait until the driver can fully see the conditions of the bend before turning. Therefore, at this time, AI is needed to remind the driver of the track conditions ahead in advance and how to turn.

At this time, the advantages of AIs like Silver and Magnum, which were trained completely from scratch by their respective masters, became very obvious.

At this moment, the cars in the first echelon, whether it was Aurora from the Aurora, Enzo from the Pegasus, or Karl from Mercedes, all provided mechanical guidance to the drivers. However, Silver and Magnum's explanations for each bend were completely in accordance with Lin Che and Xiao Hao's usual habits. The two of them could run completely according to the AI's prompts without too much thinking.

It can be said that other AIs only report the conditions of the track, but Silver and Magnum report the code of the feeling between the driver and the track.

This tacit understanding allowed the two DRS cars to accelerate faster than others after entering the road, rapidly narrowing the distance with the team in front.

The race reached the 20th kilometer of the highway. The maintenance point set up by the Arctic Fox team on the roadside was already ready. Seeing this, Yuri and Nie Ming slowed down, and Carlo and others behind took the opportunity to overtake.

Soon, the two Auroras changed their tires, refilled their fuel, and set off again. After completing the first tire change, the two Auroras with sufficient fuel started their thrusters one after another, cooperating with each other to restore the speed of the car to the level before deceleration in a short time, and it didn't take much effort to catch up with the car in front.

Carlo and Okita Kai also began to slow down at this time. Their first maintenance point was set up at the 50th kilometer of the whole course. The design of the maintenance points in the entire race also followed the most basic method of dividing the race into four equal parts, and replenishing fuel during the second tire change, which was halfway through the race.

Originally, Ferrari's technical team wanted to do some fancy tricks like Arctic Fox or Mercedes to gain a certain advantage, but this suggestion was directly rejected by Carlo and Okita Kai, who are drivers. The two understood that for their own team's technical team, a conventional arrangement might be the best arrangement. Otherwise, the more fancy they play, the bigger the tricks they may make.

Soon, both cars completed the tire change, and after the AI ​​indicated that they could set off, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

It can be said that most of the technicians at this station were temporarily transferred from the F2 team, and F2 has always been the hardest hit area for the technical team. If there are no problems at this station, the next two stations, which are respectively managed by the GPX and F1 technical teams, should not have any problems.

However, while they stopped to change tires, Tai Chi War Dragon and Whirlwind Charge rushed past them.

"So fast?" Carlo was stunned at first, then he accelerated and chased forward. After catching up with the Tai Chi War Dragon, Carlo observed Lin Che and Xiao Hao's running for a while and found that they seemed to be smoother than himself when turning.

"Don't they need time to process the information provided by AI?" Carlo asked doubtfully. Compared to them, the way Lin Che and the others were running now seemed to have omitted a step.

(End of this chapter)