Beyblade: You call this a four-wheel drive vehicle?

Chapter 307 Wuhan Station, the war begins!
"The two DRS cars have started to accelerate. Tai Chi War Dragon is fine, and it looks no different from its usual acceleration rhythm. However, why does Whirlwind Charge seem a bit slow when accelerating? This is not like him at all." Li Bing said puzzledly after watching a clip of the two cars accelerating.

"It feels like both cars are very fast, and in the current lap time rankings, they both maintain a very good result." Su Fan said with some confusion.

"No, no, no," Li Bing shook his head and said, "Teacher Su Fan, you haven't watched many GPX competitions, so you're not very familiar with the usual habits of the players. This acceleration rhythm is normal for Lin Che, who runs steadily, but it's a bit too slow for a whirlwind charge, especially in qualifying. Generally speaking, it only takes Xiao Hao one or two laps to accelerate to his current speed, but now it took him four laps to slowly increase to his current speed."

"I see," Su Fan nodded, "They were both eliminated in the last game, right? Could it be because of this reason?"

Su Fan wanted to find an excuse for Xiao Hao, but soon found that his excuse seemed untenable: "No, with Xing Ma Hao's personality, he shouldn't be affected by his previous record."

Su Fan had commented on many games of the TRF Victory Team. He was very impressed by Xiao Hao's performance when he rushed forward without hesitation after losing the game in the previous game. "Could it be that there was something wrong with the car?"

"This is unlikely. After all, it has been two weeks since the last game. With a mature manufacturing process, two weeks is enough to make two identical new cars." Li Bing said, "Oh, Arctic Fox's No. 1 car accelerated and rushed past Tornado Charge. No way, how can they tolerate this? It seems that Tornado Charge and Xing Ma Hao did have some problems. They couldn't even ignite the other powder keg."

"What is Xiaohao doing? Speed ​​up! I want him to see my Burning Soul." Inside the cockpit of the Aurora, Nie Ming curled his lips, somewhat dissatisfied with Xiaohao's indifference. During this period, after his failed attempt in the last race, he had been constantly training. After sending the Aurora to the repair shop four times within two weeks, he had finally reached the threshold of the Burning Soul. For simple-minded drivers like him and Xiaohao who purely pursue faster speeds, the Burning Soul did not have any threshold. It was more of a natural outcome after reaching a certain level.

"Nie Ming, stop messing around. The Whirlwind Charge should not be able to withstand the load of the Burning Soul state, so Xiao Hao has been restraining himself." Yuri said at this time, "As for you, although the researchers in the team have found materials from the Soviet Union's material science achievements that can allow the Aurora to withstand the pressure of the Burning Soul for a short period of time, you are also aware of the condition of that material. After you enter the Burning Soul state, that material is basically a consumable. You can't waste it in the qualifying match."

"Okay." After being reminded by Yuri, Nie Ming calmed down, nodded and said.

"They both managed to finish a whole round of qualifying without any problems." Li Bing couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that Tornado Charge and Aurora were separated by a distance and advanced into Q4 with the 7th and 2th lap times respectively without any disputes.

"The car with the fastest lap time at the moment is the new car of the McLaren team. In the Q1 qualifying race, the car didn't seem to be exerting much power, but it still easily won the first place in Q1. The potential of this car seems to be really high," Li Bing exclaimed.

"It is worth mentioning that Kevin and Muller of the Red Bull Racing team, although they lost a good start in the second half of the last race and did not have as many good news as before in the subsequent training, their lap times in this qualifying race were stable in the top ten. They calmed down and concentrated on honing their skills and their improvement was also very great."

After Q1 ended, the teams and drivers took a 15-minute break before Q2 officially began.

Since tires can only be replaced once in this race and the vehicle's endurance is extremely high, most teams do not intend to compete for pole position in qualifying. Therefore, the Q2 race is even more boring than Q1.

After all, in Q1, even if you don't get the pole position, you can't start in the last place, because that would be embarrassing. After Q2, all teams started to play badly, and the overall lap time of the players was even slower than that of Q1.

Except for MCL-C02 and two RB-C01s that secured three qualifying spots early on, the others seemed to not even want to run in Q3. After all, after entering Q3, the starting configuration was basically exposed.

Under such circumstances, McLaren's second driver Lanci drove the MCL-C01 and successfully advanced to the final round with fourth place. Carlo and Okita Kai were fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth places were taken by Yuri and Nie Ming respectively.

As for the last two qualifying spots, DRS and Mercedes were more humble. Xiao Hao ran uncomfortably with his hands and feet restrained. He went back after two laps at the start of Q2. Mercedes seemed not to want to reveal its starting configuration for tomorrow's race. Hijikata gave up speeding up after running two laps. Michael and Lin Che were more humble when facing the last two qualifying spots. Tai Chi Zhanlong and AMG-01 were running almost closely together, but no one accelerated.

It can be said that the reason why the two stayed on the track was to see if they could trick each other into Q3, thus having to expose some tactics due to the Q3 competition system. But obviously neither of them succeeded. Instead, Aston Martin's No. car and USCF's No. car took advantage and got the last two qualifying spots.

In fact, in this qualifying race, USCF's No. 1 car was really lucky. It advanced just past the line in Q2, but in Q3 it ran into DRS and Mercedes who had no intention of advancing, so it was sent directly to Q.

When USCF's No. 3 car crossed the finish line and entered Q, racing fans across North America rejoiced.

"Let us congratulate USCF! They have successfully made history! This is the first time in history that their team has entered the third round of qualifying!" Li Bing also applauded, but his exaggerated expression made people laugh.

"Ah? Is it that serious? Isn't it just entering the third round of qualifying?" Su Fan was a little puzzled by his reaction.

“Let me put it this way, for USCF, this moment of advancing to Q3 is equivalent to our country’s football team breaking out of Asia!” said Li Bing.

"That is indeed something worth celebrating." Su Fan said with a smile. At the same time, he also understood what Li Bing meant. Li Bing used the Chinese national football team as an analogy, and it can be seen what level this team is at in the entire GPX league.

However, at this time, looking at the situation of the qualifying race, the leaders of the GPX organizing committee who were in a meeting sighed. Most of the rules of GPX are inherited from the former F1, but now as the GPX schedule deepens, the competition system is becoming more and more complicated and changeable. The qualifying race that determines the starting order of the race, which is a very important part of the F1 competition, is becoming less and less important in the GPX competition.

In the first two races, the capable drivers still wanted to fight for the pole position, but now many of them have entered Q2 and started to play badly in Q2 after getting rid of the first round. Everyone has lost interest in the pole position, which was supposed to be a heavyweight honor besides the championship. Anyway, as the situation on the field becomes more and more complicated, the role of the pole position is getting less and less. Except for special cases like Muller, everyone is not very enthusiastic about this thing.

Therefore, in the current global viewing trend, the ratings of the qualifying matches are gradually declining. The ratings of the qualifying matches in China, which have increased because people want to watch the soldiers perform, are an exception.

If one wants to increase the ratings of the qualifying round, it is actually not difficult. That is to make the track simpler. If the track becomes simpler, one can control the rhythm of the race from the beginning. The importance of pole position will increase, just like the previous Guangzhou race, but they can't sacrifice the excitement of the race for the ratings of the qualifying round.

"How about starting from the next race, the team that gets the pole position can get a few extra team points?" Someone in the meeting room suggested, "Many people have given up the race because the pole position has little impact on the race. But if we give the team points directly, they should be more motivated."

"That makes sense, but the specific values ​​still need to be carefully studied and calculated," the person in charge of the organizing committee nodded, agreeing with the idea, but the degree still needs to be controlled.

At the press conference after the qualifying round, Xiao Hao's performance today, which was different from the past, naturally made him the focus of the media, but he was already very annoyed that he couldn't give full play to his performance due to the limitations of the vehicle's performance. Now this group of reporters' constant attempts to dig out some big news made him even more annoyed.

Fortunately, Xiao Lie noticed that his brother's mood seemed a little off, so he took over the conversation: "Whirlwind Charge did encounter some problems, but please don't worry."

"Is it because of the accident in the previous game?" a reporter asked.

"It has nothing to do with the last game. It's just a small technical problem. I believe our technical team and Xiao Hao will be able to adjust to it quickly." Lin Che also said at this time.

After the press conference ended and Xiao Hao went back to eat and do physical training, he leaned on the seat of the equipment and his complexion did not improve.

"A Che, it looks like I'll be a drag in the next game again." Xiao Hao said unwillingly, "Everyone has become stronger, but it's too uncomfortable that we already have this strength, but we can't perform at all due to various restrictions."

“Don’t be so pessimistic.” Lin Che smiled and shook his head. “J has already calculated for you. The current Whirlwind Charge is probably enough to last for about 7 seconds in the Burning Soul state. This is already stronger than the Tai Chi War Dragon. According to J’s calculations, the current Tai Chi War Dragon can only last for five seconds at most in my Clear Mirror Still Water state.”

"So, just treat it as a means of sprinting." Lin Che said. The limited strength did not affect him too much. He had experienced this feeling before. At the first WGP, when the Tai Chi War Dragon was sent back to China to develop aerodynamic components, Lin Che had a similar feeling when using the Light Speed ​​War Dragon. So, he did not feel anything particularly uncomfortable this time.

"Of course I know I can use it as a burst means of sprinting." Xiao Hao said, "But I'm always afraid that I will enter the state of Burning Soul while running, and then the Charge will fall apart and I will have to be eliminated. Our current points do not have much room for error."

After hearing what Xiao Hao said, Lin Che laughed and said, "You can consider this. It seems that you have indeed grown a lot. However, you don't need to worry about this kind of thing. Just run at your own pace."

"Besides, we don't need to win these two games to catch up. As long as we don't fall too far behind in points, we can naturally catch up with the Moment engine after the completion of the Thunderbolt and Lightning Charge." Lin Che smiled, "So, don't worry too much, just run normally."

"Okay, I understand." Xiao Hao nodded. After the two completed their daily training, they went back to rest.

The main competition started on time at 10 am the next day.

In the live broadcast room of Five Star Sports, in addition to the trio, Su Fan, who appeared in Li Bing's live broadcast room yesterday, also came to the studio.

After some self-introductions, as the signal light for the start of the game came on, the commentators also turned their attention to the game.

The first 50 kilometers of the race were held at the Yangtze River International Circuit in Wuchang, where the qualifying rounds were held. The contestants needed to run ten laps in this circuit before they could officially enter today's city race stage.

After the race started, Muller, who had won the pole position yesterday, started the thrusters at the beginning and began to burst out. At this moment, MCL-C02 officially demonstrated its superb performance in front of the public.

"Oh my God, with this level of explosive acceleration, the car body doesn't shake at all? The stability is too good!" Brother Fei immediately shouted in disbelief.

"In this way, the drivers who are at the back of the order will have to face the pressure of being eliminated." Ran Ge said, "However, in this race, if it rushes at the beginning, can it last until the first maintenance point at 200 kilometers?"

"It should be fine." Li Bing thought for a while and said, "The biggest feature of McLaren cars is hydrogen energy. Compared with cars using traditional energy, they have a greater advantage in terms of endurance. Moreover, even with such a rapid acceleration at the beginning, the tires of this car don't seem to be worn out too much?"

(End of this chapter)