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Chapter 323 Shenyang Station, the race begins

The DRS brothers had just finished taking a shower and their hair wasn't even dry yet. As soon as they came out of the locker room, they saw cameras pointed at them and were a little confused.

"Well, the media press conference will start in a while. Please go to the press conference site we have prepared in advance and wait." Lin Che said to the reporters.

"Don't you have any idea why we are stuck here? You have missed four press conferences in a row." A reporter immediately said.

"Haha, uh, I will attend the press conference today." Lin Che felt a little guilty. To be honest, when he was taking a shower just now, he even wanted to skip the press conference and go eat early.

"Okay, then let's hold today's press conference here." Xiao Lie and his group of reporters seemed to have no intention of leaving first, so he simply said.

Similar scenes are happening in the locker rooms of the top teams. For the teams currently in the championship race, except for the diligent Carlo, everyone else has been taught by Lin Che to skip press conferences. Often, the media waits at the press conference site for a long time, but none of the drivers who are supposed to come show up, and they can only ask some meaningless questions to other management.

At the press conference, the questions most asked by the media were about the new car. Lin Che picked out some less important ones and answered them one by one. As for Xiao Hao, the reporters tacitly ignored him. After all, when it comes to technical issues, this guy really can't say anything nutritious. When asked, he just said that the new car is awesome and the new engine is powerful.

"This is the last question. I'm still hungry." Lin Che reminded when he saw that the time was almost up.

After the media in the maintenance area looked at each other, the ESPN reporter asked first: "Mr. Lin Che, what do you think of the performance of the new cars of other competitors?"

"Their new cars are all very powerful, but mine is even better." Lin Che shrugged and said, "By the way, you're asking this because you don't want to make a ranking list again, right? Then please make sure to put the Sky Tyrannosaurus Rex at the end, thank you."

The reporters present burst into laughter. This sports media from the United States is famous for its love of making various rankings, but their rankings, like Li Bing's judgment, can be called a weapon of causality.

Their masterpiece was ranking Ferrari first in the championship winning rate at the Hong Kong station, but everyone saw the result of Ferrari in that race.

After the press conference ended, Fujiyoshi called again, urging everyone to have dinner.

"Hurry up, the young master has urged you several times." said Huo Yuesheng who answered the phone.

"Isn't it going to be another pig-killing dinner today?" Chen Hewang said, "How many Second Senior Brothers are you?"

After arriving in Northeast China, Fujiyoshi, after having a meal of stewed goose in an iron pot, wandered around the countryside near the training ground all day long, as if he was looking for treasure, and then coincidentally discovered the pig-killing dish. Mainly because this guy had to eat fresh food, he had killed 5 pigs in the past two weeks. The pigs in the village near the competition venue almost had a conditioned reflex when they saw the monkey car.

As we all know, the sauerkraut is appetizing and the pork is fatty and goes well with rice. If you are not careful, the calorie intake will exceed the limit. During this period, except for Lin Che and Xiao Hao who exercise a lot every day, everyone else has gained a lot of weight, and Tengji's body has become visibly bigger.

"I never thought that what he said when he was ten years old, that he wanted to eat all over China, would almost be accomplished now." Xiao Lie also complained at this time.

But no matter what they said, when it was time to eat, everyone was still determined. They went back to the hotel to put their things and drove to the place reserved by Fujiyoshi. On the way, they also picked up Michael and Hijikata Rei who were preparing to go to the hotel restaurant for lunch.

……

On Sunday, at 9:30 am, the live broadcast of Five Star Sports started on time.

After the trio introduced themselves, the camera turned to the fourth person on the commentary desk.

"Today, we have two special guests, Kurosawa Tai and Kondo Gen, who were the vice-captains and core members of the Spanish team in the first two WGPs and are now working in the R&D team of the DRS team. Kurosawa and Kondo, please say hello to everyone."

"Hello everyone, I'm Kurosawa Tai."

"Hello everyone, I'm Gen Kondo."

The two brothers greeted the audience in front of the camera a little stiffly.

After the work on Tyrannosaurus Rex and Lightning Charge was completed, Lin Che gave the two brothers a long vacation. At this time, Kurosawa also received an invitation from Five Star Sports, so he simply brought Kondo Gen over to play.

"Welcome, both of you." Li Bing saw that the two of them were a little reserved in front of the camera, so he decided to chat with them for a while to relax them. "For Japanese people, you two speak Chinese really well."

"How can it be bad?" Kurosawa curled his lips. "Lin Che tricked me into coming to China right after I graduated from Neon Junior High School. I should have learned it after all these years."

"Lie?" Brother Fei noticed Kurosawa's wording and asked immediately.

"Yes, it was a scam. That guy called me right after I graduated from junior high school. He offered me a monthly salary of 4 and asked me to come to China to study. He arranged everything for me from high school to college to work. I didn't think too much about it at the time and thought he gave me too much. As a result, I sold out my life without paying attention." Kurosawa complained, "Now that I think about it, I feel that he had planned it all out during the WGP."

"So what is your current salary level?" Ran Ge also asked curiously, "Is this something you can tell me?"

"Why not? 15, and a house in Beijing." Kurosawa said.

"Are you showing off?" Brother Fei said with some resentment. Although he was the top commentator in the field of Chinese racing, he could only rent a house in Beijing. However, Kurosawa, who was in his early twenties, already had a house in Beijing.

"You don't know how hard it is to make a few bucks from him." Kurosawa said, "When this guy is developing new cars, he always gives me some outrageous requirements, and he often has to drag me to work in their front-line technical team."

"By the way, he probably can't hear me complaining about him here." Kurosawa suddenly asked after he had a good time talking nonsense.

"Well, I remember that when they were competing, there would be a TV in the maintenance area to watch our live broadcast." Li Bing said at this time.

"Oh, that's okay. I was just talking nonsense just now. My brother Lin is the best boss in the world." Kurosawa immediately changed his words.

"No, it's so real?" Brother Fei said. When they knew that this episode of the live broadcast would invite two Japanese as guests, they thought there would be some cultural barriers. But they didn't expect this guy to do this. Just the way he spoke, how is it different from the ordinary young people in China today?

"The race is about to begin, and we've already started warming up. The track for this race is 20 kilometers long, with a total of laps." Li Bing watched the racing cars on the broadcast come on stage one after another and start warming up, so he diverted the topic, which had already started to go off track.

"After the warm-up, DRS, who took the first two places yesterday, was ranked first at the start," said Li Bing.

"In yesterday's qualifying, the performances of the Thunderbolt and Lightning Charge were extremely impressive. The Thunderbolt snatched first place from a group of cars, and Lightning Charge also gained the upper hand in the confrontation with his nemesis." Brother Fei said, "These two cars were created by you, Kurosawa, right? Kurosawa, what do you think of this result?" "You asked the right question." Kurosawa said, "Now, apart from the drivers who control them, I guess only I know how powerful these two cars are."

"Really? Can you tell me more about it?" Brother Fei asked.

"We have signed a lot of confidentiality agreements, so I can't go into too much detail. I can only tell you that the engines these two cars are equipped with are absolutely epoch-making," said Kurosawa.

"Is it so exaggerated?" Ran Ge said embarrassedly.

"That's right, the upper limit of our new engine can be said to be infinite," Kondo Gen added at this time.

"The race has begun!" Li Bing said at this time, "In yesterday's third qualifying round, when everyone chose soft tires to start, the cars behind that did not enter Q3 had to choose soft tires to start. They were behind in the starting order and did not have the qualifications to pursue endurance with harder tires. Otherwise, judging from the performance of these new cars yesterday, even if the track is 20 kilometers long, these new cars may have lapped them and eliminated them."

"After the start, Sky-Blast and Lightning Charge started sprinting!" Li Bing was a little surprised, "Is this how fast they are at the start?"

"But the effect is very good. The tempo of the whole race was very fast. Ferrari and Arctic Fox behind them had to speed up. At the same time, the tempo of the teams behind them also became chaotic. After all, the pressure of being eliminated by laps was there!" said Brother Fei.

“With all 20 cars on the field running on soft tires, this is a very good choice,” Kurosawa said, “because there is no chance that the opponent will take advantage of the situation by relying on the longer tire range.”

"The cars behind the team have already started to get confused due to this sudden change in pace." Brother Fei looked at the team behind him that had already fallen into chaos and couldn't help but say, "Is the pressure so great?"

"So, who do you think will be eliminated first?" Brother Ran said.

"USCF." Kondo Gen gave the most reliable guess with a concise answer.

"Is there even a need to ask? I don't believe USCF can survive this chaos." Kurosawa also said at this time.

After the two of them made a quick judgment, the trio felt a little awkward. They couldn't just guess USCF as well, as that would not be a good show.

Fortunately, USCF's No. 2 car had problems before they could make a judgment, and it spun off the track.

"USCF has fallen again!" Kurosawa said with a smile.

"Well, you two, this is a live TV broadcast, so please be a little more restrained." Li Bing had to remind Kurosawa and Kondo Gen. After relaxing, the two of them completely let go.

"Uh, okay." Kurosawa and Kondo Gen scratched their heads and nodded.

"The loss of control of USCF's No. 2 car has caused a chain reaction!" Fei Ge said excitedly, "Aston Martin's No. 1 car and the two cars of the Sauber team have been affected by the loss of control of USCF's No. 2 car just now! Can they stabilize it?"

"Were all the protection programs triggered?" Li Bing shook his head. "What a pity. They had a great chance to finish the race, but under the pressure of DRS's increased pace at the start, they failed to hold on."

"Let's turn our attention back to the first echelon," said Brother Fei.

The speed of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Lightning Charge increased steadily without using any explosive means.

Mercedes, which had formed a combined formation at the back, was chasing very closely, but there seemed to be no chance of overtaking them at the moment.

Nie Ming of Arctic Fox was delayed for some time because he had to wait for the reunion of his teammates and is currently behind the two teams.

The four cars of Ferrari and McLaren kept a distance from them, following behind but had not yet exerted their strength.

"DRS is planning to pit for a tire change." Brother Fei said. After pitting, the camera turned to the maintenance area. While Xiao Hao was changing tires, he was communicating quickly with Huo Yuesheng across the cockpit.

"What will they say at this time?" Fei Ge suddenly asked curiously, "I remember Kurosawa was also the person in charge of the technical team of DRS."

"This kid is talking about something right now. He wants the car to go faster, or make the turn more flexible." Kurosawa said with a gesture.

What’s funny is that in the first-person perspective of the cockpit, Xiao Hao made the same gesture.

"Ah? So abstract?" In the impression of the brothers, these drivers are very professional and they should use some more professional terms when putting forward their requirements. However, what Kurosawa said was far beyond his expectations.

"This guy is famous for torturing technicians. When I was making the Lightning Charge, it was more difficult for me to understand what he meant every day than to make the parts for the Lightning Charge." Kurosawa said.

"Yuesheng must be acting as a translator right now. He is the only one in the entire team who can understand Xiaohao's words." Kurosawa said.

"Is it the same over at Lin Che?" Brother Fei asked.

"That's impossible. He designed both cars. If there's a problem, he can just point it out and it'll be done," said Gen Kondo.

"The DRS took up quite a bit of time this time, more than four seconds," Li Bing said. "The advantage we had previously gained was lost a lot."

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, these are new cars, and their structures are very complicated. It will take some time for the technicians to adapt." Kurosawa said, "It's good that there are no mistakes."

"Ah, the Ferrari here hasn't left the pit yet? It's been more than 9 seconds since it entered the pit." Brother Ran noticed the blind spot.

"Is this the way to do it?" Kurosawa said, "Although changing to a new car is a big challenge for the technicians, it's too much to do this at the beginning."

"McLaren took the opportunity to overtake Ferrari. Having the C02 on the field earlier also allowed their technicians to accumulate a lot of experience. Their tire change time was only a little over 2 seconds."

(End of this chapter)