Why race if you don’t have money?

Chapter 26 Absolute Strength Gap
Even though he realized the gap between the two sides, Qin Lianjie's pride as a driver meant that he would never give up easily.

He chose to exceed his previous cornering speed, braked to maintain the speed at 120km/h, and at the same time gave up the familiar cornering route and chose the same route as Chen Xiangbei.

The front of the car entered at high speed, and the huge lateral acceleration created the illusion that the entire car was about to overturn at any time.

Instinct made Qin Lianjie subconsciously want to step on the brakes to slow down, but reason and the desire to win restrained the impulse, and finally the Civic Type-R successfully passed the corner!

However, the successful high-speed cornering did not bring Qin Lianjie excitement, but instead he fell into self-doubt.

I have been driving on the Nanyun Mountain Road for several years, but my choice of the best cornering route is not as good as that of a high school freshman.

Did I choose the wrong lane from the beginning, or is it because of the talent gap?

Qin Lianjie didn't have time to figure out the problem. With just one bend, the distance that had been shortened on the long straight at the start was widened again by 10 meters.

Ahead is the V-shaped U-turn of Nanyun Mountain. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to go through this turn unless the speed is reduced to an extremely exaggerated level.

However, doing so will waste a lot of time, whether it is the speed entering the corner or the acceleration out of the corner, and it is a corner that requires drifting to pass.

Qin Lianjie, who was in charge of the line, had already seen Chen Xiangbei's strength. He didn't believe that a high school kid could just drift and surpass a professional mountain racer like him!
In just a few dozen meters of the mountain road, Chen Xiangbei had arrived at the V-shaped bend in a blink of an eye. He braked to slow down and downshift, then turned the steering wheel slightly.

As the front of the car entered the curve, Chen Xiangbei stepped on the accelerator, and the surging power burst out by the EJ20 engine instantly exceeded the limit of the tire's grip.

Before the race, Liang Chi had adjusted the front and rear power output ratio of the Subaru Impreza's four-wheel drive system to 1:9, making the rear-wheel drive force much greater than the front-wheel drive force. Overall, the driving style was more like that of a rear-wheel drive car.

Chen Xiangbei used the power difference between the front and rear wheels and the throttle to accurately control the steering degree, making a beautiful drift turn.

After the car body is straightened and the front of the car is facing the exit point, I step on the accelerator to accelerate out of the corner.

The whole set of movements was smooth and flowing, as if the Subaru Impreza came alive in his hands, and he could hit whatever he pointed at!
"Damn! I lost at this very corner last time. I didn't expect this idiot to drift through the corner even faster."

Sha Minghui, who was standing on the platform at the top of the mountain watching the battle, couldn't help but mutter something.

The last time Sha Minghui wanted to take a corner at high speed, but his driving skills did not allow it. He could not follow the line at the center of the corner, and he did not know how to drift. In the end, he had to slam on the brakes and stop.

Fortunately, the Mercedes-AMG has strong mechanical performance and it braked hard in the curve, thus avoiding a car crash.

That day, Chen Xiangbei was driving Fatty Wang's Corolla. Considering the vehicle's grass tolerance and the fact that Sha Minghui had already braked and admitted defeat, he didn't do any high-speed drifting or cornering maneuvers. He just slowed down and overtook in a normal way.

Today this Subaru Impreza allowed him to show his strength, and Sha Minghui only then realized that this idiot had another trick up his sleeve!
"Are you stupid? Which side are you on?!"

When Ma Minghan heard Sha Minghui say that Chen Xiangbei drifted faster through the corners, he was furious on the spot. He had been watching the game so much that his brain was going crazy and he couldn't tell who was the enemy or the friend.

After spraying his life glory, Ma Minghan asked Liu Shaoquan with a gloomy face: "What does Che Laoquan say? Can we win this kid?"

Even if Ma Minghan is not very familiar with racing, he has at least seen pigs run. The driving skills demonstrated by Chen Xiangbei are definitely not something that a youngster can possess.

It seems that I have underestimated this idiot before, and his trick of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger!

“There are many ways to win, as long as you can offer the right price.”

Che Laoquan's tone remained steady. The professional threshold is the best touchstone, and everyone is equal below that.

It’s not that he looks down on Chen Xiangbei, but he looks down on all street racers!

"I know."

Ma Minghan nodded. He understood what Che Laoquan meant, and this was exactly what he wanted.

Qin Lianjie, who was sitting in the back car, was so surprised when he saw Chen Xiangbei perform a clean and beautiful Power-Drift on the mountain road that he could hardly close his mouth.

Drifting is different from driving a line. Even if you know the principles and methods, it still takes hundreds or even thousands of times of practice to achieve proficiency. I go to Nanyun Mountain Road almost every week, but I haven't seen Chen Xiangbei practicing in recent years. If this guy isn't driving at Nanyun Mountain, then which mountain in Guangzhou or Shenzhen did he practice his drifting skills on?

Qin Lianjie rarely drives rear-wheel drive cars, so to be honest, he can't do this drifting operation that relies on the power of the tail so beautifully.

However, the V-shaped bend was right in front of him, and Qin Lianjie didn't have time to think so much, because the drift control of a front-wheel drive car is more difficult than that of a rear-wheel drive car, and the loss of speed is also greater.

If Qin Lianjie wants to catch up with the drift speed of the car in front, he has to drive faster and use more precise control.

I saw that he turned the steering wheel in advance before entering the corner and pulled the handbrake to make the vehicle slide sideways.

Then the entire front of the car almost hits the tip of the V-shaped curve and drifts through it in the shortest cornering distance.

As soon as the front of the car passed the apex of the V-shaped curve, it immediately stepped on the accelerator to speed up and shift gears, madly increasing the engine speed to highlight the horsepower advantage of this Civic Type-R.

Qin Lianjie has done almost everything he can, and the entire front-wheel drive drifting action is flawless, but the feedback given to him is that the gap between the cars is getting bigger and bigger.

At this moment, the voice of the driver at the observation point came over the intercom at the top of the mountain: "The gap has widened again after Turn 2. The gap between the front and rear cars is now over meters!"

Upon hearing this, everyone on the top of the mountain was in an uproar. Qin Lianjie's drift was already impeccable, yet Chen Xiangbei could still pull away from him.

That only proves one fact: there is a gap in hard power between the two sides.

"Captain An, is this possible?"

Taozi asked the team leader Cao An in shock, if they continued at this rate, there would be no chance of overtaking.

I'm afraid that after two or three more turns, Qin Lianjie's Civic Type-R will be left behind by Chen Xiangbei's Subaru Impreza, and he won't even be able to see the taillights.

The winner was decided halfway through the mountain trail. Qin Lianjie had never suffered such a crushing defeat in all the years he had been running on the Nanyun Mountain Trail.

Hearing the question from team member Taozai, Cao An also took a breath. From the level of importance Qin Lianjie attached to him, he could realize that Chen Xiangbei was definitely not an ordinary high school student.

I just didn't expect this guy to be so powerful.

You should know that running on mountain trails has a huge "geographical advantage", which is a typical example of a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake.

Even if you ask professional riders to come and race, they may not be able to beat the mountain trail masters who run every day.

It’s like the videos that often appear on the Internet in later generations, where a luxury sports car is driven on an unfamiliar village road, but it ends up being unable to outrun a Wuling Hongguang at night.

Before Cao An could figure out how to respond, the observer's "horrified" voice came from the intercom again.

"The Subaru Impreza took the line through Turn 3, and the Civic Type-R was still chasing closely behind, but the gap between the two cars widened again!"

"The Subaru Impreza was getting faster and faster. It used inertia drift in Turn 5, almost scraping the guardrail. The Civic Type-R behind it was almost invisible to the taillights."

……

"Slow down! The Civic Type-R slowed down after turning 6!"

"It seems that Brother Jie thought he couldn't catch up with the car in front, so he chose to slow down and take the initiative to end the race. The Subaru Impreza won!"

The observer said this with a tone of shock and regret. He did not expect the game to end in this way.

I never expected that the final winner would be a high school student!

(End of this chapter)