I’m Really Unnerved In Tokyo

On Zhenming Mountain Road.

Just when Araki Sousuke's thoughts drifted away, the two cars that rushed out of the starting point one after another had already ushered in the first corner.

Samejima Taichi immediately stepped on the accelerator, frantically turned the steering wheel in his hand, and tapped the brakes at the same time.

With the front of the RX-10 sticking to the inside of the curve, it started to enter the curve with a very standard drift.

Brake drift.

This is the driving skill that Taichi Samejima has honed for many years on this mountain road, as if he was breathing.

He grew up in Gunma County. Since he was 13 years old, his father would put a glass of beer in the middle of the driver's seat every day and let him cross the mountain road to deliver sausages to the restaurant in the early hours of the morning.

If the beer is spilled or the sausage is shaken, he will be tortured by "broken sausage" when he returns home as a young boy, so this mountain road is as familiar to him as his own home.

For racing competitions like F1, although the line cornering is slightly less enjoyable, it is indeed a more efficient and stable cornering method than drifting, but...

On a track like Mt. Haruna, where the whole body is prone to 180-degree bends, the only kingly cornering technique can only be drifting.

Drifting, also known as flicking, is a side-slip driving mode in which the front wheels maintain grip and the rear wheels lose grip.

For a two-wheeled locomotive, especially a light locomotive like the XJR4000, it is extremely unstable and almost impossible to incorporate into routine operations.

Manipulating a two-wheeled motorcycle to drift, whether it is an unbalanced center of gravity or a slippage of one of the front and rear wheels, will lead to extremely dire results.

He just looked at it specifically, and the XJR4000 used only cheap tires, not the front and rear wheels with different grips to create a difference in rotational torque.

After the locomotive speeds up, it is difficult to turn the front of the locomotive. If you do not use drift but ordinary bending, you will inevitably lose a lot of kinetic energy.

Just when Samejima Taichi thought that the other party would lose speed because of cornering, and was overtaken by a handsome drift of his own...

The XJR4000 in front began to sprint towards the curve at a faster speed.

"With such an increase in speed, is that guy going to hit the guardrail directly?"

Just when he was thinking this way, Araki Sousuke fell towards the inward bend as if he had crashed his car due to a misoperation...

The "Samurai of the Warring States Period" took advantage of this rather abrupt fall, skimmed the curve in front of him with the limit distance close to the ground, and disappeared into the sight of RX-10.

"What?!! Can bending be done to this extent?"

Samejima Taiichi looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, and almost made a mistake.

With the help of the headlights, he clearly saw that at that moment, the distance between Araki Sousuke's knees and elbows was no more than five centimeters from the ground.

Bending is a very basic cornering skill for motorcycles.

But the basics don't mean easy to master.

Like Sousuke Araki's extreme high-speed bending just now, in addition to the correct bending route and precise control of the accelerator and brake, it also requires strong physical fitness and control ability to keep the forces on all sides of the locomotive in balance and obtain the maximum At the same time, it avoids accidents caused by friction with the ground.

This guy, is there a Hulk hiding in his body?

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"Brother Araki, is it okay... After all, after 'that incident', he hasn't traveled this way for almost three years."

On the top of the mountain, Kenjiro nervously watched the taillights of cars disappearing in the distance.

"Don't worry, Brother Araki, you are the only one who has equaled Brother Kosaka's record."

Yuki Ichimoto, who was applying an ice pack to his face, looked up at the starry sky above his head, and seemed not worried about the result of the game at all.

"Hmph, you guys are so naive to use that classic Yamaha to win Taichi Samejima's RX-10..."

Jin Shanzhang, who was on the side, heard the conversation between the two, and smiled disdainfully.

Samejima Taiichi is a god-level driver recruited by the trio with painstaking efforts. He rules the order of the underground car race and the betting market with his amazing driving skills.

"The one who took the lead in the first corner was...the XJR4000?! He didn't slow down at all, and maintained a very high cornering speed with the minimum corner and the extreme cornering..."

At the same time, a message about the first corner came from the intercom on the side.

Jin Shanzhang's face suddenly changed.

Normally, the first corner would have been enough for Samejima Taiichi to throw off his opponent.

"Your Excellency may not know that a few years ago, there was a popular saying in Mount Haruna..."

Ichimoto Miyako leaned against the railing and looked up at the sky.

Hearing his words, Kenjiro seemed to think of something, and said with tears in his eyes: "From the moment he bent down, the game was over."

Araki-san, but the only one who inherited the "death sticking to the ground" from that person.

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"The second and third curves are U-shaped reverse series of curves. Let me see how you press it..."

On the downhill road, Samejima Taichi clung to the XJR4000 from behind.

He failed to overtake the opponent in the first corner, because he underestimated the opponent.

But for the victory of the game, he is determined to win.

After all, his RX-10 uses the latest turbocharged three-rotor engine technology, with two electric motors to power the front axle, and the combined total output power is as high as 1030 horsepower.

No matter how good the technology is, it also needs powerful hardware to play.

On a straight road, the RX-10 is like a cheetah deliberately consuming its prey in the grass, clinging to the XJR4000 in front of it.

As soon as he enters the outside of the curve, he will rely on high speed to parallel with the opponent, and when the next reverse curve and the inside and outside are reversed, he will use the advantage of occupying space on the inside to successfully overtake.

This is a technique called counter-overtaking.

Facing the series of curves ahead, the RX-10 swung its head slightly after a skilled drift, and immediately entered the second curve with a reverse drift.

inertial drift.

However, even though he rushed out of that series of corners with perfect operation, he found that the other party's taillights had disappeared in the next corner.

Because that XJR4000 just passed the series of reverse curves with almost no deceleration by virtue of its terrifying cornering skills that were infinitely close to the ground.

"How is it possible?!! How could he be faster than me in consecutive reverse turns... That guy can use the technique of shifting the center of gravity to such an extreme?"

This reminded him of a nickname he had heard on Mount Haruna many years ago.

"Invisible Taillights".

"In that case, let's decide the outcome in a straight line."

Samejima Taiichi gritted his teeth, relying on the high speed of the RX-10, he soon saw the rear lights of the opponent's car again on the straight ahead.

"Catching up again... After all, is the performance gap too big?"

Seeing the rapidly approaching headlights in the rearview mirror, Araki Sousuke sighed slightly.

As a four-cylinder car born in the 1990s, XJR4000 is famous for its explosive sound and refreshing power.

Although Sousuke Araki's XJR4000 has undergone many explosive changes over the years, in front of the latest RX-10, it is only worthy of being called a "retro sports model". After all, it is at a complete disadvantage in terms of performance. Appeared to be weak.

"Hmph, let me show you that in this fast-paced era, slow-moving classic cars also have their own charm."

Thinking of this, Sousuke Araki turned his eyes away from the rearview mirror and focused on the road ahead.

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