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Chapter 325 324 - Commanding Heights - 1
January 1th is also the fifth race day of the Dakar Rally. Today is a very special day, because today both the people in the base camp and the drivers have to start in the early morning.

Dakar will temporarily leave Argentina and travel through the Andes.To get to this point, climbing begins at night.Once across the border, the team will rise to an altitude of 4800 meters, which is also the height of Mont Blanc.

Today is the first time that it is reversed. The special stage is only 207 kilometers, but the driving stage is 554 kilometers.

Although I drove at night, the lighting conditions on this road were very good. After all, such a huge convoy was all headlights.

As for why we set off at night, it is also to avoid affecting the local traffic conditions. There are more than 400 vehicles participating in the Dakar alone, including the logistics team, there are thousands of vehicles. To be blocked.

So everyone has to start traveling overnight in batches and stages.

There are even some people who have to cross the border the next night or early morning, and then catch up with the large forces during the day.

But Bu Zelu's motorcycle team is very comfortable, they don't have to drive at night, and they are forced to pass through this mountain road during the day.

At least there is someone around the car to remind you, but if the motorcycle is running at night, if you doze off, you may crash into a mountain or fall under a cliff.

So today the motorcycle crews enjoy the rhythm of the slow start of the large force. Everyone walks in groups. No one can get up fast, but they can't slow down either.

Today’s walk is relatively slow. After all, following the big team has to go over mountains and mountains. However, the time trial segment arranged today is also short, but it looks like 200 kilometers, and it takes 3 hours to finish the run.

But today all the car groups ran a stage together.

Fortunately, motorcycles are still the first to start. After all, they are the fastest in terms of speed, and motorcycles have completed most of the stage.

From a sporting point of view, the arrival in Chile also heralds the entry into the Atacama desert and the start of the first non-navigation stage in the rally.

This relatively short special stage starts at an altitude of 3300 meters.At this point, with the dunes approaching, today's drivers had to deal with rocky roads.

In addition, high altitude is also an important factor. Many people living in low-altitude areas cannot stand this environment in a short time.

There is no way, this is unstoppable by manpower, it is not enough to rely on training, it is not enough, it will take a long time to settle down in this kind of place and live for a few days. The year is basically enough.

On the other hand, the reduction of oxygen limits the horsepower of the engine. This is a racing car, not an ordinary car.

But racing cars are different. They basically have to accurately calculate the fuel situation per kilometer, and cooperate with the entire engine to release enough power.

'Ding, new task: finish the race with the top ten results and divide the stage. (limit 4:59:59)'

Bu Zelu, who had just arrived at the base camp, was suddenly stunned. Since arriving in Dakar, the system had never assigned him any tasks, only one overall task.

In addition to the time-limited task of today's system, it is very clear that the race will be finished today. If it is the total score, then Bu Zelu can only say sorry.

However, it is not impossible to be in the top ten by stage, after all, yesterday he was in the top twenty if he simply calculated the results.

And the most important thing is that today's non-navigation stage has only one timing point on the way, that is to say, including the starting point and the end point, there are a total of 1 timing points.

In this way, there are more places to play, which depends on the familiarity with the road. High altitude does not mean that there is only a single track with cliffs.

It's just because of the high terrain. It doesn't mean that there are no plains in the mountains. They didn't run the national highway, but ran more than 200 kilometers in the mountains outside the national highway.

There are tens of thousands of roads, it depends on how Bu Zelu chooses.

After receiving today's road book, Bu Zelu took a look at it and it was indeed very operable. The real road book has shrunk by more than half compared with usual, and there are only a few simple signs.

In total, there are less than 100 icons.

There were not 200-300 icons in the road book a few days ago.

Combined on one piece of paper, today there are less than 5 pages.

Dakar's motorcycle road book is different from that of the car group. There is a navigator next to it to help the racer guide. They have a large electronic screen in front of the car.

This electronic screen is not big, that is, half the size of a keyboard, or the size of two mobile phone screens. The paper inside this screen is the kind that is hand-painted.

There are several buttons at the bottom of the screen, which can be viewed by turning pages back and forth. Generally speaking, this icon is marked with a number besides an icon arrow.

'↑200' means to go straight for 200 meters, and then look at the next icon. Of course, this 200 meters may be 500, 1000, etc., but in real running, there are ups and downs on the road, and you need to bypass the front The hillside should be determined by the driver himself.

This road book is completely nonsense, it only gives you a general direction, and there are more detailed instructions only near the timing point, and some reference objects are added.

Like other drivers, they have to study a more detailed road book by themselves after running the race every day, and even revise a road book by themselves, but for Bu Zelu, he looks at it roughly every day.

After all, he has a 'GPS navigation' that others cannot see, as long as he knows the general direction and starts it from time to time, it is much easier than studying road books.

'1 timing point means that you can take the simplest route, no, this broken route is the optimal route, sometimes the road is called a road, but it is nonsense. Bu Zelu will also lie on the table and roughly look at the road book. The main reason for working so hard today is to study how to complete the task.

He encountered such a situation yesterday. According to the instructions of the 'virtual road sign', he almost walked into a muddy route. In the end, if he hadn't reacted quickly, he might have gotten stuck in the mud.

Sometimes this 'virtual beacon' is not too reliable.

The place where this thing is more useful should be a closed track, because it can let Bu Zelu take the best route to corner, decelerate, and accelerate.

But in a place like this in the wild, this beacon is at best to keep Bu Zelu from getting lost.

Line up, refuel, finish the run early and finish early.

In the starting area, Bu Zelu is full of confidence today, and the heat sink next to the engine has been processed. At least he can no longer feel the heat wave on his calf when he is running the stage today.

This is the first time he has encountered a non-navigation area, which is definitely his advantage. Coupled with intermediate riding skills, Bu Zelu can handle this kind of rocky road with ease.

Especially to be able to take a short cut.

Hitting the accelerator, Bu Zelu started again, but soon Bu Zelu was a little embarrassed. The rocky road mentioned by the organizer before thought it was like the gravel road a few days ago.

But now he has seen what is called a rocky road, that is to run on the road paved with stones, and he can't figure out how these tracks are stepped on.

From time to time, some big rocks have to be bypassed. This kind of track is a full 100 kilometers, and it is basically this kind of road when Bu Zelu reaches the first timing point.

At any rate, after the first timing point, the next road surface is much better, and it becomes a gravel road again. In addition, it is a real non-navigation area from here on. Show the way, let's go fast.

He not only has to buy time for himself, but also completes the tasks suddenly released by the system.

There are not too many blind turns in today's stage, which avoids unnecessary deceleration of Bize's shoes. In addition to this kind of gravel road, there will be no nonsense muddy road.

As long as you don't get stuck in the car, it's fine.

'Oh, what about people?Why is there no one today? After Bu Zelu drove for a while, he found that there were no other cars around, and he looked like he was out of the village and out of the shop. Just now, he passed seven or eight cars.

After he turned a corner, he saw no one, but Bu Zelu quickly realized that the path he took must be the optimal route. Those fools were either following him, or there were only a few who had the courage to do so. Only those with experience will have such a choice.

You can tell by looking at the ruts on the road.

2: 15: 25
After Bu Zelu returned to the base camp and hadn't reached the maintenance area, he saw a large group of acquaintances rushing over, hugging him, patting his helmet and shouting.

"We are No.1 today! The shortest time!" The team coach said excitedly, shaking Bu Zelu's arm.

"First?" Bu Zelu took off his helmet and was a little surprised. He wouldn't really be number one.

"No. 30 for the time being, but according to the standard time, we are [-] minutes faster than him." Daniel was also very excited. He always thought that walking is nonsense, as long as he can run the whole distance safely.

He didn't care whether he could finish it within the competition's standard time. He just wanted to quickly bring the pace from here to the United States, or directly to Melbourne.

Normally, they had already arrived in Melbourne at this time, because the Australian Open was about to start, not to mention half a month earlier, and it would not be too much to go one month earlier.

But Bu Zelu, here is a one-on-one challenge with nature, running this breaking Dakar.

Bu Zelu understood as soon as he heard it. Today's starting sequence is relatively high, and he is only number one for the time being. After looking at the system, there is no button to click on it.

As for the results, we can only wait for all the motorcycle teams to finish running, at least to see what the results of those motorcycle bosses ran a few days ago and compare them.

In the afternoon, Bu Zelu became an otaku again, and Kadar officials wanted to interview him, but Bu Zelu was not famous for Dakar, so he simply said a few words and then got back into the car to rest.

(End of this chapter)