It even felt colder than when I was competing the night before.

"Uncle, where is your son? Why doesn't he come over?"

"Oh, my son is with my daughter-in-law. They bought the wrong tickets. I, an old man, have to sit alone in a seat. But it's good this way. I don't have to be a light bulb at my age."

Jiang Yue sat down and chatted with him casually, while Qin Chuan held his mobile phone and looked through the records of the previous Moto3 competition.

Ever since he started running the racing team, Qin Chuan has been studying all the previous Moto3 races. Just watching all these races is quite a challenge, so much so that he hasn't finished watching them yet.

At around ten ten, the two girls sitting on Qin Chuan’s left also came. They first greeted Qin Chuan, and then sat down with a bunch of things in their arms.

Women are generally foodies, and these two girls are no exception. They almost brought half of Kata's snack street here, with hot fried chicken and Western barbecue filling the entire table.

It is worth mentioning that the two girls next to Qin Chuan have very cool clothing styles and looks, which is also the norm for girls watching the game across countries.

"Handsome guy, would you like to eat something? Pretty girl, do you mind if we treat your boyfriend to something?"

A girl winked at Jiang Yue and handed her a piece of barbecue wrapped in tin foil. Jiang Yue smiled and took it generously.

When Qin Chuan brought food in the morning, he also invited these two girls to eat, so this is called a return gift.

Qin Chuan didn't eat, but just watched the game on his phone quietly.

During the drivers' preparation stage, the entire audience was noisy with people constantly coming in and out, leaving and staying.

Below the stage, the drivers were already lined up at the starting positions according to the grid, and a large group of media and reporters had gathered.

At about half past ten, a loud noise broke out from the starting point under the stands.

The starting point was already filled with media and drivers, and the staff pushed out one racing car after another in the open space right in front of the parked cars.

The difference is that this time the people pushing the bike out were not from the moto3 team, but from the race staff.

The racing cars they put out are not any factory cars from the Moto3, Moto2 or even MotoGP categories, but racing cars full of a sense of history.

Under the night sky, these racing car prints shine brightly under the light.

The print is old, the body has no exaggerated spoiler, nor the exaggerated black technology equipment on current factory cars. It looks like a streamlined version of a factory car.

Only the wide bodies and rear tires more than 20 centimeters wide indicate that these cars once came from the highest category.

A total of six racing cars were placed right in front of the moto3 starting group, facing the drivers.

The old feeling of history hits me.

Faced with these racing cars, most of the drivers were like the fans at this moment, staring blankly at the six racing cars in front of them. Only a few drivers lowered their heads as if they were thinking about something, and some even showed fanatical expressions.

In the audience, all the car fans were confused as to why the race organizers brought out these cars, nor did they understand what these cars were.

People kept asking questions, but few answered them, and the entire stand was noisy.

In a corner of the stands at Turn 5, a small circle of fans all looked towards Qin Chuan.

Ever since Qin Chuan explained in detail the tactics of Wei Qingyi and his team in the sprint race, this small circle of fans has regarded Qin Chuan as a treasure chest and backbone. Whenever they ask Qin Chuan about something, he will definitely know the answer.

This idea almost spread among the people in this small circle.

Jiang Yue also looked at Qin Chuan curiously. To be honest, she recognized some of these cars. They should be satellite racing cars of the previous MotoGP group, but they looked a little different, so it was difficult to distinguish them.

The racing car prints are updated every year, and after so many years, she can't remember every racing car.

Qin Chuan's eyes swept across the six cars, and after a moment he recognized them, and also figured out the purpose of the race to bring these cars out.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but take a closer look at Wang Zhao and Wei Qingyi in the audience. He saw that they were staring at the six racing cars with fanatical expressions.

Seeing this expression, Qin Chuan nodded secretly to show his satisfaction.

It seems that the organizers have made a good plan.

The purpose of bringing out these old guys is actually very simple. First, they are used to stabilize the event and show the historical heritage of the event. Second, they are used to motivate these moto3 riders.

The era in which these six cars appeared was one of the most difficult times, and they represent a group of drivers who tried their best even though they knew they could not win.

Looking at the entire history, Qin Chuan also believes that this year is the most significant.

"This is the CRT car in the open category sixteen years ago. It was once the weakest and slowest car in the top category, and it was also known as a tragic love!"

Qin Chuan spoke word by word and began to explain to the fans around him. At first, the people around him didn't understand, until he kept talking, their brows relaxed a little.

In MotoGP more than a decade ago, the satellite cars were nearly one second slower than the factory teams per lap. This was something that the fans did not know about in the beginning, but was later popularized by various marketing accounts and online videos.

Most car fans already have a preliminary understanding of this matter.

But many fans don't know that this is not the biggest gap between the cars of competing drivers in the history of the GP race.

The predecessors of these teams with a one-second gap at that time were the open groups.

That is the group that the six cars today belonged to.

The open group of cars is the predecessor of most of the satellite teams.

The term "Open Group" first appeared sixteen years ago in the highest category in order to save the MotoGP event at that time.

Yes, salvation.

That era was just after the outbreak of the Blue Star economic crisis.

This huge change in Blue Star caused several major car manufacturers in the top group at the time to withdraw from the event due to lack of funds.

In the end, only three car manufacturers and their own satellite teams were left in the paddock.

This resulted in a situation in which only twelve cars competed in MotoGP at the time.

With a total of twelve cars competing on the same field, one can imagine what the situation will be like. Whether in terms of ratings or for the event itself, this situation means that the event is about to become deserted.

After discussion, the organizers at that time launched a rescue measure, which was to open a new group in the highest group at that time, called the Open Group.

Yes, in fact, the group is still one group, all of which are the highest groups, but the drivers competing in the highest group are divided into two groups.

One group consists of the twelve drivers, and the other group consists of the drivers in the open group.

The highest category at the time was filled with open group cars to save the situation of few cars and drivers on the field at the time.

This open group should more accurately be called the runner-up group, because their cars cannot strictly speaking be called factory cars. They are more like cars temporarily assembled with some scrap metal.

They modify commercially available cars and assemble them with second-hand factory parts. This is their racing car.

Using the engine of a commercially available car to compete with the factory team, this was the open group at the time.

Qin Chuan was also very moved when he learned about this period of history. At that time, these drivers in the open group seemed to be temporarily brought up to play bystander. The word "tools" was the most appropriate to describe them.

It is just brought up to set off the factory team, the word "runner-up" is not groundless.

They rode uncompetitive racing bikes and raced alongside the factory team riders.

If you say that the satellite team is now one version of the car behind the factory team, it is a disadvantage.

For the open group riders at that time, it can only be said that they saw no hope of winning at all.

Have you seen a car that is six versions behind the factory team? That's right.

Have you seen a team that buys second-hand engines discarded by factory teams to build a assembled racing car? Yes, that's them.

In this racing field where a difference of a few kilometers in straight-line speed can affect the ranking, their straight-line speed that year was more than dozens of kilometers behind that of the factory team's cars.

That’s right, a speed difference of dozens of kilometers. What does this speed mean? Not to mention the drivers, even car fans will know what this means just by listening to it.

Despite trying his best, he was still easily lapped by the factory team's car.

Big E was so excited that he cried when he won his first podium in the MotoGP group. It is difficult for outsiders to understand his feelings.

Qin Chuan could understand it.

The young Big E is the big brother of this open group and the champion of the open group, and he has won the title many times in a row.

This "champion" is very funny, because at that time the gap between him and mm93 and 46 Rossi was so huge that he couldn't even make it into the top ten.

It took many years like this before Big E finally had the chance to enter the top three.

The open group was the worst in the first year. Later cars were gradually upgraded, and then with the unification of ECU, the open group cars started to improve.

The unification of ECU is also what these drivers are most concerned about. Until today, the open group teams finally got good racing cars.

However, most of the drivers at that time have left the track.

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