Autumn famous mountain bike god is reborn

If you want to compare the driving skills of Fujiwara Takumi and Takahashi Keisuke ten years ago...

Then Fujiwara Takumi is undoubtedly the mountain road school running method that attaches the most importance to four-wheel drift.

What's interesting is that under the deliberate guidance of his brother Ryosuke, the violent-tempered Keisuke Takahashi took an out-and-out orthodox route.

The most important thing is the accelerator control skill that he currently lacks the most.

That's because in professional competitions, the horsepower of the racing cars is very powerful, far better than the vehicles used in mountain road racing.

Just stepping on the accelerator and rushing forward, just thinking about giving full play to the advantage of horsepower, it will definitely not work in the professional arena.

All professional drivers have sophisticated driving skills, including that even if they have a steady stream of powerful horsepower, they must play it restraintly and rationally to minimize unnecessary tire wear and retain the highest performance of the tires.

Ten years ago, Takumi Fujiwara, of course, could not pass on the throttle control technology that he had just touched the threshold in a daze, to Keisuke Takahashi, who was also dumbfounded.

But for Takumi Fujiwara, who has already made a name for himself in the professional arena and successfully qualified for the WRC competition, he has a lot of experience in this regard.

——At the time when everyone was inconceivable, this talented athlete from Japan completed a perfect transformation that not only retained the beautiful and wild characteristics of the mountain style running style, but also possessed the orthodox precision and delicateness of.

After a quick and intensive "chug-chug" shift, the FD entered a high-grade acceleration state.

Although I also like to step on the accelerator at the start, the feeling of sitting in the driver's cab and controlling everything is completely different from the feeling of sitting in the co-pilot and passively watching another driver whose car skills are far better than yours. .

Takahashi Keisuke subconsciously grasped the upper handle with his left hand, fixed his body, pressed the seat belt with his right hand, frowned, and stared at Takumi Fujiwara.

The distribution of curves on Akagi Mountain Road and Qiu Mingshan is completely opposite. The curves are closely distributed in the first half, and the second half is gentler.

Therefore, when the fast-accelerating FD-3S reaches the 155km/h that is rapidly reversing, which makes the scenery out of the window difficult to capture with the naked eye, the first corner is coming.

Although I have had the experience of sitting next to this guy and rushing down Mount Akina at a suicidal and terrifying speed, the 86 with insufficient horsepower can barely reach 150km/h even if it is stepped on to the bottom.

There is basically no comparison with the FD, which has superior acceleration performance and can reach 350 horsepower when it explodes.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the bend in front of him almost instantaneously, and Takumi Fujiwara, who still had a dumbfounded face, finally started to brake, changing gears while performing heel-toe movements freely.

Only a thin line away from the danger of falling to the bottom of the mountain, Takahashi Keisuke's chest instinctively choked, and the roots of his teeth had already been bitten tightly by him.

"Try first to see if it can be beautiful."

Unaware of how terrifying these words were, Fujiwara Takumi, who had been expressionless all along, muttered nonchalantly, and the scene in front of the windshield suddenly turned sideways.

"Pasha—"

The bright yellow FD entered the state of four-wheel drift smoothly.

The rear of the car, which was sliding sideways at a speed of more than 120km/h, brushed heavily against the branches and leaves of the green plants protruding into the guardrail!

If there are spectators at this corner, they will be horrified to find that when the FD flicks and turns, the distance between the rear of the car and the double-layer solid guardrail is less than 3cm!

Takahashi Keisuke's breathing stopped uncontrollably.

His eyelids trembled, his pupils constricted with instinctive fear.

Even with the lesson of sitting on 86, he wisely grasped the back of the left hand of the grip in advance, but it is still white from excessive force, with faint blue veins appearing on it.

"Generally understood."

Completed the simple and powerful gear, let the FD use the smallest range of motion, dexterously darting through the curve like a fish.

At the moment of exiting the corner, the pale-faced Keisuke Takahashi glanced at the speed displayed on the dashboard, which was still around 121.

Before he could see clearly, Fujiwara Takumi, who had held the steering wheel symbolically with both hands just now, rested his left hand on the shift lever very relaxedly, stepped on the accelerator pedal, and started to accelerate again: "So, officially It's started."

After running through three corners, Fujiwara Takumi has fully mastered the performance of FD.

During the first three corners, he concentrated on thinking in order to get used to the car as soon as possible, so he didn't speak.

From the fourth corner, his words began to increase significantly.

He was really distracted, while controlling the FD to hit the downhill road at high speed with ease, while using the language as simple as possible, he explained to Keisuke Takahashi who was silent from the beginning to the end: "When you got on the co-pilot, Mr. Keisuke, , I feel that your rhythm is too abrupt and not smooth enough. Although you rely on your strong talent and instinct to control FD steadily so that you will not lose control, such high-intensity consumption continues until the game In the second half, it overloads your tires, you lose grip, and it becomes fatal on the final stretch."

After maneuvering the FD without blinking, and skimming another corner quickly, Fujiwara Takumi continued to explain: "Although relying on the technician to make specific adjustments for the road section, for example, at the cost of reducing the horsepower of the car, the difficulty of throttle control can be reduced. But a driver who relies on tuning and compromising the performance of the car will not be able to achieve real growth. I believe that Mr. Keisuke must not be reconciled."

"Mr. Keisuke's advantage is that he can step on the accelerator pedal with enough force and obtain enough speed to complete the turn just by the feeling given by his talent. There is no problem on Akagi Mountain Road." Fujiwara Takumi paused slightly, only slightly After adjusting the steering wheel, I basically rely entirely on the accelerator control technology to overtake several cars blocking the road effortlessly: "Once you encounter road conditions with insufficient grip and more uncertain factors, you It is impossible to achieve the required precision with sensory manipulation alone."

"The practice of throttle accuracy is very boring." Fujiwara Takumi said frankly: "The water cup method will not be suitable for everyone, but Mr. Ryosuke recommended Mr. Keisuke to do it. It should be to train your patience first, right? I In the beginning, it can be annoying to see that the water can be spilled with a small movement. And when the FD is on the edge of the performance limit, the difficulty of handling is only a lot more than that of the 86."

A car with low horsepower is indeed much easier to handle, and the body is lighter and lighter, which will not cause too much burden on the tires.

"In short, the need to use horsepower sparingly, and the feeling that you can't exert your full strength must be very annoying." Fujiwara Takumi suggested: "But precision is the key to protecting the tires. This kind of skill is the most powerful on the field. One of the practical advanced skills, the sooner you get used to it, the easier it is to adapt to the rhythm of various games.”

He said easily: "Mr. Keisuke, you can try it. I used to step on two centimeters, hold my breath, and only use one centimeter. It will definitely be difficult at first, and it is impossible to do it once or twice. It can be done. But Mr. Keisuke has extraordinary talent and super motor nerves, and the muscles of his right leg are also very developed, so as long as you practice hard, you can try to keep the pressure on the accelerator pedal lower. At the beginning, the difference is one centimeter. After the improvement, the difficulty can be increased to a difference of [-] centimeters, or even a difference of [-] centimeters. The ideal state is to reduce the intensity to the lightest and maintain the same process. The degree of cornering speed. After figuring out the details of the accelerator switch, remember this feeling, and practice and consolidate it over and over again until the muscle memory is formed, and it can be fully utilized even unconsciously..."

Even if Fujiwara Takumi's words were not so euphemistic, Takahashi Keisuke, who is very familiar with Aicar FD and Akagi Mountain Road, has already clearly realized the strength gap between the two.

It is completely different from the comprehension when I sat at 86 last time.

His pride has been hit harder than last time - Fujiwara Takumi has already played FD better than the best when he obviously still has a lot of energy left, and he can even explain it to him with an infuriating distraction When he is in state, he still has to perform well.

Some of his pretentious manipulative techniques turned out to be barely adequate.

With the same car conditions, his car skills can be said to be superior to the masters who have already reached the pinnacle.

To accept such a huge gap is the biggest challenge for him, right?

hateful.

While Takahashi Keisuke instinctively absorbed the advice given by the stupid rabbit, he couldn't bear the pain of bruised self-esteem in his heart.

At that speed, such a tricky angle and such a smooth turn...

Is this really his FD?

Every time it enters the state of four-wheel drift, FD is like a fired shell, rushing straight to the protective fence with a fearless attitude.

Sitting in the co-pilot, he faced such violent conflicts that would make his heart burst every time.

Did the horror of passing death every time make him think in a trance, "So the straight road between the Chicheng curve and the curve is so short"?

But even if the straight road connecting the corners falls into the hands of Takumi, who will unceremoniously use the powerful horsepower that the FD 86 does not have, and accelerate sharply in the first place, the inertia is enough to tie him back to the seat The journey of hell.

He really didn't want to admit it, but he had to.

Until today, it was the first time for him to appreciate the true potential of FD, which can be rated as "the most powerful cornering tool whether it is a mountain road or a racing track" by countless magazines.

What Fujiwara Takumi used to run the FD was a completely different running method from that of the 86, which was specially developed for its high horsepower and difficult to control characteristics.

What made Keisuke Takahashi the most unacceptable was that Fujiwara Takumi, who was able to give full play to his FD performance and drive at an unimaginably high level, only took three short bends to adapt to, and turned out to be driving from the beginning to the end. All in that damn teaching mode.

There is no arrogance in the whole body that matches the madness of driving. Most of the time, he just holds the steering wheel with one hand, and there is no need to touch it on the straight road...

It's totally laid-back.

The author has something to say: The description of the throttle control technology is partly from volume 23 of the booklet