Chapter 61 Strongman Meyer
After evicting the Normans who were involved in the team, Weiss was familiar with comforting the emotions of the participating engineers and workers, allowing them to quickly turn their attention back to the competition. On the third day of the competition, the entries of the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Farm performed very stably, and basically all the scores expected to be obtained were a good result. However, whether they could win the championship in the competition depends not only on their own performance, but also on the performance of their competitors. On the third day of the competition, a team suddenly exerted its strength, making it difficult for many contestants to match. This team
The team participated in the competition under the name of "Northern Agricultural Reclamation Machinery", backed by Dosen Machinery Group - it is an old industrial enterprise in the Federation that is comparable to Grumman Group and Starry Sky Group. It started with a light industry in the early days, and its textile industry once occupied half of the Federation. After entering the industrial era, especially in the process of transitioning from the industrial era to the electrical era, they were based on their previous traditional industries and continued to move towards a machinery industry with higher technical content. Now, Dosen's precision machine tools are one of the industries that represent the highest level of federal industry.
The participating teams sent by the Dosen Group used a fully tracked agricultural tractor. They performed well or badly in the preliminary round, and their final results were at the mid-level among the 32 participating teams that passed. It is obvious that the strong industrial strength of the Dosen Machinery Group provided support. They found out the virtuality and reality of the participants in the preliminary round, and they showed strong strength as if they were a makeover. In the first and second day of the competition, they were always in the first echelon of the championship, and they performed very well in the off-road events. On the third day, they gave people the impression of accumulating strength, not only creating three full marks for the off-road type, but also becoming the first extra team to successfully challenge the S-type track!
This S-type track is specially designed by the judges expert group to test the ultimate maneuverability of mechanical vehicles. Participants are required to pass all corners in three minutes, and each corner point needs to be touched. One less means a challenge failure. As a bonus event, each team can have four challenges. Although the number of times is twice as many as ordinary events, for most participating teams, if they only try one or two times, they will know that this bonus is a challenge that they cannot complete for them, so they rationally gave up the challenge.
Previously, Weiss' advice to the participating teams of the Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory was to try to make extraordinary attempts in the two projects of S-type track and road speed. Specifically, it was to streamline their vehicles to the extreme and send skilled drivers to operate carefully... Maybe the chance is not great, but it is worth a try.
On the third day of the competition, the primary goal of the participating teams of the Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory was to carry out the secondary challenge of losing points. After the game ended on this day, they originally planned to use the next rest day to practice S curves and rapid events on their training grounds, striving to let go of the fourth game day, hoping for a miracle to appear. As for the previously discussed event of using the game loopholes to get extra points, Weiss decisively rejected it - the fairness and justice they have been striving for, and their intention to show the entire federal government.
New Lorraine did not support them to exploit such loopholes. As a result, the fourth competition day was not yet reached. The participating teams of Dosen Machinery Group opened their eyes: people could imagine cars, trucks and even carriages drifting on curves, but the most difficult thing to imagine agricultural tractors could also drift, but "Northern Agricultural Reclamation Machinery" did it. The strategy they adopted was similar to the plan envisioned by the Lorraines, which was to extremely streamline the load of the entries and dismantle all the things that could be removed, which was allowed in the rules of this competition.
The one who drifted for them with extreme speed was a young man named Meyer. The young man was not only sunny and handsome, but also had a good background. During the war, he was one of the ace pilots of the Federal Flight Force. He shot down 9 enemy planes and had an effective attack record of 133 times. Although the shooting down record seemed a little, it was related to the small number of aircraft equipped by the Lorraines. Among the 133 successful attack records, nearly half were flying ships against the Normans.
Exploded attacks. Due to the limitation of battlefield recording methods, a group of aircraft often shoot down the enemy's flight ships. It is impossible to determine who the record is attributed to, but it is recorded and commended as a collective honor. In Meyer's combat experience, there were 17 collective honors for shooting down the enemy's flight ships. This means that he participated in a large number of attacks on the enemy's flight ships with his team, and survived tenaciously. It is obviously difficult to do without excellent flying skills and extraordinary courage.
At the competition site, someone had a stronger reputation and strength than him, but this person sat upright in the judges' seat and could not come out to compete with him in terms of reason. Therefore, this young Meyer was the well-deserved "the most beautiful boy" that day.
As the first representative of the host and organizer, Weiss has a reasonable identity to freely enter and exit the camps of each participating team and interact with anyone, which is the greatest privilege given to him by his identity. On the morning of the rest day after the third competition day, he and Nikola went to the camp of the participating teams of the Dosen Group and presented Meyer with a golden trophy. This small trophy made of pure gold is the first achiever who was ready to reward a single bonus item before the competition.
At the station of the participating team of Dosen Machinery Group, Nikola handed the trophy to Meyer, looked at the stadium star who performed extremely dazzlingly yesterday with great interest, and asked him quips how he could drive such a bulky tractor out of the sports car.
"Talent and practice." Meyer replied concisely.
It's simple, but full of philosophy. To complete this extremely challenging project, you do need to have a certain driving talent. In addition to driving talent, there is a lot of diligent practice so that you can control this seemingly bulky tractor.
Nicholas then asked why he left the army and joined the Dosen Machinery Group instead of going to the Star Group to continue flying. Meyer smiled honestly and said to the example he was extremely respectful to, "If I were single, without any worries, as long as the army wanted, I could serve until old age, but I had a wife who loved me very much. Those who joined the flight forces with me, some of whom were classmates with me, or neighbors living in the same neighborhood, had their sacrifices very worried. I was pregnant shortly after the war, and in order to prevent him from spending this endless worry every day, I decided to give up my flight dream for the time being. Unless one day the country calls me back to the front line again."
This reason is very similar to the obstruction Nichola encountered from his old father. However, Nichola stubbornly chose his own path, and Meyer also chose to sacrifice to take care of his wife's emotions. It is hard to say who is right or wrong, but everyone has his own understanding of his life.
"It is unparalleled to be able to shoot down nine enemy aircraft and complete 133 effective attacks, reaction, insight and control. It is simply a waste of talent to drive a farm tractor. Seeing his name and confirming that he is the Meyer, I am not surprised that they can create new records. If you end up losing to him, I don't think everyone has to regret it. Because they lost to one of the best people in the field of federal driving." Nicholas said to Weiss in a proud tone.
Weiss said frankly: "Since we saw Meyer flying on the track yesterday, our young men were very eye-opening. They dared not speak out and surpassed them. They just wanted to follow his path to try the feeling of flying in the field with the roar of machinery. It doesn't matter whether we can meet the conditions for extra points. What's important is that everyone has seen the beauty of machinery."
The light on the field was so bright that it was not enough to have the driver's invincible skills. It also had to have a suitable vehicle, which was their entries. At the request of Weiss and Nicholas, Meyer brought them to the farm tractor that shone yesterday. At this moment, it returned to its simple and clumsy appearance, as if it was two things from the magical drifting machine yesterday.
Recently, Weiss has worked hard to study machinery with the participating teams of the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Factory. Now when you look at other machines, various key points naturally come into view. You can see one or two without introducing it. This entry from Dosen Machinery Group uses a spring suspension system and structure, which is probably closer to the principle of the Christie suspension system. Although it is an agricultural tractor, its chassis structure has a balanced aesthetic - the load bearing wheels used are medium-sized, with one pair of driving wheels in front and back, five pairs of load bearing wheels in the middle, and corresponding balance wheels above. As an agricultural tractor, its
The working environment should be mainly soft and muddy farmland. In order to enhance grip, it uses wide steel tracks, and corresponding to this wide track, the load-bearing wheel and the guide wheel must also reach a certain width. If they are simply made into wide models, there will be problems in the wear and balance of machinery. Weiss deliberately misled the Normans' idea, which is superior but too fine, interlaced load-bearing wheels. The Dosen Group's entries use parallel load-bearing wheels, that is, two load-bearing wheels are connected side by side, and a thick rubber ring is added in the middle, which not only meets the width requirements, but also plays a buffering effect accordingly.
In the previous game, Meyer and his drifting agricultural tractor did not pass the mark at one time. In the first attempt, they broke the track halfway through the process, and the side-by-side load-bearing wheels have advantages in maintenance compared to the interlaced and large-diameter auxiliary wheels. After more than an hour of repair, the agricultural tractor came on the court again, and this time Meyer finally reached the finish line in one go, 17 seconds ahead of the limited time. In most people's eyes, this was an unattainable result, but Meyer did.
Given the performance of this agricultural tractor at that time, many people thought they could fully compete for the bonus points in the racing race, but what was surprising was that they did not challenge them. Maybe it was reserved, maybe it was difficult to achieve such strict technical indicators in the internal tests organized by themselves. In short, Meyer and others have not yet applied for participating in that bonus event. Of course, if they participated and have passed the super fast bonus event, then the two consecutive bonus points are enough to kill the suspense of the championship, which makes all other participating teams feel regretful.
Chapter completed!