As long as there's a slight flaw in either car control skills or ntal resilience, crashing into the guardrail without a buffer zone leads to a fatal outco.
At the Australian Grand Prix, the Formula events alone have claid the lives of fifteen drivers. When you include touring cars and motorcycles, the number is astoundingly high. It's thus called the most dangerous track in Asia, without exception!
Qin Lianjie is just an amateur underground racer, why risk it all at full throttle?
"Hmm, I know."
Chen Xiangbei's response to this was quite indifferent.
Professional drivers are destined to challenge the limits of cars and tracks with their lives.
From the mont you're afraid, you've actually already lost, and you're not ant to be a professional driver anymore.
Because fear will unknowingly slow you down, making you race while looking at the taillights of others' cars, and what's the aning of persisting then?
Seeing Chen Xiangbei's indifferent expression, Qin Lianjie understood why this guy's driving skills had improved so dramatically.
Damn, this guy isn't afraid of death!
Of course, Qin Lianjie wouldn't speak his mind, he continued seriously introducing the bends.
"After the T2 hotel, it's the fastest straight of the entire East Bay Circuit, where acceleration is full throttle. The top speed of GT3 cars is mostly around 280 km/h, but I haven't paid much attention to the top speed of Formula 3."
"At the end of the straight is the famous Pengzhou Bend, requiring drivers to have excellent judgnt of braking distances due to the high tail speeds. It has therefore been the best point for offensive and defensive overtaking over the years, so you'd better pay more attention to the track's grip condition."
While Qin Lianjie isn't a professional driver, he indeed knows this East Bay Circuit very well and explains everything thoroughly.
Moreover, Chen Xiangbei discovered another feature, which is that unlike Europe, where bends are nad after people, on this Australian East Bay Circuit, the turns are nad after local famous casinos and hotels.
Especially the na "Pengzhou," it even sounded quite familiar to Chen Xiangbei.
After all, in many online videos from later eras, the intro often casually throws out a line: Australia's first online casino launches...
As for whether it is truly "Pengzhou," it's unclear, but the brand was called this nonetheless.
As the Volkswagen R36 drove forward, Chen Xiangbei also found that the East Bay Circuit had significant undulations, almost reaching the level of hill roads in many southern areas of China.
And this track wasn't in a bustling downtown area like Singapore, as imagined by Chen Xiangbei. So sections even featured reservoirs and "cliffs" next to them, with a vertical drop exaggerated to two or three stories high.
This ans the danger of the East Bay Circuit doesn't just co from narrow streets but also from inherent terrain risks, much like so rally stages!
And in this era, constrained by ti, technology, and cost, many safety asures of the races are not comparable to those of later tis. Chen Xiangbei found that so sections were separated by concrete blocks.
Compared to tire walls and tal nets, concrete blocks offer zero elasticity and buffer, and he couldn't imagine what scene would occur if a Formula car traveling at over a hundred km/h crashed into them.
The 6.2 km circuit isn't short, yet it isn't long in terms of vehicle ti. Even though Chen Xiangbei's speed was very low, it still took him more than ten minutes to complete it.
The normally talkative Qin Lianjie felt his mouth dry at this point, he looked at the expressionless Chen Xiangbei and asked, "How about it, do you rember?"
"No."
Chen Xiangbei answered honestly, with the East Bay Circuit having 22 turns in total, weaving through all sorts of people and traffic, being able to rember all its features would be indescribable by a re racing machine.
It would be like a scanner!
"It's normal not to rember, complex terrain plus crowded streets, East Bay Circuit being called the most dangerous circuit in Asia isn't without reason."
Qin Lianjie concurred, there's no "god" who can rember the track features in just one "walk" around.
Even Schumacher wouldn't be able to!
"This terrain is a combination of mountain and street roads, feeling more complex than similar Monaco circuits, you probably need to trouble you to go a few more laps."
"Damn, telling these."
Qin Lianjie waved his hand, signaling Chen Xiangbei to continue.
The two of them just kept circling around the East Bay Circuit, until night gradually fell bringing the real rush hour and night life, many parts of the streets already experienced traffic jams, taking half an hour to travel a few kiloters.
At such speed, even a professional driver like Chen Xiangbei had to focus on pedestrians crossing and creeping vehicles, continuing to "walk" further was aningless.
"Qin Lianjie, how about we call it a day?"
Chen Xiangbei suggested this, realizing why street races have such geographic advantages.
Non-local or drivers specializing in street races can't figure out even the basic terrain!
"Xiangbei, how about this, we run a lap one midnight."
Qin Lianjie also realized how ineffective familiarization was, especially since the East Bay Circuit is a tourist attraction, with the entire route lined with casinos and hotels like Pengzhou, Sands, and Mandarin Oriental.
To truly understand the track, they need to co back for a couple of laps during the "Cinderella" ti of underground racing at midnight!
"When do you think is a good ti?"
"Next Monday."
Qin Lianjie gave a definite ti.
Next week is the Grand Prix race week, by then all the scaffolding and construction materials for road modifications will be removed, nearly replicating the road layout during the race.
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