"It's actually this race track!" Seeing this race track, the young contestants complained in their hearts.
They all watched the anime every day, so they knew that when the 4WD brothers in the anime faced this race track, they also had a hard time.
The desert terrain meant that the ground was not solid, and the tires could get stuck in the desert at any time, unable to move. In addition, high-speed motors were actually not very popular in this terrain, because when faced with some uphill terrain, without enough torque, high-speed motors would not be able to climb over the giant slopes in the desert.
In the anime, Ma Xinghao's [Whirlwind Charge] suffered from this. His speed was so fast that he was completely trapped in the desert and couldn't move. From the beginning of the competition, he fell to the last place.
In addition to the desert terrain making it difficult to move, what was worse was the desert's damage to the motors.
In order to dissipate the heat from the motor, the motor cover of the 4WD basically had gaps. When on the plastic race track, these gaps were naturally not harmful, and could even reduce the weight of the chassis.
But when on the desert race track, the sand and dust raised by the tires would enter the motor compartment through these gaps.
Although the protection of the motor itself was very tight, and there was basically no chance of sand entering the motor's interior, every gear and bearing of the motor was coated with lubricant. Once the sand stuck to the lubricant, the result could be imagined.
Ma Xinglie in the anime had applied too much lubricant, so much so that the space between two gears and bearings was completely covered with sand. In the end, not only was the transmission efficiency greatly reduced, but the plastic gears were also directly damaged by the vibration. Ma Xinglie had no choice but to change the gears on the 4WD on the spot, delaying a lot of the race time.
On the contrary, the new opponent for this round had the advantage, because the chassis of his 4WD was actually a completely sealed chassis. Especially the gears and bearings, they were all sealed tightly, and the sand could not enter at all.
Although this caused the 4WD's heat dissipation to be poor, and it could not use high-speed engines, and the speed was slower, he could smoothly drive in the desert terrain without worrying about stopping midway, and instead gained a great advantage.
Now, these contestants had to face the same dilemma themselves.
"Okay, I announce that each contestant has five minutes to adjust. Everyone can start adjusting their 4WD cars!" The 4WD Fighter announced loudly. All the contestants immediately picked up their 4WD toolboxes and began to modify their racing cars in a frenzy.
This mini 4WD toolbox was naturally also a mini 4WD toolbox produced by the Daqian Group. It didn't look very big, but once the box was opened, a full four layers of toolboxes would be pulled open one by one. Inside the toolbox could be placed all kinds of tools needed to modify the mini 4WD.
This was a box specially designed for gamers to modify their mini 4WD vehicles. The price of this plastic box was as high as 100 yuan in the research center.
At this moment, each of the 36 contestants in the arena had a box like this. Don't get me wrong. These boxes weren't distributed by the Da Qian Corporation. These contestants had bought them themselves. They had realized that these boxes would play a huge role in the actual competition and modifications, so they had all bought one.
The viewers in front of the TV were also envious. The parents felt their wallets tremble.
The modification time was only five minutes, and all the contestants seemed a little anxious.
They had to modify their mini 4WD vehicles to suit the desert terrain within five minutes. Some of the contestants had to switch to high-torque motors, so they had to remove the original motors and replace them, which consumed a lot of time.
But this wasn't a problem because all the contestants had a set of motors for different purposes in their toolboxes. What really troubled the contestants were the desert tires and the fully-enclosed chassis. Although these two modification tools were sold in the research center, they were too specific. If it wasn't for the desert terrain, they wouldn't be useful at all. On the contrary, they would slow down the speed, so many children didn't buy this set of equipment at all.
In the end, they could only resign themselves to their fate and change to tires with stronger grip. Then, they removed the excess lubricant and prayed that their luck would be better.
Soon, the five-minute modification time was over. The contestants who had completed the modification ran to the starting point. However, there were still some contestants who hadn't completed the modification, but the 4WD Fighter didn't rush them. As long as they were willing to start a little later than the other contestants, it was completely fine to give them more modification time.
However, these slow contestants eventually gave up on further modification and took their mini 4WD vehicles to the starting point. With the sound of the starting gun, all 36 mini 4WD vehicles set off at the same time.
At the beginning of the race, the track was still plastic, so the performance of the mini 4WD vehicles was quite good. The ones at the front were Wang Congcong and Honda's son. The two of them seemed to be planning to force their way through by relying on their speed.
But after about ten seconds, all the obstacles between the track disappeared, replaced by a large desert terrain. All the mini 4WD vehicles sank into the yellow sand.
Then, some unlucky contestants got stuck in the sand in less than three seconds. They had to wait for the contestants chasing after them to manually pull them out of the sand pit, but this wasted a lot of time.
Many of the contestants had to stop to remove the outer shell, remove the gears, and remove the sand on them. In any case, the children who didn't prepare a fully-enclosed chassis were basically doomed to lose.
"Sawtooth Overlord, why do you keep getting stuck in the sand?!" Wang Congcong said helplessly as he watched his mini 4WD get stuck in the sand again. This was already the fifth time his mini 4WD had gotten stuck in a sand pit.
He did buy a fully-enclosed chassis, but in order to pursue the cool appearance of the mini 4WD, he installed a huge guide wheel at the front of the mini 4WD. In the end, the guide wheel became a sand-shoveler, and it kept getting stuck in a pile of sand. Even the Sawtooth Overlord couldn't move.
It was at this moment that the students realized that removing all the guide wheels of the mini 4WD, leaving only the most basic guide wheels, seemed to be the best choice. This was because the guide wheels were really useless in the vast desert terrain, and they were especially easy to pick up sand and stick into the sand.
Therefore, when the camera focused on the contestants at the front of the line, everyone was surprised to see that these contestants had all removed the guide wheel.
This way, the danger of getting stuck in the sand was reduced, and the weight of the mini 4WD vehicles was reduced.
The four contestants at the front of the line were Jia Jiayue, Jia Jiafeng, Liu Qingmei, and Hirata Rang.
Jia Jiayue and Jia Jiafeng were naturally prepared because they had received Jia Yapeng's warning in advance. Hirata Rang and Liu Qingmei, on the other hand, had only removed the guide wheel before the start of the race. Obviously, they had guessed this at the last minute before the race started.
After running through the flat desert, they came to an uphill route. Jia Jiayue and Jia Jiafeng couldn't keep up. Although Jia Yapeng had warned them that they were in a desert, they still refused to give up on the high-speed engine. As a result, they were caught off guard when they went uphill. They couldn't hold on to the slippery sand at all. They could only watch as Liu Qingmei and Hirata Rang's mini 4WD vehicles climbed up the slope. It seemed that the final championship would be between the two of them.
"This woman is really strong!" Hirata Rang thought to himself as he looked at Liu Qingmei, who was still walking slowly behind him. Due to the desert terrain, they couldn't speed up. At the same time, the car would need the player's help from time to time to get out of the pit in the ground. This gave Liu Qingmei, who was in poor health, an opportunity to catch up to his car.
As they finished climbing the slope, the desert terrain finally came to an end. Seeing the plastic track in front of them, Hirata Rang smiled. However, when he saw the track clearly, he hesitated.
There was a 10-turn curve in front of them. There were a total of 10 U-turns. One wrong turn and the car would be sent flying.
"Do you want to replace the guide wheel bars?" Hirata Rang fell into deep thought. Only the guide wheel could handle such a sharp turn. Without the guide wheel, there was about a 50% chance that the car would overturn.
However, it would take a lot of time to replace the guide wheel. After all, there were four guide wheels and eight screws. It would take at least 30 seconds to twist the eight screws.
"Forget it. Even if we crash out of the track, I'll just have to manually put the car back on the track. This will waste less time than replacing the guide wheel. As long as I can make it through the four turns without crashing into the ground six times, I'll be able to win!" Hirata Rang thought for a moment and gave up on replacing the guide wheel. He watched as his mini 4WD charged into the hellish turn.
At this moment, Hirata Rang turned around to look at Liu Qingmei. He saw that she had already grabbed hold of the mini 4WD and was replacing the guide wheel.
"Being too steady will cost you all your chances!" Hirata was reminded of what his father had taught him, so he decided to gamble on his own fate.
Therefore, when the mini 4WD entered the first turn without any guide wheel, it flew into the air and landed heavily on the ground.
Fortunately, the ground around them was sandy, so there was no need to worry about it breaking.
Hirata Rang hurriedly put the mini 4WD back on the track. According to the rules, if a mini 4WD was sent flying out of the turn, the mini 4WD would be able to cross the turn when it entered the track again.
Therefore, Hirata Rang's mini 4WD was considered to have crossed the turn.
However, Hirata Rang soon realized that his luck was not very good. He flew out of the first five U-turns four times. When he reached the fifth U-turn, Liu Qingmei's Pure White Ares had already caught up to him.
After replacing all the guide wheel, the Pure White Ares was unusually stable. It sped through the turn at a relatively high speed and soon caught up to Hirata Rang, who kept overturning. In the end, Hirata Rang could only watch as his opponent's mini 4WD overtook him. After successfully completing the last U-turn, Hirata Rang was the first to cross the finish line.
There were only a few laps left in the final. They would win if they could successfully complete the entire track.
To make things worse, Jia Jiayue and Jia Jiafeng's mini 4WD had caught up to him. Even though they did not have any guide wheel installed, they were lucky. They did not go out of the turn, but went through the U-turns smoothly.
"That's impossible!" Hirata Rang was about to explode when he flew out again. It was fine if the mini 4WD had overtaken him, but how did the mini 4WD not overturn his mini 4WD?
He could not help but ask the question in his mind when Jia Jiayue and Jia Jiafeng overtook him.
"We replaced two old batteries that were running out of juice!" Jia Jiayue giggled. "The old batteries are running low on juice and slow down, so it's not easy to overturn them!"
"Oh my …" Hirata Rang felt like vomiting blood again. He finally realized that the Legend of Qin and Legend of Han were extremely slow. They were only a third of their normal speed. At this speed, they only needed four normal guide wheels to go through the turns. It was the reason why they had to slow down when they were turning.
Hirata Rang wanted to replace the old batteries for his mini 4WD, but he was usually very meticulous. He had fully charged all the batteries before the race started. There was no way he could afford to run out of juice.
In the end, Hirata Rang could only watch as Jia Jiafeng and Jia Jiayue went through the turn and crossed the finish line. They came in second and third place respectively. He only came in fourth place in the end.
However, he was already luckier than Wang Congcong, who was still overturning at the first hairpin!
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