Novel Bin Chapter 421 - A Tornado
Chapter 421: A Tornado
“Incredible! Queen has kept her car under controlled—she has managed to stabilize her Maserati at the very last second; she has not lost control of her car, folks! The car did not flip over… it did not flip over… it did not flip over… I’m even repeating this three times—it’s just unbelievable! Okay, the car is still on the track, and Queen has taken the same approach as the Trumpchi, mimicking it to every detail. Did Queen closely observe the Trumpchi taking the Devil’s Corner in the previous laps? She must have figured out from there the best way to power slide into the inner lane drift. If that is the case, then our Queen is a true master racer in her own right!”
The commentator, a tall and skinny man, was ecstatic as he enthusiastically screamed in the mic, keeping the crowd abreast with the ongoing action and sharing his insights on matters of interest. “Look, the Queen has overtaken Wolf King and regained the first place! Well, well… what can we say here. If there’s one phrase to describe Queen right now, it would undoubtedly be—pick yourself up from where you’ve fallen,” he waxed, “Mastering the Devil’s Corner is the key to winning in this circuit, and as long as the queen makes no major mistake from hereon, and just maintain her lead, then she will win this race hands down.”
“Nice one, Queen!”
“She is absolutely fantastic!”
Although many people were behind the Trumpchi as a result of its amazing performance, many of them were still happy to see Shen Qingyan do well, so they all started cheering loudly for her.
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“You picked it up from observing him?” Su Li asked.
“Yup, that b*stard is quite a freak! To be honest, nobody ever tries to go on the inside at the Devil’s Corner, and I wouldn’t have tried until I saw him do it. After watching him closely, I figured out how.”
Shen Qingyan openly admitted how she managed to pull it off. At such a sharp and narrow bend, most drivers would’ve preferred to shift down to initiated the drift, but Xiao Luo chose to power over instead and induce the oversteer right at the turn. This required a sudden and quick increase in power, and it had to be just the right level, or his car would have gone into a spin. That was what she had observed in Xiao Luo’s perfect drift through the inner lane, and she applied it precisely as he had done.
Su Li listened but remained quiet. She looked back, hoping that Xiao Luo would come roaring behind them in his Trumpchi. Her expectation of Xiao Luo was naturally higher now, with the recent revelation of his many talents.
Lei Shijian was seething in his Porsche as he couldn’t believe that Shen Qingyan had passed him, and refused to accept that she had. “That b*tch actually pulled off such an advanced technique! I thought I had this race in the bag with the NOx injection system, but she still managed to pass me at Devil’s Corner… what the f*ck!” he snapped.
“Boss, it’s okay. Even if Queen wins, so what? It’s the Trumpchi that we can’t allow to win, or else it will cost us five million dollars to settle the bet we made,” his co-driver moaned.
“Damn, didn’t you see that even when he caught up at Devil’s Corner in the last lap, I still managed to overtake him before the end of it. In this lap, we’ve already passed Devil’s Corner, and I don’t even see him yet. He’s still far behind, and he can’t catch up, fat chance he’s going to pass me!” Lei Shijian scowled.
“I know, I know… but please just be careful, boss, that dude’s freaky as f*ck.”
“Stop being so noisy, you’re f*cking annoying me!”
Lei Shijian glared hard at his co-driver, and that was enough to shut him up immediately.
In the Trumpchi, Su Canye was pouting and throwing up a tantrum like a crybaby. “We can’t win at all, the difference between those sportscars and this domestic Trumpchi is like heaven and hell. You can’t possibly make up the large difference even with your skills,” he cried.
“Can you keep that useless mouth of yours shut for once?”
Xiao Luo snarled at Su Canye as he kept his eyes on the road, feeling vexed and finding the incessant whining from Su Canye unbearable. The Trumpchi was now heading towards Devil’s Corner, and Xiao Luo was once again taking the inner lane at breakneck speed as he prepared to make the turn.
Su Canye didn’t stop whining as he found something else to carp about. “Brother-in-law, you’re going too fast, it wasn’t this fast the last time… slow down, slow down! If we take the curve at this speed, we’re done for. Please, slow down, I don’t want to die at such a young age!”
It didn’t stop Xiao Luo at all, and as Trumpchi continued to accelerate, the engine started to roar like a beast at it homed in on the inner lane.
“Please, God… and Gods of all faiths, please bestow upon me your divine protection and save this poor soul!”
Su Canye shut his eyes and gritted his teeth in terror. He held on tightly to the handrail, and just like most men in the face of extreme danger, he started to pray to the Gods he so often neglected.
Back at the foot of the Wild Wolf Mountain, the large screen showed the Trumpchi speeding into Devil’s Corner. The commentator could immediately guess what it was trying to do. “Here’s our Dark Horse, the Trumpchi, once again! It’s literally flying into Devil’s corner, look at that speed… and it looks like it wants to repeat that beautiful maneuver again, drifting through the inner lane, but it seems to me this time the speed is a tad too quick. Can he make it?”
Just as he finished speaking, the Trumpchi’s rear swung forward as it initiated the drift…
The commentator got back on the mic, his voice louder this time as he spoke with more urgency. “Okay, the Trumpchi has started to drift into the curve now. He powers over and uses his clutch to induce drift, that’s how he does it. Look at that control… it’s sliding perfectly, and he needs quick hands to control the steering wheel, very little room for error there,” the commentator explained, “What a beau… oh, wait, there’s a situation here. Oh, no, the left wheels are off the ground! Oh my god, how could this happen? Did he steer into the turn too early? Didn’t the last time go pretty smoothly?”
Suddenly, everyone’s attention was on the screen, and they all held their breaths in trepidation.
The left wheels of Trumpchi started to lift higher off the ground, then without any warning, the entire car flipped over the outer guardrail and flew off the cliff.
“Oh, my God! It’s bad, the Trumpchi has flipped over the cliff, and it’s at least a four hundred meters fall; even an immortal would not survive if he fell from there. Oh my God, let’s pray for the best—may our legend be safe tonight!” The commentator grieved, for when he saw the Trumpchi flying off the cliff, he could hardly control the emotion in his voice. Even as a commentator, he somehow had a strong personal attachment to the Trumpchi.
The Trumpchi is done for!
Falling off the cliff meant instant death, and nobody could save them, not even a legion of immortals.
But, things took a shocking turn, for the Trumpchi did not plummet to the bottom as everyone thought, but started spinning like a tornado towards the other side of the road. It seemed like it had spun off by leveraging on the rotational force of the flip.
“Oh my gosh, I…w-what did I just witnessed here? The Trumpchi is flying in the air; it’s like something out of an anime flick—like ‘Bakusō Kyōdai Let’s & Go!’ It’s like Victory Magnum’s ‘Magnum Tornado!\'” the commentator raved. He was hysterical, screaming excitedly into the mic with his voice trembling from shock and disbelief.
The crowd was in a stupor and was completely dumbfounded. Whether at Wild Wolf Mountain of following through the online forum, no one could believe what they saw, and they all just started cheering hysterically. They had all just witnessed a miracle!
“What did I just see, the Trumpchi…it was leaping over the cliff!”
“A divine being must have taken control of the steering wheel of this Trumpchi, it must be!”
“Is this actually an acrobatic car show?”
When they all witnessed could only happen in the movies, or so they thought, until tonight. This was unprecedented and simply unbelievable.
The commentator quickly regained his senses and got on the mic again. “There’s a U-shaped curve right after the Devil’s corner, and the road after the bend is only twenty meters away from where the Trumpchi went over. If the Trumpchi can somehow land on that road, it would find itself at least two hundred meters ahead of Queen and Wolf King… from last to first place. Oh, my gosh, this is insane!”
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