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The live feed has begun.
The final is scheduled to start at exactly 1:00pm, so the live commentary will start a little earlier.
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The crowd cheers and applauds.
Luckhardt explained the starting positions of the contestants.
The pilots, who had not yet taken their seats, stood by their cars, waving and bowing.
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Pole position is at the very inside of the course. The cars are lined up in a horizontal line, with the following cars facing outward in that order.
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The remaining minutes are used for commentary.
The crowd cheered again.
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The female golem holds up a placard that reads <2 minutes to start>.
The pilots take their seats.
The countdown to the start of the race has begun.
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Only the sound of voices echoes in the silent stadium.
<<10......9......8......7......6......5......>>
From the fifth second remaining, the signal lights that indicate the start of the race are illuminated with red lights.
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They light up in order from the bottom to the top. .......
<<......4......3......2......1......>>
At the last moment, it changes to green.
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Just at 1:00 p.m., the race is about to start.
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While Ruckhardt spoke excitedly, Zion stated in a calm manner. The contrast is quite good, Jin thought in a corner of his mind as he was piloting the car.
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The second place went to number 10, Rubina. Perhaps reflecting her personality, Rubina's car had a lot of power.
This meant that the tires could not transfer the power to the road, especially when accelerating, i.e.
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And this course is not paved. I mean...
"Whoa, whoa!
"Whoa!"
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The car right behind me was getting rained on by a cloud of gravel.
"Aah! I'm sorry!"
Rubina apologizes, but does not slow down.
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Shu and Shireen, numbers 2 and 5, had slowed down to avoid the direct hit from the gravel, and had fallen to the bottom of the pack.
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Zion saw this and laughed bitterly.
The reason why Jin and Rubina switched places is that when they were overtaken on acceleration, they did not want to stay behind Rubina and swung to the outside of the course.
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(Rubina's tires were made of metal, probably because he didn't want to wear them out. ...... That's why gravel was flying.)
This is what Jin noticed during the qualifying session.
During the practice session, no one noticed because they were not accelerating as hard as they could, and during the qualifying session, most of them were so busy setting their best lap times that only Jin noticed it.
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But at this point, everyone knew.
As Sion said, all the cars ......, that is, all the 12 cars except for Rubina's car, were now running to avoid being right behind the number 10. The course is too big for the size of the cars.
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In response to Zion's comment, Lackhardt demanded a detailed explanation.
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After a preface, Zion started to explain.
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The ratio of the former is 60:66 ≈ 0.91, the latter is 60 0:606 ≒ 0.99.
In other words, Zion meant to say that the larger the corner radius, the smaller the influence of the in-course and out-course.
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To put it another way, a one-eighth scale automobile race on a 400-meter track is a mismatch in terms of scale.
Everyone tries to take the inside track empirically, but taking the outside track does not affect the time that much.
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I explained it in a roundabout way, but the point is that Zion meant to say that it would not be so much of a disadvantage to avoid running behind the number 10 car.
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However, the gap still exists.
Would it be as Zion predicted? He did not know.
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And while the commentators and guests were talking, the race was still going on and the first lap was about to end.
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The standings were 12,9,11,10,8,6, 7,4,5,1,13,2,5.
The Road Toss car was in the top position, as was the case in the qualifying session.
Lap times were around 40 seconds. Everyone was still waiting to see what would happen.
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Meanwhile, the Road Toss car (number 12) is about to take the lead.
（Road Toss is the type of driver who can outrun the pack.)
There are two types of runners: those who can do better than their abilities when they are chasing up, and those who can do better than their abilities when they are running away. Rhodes seems to be the latter.
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He doesn't like pressure, so he can act spontaneously by taking the lead.
This is the type that can get away with it.
In fact, Jin is the same way. We understand each other well because we are the same.
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Jin was looking at the number 9 in front of him.
"Okay, here it is!
He slowed down before the corner and moved forward at once.
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With a sharp steering maneuver, he makes a sharp turn and heads for the exit of the corner, crossing in front of the number 10.
"Kyaaa!"
Jin's car crosses in front of you. Rubina is far enough ahead, but in her haste, she abruptly brakes.
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"Oh, no!"
Her slowdown allows 8, 6, and 7 to pass her.
"Ugh, I've been hit!"
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He impatiently goes into full throttle, and the wheelspin occurs again, sending him bouncing off the gravel. This time there was no car behind him.
"Oh, no!
He rushed to pull back a little, but it was already too late, and the number 4 car had passed him.
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"Ugh!
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The race has only just begun.
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