Lin Yan's bust appeared on screen, and the enthusiasm of the Chinese audience instantly soared.
Spectators who were preparing to leave turned back to buy a bucket of popcorn and returned to their seats.
During the five minutes that the big screen played Lin Yan's appearance, people poured in from the entrance of the racetrack continuously. In twenty minutes, over thirty thousand spectators had entered. This was Lin Yan's influence in China, single-handedly boosting the entire audience.
Lin Yan sat on his V4, eyes closed, resting in the open space at the entrance of the pit lane. Su Mojin held a small umbrella to shield him from the sun.
Closing his eyes, Lin Yan began to strategize for the upcoming qualifying session. Today's qualifying session had different rules than any he had experienced before; it was both a qualifying session and a selection round.
Furthermore, the ranking wasn't determined by a single lap but by a ten-minute time limit, with the highest lap speed counting as the result.
The top thirty would advance to the main race, and their ranking would determine their starting order.
This track was not as long as the Shanghai circuit. This meant that based on Lin Yan's lap speed, he could complete at least six laps. This was equivalent to taking the fastest lap out of six for ranking, greatly increasing the margin for error.
This was good news for all drivers. As the saying goes, beginners fear veterans, veterans fear masters, and masters fear mistakes. That's the principle.
If the ranking was decided by one lap and a mistake was made, it would be disastrous.
However, Lin Yan had another idea: to bring a Chinese driver into the main race.
Another characteristic of this rule was that drivers could enter the track at any time from the moment the referee announced the start of qualifying until its end.
This meant that during these ten minutes, drivers could set their lap times whenever they pleased. They could go on track at the beginning or wait five minutes before going on track.
One advantage of this rule was that it allowed teammates to draft off each other.
Lin Yan glanced back at the few people behind him. The strongest among the Chinese contingent was the coach in sportswear, named Jia Jin.
The two had already agreed that during the qualifying session, Lin Yan would lead, and Jia Jin would draft behind him. Whether Jia Jin could make it into the main race would depend on his own skill; Lin Yan could only do so much.
With ten minutes left until the race, coaches began pushing their bikes out of the pit lane and to the entrance.
Hundreds of staff members with cameras entered the track.
Once on the track, they were no longer coaches but drivers. The coaching group had sixty drivers participating in the qualifying session, nearly half the number of the driver group. This was understandable, as some countries couldn't even field five decent coaches.
As it was a home race for China, the director showed some favoritism towards Lin Yan. The big screen in front of the audience continuously switched to Lin Yan's footage, which was exactly what the audience wanted to see. Lin Yan, just sitting on his bike motionless, elicited screams from the audience.
From eighty thousand to one hundred and forty thousand, Lin Yan only took half an hour.
"I didn't expect that kid to be here too."
In the Italian camp, a bearded foreigner riding a Yamaha R1 also noticed Lin Yan's figure on the screen.
Heh heh, I didn't expect this kid to be here. Now his old friend is going to be disappointed.
Luoxi went to the Lin Corporation building to find Lin Yan, unaware that Lin Yan rarely stayed there.
Shaking his arms, the bearded foreigner also wanted to have a go at Lin Yan, as it was more interesting to compete with masters.
Soon, the Italian camp also began to discuss their plan.
The head coach of the Italian team was named Barolo, 42 years old, a three-time...
Once on the track, most teams chose to follow and draft.
After observing for a while and seeing that nothing unusual had happened and the crowd had thinned, Lin Yan then took Jia Jin and the others onto the track.
The moment the tires touched the track, Lin Yan instantly exerted his power.
Lin Yan was not frequent on this track, but he had been here before and was somewhat familiar with it.
The entire track was divided into four sections. As Lin Yan entered the first section, the first wave of people who had gone on track had already completed a lap, and the real-time rankings on the left began to refresh.
This ranking was different from the past; it was real-time. That is, after a driver completed a lap, that lap's speed would instantly appear on the leaderboard, and it could also display the segment speeds for each section.
On stage, Hao Dong was also introducing the new rules to the audience in the live broadcast. These rules were reportedly newly formulated by the FIM for qualifying sessions this year. If the friendly match trial was successful, it was estimated that they would be implemented in major international competitions soon.
"A driver from Country S was the first to cross the finish line on the first lap, achieving a good time of 1 minute 47.346 seconds, setting the top spot. However, this record is unlikely to hold for long."
With the top spot refreshed, Hao Dong cleared his throat and began his work.
As expected, as soon as he finished speaking, the following drivers crossed the finish line one after another, and the leaderboard refreshed frantically.
The driver from Country S was instantly pushed to outside the top ten.
The sixty people on the track could all be considered masters, with very standard lines and the roaring engines of their racing bikes.
"Pay attention to Lin Shen's lap time. Lin Shen's first three sections were faster than the top spot. In the final section, crossing the line with 1 minute 46.287 seconds, he took first place, nearly a second faster!"
"Here comes Barolo from Italy again, with 1 minute 46.266 seconds, surpassing Lin Shen to take the lead."
The top spot was refreshing rapidly. It was difficult to maintain the lead in the first few laps. It was estimated that the rankings would stabilize after the lap times reached a certain height.
Seeing that no one was refreshing the lap times for the moment, Hao Dong quickly took a sip of water. These new rules were killing his commentator's throat!
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