However, this year, there was one rider who made even Chief Engineer Ben Tian a little uncertain: the young rider from Ducati. His riding style was absolutely aggressive, with lean angles that conservative riders simply couldn't achieve. Yet, if you considered him stable, he truly was. Looking purely at the number of mistakes, not crashes, his mistakes were far fewer than Rejna's. A mistake wasn't necessarily a crash; going wide on a corner or opening the throttle too late was also a mistake.
And these kinds of mistakes, he had rarely seen Lin Yan make on the track. Practically none. The only thing that could be considered a mistake was a crash due to excessively low lean angles, but Lin Yan had managed to save himself on those few occasions. And not only that, Lin Yan's bike-saving skills were, in Chief Engineer Ben Tian's opinion, incredibly bizarre, comparable to the King of Motorcycles back in the day.
All signs indicated that the Ducati rider was as stable as Rossi and as aggressive as the King of Motorcycles – a true anomaly.
However, he soon figured it out. Anyone who could win a championship in a place like the Isle of Man would surely make very few mistakes.
In fact, how could he have imagined that Lin Yan had won more than just one championship at the Isle of Man? Otherwise, he wouldn't have honed such skills. In a place like that, one mistake could genuinely mean death.
Soon, Daniel came down from the track. Seeing Daniel descend, Chief Engineer Ben Tian even uttered a Chinese phrase.
"Heh, the old blade is still sharp!"
Chief Engineer Ben Tian walked up and patted Daniel's shoulder.
"Get lost, you're the old one."
Chief Engineer Ben Tian's face went dark. He had merely used a Chinese adjective, an adjective, not said you were truly old.
"Boss, someone is looking for you outside the base. It's a beautiful woman."
Suddenly, a technician ran over from the entrance, looking flustered. A beautiful woman looking for him at the entrance? What was going on?
Under the astonished gazes of many technicians, Daniel quickly stripped off his leather suit and threw out a sentence.
"What beautiful woman? That's my wife, damn it!"
He then turned and ran towards the entrance of the racetrack, his riding boots not even changed yet.
After Daniel left, the technicians present looked at each other, and Chief Engineer Ben Tian's mouth twitched fiercely. He almost forgot. This guy had another characteristic, very similar to the Ducati rider: he liked to bring his wife wherever he went, even to races.
The new technicians exchanged glances, but the older technicians present all showed a hint of envy.
Daniel and his wife's love story had touched many people back then.
Although it was due to injury, it wasn't without a cure. A rider who chose to retire at his peak for his family might not be a good rider, but he was definitely a good husband.
The young apprentice still looked dazed. After being slapped on the head by his master, he came back to his senses and listlessly pushed the bike towards the pit room.
In the blink of an eye, Daniel had arrived at the base entrance. A woman stood at the entrance, a very beautiful woman with blonde hair, a standard European beauty, tall and slender with a slim waist. She wore a grayish-yellow coat and stood at the entrance, eagerly looking into the base.
Soon, Daniel emerged from the entrance.
It turned out his wife had come to bring him afternoon tea. Looking at the lunchbox in his wife's hand, Daniel understood.
Daniel's wife had once been an ardent fan of Daniel. How ardent? After Daniel's race, his current wife, Karina, had taken a pen and asked Daniel to sign her stomach. Signing her stomach, while not a big deal in the wild and open West, was the first time Daniel had received such a request, and he couldn't help but pay more attention to this fan. It was precisely because of this extra attention that the current situation arose.
The more he got to know her, the more Daniel couldn't control himself. They then fell in love, and two years later, they had their first child. After this child was born, Daniel also chose to retire.
He was one of the few riders to retire before the age of thirty. Although injured, every time he raced, he put so much pressure on other riders that they couldn't breathe.
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In China, inside the academy building, Lin Yan led Jiang Qi Yan and the other two to one of the floors.
Half of this floor was filled with trampolines similar to those in an amusement park. The entire half-floor was covered with these large trampolines.
This was where Lin Yan said they would train for crashes. So-called crash training was about the subconscious protective actions the body made when a rider experienced a high or low situation. Jiang Qi Yan and the others had learned this before, but today Lin Yan would guide them through a more systematic learning process.