F1: Starting with a Simulator Master

Next up are the T5 and T6 combination corners.

From the exit of T4 to T5, it's a full-throttle acceleration section. With a 50-meter mark, lightly brake and rev-match to downshift from 6th to 4th gear.

T5 is a left turn with a very flat shoulder, so you can take a long time to drive.

T6 is a right turn with a gravel run-off area. Luo Xiu chose to enter the turn late here in order to gain better exit speed towards T7.

Next comes that dreadful uphill hairpin bend, also known as Tosa.

T7 is a critical corner that is extremely difficult to handle.

Because it's a hairpin bend with an uphill angle, any loss of speed when entering the bend will be amplified tenfold by the subsequent uphill acceleration section.

Luo Xiu demonstrated what textbook-level traction braking looks like.

While accelerating out of corner T6, quickly pull the car to the right, brake hard at 75 meters, and downshift from 5th gear to 2nd gear with the brakes applied.

As the steering wheel angle increases, the brake pedal under the foot is lifted back with millisecond-level precision.

The car's center of gravity smoothly shifted from the front wheels, and the front of the car entered the apex of the corner with excellent directional control.

The tires, bearing the combined effects of uphill driving, hairpin bends, and road incline, finally made it past the apex of the corner. Just as the lateral grip returned, Luo Xiu accelerated ahead of time.

Using the gravitational potential energy of the uphill slope to press down on the rear wheels, it greedily extracts every Newton-meter of torque from the engine.

T8 is a very small right turn. After passing it at full throttle, you'll arrive at the most terrifying high-speed blind corner on the entire course, T9.

Before entering the corner, you can't see the apex at all; you have to rely entirely on muscle memory and courage to determine your cornering speed.

Luo Xiu quickly eased off the throttle before entering the corner, using the forward shift of his weight to increase the grip of the front wheels, then turned the steering wheel to the left, letting the rear of the car slide slightly across the outside of the track.

Even just one centimeter more and the right rear tire would have hit the grass, resulting in an immediate elimination.

But he didn't; he didn't steer the steering wheel any further, relying solely on the accelerator to control the vehicle's posture.

This feeling of dancing on the edge of losing control sent his adrenaline soaring.

After navigating the T10 false turn at full throttle, I reached my physiological limits.

The T11 and T12 combination bends.

This is a set of high-speed downhill corners, located at the lowest point of the entire track.

Luo Xiu rushed into the valley at extremely high speed, and then eased off the throttle, downshifted, and braked hard the instant he cut through the T11 corner at the limit.

A lateral overload of nearly 4G struck instantly!

Without any cushioning, Luo Xiu felt as if his head had been punched hard outwards by a strong man.

The muscles in his neck were taut like steel cables, with bulging veins.

The edges of my vision started to darken; that's a sign of temporary blindness caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain.

He gritted his teeth and his hands and feet remained perfectly still.

Even the feeling of pressure on every cell in his body did not distract him in the slightest; Luo Xiu didn't even blink.

They just toughed it out.

T13 is an uphill fake bend immediately following T12. After accelerating out in 3rd gear with full throttle,

We are about to reach the key point that the man mentioned last night.

T14 and T15 combined Z-shaped bend.

The road shoulders were very high, like two protruding yellow sausages.

This is also the origin of the name "Sausage Shoulder".

Most drivers would choose to avoid it, because once they run over it, not to mention whether the car's suspension will be damaged, if they don't handle it properly, the car will immediately go out of control and head straight for the gravel run-off area on the outside of the track, without even a chance to recover.

However, if you press on and handle it properly, you can gain a time advantage of 0.3 to 0.4 seconds just from this one turn.

Because the T14 sausage shoulder has a shape that bends to the right.

If the right tire presses down at a specific angle, and then the car's direction is quickly adjusted using inertia, the car can be "pulled" directly into the apex of the T15 corner by using the bend of the curb. Then, the car's exit direction will naturally be adjusted, allowing it to achieve a better exit angle as soon as it exits the corner.

More importantly, it not only achieves a better exit angle but also shortens the straight-line distance when cornering.

This is a huge temptation, but also a huge risk.

The normal route is to avoid it.

But Luo Xiu did not.

He aimed at the yellow bulge that looked powerful enough to break the suspension, without any intention of easing off.

Straight-line braking, 2nd gear.

Then I rode right up on the front right wheel!

"Mamma Mia!" (Italian for "Oh my God!")

The Italians in P room, including Marco, were stunned.

In the observation room on the second floor, Xu Zihao, who was watching the television broadcast, was also startled when he saw the car fly up.

"Bang!"

A loud bang.

The car's floor scraped against the curb, causing the entire car to lift into the air.

The apex of the T15 is right in front of you.

The race car was suspended in the air for approximately 0.05 seconds.

In those 0.05 seconds when he completely lost traction, Luo Xiu didn't stop. He adjusted the direction while maintaining a certain throttle opening.

The moment he landed, Luo Xiu kept correcting his direction while stepping on the accelerator even harder!

boom!

The moment the wheels touched the ground, the enormous rebound force did not send the car flying. Instead, it combined with this brilliant counter-attack, forcibly pulling the front of the car into the apex of the T15 corner.

This is a perfect display of violent aesthetics.

The straight-line distance was shortened by 3 meters.

The acceleration time was at least 0.5 seconds earlier than the normal route of detouring around the shoulder.

In the pit room, Marco looked at the data and driving route and gasped.

This is how F1 drivers drive! One wrong move and you're in the grass, ruining your lap...

Luo Xiu was unaware of what had happened in the pit room; his lap was not yet over.

After exiting T15, there is another high-speed downhill false bend, requiring you to maintain full throttle until T17.

T17 and T18 are a rather special pair of double-curve right-angle bends.

First, while descending at extremely high speed, I braked hard at the 100-meter mark of T17.

Because it's downhill, the road surface has poor grip, but if you brake a little harder, the left wheel can easily lock up.

Luo Xiu once again demonstrated his excellent braking skills.

Without any tire lock-up or unnecessary steering corrections, the car, after braking on the right side 100 meters from T17, naturally moved to the outside of the track after passing the apex of T17, and at the same time, it was just within sight of the apex of T18.

Same recipe, same rhythm.

This is the ideal cornering method for T17 and T18.

Luo Xiu did it.

After exiting the T18 bend, he was greeted by an incredibly wide starting straight.

Without any surprises, he crossed the finish line smoothly, and his qualifying result for this lap is valid.

The numbers on the big screen froze.

1:31.986

On the day of the trial training, he achieved a purple score in three stages.

Marco looked at the results, then at Luo Xiu's telemetry data, and gasped again.

This lap time is only 0.2 seconds away from the fastest lap time in F3 history on this track.

However, today's track temperature and road grip conditions are far inferior to those conditions when the fastest lap in history was achieved.

This means that, under the same conditions, this Asian boy who is touching a real car for the first time will almost certainly break the historical record.

The race car slowly drove back to the pit area.

Luo Xiu released the accelerator and exhaled a long breath of stale air.

As the adrenaline receded, a sore and tingling sensation came from my neck.

He wanted to raise his left hand to wave to Xu Zihao and the others on the second floor, but found that the muscles in his arm were trembling uncontrollably due to overload.

That's a side effect of the high G-value I just experienced.

Luo Xiu managed to unleash the F3's full potential.

This posed no technical obstacle for Luo Xiu, but it had reached his current physiological limit.

If he wants to go further, he must make his body able to withstand greater loads and higher G-forces.

He gave a wry smile and could only place his hands limply on the steering wheel.

On the other side of the glass, Xu Zihang was frantically pounding on it, as excited as a primal ape.

His video footage has added another bombshell after Luo Xiu's performance in this round.

Marco looked at Luo Xiu as if he were an alien.

"You're crazy."

Luo Xiu rubbed his neck, which felt like it was about to break, a smile playing on his lips.

"Thank you."