#217 - Draw

As rally drivers, their usual race cars are heavily modified to give them powerful bursts of speed, something that mass-produced cars simply can't match.

"Roland, Mark Dargan, they're starting the draw!"

Soon, after drawing lots, both of them received their number plates. Roland got number 15, and Mark Dargan got number 24.

The two arrived at the parking lot, found the test vehicles they were to drive, and each vehicle had information inside showing the engine parameters and data.

"Mine's a 2.4L engine. Oh my god! This 2.4L engine has been tuned to 298 horsepower and 400 Newton-meters!"

Roland, sitting in the car with its shape concealed, spoke to Mark Dargan on the communication channel while looking at the information in his hand.

"What's that? Do you know what car I'm driving? It's a turbocharged engine that came from Great Xia!"

"I don't know which deranged maniac installed a 3.0T turbocharged engine on such a small car body. Moreover, this engine has been tuned to 450 horsepower and 580 Newton-meters. It's simply insane!"

Mark Dargan's exclamation startled Roland and the other drivers.

"Holy crap, is it real, Mark? Is that engine really that insane?!"

"I know which car company that car of yours is from. Only one car company has that kind of technology now!"

"You don't need to tell me!"

Mark Dargan looked at the data and said to his assistant, "A 3.0T mass-produced engine has been tuned to such high horsepower. Aren't they afraid of severe wear and tear and frequent failures after mass production?"

Mark Dargan was very excited now. He couldn't wait to feel how this small sports coupe performed with the insane 3.0T six-cylinder engine.

"Goodbye, everyone, I'm off!"

Having gotten used to driving high-horsepower cars, Mark Dargan disliked testing small-displacement engines the most because they weren't exciting at all.

But now, this engine perfectly met his requirements: small car body, light weight, high horsepower, and strong torque. It would definitely be a blast to drive.

Rumble… Rumble rumble!!!

After the car started, the unique low roar of the six-cylinder engine sounded so pleasant to Mark Dargan.

"Turn off ESP. First, test the engine's torque after starting, whether the turbo lag is noticeable, and the explosive power at maximum RPM!"

After his co-driver got in the car, Mark Dargan directly turned off the ESP stability control system of the small car. This thing was useless for rally drivers.

In order to obtain a stronger road feel, rally drivers would not use ESP stability control systems.

Under Mark Dargan's control, the small sports coupe marked with the number 24 slowly drove out of the parking lot gate.

After exiting the parking lot gate, Mark Dargan directly floored the accelerator, and the RPM on the dashboard instantly reached the area above 7000 RPM.

And this small sports coupe instantly darted out, and that huge sense of push made Mark Dargan and his co-driver feel like they were driving a rally car.

"Oh my god, 0-100 km/h in 3.9 seconds, the explosive power is terrifying! This deserves a full score!!!"

In the racetrack, when Mark Dargan drove the number 24 car out of the parking lot gate, the spectators who had been waiting for a long time burst into exclamations one after another.

"It's here, it's here, it's finally starting!!"

"I've been waiting since 6 am, it's finally starting!"

"Today is another day of hormone explosion, and I can see the drift show of the rally drivers again!"

"What's drifting? Do you still remember Ginias Segi's special skill, the Flying Mantis?"

"Oh, I almost forgot that this is not the WRC rally, but a large-scale live show of civilian cars being abused by professional drivers!"

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The long-awaited spectators roared and cheered excitedly when the number 24 car appeared.

Ward's official team would also send a helicopter to directly photograph the scene and broadcast the footage in real-time to the big screen at the entrance of the exhibition hall and those live broadcast platforms.

The netizens who had been waiting for a long time in the live broadcast room were also very excited.

After the first car that was anticipated by everyone drove out of the parking lot gate, in the engine sound that burst out with earth-shattering noise, the small car, whose model could not be seen by the audience, instantly darted out.

"Damn, the low engine sound of this number 24 is definitely the unique sound of a six-cylinder engine. Such a small car body has been insanely equipped with such a powerful engine!"

"Looking at this shape, it should be a sports coupe model. Isn't it normal to have a 6-cylinder engine?"

"You guys are amazing, you can all hear that this is the sound of a 6-cylinder engine. Why does it sound the same to me!"

"Actually, if you listen carefully, you will find that the engine sounds of different cylinder blocks are different!"

In the racetrack, Mark Dargan floored the accelerator, and the number 24 car, which had its ESP stability control system turned off, darted out like a young cheetah in a sudden burst of tire friction sound.

"Oh my god! 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds, I absolutely love this car!"

Ward's official engine is equipped with an engine measurement and control system. This system can be used to complete engine speed, output torque, output power, fuel consumption rate, noise, exhaust and other tests through the testers installed in different positions on the engine.

Finally, after computer analysis, a comprehensive score is given. In addition to the driver's scoring, the final score of an engine is the total score. The top ten engines with the highest scores are the Ward's Top Ten Engines of this year.

Mark Dargan recorded the data of the car while driving: "The horsepower is very powerful, the torque is explosive, and the turbocharger intervention timing has been tuned very actively. I give this engine a full score for the explosive stage test!"

"Next, we will switch between starting and emergency braking non-stop to test the wear and tear value of the engine under extreme conditions!"

For each test content, they must complete a certain standard, and then give a comprehensive score based on the actual consideration of the engine displacement of the vehicle they are driving.

With Mark Dargan impatiently rushing out of the parking lot first in number 24, the remaining dozens of professional rally drivers, after their co-drivers got in the car, couldn't wait to drive the vehicles they were going to test out of the parking lot and into the first stage of standard test road.