When I left Longyou, Zhejiang, it rained according to the usual practice in previous years. Without this rally, I don't think I will go to this county in my life. Every time I drive here, it's two o'clock in the morning, and I have to go to Yang Aizhen's food stall to eat a bowl of small wonton. It was noon on Monday when I left, and then I bought some food to take away. It is said that KFC in Zhejiang is always more popular than that in Shanghai. When I left Longyou, Zhejiang, it rained according to the usual practice in previous years. Without this rally, I don't think I will go to this county in my life. Every time I drive here, it's two o'clock in the morning, and I have to go to Yang Aizhen's food stall to eat a bowl of small wonton. It was noon on Monday when I left, and then I bought some food to take away. It is said that KFC in Zhejiang is always more popular than that in Shanghai.
Ten years ago, I officially started my rally career. The first game was held in Sheshan, Shanghai. At that time, the rally stage was already a five-star hotel and a villa at the foot of the mountain. The starting point of the stage is now Le Meridien Sheshan Shimao Hotel, starting from a straight line of several hundred meters, and then becoming Yuehu Park where journalists and audiences gather the most today. I remember on the eve of the 2003 race, I fantasized countless times about how to present the first turn in my life, whether it was taking a very standard racing route, drifting into the corner in a dazzling way, or just turning around in an appropriate way. It turned out that I didn't stop the car. The first turning point in my career began with a reversal.
Soon, the champion arrived at Zhejiang Longyou Station. That's a gravel road. I like rally because of my boyhood dream. Watching those rally drivers drift at high speed in the mountains, I was dumbfounded as a teenager. From that day on, I decided to be like them. People always deny that they have any idols in adolescence, but forget the power they gave you when you were young. When I put on my seat belt and helmet, I felt that all the rally seniors I admired were attached to me.
Then, I fell into the ditch in the first stage.
Naturally, many people laugh at me. As a matter of fact, in the first year of the competition, my financial resources are hard to sustain. The 2004 season was particularly difficult. My friend's private motorcade quit, and no one wanted me, so I had to repair the car myself. The accumulated royalties are almost spent. Because I am obsessed with racing, I have no intention of writing a book, and there is no follow-up financially. I can only control my expenses on food, clothing, housing and transportation. Friends who play cars in Beijing happen to be generally rich, and sometimes they are afraid to go out for dinner together. A friend, who works in real estate at home, saw that I had no fixed address and said that out of friendship, he could sell me a house with a second ring road, more than 100 square meters and hundreds of thousands. I just left tens of thousands in my account to support the next few games. I refused without thinking. At that time, I thought that if I spelled it out, even if I had a childhood dream account, becoming a landlord never seemed to be in my dream. So I decided to buy myself some tires. Because I bought tires, I met a kind person, and finally my first sponsor Michelin decided to give me six tires.
Although it's only six tires, I'm also very excited. After all, it is a large international manufacturer. This is my first step towards being awesome. These six tires are worth about 1 10,000 yuan. I took out thousands of them myself, made huge stickers respectively, and covered the whole car with their trademarks. The pilot was confused. I call it emotional investment. Although the sponsorship is not much, people will think you are generous when I post it. My friend said that you are from Shanghai and very smart. What am I talking about? This is just foresight.
At the beginning of the game, the buddy who changed my tire ran over and said reluctantly, brother, we are just helping you. You don't need this in return. I said, nothing, thanks to the grace of dripping water, the spring will repay you. My friend stopped talking and left.
Later, someone sent me a message asking if I could tear off this sticker, because a foreigner from the headquarters of the tire company came and suddenly saw a racing car with its own trademark coming out of nowhere, which was very unhappy. Michelin has very strict sponsorship rules, and generally only sponsors drivers who can win the championship. We don't expect anything in return for your help. But it's easy for the outside world to misunderstand you because you are plastered with our brand cars.
Ten years ago, I officially started my rally career. The first game was held in Sheshan, Shanghai. At that time, the rally stage was already a five-star hotel and a villa at the foot of the mountain. The starting point of the stage is now Le Meridien Sheshan Shimao Hotel, starting from a straight line of several hundred meters, and then becoming Yuehu Park where journalists and audiences gather the most today. I remember on the eve of the 2003 race, I fantasized countless times about how to present the first turn in my life, whether it was taking a very standard racing route, drifting into the corner in a dazzling way, or just turning around in an appropriate way. It turned out that I didn't stop the car. The first turning point in my career began with a reversal. When I left Longyou, Zhejiang, it rained according to the usual practice in previous years. Without this rally, I don't think I will go to this county in my life. Every time I drive here, it's two o'clock in the morning, and I have to go to Yang Aizhen's food stall to eat a bowl of small wonton. It was noon on Monday when I left, and then I bought some food to take away. It is said that KFC in Zhejiang is always more popular than that in Shanghai.
Ten years ago, I officially started my rally career. The first game was held in Sheshan, Shanghai. At that time, the rally stage was already a five-star hotel and a villa at the foot of the mountain. The starting point of the stage is now Le Meridien Sheshan Shimao Hotel, starting from a straight line of several hundred meters, and then becoming Yuehu Park where journalists and audiences gather the most today. I remember on the eve of the 2003 race, I fantasized countless times about how to present the first turn in my life, whether it was taking a very standard racing route, drifting into the corner in a dazzling way, or just turning around in an appropriate way. It turned out that I didn't stop the car. The first turning point in my career began with a reversal.
Soon, the champion arrived at Zhejiang Longyou Station. That's a gravel road. I like rally because of my boyhood dream. Watching those rally drivers drift at high speed in the mountains, I was dumbfounded as a teenager. From that day on, I decided to be like them. People always deny that they have any idols in adolescence, but forget the power they gave you when you were young. When I put on my seat belt and helmet, I felt that all the rally seniors I admired were attached to me.
Then, I fell into the ditch in the first stage. Naturally, many people laugh at me.
As a matter of fact, in the first year of the competition, my financial resources are hard to sustain. The 2004 season was particularly difficult. My friend's private motorcade quit, and no one wanted me, so I had to repair the car myself. The accumulated royalties are almost spent. Because I am obsessed with racing, I have no intention of writing a book, and there is no follow-up financially. I can only control my expenses on food, clothing, housing and transportation. Friends who play cars in Beijing happen to be generally rich, and sometimes they are afraid to go out for dinner together. A friend, who works in real estate at home, saw that I had no fixed address, and said that out of friendship, he could sell me a house on the Second Ring Road at a price of 100 square meters. I just left tens of thousands in my account to support the next few games. I refused without thinking. At that time, I thought that if I spelled it out, even if I had a childhood dream account, becoming a landlord never seemed to be in my dream. So I decided to buy myself some tires. Because I bought tires, I met a kind person, and finally my first sponsor Michelin decided to give me six tires.
Although it's only six tires, I'm also very excited. After all, it is a large international manufacturer. This is my first step towards being awesome. These six tires are worth about 1 10,000 yuan. I took out thousands of them myself, made huge stickers respectively, and covered the whole car with their trademarks. The pilot was confused. I call it emotional investment. Although the sponsorship is not much, people will think you are generous when I post it. My friend said that you are from Shanghai and very smart. What am I talking about? This is just foresight.
At the beginning of the game, the buddy who changed my tire ran over and said reluctantly, brother, we are just helping you. You don't need this in return. I said, nothing, thanks to the grace of dripping water, the spring will repay you. My friend stopped talking and left.
Later, someone sent me a message asking if I could tear off this sticker, because a foreigner from the headquarters of the tire company came and suddenly saw a racing car with its own trademark coming out of nowhere, which was very unhappy. Michelin has very strict sponsorship rules, and generally only sponsors drivers who can win the championship. We don't expect anything in return for your help. But it's easy for the outside world to misunderstand you because you are plastered with our brand cars.
Soon, the champion arrived at Longyou Station in Zhejiang. That's a gravel road. I like rally because of my boyhood dream. Watching those rally drivers drift at high speed in the mountains, I was dumbfounded as a teenager. From that day on, I decided to be like them. People always deny that they have any idols in adolescence, but forget the power they gave you when you were young. When I put on my seat belt and helmet, I felt that all the rally seniors I admired were attached to me. I froze for a few seconds and said, there is no time now. Wait until the first day. As a result, as soon as I got out, the shock absorber broke down after driving for a few kilometers because my car was in disrepair. I am a driver who knows almost nothing about machinery. All I know is that it's broken. I have to open the hood and pretend to look at it, showing professionalism. That's when I retired several times in a row because of poor racing. Now, when other drivers drive by in brand-new cars, I hope it can bury me in the soil. The phone rang at the same time, and they were friends. He asked me, I heard you retired again. Don't lose heart. Oh, by the way, did you tear off the sticker?
That was the first time I cried silently for the rally. You know, if you are a controversial figure, once you can't do something well, people's ridicule on you is likely to hit you. I secretly towed the car back to the garage and went to the race pit again.
Unlike the inspirational movie, I didn't fight back in the next game. In the first stage, the car exploded, the piston made a big hole in the cylinder and the engine room caught fire. At that time, I couldn't afford another engine, but I didn't feel sad under the fire. You should know that all solid things must be tempered by fire. Fire can neither warm my body nor burn my heart. From that day on, I must do it. Everyone's body has a thick place. They are different. Some people have thick calluses on their hands, some people have thick dirt on their backs, and some people have thick old skin on their faces. I wish I had a thick heart muscle. You can't give up if you die, and you can't sigh if you are poor. Make those who laugh at you a joke.
After the engine burned down, I returned to my hometown. Young neighbor Han Chunping (He is a man, so he likes to call himself Chunping. Everyone's doubts are the same as mine, and the answer is only known to his parents. He told me that you ride a bike well, but it is still difficult to win the national championship in the car race. We admit that you are the fastest in Tingdong Village. I said, you wait and see.
The later story is like this. 20 12, this is my tenth year in the rally. In Longyou County, Zhejiang Province, where I retired for the first time, I won my third annual driver championship. Happily, I can finally tell Chunping that I did it, because once it may be a fluke, twice it may be luck, but three times it shows that I am fine. It's a pity that I started too late and my ability is limited. I believe I may be excellent in Asian rally racing, but I can't compare with those Europeans. Our environment and myself are not good enough. Maybe a more talented person, someone who can stand on the top of the world, is reading this article in front of the computer. He may not even have a driver's license.
I also understand a lot of things. It is normal for others to laugh at you, whether subjectively or objectively. You didn't do it well. What qualifications do you have to avoid being laughed at? What's the difference between your crying and what happened to you and the pain of others? Everyone wants to call God, and everyone often feels that he is about to get through. Others encourage you, that is your fuel; People laugh at you, maybe it's the additive in your gasoline. Later, I didn't turn against the reporters who laughed at me in those years. Now we are all good friends. Although my car has been covered by various sponsors now, I use the best tires provided by Pirelli or Yokohama, drive the best car and replace the best parts in every race, but I still remember the six tires of that year. At that time, I thought I wanted to live up to my expectations and show them my strength. Now I think I should simply thank them, not because they gave me fighting spirit, but because they did a good job, helped potential drivers and ensured their business.
Then, I fell into the ditch in the first stage.