167: Ferrari debuts, breaking historical records

To ensure fairness and impartiality, and to prevent factors like wind speed, temperature, humidity on the track, and the driver's condition from affecting the results, each supercar gets an opportunity to run three laps individually, with the best time recorded.

For this competition, an F1 speed gun is installed on the front and rear of each supercar.

This allows for accurate data, precise to the millisecond, to be sent back to the judges' stand when the supercar crosses the finish line.

Not long after, Audi's results were released, drawing boos from the entire crowd.

It turned out that after three laps, the Audi Q800's best time was only 1 minute and 38.745 seconds.

This was nearly 5 seconds slower than the previous year's record.

"How could it be so much slower?"

"Unbelievable, this is the first time I've seen such a significant drop in performance compared to last year!"

"It seems Audi isn't serious about making cars; has their technology regressed?"

"Heh heh, making money has been too easy these past few years; all their funds must have gone into marketing, right?"

"With this level of performance, how can it even be called a supercar? I could drive a tractor faster than that."

"Get off, get off…"

The entire venue was filled with boos.

The Audi representative was mortified; after glaring fiercely at the host, he left dejectedly.

He really had no face to stay there.

If the host hadn't hyped up their car so much, the audience's expectations wouldn't have been so high, and they wouldn't have been booed like this.

The host also realized this and was extremely embarrassed.

He had good intentions, thinking he was doing Audi a favor by promoting them.

Unexpectedly, he didn't manage to flatter them; instead, he messed up.

Seeing the boos from the crowd growing louder, the host quickly changed the subject.

"Next, let's welcome last year's runner-up, the Ferrari Fara Plus, to make a grand entrance."

Immediately, the entire venue erupted.

Everyone's attention was focused on the Ferrari that was about to appear.

As one of today's strong contenders for the championship, everyone had high hopes for Ferrari.

Originally, everyone thought Ferrari would appear later, but they were scheduled for second.

The atmosphere instantly soared, becoming incredibly tense from the very beginning.

Everyone knew that after Ferrari finished its run, unless a later competing supercar could surpass its time, it would fade into obscurity, and its attention would greatly decrease.

"Ready… Start!"

Amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the live audience, with a thunderous roar of the engine, the Ferrari Fara Plus shot out like a flash of lightning.

Its speed was gradually climbing, leaving the audience seeing afterimages.

Under the continuous power provided by the turbocharged engine, the tires produced a large amount of white smoke as they frictioned against the ground, leaving deep tire marks on the asphalt track.

"What the heck?!"

"So fast!"

"My God, what kind of speed is this? I'm seeing double!"

"Such powerful horsepower; that acceleration must be under 1 second, right?"

"Cornering speed is also top-notch; such strong body stability."

"This is a top-tier supercar; the Audi from before was simply unwatchable."

"Hiss… Could Ferrari be this year's champion?"

In less than two seconds, the Ferrari Fara Plus had already reached its maximum speed, smoothly and effortlessly taking several corners with lightning speed.

The terrifying speed and stable cornering performance made all supercar enthusiasts' scalps tingle.

Coupled with the powerful control of a global top-tier racing driver, the three laps were completed with almost zero errors.

This Ferrari Fara Plus far exceeded their expectations.

When the final results came out, the audience at the scene gasped in amazement, with sounds of people inhaling sharply echoing throughout the racetrack.

"1 minute 25.368 seconds?!"

"Acceleration 1.1 seconds?!"

"This speed is too exaggerated!!"

"Do you know what 1 minute 25 seconds means? It has broken the historical highest record of the Supercar Speed Race."

"Porsche's record of 1 minute 27.564 seconds, set ten years ago, was broken by Ferrari, and it was nearly two seconds faster."

"Hiss… Ferrari won big this time."

"Every supercar coming after this will be scared stiff!"

"Porsche is under a lot of pressure this time!"

Many at the scene were stunned; although they knew Ferrari used a turbocharged engine this time, pushing the previous fastest record by two seconds was still very astonishing.

In Chen Zhen's live stream, netizens in China were also dumbfounded.

"This is too fierce."

"Who can beat Ferrari? Why don't they just give him the award already."

"Fortunately, it's a lap race; if all cars were on the track at the same time, Fenglei wouldn't even see their taillights, right?"

"Brother Zhen, what do you think? Say something!"

Chen Zhen also looked at the field with an anxious expression.

"This… probably."

Frankly, he certainly hoped that domestic products would rise and go global.

The fact that Fenglei could build a supercar this time had already brought great honor to domestic cars.

If it could achieve a mid-range performance next, then domestic cars would truly have a moment of triumph and definitely a place in the international market.

But now, it seemed difficult.

Ferrari's result directly stunned the subsequent participating manufacturers.

If nothing unexpected happened, apart from Porsche and a few other luxury car brands, all others would become background noise.

Other car companies have hundreds of years of technological accumulation.

Even if they failed this time, their foundation remained.

But Fenglei was a newcomer, and if it didn't perform exceptionally well next, it would likely fail.

As he spoke, a red supercar, the "Bugatti Red Dragon," entered the track.

This was also the Bugatti Red Dragon's most suitable supercar for the racetrack, with its body also made of carbon fiber.

Its engine, like Ferrari's, used turbocharging.

Boom boom boom!

Amidst the roaring engine, this red supercar's initial speed was not much slower than the Ferrari Fara Plus.

Clearly, Bugatti was also well-prepared this time, though it had been relatively low-key before.

At this moment, the demonstrated speed and cornering performance were no worse than Ferrari's.

The Bugatti fans at the scene couldn't help but cheer.

Finally, the Bugatti Red Dragon's best time was: "1 minute 25.983 seconds."

This data ignited the enthusiasm of the entire venue.

Although it didn't break the Ferrari Fara Plus's record, it proved that Bugatti truly deserved to be a global top-tier supercar.

Next, several other supercars successively appeared, but their times were all over 1 minute 30 seconds.

This result was actually quite normal.

Although supercars are seen by everyone as symbols of performance and speed, this doesn't mean that all supercars prioritize speed.

After all, supercars are not exclusively designed for track use, so some differences in performance will show.

Half an hour later, when a dark-colored supercar entered the track, earth-shattering cheers once again erupted from the entire audience stand.