Text/Figure   Peninsula all-media reporter Zhong Wenting
The summer wind swept through the city, and a kind of wordless restlessness grew darkly. Sun Weiwei also brewed himself a cup of tea as usual, the past is muddy, and the rivers and lakes are far away. Many tea customers do not know the past behind the female owner of the tea house, but when Sun Weiwei is mentioned in the national racing circle, probably everyone knows everyone. She has won a number of championships in the National Auto Track Off-Road Championship, the women's champion in the National Truck Race Finals, and the first person in China's women's flying car stunts... "Refuse" to take a group photo with Han Han, Lin Zhiying and other racing celebrities, known as "Beauty Racing Madman".
She used to drive taxis, do fast food, and sell clothes. How does a gentle and beautiful woman in life grow into a warrior on the racing track? This issue of "Baiwei Life" takes you closer to Sun Weiwei.
Selfie of Sun Weiwei in a racing car before the race
In 2004, a chance began Sun Weiwei's racing career, which in her opinion was a coincidence and a gift from heaven.
At that time, Sun Weiwei ran a fast food restaurant and drove a car to deliver goods every day. "It was a coincidence that day, I drove back from Chengyang, and on a large road near Liuting Airport, I saw a long banner with the words Recruiting Drivers, and there were many people around the scene." Sun Weiwei was immediately attracted, and she immediately signed up after loving driving since she was a child.
At that time, a car club had just been established, and to hold an auto off-road audition in Qingdao, it used the most primitive folk audition method to select outstanding drivers. "At that time, there were many people who signed up, but as soon as they arrived at the venue, many female players gave up before they could compete. Because the venue at that time was set up according to the requirements of the regular competition, there were many deep pits and high slopes on the field, but I was very excited at the time - this is not the same as the construction site I did when I was a child! Sun Weiwei said excitedly.
Sun Weiwei cheered himself on before the game.
As soon as she arrived at the arena, Sun Weiwei was like a new person, and in the early years as a small worker at the construction site, she saw the dusty slopes and potholed paths, and there was an inexplicable sense of intimacy. In the three years of her teenage years, she faced the loess on the construction site every day, and if she wanted to drive, she had to steal a bulldozer, and now she finally had the opportunity to officially run this kind of broken road. It's just that now driving on a broken road has a more foreign name, and they call it "off-road".
The trial was first driven by the coach, and the contestant sat on the co-pilot and watched the track run once, and then the second time the runner drove by himself, officially entering the selection stage. Sun Weiwei was eager to try when she saw the coach drive, and whenever she crossed a high slope or a deep pit, she couldn't help but cheer, in her words, like a speeding tractor jolting out of the stimulation of the sudden take-off of the plane. When it was her turn to drive, slamming on the accelerator did not want to brake at all, the professional coach sitting in the co-pilot was scared to shout slow down, but Sun Weiwei did not pay attention, in her opinion this opportunity is too rare, if not selected, this is the first and last time in the cross-country field in this life, so unscrupulously "desperate" to fly, until the professional coach is afraid of this newcomer macho girl, and then even grab the steering wheel to let her slow down.
"At that time, more than 200 people signed up, and in the end only one man and one woman were selected, and I was the woman." Sun Weiwei laughed and said that he still did not know which point the coach had taken a fancy to her, probably because she always had a momentum, or a natural "car feeling", as if this wildness was born for racing. Since then, Sun Weiwei has finally put wings on his girlish car dream. After being selected for the club, she received systematic racing training and later officially entered the race on behalf of the club as an excellent driver.
Sun Weiwei in the game
The examiner of that audition was indeed a unique vision, and Sun Weiwei quickly achieved results in the race with his outstanding talent and courage, and gradually became famous in the racer rankings in the racing circle. Sun Weiwei said that when she participated in the competition, there was no time to return empty-handed, as long as she participated, she would win back the trophy, and for a time became a lucky star in the eyes of the team and sponsors, which also made Sun Weiwei suddenly feel an unprecedented sense of accomplishment. However, racing is a potentially risky sport, and the smooth sailing Sun Weiwei does not realize that a life-and-death crisis is looming.
In that race where the accident occurred, Sun Weiwei gave a new racing driver who had just debuted as a navigator, a role equivalent to the eyes of a racing driver, sitting on the co-pilot to convey track information to the racing driver, control the rhythm of the race, stabilize the mentality of the racing driver and so on. During the race, she accurately reported the number of roads to the newcomer drivers, but when passing through a ditch, Sun Weiwei obviously felt that the new drivers were too nervous, and the steering wheel swung slightly. At the moment of hesitation, coupled with the wet and slippery road at that time, the car skidded and rushed out, directly upside down in the pond in front.
Sun Weiwei when practicing the car
"The most terrifying situation in the rally was the front of the car, when we were both tied head-down to the seat with seat belts tied to the seats, the racer next to us had been knocked unconscious, the lake water seeped in through the gap in the window, the door on the co-pilot's side was stuck to the mud and could not be opened, and the front windshield could not be kicked open. Seeing the water level getting higher and higher, I started choking on the water with my head down. At the moment of life and death, Sun Weiwei forced himself to calm down, first unbuckled his seat belt in the car and groped for the remote control, fortunately, the remote control did not fail, the co-pilot's side was blocked by silt and could not escape, and could only open the window of the co-pilot's seat. The lake suddenly rushed into the cab, "I first swam past the unconscious driver holding his breath and swimming out of the window, looked up and took a breath and went back to drag the driver out of the window." At the moment of dragging, the driver woke up from the coma and also cooperated with Sun Weiwei to unfasten his seat belt. Eventually the two escaped from the racing car that was upside down in the lake.
"Those 4 minutes felt like a long time, and we cried with our heads in our arms after we went ashore." Sun Weiwei told reporters that because the rally route is too long, no one will find them in time to fall into the water, if they do not save themselves in time, when the ambulance arrives, people will drown early. Her teammates later told her that the last consciousness before the coma was: it was a pity that she died here and was tired of her grandson.
Racing is such a sport full of uncertainty, bringing excitement and pleasure at the same time also need to deal with sudden thrills. "After that accident, I was afraid of water for a long time." Sun Weiwei said that once when he washed his face in the basin, as soon as his face touched the bottom of the basin, he suddenly felt a wave of fear all over his body, and his head was raised violently and hit the faucet. The psychological shadow after an accident takes a long time to digest itself.
Off-road racing venue
Truck Off-Road Race Race Instant
Sun Weiwei is a native of Laoshan, Qingdao. The village where she was born is now best known for the Cherry Festival, which attracts tourists from home and abroad to visit and pick every year, becoming a beautiful business card in Qingdao. But when Sun Weiwei was a child, the economic conditions in the village were not as rich as they are now, the villagers worked hard in their own side of the mountains and rivers, and the family was also an authentic farmer, Sun Weiwei had to go to the mountains to herd sheep after school when he was a child, and when he grew up, he entered the construction site early to do physical work.
At the age of 15, Sun Weiwei joined the village's construction engineering team. At that time, National Highway 308, later Heilongjiang Road, was under construction, and the village undertook part of the construction of this road. At the age when her peers were still reading Qiong Yao's novels and fantasizing about "deep rain and rain", she was like a tomboy mixed up in the men's pile to do the construction site. Moving bricks, digging soil, and transporting stones, Sun Weiwei was very proud that she had the strength to do these "men's work", at that time, she shaved her head flat, sunburned black, and it was almost impossible to see a woman from the appearance.
Sun Weiwei was interviewed at home
Sun Weiwei worked at the construction site for three years, at that time the dry construction site was much more difficult than now, the village could not afford to buy such a large mechanical equipment as an excavator, basically relying on the workers to dig the shoulders to resist, "Now the excavator shovel down the work, at that time five or six people with shovels to dig for a long time, dug out of the soil and then a basket of baskets to the back, what men and women are not beautiful, no one has the heart to see, everyone has to be able to carry the heavy labor of the work alone." Sun Weiwei described the work scene to reporters that year, her fifteen to seventeen years old, every day of the flower season girl is spent in such a heavy physical labor, but in such a windy and sunny, dusty working environment, Sun Weiwei also does not feel hard, "because it is more than farming to earn money, and more work to earn more money, I can contribute to the family feel that the heart is collapsed and happy", now that he is old and confused, Sun Weiwei still laughs and looks innocent, "I also like the working atmosphere on the construction site, everyone eats according to their ability, Dirty on the face and clean in the heart."
"When I was a child, the family conditions were not good, but let me 'late mature', a mind only know to work more on the construction site to earn more money, until the twenties to know to wear a skirt, only began to notice that I this fake boy originally washed his face and facial features are quite decent", Sun Weiwei laughed and said about the childhood, the later "beautiful racing driver" salutation, she felt that compared to "racing driver", or the word "beautiful" made her happier, as if the missed attention and praise about appearance in the girlhood, finally came back a little.
In addition to cars, Sun Weiwei is also the female captain of the motorcycle team.
For the love of driving, Sun Weiwei seems to be born. When she was 16 years old, she had never touched the steering wheel, so she dared to sneak up on the only bulldozer in the village engineering team, and drove the bulldozer into the Licun River, where she was chased and beaten by her father.
At that time, Sun Weiwei, who was working as a small worker at the construction site, was most envious of the job of driving bulldozers, which was the only mechanical equipment bought by the village engineering team for 70,000 or 80,000 yuan after a year of work, and the first day of the post was to bring big red flowers into the construction site, which became a rarity in the whole village. At that time, a section of pavement near the bottom of the Licun River Bridge, the bulldozer flattened the pavement and then put on the pebbles was much more efficient than complete manual operation, so this bulldozer was also the big treasure of the entire engineering team, and the leader of the engineering team had to drive it himself every time. Teenage Sun Weiwei secretly stared at it every time, full of yearning for this magical big guy. "At that time, driving was also called 'playing with tigers', everyone thought that cars were as dangerous things as tigers, and drivers who could drive were even more amazing and powerful people"Sun Weiwei remembered his first experience of driving or would be laughed at by himself, "but when I was a teenager, I 'don't want to die', I think the wheels are like a cover pad rolling, the cover pad can still hold people, wonderful and exciting." (Cover pad, Qingdao dialect, round mat for dumplings)
Sun Weiwei took a group photo with the trophy after winning the championship.
Finally, in the summer of 16 years old, Sun Weiwei caught an opportunity to "play the tiger". At the end of the morning's labor, it was the scorching sun, everyone went home to rest and eat, even the leader of the engineering team was not seen, and only the bulldozer and Sun Weiwei, who was staring at it, were left on the construction site. Sun Weiwei looked at the no one next to him and ran into the cab of the bulldozer with a strong breath. "At that time, it would not be opened, and when I saw the words 'in' and 'back' on the barrier, I pushed the pole in the direction of 'in', but I didn't expect the bulldozer to move forward immediately!" At that time, the speed was not fast, it was equivalent to the car after hanging up the empty gear, but Sun Weiwei was too nervous to know how to brake, and could only watch the bulldozer drive towards the Licun River, "I had two words in my mind at that time, it was over." The bulldozer had been driving in the direction of the river, and it was getting closer and closer to the river, there was no one around, and Sun Weiwei, who could not swim, was extremely afraid, and even held the determination to die for a moment. But before she could cry, the bulldozer suddenly stopped—most of the bulldozer's wheels sank into the silt on the riverbank and stuck.
Sun Weiwei, who was "after the disaster", ran out of the car with muddy water, and the next thing was his father chasing and beating the village with a broom. "Fortunately, the machine is fine, otherwise my father would have sold me to the production team, haha!" Sun Weiwei smiled and remembered her first experience of driving, as if it were yesterday.
The trophy wall in Sun Weiwei's home
Sun Weiwei has competed for many years, won the national championship trophy in various types of racing competitions, and after the competition, she is also the first Chinese women's flying car stunt, and in 2008, she drove a 20.08-meter suspended track to present the Olympics. The cost of this leap was all the assets that Sun Weiwei tried his best to come up with at that time, and he borrowed tens of thousands from his mother.
Sun Weiwei has done several jobs before racing, worked on the construction site, sold clothes, sold fast food, drove a taxi, every penny is not easy to come by, and the bonus income after racing is exchanged for the gap of 0.01 seconds again and again, but she is willing to give up all her savings for the 2008 leap, only for the brilliant few seconds. When the reporter asked why he was so desperate, was it to bring more sponsors to himself for the influence of the event, Sun Weiwei laughed and denied the reporter's speculation. Teams and racing sponsors always value the results of the race, and the results are the only criterion for examining the value of an athlete, so big stars like Lin Zhiying and Han Han, who have long been famous, are just ordinary players on the field. "I'm just going to make a memorial and make a mark on my racing career. Money is something that life does not bring with it and does not bring with it, but the value of living, I know it myself. ”
When not competing, Sun Weiwei is also often invited to participate in the test drive activities of automobile companies, and she is the test drive instructor who performs many stunts to show the performance of the car in the activity venue. The audience seems to be unaware that behind the difficult car movements such as extreme bending, drifting, 40 overhill and so on is manipulated by a woman with a beautiful face. "Once a Shanghai company invited me to test the wear resistance of truck tires, I drove a big truck to play drifting, the organizer of the United States headquarters posted this video online, when foreign netizens found out that it was a female driver who was driving were shocked." Sun Weiwei laughed and said that his driving skills had also spread to the other side of the world.
Sun Weiwei laughed that racing made her look younger than her peers.
Sun Weiwei now runs a tea house, and in her spare time she likes to learn the tea ceremony and talk about the tea scriptures, in her words, "she also likes to do something that women do." The reporter looked at the bright-eyed and toothed Sun Weiwei fiddling with the tea ceremony, and it was difficult to imagine that this was the domineering female car god on the racing track.
Although the female car goddess is galloping on the field, she drives unruly in her daily life, and her driver's license has not been deducted for many years. "The road is not a racing track, and the really strong people never drive a gas car on the road, they have to speed and gasser to compete, and we think this kind of behavior is very difficult to low." Sun Weiwei feels that years of competition experience have made the four words of "obeying the rules" deeply rooted in his mind.
Talking about the future, Sun Weiwei imagined that if she could save enough money, she wanted to go to the suburbs to contract a few acres of land and build a "car park" with an obstacle track, so that the new car test drive of the car 4S shop did not need to be carried out on the road, and the novice also had a place to practice, and the racing enthusiasts could also have a standard short track rally venue, and usually practicing short track pull can best train the correct emergency response when encountering an emergency on the high speed... Sun Weiwei longed to describe her ideal multi-functional "automobile park".
The reporter finally asked whether he had encountered such a big star driver as Han Han and Lin Zhiying, and Sun Weiwei laughed and said that many friends who do not understand racing will always ask this question. She said that in the past, there were many stars on the field, but she would not run up to them to take photos, "I can't do such a cheap thing, on the racing track, I am a star myself." 」 Sun Weiwei said proudly.