When the rear of the car was thrown up with the slippery ice and the car slid sideways on the snow, I felt the thrill of Lynk & Co winning the WTCR.
On January 5th, the Lynk & Co Performance Car Club hosted the "Linggan Covenant" ice and snow driving training activity - 2022 Lynk & Co Ice and Snow Driving Control Camp, which was officially opened in Changchun Karen Lake. In this driving control camp, Lynk & Co not only came up with 02Hatchback, 03+, 03+ Cyan customized version, 05+ and other performance models, but also reproduced the track of the 2021 WTCR Caravan World Cup on the -20°C Karen Lake. Once Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and other luxury sports brands like the most favorite ice and snow extreme test drive, this time we also have Lynk & Co.
It is worth mentioning that this ice and snow driving control camp is hosted by the Lynk & Co Performance Car Club, so it is different from the product-centric theme of other brands, this time, for all auto sports enthusiasts, allowing users to experience the thrill of ice and snow driving control on the ice, while also providing professional ice and snow driving control technology training, track experience and other projects. I have to say that Lynk & Co is really not top in terms of pet fans!
For example, in this ice and snow control camp, you can even learn a big skill with Lynk & Co - drifting. The so-called "drift" refers to a state in which the vehicle is between "controllable" and "out of control", and the vehicle slides sideways in an oversteer manner. On ice and snow roads with lower road adhesion, the friction coefficient between tires and ice surfaces becomes smaller, and the driving wheels of the vehicle are very prone to slippage.
In this case, the drifting work is not only ornamental, but also tests the driver's technical level: both to keep the vehicle full of power, but also to be in a balanced state of the vehicle, and to "pull" the vehicle back when it is out of control. Without bragging, after learning to drift, you can not only show a hand in front of your sister, but also a life-saving stunt in the extreme state!
As we all know, there are many four-wheel drive models of Lynk & Co, like Lynk & Co's 03+, 03+ Cyan customized version, 05 and 05+, these are all four-wheel drive models. Compared to the more common front-drive vehicles on the market, four-wheel drive vehicles have a natural advantage on ice and snow roads, so we started with a front-drive car when we first test-drove, which is our Lynk & Co 02 Hatchback:
For the first event, we drove the Lynk & Co 02 Hatchback to train acceleration and deceleration on a long straight. Don't look at this project sounds very simple, in fact, even if it is a simple operation, it will become difficult after encountering ice and snow pavement, which is what we often call "walking on thin ice".
Moreover, with a maximum horsepower of 254 horses and a peak torque of 350 N·m, the Lynk & Co 02 Hatchback is a veritable small steel cannon, and if you want to tame such a small beast on the ice, you actually have to learn some skills. The instructor taught us a point brake technique: put the brake on the abs to collect a little force when the ABS starts working, and then step on it again, repeat this action, and you can stop the car with the shortest distance.
Don't look at just a simple brake action, if you can't be familiar with mastering the brakes, drifting to make the next lesson - "fixed circle", you are really not good at pinching. In the second project, we replaced Lynk & Co 05 and began to train in fixed circle subjects. The main training of this subject is to repeatedly correct the direction of the body while delicately controlling the throttle, so that the vehicle can continue to maintain a drift state around the center in the circle.
Thanks to the Lynk & Co 05's four-wheel drive system, its rear wheels can be distributed to 50% of the power, and normal people can swing their tails in the circle track as long as they practice a few more times. Looking at the "dusty" snow in the rearview mirror, feeling the pull of the lateral acceleration and the wrapping feeling of the Lynk & Co 05 sports seat, this feeling of floating up, it is really cool!
After learning all the projects, we also ushered in the "final exam" of the ice and snow driving control camp - "ice and snow time trial". In this session, I not only drove the Lynk & Co 03+ Cyan custom version for the first time, but also experienced a classic track of the 2021 WTCR Touring Car World Cup simulated on ice.
If you only look at the data, the Lynk & Co 03+ Cyan customized version is equipped with a Drive-E 2.0TD T5 Evo turbo engine, with a maximum output of 265Ps, a peak torque of 380N·m, and a maximum acceleration of 5.7S per 100 kilometers, which does not seem to be much stronger than the 03+ ordinary version. But anyone familiar with Lynk & Co knows that the Lynk & Co 03+ Cyan Custom Edition also comes with official modifications such as the Akebono front four brake calipers, Bilstein suspension, and adjustable GT tail.
Rounding it off, I'm just driving the WTCR's championship chariot on the classic track of the WTCR! This wave of ice and snow training camps not only gave me the opportunity to experience so many powerful vehicles at once, but also drove the Lynk & Co 03+ Cyan customized version to have a "peak battle"; both learned the safe driving skills of the ice and snow road, but also experienced the fun of drifting, which was simply rewarding.
summary
Porsche, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other foreign luxury sports brands make consumers obsessed, in addition to their excellent product performance, but also because they have a sufficiently rich accumulation of auto sports culture, in the eyes of consumers, this is the shape of the brand spirit, that is, "faith".
In Lynk & Co's auto sports map, Lynk & Co's goal is to lead the rise of autonomous performance car culture, although it is blocked and difficult, but in Lynk & Co's view, as long as the goal is simple, there is nothing that cannot be done. Chinese brands can lift the championship trophy three times at WTCR, why can't our Chinese consumers feel the charm of Chinese brand performance car culture?