377 Champion Counterattack!

Frenzen is a German veteran, although he only made his F1 debut in 1994, less than a decade ago. But in terms of age, he is already considered the older driver in the F1 paddock, and he chose to retire in 2003.

Franzen and fellow German driver Schumacher are friends and rivals who have known each other since the karting stage. But this kind of thing is not unusual, what really makes future generations talk about is the "love triangle" between him and Schumacher and Schumacher's wife Corinna.

Later, the name Corinna appeared in various press releases as a good wife after Schumacher's skiing accident. She took care of Schumacher unabatedly, sold her private jet and vacation home, kept her marriage vows, and waited for Schumacher's full recovery.

But many people don't know that Corinna is actually Frentzen's first girlfriend, and in a sense, Schumacher is also considered to have played the role of "digging corners".

At the age of 17, Frenzen was in high spirits and met Corinna, who was only 15 years old, and the two became boyfriend and girlfriend at the beginning of their relationship. Then Corinna accompanied her boyfriend to various arenas in Germany, standing behind her and silently supporting Frenzen.

In 1989, Germany's Wenderlinger, Frenzen and Schumacher ranked in the top three of the German F3 race, so they were recruited into the C team by Mercedes-Benz.

And the three of them became good friends, training together, competing together, playing together, and so on.

Later Schumacher admitted in an interview that he fell in love with Corinna at first sight at the ball, but because of Frenzen's relationship, he could only bury this feeling in his heart.

In a sense, this kind of love at first sight and the case of several people becoming good friends later can be described by a famous Internet quote in later generations.

"From the moment I met your girlfriend, I made up my mind for your brother!"

A year later, at the instigation of his agent, Frenzen chose to go to Japan to participate in the F3000 event, which was equivalent to a long-distance relationship with Corinna. Again, it gave Schumacher the opportunity to overtake in the corners......

In this way, during the quarrel, Frentzen and Corinna chose to break up, and Schumacher seized the opportunity to show his love to Corinna, so the two were together.

At that time, the media talked about this "love triangle", and many people thought that Schumacher was involved in digging corners. But in fact, the relationship between him and Frenzen was not broken, and even the ex-boyfriend was invited to the wedding.

However, although this "love triangle" Schumacher has attracted a lot of criticism, he has been married to Corinna for more than 20 years, and there has never been any scandal, which does mean that he is true love.

You must know that F1 drivers don't talk about off-the-field, even in F1 stadiums, there are many racing girls who secretly send autumn waves and throw hugs. Schumacher, a legendary-level driver, has not had a scandal in this regard, which is indeed good.

No one knows if Frenzen really doesn't care, but standing on the track, Frenzen definitely wants to prove himself. From the beginning of the karting stage, he was crushed by Schumacher, and later his girlfriend also became Schumacher's wife, which caused a lot of media ridicule for him.

After entering the F1 paddock, Schumacher has already won the world championship, and the gap between the two is even bigger than when he was a teenager. It can be said that Frenzen's entire career has been in the shadow of Schumacher.

Germans think of great drivers only by the name Michael Schumacher, not by Heinz Harald Frenzen!

In the past two years, Frenzen's form has been in a downward phase, and the end of his career is not far away. So he's more and more eager to prove himself and leave a brilliant mark before he retires, at least not the kind of gloomy exit.

This mentality is very similar to the French veteran Alessi, who chose to cooperate with Zhang Yifei, but also wanted to add another brilliant stroke to his professional resume before retiring, rather than being eliminated!

Frenzen launched a ferocious attack on Barrichello on the first lap, hoping to overtake the Ferrari driver and join Schumacher on pole position for a 'national derby'!

It's just that after a grappling, Barrichello's tough defense didn't give Frenzen any chance. The two men even collided because of the fierce struggle, and Frenzen's car rushed off the track and into the buffer lawn.

This huge mistake made the riders behind take the opportunity to frantically overtake Frenzen, and Zhang Yifei naturally did the same, and his ranking recovered from seventh to sixth.

Luckily, Flenczen's extensive racing experience allowed him to switch gears to neutral at the moment he rushed off the track, avoiding the stalling of the car and giving him a chance to restart the racetrack.

It's just that this crash caused Frenzen to fall directly from the third position to the bottom, and it was not easy to catch up slowly.

On the second lap, Toyota newcomer Bernaldi skided off the track, but he had no experience in handling Frenzen, and the car stopped on the track, so he chose to retire.

In the third lap, Minardi's super-runner Marquis chose to retire due to an electronic failure in the car.

His "amazing" performance in qualifying had almost proven himself unfit for the F1 paddock, so his retirement did not cause any fluctuations, and everyone assumed that there was no such driver on the track.

The successive retirements of the drivers at the bottom of the rankings have no effect on the previous standings, and at most, when they come back from a lap, they can see the buffer area of the track out of the corner of their eyes, and there are trailers coming to the rescue.

It's one of the many scenes on the Formula 1 track that happens multiple times in every race, so it's no surprise to the drivers.

Zhang Yifei and Kimi are still frantically entangled, but they don't know that there is a driver behind him, who can't hold back the surging fighting spirit in his heart, and plans to pack up the two so-called "super newcomers" in front of him together, so that they can feel what a real world champion is.

This man is the 1997 F1 World Champion – Jacques Villeneuve!

Villeneuve is a Canadian driver who has won two CART 1995 championships, Indy 500 1995 championships, and F1 1997 championships.

Winning the CART and Indy 500 titles, Villeneuve joined the then competitive Williams team as soon as he entered F1, and partnered with Damon Hill, who won the 19996 F1 World Championship.

At the time, people thought that the Canadian driver would be a superstar in the F1 paddock and had high hopes for him.

Villeneuve didn't disappoint his supporters either, as he was close to pole position on his Australian debut, but if it weren't for a last-minute oil leak and team directives, he had to slow down and let team-mate Damon Hill overtake him for the title, otherwise he would have made his debut.

The podium on his debut, and the next achiever will not be achieved until Hamilton in '07, which shows how high Villeneuve's starting point is.

And the following year, Villeneuve proved that he was worthy of the title of superstar with the title of F1 World Champion!

Just when everyone thought that the next F1 superstar was about to rise, Villeneuve, who won the championship, began to slide at a rapid pace, almost like Zhongyong, from a world champion to a mid-range driver.

Even because of the lack of competitiveness, he was fired by the Williams team and came to the British and American teams that were further behind. But Villeneuve continued to deteriorate, and by the end of 2003, the media had once again criticised the former F1 world champion for being inferior to his younger team-mate.

With this background and doubts, Villeneuve suffered the most humiliating thing of his career, being replaced by Japanese driver Takuma Sato at the Japanese Grand Prix, and did not even finish the last race.

The current Villeneuve has not yet reached the situation where he will be exhausted and replaced by a new man in a few years. But there have been more and more doubts about him, especially after qualifying, when he was surpassed by two newcomers one after another, which made many fans ridicule him, thinking that he was a parallel champion.

Based on this background, Villeneuve had already made up his mind before the race that he had to surpass Kimi and Zhang Yifei in front of him, so that these newcomers could understand the true strength of the F1 World Champion.

From the second lap onwards, Villeneuve narrowed the distance between him and Kimi little by little, and even ate his wake at one point. It's just that Villeneuve didn't show offensive momentum at that time, but waited for his chance.

Sure enough, with Montoya's transcendence, after Zhang Yifei and Kimi came into contact with each other, they launched an extremely fierce offensive and defensive battle.

Zhang Yifei used a beautiful defense to press Kimi's car behind and not give the opponent the slightest chance. Of course, Kimi will not stop there, he tries to surpass again and again, wanting to end this battle of the twin stars.

Kimi took the initiative to attack, and all his attention was on Zhang Yifei in front of him, not noticing that Villeneuve, who was getting closer and closer, was waiting for an opportunity to surpass.

When it came time to lap three, Villeneuve found this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He took advantage of Zhang Yifei's pressure on Kimi and rode on the shoulder of the road without hesitation, not caring at all about the impact of this radical approach on the suspension at high speed.

Finally, at Turn 9 of the track, Villeneuve overtook Kimi and Zhang Yifei in one fell swoop and came to the sixth position on the track. Meanwhile, fourth-placed McLaren's Coulthard also overtook Williams Schumacher Jr. in third, with two overtakes on the track at the same time.

"OH MY GOD, THIS YEAR'S OPENER WAS SO EXCITING, WITH ALL KINDS OF ACCIDENTS AND OVERTAKING. Just three laps into the race, there were collisions, two drivers retiring, twin stars duel, and countless overtakes! ”

"Just now, Villeneuve proved his strength as a world champion with an extremely wonderful overtake, maybe the two newcomers of flying and Kimi, are still immersed in each other's struggles, but I didn't expect to be surpassed by Villeneuve."

At the same time, Kuthard surpassed Ravel Schumacher, and the process was equally spectacular. Now on the track, except for Schumacher, who is far ahead, has not been affected, starting from second place, the drivers behind are simply a mess. ”

"In the battle of the twin stars, who will be the ultimate winner, or will there be another overtake of Villeneuve, and both will become the losers?"

Zhang Yifei is indeed immersed in the defense of Kimi, after all, he is the first opponent in his F1 paddock that must be defeated, and it is not too much to say that he is the number one "enemy".

But Villeneuve's transcendence alerted Zhang Yifei that now it is not a heads-up between himself and Kimi, and there are more than a dozen opponents behind him. If you focus all your attention on Kimi, then you and him will become a clam and a crane.

So Zhang Yifei instantly changed his mentality, no longer focusing on defending Kimi, but at a faster speed!

As long as I'm driving fast enough, Kimi won't be able to catch up with me!