July 5th is the main race time of the Monaco Grand Prix, and it is also the peak moment of global F1 ratings under normal circumstances.

More than 100 million people will watch the Monaco Grand Prix live, which is why F1 is one of the world's top three sporting events, along with the World Cup and the Olympic Games.

The members of the Prost crew came to the team pit early to prepare, and the main focus was on the weather factor.

Because Zhang Yifei had previously taken pole position in qualifying, as long as he did not make major mistakes at the start, such as being overtaken by Schumacher, then he could use the lowest risk to take the lead through the crowded and dangerous Turn 1 of the track.

Once he passes Turn 1, at least the last third of the race, the luck factor will not affect him, whether there will be an accident on the track, more depends on the driver's own handling and strength.

Zhang Yifei has already proved his handling ability on the Monaco circuit with an amazing lap of practice and qualifying. Moreover, the AP05 new wing kit and brake disc transformation are also leading in mechanical performance, and these two points have been occupied, and the next thing is to look at the sky!

The weather in Monaco at the moment, although not as cloudless as yesterday's qualifying, is also bright and there is no possibility of rain.

"Ukyo, did the data from the Monaco Meteorological Office come today?"

After glancing at the sky for a while, Zhang Yifei opened his mouth and asked Yamamoto Ukyo, like this kind of meteorological data, it is first judged by data analysts, and then the results are handed over to the strategy team to formulate tactics.

"It has been received, and the weather data indicates that there is still the possibility of showers."

Hearing this, the expression on Zhang Yifei's face was a little helpless, many weather forecasts in this era are really similar to touching prizes, there is no accuracy at all, whether it will rain or not, it really depends on fate.

Zhang Yifei is not worried about any rain battles, on the contrary, his strength in rainy days, he thinks he can fight the strongest Schumacher on the track!

It's just that the rain battle will add a lot of variables, especially on a track like Monaco, where every rain battle can be described as a chicken flying dog jumping.

For example, in the Monaco rain race in '82, the rain didn't come to the track until lap 74. Prost, who was leading at the time, crashed and retired from the race, and Patres, who was in second place, also skidded and fell behind on lap 75.

In third place was Ferrari's Pironi, who made his way to the top of the car by mistake. However, the slowing down of the rain battle caused the Ferrari strategy team to make a mistake in the calculation of fuel, and the light fuel tactics were too extreme, causing him to stop on the road on the last lap without fuel, watching the opponents behind him overtake him.

But in this last lap, Cesaris and Dalí, who became the first car one after another, also encountered racing problems, plus the drivers who had various accidents and failures in the previous cars, and there was really no one to run behind, so that Patres, who skidded at the beginning, unexpectedly picked up the championship again.

Therefore, the "European Emperor Luck" of the 96 rain battle Panis is really nothing new on the Monaco circuit, as long as there is a rain battle, there is a high probability that the rear drivers will miss and maintain the suspense of the Grand Prix championship to the end.

Of course, the rain battle at the Monaco circuit is not only a leak, but also has created many classic races.

For example, in the 08 Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren Racing used a perfect tactical strategy to let Hamilton, who was still a newcomer at the time, win the Monaco Grand Prix.

This battle is equivalent to adding a halo to Hamilton's legend, after all, this black mixed-race kid won the world runner-up in his rookie season despite everyone's ridicule and racism.

Then he won the title of King of Monaco in the following year, defending his strength and dignity again, and almost silencing all doubts and ridicule.

However, at the Monaco Grand Prix, the most legendary rain battle was not Hamilton's icing on the cake, but the battle of the Senna gods in 84!

It was after this match that Brazilian newcomer Elton Senna began to emerge and laid the foundation for the future "Senna in the Rain".

Senna was a real rookie at the time, driving a Tolman car comparable to last year's Prost JS53, which was simply a "tractor" on the track.

At that time, no one paid attention to the rookie boy from Brazil, and more focused on the already famous Prost and another legendary Brazilian driver, Nickson Piquet.

In qualifying, Senna didn't perform very well, only ranking 13th round. According to this result, let alone winning the Monaco championship, it is God's care to be able to enter the points zone.

However, a heavy rain came in the main race, allowing the newcomer Senna, who was originally only ranked 13th, to show his unparalleled rain fighting ability. Stubbornly from the 13th pick, he created a shocking counterattack, surpassed the first car Prost, and began to lead the field.

However, this one was more violent than expected, and Prost communicated with the club halfway through to ask for the game to be terminated. In the face of such bad weather, the FIA complied, and on the 32nd lap of the race, the 84-year Monaco Grand Prix ended early.

Although the race ended on lap 32, the decision result was not counted on lap 32, but still based on the number of laps led by Prost, and the final winner was not Senna, but "Professor" Prost.

The fact that he was in the lead but was not the champion on the track was unacceptable to many people, so the debate about the race did not end until decades later.

But no matter what the result is, it can't hide the glow of Senna's rain battle in Monaco in '84, and his subsequent results at the Monaco circuit prove to the world that he is the real "King of Monaco"!

You must know that in many cases, F1 results need to be compared in order to show greatness. Otherwise, a group of rookies pecked each other, even if they became the fighting chickens among the rookies, the results would not have much gold content.

This is why Zhang Yifei does not want Alonso to become his imitator, but to have his own characteristics and style, to gradually reach the strength of the head brother in history. Otherwise, when Schumacher slips from his prime, without a strong opponent to compete with, even if he wins the championship in his career, it will be bleak.

Senna's pinnacle comparison is his fellow McLaren teammate Prost.

At that time, Prost, known as the Sun of F1, was simply in full swing, winning four Monaco championships. But at the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix, Senna's pole position was 1.4 seconds ahead of the second-place driver, driving the same McLaren Prost!

Many people may not know what the concept of 1.4 seconds per lap is, just take the crazy competition between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher and Helio now, the fastest lap gap is only about 0.1 seconds.

The difference of 1.4 seconds can be said to be every second! It is not at all a driver of the same level to drive such a pole position lap time difference. It's just a pity that Senna unexpectedly retired when he was far ahead, otherwise he would have set a record of seven consecutive victories at the Monaco circuit.

This record can not only be described as unprecedented, but there is a high probability that there will be no more comers in the future.

Of course, these things belong to the glory of the drivers of the past, and back to reality, Zhang Yifei does not want to use a Monaco rain battle to create his own classic race.

After all, the rain battle represents variables, if Zhang Yifei does not have the advantage of qualifying, then he can take advantage of the rain battle to give it a go. Just like "Senna in the Rain", he maximized his advantages in the rain battle and created another miracle battle of his own.

But the problem is that now that I am in pole position, as long as there are no variables, then the probability of winning the championship is the greatest, so why add these unnecessary rain war variables?

However, the "time of day" is not something that Zhang Yifei can control, the only thing he can do is to make preparations for possible accidents, such as preparing rain tires, preparing rain battle pit stop strategy, etc.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, as the race time drew closer, all the stands at the entire Monaco circuit could be described as overcrowded. Even the high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, windows, balconies, etc., are crowded with spectators waiting for the game to begin.

Theoretically, the number of spectators at the Monaco Grand Prix is 200,000, but in practice, the number of spectators at the peak may reach more than 250,000, because there is no way to count the number of people in many buildings on both sides of the track.

"Look, it's already starting the rider parade, that Asian face is Prost's rider flying, right?"

A spectator saw the parade float from afar, and the F1 drivers who were going to participate in the Monaco Grand Prix stood on it, and immediately screamed with excitement.

"You're face blind, aren't you? That's the Japanese newcomer Takuma Sato, and the man in the blue racing suit in the corner of the rear of the car is the Grim Reaper Flying on the track! ”

A female fan next to her, in a disdainful tone, complained about the European audience who recognized the wrong person.

At the same time, when she said this, her eyes were full of fascination and adoration, it was this man who took pole position in the Monaco Grand Prix and ran a magical lap.

At this moment, Zhang Yifei's low-key demeanor and cold face are really worthy of being called an emotionless racing machine!

For foreigners in Europe and the United States, the three most soulful sentences of praise are "he is a machine", "he is like a beast", and "he is a real warrior".

For example, boxing champion Tyson, at his peak, was nicknamed "The Beast", which in their opinion, calling it a racing machine is the highest praise for a driver.

Not only these spectators, but as the parade float gradually approached the crowded area of the stands, the waiting fans and fans began to stand up and cheer for the drivers they supported on the float with all their strength.

At the same time, the drivers are also waving, and this kind of interactive warm-up with fans is also the real meaning of the pre-race float parade.

Soon, however, neat shouts began to appear in the spectators, masking the names of the other drivers, and the cry that resounded on the track at this moment was the syllable "fly"!

"Fly~~! Fly~~! Fly~~! ”

Hearing these neat shouts, to be honest, Zhang Yifei didn't react to calling himself for the first time.

Because in the past, this kind of shouting on the track was basically dominated by Chinese audiences, so their habit was to call "Zhang Yifei" by his full name, and only foreigners liked to use the monosyllabic "Fei" to call it.

From these non-standard syllables, it is clear that the cheers on the track are no longer dominated by Chinese fans and fans in the past, but fans from all over the world who began to chant Zhang Yifei's name.

The call for neatness, like dominoes, starts at one point and then spreads throughout the Monaco circuit. Soon the sound of cheers resounded in the sky, echoing on the crown circuit of F1, which was not only the first time that an Asian driver had such a high popularity and influence at the Monaco circuit.

Even if it is a European driver in history, there are no more than double digits that can trigger the whole audience to chant their names!

"Brother Zhi, I heard you right, these people are all cheering for Fei Ge's name?"

At the Pit Station of the Prost Racing Team, Ah Hu also heard the chorus of the audience, he was as surprised as Zhang Yifei, and he was not sure for the first time, this was the cheers of the whole audience for Feige.

"That's right, this is a cheer for Yifei, this is the world's recognition and respect for his strength!"

Compared with Ah Hu's confusion, Chen Zhi next to him was already red when he heard the audience shouting Zhang Yifei's name.

Counting from the Renault Grand Prix, it has been nearly three years, and almost the vast majority of what they have come into contact with is cold eyes and ridicule of Zhang Yifei, even if there are cheers on the track, it is mainly Chinese or Chinese fans.

However, today's Monaco circuit has no home drivers in the real sense, and Chinese and Chinese fans are far from accounting for the mainstream number of the current audience, so they can't bring this kind of chanting from the audience.

Then there is only one reason left, that is, Zhang Yifei conquered these foreigner audiences who once looked down on him for the first time in a home field that did not belong to him.

Let these fans from all over the world shout Zhang Yifei's name in unison, and dedicate their own worship and admiration for his performance and strength!

"Yifeijun has finally taken the step of a superstar in the car world."

Yamamoto Ukyo on the other side, hearing such cheers, his tone was also full of embarrassment.

Although Yamamoto Ukyo did not carry Zhang Yifei's feelings of family and country, every time he was on the track, he felt uncomfortable when he was ridiculed as a Chinese guy and a rookie driver.

In the new season of this year, these ridicule voices are finally gone, and Zhang Yifei has gained countless eyeballs and attention around the world by relying on his achievements in Schumacher.

But he has never been able to conquer the entire car world as easily as European and American drivers do, and let the world fall for it.

I thought that this scene would take a long time to practice, and with Zhang Yifei reaching the top of the world championship, he could be recognized by the European and American car circles, and become a real car superstar from a new star on the track.

As a result, I did not expect to see this kind of "conqueror" cheers in Monaco today.

It may be that Zhang Yifei's magical lap in qualifying, beating Schumacher's eight-year lap record, impressed these European and American fans who were once full of superiority. Let them think that there was such a Brazilian kid on this track who started his peak career.

In comparison, it may be that the current Zhang Yifei is a little closer to the peak than Senna in 84.

"It's a .asxs., and he's going to be a great driver like Senna after all!"

Junko Takeda's voice was choked, she chose to use a "big gamble" to become a member of Zhang Yifei's team, just to witness how far he could go.

It can be said that Zhang Yifei's performance in his rookie season has fulfilled Junko Takeda's highest expectation for Zhang Yifei, that is, to win a sub-event championship.

You must know that in the decades of Japanese racing history, no driver has won the championship of the F1 race, and this expectation is really not low at the beginning.

Junko Takeda watched Zhang Yi fly to the top step by step, and now he has finally been recognized by the entire F1 car world, just like those legendary drivers, with the whole stadium chanting in Monaco.

Yifeijun will one day be crowned with the word "great"!

Zhang Yifei on the float also reacted from the initial surprise at this moment, he waved his arms with emotion, and thanked the fans on both sides of the track.

To be honest, this scene is much more sudden than Zhang Yifei imagined. He believes that if he wants to truly conquer the car world and the audience, he has to hold Monaco, the crown jewel of F1, in the palm of his hand to get this kind of scene of the whole audience chanting.

Unexpectedly, this scene was much earlier, and perhaps the lap time in the qualifying session was so amazing that the spectators watching this Monaco Grand Prix felt happy and surrendered.

“OH MY GOD！ I really didn't expect that during the parade of floats, the audience expressed their respect to Fei, which was the treatment only had by the king of Monaco in the past. ”

Blundel's tone was also full of surprise, he explained the F1 Grand Prix for nearly two decades, and it is simply a handful of scenes where the whole stadium can shout a driver's name before the race.

Only top drivers such as Prost, Senna and Schumacher can get this kind of tribute and courtesy on a track that is not their home stadium.

There is no doubt that Monaco is not Zhang Yifei's home turf, and even he has never run a Monaco circuit.

This scene reminded Blundell of the heavy rain of 84, and the same newcomer who stepped on the Monaco circuit for the first time was cheered by the audience during the race, and this person was Senna.

Can he replicate Senna's miracle?

Just when Blundel was confused, Jacques, a Monaco commentator next to him, added: "Yes, there are very few drivers who can be recognized by the Monaco crowd, let alone before the race." ”

"Maybe flying on the magical lap of qualifying, let everyone recall the miracle lap that Senna ran in the 88 Monaco qualifying race. They are looking forward to another legendary driver in this race of Monaco! ”

Jacques and Brendel didn't think of the same race, but they thought of the same person, Senna, who is known as the greatest driver in F1 history, the eternal god of cars.

In a sense, comparing the current Zhang Yifei with Senna is already a great compliment.

The exclamation of the two commentators stimulated the enthusiasm of the audience on the track, and the name of "Fei" cheered even louder.

This situation makes the other drivers on the float have an indescribable feeling in their hearts.

Some veterans who didn't run out looked at Zhang Yifei standing in the corner of the back of the car with envious eyes. No one will reject this Chinese boy anymore, but Zhang Yifei still habitually stands in the corner of the float.

But the position can't hide the light of the driver, just like the focus of the entire track is now on Zhang Yifei.

Some young riders also showed a hint of admiration in the midst of envy, including this year's newcomers Massa and Takaka Sato.

In any case, the fact that Zhang Yifei took the world by storm in his rookie season last year has affected those rookie drivers who have not yet entered the F1 paddock. In their hearts, many people want to replicate Zhang Yifei's legendary experience, and also have an arrogant and strong record to get the attention of the world.

The most fanatical of this may be Takuma Sato, who has thoroughly regarded Zhang Yifei as an idol. I think that Yifei is the pinnacle of Asian drivers and the pride of the yellow race!

So he did not hide his admiration for Zhang Yifei, and directly applauded and congratulated on the float, without the slightest consciousness of being a driver of the same level, more like a little brother.

Of course, in addition to envy, there is naturally jealousy and hatred, and the representative of this is Helio.

The scene of hundreds of thousands of people chanting reminded him of the picture of the American Grand Prix, when Zhang Yifei was ridiculed by thousands of people, but finally turned the tables and became the most humiliating day of his career.

Now that more than half a year has passed, I didn't expect that what I was waiting for was not my own revenge, but the scene of Zhang Yifei conquering the F1 paddock audience again!

And this time, Helio couldn't steal the limelight as a foil, because Zhang Yifei ran a magical lap on the Monaco circuit, and the American kid crashed and didn't finish the qualifying race, and the results were not on the same level at all.

All kinds of jealousy and hatred filled Helio's heart, he never thought that after entering the F1 paddock, he would still be defeated in front of Zhang Yifei!

Perhaps the most complicated of these emotions was Schumacher, the de facto "King of Monaco", but the crowd chanted the name of another driver.

This scene reminded him of '94, even after he won the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time, the spectators on the track still remembered the driver named Senna.

It took me eight years to conquer this F1 crown jewel and make everyone worship and surrender to it.

Now that eight years have passed, is history about to begin to reincarnate again?

PS: Today's cycle is 6,000 chapters, because there is something to do tonight, so I will breathe a sigh of relief by the way.

At the same time, the big brothers will continue to vote if they have a monthly pass, and the double is coming to an end, and the cycle will be updated tomorrow!