In Saturday's third practice session, Schumacher and Helio were still so strong that even Coulthard came back to overtake Zhang Yifei to finish third on the track.

Ralph Schumacher's lap time also soared, and he was in fourth place behind Zhang Yifei.

But the fifth-placed driver surprised many people, because he was Alonso from the Prost team!

You must know that on this track, there are not only pure "newcomers" like Zhang Yifei, but also different "newcomers" like Alonso, who actually did not run the Monaco circuit completely last season, only a little better than Zhang Yifei.

Just like last year's rookie, in the third practice session, he actually burst out of his potential, sprinting to the fifth position, and he was only 0.1 seconds away from the fastest lap before Zhang Yifei!

It is already incredible that Prost can have such a convention-breaking driver as Zhang Yifei, but at least it is still within the range of everyone's acceptance, after all, this Chinese boy, many people have recognized him as a talented driver in their hearts.

And what is Alonso, a driver who was a mess at the Monaco circuit last year, can also change qualitatively in just one year and reach fifth place in lap time?

And you must know that this year's average lap time, driven by Zhang Yifei, has soared compared with previous years. Otherwise, according to Alonso's current lap time, it would be no problem to be in the top three in practice in previous years, and even second only to Schumacher.

What kind of team is Prost, which can make such a qualitative change in the drivers, is simply a mystery!

During the waiting time for the qualifying session on Saturday afternoon, Zhang Yifei and Alonso were both sitting in the lounge, waiting for the upcoming qualifying session.

Neither of them spoke at the moment, in fact, except during the training of the racing simulator, most of the time the communication between the two of them was very cold, so this is also a very normal situation.

But this time, Alonso has always focused on Zhang Yifei, looking like he wants to speak and stops.

"Are you trying to say something?"

Zhang Yifei looked at Alonso's uncomfortable look, and took the initiative to ask, this track BB machine has indeed changed a lot, and it has reached the point where he needs to take the initiative to remind him.

"Don't you wonder why I was able to improve my lap time in my third practice session?"

"Why should I be curious?"

Zhang Yifei replied casually, he is not Alonso, the target is never on the other party, what is the curiosity about the speed of running?

Sure enough, when Zhang Yifei said this, Alonso's face was even more uncomfortable than before......

He has always tried hard to challenge Zhang Yifei, but the other party has never set his eyes on himself. This is simply the greatest contempt and humiliation for Alonso.

After all, there has always been a saying on the track that the greatest respect to give the opponent is to go all out. It is clear that Alonso is far from reaching the stage where Zhang Yifei can go all out.

However, at this time, Alonso no longer had the irritability and recklessness of the beginning, he took a deep breath to calm his emotions, and then began to say: "I know what my belief in victory is." ”

"What is it?"

"Defeat you!"

Alonso stared at Zhang Yifei and said this sentence with great vigour, the reason why he was able to run such a fast lap in the third practice race was actually imitating Zhang Yifei's operation and line walking.

The more you know Zhang Yifei, the more you can feel the strength of the other party, and Alonso has always regarded defeating Zhang Yifei as one of his goals.

But at that time, the mentality was always on an equal footing, and it was just the No. 2 driver who challenged the No. 1 driver of the team.

Now it is completely different, Alonso completely puts himself in the position of a weaker, to challenge the strong in the F1 paddock, just like Zhang Yifei looked at Schumacher with an attitude of looking up at the beginning.

Today, in front of Zhang Yifei, he finally admitted his position as a weak challenger, but it was precisely because of this that he understood the belief in victory that Zhang Yifei said before.

Challenging the strong, and surpassing the strong, is Alonso's belief now, even if this person is his teammate!

"I've been waiting."

Zhang Yifei replied lightly, in fact, it was different from what Alonso thought, he never underestimated or despised the other party.

If the dominant drivers of F1 are compared to peaks, the peak after Senna is Schumacher, then the peak after Schumacher is Alonso in front of him.

After a few years of scuffle, Vettel finally confirmed his peak position with four consecutive championships, and then there is Hamilton, a god-class driver who has a chance to surpass Schumacher's height!

If you don't pay attention to it, it doesn't mean that you must be despised, because there are now drivers who are more worthy of Zhang Yifei's attention than Alonso.

But Zhang Yifei is also looking forward to Alonso becoming a real powerhouse and reaching a peak in history. Otherwise, when Schumacher's form is declining, it will be lonely without an opponent.

Just when the two of them were talking about the smell of gunpowder, Junko Takeda pushed open the door of the lounge and conveyed the news to Zhang Yifei that Korcel was looking for him.

Arriving at the pit console area, Korsell and Ukyo Yamamoto were standing there, holding a copy of the weather data.

Seeing Zhang Yifei coming, Korsell said directly: "I got the latest meteorological observatory information just now, there may be thunderclouds at the Monaco circuit tomorrow, your previous super soft tire stop tactic, you must be mentally prepared for the record." ”

Thunderclouds?

Zhang Yifei glanced at the sky outside, which can be described as cloudless, the hot sun only makes people feel a kind of summer heat, and it can still rain like this?

This can't help but remind Zhang Yifei of the Singapore match in the opening game, which also said that there was rain, and then made various records, but he didn't even see the shadow of rain during the main game.

The accuracy of weather forecasts in later generations cannot be accurate, let alone in this era, and only an approximate prediction can be made.

"I see."

Zhang Yifei replied casually, and didn't take it too seriously, even if it was really raining, for the Monaco circuit, what to pay attention to was not the rain battle, but luck.

There are actually many Monaco rain races in history, and there have been many classic races, but they all have one thing in common, that is, the surprisingly low completion rate.

At this time, the average completion rate of the track may still be 60 or 70 percent, and the completion rate of the Monaco rain battle may not even be 30 percent. Countless well-known drivers have capsized in the Gutter of Monaco, even Schumacher is no exception.

Is this their driving skills?

The answer is no, it's purely a matter of luck, because even if you stabilize yourself and don't hit the guardrail, you can't stand the opponent from losing control and knocking you out.

Unless the Monaco Rain War reaches the point where the "King of the Rain War" Senna is like every second, and the strength has surpassed the obstacle of luck, all beings are equal, and there is nothing to care about.

Korcel also reminded Zhang Yifei that whether it rains or not is two different things, and there is too much information about the Monaco rain battle, unlike the new track like Singapore, which depends on the drivers to explore by themselves, so there is no need to care too much.

As the clock ticked by, qualifying for Monaco officially arrived at 2 p.m.

Unlike previous inconsequential practice sessions, the qualifying position for the Monaco Grand Prix almost determines the eventual winner, so there are few surprises. In history, the Monaco champions, except for the extremely lucky "European emperor player" like Pannis, basically can't escape the law of the top three rankings.

In other words, the title of "King of Monaco" can only be won by the top three drivers in qualifying, and the moment the other drivers qualify out, it is doomed.

So there is no doubt that this qualifying match will be very intense and the final winner can be predicted.

200,000 fans and spectators have been waiting on both sides of the track early, and even many radical fans have stepped on the guardrail directly despite the dissuasion of the security, and the whole person is hung on the barbed wire, just wanting to experience a "fast and furious" that can be called zero distance.

"Who do you think will take pole position? Schumacher, Helio, or Coulthard? ”

A question was raised by a spectator who, judging by his attire, was a fan of the Williams team.

It's just that this time at the Monaco circuit, the Williams team did not show competitiveness, so their fans also changed from their previous expectations to disappointment.

"Why aren't there riders flying?"

A Chinese fan replied with dissatisfaction that Zhang Yifei's performance in the first practice session was amazing, and he was definitely qualified to compete for the title of Monaco champion.

"The driver showed his strength too early, and maybe the first practice session was the upper limit of his lap time."

"I also feel that Zhang Yifei is powerless, otherwise according to his character, the next two practice matches will not be so mediocre."

"That's right, even Helio has improved beyond him, if he has the strength, can he bear it?"

In an instant, fans were gossiping, and in the next two practice matches, Zhang Yifei never surpassed the amazing performance in the first game, which also lowered many people's expectations for him.

After all, it's a newcomer on this track, and it's still a little worse.

"I always believe that the lap time of the first practice session is not the limit of flying!"

"You guys wait and see, there is no track in this world that Zhang Yifei can't conquer."

"Come on, fly, take this pole position!"

Prost and Zhang Yifei's fans have always maintained trust in Zhang Yifei's decision.

It's not surprising that they have this kind of trust, but what's really strange on the track is that in the face of the calls and rebuttals of Zhang Yifei's fans, there is no cold eyes and ridicule like before, even Ferrari and Schumacher fans are silent at the moment.

What does it mean to change the world with strength? Now that's the case!

Those foreign fans who once looked down on Zhang Yifei have now lost their original arrogance and sense of superiority, and no one has the confidence to ridicule them, this driver boy will definitely not win the Monaco championship.

Zhang Yifei's lap times in the next two practice sessions were very mediocre, but who would dare to guarantee that the lap time of the first practice session was his upper limit?

The upper limit of the Chinese kid has never been predicted accurately. Even the Monaco circuit, which is known as the Monaco circuit that has never been conquered by newcomers, made Zhang Yifei's name appear at the top of the list on the first day!

There is only one way to know the final outcome of these debates, and that is to keep your eyes on the track, where the cars are already starting in the order of the previous race and are challenging for the fastest lap at Monaco!

Zhang Yifei used ultra-soft tires this time, which is also almost the only qualifying tire option on the Monaco circuit except for the rain battle. During the half-hour qualifying session, you don't have to think about the wear and tear of the tires, you can run as fast as you can!

In the first lap of qualifying, because of the warm-up tires, Zhang Yifei's lap time was very mediocre and did not show any amazing performance.

But from the second lap, Zhang Yifei began to roar the track like a tiger out of the cage, directly increasing the lap time crazily, just like the scene of the first practice match before!

1:14.507, the bright red numbers on the broadcast screen appeared, and Zhang Yifei directly appeared at the top of the list, which can almost be equivalent to the fastest lap of 1:14.502 in his first practice session.

Being able to run this lap speed on the second lap of qualifying only proves one problem, that is, the previous lap time is not the upper limit, and it is not an accident, Zhang Yifei can easily achieve this speed, but he did not show it in the second and third exercises.

"I used to think that in the practice match, I would expose my strength too early. At this moment, I understood that the flying in the qualifying round is the real edge. ”

"He no longer hides his strength and speed, and wants to use this unstoppable form to tell the world that he wants to take pole position in Monaco!"

Jacques explained this sentence very excitedly, after the first practice match, he already felt that he was wrong, and now Jacques understood that he was very wrong!

What was the exposure of strength and sharpness before, it was just Zhang Yifei in the "warm-up", and now he is the complete body on the Monaco track!

"On the second lap, I ran this lap and when the fuel dropped and the car was at its peak, I couldn't have predicted what an amazing lap he would run."

"Maybe Schumacher had the fastest lap on the track before, and it will be broken today!"

Blundell was also amazed, he was not very optimistic about Zhang Yifei on this track before.

It turns out that the fastest lap of the first practice session is not that Zhang Yifei can only run so fast, but that he just wants to run so fast.

Now that qualifying will affect the final result, Zhang Yifei is finally firing on his full power to prove to the world that the so-called newcomer cannot conquer the Monaco circuit This law does not apply to himself!

Many of the drivers were still in the race for the second lap when they surpassed the track record for the fastest lap, which directly shocked the paddock crews.

Many people have already listed Zhang Yifei as the number one target of their team before, and they have not even relaxed their vigilance because of the speed of the second and third practice sessions.

But at this moment, they understand that they still haven't seen through the limits of this Chinese kid, and Zhang Yifei may really have the strength to challenge Schumacher for the title of "King of Monaco"!

"Shumi, fly fast, you have to give it your all."

Schumacher's headphones came from Jean Todd's solemn voice, just in the second lap, he asked himself to go all out, there is no doubt that Zhang Yifei's lap time just now is very amazing.

"How fast did you fly?"

"1:14.507."

When I heard this number, even if I was as stable as Schumacher, I couldn't help but "chuckle" in my heart.

On the second lap alone, he surpassed last year's track record, and was almost equal to the fastest lap that Zhang Yifei had run before.

There is no doubt that this cannot be Zhang Yifei's final speed in qualifying, it will only be a start, so when it is over, how fast will he be and break his own record for the fastest lap in qualifying?

"I won't underestimate him, but I also want him to understand who the real king of Monaco is."

Schumacher's emotional fluctuations are only momentary changes, and the fighting spirit and confidence of the king are still his foundation.

At least on this track, no one can challenge me Schumacher, even if he is flying with all his firepower!

Without the slightest hesitation, Schumacher began to pick up the pace like crazy, and perhaps for the first time in recent years, Schumacher was running with the mentality of proving himself.

The same warning was also passed to the ears of Helio of the Renault team, but compared to Schumacher, Helio was extremely calm this time, and even a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Sure enough, I still have a hand, and I'll wait for you to break out."

Helio said something in his heart.

The car tuning that Helio and race engineer Darren asked to change before was not because of his arrogance and arrogance, and his madness after losing his mind.

But Helio understands that this Chinese kid's lap time is definitely not the limit, and if he doesn't have enough ways to deal with it, then he will inevitably be left far behind.

In many cases, the person who knows himself best is really the enemy.

So Helio has been waiting for this moment to come, and Zhang Yifei did not disappoint him, and finally began to show his real hidden fangs.

Just sorry to fly this time, I'm ready to deal with you!

Coulthard, Ralph Schumacher and even team-mate Marcos Alonso began to increase their lap times frantically after learning the news.

Especially Alonso, he is the second driver besides Helio to wait for Zhang Yifei to show his "fangs".

After letting go of all the arrogance and rebelliousness, looking at Zhang Yifei with an upward attitude really made Alonso learn a lot, and also saw some things that he would have ignored in the past.

This is Zhang Yifei's real strength, as he said before the game, he wants to win this Monaco Grand Prix, and Schumacher can't stop it!

The battle for the Monaco crown has finally officially begun!

PS: More than 10,000 words, if the brothers have a monthly pass, they will try to squeeze it as much as possible, this month really feels a little too much......

Of course, I won't let the brothers vote in vain, tomorrow will still be 10,000 words, and it will not shrink!