Briatoli's words can be said to have really touched the hearts of Helio and Barton, and the Renault crew, which was still full of collapse under the pressure before, was unexpectedly stimulated to begin to be reborn in a desperate situation.

Helio finally sobered up and was carried away by anger and jealousy, and began to seriously analyze the layout of the East China Sea track, as well as peel off his imitation of Zhang Yifei's line.

In fact, as the Indy World Champion, Helio has been running in the F1 paddock for another year, how can he not have his own understanding of the track. It's just that Zhang Yifei's three shocking practice speeds made many drivers confused, and even doubted themselves, so they imitated the copycat.

In addition, Briatoli's coercion also calmed down Barton's "anti-heart", and his performance this year has improved greatly, but it is far from the point where he can turn his face head-on with the team.

And a driver who falls out with the team is very difficult to be accepted by other teams, after all, not everyone has Alonso's good fortune.

This "despair" mentality of the Renault team was actually staged in many team lounges during the lunch break.

It's just that other teams choose to accept their fate more than being stubborn like Helio and disobedient like Barton, but there is an unexpected effect that everything will be reversed.

Of course, many are not equal to all, at least the old Big Three teams don't want to give in so easily. Ferrari's Schumacher, in particular, sat in front of the TV in the lounge for a few hours between noon, replaying the practice session footage over and over again.

Even Barrichello, the team's No. 2 driver, changed his usual mentality of taking money to do things, sitting next to Schumacher, thinking about how to overcome the challenge of Prost and extend Ferrari's winning streak.

Anyway, I am also a Ferrari team, and the desire for honor in my heart is still indelible after all.

And then again, Barrichello was the first "King of the East China Sea", defeating Schumacher in 04 and putting the Chinese Grand Prix crown on his head.

No matter how history changes, the person is still the same Barrichello, the East China Sea is still the "Shang" shaped track, and the "King of the East China Sea" cannot be silent forever.

It's really like the old saying in it, weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.

Zhang Yifei's absolute strength has suppressed the potential and fighting spirit of other drivers, so that many people have begun to run at full strength, and even more concentrated and stronger than in the previous races.

If it weren't for the absolute advantage in his previous life, he might face such a scene, and the difficulty for Zhang Yifei to win this East China Sea Grand Prix may be higher than other tracks.

But there is no what ifs in this world, Zhang Yifei also did not arrogantly relax his vigilance, he said that he would not let this East China Sea Grand Prix have any accidents, on the track in China, he must plant this flag!

The qualifying session at 2 p.m. was even more emotional than the previous practice session.

After all, everyone knows that qualifying is much more important than previous practice matches. And more importantly, the ranking of the qualifying round will be the absolute final champion.

Even though the Tokai Circuit is not a difficult track to overtake, the advantage of the front row is still there, and no one wants to be the one at the end of the crane.

"Qualifying is finally here, do you think Zhang Yifei can win the pole position, this is the first pole position of the Chinese F1 Grand Prix!"

"I don't think there's any suspense, Zhang Yifei is the driver who rules the East China Sea Circuit, and there is no one in the pole position on his own turf!"

"After all, you need a world champion to be worthy of the word car god."

The Chinese audience in the stands was discussing, and they no longer had the ecstatic feeling of seeing Zhang Yifei take the lead on the first day.

The so-called ecstasy, in fact, is a kind of lack of self-confidence, just like how ecstatic you will be when you see a Chinese table tennis player ahead of a foreign opponent?

The answer is believed to be obvious, it can be said that all Chinese people take this for granted, we are so strong, who else is this champion?

But now after three practice sessions, the Chinese spectators, who were the first live spectators Zhang Yifei, have experienced first-hand the power of the Chinese drivers.

It is not an accident that Zhang Yifei can stand in front of the door of the world champion and have a peak duel with Schumacher in this championship battle, but has the strength to become a world champion.

The driver is strong enough to fly, he has the strength to take pole position, and his speed deserves to be called a world champion!

However, this confident discussion still displeased some other fans on the track, especially the other driver in the championship race, Schumacher fans.

If it weren't for Zhang Yifei's appearance that changed history, today's Donghai Circuit would be full of Ferrari red, shouting Schumacher's name, becoming his other "home field".

After all, the youth of early Chinese fans, including Li Bing, these commentators, they all witnessed the glory of Schumacher, and the driver who followed him live on TV for the first time was also Schumacher.

Therefore, no matter how much Zhang Yifei is in China, like Liu Xiang in 08, he cannot completely cover up Schumacher's brilliance, let alone Zhang Yifei's absolute strength to crush Schumacher's brilliance.

"So confident? There is no driver in the world who has been able to pronounce Schumacher's defeat in advance! ”

"Schumacher is not going to be defeated to the end, I always believe that he will do miracles!"

"Come on Schumacher, I witnessed your rookie season ten years ago, and I want to see you win again in ten years!"

Many people have their own beliefs in their hearts, just like when Zhang Yifei was on the track, even in the face of the cold eyes and ridicule of countless people, there were still domestic and Chinese compatriots who cheered for him, and they didn't even think that he could win.

Not to mention the current Schumacher, counting from 1991, after ten years of career, it can be said that he has become the idol of a generation. They will cheer with Schumacher to the top and encourage him at the bottom.

In the face of these rebuttals, the Chinese fans, as the home audience, did not refute and ridicule, but chose to agree and accept.

may have experienced Zhang Yifei's despised things, so that he can be more empathetic.

"Phineas, come on and take pole position!"

At the Pit Stop of the Prost team, Ah Hu shouted to Zhang Yifei, who was about to start.

At least in Ah Hu's heart, there is no track that is as important as this East China Sea International Circuit, and he is extremely eager for Zhang Yifei to win all the honors.

"Come on!"

Chen Zhi also opened his mouth to say a word, but he didn't want to put too much pressure on Zhang Yifei, so he just said a simple word of cheering.

"Fei is the strongest driver in China, this is his home field, he will definitely win the final victory, get ready to go!"

Chief Technician Charlie's words are extremely heroic, I have to say that foreigners are indeed more likely to be blindly confident in this regard, he doesn't know the crushing advantage of the practice match, how Zhang Yifei lost!

“GO、GO、GO！”

When the green light of the pit station was on, the entire garage resounded with the roar of the team of maintenance technicians, who shouted their excitement and expectations at the top of their voices.

The blue and red Prost car roared onto the track, and in front of Zhang Yifei was still the red Ferrari car.

Only this time, Zhang Yifei didn't chase Schumacher like in the practice match. Because the car is not in the best condition at the moment, and the fuel on board is still the same, it is not the best moment for the fastest lap of the sprint.

Qualifying is not a practice match after all, you can do whatever you want, and if you really don't take Schumacher in your eyes, you will definitely pay a heavy price and teach yourself a vivid lesson.

Zhang Yifei knows this to anyone on the competition path, he can underestimate everyone, but he can't relax his vigilance against Schumacher in the second before he really wins the championship.

Therefore, Zhang Yifei followed the rhythm of the normal qualifying race, first warmed up the tires, and waited for the tire grip to reach the peak, and after the fuel consumption car was heavy, it was the time point for the fastest lap of the sprint!

However, Zhang Yifei is still a little confident, according to the dominance strength he showed in the practice race, as long as he runs normally, his lap speed can still lead the whole race.

It's just that many things in this world can't go exactly according to their own script, when the speed of the first lap came out, Zhang Yifei's lap time ranking fell directly to the fourth place, not only Schumacher surpassed himself, but even Ferrari No. 2 driver Barrichello, and even Renault's Helio, the speed of the first lap of qualifying was more expensive than Zhang Yifei.

This kind of lap speed definitely didn't mean anything in the past, but this moment made Zhang Yifei start to be a little vigilant. Did the opponent start a frantic sprint on the first lap just to fight for breath, or could they really run at this pace normally?

Zhang Yifei didn't believe that these drivers could run a lap time ahead of him at will, and of course an all-out ironic sprint was unlikely, more with a mentality of wanting to prove himself, which was a little faster than the first lap of normal qualifying.

So now he has two options in front of him, whether to join the sprint race in advance, or to start the sprint lap after ten laps with the fuel weight dropping according to the plan he prepared before the race.

This choice did not hesitate in Zhang Yifei's mind for long, he still decided to stick to his tactics.

The reason is very simple, Zhang Yifei has absolute confidence in the East China Sea Grand Prix, and I can get it back at any time if it belongs to me!

In the past lap of qualifying, Zhang Yifei steadily increased his lap time, and the lap speed was pressed from 1 minute and 35 seconds at the beginning to within 1 minute and 33 seconds.

You must know that the track record in history is only 1:32.238, which is a lap time that has not yet started to sprint, and it is already considered fast.

It's just that Prost sent the news through the team's voice that Schumacher and Helio have reached a lap time of less than 1:32.5, and even Helio's speed once surpassed Schumacher, far higher than the level of the previous practice session.

Hearing the news, Zhang Yifei's first reaction was not how nervous he was, but a little surprised by Helio's talent. He was able to run this kind of lap time, which is definitely a qualitative breakthrough in his understanding of the track, and he gave up the deliberate imitation of his own track line.

I have to say that the American kid, who can't even get rid of arrogance, does have two brushes.

Zhang Yifei was still emotionally stable, and the members of the Prost strategy group couldn't help but start to get nervous. They don't know if this lap time is the strongest strength of the opponent, if not, it will be troublesome.

Although Zhang Yifei has a huge advantage in qualifying, in the history of F1, there are more than once or twice happy and sad things. There has even been a foot that has already stood on the top podium, and has been dragged down by someone.

After all, Zhang Yifei's strength at this station was too exaggerated, so that everyone always had a sense of unreality, afraid that this was just a phantom of the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water.

Even when the race came to the tenth lap, Zhang Yifei's car was behind a yellow and black Renault car, which ate his wake and was rapidly shortening the distance, looking ready to attack.

There is only one driver on the track who can choose to start without hesitation in qualifying, and that is Helio.

Helio can appear behind Zhang Yifei's car, which means that after ten laps of qualifying, Zhang Yifei is a few tenths of a second slower than the opponent in a single lap. Judging from the performance of the practice match, this is simply an incredible thing, once Zhang Yifei caught up with Schumacher in a single lap, but now he has been caught up?

"In qualifying, Schumacher and Helio both had a noticeable increase in speed, but on the contrary, flying was mediar. Now it should be the stage of normal acceleration and sprinting, and there is no big move in flying. ”

"This is very different from his performance in qualifying, is the time not yet right, or is it the peak of prosperity, and the flying form has declined?"

Blundell wondered and explained that Schumacher and other drivers would break through in qualifying, in fact, as an old commentator on the track, he had a premonition in his heart.

If Schumacher and Ferrari are really going to be crushed to the end with ease, then they don't deserve to be the best drivers and teams on the track.

It's just that Zhang Yifei's performance was unexpected, I thought he would show a stronger lap time, but now it is very ordinary. I can't say it's slow, I always feel like it's a little bit worse than the practice match, and I don't have that kind of absolute dominance.

"I think it's okay, it's a normal qualifying rhythm, and Fei will be strong soon."

Li Bing, who was next to him, suddenly swore a word, and he had a very positive tone, which made Brendell wonder if there was any inside story in this Chinese commentary.

Just when Blundell wanted to ask why, Zhang Yifei on the track suddenly began to exert his strength, biting the wake and preparing to launch an offensive, and the two corners were thrown off by Zhang Yifei, and at the 6th turn of the track, Zhang Yifei also showed a completely different way of aligning from the past.

Looking at Helio who disappeared in the rearview mirror, the corners of Zhang Yifei's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

Do you really think I don't have hole cards?

Helio, I haven't even had a strong time, and you're down?

If Helio could hear what Zhang Yifei was thinking, he would probably vomit three liters of blood, he thought that he had a deeper understanding of the East China Sea Track and had the qualifications to wrestle with the other party, but he didn't expect that when Zhang Yifei began to race the lap speed seriously, he was still unbearable!

Many people thought that Zhang Yifei was showing off his skills in the qualifying match, wanting to let the 200,000 spectators in China's home stadium feel his strength.

Some people even think that this should be the upper limit of Zhang Yifei's speed in the East China Sea Grand Prix, he did not hide and retain his strength, and his youth and frivolity were fully revealed.

But in today's qualifying match, Zhang Yifei wants to tell everyone that it is true that the previous practice matches had the element of showing off their skills, but they are far from their limit!

When Zhang Yifei is really full of firepower, he will let the whole world understand that the four words of China's home stadium are really not just words.

The red number of 1:31.788 jumped to the top of the track broadcast screen, directly ahead of the lap speed of 1:32.261 of Schumacher in second place, and was close to 0.5 seconds again!

The bright red numbers were reflected in everyone's eyes, and there was a silent scene on the track again.

Even for the shock of many veteran fans, this scene is no less than the Monaco qualifying race that year, Senna pole position threw Prost 1.4 seconds history.

If Schumacher does not make a qualitative breakthrough in the future, there is no doubt that Zhang Yifei's fastest lap will become another super pole position in F1 history.

Because the results need to be compared, the pole position is never about how fast you run, but how fast your opponent runs. This opponent, in particular, also has the identity of a quadruple champion!