Car Racing without Money

Chapter 839 - 344: King of Monaco from the East (Part 3)

Alonso truly deserves the title of the highest peak within the circuit, Chen Xiangbei just can’t surpass him!"Mr. Xiangbei is a driver who excels at creating miracles."

Sawano Hiroyuki murmured back, indeed at such a moment, only a miracle can save Chen Xiangbei.

"Bei, I’m still waiting for you to reach the top and become the King of Monaco, go for it!"

"Driver Bei, the era has changed, you have to believe you’re stronger!"

"Come on, Chen Xiangbei, you were able to surpass Alonso once, today you can surpass him a second time!"

"That’s right, everything only happens once and countless times after, you absolutely will not let us down!"

The spectators from China in the stands watched the shortening race and shouted their loudest to cheer on Chen Xiangbei.

The more crucial the moment, the more support and cohesion should be shown. If even the most steadfast fans don’t believe in Chen Xiangbei, then Chen Xiangbei would have no supporters in the entire audience stand!

The shouts were drowned in the roar of engines, but Chen Xiangbei could see the countless waving red flags on the stands.

This is silent encouragement!

The race reached the eighth-last lap, as both Chen Xiangbei and Alonso raced at full speed, forming an isolated lead group and leaving other racers far behind on the circuit, even remarkably lapping Renault driver Petrov by four laps.

The more laps completed, the more slow cars that obstruct the path ahead, although those being lapped would not deliberately block Alonso, the narrow nature of the Monaco Circuit determines that ideal overtaking moments do not always exist.

Many times Alonso’s speed would be forced to slow down, even losing the best racing line.

However, his peak condition, driving skills, and a decade of experience in races allow Alonso to handle such situations very maturely, not giving Chen Xiangbei any special opportunity to overtake due to the obstruction by slow cars ahead.

But even with great vigilance, there’s bound to be a slip-up, after nearly thirty laps following, Chen Xiangbei noticed an opportunity.

That’s with the Indian Force driver Buemi who was being lapped; his gearbox had an issue with gear switching, yet he insisted on staying on the circuit to accumulate race lap time and track experience.

In the last lap when Alonso overtook him, he was severely obstructed and slowed down, simultaneously exposing the disadvantage of Ferrari’s improved F-Duct system, which is that during overtaking it easily suffers from airflow influence causing partial stall and skidding.

When alone, it’s not noticeable, but during overtaking the opponent can’t react quickly enough.

But if there’s another car behind eyeing closely, then this flaw can be infinitely magnified, allowing the opponent to seize the opportunity.

Coincidentally, Chen Xiangbei spotted the flaw and seized the opportunity.

At the T11 corner of the circuit, when Alonso habitually overtook the slow car Buemi from the inside, he was affected by the airflow-induced stall reducing his downforce, slowing his speed through the corner slightly.

Just at this moment, Chen Xiangbei stepped on the accelerator, drawing extremely close to the tail of Alonso’s car, then Buemi seemingly cooperated by slowing down, directly allowing the outer side of the track vacant.

With higher speed, coupled with the slingshot effect from slipstream, and Buemi offering an entirely undefended outside overtaking route, both combined together, Chen Xiangbei floored the pedal and overtook on the bend.

Watching the black-and-orange colored HRT Racing Car gradually leading from the side, along with Chen Xiangbei’s face hidden under the visor, Alonso’s eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.

Has the new king of Monaco from the East just been born like this?