The exclamations have yet to subside; a lap time of 1 minute 34 seconds is not Chen Xiangbei's peak, but rather his norm.
In the next two laps, he maintained this range of 1 minute 34.32 seconds, with lap time errors kept within thousandths of a second.
To the average audience, this speed would simply mean Chen Xiangbei is fast.
But to professional racing personnel, it is terrifying!
The ability to maintain absolute stability at this speed means that this driver possesses an extremely perverse control over the car and the track, with an unpredictable potential for improvement.
In later years, when Verstappen led, the sense of despair didn't stem from him setting the fastest lap every time but from his stable lap times on the thousandth of a second scale, conveying a message to the outside world.
That is, "I can go faster, and if you don't believe it, come and challenge me!"
