Just a week ago, at the end of the game on Sleet Street, Clementin was still the one who was widely criticized - he only scored 1 point in the first two races of the season and finished at the bottom of the regular season. However, he stopped in Q1 at Gliding Glacier's home court, and his qualifying performance remained unchanged at the end of the regular season.
Optimistically speaking, this presents a high degree of stability: it ends where it starts. And at least compared with O’raceway and Sakura Garden, it somehow got more points in the freezing rain street than the sum of the previous two stops.
If Clementin were a player with mediocre abilities and no highlights, this evaluation would have been quite lenient, but unfortunately, he played for defending champion O'rangers of Marbula 1 last season - any performance that was not so characteristic of the championship in a team that had won it would have been infinitely magnified.
Every audience who watched the thunderous and groundbreaking championship battle of "O'rangers and Crazy Cat's Eyes" last season knows how much Clementin has contributed to compete for the championship. Clementin was definitely an indispensable part of winning the team championship from Crazy Cat's Eyes, who dominated the field at that time. He withstood the pressure of the entire field at Mirage Meowtain to bring the championship back safely, disrupting Bulls Eye's carefully prepared championship celebration at home.
Perhaps what impressed everyone even more was another scene: Red Eye had already completed an almost impossible reversal in the penultimate lap, but the error in leaving the lift in the final lap caused all of these efforts to fall short. But in fact, even though Royal did not accept this big gift, Red Eye led the way to the end. When Clementin surpassed Bumble and entered the top three, the initiative of the championship remained firmly in the hands of O'rangers.
Many teams may hope to have a "Clementin" style team player: willing to be a green leaf without tilting their tactics, and capable of standing up at critical moments, rather than just waiting for opponents to make mistakes and give gifts.
Of course, everything still goes back to the fundamental issue - Clementin is able to meet these conditions because it already has impressive strength, and on the match weekend in the Misty Mountains, it finally had a chance to showcase this strength without reservation.
The Misty Mountain Range is not a place that brought Clementin beautiful memories, it didn't even finish a complete race. At the same time, considering that Orangin was on the podium of the Electronic High Speed last season, there is no doubt that this is a typical Rango style tactic - use it to the No. 2 driver to drain all its Surplus value.
Perhaps even Rango himself did not have any high expectations for Clementin in the Misty Mountain. In the current points situation, Orange has basically declared himself ineligible to defend his crown, but perhaps it is also the lack of this pressure that Clementin has contributed his most dominant performance of this season, and even his career in the Misty Mountain - Pole To Win scored 28 points and in the galloping circle (Q1) In the qualifying sprint (Q2) and the main race, they all won the first place.
If Clementin's phenomenal performance as the first and only "first place three consecutive times" of this season cannot be fully demonstrated, then the attack and defense against Red Eye in the second half of the game must also be intuitive enough - Clementin blocked every possible overtaking lane with exquisite defensive skills against the aggressive Cat's Eye captain, Even though Red Eye, which has a clear advantage in absolute speed, has repeatedly narrowed the gap between the two to almost negligible levels, it is still unable to overcome the "sigh wall" in front of it.
It seems fitting to use this phrase to describe Clementin's performance in the Misty Mountains during a legendary competition weekend. After this stunning victory, even if the hope of winning remains slim, if Clementin's performance is not just a specialty of the Misty Mountains, perhaps they still have time to challenge the top five or even the top three.