Xiong Long's tone even had a hint of contempt. The crash at the Sepang track really changed him too much.

"you……"

Of course, Madu heard the disdain in Xiong Long's tone, but he just raised the banner and became a tiger skin. The decision-making of the team management level, his boss's son has a nonsense.

At most, Minardi let him make a fuss in the fleet repair station. It is impossible to really hand over the entire fleet to Madu to lose his family.

Everything he said was just a blank check. If Xiong Long couldn't prove himself in these two games, he would let him get out next year. There are more drivers who want to enter F1 these days, so it's easy to find another one.

As Villeneuve, Montoya and others returned to their fleet repair station, the hustle and bustle on the track gradually subsided.

Xiong Long turned around and walked towards the team's P room, preparing for the practice race that was about to be held. However, he stopped when he was about to enter the repair station and said, "I will take revenge on Zhang Yifei, and I don't need to use this method to motivate me again in the future."

Madu, who was originally very angry because he was despised by Xiong Long, felt that after hearing this, his mood instantly changed from gloomy to sunny.

What Xiong Long thinks doesn’t matter, anyway, the goal he wants has been achieved.

At 10 a.m., it was the time when the first practice race of the US Grand Prix began. Cosell never had too many requirements for the practice race. He just wanted to run whatever Zhang Yifei ran, as long as he could be familiar with the track and feedback racing adjustment.

But one thing to ensure is that when facing provocations by other drivers, Cosell could not accept Zhang Yifei's weakness or fear.

However, although the gunpowder smelled strong before the race, there were no drivers causing trouble in the practice competition. Because at the end of the season, the newcomer gradually became an old man, slowly getting rid of the edges and corners, and no longer so easily causing trouble.

The old man has become an old man. They know that the main competition is the time to decide the outcome. Now they should save their strength and prepare to defeat their opponents in the main competition!

The fastest lap of the Indianapolis track was created by Schumacher in qualifying last year, taking 1 minute, 14 seconds, 266. However, the track record was controlled by Coothard, taking 1 minute, 14 seconds, 711.

Although Coothard ran the fastest lap in the main race last year, he did not even enter the top three in the end. This year he is ready to make a comeback and must fight to the last moment for the glory of the world championship!

During the entire training process, Zhang Yifei did not go very smoothly. One reason was that he was not familiar with the track. After all, even the team could not provide data support for this track, so he could only rely on Zhang Yifei to explore slowly.

Although Zhang Yifei has driven countless laps on the racing simulator, the racing simulators these days, in addition to the realistic driving method, other pictures and other pictures may be inferior to later F1 computer games.

Therefore, simulated driving can only provide a general understanding. The real track details need to be controlled by Zhang Yifei in three practice games or even qualifying matches.

The second point is the layout of the Indianapolis track, which is really unfriendly to cars with lagging performance.

About half of the track is an oval track with a total of 500 Indy events, while the other half is a complex curve designed specifically for F1.

The longest straight line Zhang Yifei had run before was only 800 meters, which was already considered to be a long one in the F1 track. However, the long straight line of the Indianapolis track, combined with the combined high-speed long curve, is estimated to be at least about 1.5 kilometers, which is twice as high as before.

Indian racing cars run on this section of road. With the ultra-high-speed aerodynamic layout and pure bald tires, the speed can easily exceed 400km/h and the maximum can exceed 420km/h.

However, this speed is also the peak of Indy Racing. Twenty years later, not only the F1 race is limited to safety, but even the Indy Racing’s extreme speed is almost 50km/h slower. The overall car racing style is more secure and conservative.

The Prost car that Zhang Yifei is currently driving has a long straight extreme acceleration. Without the help of downhill, it is barely enough to run to 350km/h. Not to mention comparing the speed of Indy racing, even comparing the performance of the Big Three racing cars, the disadvantages are very obvious, especially the McLaren racing car with the strongest theoretical performance.

Perhaps the only thing to be thankful is that the remaining half of the curves on the Indianapolis track are extremely complicated, with many low-speed sharp turns, which have pulled down the average speed, and the average speed of 300 on the highway section has been pulled to about 200.

The existence of such a complex curve gives Zhang Yifei the opportunity to catch up, or even a "way to live". Otherwise, there would be no need to run the "tractor" of this track, because he is destined to lose before he can run!

Opportunities exist, but it is harder to seize this opportunity than in previous competitions. After all, the more complicated the curve, the more difficult it is to remember the route. It is even more difficult to be perfect and overtake on the curve.

The performance of the car is equivalent to the starting line. Zhang Yifei was thrown away at the starting point. It is really a very difficult challenge to completely recover it by relying on the curve.

Without any track data, Zhang Yifei could only use three practice games to control all cornering characteristics in just two days. This feeling of challenging the limits made Zhang Yifei feel as if he had returned to the original Renault Elementary Formula.

At that time, there was only one or two hours of track test time. Zhang Yifei had to control the layout of the entire track and remember all the curve characteristics and lines in his mind.

But what we were facing at the beginning was a group of elementary Formula Rookies, and what Zhang Yifei is facing now is the most powerful group of Formula drivers in the world, and they will not leave any chance for Zhang Yifei.

In addition to these two main difficulties, Zhang Yifei always feels that the racing car is not so accurate, and he doesn’t know whether it is a steering or suspension problem, but judging from the sensor data, the racing car has no faults.

This feeling is very subtle. If it were the rookie stage in the past, Zhang Yifei might think that this was his own illusion. But now Zhang Yifei's strength has already entered the passing line of F1 first-class drivers. Even if it is just a very weak error, he can clearly perceive it.

Just like when Senna hit the isolation wall, she said that the wall moved one or two centimeters instead of hitting it himself, this is the intuition and control accuracy of a top driver!

"Cosell, I still think there are very subtle errors in the routing, not my manipulation problem."

This is the second time that Zhang Yifei has reported to Cosell about racing control issues. Even if the sensor data is normal, he firmly believes that his feelings are correct.

"Then the next lap of the station is in the station, and the maintenance technician is ready to carry out the maintenance."

Kossel did not question Zhang Yifei's intuition. He knew that this was a very important sense for a driver, and even the accuracy was greater than that of the sensor.

“Ok.”

He responded and said that when passing through the entrance of the maintenance passage, Zhang Yifei drove the car into the repair station and prepared for maintenance and adjustment.

Not long after Zhang Yifei entered the repair station, the first practice race ended, and the drivers' fastest lap speed appeared on the big screen on the track.

Yipeng Zhang Yifei's fastest lap speed is 1 minute 16 seconds 603, which is nearly two seconds slower than the current track record and about 2.5 seconds slower than the fastest lap that Schumacher ran last year.

The lap is 2.5 seconds slower, which is an exaggerated speed, which is equivalent to the rookie level on the track.

Compared with Zhang Yifei's painful lap speed, Montoya, who ranked first in the practice competition, had a lap speed of 1 minute 14 seconds 685, surpassing the track record and only lap behind Schumacher's fastest lap in the qualifying race!

The second place is not someone else, Schumacher, the creator of the fastest lap, and Villeneuve, who once won the Indian championship, can clearly feel the huge advantage of the Indy Series champion in this track!

In addition to these people, there is also a driver's lap speed, which is very surprising. That is Xiong Long, who returned to the track, ran 1 minute, 15 seconds, 212, ranking seventh in the driver!

You should know that Xiong Long is a substitute driver, and he is also driving Minardi. He is the first time he runs the Indianapolis track. It is definitely amazing to be able to run such lap speed. Could it be that the second Zhang Yifei is about to appear again?

As soon as this lap ranking came out, a sound of irony and ridicule appeared on the track.

"This is the speed of the so-called F1 superstar? It's not worthy of carrying shoes for the Indy champion!"

"I thought how strong the Chinese driver was, how did Montoya lose to such a rookie?"

"chink, even if you are at your level, you dare to clamor in the United States?"

"Chinese, you'd better withdraw from the competition early and don't insult yourself then!"

The sarcasm of more than 100,000 people was very exaggerated, and some extreme car fans rushed outside the fence behind the repair station and mocked and insulted Zhang Yifei at close range, allowing this Chinese boy to understand what the outcome of provoking the United States would be.

At the Prost fleet repair station, the maintenance technician had already dismantled the carbon fiber shell of the vehicle body and was about to remove the steering machine and the front suspension. As a result, various sarcasm and insults began to come, some of which were racially discriminatory insults, which was simply very unpleasant.

Zhang Yifei and Cosell were pretty good. After all, this scene has been experienced more than once, especially in the early Renault Formula, and the whole audience has booed several times.

However, Ah Hu and Chen Zhi joined the team after Zhang Yifei slowly rose. He did not experience the first few games, and he obviously felt a little unbearable when he heard these ridicule.

"Boss, there is not even an American F1 driver on the track. Why are they so arrogant?"

Ah Hu's words were said to Charlie, the chief technician is the boss of the maintenance team.

"Repair it well and don't miss any details. It's normal to have these sounds, and even Schumacher was booed by the audience."

Charlie is also very calm. He has experienced this kind of scene many times, including super drivers like Prost, Senna, and Schumacher.
Chapter completed!