There was even a hint of contempt in Xiong Long's tone, the crash at the Sepang circuit really changed him too much.

"You ......"

Of course, Madu could hear the disdain in Xiong Long's tone, but he was also pulling the flag as a tiger skin, and the decision-making at the team management level, one of his bosses, had the qualifications to speak.

At most, Minardi just let him mess around in the team pit, and it is impossible to really hand over the whole team to Madu to lose.

Everything he said was just a blank check, and if Yang Long couldn't prove himself in these two races, then let him get out of the way next year, because there are so many drivers who want to enter F1 this year that it's easy to find another one.

As Villeneuve, Montoya and others returned to their team pits, the hustle and bustle on the track gradually fell silent.

Yang Long turned and walked towards the team's P room, preparing for the upcoming practice session. However, he stopped when he was about to enter the pit, and said: "I will take revenge on Zhang Yifei, and there is no need to provoke me in this way in the future." ”

Madu, who was originally very annoyed because he was despised by Yang Long, instantly changed his mood from gloomy to sunny after hearing this sentence.

It doesn't matter what Xiong Long thinks, anyway, he has achieved the goal he wants.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, it is the start time of the first practice session of the United States Grand Prix, and Korcel has never had too many requirements for the practice race, no matter how Zhang Yifei runs, as long as he can familiarize himself with the track and feedback car tuning.

But one thing to be assured of is that when faced with the provocation of other drivers, Korsell cannot accept Zhang Yifei's weakness or fear.

However, although the smell of gunpowder before the race was strong this time, there were no drivers in the practice session. Because at the end of the season, the newcomers have gradually become old men, slowly grinding off the edges and corners, and will no longer be so impulsive to stir up trouble.

And the old people have become old fritters, they know that the main game is the moment to decide the victory or defeat, and now they should save their strength and be ready to kill their opponents in the main game!

The fastest lap at Indianapolis was set by Schumacher in qualifying last year, with a time of 1:14.266. But the track record was in the hands of Coulthard with a time of 1:14.711.

Last year, Coulthard set the fastest lap of the race, but he didn't even finish in the top three, and this year he is ready to make a comeback and have to fight for the World Championship until the last minute!

During the whole training process, Zhang Yifei was not very smooth. First, because he is not familiar with the track, after all, even the team cannot provide data support for this track, so he can only rely on Zhang Yifei to slowly explore.

On the racing simulator, although Zhang Yifei has driven countless laps, the racing simulator of this year, in addition to the more realistic driving method, other pictures may not be as good as the F1 computer games of later generations.

Therefore, simulated driving can only provide a general understanding, and the real details of the track still need Zhang Yifei to use three practice races, or even qualifying races to control.

The second point is the layout of the Indianapolis Speedway, which is really unfriendly to cars that are underperforming.

About half of the track is an oval that shares the Indy 500, while the other half is a complex corner designed specifically for Formula 1.

The longest straight full throttle that Zhang Yifei has run before is only 800 meters, which is already considered a long time in the F1 track. But the long straights at the Indianapolis Speedway, combined with the combination of high-speed long corners, are estimated to be at least 1.5 kilometers, which is twice as long as before.

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

Twenty years later, not only is there a lot of safety restrictions in F1 races, but even IndyCar's top speed is almost 50km/h slower, and the overall style of car racing tends to be safe and conservative.

The Prost car that Zhang Yifei is currently driving accelerates to the limit of the long straight, and if there is no help from downhill, it is barely able to run to 350km/h. Not to mention the extreme speed of the IndyCar comparison, even the performance of the Big Three cars, the disadvantages are obvious, especially the McLaren car, which has the strongest theoretical performance.

Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for is that most of the remaining half-corners at the Indianapolis Circuit have an unusually complex layout, with many low-speed sharp corners, pulling the average speed down, from the average speed of the high-speed section in the early 300s to about 200 per hour.

The existence of this complex curve gives Zhang Yifei the opportunity to catch up, and even a "living road", otherwise this kind of track "tractor" does not have to run, because it is doomed to lose before it runs!

There are opportunities, it's just that it's harder to take them than in the past. After all, the more complex the corner, the more difficult it is to remember the alignment, and even more difficult to perfect and overtake in the corner.

The performance of the car is equivalent to the starting line, Zhang Yifei was thrown away at the starting point, and it is really a super difficult challenge to completely chase back by relying on the corner.

Without any track data to support it, Zhang Yifei could only rely on himself to control all the cornering features in just two days with three practice sessions. This feeling of challenging the limit makes Zhang Yifei seem to have returned to the original Renault primary formula.

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

It's just that what he faced at the beginning was a group of junior formula rookies, and now Zhang Yifei is facing a group of the most powerful formula drivers in the world, and they will not leave Zhang Yifei any chance.

In addition to these two main difficulties, Zhang Yifei always felt that the racing line was not so accurate, and he didn't know whether it was a problem with the steering or suspension, but from the sensor data, the car was not faulty.

This feeling is very subtle, if it was the previous rookie stage, Zhang Yifei might think that this was his own delusion. But now Zhang Yifei's strength has entered the qualification line of F1 first-class drivers, even if it is only a very weak error, he can clearly perceive it.

Just like when Senna hit the wall, saying that the wall moved a centimeter or two, instead of hitting it himself, this is the intuition and handling accuracy of a top driver!

"Cosell, I still think there are very small errors in the routing, and it's not my control problem."

This is the second time that Zhang Yifei has reported to Korcel about the car's handling problems, and even if the sensor data is normal, he is convinced that he feels right.

"Then the next lap of the pit stop, the maintenance technician is ready to make a repair."

Kossel didn't question Zhang's intuition, he knew that this was an important sensation for a driver, and even more accurate than the sensor.

“OK。”

In response, when passing through the entrance of the maintenance tunnel, Zhang Yifei drove the car into the pit station, ready for maintenance and adjustment.

Not long after Zhang Yifei entered the pits, the first practice session ended, and the fastest lap of the drivers appeared on the big screen on the track.

Zhang Yifei's fastest lap was 1:16.603, nearly two seconds slower than the current track record, and almost 2.5 seconds slower than Schumacher's fastest lap last year.

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

Compared to Zhang Yifei's miserable lap time, Montoya, who ranked first in the practice session, surpassed the track record with a lap time of 1:14.685, only behind Schumacher's fastest lap in qualifying!

The second place is no one else, it is Schumacher, the creator of the fastest lap, and the third place, who is also the former winner of the Indian championship, Villeneuve, can clearly feel the great advantage of the Indy Series champion on this track!

In addition to these guys, there was also a rider whose lap time was quite a surprise. That was Yoong Long who returned to the track, and he ran a time of 1:15.212, ranking seventh among the drivers!

You must know that Yang Long is a substitute driver, and he also drove a Minardi broken car, the first time he ran the Indianapolis circuit, and he can run this kind of lap time, which is absolutely amazing, can it be said that the second Zhang Yifei is about to appear again?

As soon as this lap time ranking came out, there was a sound of sarcasm and ridicule on the track in an instant.

"Is this the speed of the so-called F1 supernova? It's not even worthy of the shoes of the Indy Champion! ”

"I thought how strong the Chinese driver was, how did Montoya lose to this kind of rookie?"

"CHINK, dare to shout in the United States even if this is the level?"

"Chinese Yankee, you better retire early, don't humiliate yourself when the time comes!"

The ridicule of more than 100,000 people was very exaggerated, and even some over-the-top fans rushed to the fence behind the pit and ridiculed Zhang Yifei at close range, so that this Chinese boy understood what the fate of provoking the United States would be.

At the Pit Station of the Prost team, the maintenance technician had already disassembled the carbon fiber shell of the car body and was about to disassemble the steering machine and the front suspension, when all kinds of ridicule and abuse began to come, some of which were racist abuse, which was very ugly.

Zhang Yifei and Korsell are not bad, after all, this meeting has been experienced more than once, especially in the early Renault Formula race, and the whole audience has booed a few times.

But Ah Hu and Chen Zhi joined the team after Zhang Yifei's slow rise, and they didn't go through the first few games, and they obviously felt a little unbearable when they heard these ridicules.

"Boss, there isn't a single American F1 driver on the track, why are they so arrogant?"

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

"Take a good look, don't miss a single detail, it's normal to have these sounds, even Schumacher was choked by the audience."

Charlie is also very calm, he has experienced this kind of scene many times, including Prost, Senna, Schumacher and other super driver levels.

As an F1 driver, it's an insult to be ridiculed by just a few people. But if it can be attacked by nearly 200,000 people in the audience, it is a sign of a strong person, because the weak will only be ignored!