When Zhang Yifei attacked Montoya, Schumacher behind him was actually not idle, and even the offensive was even more ferocious, and many times Zhang Yifei was in a crisis situation.

After all, the performance advantage of Ferrari's cars is there, and there is nothing to question Schumacher's skills. Being able to block Schumacher's attack is definitely something to brag about.

Zhang Yifei is facing Schumacher's attack at the same time, and he can also launch an overtaking offensive towards Montoya in front of him from time to time, it can be said that in this battle, he really gave full play to his potential!

It's just that this game is not a war of three people, and there is Villeneuve, who is in fourth place!

When he came to the fifteenth lap, Villeneuve's inner fighting spirit had already reached the breaking point! Many times he watched Zhang Yifei in front of him, but was blocked by Schumacher, and this feeling of humiliation was indescribable.

To be honest, Villeneuve faced Schumacher with an indescribable feeling in his heart. When he was at his peak, he stepped on Schumacher to win the world championship title, and he was in the limelight for a while.

As a result, only a year later, he was left behind by Schumacher, and later became a member of the group that looked up to Schumacher!

You must know that at the beginning, Villeneuve was regarded as a driver who could surpass Schumacher, after all, he won the world runner-up in the rookie season and the world championship the following year, and this trend is simply unstoppable.

I thought this was the beginning, but I didn't expect it to become the pinnacle, and then I watched Schumacher stand on the top podium again and again, but the gap between himself and him was getting farther and farther, and the so-called Grand Slam king title seemed to have become a joke in front of Schumacher.

Envy, jealousy, hatred? Villeneuve didn't know which adjective to choose. But in his heart, he has always hoped that one day he can beat Schumacher again and stand on the top podium.

Prove to the world that I'm the best driver in Formula Formula and not you Schumacher!

At this moment, Villeneuve has a premonition in his heart, the time has come, since Schumacher you are in the way, then I will kill you first!

Turn 6 at the Indianapolis Circuit is a very sharp U-shape, where the car basically has to slow down to about 88km/h in second gear before it can pass smoothly. However, precisely because the speed is too slow and there are not many routing options, overtaking in this corner is not very frequent.

But this time, when Schumacher passed, he spotted Villeneuve riding on the shoulder and forcing into the inside lane, intending to overtake in the corner.

Villeneuve's move simply made Schumacher a little incomprehensible, this nearly 180-degree turn, you also plan to surpass me from the inside? As long as the speed of the car comes up, 100% understeer, what can be used to overtake?

As a veteran on the track, Schumacher believes that it is impossible for Villeneuve not to understand this truth, but he still does it, is there some special way of routing the IndyCar line?

But soon Villeneuve used his actions to tell Schumacher that Lao Tzu did not have any special overtaking skills, relying on a hard word!

That's right, the car can't sit in a 180-degree sharp turn after entering the corner, because the understeer starts to push the head directly. Coupled with the fact that he was on the inside, Villeneuve's car was like a torpedo, crashing straight into Schumacher's Ferrari.

Faced with this situation, Schumacher was a little confused in an instant, he did not expect that with Villeneuve's historical achievements and professional qualifications, he would make such a manipulation comparable to that of a newcomer.

No way, Schumacher didn't want to be knocked off the track, this US Grand Prix would decide the 2000 season of world champions, and Schumacher had to get points anyway, breaking Cothard's thoughts.

If it really didn't score points in two consecutive races and dragged the event into the final Japanese Grand Prix, Coulthard, who was up in momentum, might really use the way of crashing to create a counterattack miracle!

Schumacher himself did this kind of thing, so he absolutely did not allow it, and the same plot happened to him. In today's race, you must get points to lock up the world championship title!

The only way to avoid Villeneuve's torpedo attack was to accelerate away, so Schumacher kicked the accelerator and the car began to pick up speed. But Schumacher, who was in a state of steering at this time, was already a little too late.

Villeneuve's front wheel, which hit the side of Schumacher's car, is now only about 70 km/h due to Villeneuve's final braking, compared to the speed of more than 300 km/h.

This speed did not cause any car to crash, but it was like a push, pushing Schumacher directly out of the track and into the track buffer. With the help of this blocking force, Villeneuve, who had completely slowed down the car, turned over and easily cornered.

"What happened, Villeneuve knocked Schumacher off the track?"

"Is this a violation or a mistake? I have the feeling that Villeneuve did it on purpose. ”

"I also feel like there's a deliberate element to it, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to overtake at this corner."

"What if you want to be surprised?"

The audience on the track began to discuss the situation just now, whether it was an accident or malice.

But soon a group of IndyCar fans started clamoring that they didn't care if it was intentional or not, as long as the result was Villeneuve overtaking Schumacher, and that was enough!

"Well done, that's the wildness of our Indy!"

"Villeneuve, you have finally awakened, this is our Indy spirit!"

"F1 girls, listen, this is the real fast and furious!"

"Indy, Men's Racing!"

IndyCar's style has always been known for being wild and aggressive, and it has a low financial and technical threshold, and there are far more cars than Formula 1, at one point exceeding 60.

Later, the number of cars was limited to just over 30 for safety and spectacle, but even so, it was still about a dozen more than a dozen cars higher than in Formula 1.

With so many cars crowded on the track, a lot of times there really isn't room for the technology to come into play, especially in the starting stages.

Therefore, if you want to "get ahead", brutality and radicalism have become essential qualities, otherwise you will always be blocked behind.

The combination of the number of cars, the skill of the drivers, and the rules of speed has led to frequent accidents in IndyCar, but this has also become a style and characteristic. So Villeneuve's tough move now is very much in line with the taste of the IndyCar fans on the spot, and they like it very much.

It's just that I like to like it, and I liken F1 racing to a sport like a sissy, which angers many F1 fans.

Because Formula 1 also has its own pride, as the highest crystallization of human automotive engineering technology, the highest temple of driver strength, and the aesthetics brought by the technical flow style, it is not comparable to the barbaric and rough IndyCar.

"Say who's a sissy racer? Can a brutal collision without rules be called a man? ”

"It's a shame in the racing world that you can't overtake with technical content, you can only win by impacting!"

"It's no wonder that Villeneuve has plummeted in F1, and time will eventually prove his strength."

"Ban Villeneuve, this is definitely deliberate malicious driving!"

It's the home of IndyCar, and the vast majority of the crowd is American, but that doesn't mean there aren't F1 fans here.

Even if it is like the Chinese audience at the scene, there are only a few thousand to 10,000 people, who can make their voices heard and refute the Indy fans.

For a while, the stands fell into a fierce quarrel, and no fan was willing to admit defeat.

This is the war of the right to speak, only by completely dividing the winner and losing, and one party bows down to the subordinate, can this contest be ended!

"Shumi, how's it going?"

Seeing Schumacher knocked off the track, the Ferrari strategy team immediately started to inquire.

"I don't know what the side shell is, but I didn't turn off the ignition, I didn't get stuck in the gravel, and I was able to keep running!"

After Schumacher crashed off the track, his rich racing experience hit the neutral gear as soon as possible to prevent the car from stalling due to the brakes.

And Schumacher's luck was also good, the tires did not sink into the sand and gravel in the buffer zone, and still drove out of the buffer zone slowly and returned to the track. The only thing he couldn't verify was whether the middle of the body, which had been hit by Villeneuve's front wheel, had been severely damaged.

The Ferrari strategy team was relieved to hear that Schumacher was sure that he could still run, and at the same time, the cornering camera was also aimed at Schumacher's car, and the carbon fiber shell in the middle section showed depressions and cracks, but it was not damaged, which means that the aerodynamic shape has not suffered great damage.

"Shumi, there's no obvious damage to the shell, you can decide whether to pit or keep running."

"Keep running!"

Schumacher replied firmly, one more pit stop means at least a dozen seconds of delay.

Now that he has been hit by Villeneuve, he has fallen behind Coulthard, and if he makes another pit stop, he may not be able to recover the gap.

"Okay, feel free to contact us if you have any questions."

After saying this, Brown hung up the voice call, then slammed his fist on the table, and said angrily: "Villeneuve definitely did it on purpose, he reinforced the front suspension, otherwise he would have entered the pits with that crash just now!" ”

The main goal of the F1 design structure is to reduce weight, so the safety factor is as low as possible, leaving little design redundancy. However, many teams or drivers, in order to make the car more problematic, make some targeted adjustments to the car structure.

For example, Schumacher, in order to be able to avoid damaging the car in a confrontation, specifically asked to increase the structural strength of the front tie rod. This will result in a loss of lap performance, but it will increase the confrontation because Schumacher knows that many drivers may use some of the more extreme maneuvers in order to overtake him.

Brown was from Ferrari's design department, so he was naturally aware of the structural features of the car.

Schumacher did it because Ferrari was capable of being a car and could afford to lose it, and he needed it.

How could the tractor of the British and American racing cars be designed in such a way that lost lap performance? Surely, Villeneuve has made changes to the car!

F1 stipulates that the only thing that can be modified in the middle of the season is the aerodynamic package. The structure of the front tie rod has been strengthened, which is already a change at the frame level, which is a violation of the rules of the race, and must be investigated by the FIA after the race!