"It's not normal."

Almost just after Zhang Yifei passed the first corner, McLaren team chairman Ron Dennis keenly noticed that Zhang Yifei's cornering speed and line were more than one level stronger than Schumacher.

It is true that there is a factor in the first lap of the practice race, and Schumacher has not officially entered the state yet, but from the side, it means that Zhang Yifei's speed of entering the state is a little amazing, and it doesn't even look like he is running a practice match.

"Soon, shouldn't he run this practice as a race?"

McLaren manager Whitmarsh, who was next to him, also nodded in agreement, with some surprise in his tone.

Although the Tokai Circuit is a brand new track with no historical data to refer to, for those of the top racing practitioners, it only takes a simple corner to roughly judge the speed of the car.

Even some retired drivers turned team managers, such as Prost and Niki Lauda, can even deduce the exact speed at that time with a little concentration, with an error of only about one percent.

Therefore, Dennis and Whitmarsh both saw that Zhang Yifei's speed was not normal, and they started to exert their strength directly in the practice match.

"Of course, it's impossible to be a race, but this is Fei's home track, and he probably wants to show his speed in front of the Chinese audience."

"In the pre-competition preparation time, Fei was very different from his previous state, and he was very relaxed and casual. Now the whole stadium is cheering for him again, as a young man who is only 20 years old, it is actually normal to want to show his strength to respond to the home fans. ”

Dennis said why, after all, the 200,000 home stadium spectators in the United States can not reach this scale except for the Indianapolis Speedway in the United States.

And more importantly, even if it is your home stadium, you must have the strength and fame to match the home stadium.

If you're a bottom-of-the-line driver, you can't do this scene of hundreds of thousands of people shouting and cheering, even with home support.

Speaking from the heart, let alone a young boy like Fei, even if he is a different driver, it is also easy to get lost in this atmosphere, and not everyone can achieve the stability of the heart.

Whitmarsh nodded when he heard this, and then said: "It's normal for young people to want to show off, but whether it will affect the performance of the game depends on whether he can control the limit." ”

"Judging from the current performance, Fei seems to be a little out of control of his mentality."

Whitmarsh is still the consensus impression reached by other teams in the past few days, that is, Zhang Yifei is a little floating, and his performance in practice now confirms this.

But Dennis had a playful smile on his face at this time.

"Whitmarsh, whether Fei has controlled his mentality in the end is not based on his performance, but on his results."

"Even if it's arrogant, as long as you can win the game, this is the normal confidence of a champion. On the contrary, as long as he loses, even if Fei is as modest as the traditional Chinese, he will still be controversial. ”

"You look at the track, Fei is almost catching up with Schumacher's wake, it's only half a lap, it's at least one second faster than Schumacher, you know what that means."

Whitmarsh was talking to the boss just now, and he really didn't notice the gap between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher.

Generally, the starting interval of the practice race is 2 to 3 seconds, and in less than a minute of what he just said, Zhang Yifei has less than two corners between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher, and if he encounters a long straight, he even has a chance to eat the wake of the car in front!

What does this mean?

This means that on the first lap of the practice session, Zhang Yifei's lap speed was more than 2 seconds faster than Schumacher's!

After being reminded by Dennis, Whitmarsh looked at the broadcast screen and was a little stunned, indeed, as the boss said, competitive sports are never about attitudes, only about the final results.

The so-called seriousness and diligence are actually just a plus in competitive sports, not a decisive item.

Now that Zhang Yifei has run this kind of lap time, it can no longer be explained by Schumacher not being serious, or wanting to show off, etc., this is the strength, and he has begun to show his dominance over the Donghai International Circuit!

Could it be that this kind of home aura can also appear on a brand new track?

It wasn't just Whitmarsh who was stunned, but the members of the Ferrari pit strategy team were all stunned at the moment!

In fact, with the experience and background of the Ferrari strategy team, they have long not felt too much joy because of the "slackness" shown by Zhang Yifei.

On the contrary, as they become more and more abnormal, they have a vigilant feeling that something abnormal is a demon. It's just that the Ferrari strategy team can't understand what Zhang Yifei's confidence and confidence are, does he really think that this is his home stadium, and he can easily defeat Schumacher to dominate the track?

After all, according to the thinking of a normal team, especially when the opponent is Schumacher, no matter how talented he can quickly control the track, can he still give Schumacher seconds?

Now the Ferrari strategy team is beginning to understand what Zhang Yifei's confidence and confidence are, and the speed of the first lap of the Chinese kid's practice session is comparable to Schumacher's fastest lap on a racing simulator.

If this is not Zhang Yifei's full strength, then Schumacher will face a crushing defeat, this situation is really a bit appalling!

"Is this Fei's hole card? It's not that he's slack, but that he has absolute ruling strength to dare to be so relaxed? ”

Ross Brown was completely stunned, and he even had some doubts about whether the picture he saw with his eyes was real.

No one has ever been able to crush Schumacher so much after his rookie season. Even in the duel with Senna that year, the Brazilian driver could not win the rain battle so exaggeratedly, and the final winner was Schumacher.

This is a completely new track, aside from the "metaphysical" momentum bonus of the home field, in theory, with Schumacher's experience, he should crush the fly in skillful speed, but now it is completely reversed.

What makes the Ferrari strategy team even more desperate is that it is only the first lap of the first practice session, and how fast Zhang Yifei will be in the next more important qualifying and main race, is Schumacher going to suffer the worst rout of his career?

"I don't believe it, I don't believe that there is anyone else in this world who can crush Shumi on the track, not even if Senna is reborn."

Jean Todd shook his head stubbornly, telling him that this was not something that could happen, both sensually and intellectually.

It's just that the amazing fact is already in front of us, at least on this lap, Zhang Yifei is more than two seconds faster than Schumacher in a single lap. The only way to verify whether it will continue to happen is to let Schumacher run a little faster, if Zhang Yifei can catch up and surpass, it really means the replacement of the king.

"Shumi, run a little faster on the second lap, it's time to show what you're capable of."

Jean Todd didn't say anything about Zhang Yifei catching up because he didn't want to put a lot of pressure on Schumacher.

But for Schumacher, it doesn't matter if Jean Todd says it or not, because he is already in the rearview mirror, he sees the blue and red Prost car, the familiar number 13.

There are no adjectives at this moment, which can describe the emotions in Schumacher's heart, the first lap has just passed, and he is 3 seconds ahead of Zhang Yifei in the starting interval, and the distance from the pit station to the exit is at least more than 2 seconds.

The rider behind Fei, just in the past lap, was he more than 2 seconds ahead of himself in a lap?

On the first lap of the practice session, Schumacher didn't give it all and the car tuning wasn't optimal. But this is not enough to be an excuse to be led by others by more than 2 seconds in a lap, especially with Schumacher's status and status, it is a shame for him to make excuses!

Instead of responding to the team's strategy team's instructions, Schumacher stepped on the accelerator and started picking up speed in practice.

It is already a very humiliating thing to be caught up by Zhang Yifei, who started later, and if he is still easily overtaken, it will be a humiliation for Schumacher, and the confidence in front of the championship battle is very big.

In any case, Schumacher could not let such a scenario happen.

In addition to Schumacher, who was chased, he was shocked by Zhang Yifei's speed, in fact, there was also a "chaser", and the shock in his heart at the moment was so shocked that he didn't know how to describe it.

The third car was Renault's Helio, and the championship battle was no longer his share, but for Helio, there was one more thing he could do, and that was to respond to the insult of defeat at the Indianapolis circuit on the East China Sea Circuit!

For an Indy World Champion, not only losing to an F1 driver on his home turf, but even the Indy 500's Holy Land Circuit, in front of 300,000 American spectators, was trampled on the head and said conquered.

Helio will never forget that scene, Zhang Yifei arrogantly told reporters that he would not kiss the champion tiles of the Indy, because he is the conqueror, why should he follow the tradition of the loser's side?

Helio will never forget that a disappointed Indy fan who spoke of the BorgWarner Trophy's successive Indy World Champions would never forgive himself as a loser, and he would be ashamed of him.

The best way to retaliate is to stand on the top podium at Zhang Yifei's home stadium, at China's Donghai International Circuit, to declare his domination, and let Zhang Yifei also taste what it is like to be scolded by 200,000 supporters.

How deep the love is, how deep the hatred, how enthusiastic the cheers on the track are now, then how fierce the backlash will be at that time!

It's just that Helio didn't expect that Zhang Yifei's speed would be so exaggerated, and he wanted to surprise the Chinese guy in the first lap of the practice race, but he was thrown away from the distance, and there was no shadow of the opponent's car on the long straight.

Especially when the team informed Zhang Yifei that the speed of the first lap of the practice race was 1:32.422, it shattered all of Helio's preparations.

Because the fastest lap he ran on the team's racing simulator was now the lap time that Zhang Yifei ran casually on the first lap!

Your own best play is just someone else's casual run!

"Briatoli, was it really that fast to fly just now?"

Helio asked Manager Renault, this may be the first time he has taken the initiative to have a conversation, without the domineering arrogance of the past, and even a feeling of trance.

"Yes, the lap times are that fast, and he's caught up with Schumacher and the two are already in a state of confrontation."

"Caught up with Schumacher?"

When he heard this, Helio had a collapsed posture.

In the entire F1 paddock, if there is anyone Helio can convince, it is undoubtedly Schumacher.

Even if he was provoked at the American Grand Prix, in fact, the ultimate goal of several Indy champions was Schumacher. As for Zhang Yifei, it is just a cannon fodder used for mockery, which belongs to the kind that is taken out to lie down.

Of course, the final result was unexpected, and the cannon fodder made a shocking counterattack.

Schumacher was caught up, which means that Zhang Yifei's lap time just now was more than 2 seconds faster than Schumacher's.

Has even Schumacher been so crushed by the Chinese, what is so strange about this East China Sea track that can make Zhang Yifei run so fast?

In fact, compared with the lap time of 1:32.422, for the commentators on the track and ordinary spectators, what shocked them was that Zhang Yifei caught up with Schumacher.

Because the new track does not have the fastest lap, track record and other things as comparison, Zhang Yifei only knows that the lap speed is relatively fast, but to that extent, it is not felt by non-practitioners.

After all, the fastest lap of the internal racing simulator is still in the secret stage at the moment, and it is all the hole cards of each team.

But to catch up with Schumacher, that's a very obvious reference, if it's not fast enough, how can you catch up with the first person in the equation? More importantly, Zhang Yifei ate Schumacher's wake after the end of the first lap, which means that his fast lap speed is amazing.

"Li, could it be that the home field of the East China Sea Circuit has a special magic for flying, and he can actually run so fast?"

This man called "Li" is the Chinese commentator Li Bing, Blundel's partner this time, and it is also the first time that Chinese have officially participated in the commentary of F1 races.

To be honest, Li Bing was also very shocked when he saw Zhang Yifei catching up with Schumacher at this moment, but the traditional Chinese modesty and low-key thinking made him not boast about Zhang Yifei, but said very restrainedly.

"Maybe returning to my own country, as well as the cheering of the audience, gave Yifei a lot of support and fighting spirit, so I can play so well."

"NO, NO, Li, I hope a more truthful and direct answer, just like Fei's style, will always be so simple and public, so that people can understand his heart!"

In the face of Blundel's reply, Li Bing instantly felt speechless, and indeed his answer was a little more restrained and official, but the question is how did Zhang Yifei run so fast, how do I know?

If you want to be more serious, maybe your understanding of Zhang Yifei is not as good as this British foreigner who follows the commentary in every scene.

However, Li Bing has also seen a lot of foreign media reports on Zhang Yifei, and knows that this is a driver who is completely different from the image of traditional Chinese athletes, and many times it can even be described as simple and rude.

This is a live broadcast facing the world, foreigners like to fly this style, right, then I'll just say it!

"Well, then my answer is to fly very strongly, so I can run faster than Schumacher, and that's why!"

That's right, how can there be so many whys, Zhang Yifei can run faster than Schumacher, that is, he is strong enough.

As if to confirm Li Bing's words, the practice race only ran to the third lap, and when he came to the No. 1 turn of the track again, Zhang Yifei directly showed the legendary full-curve tracking braking, and overtook Schumacher, who was the first to start the practice race, with a perfect throttle cornering method.

This picture came earlier and more easily than everyone expected.

Even after overtaking suddenly, the audience was silent, and even the audience didn't react to the fact that they had overtaken!

PS: Today's Chinese New Year's Eve in the south, there is a tradition of eating New Year's dinner with the family here, so I can't catch up with two chapters, I'm really sorry.

In addition, I wish all the big brothers a happy new year, and their families can be reunited and healthy. In addition, the big brother who has a monthly pass is really going to vote.,I feel a little bit war-like.,Tomorrow the cycle must be added to make up for it!