553 American sensation
Looking at the smile on Zhang Yifei's face, Thomas felt thoughtful. At this moment, he had subconsciously thought that what Zhang Yifei said was right.
Since I answered my personal doubts, host Thomas did not continue on this issue, but instead talked back to the topic of the game.
"Recently Minardi announced that the former No. 2 driver Marques was fired, and Malaysian driver Alex (Xionglong) will replace him as an official driver."
"We all know that you had a fierce racing accident with Xiong Long on the Sepang track, and even knocked him into the hospital. Now that Alex returns to the track, have you ever considered the other party's revenge?"
When Zhang Yifei heard this passage, the first thing he thought about in his heart was not how to answer, but was amazed at the toughness of the historical trajectory.
I have been struggling for such a while, but Xiong Long can still return to Minardi Team according to the historical trajectory and become Malaysia's first official F1 driver. It's really destined to be.
But then again, Marquis is indeed amazingly delicious. Perhaps the only one who has been more delicious than Marquis in the past decade is that only Japanese driver Ideaki, whose super driver's license has been revoked.
Although Minardi is at the bottom now, this does not mean they can tolerate it. A super big deal exists in their own team. Even if the season is not over, they decided to take action in advance and let Marquis get out.
In comparison, Xiong Long is not very good, but no matter how much he says he is much better than Marquis. He is a normal F1 driver at least.
"I congratulate Xiong Long on becoming a formal F1 driver, but revenge requires strength. Do you think he is still on the same level as me now?"
Zhang Yifei replied lightly, "I never feared the 100,000 spectators at home in Malaysia. Today, it is impossible for me to say any hypocritical and polite words in Indiana, a distant United States.
The fact is that Xiong Long can’t see his taillights on the track now!
Although Thomas thinks Zhang Yifei's words are very arrogant, he has to admit that Zhang Yifei has now become a first-class driver in the f1 paddock, and has the strength to compete for the championship in the sub-station.
Xiong Long is still the newcomer in Malaysia, while Zhang Yifei is no longer the newcomer in China.
"Fei, can I understand that alex is not your opponent?"
"You can understand that."
Since Xiong Long entered the f1 enclosure again, both sides are opponents. Zhang Yifei has always shown absolute confidence, which is a psychological momentum!
"I believe alex won't understand that way."
Thomas replied with a smile, which greatly alleviated the smell of gunpowder on the topic.
"Fei, judging from today's interview answer, it seems that you are sure to win the US Grand Prix championship?"
"No, it's not until the end of the game that we can't determine who will be the final winner."
“I am very confident to compete for the championship, which does not mean that I think the championship is mine.”
Zhang Yifei emphasized that his so-called arrogance is nothing more than being unwilling to surrender. It never means that he will underestimate those truly powerful drivers in history, such as Schumacher and Barrichello.
Many times, Zhang Yifei's arrogance is caused by the stereotypes of European and American people. As long as he says something tough, he is considered bragging and arrogant.
Of course, this attitude has improved a lot now. At least Zhang Yifei said a few crazy words. They were all used to it and even thought that this was normal remarks!
This is the case in this world. You don’t have to care about what outsiders do. Instead, you set your own standards and get angry when you touch the bottom line, allowing you to see how powerful I am.
Once the other party gets used to it, he will agree with your standards and will not be surprised or opposed to anything he does. This is what Zhang Yifei is now, and Europeans and Americans are beginning to slowly signal his Chinese standards!
After the interview, the questions should be asked are basically the same. "Time" is different from ordinary hot current affairs magazines. It does not pay much attention to new things. These interviews and answers will only occupy a small part of them in the article, and will more often introduce the development history of the cover character Zhang Yifei in a narrative way.
"Fei, thank you again for accepting our interview and hope you can achieve your goal and become the American Grand Prix champion."
"Thank you, I will do my best toward this goal."
As Time magazine's interview team left, the leader Henry walked in from outside the conference room and said to Zhang Yifei: "Fei, in a few days, you will be popular all over the world!"
"Didn't I become popular once a few days ago?"
Zhang Yifei replied with a smile, not taking it seriously.
When he won the Austrian Grand Prix a few days ago, almost mainstream media around the world reported the news, after all, he was China's first F1 champion.
“This time it will be even hotter.”
But after Henry finished this sentence, he said with a playful smile on his face: "But Fei You are not so simple as you celebrate before, but will be under a lot of pressure."
“What pressure?”
"You should not underestimate the two Indy and Cart double champions when you are interviewed in the United States."
"Do I despise it?"
Zhang Yifei felt inexplicably. He didn't seem to mock these two people, and he also agreed with their competitiveness at the Indianapolis track, just thinking that he was stronger.
Do you not think you are stronger and agree that your opponent is stronger?
"You said in the interview that the Indy champion has nothing to do with F1."
"It's okay, is this a contempt?"
Zhang Yifei was even more confused. Although they both claimed to be Formula Racing, Indy Racing and F1 belong to two different types, and the two sides had no intersection.
Even if you run the same Indianapolis track now, the layout is very different and there is little comparison.
This is like the difference between Olympic boxing and professional boxing, and they are also boxing. In fact, the two are completely different. Olympic champions cannot be called boxing champions, and gold belts and Olympic medals are also two completely unmatched honors.
"American car fans don't think so. You can't understand the weight of the Indy champion in their hearts. Many Americans even think that the Indy champion is better than the F1 champion."
"You said it has nothing to do with F1, which means that the strength of the Indy champion is not applicable to F1. They cannot accept this and may even think that this is a provocation to Indy racing."
Hearing this, Zhang Yifei felt a little incomprehensible. Should he be so slim?
However, when I think about the remarks of a NBA team manager in later generations, the Americans seemed to be stepped on their tails, clamoring for freedom of speech, and then blocking the mouths that support the Chinese.
In this way, they are indeed a bunch of glass hearts.
"Since they think it's a provocation, then just act as a provocation."
Zhang Yifei replied indifferently. On the contrary, he even felt a vague excitement in his heart, and he liked to see Americans jumping their feet!
"Are you not stressed?"
"I experienced death threats at the Brazil Grand Prix, so what is pressure? I just like to see others get angry but can't get rid of me. It's really good!"
Hearing Zhang Yifei's words, Henry's smile became even more serious, and he knew that this kid would think so!
In the next few days, Zhang Yifei stayed in the hotel and trained in the racing simulator. The only difference was that during the training process, Zhang Yifei and Alaixi began to communicate.
You should know that in the past, even in the same training room, both of them almost treated each other as air, and they practiced their own things and had almost no communication.
However, after Zhang Yifei tasted the sweetness brought by his experience twice, and his relationship has improved a lot now, he began to ask Alaisi during the practice process.
Alaixi didn't have a stern face, and basically Zhang Yifei answered questions and answered questions. Even in some controls and extreme routes, Alaixi would pretend to ask Zhang Yifei inadvertently.
After all, in addition to his experience advantages, Alaisi has actually lagged behind Zhang Yifei, a newcomer in all aspects. Especially the extreme route, this is an area that Alaisi would never try before. After all, he is all a "older driver". Why are you still doing this so hard?
Facing the squeaky attitude of the French veteran, although Zhang Yifei laughed in his heart,
He would not expose it either. With this tacit cooperation, the two learned from each other and improved each other...
During the past few days, the parts rebuilt from the headquarters were also sent to the team repair station. Although it was a lot late, at least I caught up before the competition.
At the same time, Zhang Yifei also received news that the first batch of R&D teams of Huali Group with 20 people have also settled in the Prost R&D base and started to engage in some precision component processing operations.
In addition, Huali Group is also crazily recruiting and absorbing R&D personnel in automobile-related industries. They plan to gather at least 200 teams to Europe, with 100 people going to the Prost R&D base, and the other 100 people entering the European R&D center under construction to lay the foundation for future technological R&D.
Zhang Yifei was very pleased with this news. He did not read the wrong person. Chairman Li did have the crazy ambition to become a world auto giant!
On Wednesday morning, the latest issue of Time magazine's international edition was released globally. The cover character was Zhang Yifei. The photo selected him to stand on the highest podium in Austria and win the trophy.
And there is a line of small words on the cover, which translates to "a Chinese driver who is challenging the world order."
Zhang Yifei is very satisfied with this subtitle. As the only non-white driver on the track, he is indeed challenging the European and American racing order!
Another point is that, as Henry expected before, when Zhang Yifei's interview content was exposed, it caused controversy in the United States, and countless American IndyCar fans felt that they were provoked by the Chinese.
Some Indy drivers even stood up and believed that Zhang Yifei's contempt for Villeneuve and Montoya was an insult to Indy Racing!
Chapter completed!