Kossel understood Zhang Yifei's doubts, and once again determined the time for Montoya, and reminded him that his opponent had already replaced him.

For Zhang Yifei, this news can be described as an unexpected surprise. First, it avoids the risk of being hit by front and back. Second, on this track, Schumacher puts himself in a pressure that is indeed not as great as Montoya.

This is not to say that Schumacher is not as strong as Montoya, but that many drivers have their own advantages. Montoya is too familiar with Indianapolis track, and there is no flaw or opportunity to take advantage of the route.

Just like Senna's rain battle is world-famous. In the most exaggerated time, it was able to beat the world's top drivers at that time, including Schumacher, for nearly 4 seconds. Can it be said that Senna has the strength to lead Schumacher in one lap by 4 seconds? The answer is of course impossible. The speed of a lap is 4 seconds ahead of a lap, which is simply a beat of a child, and is not at the same level at all.

I can only say that the irregular rain battles at that time, the half-dry and half-wet track happened to be the point he was best at, so that he could create the greatest miracle in F1's history.

The same is true for Montoya now. The Indianapolis track has magnified his strengths, so the strength and pressure shown on this track are stronger than Schumacher.

As for overtaking like Turn 1, Zhang Yifei suspected that if Schumacher was replaced by Montoya, he might not have been able to surpass him.

Montoya, who drove out of the maintenance passage, looked at the two racing cars that were already far ahead, and his expression on his face was very gloomy.

When entering the station for inspection just now, the chief technician found that there was a very obvious crack in the front nose of his racing car. In order to ensure the normal progress of the next race and the safety of the drivers, the team strategy team temporarily decided to replace the front nose wing.

I have to say that Williams team is worthy of the title of the Big Three team, and the professionalism of the crew members is nothing to say. When they decided to change it temporarily, they only took just over 15 seconds to solve the problem, which is amazingly fast.

If it were Prost team, if it were to replace the front nose wing without preparation, the visual time would take about 18 seconds. Here you can see the foundation of a top team. They have experienced too many accidents and have enough preparation plans.

However, Montoya did not have any mentality of giving up at this moment. He was still confident that he could catch up with Zhang Yifei and Schumacher in front and defend the glory of the home court!

On the other hand, Zhang Yifei and Schumacher began a chase battle. It was obvious that Schumacher's attack this time was even more fierce and radical. If it weren't for the world championship, Zhang Yifei even felt that when he was grabbing the line, the other party had the urge to knock himself on the track.

Also on Schumacher's side, he also felt the change in Zhang Yifei's defense intensity. This Chinese newcomer was not as straightforward as before, relying on speed and simply pressing the car to win. Instead, the lines were changing, creating a lot of turbulence that affected the aerodynamic balance of the rear car.

To be honest, these operations are only aware of F1 old birds. Zhang Yifei was able to change his defensive strategy by just experiencing a simple stop, which really surprised Schumacher.

Thirty-two laps, thirty-three laps, thirty-seven laps!

The lap speed began to grow continuously, and the fierce battle between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher continued. It was indeed Zhang Yifei's defense getting better and better. Even if Schumacher's offensive became more and more intense, he still did not find a good opportunity to overtake.

Of course, there are Schumacher's concerns here. After all, the world champion is right in front of him. He may not be as conservative as Prost, but he cannot do anything like Senna, and he still retains some strength after all.

"It's amazing, the Chinese newcomer king is growing at a speed visible to the naked eye."

Toyota team manager Miya Tomoda looked at Zhang Yifei's defensive operation and said in an amazement.

It is obvious that during the battle, Zhang Yifei kept changing lines to destroy his tail airflow, making Schumacher less likely to speed up and even disrupt the aerodynamic balance of the rear car.

This is something that I couldn't see in Zhang Yifei's defense before. Even in the first half of the schedule, Zhang Yifei relied on tough blocking cars and too fast cornering speed to maintain his advantage over the rear cars.

If you are not young and respond quickly enough, this straightforward way of blocking the car will not be able to stop it if you change lanes a little slower.

After hearing this, the leader Uedo Hirakawa nodded and said, "China's Yifeijun is indeed very strong, showing the strength of the number one driver in Asia. It was a pity that we gave up his youth training contract."

Toyota Racing Division has really regretted it recently. In order to acquire the Arrows Team, it gave up such a great potential stock as Zhang Yifei. It is no exaggeration to say that even without the foundation of the Arrows Team, as long as you focus on Zhang Yifei, you can build an upstream F1 team around him.

After all, Toyota is not a rich man who enters the game and has no capital to start from scratch. Toyota is Le Mans' champion team and has the strength of the world's largest car manufacturer. It can be said that powerful drivers are what they lack the most.

The better Zhang Yifei performed, the more they felt!

"President Toshita, I have learned that Yifeijun signed a contract with Prost team, which seems to be just a basic salary. If we pay the transfer fee and liquidated damages, can we dig Yifeijun to Toyota team?"

After hearing the suggestion of Hirakawa Uedo, Tomoda Minami was really excited. The basic salary means that the liquidated damages will not be very high. In addition to the transfer fee, it is within the scope of the Toyota team that can bear.

The most important thing is that the two drivers of Toyota team, Srick Bernoldi, are too delicious and Jos Verstappen are too old, both of which are a bit useless. And Old Verstappen may be ready to retire next year, and a formal driver vacancy will be vacant.

"The Toyota board of directors should be fine, but how can you tell Zhang Yifei?"

"The data analysts and agents around him are all employees of the Toyota youth training team. Now many friends are in touch with them, and I think they can persuade them."

"Yes, I'll leave this matter to you."

Before Toda Miyato was the team manager, he was the president of Toyota Racing Business Department. His level was far from that of Yamamoto Ukyo and others, so he didn't know these two former Toyota employees. Since Ueto Hirakawa has this relationship, you can really try it.

After all, Zhang Yifei is no longer a matter of potential, but shows the strength of a first-class driver. As long as he is not a flash in the pan, with Zhang Yifei's current age, he can almost be destined to become a top F1 driver and even strive for the world championship!

This is a rare super newcomer for Toyota, and it is better to be able to poach its own team.

The competition between Zhang Yifei and Schumacher on the track is still very fierce, and Zhang Yifei gradually feels difficult.

From the beginning, he was able to suppress Schumacher with turbulence, which had a very obvious effect, but later, Schumacher had obviously adapted to the changes in Zhang Yifei's defensive rhythm.

Seriously speaking, Zhang Yifei is not a new trick. I don’t know how many similar situations have been encountered in Schumacher’s career. If you want to defeat him in this way, it’s still a little too young.

So his offensive became more and more fierce, and his line grabbing began to become tougher. Zhang Yifei knew that the front horizontal link of Schumacher racing was a reinforced component. If he had to bump into the car slightly, he would definitely suffer a loss.

But many times, Schumacher had many considerations about his newbie status and was not afraid of wearing shoes because of his barefoot concept.

But now as his strength grows, Schumacher begins to feel pressure and threatened, he must use tougher means to deal with him. Therefore, in some competitions for line grabbing, Zhang Yifei dared not be as unscrupulous as before, and felt that he was as obsessed with Schumacher.

Under the passive situation, Schumacher almost succeeded in overtaking several times. One time, Schumacher had already surpassed the entire car in Turn 1, and Zhang Yifei relied on the advantage of the chain turns and overtook it back.

"Isn't Schumacher known as the strongest driver? Why can't even surpass a Chinese guy!"

"fuck  you, is it really going to be won by a Chinese driver in the US Grand Prix? I can't accept it!"

"Run Schumacher quickly, don't be too slow!"

"Montoya, catch up with the two in front, is your strength just like that?"

"Come on Montoya, the championship can only be yours!"

Faced with the situation where Zhang Yifei was leading the way on the track, many American car fans began to be anxious, and they shouted at the top of their voices.

Before, they just used Zhang Yifei as a rookie, but Schumacher was the real goal of Indycar fans. After all, only by defeating the strongest F1 driver can the Indycars be justified.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yifei was a little unexpected. If he really got the American champion, where would he put his face?

"Lei Qi, the Chinese newcomer is indeed a bit strong."

Indy champion Blake sat in the audience with a serious face and said to the double champion Lei Qi beside him.

As Indy's annual champions, they are naturally not rookies, and they can understand the exquisite and difficult controls.

If it was accidental to let Zhang Yifei run to the third place in the previous qualifying competition, then it would be absolutely impossible to be luck to surpass Montoya and block the car Schumacher!

To be honest, these Indy champions really didn’t take Zhang Yifei seriously at the beginning, thinking that he was just a target of ridicule and humiliation. Now, this Chinese boy is far stronger than he thought. This level is not a Chinese rookie in the report at all!

Lei Qi did not answer, but said to Helio beside him: "Do you think you are better than the Chinese newcomer?"

As the new champion of this year, Helio, known as the strongest Indy driver, is the main force in challenging Formula One this time.

He had only one opponent before, that is Schumacher. All the hype is to make Schumacher face the challenge. Now it seems that the F1 super newcomer is really worthy of his name.

"I'm the strongest Formula rider, have any questions?"

Helio replied to Lei Qi coldly, his eyes full of fighting spirit and murderous aura, and he did not have any modesty or respect for the senior drivers.
Chapter completed!