The morning after the end of the US Grand Prix, the news that Zhang Yifei won the branch championship once again caused a sensation in the United States, surpassing the previous effects of Time magazine.

Because not only Zhang Yifei won the two Indy world champions of F1, this kid also publicly challenged the other three Indy kings, which eventually led to the peak battle between the Indian local formula and Formula One!

Even the largest media in the United States reported the news with headlines, which is a historical event.

nHomepage title "Formula One and local formulas of Printing have ushered in a battle of the century!"

The Associated Press titled "Can the Chinese boy who touched the "Formula War" perform another miracle?"

Reuters published a special issue "Is it the driver flying or Helio in the battle for the strongest newcomer?"

Wall Street Journal headline "Blue Death on the Track, Can the Chinese Dragon continue to roar on the Indy Track?"

The most important media for Chinese Americans, World Journal, uses full page content to introduce Zhang Yifei's career in detail, and is accompanied by the domineering title "Chinese drivers who conquers the United States!".

These reports made American car fans angry and were more shocked. They had never expected that there was a Chinese driver who could challenge the entire American car world, which was something that he dared not imagine before.

At the same time, the time of this event was also determined, just at noon on October 3. There was no practice race or the traditional qualifying race in Indy. There were five race cars, starting in two rows in front and back, completing 200 laps as fast as possible, and running 500 miles is the final winner!

The competition mode is simple and rough, and it is also in line with the wild style of Indy racing. The three Indy kings have also made concessions. Zhang Yifei and Schumacher can be in the front row starting position, which is a balance between the injustice caused by different race types.

After the time was determined, a ticket purchase frenzy was directly triggered in the United States. The Indy Rules' competition method is much more attractive to American car fans than the previous F1 rules.

And the several Indian annual champions who participated were all active Indian local Formula drivers, which were essentially different from "outdated kings" like Montoya and Villeneuve.

After all, Montoya and Villeneuve are already F1 drivers, and even if they win the championship, they are still F1 American Grand Prix champions. And these people of Helio will represent pure Indy racing and challenge the peak of Formula One.

I've been sitting in the second position for too long, and it's time to prove that the Indy driver is the most powerful Formula driver in the world!

The 200,000 tickets were sold out in a short time, and the organizers had to open all the spaces in the track, and according to the Indy 500 layout, 300,000 audience seats were opened to create an American sports event comparable to the Super Bowl!

In the hotel restaurant, Zhang Yifei's old team of people were habitually sitting together for breakfast and watching the morning news.

"Yifeijun, the 300,000 viewers are amazing. The more people you have, the more pressure you will have to bear."

Yamamoto Ukyo was a little shocked by the number of audiences. After all, there are few events that can reach this level of audiences.

The 200,000 spectators were present before, and the 300,000 spectators were extremely spectacular. The scene of 300,000 spectators was simply unbelievable. It may be one of the craziest competitions in the history of sports events.

"I don't have any pressure, the more people, the better."

Zhang Yifei replied lightly.

This is not Zhang Yifei's stubbornness, he really thought so. If possible, Zhang Yifei even hopes that the whole United States can see how he stepped on the Indy champion and let them understand the consequences of humiliating Chinese drivers!

"After the number of people reaches a quantity, it is just a difference in numbers."

Cosell also replied lightly, and did not think there was any pressure because of the change in the number of people.

"By the way, the Indy Racing should be delivered today, so as to use the fastest time to adapt to the control and key layout of the Indy Racing."

"I will."

Zhang Yifei nodded and then accelerated the breakfast.

After breakfast, the group went to the team repair station, and the technician team had already gone to the track because they had to inspect and receive Indy racing cars.

By the time Zhang Yifei and his party arrived, there was an orange-white racing car in the garage, which was completely different from the aerodynamic part of JS53. The team penske logo on it means it came from the super team of Indian local formulas.

The penske team is equivalent to the Ferrari in F1, and even surpasses the Ferrari. It has won 17 team championships in the Indy 500's history for more than a hundred years, and is a well-deserved absolute king team.

"It seems that the American Automobile Association has not made small moves on the racing supply."

Knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated. Zhang Yifei has also gained a detailed understanding of Indy Racing in the past few days. Currently, the racing of the Penske team is considered a powerful racing car in the local Indian formula. At least the American Automobile Association does not deliberately provide Indy Racing with lagging performance.

"With the FIA ​​supervision, how could such an unfair move occur? Those Indy kings also used the same Indy car."

Henry said, "Prost is not here, he is the one who negotiates on behalf of the convoy, so naturally he cannot let Zhang Yifei suffer a loss."

"Yes, they already have the advantage, so there is no need to make small moves on such things."

Zhang Yifei replied casually, and then began to look around the Indy car.

The most obvious external difference between Indy racing and Formula racing is the different aerodynamic layout. Indy racing emphasizes extreme speed, so the downforce brought by the air kit is much lower than that of F1, and it is more due to the mechanical downforce brought by the weight of the car.

Therefore, the layout of the Indy track is relatively simple, because the aerodynamic layout of Indy racing on complex corners cannot provide enough downforce at low speeds and cannot achieve rapid cornering.

In addition, most of the cars on the Indy Racing team are actually the same structure, and they are not divided into "earth rover" and "mars rover" like F1, and the performance gap is very obvious.

Because Indy Racing is relatively small, it is poor to put it bluntly. In order to save costs, all racing cars use a unified chassis, turbocharger, and gearbox. In addition, from the three suppliers, Chevrolet, Honda, and Lotus, we choose one to become our own engine supplier.

This leads to almost all racing cars being similar, similar to the primary formula that Zhang Yifei had run before, which tests the driver's absolute strength rather than the difference in racing performance.

It is precisely because of these characteristics that allow the competition to be in a relatively fair environment that Zhang Yifei dares to challenge the Indy King wildly. Otherwise, the other party drives a Mars rover and drives a tractor by himself, so how can he run a hammer?

To be honest, Zhang Yifei is not unfamiliar with the aerodynamic appearance and button layout. After all, I don’t know how many times I have driven the track simulator. Zhang Yifei had experienced it from the karting stage and driving a Formula Racing directly at the Toyota Youth Training Base. This is really not a challenge.

However, theory and racing simulation are not real competitions after all, and no one knows what the result will be the day after tomorrow.

In the next two days, the Prost maintenance team thoroughly inspected the Indy car under the supervision of the event organizing committee and confirmed that there were no "secret diseases" and any violations of the rules.

On the other hand, Zhang Yifei also thought he had learned thoroughly the Indy 500 Oval Track and fully understood the differences between Indy racing. He was full of confidence in this final battle of the Formula.

At 9 a.m. on October 3, the Indianapolis Circuit opened to enter the venue. This time, there were no Colombian and Canadian flags in the stands, and it could be said that it was the overwhelming American Stars and Stripes.

It can be said that this time, American Indy Car fans also came to watch the game on the spot with the glory and dignity of maintaining Indy racing. In any case, they cannot lose to the F1 driver in the Indy 500 Holy Land, especially the Chinese boy!

When it was nearly eleven o'clock, 300,000 viewers were completely sitting. I have to say that the feeling of seeing at first glance was really shocking and amazing. Even though Zhang Yifei had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but be amazed when he saw the 300,000 viewers in the audience.

But Zhang Yifei still saw two red existences in a sea of ​​star and stripes. One of them was Ferrari fan and Schumacher supporters. Even in the United States, there were still many die-hard fans of Ferrari and Schumacher.

Another point is naturally the existence of Chinese and overseas Chinese. After all, the United States is one of the countries with the largest number of Chinese and overseas Chinese. How could they not be able to give Zhang Yifei some support and encouragement in this battle of dignity concerning the Chinese drivers?

There were more Chinese audiences present today than the previous American Grand Prix, with about 10,000 people. You should know that in this era, there were only a few million American Chinese, and it was definitely an exaggerated number to be able to gather 10,000 people to come to the audience.

This number of people makes Zhang Yifei feel more about their hopes and expectations for themselves.

"Come on, Indy!"

"America will win!"

"God bless America!"

“usa,usa,usa!”

Before the race began, all kinds of roaring sounds were endless. Even at the team repair station, these deafening calls could not be avoided.

To be honest, Zhang Yifei began to understand what pressure Yamamoto Ukyo meant. Indeed, when the quantity reaches a limit, it will inevitably be affected. Just like now, Zhang Yifei's ears are filled with the other party's cheering voices all the time.

"Fei, finally debug the headphones to see if the call with Schumacher is interfering."

Charlie linked the racing headset and said to Zhang Yifei, this is the first time they used the Indy Racing Call System and the first time they linked different teams. Especially now that the audience is here, they are testing whether the call is normal in complex electromagnetic environments.
Chapter completed!