Chapter 264: Investigation

The news of his life-threatening situation immediately relieved everyone who was worried about him, and the news of missing the rest of the season made people feel sorry for this promising young man. After all, judging from the strength Ye Feng showed before his injury and the competitiveness of Williams racing this season, a healthy Ye Feng will undoubtedly be a strong contender for the championship this season.

And after that amazing accident, Ye Feng's biggest rival Alonso was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Prior to this, Renault Racing and Alonso had both lost many races in front of Williams Racing and Ye Feng. They are even close to giving up their lead. Now Ye Feng has been completely reimbursed this season, and finally Renault and Alonso can unload their heavy burdens and face the next games, and although there have been some gains this season, it is still unknown whether Raikkonen, who has been extremely unstable and is already ranked third in the standings at this time, can stop Renault.

However, for Ye Feng's accident, Renault and Alonso, the biggest beneficiaries in fact, changed their attitude towards their opponents in the face of the media, and did not express their outlook for the future championship situation. Whether it was Briatori or the Spanish guy, they only lightly expressed their blessings to Ye Feng......

In short, this season's originally tense and fierce championship battle came to an end with Ye Feng's accident on the Istanbul track, and the original confusing form of the championship competition finally became clear again.

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The question of the ownership of this season's championship has lost suspense for the time being, but the accident surrounding Ye Feng did not end because Ye Feng was out of danger. In fact, from the moment the accident occurred. An investigation into the cause of the incident has also begun with FIA officials. Soon after, an investigation team was formed into the accident, which included F1 officials and FIA officials. and other representatives of various interest groups such as insurance companies, technicians, etc.

Since Senna's tragic accident at Imola sparked a marathon-like dispute between the driver's family, the team and the organising committee, an accident in Formula 1 is no longer about the team and the driver themselves. The purpose of the establishment of this investigation team is to investigate the truth of the accident to the bottom of the matter, to find out the cause and nature of the accident, so that the Games can learn lessons in the future and prevent the recurrence of such accidents.

The key to these involvements is to find out whether it was an accident caused by accident due to driver error, or whether it was caused by technical deficiencies in the racing and some mistakes and inactions of the team. The impact of these two very different findings on the FIA's final decision is significant. If it's the driver's fault, then all the consequences will naturally be borne by the driver himself. And if it is found that the accident was caused by the team's mismanagement and negligence, then the Williams team, the other protagonist of the accident, is likely to be heavily fined by the F1 Organizing Committee and the FIA. Such surveys generally have two focuses. One is to troubleshoot the damaged car, and the other is more important to investigate and collect evidence from the driver involved. It can be said that to a large extent, the results of this investigation of Ye Feng himself will seriously affect the outcome of whether the Williams team will be punished.

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"Mr. Ye, I'm sorry to bother you so often after you were injured! But I'm here to ask you the same question. Because your description is crucial to our investigation and evidence collection, please be sure to answer our questions in a fair and objective manner, okay? You know, it's really, really important! Please don't think about other factors when answering questions, and don't think about hiding something for someone who may be responsible! ”

This is the third time that the investigation team has come to the hospital to talk to Ye Feng. This time, Moseley found a lawyer to interrogate Ye Feng. From the eyes of this officer named Charlie with burning eyes, Lao Ye, who was in a wheelchair, could even clearly feel this guy's enthusiasm to make such a thing bigger and more complicated. However, judging from the fact that the other party talked to him for the third time in just a week. Lao Ye knew that they must not have made any substantial progress in the technical test, otherwise it would be impossible for them to be so anxious to open a breakthrough from him.

As for what kind of breakthrough it is, Ye Feng has long been aware of it in his recent exchanges with Boss Sai, Michael and Serena Williams. For an ordinary audience, F1 is a wonderful film that is staged every year and has 7 stops, and you will understand it. Everything in this is always carried out with strong political overtones and the inside story of the game of various convoys and forces. Some time ago, Serena Williams used his own skills to make his team's dispute with Renault finally develop in his favor, and this time his team had an accident, and other teams naturally would not let go of such an opportunity to weaken their opponents.

And in the long run, the Williams team, which has changed its main partner, shows no signs of going downhill. And it's getting stronger and stronger. This is something that makes the other teams very unhappy, they have just temporarily knocked out Ferrari through their own efforts, so no one wants to see another team similar to Ferrari appear! So now any opportunity to hit and weaken the Williams team, these forces, whether in the open or in the shadows, do not want to let go easily. Whether it is for the FIA to make a penalty against Williams, or for the two Williams teams at the time of this investigation to turn against Ye Feng, these people want to see the result, so this investigation is destined to have a strong purpose and political color from the moment it starts......

"I'm sorry! Mr. Charlie. I'm afraid I'm going to let you run for nothing this time! I've already said that the accident was caused by my own misoperation and loss of consciousness under the high-intensity confrontation! It was purely an accident. It doesn't have much to do with the team or the car itself. Of course, I will learn this lesson in future competitions. If someone is to blame for this accident, do you think that I am now enough? ”

After this annoying Charlie's cold question, Lao Ye's answer was also angry. Now that Ye Feng knew the intention of Charlie and the background behind him, he would naturally not be stupid enough to say anything unfavorable to his team. Frankly speaking, the first time he told the investigation team that the accident was caused by his operational error, Ye Feng really thought so in his heart. But it wasn't until the team management, Pitrus and others talked to him that Lao Ye found out that his accident was probably not as simple as he thought before.

Of course. This does not mean that Ye Feng believes that his accident must be caused by the possible hidden danger assumed by William Taylor, the more he understands the F1 car, the more Ye Feng knows that in the ever-changing F1 field, anything can really happen. But at the same time, Ye Feng had already begun to feel the danger of this so-called investigation more and more deeply, so no matter what the other party said now, Lao Ye directly took all the responsibility on himself. As far as Lao Ye's current thinking is concerned, it no longer matters what the cause of the accident is, and what he has to do now is to not let anyone find an opportunity to threaten, weaken and hit the Williams team. Because no matter what kind of punishment the Williams team decides to appear, it will directly kill Ye Feng's attempt to win a championship here for the boss before going to Ferrari......

"Mr. Ye! Please also understand why we have come to you again and again to investigate and collect evidence. That is, in order to prevent you from making less objective evidence in favor of some people under the interference of other external factors. And, as an official of the FIA, I would like to remind you that you should also think carefully about your future before you testify. Be aware that once we detect a discrepancy in the wreckage of the car you're driving and your testimony. Not only will you not be able to protect what you want to protect, but you will also face severe penalties from the FIA for drivers who refuse to cooperate with the investigation! I guess as a young driver with a lot of promise, you don't want to see anything happen that would change your career dramatically, right? I thought, you know what I'm referring to, right? ”

It's obvious. At this time, the three-person investigation team sitting opposite Ye Feng had a strong and obvious intention, and just after Charlie said his question and got Lao Ye's unchanged and even somewhat cold testimony, Longley, another member of the investigation team next to Charlie, finally lost his breath. After Lao Ye had just finished speaking, this guy stood up and said gloomily towards Ye Feng.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Charlie, but did this colleague of yours threaten me just now? If that's the case, I'm afraid I won't be subjected to this so-called investigation with obvious compulsion! And I reserve the right to hold me accountable for all this unbearable! Mr. Charlie. I heard that you were also a lawyer before. Tell your companions, then, what kind of mistake is inducing! ”

Ye Feng didn't care about the threat of Longley at all, but directly questioned Charlie. At this moment, Ye Feng instinctively began to feel disgusted by the deep tricks he saw in F1. And at this time, he also made up his mind that he must not let these sanctimonious so-called officials ruin the hope that he had worked so hard for so long to vaguely have! Anyway, if the gang found out that he didn't tell the truth, he was punished, and those people who said it would not let go of the Williams team, so Ye Feng decided to simply do it once, and the iron-billed rooster had a chance with these birds! He Ye Feng is not afraid of death, but he is afraid that these people will come to shout? Come on! If there is a seed, come! Lao Ye shouted in his heart.

In fact, Charlie was a little anxious when he heard that his assistant couldn't hold his breath. Now as soon as I heard Ye Feng ask Charlie coldly, I knew that there was no possibility of this investigation going on today! In fact, he originally thought that this young man was just a hairy boy who knew how to drive a racing car, but he didn't expect that Lao Ye, who was determined to defend his own one-third of an acre, would be so difficult to deal with. Now it seems that there can only be two results in this investigation, or their team checks the facts they want from Ye Feng's car, then Ye Feng and Williams will be heavily punished. Or you can't find anything. If you want to squeeze something out of Ye Feng, it is impossible at all.

"Oh...... I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, that's not what Longli meant! Please don't take it to heart! He just wants to remind you of some of the things you have to be aware of as well as the consequences! It's all based on a hypothesis! As investigators, we don't have any subjective conjectures and guesses! Knowing that things were fruitless, Charlie had to stand up and apologize to Ye Feng, play a round, and stop his subordinates from saying anything else.

"Hehe, so he was really threatening me just now? Mr. Charlie, I now tell you for the record that this is the last time I will express my opinion on that accident, and I will state my opinion. In the future, I will not accept any more questioning of any nature from you, and you can directly take what I said three times as testimony! Also, I hope we won't see each other again in the future! Now, I'm going to rest! ”

Ye Feng ended this meeting with a sneer, when everything was prepared for the worst, Lao Ye was really relieved. Since entering the Williams team, after encountering so many things, Ye Feng has become more and more distant from the hairy boy in the past. Too many responsibilities and burdens were pressed on Lao Ye's shoulders, and there were more and more dark and ugly displays in front of him, so that Ye Feng had to learn to be strong earlier than other peers. In the past, to be honest, Ye Feng didn't quite understand what the concept of being strong that Senna had been learning him to be, or in Ye Feng's mind, being strong was synonymous with training hard, not afraid of hardship, and not afraid of tiredness. But now Ye Feng feels more and more that if he wants to survive in F1, he even wants to win and rewrite history, and he wants to get everything he wants, what does it mean to be strong.

Strength is the smile when all hope is lost, strength is the persistence that is unmoved by any possible changes, strength is the madness of defending one's ideals and goals at all costs, and strength is him: the backbone of Ye Feng who wants to survive in F1......