Chapter 362
The moment Ye Feng decided to let the car crash into Hamilton's MP4-23, he knew that it would definitely trigger a series of chain reactions, and it would also add fuel to the already tense competitive situation.
Sure enough, shortly after the end of the dramatic race, McLaren filed a complaint with the FIA, arguing that Ye Feng's late breaches led to Hamilton's immediate retirement, so the perpetrators must be punished.
This result was naturally considered by Ye Feng, in fact, after being shaken by Raikkonen at that time, no matter which car he crashed into, it would be this result. So he must have been trying to find a better outcome in the worst case.
For Ye Feng and Ferrari, instead of retiring with Rosberg and Hamilton to win the race, it would be better to choose the latter, at least Hamilton will also lose the opportunity to close the points gap. However, this is not the most fundamental reason for Ye Feng's choice, the reason why this is so is that he witnessed Hamilton's previous "unconventional" transcendence of the iceman, plus Xiao Hei also did something similar to what Ye Feng is doing to the iceman in the previous game, so don't be rude, don't bump into who you bump into......
And in this way, Hamilton, who was reciprocated by his opponent in his own way, could only bury his head and admit it, after all, he had done the same thing before, and now in the face of Ye Feng's innocent "justification", he naturally had to acquiesce.
McLaren naturally scoffed at Ye Feng's "justification", but given that their drivers had done similar things before, the FIA only made the same decision as Hamilton at the time: cancel the results of the race, and punish Ye Feng for starting 10 places back on the basis of the qualifying results in the next race.
And that's not the end of the story. Due to Hamilton's over-the-top shortcuts in the overtake of Raikkonen, the FIA also imposed Hamilton's race result + penalty, so that Hamilton was the last driver to use the final race result after the Iceman, who also retired from the race, at the Belgian stage.
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It's been a few days since the Belgian stop, but the concern caused by the incident continues. People have also used various channels to express their opinions on this matter. In fact, if it weren't for Ye Feng's subsequent rear-end collision, the focus of this incident itself would definitely be on the "violation" overtaking of Hamilton, who may eventually win the championship. It's just that Ye Feng's subsequent crash made all this a meaningless assumption. As a result of his collision, Hamilton went from being a vested interest to a victim.
Now in response to Ye Feng's behavior, the majority of fans in the UK are naturally even more critical of Ye Feng who "betrayed" them. Everyone agrees that Chinese drivers lack the work ethic they deserve.
On the contrary, there are a large number of Italian fans who were not very interested in Ye Feng last season, as well as a large number of Chinese fans who think that Ye Feng's collision is definitely enough! Righteous enough! It is only with this courage that the teammates who have been bullied by others will get the momentum back to the field. Ye Feng has added more die-hard fans to himself.
And in the eyes of many European and American car fans, Chinese Ye is also very different from many traditional images of Chinese who emphasize moderation and are too rational and pragmatic. The Chinese rider seems to be more flamboyant and daring, which undoubtedly makes them feel that Ye Feng is more relatable and charismatic. It's just that these foreigner fans don't seem to know that in China, there is generally a not-so-good title for Ye Feng, a guy who is easily impulsive, loves and hates, and is angry: dung green......
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Hype is a matter for the media, and a war of words is a matter for netizens. For a professional driver like Ye Feng, after consciously creating news events, the focus is still only on the race.
Now that the results of the punishment have come out. Then Ye Feng's operational ideas in the next home game of the Italian Grand Prix have become simple. One of his first goals was to get ahead of all his rivals in qualifying and grab the "eleventh" starting position.
In order to achieve this goal, Ye Feng even rejected Domenikali's more conservative tactics of using heavy oil for him. For the situation of having a very fast car now and generally going to be good for races (there are very few rain fights in Monza, Italy). The use of heavy fuel at the beginning of the race will undoubtedly greatly limit Ye Feng's speed and his own ability to overtake.
Therefore, after deciding to start with light oil, the only thing Ye Feng needs to work on in the race is to do his best to surpass as many opponents as possible before the first pit stop.
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Fast forward after a short week, and the "back-to-back" Italian Grand Prix, the final race of the season in Europe, has officially begun. Fighting on their home turf, the Scuderia Ferrari undoubtedly took advantage of the right time and place.
As usual most of the time, the two cars of Team Red dominated the race together.
Unlike last year, when Ye Feng just landed in the Apennines, he encountered a little cold reception, but this time the Chinese Ye received a hero-like cheer in Monza, which was due to Ye Feng's still leading the standings, and of course, his "man" behavior at the last stop was indispensable. In short, after more than a year has passed. After losing their beloved champion, Italian fans are finally opening up and cheering genuinely for a Chinese driver who has made them question, and why. In addition to Ye Feng's performance getting better and better, they also saw more and more the shadow of the daring car king in the past from China Ye's body......
In the cheers of everyone. The race for qualifying soon became white-hot. And when Raikkonen squeezed out Hamilton, who had already finished qualifying, by a slight advantage of 0.02 after the third quarter, and placed in first place, all the Italian fans finally broke out. Because even though Ye Feng has not yet completed the last time lap, Raikkonen has already locked the pole position at home for Ferrari. In doing so, Raikkonen also helped the team avenge Alonso's humiliating defeat at pole position + title here last year.
0.01 seconds! Ye Feng completed an almost impossible transcendence! If it weren't for the rear-end chase at the last stop, he would have been able to increase his pole position even further. But then he will start in 11th place.
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For Ye Feng, he had completed the "feat" of using heavy fuel + a pit stop strategy to start from 10 places away and finally finish on the podium at the Scuderia Ferrari last season, ++ to adopt another completely opposite strategy to win. With Ye Feng's current fuel load, it seems more likely that he will adopt the rare "three-stop" tactic on the Monza circuit in the race. Both times, although the strategy is different, the purpose is the same. And such a big contrast is undoubtedly testing Ye Feng's execution ability under a variety of different strategies.
There is no doubt that Ye Feng's start is still perfect! With a very short reaction time and a precise clamping position using the speed of the car, Ye Feng broke through from the relatively chaotic middle section in one fell swoop in the first time!
This time, Ye Feng was directly overtaken by the tenth Toyota driver Trulli, who was directly overtaken by Ye Feng at the side and behind the car speed, and then Ye Feng lightly tangent to block the possible line of the opponent's overtake.
The next to be overtaken was Honda's Barrichello, and the old bus was actually overtaken by Ye Feng after forcibly changing the line the moment he was blocked by the driver in front of him.
Then Ye Feng was slightly blocked by Weber, who had blocked Barrichello just now, but after adjusting the line, Ye Feng had to pass Vettel, who was in eighth place, on the super long straight at Monza before the end of the first lap.
Killed three opponents in one lap, Ye Feng and his F2008 were really sharp in the clear track environment. Webb, who is now in front of Ye Feng, has obviously felt the pressure, and seems to understand that his car is not enough to compete with Ye Feng behind him, and the Australian driver is a little less confident in the face of Ye Feng's impact, and after only less than two laps of fighting, another overtaking reappeared!
It only took three laps for Ye Feng to jump from the eleventh to the seventh position. At this time, Ye Feng was still some distance away from the sixth Massa in front of him, and the track that had become empty also gave Ye Feng enough room to speed up, so under everyone's gaze, Ye Feng, who had already adopted light oil tactics, began to attack the fastest lap record on the track......
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Ye Feng is desperately catching up here, and Raikkonen, who took pole position before the race, is also trying hard to attack his second sub-race championship of the season. Although he has accepted all the suggestions of the team to support Ye Feng to become the champion of the year to a certain extent (of course, the Iceman has not made a clear statement), this game because Ye Feng was punished, so it became natural for Raikkonen to compete for the championship on this home field.
Even if she had to end up being someone else's No. 2 driver in the next few races, Raikkonen really wanted to end her year of title quest with a perfect victory. Moreover, in fact, in the deepest part of his heart, he still had a little hope that Ye Feng, who had been far ahead in the standings in this game, could do something to make his hope of competing for the championship continue again.
Although Raikkonen also knew that he was a little sorry for his good friend who thought so, and at the same time a little mean. However, Ye Feng was in the eleventh place on the grid, and the gap between them still made the iceman a little itchy.
Of course, he also understands that it was all based on winning this game, so Raikkonen is fighting for this title with all his might......