F1: Absolute Car Feel

Chapter 119 Post-Match Aftermath
After the Pau race, the next race will be at the Hungaroring circuit in Hungary, starting at the end of May, a period of twenty days.

Wu Shi can return to Italy for a few days to rest when he has some free time.

Although the Boston match has ended, the discussion surrounding it has continued for quite some time.

Because of this battle, Wu Shi lost a championship, which was also the only championship he had not won since he participated in F3.

The biggest reason for losing the championship was Verstappen's aggressive driving.

In addition, Verstappen was involved in another accident in the third race, and the cause of the accident looked like Wu Shi deliberately cutting off another car.

This has led to a flood of opinions on social media, and people with even a modicum of moral integrity tend to be more conservative in choosing names.

For example: "The rivalry between Wu Shi and Max Verstappen of the Van Amersford team!"

However, most social media platforms are run by self-media outlets with little regard for ethical boundaries, which has led to the emergence of many bizarre headlines.

"Max is jealous of Wu! He wants to ruin Wu's F1 seat!"

Wu Shi said that Max was arrogant, conceited, and completely oblivious to his own shortcomings!

"Will teammates killing each other lead to a series of accidents in the upcoming matches?!"

Seeing these headlines, Wu Shi was speechless, especially after Sid reminded him on Friday to recruit operations staff, he also checked his public social media accounts.

The comments below are mostly idiotic, mainly from a fierce battle between die-hard fans and trolls, almost to the point of sinking the platform.

There were also many personal attacks, and Wu Shi's comment on this was still the same: "The attack power is not as good as the guys on Tieba."

"Aren't you angry?" Louise asked.

"What's there to be angry about?" Wu Shi shook his head.

"Their words are awful," Louise said, disapproving and wanting to delete or silence them.

“Lies don’t hurt people, but the truth is the sharpest knife. For example, if someone says that I ‘can’t drive at all, and I just got lucky and got a specially tuned car,’ do you think I would be angry?” Wu Shi asked rhetorically.

"Probably, after all, you work so hard, but people just think it's because of the good car," Louise said, frowning as she thought.

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Well, it seems that I think differently from Louise.

In his view, people with mothers won't get angry when they're told they don't have a mother, because they know they truly do. Only people without mothers will get angry when they're told they don't have a mother, because they really don't.

Wu Shi understood this logic very early on, so he didn't pay much attention to most of the opinions expressed.

"By the way, I heard you're going back to your country for a few days?" Louise asked.

"Yes, I need to meet with some domestic sponsors." Wu Shi nodded. He wasn't supposed to go, but someone specifically asked to see him, so he had no choice but to go.

"Oh! I want to go too!" Louise slumped onto the sofa, utterly dejected.

"Hehe, good students should just go to school obediently," Wu Shi laughed.

"Hey! Look, TGCOM24 published a news article about you!"

Louise sat up and rushed to Wu Shi's side, handing him the iPad Air. The familiar scent of her perfume wafted over.

Wu Shi stared at the bold text on the screen:
"F1: Mercedes team reaches seat agreement with Wu Shi, involving $5000 million in sponsorship fees"

He frowned and immediately picked up his phone to call Sid.

"Hey, did you see the news on TGcom24?" Wu Shi asked.

TGCOM24, as Italy's national news media, has a very influential 24-hour news channel, which can be said to be the news broadcast for Italians.

"Hold on."

Wu Shi waited patiently. He glanced at the news and saw that the report had just been released. Sid was going to Germany today to meet with Toto, so he probably hadn't seen the news in time.

"Damn it! The contract from the Mercedes P-room on Saturday has been completely leaked!" Sid's angry voice rang out. "Our newly signed contract?"

Wu Shi asked, "Sidd went to Spain to deal with the leaked contract. After learning that the leak had no impact on the seat contracts, he didn't ask any more questions."

“No, Toto signed the contract all by himself; he didn’t let me sign it,” Sid said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Shi understood.

"You mean, Toto did that on purpose?"

"Yes, he suspected there was an internal leak, so he didn't sign a new supplementary contract at that time, but instead prepared to discuss the matter with me again today."

Sid said that Toto probably wanted to use this opportunity to see who was leaking information from within, which is why Martina said Toto wasn't being honest.

Regardless, it seems that some people within Mercedes really want this contract to fall through.

Wu Shi noticed that, in addition to the sponsorship fee, the article also revealed his seat agreement with Mercedes. In other words, everyone should now know that he would sit in a Mercedes car during practice for a Grand Prix to try to set a qualifying lap time.

The comments under the news article were also quite numerous, with most expressing doubts about the allegations.

"As a traditional media outlet, you should not publish uncertain matters as news!"

"Wu Shi is not even 16 years old. Mercedes-Benz would never sign such a greenhorn."

"Your journalistic ethics make me ashamed!"

If the comments on news websites were still expressions of gentlemanly anger, then Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms were in complete uproar.

Louise quickly found the news on the trending topics list, where the opinions below were even more diverse.

"Wow! I knew it! Wu Shi is so strong! Joining Mercedes is only natural." - From Italie

"F1 is about to be ruled by Wu Shi!" From Italie.

Many of the highly upvoted comments are brief compliments, mostly posted by Italians.

"This contract is just Mercedes trying to scam Wu out of sponsorship money. Have you ever seen a rookie driver set a qualifying lap time in practice? That's impossible!"

"Yes, I agree with that view. The gap between F1 and F3 is huge. Even Wu Shi cannot directly drive an F1 car. It is already very impressive that he can avoid accidents!"

"What's the point of constantly hyping up a Chinese person?"

"Everyone above is talking nonsense! I was there when the contract was signed, and Wu said with certainty that he would definitely fulfill the agreement and get the seat."

"Yes, I was the pen that signed the document."

After browsing for a while, Wu Shi sighed, realizing that netizens still knew more.

"Is this news true? You're really going to become an F1 driver?" Louise's eyes sparkled.

“The news is fake.” Wu Shi pinched Louise’s cheek.

"Ugh~" Louise deflated instantly, but still went on gossiping about the comments.

Sid looked somewhat serious, while Toto seemed relaxed.

"So you've achieved your goal?" Sid asked.

"No, there are many people who can handle contracts. We don't know who went wrong. I can only use this as an opportunity to optimize the handling process for confidentiality contracts."

Toto waved his hand, indicating that he wouldn't reveal Mercedes' internal affairs to outsiders.

When he heard that the contract had been leaked, he was furious at the board meeting. How could the team be managed if such a secret contract was leaked by someone with ulterior motives?
After the previous operation, he already knew who was behind it, but he didn't have direct evidence, so he hadn't dealt with the leaker yet.

More than the contract leak, he is now worried about what will happen after the leak.

The existence of this contract has seriously affected the stability within the team.

(End of this chapter)