He seemed to have fallen unconscious.
"Damn it, he dodged me!"
Zhang Dong, watching from below, cursed. Everything had been calculated, but he hadn't expected this guy to react so quickly.
He had moved his position the moment he fell.
"Go check if that Lunsi guy is dead!"
Zhang Dong said to a subordinate. The plan hadn't succeeded, and Lunsi couldn't die; he was still useful.
Lunsi had already been placed on a stretcher and sent to the hospital, still unconscious.
"Now his results are gone. It's going to be tough for Lin Shen in tomorrow's main race."
Hao Dong said regretfully. Lin Shen's lap time in the second lap clearly wasn't at full throttle, and with these guys fighting fiercely, he had dropped several more positions in an instant, falling to 13th, starting from the fifth row.
Fortunately, this track was quite friendly to Ducati, so winning wasn't impossible.
Returning to the pit, Lin Yan took off his racing suit.
"Alright, I'm back safe and sound, aren't I?"
Seeing his girl clinging to him tightly, Lin Yan patted Su Mojin's back to comfort her.
It was just a crash, nothing major.
Seeing Su Mojin still holding on, Lin Yan didn't mind and sat down on the chair, holding her.
His wife always worried about him when he raced. This crash must have upset the little girl again.
After a few whispered words with his wife, Lin Yan turned to Zhang Mingzhi.
"Speak. What's the situation?"
His tone turned cold. He hadn't had time to deal with this when he was changing cars, but now that qualifying was over, Lin Yan had the time.
Sensing his young master's colder tone, beads of sweat appeared on Zhang Mingzhi's forehead, and his voice became nervous.
"It was one of my subordinates who has been with me for many years. His mother was seriously ill at home, and he was bribed by someone."
Zhang Mingzhi said softly. He had made a huge mistake this time, and his young master had almost been in danger.
Fortunately, in the midst of misfortune, his young master wasn't seriously injured.
"What about last time?"
Lin Yan spoke again. He remembered that there had been a tire pressure issue in the last race, and he had asked Zhang Mingzhi to investigate it.
"Uh... Young Master, last time it was indeed a coincidence."
Zhang Mingzhi had investigated the tire pressure issue carefully last time, and it was indeed a technical error, a genuine coincidence.
Lin Yan looked at Zhang Mingzhi closely for a moment, confirming the truth of his words.
The employee who had been bribed had already been apprehended by Li Wei and the others. Lin Yan ignored it and didn't ask who had bribed him; he had already guessed. He would deal with this matter when they returned.
"Show me the replay from just now."
Without dwelling on this matter, Lin Yan directly deducted Zhang Mingzhi's year-end bonus. Zhang Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Yan turned and asked the staff to play the replay. Although his vision was limited earlier and he couldn't see, he suspected that Lunsi had done it intentionally.
Upon receiving the instruction, the staff immediately complied with Lin Yan's request and brought up the replay of Lin Yan being taken down by Lunsi and crashing.
The scene replayed.
"What do you think?"
Lin Yan asked Veneres beside him.
"It looks like a mistake, but..."
Veneres paused, looking closely. It did look like a mistake, but he wanted to say that a mistake shouldn't happen on this corner.
He knew Lunsi. As the second-place finisher here last year, he shouldn't have made a mistake here.
Indeed, given Lunsi's skill, he shouldn't have made a mistake on this corner. However... Lunsi's crash made Veneres waver a little.
His head hit Lin Yan's car's rear wheel. The risk was too great. From the way Lunsi was carried away, it was possible that this crash could have ended Lunsi's entire career.
Lin Yan had thought the same thing at first, that Lunsi wouldn't do something so foolish. But he knew who the owner of Lunsi's team was. Combined with what had just happened, if the other party had caught Lunsi in a compromising position, it wasn't impossible.
The Song family stirring up trouble? That was definitely impossible. They had formed a team specifically targeting him.
"Bring up the replay of the entire qualifying session."
The staff brought up the replay of the entire race.
"There's definitely something wrong. Lunsi did it on purpose."
After just a few glances, Veneres was certain that Lunsi had done it intentionally. Lunsi had made many mistakes in this race. Normally, this wouldn't be anything; perhaps he was just not in good form, or there was an issue with the car's setup. After all, Lunsi had changed teams, and it was normal for problems to occur when adapting to a new car.
But if one looked closely, the clues would emerge. Lunsi seemed to have made a mistake while pushing the limits for a lap time, but in reality, he was controlling his lap time to position himself perfectly in front of Lin Yan.
The thought was chilling!
"I'll go and appeal to the race officials."
Zhang Mingzhi went to find the race officials. Ren Fei also returned from outside.
He sat down on Lin Yan's other side and remained silent.
Appealing to the race officials? Lin Yan shook his head. In this situation, it might have been possible if Lunsi hadn't been injured. Since Lunsi had been sent to the hospital, the race officials would likely say nothing.
Ultimately, it was because he was unharmed, while Lunsi was injured. The race officials would weigh the pros and cons and likely wouldn't impose any penalties. If he had also been hospitalized, Lunsi would probably have suffered, at the very least being suspended.
Under big data analysis, minor tricks were possible, but it was impossible to do them without being detected.
The Song family! They were quite ruthless!
"Copy the video and leave it with Hao Dong. Let him leverage it later."
Lin Yan said calmly.
Besides the professional drivers, it would be difficult for anyone else to notice this accident. However, if Lin Yan had Hao Dong explain it online, many people would likely understand.
How could he let the Song family get away with trying to harm him without paying a price?
Qualifying ended, and Lin Yan's ranking was 13th. With three cars per row, he was in the fifth row, which wasn't an ideal starting position.
This lap time was achieved by Lin Yan on his second lap. From the three sector reds on Lin Yan's final lap, it was clear that the second lap wasn't at full throttle, only slightly faster than the lap where he took out Ren Fei. After all, no one would go all out from the start.
But this didn't mean that Lin Yan's casual lap time was slow. If it were any other time, this lap time would have secured him at least a top-three position, if not pole position. But this time, due to the new rules, his ranking had dropped very quickly.
Lin Yan's casual lap time could outclass most drivers, but in the latter half of the race, these drivers had three opportunities. It wasn't impossible for them to challenge Lin Yan's lap time three times.
Starting from the fifth row.
Lin Yan glanced at Rysner's lap time. Starting from the fifth row, winning was still a possibility.