Formula 1: The GOAT - Chapter 200: Theory Complete

Chapter 200: Theory Complete

Once back in Milton Keynes, Fatih finally got back into his theory training as he started his third week of training, where they started with the rules and regulations. Denis, along with a motorsports lawyer who came as an assistant, started going through everything in the rules manual of the FIA motorsports guidelines before moving to the British F4 rulebook.

They would go through different videos of Formula motorsport incidents before Fatih had to break down what the possible rules broken were, why, and what the punishment would be for such an incident.

Denis and the lawyer wanted to make sure that by the time this final week was over, Fatih would know everything in the rulebook so that he knew just how far he could push things without actually breaking them or ensuring that he was within the grey area of the rules.

Had it been another institution, they would have just focused on him, knowing the rules and regulations. Still, his being under the Red Bull umbrella meant that their training also followed their culture of being the villains of motorsports and pushing everything and everyone to their limit, as long as it resulted in a win for them. With Helmut being the overseer of their largest-ever young driver development investment, he made sure that mentality was also being instilled into him so that the driver fit their culture and avoided having a culture and mentality clash when he reached F1.

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“I would like to say congratulations, you have finally finished the theory part of your training, and starting Monday next week, you will officially start your simulation training,” Denis said on the evening of Friday at the end of the class.

“Wasn’t there supposed to be a final exam?” Fatih asked, remembering something about him not being allowed to move on without Denis’s approval, so he had assumed that would be through an exam or something similar.

“That was my original idea, but plans change according to the situation, and I don’t see any reason to waste our time with exams when you have already proved that you have absorbed everything into a usable form throughout our training period,” Denis said, his face covered with a feeling of achievement and pride.

He had achieved everything he wanted to achieve following the changes in the direction of where the theory training was going to take him. As a result, he couldn’t help but want to see everything he and the people he had asked for additional help had taught Fatih being implemented on the track from now all the way to Formula One, since everything he had learned, barring a few regulations and new technologies, was going to remain the same, so long as he continued racing in Formula cars. To him, this was no different than being one of those who had helped a potential great driver with his foundation.

“If so, then thank you for your help over the past three weeks. I will not forget it and will try my best to make sure that your hard work doesn’t go in vain,” Fatih said, his tone respectful and grateful as he extended his hand to Denis for a handshake.

“Why are you talking as if we are not going to see each other anymore?” Denis said, sounding emotional despite trying to hide it as he shook Fatih’s hand and pulled him in for a hug.

“That is true, but I thought I should just say it now,” Fatih said after they broke the hug before he asked, “But are you going to be among the people I interact with in the program going forward?”

“Not much, unless the simulation side fails to explain something to you and needs my help, but I don’t think that is going to be a problem,” Denis said as they resumed their small talk, as everyone in the room gathered their materials now that the final class was over.

Once Denis was done, he waved for the last time before leaving the makeshift class, leaving Fatih and Alex in the room. As they started walking towards the door and were just about to exit, Fatih stopped and turned, looking at one of the corners of the room before he said, “And with that, the theory training comes to an end,” before clapping, creating a cue for the docuseries editors to use if they were going to just time-lapse the entire three weeks of training.

There were cameras in all four corners of the room that had been there since the first lesson, recording everything from the moment he entered until he left for the past three weeks, which all three or sometimes four people in the room had almost forgotten about, since the recording team itself was not there to remind them.

“Are you sure they are going to do that?” Alex said when Fatih turned and resumed walking to the door.

“I just made them use it. It is quite a good cue to use to mark the end of a part,” Fatih said, but it was only half the truth. The other half was that he was confident they were going to use it, as he was the one who had created the editing language of his docuseries in the first place, since it was his company at that time that had created the previous seasons.

It was a deliberate attempt to differentiate each docuseries with its own individual presentation style, and for his, he had gone with the same style as his YouTube channel so that viewers wouldn’t get too much of a whiplash if they moved from the docuseries to his videos or the opposite. But no one needed to know about it anyway, since he had already sold the company.

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Over the past week, Rümeysa had been in frequent contact with Mehmet to use his expertise in financial matters to help her with all of the initial preparations needed. Mehmet was her friend and the person who had helped her deal with Fatih’s untaxed income situation and had managed to make sure the hidden bomb was dealt with without any negative fallout or blowback coming Fatih’s way.

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