How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 111 109: Ferrari's dark inside story

The two played seven or eight games together at night. It may be because they used too much energy during the game, or it may be because Qin Miao couldn't adapt to the sudden increase in strength. Qin Miao's performance tonight is not too bad. Well, it's far from the usual state of being able to go up and give two slaps when you meet a professional brother. It can only be said that you can barely hold back your teammates.

But at this time, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu's purpose of playing games has changed from top score to entertainment, so Zhou Guanyu doesn't care if Qin Miao can't continue to fly with him, just have fun.

After the game session was over, Qin Miao returned to the bedroom.

And Qiumeng, who appeared in front of Qin Miao, put on the sailor suit that made Qin Miao's attack speed soar.

But this time the black pantyhose became stockings, and Qin Miao, a fresh-blooded young man, couldn't bear the absolute whiteness.

So facing Qiu Meng's bold provocation, Qin Miao rushed forward without saying a word.

I won't go into too much detail about the process between them. Although the pantyhose has been replaced by stockings at this time, it still cannot avoid the end of being shredded by Qin Miao.

And Qiu Meng also deeply realized how good Qin Miao's physical strength is now.

When she woke up the next day, Qiu Meng looked at the place where Qin Miao had been tossing her for more than two hours, and angrily punched Qin Miao's sharp abdominal muscles. Yes, the swelling has not subsided yet!

Originally, he planned to take a day off, but in the afternoon, Lawson called Qin Miao and asked him to go to the office.

After all, he was his immediate boss, so Qin Miao couldn't refuse.

After changing into work clothes, Qin Miao went to Lawson's office on a scooter.

It is worth mentioning that because Qin Miao and Qiu Meng's pink-blue scooters are very eye-catching, and because Qin Miao's working hours are the same as that of most Ferrari engineers, many Ferrari employees found that Qin Miao Miao's scooter is time-saving and fun, so when he is free, he asks Qin Miao for the shopping link of the scooter, and then he builds one for short-distance transportation.

Now if you get up early, you can see many Ferrari employees riding scooters to work in the Ferrari park.

Lawson didn't lock the door today, but Qin Miao still stood at the door and knocked on it after arriving.

Lawson, who was making coffee in the office, immediately put on a smile when he saw Qin Miao coming in, and invited Qin Miao to sit down at the reception table.

According to Lawson's current posture, the topic of this meeting should have nothing to do with work.

Lawson didn't talk about things first, but poured Qin Miao a cup of coffee and asked Qin Miao if he had adapted to working and living in Ferrari during this period of time.

In fact, this is just a foreshadowing before starting to talk about business.

Qin Miao was naturally full of praise for Ferrari's working environment.

After chatting for a while, the topic turned to the main topic.

"You should already have a hunch. In yesterday's test, you used your perfect performance to conquer the team leaders. Many people asked you to exchange phone numbers, right?"

Qin Miao nodded reluctantly.

"My phone has been ringing non-stop since yesterday, and it's only now that it's quieter.

That’s right, although there are quite a few people looking for you, there are only a few truly competitive teams on the field, and there are quite a few people in these teams who have a good relationship with me, so they want to ask me to ask you What are your thoughts on next year's season? "

Qin Miao tentatively asked, "What exactly do you mean?"

"Many teams are interested in you, but the final choice is yours, so they want to know whether you want to drive endurance racing or formula next year. Of course, if you want to drive rally, I will Can help you contact them, they want to get your exact answer, and then they can make corresponding preparations.”

Qin Miao didn't ask about her preparations, but began to think about her future.

I originally wanted to run the 24 Hours of Le Mans. After all, who doesn't like a super sports car that is already handsome and has been professionally modified for racing, and it looks even more handsome after installing an aero kit.

However, Qin Miao, who has experienced formula racing, really feels that formula racing is more fun to drive than GT racing. Although the appearance of formula racing may not be better than GT racing, the speed is definitely faster than GT racing.

Qin Miao discovered a passage while visiting station B recently: Children only make choices, but adults want them all.

So after thinking for a while, Qin Miao is still planning to continue her previous plan, first run in F2 for a few seasons, and after running to F2, she will change jobs and go to Le Mans.

"I want to run F2 now."

The smile on Lawson's face remained undiminished, and after hearing Qin Miao's answer, he asked, "Is there any F2 team you want to go to?"

Qin Miao shook her head.

Although he really wants to be teammates with Zhou Guanyu, he also knows that he and Zhou Guanyu are not in the same youth training system. Although after mentioning it, Lawson may really communicate with UNI-Virtuosi about his joining. And no matter what his strength is, Zhou Guanyu knows that he can run F2 and is willing to join UNI-Virtuosi, Zhou Guanyu, who holds the shares of UNI-Virtuosi, will definitely agree and work hard in it.

So at that time, there will probably be a grand occasion where there are two Chinese drivers in an F2 team.

Of course, Qin Miao wouldn't make such a nonchalant request to give Lawson eye drops at this time.

After thinking for a while, Qin Miao said, "I don't actually have a specific idea in my mind, but I trust Mr. Lawson's vision and judgment. Do you have any recommendations for a team that is suitable for me?"

Although the performance of all F2 cars is the same, but the team is different, the understanding of the car is also different, and the ability to tune the car will naturally be different.

And Qin Miao really doesn't know much about F2 teams. He is only familiar with two F2 teams, one is the UNI-Virtuosi team.

After Zhou Guanyu left Renault in anger at Ferrari, his family directly invested in UNI-Virtuosi in order to prevent Zhou Guanyu from being excluded by the team. Now Zhou Guanyu is one of the shareholders of this team.

The other team is Prema, which Qin Miao borrowed to train for a period of time.

In fact, this team has no conflict of interest with Ferrari, and the two teams just have a good relationship.

And Qin Miao is not sure about the situation of many F2 teams, so it is indeed a more appropriate choice for Lawson, an old fritter who has been in this business for many years, to help him as a staff.

At the same time, Qin Miao also knows that his strength, which has been forcibly improved by the system to nearly [-]%, is an all-time attractive sweet pastry in the eyes of the team leaders. Let Lawson help Qin Miao choose to a certain extent. Give Lawson a chance to do favors.

I believe that Lawson, who has given him such a good opportunity, cannot choose a bad team for himself.

And by doing this by himself, Lawson can remember Qin Miao a little bit, and if there is any internal news in the future, Lawson can also give Qin Miao a message in advance.

After hearing Qin Miao's statement, the original smile on Lawson's face became more obvious, and there was even a hint of appreciation in his already gentle eyes when he looked at Qin Miao.

This kid is sensible!able!
"I think Prema is very good." Lawson did not shirk, pretending to think briefly for a while, and then said: "First of all, you and the Prema team have a certain basis for cooperation. There is a basic understanding. Secondly, their team has another driver from our Scuderia Ferrari: Mick Schumacher..."

Lawson did not mention that they are both drivers of the Ferrari Driver Academy and that they can take care of each other in the future.

After all, he is the leader of the youth training, how can he not know the relationship between the drivers under his command?

Although Qin Miao can't be said to be arrogant in private, she is indeed a little arrogant, and her popularity has become unfavorable because of this.

Although Qin Miao would not look down on other drivers, but after trying to communicate with other drivers for the first time and being excluded, Qin Miao never took the initiative to talk to any of Ferrari's youth training drivers.

And Qin Miao's attitude also made other drivers not very interested in Qin Miao. It was not until yesterday that Qin Miao used his own strength to really beat all the drivers that this situation changed.

During the celebration banquet, many drivers tried to talk to Qin Miao, but Qin Miao ignored them.

Now the relationship is even more tense.

So Lawson chose another insertion method.

He glanced at the door of the office calmly first, then lowered his voice and whispered to Qin Miao's ear, "Schumacher should be familiar to you. The young executives are looking forward to Mick's talent, so this year, which is the second year of Mick's F2, there will be engineers sent to F2 to help him tune the car. At that time, you can also rely on your identity to see his set up……"

No, Qin Miao just gave Lawson a big favor, and the other party immediately reciprocated. Seriously, under normal circumstances, who would tell Qin Miao such news that can be said to be an internal scandal?

But Qin Miao is not very interested in this, because he has a skill card, he can get familiar with a racing car in a very short time, and he can easily feel which kind of tuning is most suitable for him while driving. driving style as well as the current track.

Qin Miao sneered at Mick's training.

However, during the training period of the Prema team, I got along well with the engineers of the F3 division, so Qin Miao did not refuse, nodded and said, "I believe in Mr. Lawson's choice."

Lawson didn't say much about this tacit matter, and after seeing Qin Miao agreeing, he switched to another topic. : "Okay, after the team's problem is solved, it's the contract issue." Lawson got up and came to his office while he was talking.

After opening the safe in his office, Lawson took out two documents from it.

"What kind of contract is this?"

Lawson was taken aback: "Didn't you read the draft contract I gave you yesterday?"

"...Did you give me the contract yesterday?...I remembered...I seem to have lost it during the celebration." Qin Miao scratched her head.

Lawson: "..."

"Hey, it's just a sponsorship contract. Basically, there are no additional conditions. The total sponsorship is 500 million euros, but after deducting miscellaneous expenses and next year's driver academy fee, there will be 300 million euros left in the end. Oh head out."

Hearing Lawson's explanation, he simply converted the exchange rate between RMB and Euro in his mind, which is about [-] million.

The system will never give Qin Miao less money, but it will never give more money. At that time, Qin Miao will definitely have assets worth [-] million in his pocket.

But Qin Miao still keenly caught a word that made him a little concerned: the cost of the driver academy.

"Do you still need tuition fees to study in our driver academy?" Qin Miao asked with some doubts.

Lawson didn't care if Qin Miao didn't understand, because Qin Miao didn't enter the Ferrari youth training system through formal channels, but got in by drawing lots in his own mind. It's normal that he doesn't know much about some internal rules.

Explained: "The first year is basically free. As long as you are talented, we will let young drivers come in for free for a year, but after one year, no matter how talented you are, you still have to pay tuition, because Whether it's daily training or accommodation and food, it costs money."

Qin Miao understood it well and had no objection, anyway, it doesn't matter if the money is more or less for nothing.

"So are there any restrictions in this contract?" There is no free lunch in the world, even if it is a reward from the system, it's just that the price may be negligible to Qin Miao now.

Lawson replied: "There are basically no restrictions on you. This contract does not restrict what you are not allowed to do, but it requires you to have the logo of Anglo-Dutch Shell on your helmet from now on for a period of seven years."

Qin Miao was puzzled: "Is this the only one? Isn't it the sponsorship from Ferrari?"

Lawson said with a smile: "Although the logo of Anglo-Dutch Shell appears on your helmet, we Ferrari also paid half of the money. After all, you also know that our good cooperative relationship with Anglo-Dutch Shell has lasted for more than half a century. .

When the world sees the Anglo-Dutch Shell Logo on your helmet, it will think of Ferrari.

Of course, the premise of signing this contract is that you have to renew your contract with our Ferrari Driver Academy for another year, but this requirement is basically the same as no restriction for you.

However, what Anglo-Dutch Shell and we give you in this contract is not your present, but your future. "

Qin Miao nodded slightly, then looked at the other contract and asked, "Then this is it?"

"The driver contract of the Prema team will start after Halloween this year and continue until Halloween next year."

Qin Miao was surprised: "Why only one year?"

It stands to reason that for a genius of Qin Miao's level, the team that has the opportunity to sign a contract with him would like to sign him a 80-[-]-year contract, and the contract liquidated damages are also set very high, that is, in the future, Qin Miao will take the initiative to terminate the contract when Qin Miao becomes rich. , the team earns a wave of liquidated damages.

But instead of doing this, the Prema team only signed for one year, which made it difficult for Qin Miao to understand.

Lawson said with some emotion: "This is the treatment of geniuses. If you are just talented but not that strong, the Prema team will indeed sign you with a contract of at least three years as you think, but you I also know that your talent has grown to another dimension, and facing a genius of your level, no matter how greedy people are, they will give you the green light."

(End of this chapter)