How did I become an F1 driver?

People have also speculated about the possibility of Mei Ben buying Qin Miao back and sitting on the bench.

But after thinking about it, they felt that it was impossible. If Mei Ben really planned to buy Qin Miao back and sit on the bench, they would not be able to pay Qin Miao the liquidated damages of the contract.

Being able to pay this money, it can be seen that Mei Ben must want Qin Miao to work.

At this time, the public opinion in the paddock was raging, and everyone was puzzled by Mei Ben's operation.

Many reporters also went to the headquarters of Meiben, wanting to interview the senior management of Meiben, but they were all politely rejected.

Moreover, there have been no grand prix in the recent period, so if you want to get the answer to this matter, you can only wait until the Belgian Grand Prix starts at the end of August.

However, interested people have discovered more directions that can be explored in this public opinion.

For example, a reporter found Mick Schumacher, Qin Miao's teammate in Prema Racing, and asked him his opinion on this matter.

Faced with this opportunity to expose himself, Mick naturally would not refuse.

Although the relationship with Qin Miao is not good, there is no enmity between the two of them, they can only be regarded as strangers at best.

So in the face of the reporter's interview, Mick did not add embellishments, but just told the truth.

But to be honest, Qin Miao's impression on Mick's side is really not very good, so even if Mick evaluates Qin Miao with a fair and objective attitude, the ass of this interview is destined to be crooked from the beginning.

And this interview just happened to match the first impression of Qin Miao by many passers-by viewers, so the newspaper office where this reporter works got the first wave of dividends from this hot event.

After all, many people in the paddock want to know the deeper news about Mei Ben, but Mei Ben is so tightly covered that no news has been released.

And these are useful, but not very useful, but news related to Qin Miao can easily attract the attention of some people who don't know the truth.

The reporter's way of opening a breakthrough from the people around Qin Miao was imitated in a short period of time.

Like "Youth Training Teammates Sharply Comment on Qin Miao's Behavior", "Qin Miao in the Eyes of Prema Technicians", "Evaluation of Qin Miao by the Restaurant Owner Qin Miao Often Visits"...

All of a sudden, like hungry wolves, everyone began to share this big cake unscrupulously, wishing that all the dogs Qin Miao had seen would pull over and ask a few questions to write a column.

Of course, there are also some real interview content and objects.

A reporter interviewed the six-time champion Hamilton who might become Qin Miao's teammate in the future.

Skip the small talk and pleasantries directly, and enter the most important question.

"Lewis, did you already know that Mercedes' number two driver might change next season?"

"I know, I have received emails before this happened, but at that time I only thought that there might be a newcomer in our team, I thought he was just coming to serve as a test driver or a reserve driver or something like that, and I didn't think that the other party would have a job. Maybe going into the team as the number two driver, we didn't even have any understanding between us."

"Then Lewis, do you agree with Mercedes' approach?"

"Of course, I trust Toto's vision, just like they trust me on the field.

However, I still feel that what the current team needs is stability, not a young man with a lot of drive. "

……

Well, although the old man didn't say it clearly, his dissatisfaction with the choice of the team in these two answers was basically on the surface.

Qin Miao's performance in the F2 and Ferrari youth training was not friendly enough, which led to a bad public opinion environment in the paddock. Now that this report comes out, Qin Miao's public opinion environment is even worse.

And Toto just watched and didn't take any more action.

Looking at the almost one-sided negative evaluation, Mercedes' sports director Marcus Walker asked: "Are we putting too much pressure on him?"

With Mei Ben's ability, in fact, he is fully capable of controlling the comments in the paddock a little at this time, so that there will be no comments about Qin Miao flying all over the sky like now, and most of them are negative comments.

But Toto just crossed his arms, looked at the data chart in front of him and said without turning his head: "If this little pressure can't stand, then Qin Miao doesn't need to continue on the road of F1.

If he really can't stand it, let him run the simulator for three years. It is said that he drove the simulator quite well when he was in Ferrari.

Besides, the contract we gave him stipulates that Qin Miao will only have a basic salary of 60 yuan if there is no race, and we will not lose much by letting him sit on the bench. "

Obviously, the basic salary in Toto's contract to Qin Miao is very low, but there are many rewards, and this is the intention.

Although Toto is really optimistic about Qin Miao's talent and his future.

But as the executive director and team leader of Mercedes, Toto must focus on the interests of the team in these matters.

"Okay, so the public opinion about the paddock..."

"Take care of it coldly, and wait until the heat of this matter subsides." Toto didn't turn his head.

Walker wrote down Toto's instructions in his notebook, but he sighed slightly in his heart, because it was not that easy to subside the heat of this matter.

What's more, Qin Miao is still an active F2 driver. Although the attention of F2 drivers is pitifully less than that of F1 drivers, as long as he keeps participating in the competition, he will continue to be exposed.

At that time, how much pressure will Qin Miao bear? Walker already has a rough guess.

Just when Walker recorded Toto's instructions and was about to leave, Toto suddenly said: "By the way, you can do the work on Bottas, the main thing is to stabilize his emotions and try to let him do this. The rest of the season can be played normally.”

The calm expression on Walker's face suddenly turned into a bitter one.

If Qin Miao's external problem after joining Mercedes is the incomprehension of public opinion and fans, then the internal problem is Bottas' emotional problem, followed by Russell's problem.

But compared to Russell, Bottas' problem is a bit more serious. After all, this is an active driver, and his existence is related to Mercedes' points.

After seeing the expression on Walker's face, Toto smiled: "Don't worry, Bottas' job is actually not difficult to do, he has been in Mercedes for four years.

I can see that the number two driver for four years has made him feel tired. After all, no one wants to have someone over his head who can overwhelm him. In fact, he has already left Mercedes and went to other teams to experience becoming a number one driver. No. The driver has an idea of ​​what kind of feeling it is. "

Although Walker's face was still full of doubts, he nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to him later."

After finishing speaking, Walker left, leaving only Toto sitting in his position with his arms folded and looking at his computer monitor.

And on the monitor, it was the telemetry data that Qin Miao sent to Toto, Qin Miao's recent games...

Qin Miao knew that her public opinion in the paddock was showing signs of collapsing, and she had the momentum of leaving a bad reputation forever.

However, Qin Miao's response to this is also very mature, just two words: don't care!

Also because Qin Miao changed teams recently, Qin Miao needs to be busy with more things.

For example, the things brought from Maranello need to be tidied up, so they can’t be kept at Zhou Guanyu’s house all the time, can they?

Even if Zhou Guanyu didn't mind having a pile of sundries at home, Qin Miao would also feel bad about it.

So during this time, Qin Miao not only needs to find a house, but also needs to move.

There were more trivial problems brought about by the move. During this period, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng had nothing else to do but were busy with these things.

Because Mei Ben's factory is in the UK, Qin Miao will have to live in the UK for a long time like Zhou Guanyu.

This is a good thing, as the two can meet and visit each other from time to time.

After Qin Miao took care of all these chores, the time has come to Thursday, August 8th.

Qin Miao had just dealt with her own affairs and went to Belgium non-stop before she had time to rest for a day.

The Spa circuit in Belgium is one of the most proficient circuits among all the circuits of Qin Miao. In addition, there was no rain throughout the race week, so there was no suspense about the final result of qualifying at the beginning of the race.

1 minutes 57 seconds 111.

This is Qin Miao's qualifying result.

No.2 is Kakuda, and No.3 is Ma Zeping.

After the middle of the season, these people gradually became familiar with the racing car and began to exert their strength. Unfortunately, compared to Qin Miao, they were still only ordinary people, and their results were just like that.

During the race, Qin Miao's choice of tires changed a bit.

Qin Miao wants to fill up the points in this race, so Qin Miao did not choose to start with soft tires at the beginning of the race, but hard tires, and then pitted in the last few laps, under light fuel conditions. Get your fastest lap.

The final result was that Qin Miao scored all the 27 points he could get in the race.

Qin Miao scored +17 in the sprint race.

After three games, Qin Miao's total points were 46 points.

Because the background of the start of this game is that Qin Miao joined Mei Ben, a shocking melon.

Therefore, the ratings of this F2 race were uncharacteristically high, the number of viewers directly doubled, and the number of people watching this race through TV broadcast reached an unprecedented 15 people.

Fortunately, after winning the championship, the host who interviewed Qin Miao was an official FIA staff member. He didn't ask some untimely questions to disturb Qin Miao's mentality. Instead, he asked some very routine questions.

"March of the Volunteers" resounded on the highest podium of F16 for the 2th time.

The F2 season has passed halfway, but the national anthems of other countries have not been missed on the highest podium in the F2 arena. Whether it is the main race or the sprint race, the final awards stage is all "March of the Volunteers".

Those who have been paying attention to the F2 race can even hum this melody in their heads.

This is a kind of cultural output in disguise.

After the race, about 20% of the audience who did not understand Meiben's approach seemed to have an epiphany, and instantly understood Meiben's top management.

Strong, indeed strong.

What Qin Miao and other F2 drivers show on the field is completely different from the same dimension.

After the game, Qin Miao sent his trophy to Ferrari.

Although Qin Miao's contract with the Ferrari F1 team has been terminated, Qin Miao's contract with Ferrari's youth training has not changed.

Although both the Ferrari F1 Team and the Ferrari Youth Training are affiliated to Ferrari, these are actually two different departments, but the exchanges and cooperation between these two departments have become more frequent.

So although Qin Miao has terminated his contract with the Ferrari F1 team, his contract at the Ferrari Driver Academy is still in effect.

Qin Miao's youth training contract will end only after the end of this season and the contract between Qin Miao and Mei Ben takes effect.

And there is one more interesting thing.

That is, after the news that Qin Miao will leave the Ferrari system to join Mercedes next season began to circulate in the paddock, the relationship between Mick and Qin Miao, who was basically in an old-fashioned relationship with Qin Miao, became certain. relief.

After all, after Qin Miao left Ferrari, there was no direct conflict of interest between the two of them, and it was logical that they could exchange ideas about racing during the team meeting.

After the Spa game, Qin Miao did not stay in Belgium for long.

As soon as the team meeting was over, Qin Miao followed the team back to Vicenza.

The new grand prix will be held in Monza, Italy, and Vicenza is only two hours' drive away from Monza. For Qin Miao and the others, coming to Monza is almost like playing at home.

There is no need to go into too much detail about the game process, Qin Miao brought back the full score of 46 points.

But the more the race ran, the more Qin Miao felt like an outsider.

After all, Qin Miao has limited room to display his strength throughout the weekend of the competition.

After the start of the race, it is normal to run laps.

The only interesting thing is that Qin Miao kept overtaking during the sprint race.

But now, even if Qin Miao ran the sprint race, she was starting to get a little bored.

Because almost all the people in front of Qin Miao will not defend Qin Miao.

Although seeing Qin Miao appearing in his rearview mirror, he would not lose speed like a slow car meeting an express car and would give up his position, but no one would take the initiative to defend Qin Miao when Qin Miao was attacking. Miao.

Because it is not necessary.

Defending Qin Miao has to lose speed. The key is that he can't defend, so there is no need to waste time on such meaningless things.

So now Qin Miao's F2 race is not challenging at all, and he is playing laps the whole time, brushing up his proficiency on the track.

After the race, 80% of the audience who were curious or bored with Qin Miao recognized Qin Miao's strength, and also understood Toto's intention to sign Qin Miao uncharacteristically.

If such a genius is placed outside, it will be a time bomb for Mei Ben, because Mei Ben can't be sure whether Qin Miao will enter Red Bull or Ferrari in the end, and then rely on his own personal strength to forcibly make up for the car like a big brother. The gap in performance gave Mei Ben a little genius shock.

And in the interview session before going on stage to accept the award after the competition, Qin Miao prepared his own plan and waited for the host's questions as he had done countless times before on stage to accept the award.

But when the host came up, he just said: "Congratulations, Qin, you have become the 2020 World Formula Two Champion!"

"Huh?" (End of this chapter)