How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 182 Chapter 180: Transformation (6K, plus 420)

Although I haven't watched the news broadcast for almost three or four years, the news broadcast is still what Qin Miao remembers.

And Qin Miao never imagined that one day he would be able to appear on the news network, and his name and appearance would be spread to thousands of households in China.

To be honest, I was very excited, I felt my hands were shaking, and the level of excitement was not too different from Qin Miao's feeling of winning the championship yesterday.

The feeling of winning the championship is a sense of satisfaction that after hard work and sweat, I finally get rewarded.

But after watching the news broadcast today, Qin Miao felt that her efforts had been recognized by the elders in her family.

And just after watching the news broadcast, Qin Miao's phone rang.

Picking up the phone and looking, the caller's location says mom.

Qin Miao answered the phone excitedly.

"Hey, mom, I'm on the news broadcast!"

……

My mother called to talk about Qin Miao's appearance on the news broadcast, but Qin Miao could hear the excitement in her mother's tone.

After this matter was finished, my mother began to ask Qin Miao and Qiu Meng how their lives abroad were.

After asking, Qin Miao was asked to pay attention to safety and so on. In short, it was the normal family's advice to wanderers.

If Qin Miao was still in high school, Qin Miao might be a little impatient after hearing her mother's advice.

But it's different now, Qin Miao is working outside the country, and she hasn't seen her mother for almost two years.

So now Qin Miao is not impatient with her mother's nagging and exhortations, but listens very seriously.

However, the call did not last long. Qin Miao's mother is not a person who likes to chatter. The main reason for talking so much today is that she has not seen Qin Miao for a long time. It's almost done after it's finished.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Miao's mother turned around and went out to show off to her neighbors.

Qin Miao also heaved a sigh of relief, then packed up her excited mood and found Hamilton again.

"Are you done?"

Qin Miao nodded: "I just watched our country's news broadcast."

Hamilton smiled and raised his eyebrows: "So caring, it seems that you are on the Chinese news network. Your country has such a large population base. I believe you are now a household name in your country's sports circle."

"Not necessarily, it's just a news broadcast. Most young people don't watch the news broadcast much at night now." Qin Miao said a little modestly.

Hamilton shook his head: "You Chinese are like this, you are too humble. When I first came into contact with the Chinese, I even thought your modesty was the truth.

But no matter what, you are able to achieve such an achievement because of your hard work, so I think we should celebrate it. "

Then the old man took Qin Miao to an open space in the backyard of his winery. At this time, a waiter had already prepared a golf cart for the two of them, and there were two golf bags behind the cart.

Qin Miao was a little surprised after seeing these equipments: "There is a golf course here? Isn't this a vineyard?"

Hamilton said with a smile: "The golf course is not mine, it just happens to be next to my winery, so I bought a golf cart and put it here. If I have time, I can go there to play."

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Stayed with the old man until the evening, played golf for a while, and went to have dinner with the old man. Because he didn't drink, Qin Miao drove home in his own car.

Qin Miao couldn't help admiring the thoughtfulness of Hamilton's hospitality. He went to Hamilton's house as a guest, and the staff of his winery even washed his car.

Meeting Hamilton this time, Qin Miao feels that this is a very daily gathering between two friends. She doesn't have to worry about what she said when the friends meet being spread out, and there is no need to intrigue. She can relax and spend a pleasant time with her friends. afternoon.

However, Hamilton's daily life has also brought a certain impact on Qin Miao, a small townsman.

So on the way home, Qin Miao couldn't help but think about everything he saw at Hamilton's house.

What Qin Miao expected was that he had stayed here for a long time in Hamilton, and it was completely dark when he came out.

Naturally, it was impossible for Qin Miao to send the car for maintenance at this time.

So I can only drive the car home, and send the car for maintenance when I have time later.

After returning home, Qiu Meng was curled up on the sofa in the living room in her pajamas, watching a movie while waiting for Qin Miao to come home.

To be honest, it is a very happy thing to see your lover waiting for you at the first sight after opening the door.

After Qin Miao came back, Qiumeng rushed Qin Miao to take a bath, prepared clothes for Qin Miao, and put several contracts in front of Qin Miao's computer.

According to Qin Miao's habit, after taking a shower, she would go to play on the computer for a while, and then go back to her room to sleep.

So putting these contract documents in front of his computer was just enough for Qin Miao to take a look before playing the game.

It was because of these contracts that Qiu Meng couldn't get out this morning. It took the girl a day to screen out some contracts that she thought were suitable and sort them out.

If it is said that Qin Miao could only have a certain reputation among the team executives and some spectators who focus on low-level formula races and domestic car fan groups in F2, after entering F1, Qin Miao also became famous. It only left an impression in the minds of those who watched F1.

"Oh, this young man is very capable. He was favored by Toto, and he was lucky enough to enter Mercedes."

And with Qin Miao's two races in F1, one was more amazing than the other, and the second race won a championship by chance. Qin Miao's commercial value was immediately visible to the naked eye. The speed increased rapidly.

And because of Qin Miao's own nationality, after he achieved good results in F1, many domestic and foreign companies came to Qiumeng to seek cooperation with Qin Miao.

Of course, Qiu Meng also believed that while she was so busy that she didn't have time to go out, the business department of the Mercedes team was probably also working overtime.

With Qin Miao's excellent performance in the arena, Qin Miao's domestic attention will naturally increase. The rich and large domestic companies will certainly not mind sponsoring Mei Ben to increase their international exposure.

So after Qin Miao came out of the shower, she looked at the stack of documents on her desk in a daze.

Qin Miao picked up these contracts and studied them for a while without bothering Qiu Meng who had been busy all day.

In fact, these are all contracts based on Qin Miao's request. The workload is very small. At most, it is a portrait right, and then help the sponsor to record a voice or a video. If Qin Miao works hard, he will sign all these contracts. All the requirements of the contract can be completed within one day.

However, Qin Miao did not sign all these contracts as decisively as before, not because Qin Miao did not trust Qiu Meng, nor because he was not short of money, but because Qin Miao had other considerations.

To be honest, the current Qin Miao is somewhat disgusted with his status as the number two driver.

Toto's team order sounded the alarm for Qin Miao. If he was just a driver, then in the eyes of Toto and the others, he would be the kind of character that could be manipulated at will.

If he doesn't want to be played around by Ferrari anymore, and if he doesn't want to be asked to do something he doesn't want to do, then Qin Miao needs to have background, influence, and someone to back him up.

But with Qin Miao's communication skills, it's impossible to get to know some big bosses in the paddock, and let the big guys back him up.

So Qin Miao had to open up a new track and find a new way of playing: find a sponsor, a big sponsor!

Since the network is not good, let's take the funds.

The next time Toto gives a team order, he has to consider whether the sponsor behind him will agree or not.

After all, Qin Miao is quite confident in himself and the big bosses in China. He thinks that many companies will choose to sponsor the Mercedes team because of his current influence in the country.

Moreover, some foreign companies that want to develop the domestic market should also hope that they have more voice and lens in the arena.

At the same time, what Qin Miao said about Hamilton was not groundless. He really envied Hamilton's winery and liked the atmosphere there very much.

Although Qin Miao now has enough cash to buy a winery of the same specification as Hamilton, even if Qin Miao wants to buy a local medieval castle in England, it is not impossible.

But Qin Miao learned from chatting with Hamilton that even if Hamilton bought the winery and sold some wine, the winery is still in a state of long-term loss.

In other words, Hamilton is rich and doesn't care about this loss at all.

Qin Miao can indeed buy that level of property now, but the follow-up maintenance and maintenance costs of these things are not much cheaper than buying them.

And after you buy it, the British government requires you to maintain your castle well, because it is considered a cultural relic to a certain extent.

Qin Miao is currently only earning a dead salary, and can't support such a place at all.

Thinking of this, Qin Miao put down the contract in his hand, turned to look outside the door and shouted: "Daughter-in-law, I have something to tell you."

After a while, Qiu Meng came in. She was a little surprised that Qin Miao didn't readily accept these extremely loose contracts, but she still nodded patiently: "Speak, I'll listen."

"I want to make money, and I also want to have a certain right to speak in the paddock, so I want to change a batch of contracts, preferably with more money."

Qiu Meng was stunned for a while, then scratched her hair with some headaches.

Although she really loves Qin Miao, this guy's thinking is a bit too jumpy, and Qin Miao said that all the work he did during the day was basically for nothing.

This really confirms the sentence: the boss moves his mouth, and his subordinates run away.

But what can Qiu Meng do?The husband I chose, spoil me.

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The two chatted at home for more than two hours. Qin Miao confided his general thoughts and goals to his lover and Qiu Meng recorded Qin Miao's request while screening herself in her mind during this time. After receiving the cooperation applications, we briefly screened the contracts that meet Qin Miao's requirements.

The next day, Qin Miao resumed her daily training. It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao reduced the amount of physical training she did, but only maintained the amount of physical training required to keep her body from deteriorating. Invested in the improvement of its own driving skills.

Qin Miao's main research object is his teammate Hamilton.

A monitor is set up next to his G-force seat. On the monitor is the video of Hamilton's qualifying session and telemetry data. On the other side is the simulator of the Mercedes team.

Qin Miao first ran a lap according to her own habits, then watched Hamilton's game video, and ran a lap according to Hamilton's route.

Carefully feel the difference between the two running methods, and then intercept the telemetry of the lap I just ran, and compare my lap rhythm with Hamilton's rhythm.

On average, Qin Miao can speed up her lap time by about 0.05 seconds every hour in this way.

Up to now, there is not much room for improvement of Qin Miao's personal ability and lap time. If he wants to speed up, he can only dig out the details like Qin Miao.

At the same time, Qin Miao did not forget to train his starting speed and tire protection ability when picking out the long distance and details of the lap time.

Qin Miao found that although the tires did have advantages after he arrived in F1, if Hamilton also entered the state of tire protection, his tire loss was only about 18% less than that of the old man.

Although this value is already a lot, Qin Miao can obviously perform better.

Qin Miao knew that this small value was mainly due to her own tire protection ability being hindered, so during this period of time, Qin Miao also watched many drivers' driving methods during tire protection.

If you have any doubts, you can ask Hamilton. After all, the relationship between the two is really good now. As long as the other party is not disturbed when the other party is busy, Hamilton will usually help Qin Miao answer doubts.

Also because of Qin Miao's sudden rage, Qin Miao's daily routine of training in the morning and playing in the afternoon has changed to training in the morning and afternoon and playing in the evening.

Evolved from daily fishing to nine-to-five.

This kind of life lasted for three days. On April 4, Qin Miao entered the daily work rhythm that an F23 driver should have.

After the physical training in the morning, report directly to the team headquarters.

A meeting was held in the rest of the morning. The performance of Mercedes at the last Imola station was not bad. Although there were many problems and small flaws, the flaws were not hidden. When discussing these issues, I sat Toto, who presided over the meeting on the stage, did not bring too much negative emotion.

In addition to finding the problems he made on the field, Toto also talked about the work goals that the team's design and manufacturing department needs to complete during this period, and pointed out that Qin Miao and Hamilton need to actively cooperate with the work of the team's design department.

Then there is the logistics and transportation department. They need to ensure the smooth logistics and transportation of the Mercedes team during the Portuguese Grand Prix. At the same time, they must ensure that the new parts manufactured during this period are shipped to Portugal as soon as they come off the production line of the factory.

After the morning meeting, Qin Miao and Hamilton had lunch in the team cafeteria.

During the lunch break, Qin Miao was called by Toto to his office to chat about the team's order in the last race. As Hamilton said to Qin Miao, Toto sincerely apologized to Qin Miao. , and said that it is impossible for these things to happen in the future.

Qin Miao, who had been concerned about this for a long time, naturally said generously that this matter has passed.

Both sides of the conversation were satisfied, and the result was a happy one.

After coming out, Qin Miao was called to the honor room of the team by Hamilton.

Hamilton took Qin Miao around here, talked about the history of these cars, and talked about the interesting things that happened to the cars he drove during the race.

In the afternoon, both Qin Miao and Hamilton started working.

Qin Miao discussed with the staff in the simulator department the feedback after the newly designed components were loaded on the simulator.

Hamilton and Bottas are busy in the design department of the team, contributing their own strength to the team's next car upgrade.

After 5 days of this kind of work, on Wednesday, April 4, Hamilton did not come to the factory. Only Bottas, who had a lot less work because the driver position was gone, still assisted the engineers in the team factory.

Hamilton is busy with his other work, such as endorsement, attending some fashion events or public welfare activities and the like.

Although Qin Miao changed his pace of life, it was inevitable that he would have to run various sponsors' activities like Hamilton, but now many of his business contracts are still under negotiation.

After all, Qin Miao's requirements have increased. The contracts he wants are not like the simple contracts in the past, which can be signed directly after confirming the requirements of both parties. All the terms have to be carefully considered.

So Qin Miao is still leisurely for the time being.

But Toto always looked down on Qin Miao's leisure.

Qin Miao's home is next to Meiben Brackley's factory, surrounded by local people or Qin Miao's colleagues, Meiben's staff and so on.

Then Toto specifically found a Meiben staff member who lived relatively close to Qin Miao. If there was an urgent job during the break time, he would ask the staff member whether Qin Miao was at home. If he was at home, a phone call would be enough Call Qin Miao and invite him to go to the factory to help with overtime work.

The most irritating thing was that Toto actually calculated the overtime wages for Qin Miao, regardless of whether it was a holiday or not, it was calculated according to the highest three times the wages.

But Qin Miao's basic salary is only 60 US dollars, which is the lowest among all team drivers.

Even Kakuta, the sixth-ranked driver in the F2 standings, has a basic salary of US$100 million.

And Qin Miao, the F2 annual champion, has a basic salary of only 60...

Although the team gave Qin Miao a championship bonus of US$60 on the third day after Imola ran, this was a different price and had nothing to do with the basic salary.

After careful calculation, Qin Miao's hourly salary is only 208 US dollars, and one hour of overtime work is 624 US dollars per hour.

In other words, Qin Miao can earn around RMB 4477 for one hour of overtime work.

This number may seem like a lot, but you must know that Qin Miao still has a RMB racing fund of more than 550 million yuan and a liquidity of more than [-] million yuan.

After having so much money, Qin Miao can't be said to look down on the more than 4000 yuan, but he really doesn't have much psychological fluctuations.

Qin Miao was even willing to give Toto money so that he wouldn't call himself to work overtime in the factory when he was resting.

This is the case today. A new set of tail fins came out of the designers' drawings in advance. After more than 50 hours of blowing in the wind tunnel, the obtained data maps were imported into the simulator. Bottas just happened to be on vacation today. If it can be completed today If the simulator is tested, the new rear wing will be used in the next week's race, so in order to catch up with the schedule, Toto made a phone call to Qin Miao, who was written all over his face.

There is no such thing as an 8-hour working system when working overtime. Qin Miao came to the factory at ten o'clock in the morning and has been running back and forth between the design department and the simulator department. It was already evening when he came out of the Mercedes team headquarters again. It's past nine o'clock.

But fortunately, the test of the rear wing was finally completed, and the obtained simulator effect was quite satisfactory, but I don't know how it will perform on the field.

After returning home, Qin Miao didn't even bother to play computer games. After taking a shower, she lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

On the 29th.

After getting up in the morning, Qin Miao took something from the refrigerator to pad her stomach, and then completed her daily training. After the training, Qin Miao called Barber with a mask on, and the two took the plane to Portugal together.

Qiu Meng is still dealing with Qin Miao's contract and has no time to go to Portugal with Qin Miao.

Because Qin Miao did not have the opportunity to run the Portimao circuit in F2, and when he met Hamilton last time, Hamilton also told Qin Miao that the Portimao circuit is a track with frequent ups and downs. To get good results and good speed on the track, you have to walk around the track in person to get familiar with the track.

So no matter what, Qin Miao must come to the scene and walk around to measure the length of the track and the ups and downs of the track with his feet.

After all, what the ancestors said is good, but what is done on paper is always shallow, and I never know that this matter must be practiced.

No matter how realistic the simulator is, Qin Miao uses VR equipment for daily training, the height difference of the track and the feeling of weightlessness caused by the height difference, and the actual feedback of driving the car in that state is different from the reality.

After getting off the plane and going through the security check, Qin Miao went to the hotel they had prepared for him under the arrangement of the Mercedes team staff.

After putting down the things, Qin Miao directly dragged Barber to the arena.

On Monday, the Portimão circuit had already started preparations for this week's Portuguese Grand Prix, so all the peripheral facilities here had been installed by the time Qin Miao arrived.

It is worth mentioning that before Qin Miao entered the gate of the track, he saw many Asian faces on the roadside outside the track. At that time, Qin Miao didn't pay attention to it. After getting off the car, those people walked towards Qin Miao with bright eyes.

(End of this chapter)