How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 285 Chapter 288: Furious Qiu Meng (6K, 1020 more updates)

However, regardless of the situation outside the stadium, Qin Miao is already out of contention for the championship in this US Grand Prix.

Due to engine loss, Qin Miao needed to replace a new power unit for this game.

This was something that the team had planned for a long time, and Qin Miao had already been mentally prepared for it, so Qin Miao didn't expect that he would have a good result in the US station.

The team's and Qin Miao's expectations for this race are to finish in the top five.

The team replaced Qin Miao's entire power unit this time, unlike Hamilton in the previous race who only replaced an internal combustion engine.

Qin Miao's replacement this time includes the internal combustion engine, MGU-K, MGU-H, turbine, and exhaust system.

Therefore, Qin Miao received more penalty positions than Hamilton. Hamilton received 10 penalty positions, while Qin Miao started directly at the end of the team.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao's replacement also included the gearbox, but Qin Miao's gearbox did not exceed the usage limit, so replacing the gearbox will not cause more penalties.

According to the team's calculations, after replacing this engine, Qin Miao will not need to replace the engine until the end of this season. The only thing that needs to be replaced may be the exhaust system.

However, every driver has 9 sets of exhausts every season. If you use them sparingly, you won't be able to use them up in one season.

But in any case, these are things that need to be considered a month later and have nothing to do with Qin Miao now.

After returning home, Qin Miao played on the computer wildly all night.

But when the next day came, Qin Miao had resumed his daily training even though he was still on vacation.

Qiu Meng stayed with Qin Miao at home for two days. After Qin Miao started working in the factory on the third day, she also left the UK and went to Monaco.

Although Qiu Meng is not ready to change to a bigger house, she considers Qin Miao's work content.

The family needs to prepare a room for Qin Miao to play games. It may also have to integrate a racing simulator, which may also have the function of a study. In addition, it also needs a fitness room.

After such a set of rooms is prepared, it is estimated that there will only be three rooms left in the end. At that time, there will be a master bedroom, a secondary bedroom, and a guest bedroom or something else.

In short, preparing a house for you to live in is a lot of things.

Even after knowing that Qin Miao wanted to buy a house, both Leclerc and Zhou Guanyu recommended some good interior designers to Qin Miao.

But Qiu Meng refused.

Strictly speaking, this is the first house that the two of them have bought in their lives. It is not so much a house as a home for them.

Qiu Meng is particularly concerned about her home. She even wants to decorate it herself. Compared with Qin Miao, Qiu Meng has a lot of free time to spend on this.

In the afternoon after Qiu Meng left, Zhou Guanyu drove to Qin Miao's house.

Although Qin Miao and Qiu Meng have a really good relationship, Qin Miao has never had the idea of ​​cheating.

But every married man knows that even though you love your wife very much, when you do something that you know is harmful after you get together, your wife will always block or interfere with your choices.

Once your lover goes out, no one is looking after you, and you are the only one at home, the feeling of relaxation, peace, and comfort is extremely wonderful.

After making sure that no one was looking after him and that Qiu Meng would not come back in a short time, Qin Miao couldn't help but start to let herself go.

After Zhou Guanyu arrived home, Qin Miao basically did nothing else except daily training.

rest?It doesn't exist. Playing the game lasts an entire afternoon.

Sleeping at night?Sleep with JB!fishing!
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu packed up their equipment, drove Qin Miao's RV and went fishing in the park near their home.

When I feel sleepy, I just go to sleep in the RV.

What stands out is lawlessness.

He and Zhou Guanyu played like this very wildly for three days. During this period, Qin Miao's work and rest schedule was completely chaotic. He often went to bed after 2 a.m., got up at 11 a.m., exercised for an hour, and then started playing on the computer again.

With such a bad schedule, neither of them showed any signs of energy loss.

The main thing is that I'm young and can stand up to it. After an all-nighter, I feel refreshed after four or five hours of sleep.

Of course, it was impossible for the two of them to do nothing. On the afternoon of the fourth day, Qin Miao took Zhou Guanyu to the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team.

However, because Zhou Guanyu is a Renault youth training driver, Zhou Guanyu basically has no access to new components and concepts developed by the Mercedes team.

But because of Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu can try out the feeling of driving an F1 car by himself when the simulator department is not busy, and get a feel for it on a professional simulator in advance to prepare for next year's racing.

I just don’t know if Zhou Guanyu will feel a clear sense of gap when he experiences Arrow’s racing simulator after experiencing Mercedes-Benz’s top F1 racing simulator.

Speaking of Zhou Guanyu, when fishing with him, the two inevitably talked about Zhou Guanyu's seat next season.

Zhou Guanyu said that Arrow's side has already moved. If nothing happens, Qin Miao will be able to compete in the same paddock with Zhou Guanyu next season.

But at this moment, both parties just have an obvious intention. The specific content and terms of the contract are still in the process of negotiation, and only after the F2 game is over and Zhou Guanyu has enough points on his super driver's license can Zhou Guanyu sign with Arrow. .

And because of the confidentiality agreement, this matter cannot be told to outsiders, nor can it be made public.

As for why Zhou Guanyu talked to Qin Miao?
As Zhou Guanyu's adoptive father, doesn't Qin Miao know that these things should be natural?
The short but wonderful rest time always passes quickly. Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu's life schedule, which is extremely unhealthy for drivers, came to an abrupt end after Qiu Meng returned to the UK two days early.

Looking at the messy room, the two people who looked a little haggard, and the take-out boxes piled in the trash can in the study that had not yet been thrown away.

Qiu Meng and Qin Miao have been together for almost three years. For the first time, she felt her blood pressure rise, her eyes twitching wildly, and an uncontrollable rage burst out from the inside out.

"I'm not at home, you just live like this, right!?" Qiu Meng scolded the two people sitting on the sofa with their heads bowed like children who made a mistake.

"Don't you have any idea what you are doing? If you abuse your body so much, what will you do during the competition?"

"And you, Zhou Guanyu! Why don't you just stay at home and train to prepare for F1? Why don't you accompany him to do this nonsense?"

Hearing this, Zhou Guanyu raised his hands silently and said, "Actually, I already have one for next season..."

Before Zhou Guanyu finished speaking, Qiu Meng shouted: "Shut up!"

"Hey~" Zhou Guanyu responded and silently put down the hand he had just raised.

Zhou Guanyu glanced at Qin Miao with some sympathy. On weekdays, Qiu Meng looked really soft and frail, and she was a very gentle girl.

I never expected Qiu Meng to have such a side. Qin Miao must not be too happy at home on weekdays.

But the fact is that Qin Miao has never seen Qiu Meng like this, and he was also a little overwhelmed by Qiu Meng's words.

Qiu Meng, on the other hand, angrily scolded the two of them for five or six minutes.

Qiu Meng is not a character who gets angry easily. Even if she does get angry, it will subside quickly.

So after scolding the two of them for a while, Qiu Meng's anger was almost gone when she saw them lowering their heads and admitting their mistake.

The reason why Qiu Meng behaves like this is because Qiu Meng has been busy in Monaco during this period. All she can think about is decorating the new house and buying furniture to decorate the room. She is really tired. of.

When I got home and saw the depraved appearance of these two guys, I immediately became furious.

Another reason is that as professional drivers, they don't take their own health seriously. For the sake of their future career plans, Qiu Meng cannot remain indifferent to this.

On the contrary, Qiu Meng was not very angry about the messy home and the garbage that was not thrown away in the trash can.

As a man, it’s normal for your home to be a little chaotic.

But in any case, Qiu Meng did not delve into this matter, but before forgiving these two idiots, Qiu Meng took out her mobile phone, pointed it at the two of them, and turned on the video recording function of the mobile phone.

"Apologize!"

Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu recorded an apology video under Qiu Meng's scrutinizing gaze.

"I am Qin Miao. I have deeply realized my mistakes. I should not have dragged Zhou Guanyu over to stay up late playing games together. I should not have eaten junk food. I should not have disrupted my schedule. I should not have driven out in the RV to go fishing in the middle of the night. I A deep examination..."

Halfway through Qin Miao's words, Qiu Meng's voice suddenly rose a few degrees: "You two drove your RV out fishing in the middle of the night???"

Why, the UK is not like China. In China, when you go out at night, you are worried about being hungry and seeing a late-night snack stall and being unable to control your mouth.

If you go out at night abroad, you may not be able to control your blood flow.

……

Not surprisingly, after discovering this incident, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were caught and scolded by Qiu Meng.

But in the end Qiu Meng let the two of them go. Of course, the self-examination video recorded by the two was saved by Qiu Meng and stored in the cloud disk in front of the two of them. Even if Qin Miao stole Qiu Meng's mobile phone, he would This video has been deleted and there is a backup on the Internet.

"If you two go out fishing again late at night and don't sleep on time, do you think I will post these videos online, which will make you two embarrassed in front of car fans all over the world." Qiu Meng bit her back. Molars, a vicious threat.

Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu naturally admitted their mistakes and promised not to do it again in the future.

After that, Zhou Guanyu stayed at Qin Miao's house, while Qiu Meng began to clean up the mess left by the two ancestors.

When Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were about to help, Qiu Meng kicked them away in disgust.

Zhou Guanyu stayed mainly because he wanted to try out the simulator of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team.

However, Qin Miao's face cannot be used all the time. If it is used too much, Qin Miao's face will become worthless.

So Zhou Guanyu stayed at Qin Miao's house during this period and practiced using the simulator at Qin Miao's house.

Anyway, in addition to physical training during this period, Qin Miao spent most of his time working in the team's simulator department. He didn't need the simulator at home, so he naturally left it to Zhou Guanyu.

The data that Zhou Guanyu ran using the simulator will be brought to the team by Qin Miao, and the big data model of the team's simulator department will be used to score the data that Zhou Guanyu ran.By the way, let’s analyze Zhou Guanyu’s routing and driving issues.

Although the opinion given by the big data model only has a basic reference opinion, unlike Qin Miao, every time he runs the simulator, the people in the simulator department collect and summarize the data while explaining to Qin Miao what he ran in this lap. There is a problem somewhere, how to solve this problem, and which method can be used to achieve a speed of 0.1~0.2 seconds in the curve. The simulation cannot be compared.

But at least there is a reference. Zhou Guanyu can also find some problems that he has not discovered before and improve them.

Zhou Guanyu usually doesn't have such an opportunity. Although he is a youth training driver of Renault, he can also use the simulator developed by Renault.

But Renault's simulator is not as good as Mercedes', and it is just a simulator and cannot give Zhou Guanyu any feedback. Problems have to be discovered and solved by Zhou Guanyu and his coach.

The difference in efficiency is obvious.

After returning to normal life, time always flies by.

On Tuesday, October 10, Qin Miao went to Austin, Texas, USA.

At this time, Zhou Guanyu also returned to his home in London.

Although Qin Miao and Qiu Meng didn't care that Zhou Guanyu lived at home, Zhou Guanyu also knew how to avoid suspicion. When Qin Miao was at home, it was fine, but after Qin Miao left, if Zhou Guanyu still stayed at Qin Miao's house, it would be a bit I have no vision.

As mentioned before, during the US Grand Prix, because the sport of F1 needs to be more actively promoted in the United States, almost all team drivers will go to the United States in advance to participate in local events.

Or go to an NBA game as a spectator, or go to a rugby game, or participate in other marketing activities.

No matter what the event is, the main purpose is to strengthen the momentum of the F1 sport in the United States and let more people pay attention to the F1 sport.

Its main purpose is to increase F1's local influence in the United States.

It is also to allow more people to come to watch the game on weekends.

So the drivers at the American Grand Prix got to work earlier than other times.

After Qin Miao landed in Austin, he was immediately taken to the hotel. During this period of rest, Barber sent Qin Miao the activities that Qin Miao needed to participate in these days before the start of this week's Grand Prix.

There is a dinner for American sponsors on Tuesday night, and Qin Miao and Toto need to attend this dinner.

Seeing this, Qin Miao couldn't help but click her tongue: "Do you have to work as soon as you land?"

Barbour nodded helplessly: "Yes, Liberty Media Group still values ​​the US market very much and can't wait to explore this blue ocean."

Qin Miao nodded in understanding, and then continued reading.

He needs to go to an NBA game on Wednesday morning. Qin Miao can go alone or bring his family members.

Of course, Qiu Meng is still in Monaco dealing with matters regarding her new home in this game, so even if she goes to the NBA to watch this game, Qin Miao can only go alone, bringing at most one Barber, or pulling Locks together.

On Wednesday afternoon, there will be an American talk show.

I list them here mainly because the other party offers more. However, if you go to such an event, you will easily be teased by others about things that will make you unhappy. It is inevitable that you will be offended by the other party, so if you don’t like it, you don’t have to go.

If you don't go to the talk show on Wednesday, you can also attend an event to visit an orphanage and attend a dinner party in Austin in the evening.

Return to normal rhythm Thursday.

In the morning, we walked the track in the paddock and participated in various pre-race meetings. In the afternoon, there was a basketball game between F1 drivers.

Of course, there is no confrontation, the main thing is to compare free throws, three-pointers, and then dunks or layups.

Considering the physical fitness of F1 drivers, these are not too difficult.

Of course, although it seems that Qin Miao will not have any rest time in the next few days, there will basically be an hour or two of rest time between these activities, and Qin Miao can also take advantage of this rest time relax for a moment.

After reading the arrangements for himself, Qin Miao crossed out the talk show line, checked the option of visiting the orphanage, and then asked casually: "Where is Hamilton? He is like me this week. busy?"

"Well, he didn't ask the team to arrange any activities. This week's marketing activities were arranged for him by his own team."

Qin Miao was stunned: "You mean, I'm the only one doing the team's marketing activities this week?"

"Toto will be with you at some events and Bottas will be here too."

"Okay, but I don't know why, but now I'm starting to envy Hamilton..."

In the next few days, Qin Miao also started his work at the US Grand Prix as mentioned before.

Not tired, but even relaxed most of the time. When participating in activities, Qin Miao spent half the time fishing.

It's just that Qin Miao's face was a little stiff from keeping smiling for a long time, but other than that, everything else was fine.

After these two busy days, Qin Miao earned almost 70 US dollars more, which was considered a blessing in disguise.

Then it was Thursday.

On this day, Hamilton also ended his wandering in the American fashion circle and returned to the paddock.

It is worth mentioning that when they arrived at the paddock in the morning, Qin Miao and Hamilton passed the turnstile together.

At this time, there was a photographer holding a camera in front of the two of them, and he took a photo of the two Mercedes drivers together.

At that time, both Qin Miao and Hamilton spotted each other, and both smiled and nodded to each other.

In this picture, the biggest difference between the two Mercedes drivers is their clothing.

The weather in Austin is still a bit hot in October, with the air temperature reaching 10 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning.

The body temperature is almost 30 degrees.

Therefore, when Qin Miao comes to the paddock, she mainly wears comfortable clothes.

He casually wore a white T-shirt without any patterns or slogans, and his pants were also a pair of simple black cropped pants. In fact, Qin Miao wanted to wear slippers when he went out, but considering that Qin Miao had never run at the Austin track, , I had to go for a walk on the track today, so I changed into a pair of sneakers.

There is nothing special about Qin Miao's clothes. What stands out is that they are simple and clean clothes that all normal ordinary people would wear.

The old man is relatively fresh and refined.

On a hot day, he wore a leather denim windbreaker with streamers on it, a pair of riding boots with spikes on his feet, and a cowboy hat on his head.

It's completely like a western cowboy dress.

Qin Miao is now somewhat accustomed to Hamilton's unique dress.

After briefly saying hello to the old man, Qin Miao went to the team home to say hello to his colleagues whom he had not seen for half a month.

After that, Qin Miao started working.

Walk the track, have meetings, study the impact of upgraded components, and then go to the FIA ​​drivers' meeting to determine the track restrictions for this week's race, which corners will have very strict penalties, and which corners can be run a little Let’s be a little bold and ask what areas on the track have been improved this season.

After the driver meeting was over, it was time to shoot the marketing video.

Qin Miao was filming this time with his teammate Hamilton.

This is actually a video for Mercedes-Benz’s internal fan welfare project, so it will naturally be filmed by two Mercedes drivers.

After confirming that the video recording had started, the female host smiled and said to Hamilton and Qin Miao: "Welcome to participate in this event. The main competition today is the shooting skills of the two drivers.

The rule is that you both stand at the free throw line and shoot free throws to see who makes more balls. "

In fact, the rules are very simple. Basically, anyone who has ever touched basketball knows how to play.

But this is just a fan-oriented video after all, and fan-oriented videos are not to show fans how powerful their favorite driver is, but to let fans see how their favorite driver performs when playing basketball, or Skilled, or clumsy.

This is all fun for fans.

Therefore, this activity does not require Qin Miao and Hamilton to know how good they are at playing basketball. It doesn't matter if every ball they throw is a miss, as long as you play seriously.

Qin Miao and Hamilton said they understood the rules introduced by the host and stepped to the free throw line one after another.

Hamilton was the first, while Qin Miao watched happily.

Although Hamilton has never eaten pork, basketball is also a very universal sport. Hamilton has at least seen pigs running.

After receiving the ball thrown by the staff, Hamilton took the ball in his hand and patted it twice, then stood still, raised the ball over his head in a very standard manner, and then threw it away.

The movement was very graceful and standard, but it was a pity that with a bang, the basketball hit the frame.

The old man smiled helplessly.

"Can I not count it? This can only be regarded as my warm-up. I am not ready." Hamilton said while looking at the female host spreading her hands.

The other party was obviously a Hamilton fan. Hearing what Hamilton said, he said with great pity: "I also want to help you, Lewis, but unfortunately I can't."

"Okay." Hamilton didn't really want to go back and lose again. He was just trying to improve the effect of the show.

Then the staff threw another ball to the old man.

After taking the basketball, Hamilton dribbled the ball twice on the spot, then stood there to adjust his breathing, and casually threw the basketball in the direction of the basket.

"Shh!"

Hollow into the net.

(End of this chapter)