How did I become an F1 driver?

This is actually a dinner party, but there will be awards and programs during the dinner.

After Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu entered the venue hall, they saw a T stage similar to a catwalk, with tables on both sides of the stage.

At a glance, there were about thirty tables, and many places were already occupied, but most people were still chatting with their familiar colleagues or friends in various places in the exhibition hall.

"What are your plans for the evening?" Zhou Guanyu asked before leaving.

"I should have nothing to do. After the dinner, I will go chat with Toto and the others at most, and then go back to Monaco directly." Qin Miao said after thinking for a while.

"That's it, forget it. I also want to ask you to take me with you if you want to go to England after the dinner." Zhou Guanyu smacked his mouth with some pity, then waved his hand to Qin Miao and said :"gone."

Qin Miao nodded.

Although the seats between F1 and F2 are not too far apart, there are still three or four tables between the two groups. Naturally, two people who are not sitting together need to be separated.

Then Qin Miao was guided by the on-site staff to the seat with Qin Miao's nameplate.

The seating order of this dinner is different from that in China. It is based on the position of the motorcade.

So Qin Miao's seat was next to Toto and Hamilton.

After Qin Miao came and sat down, he saw Toto and Toto's wife, who were chatting with other people.

At the same time, Qin Miao also saw Hamilton's physical trainer Angela next to Hamilton at the table.

At the same time, sitting at the same table as Qin Miao were Vettel and Stroll, as well as the Aston Martin team leader and the two McLaren drivers.

But none of them came at this time, and the only things on the table were their names and the team's logo.

Another group of team leaders and drivers who have a good relationship with Mercedes-Benz Racing Team sit not too far away from Mercedes-Benz Racing Team.

After Qin Miao sat down, Hamilton looked over immediately.

Looking at Qin Miao, who took a deep breath after sitting next to him and bent a lot, Hamilton smiled and teased: "It seems that you are not very adaptable to such a scene."

Qin Miao shook his head: "Instead of dealing with such a scene, I would actually rather go to the track and run one more Grand Prix. Or if you ask me to run a 24-hour endurance race in "IRaising", I would also be willing."

Hearing Qin Miao's almost sincere and subconscious words, the smile on Hamilton's face froze for a moment. He thought about the change in his attitude towards the sport of F1 since he entered F1.

Hamilton did not continue to say anything to Qin Miao, but reached out to pick up the red wine glass in front of him and took a sip.

Qin Miao and Verstappen are both this kind of people. Rather than being able to communicate with everyone in the crowd and participating in various activities to make money, they are more willing to exercise their bodies and run more laps on the simulator. Hone your racing skills.

After a while, Toto, who had gone out to socialize, came back. Looking at Qin Miao, who was wearing a suit and tie, Toto raised his eyebrows in surprise and said, "I didn't expect that he looks quite handsome in a suit."

Qin Miao looked down at her clothes, which Qiu Meng said were tailor-made. She moved the tie around her neck a little and said, "Is it handsome? I don't feel anything. I just want to take off this damn tie now." , strangled me all the way, but I was afraid that after taking off the tie, the tie I wore would be crooked."

"There's nothing I can do about it. Although you are indeed handsome today and helped the team win the world championship, I will not tie a man's bow tie." Toto immediately stated his position.

"No, I didn't mean to ask you to tie my bow tie for me. I just complained." Qin Miao complained: "It seems that I will have to feel uncomfortable for a while."

"Actually, you can go for a walk now. Just come back before the banquet starts. Seeing as you are not feeling well now, go and talk to the riders you are familiar with." Toto said.

Qin Miao thought about it and it was true that she had nothing to do now.

Moreover, foreign banquets seem to be different from domestic banquets. Before the banquet started, the table in front of Qin Miao was only set with plates and cutlery, and there was no food on it.

Obviously it was not appropriate for Qin Miao to take out his mobile phone to play at this time, so Qin Miao was a little bored for a while.

And no matter what, he was gifted a plane by Gulfstream. Zhou Guanyu couldn't just let Zhou Guanyu know about this, he also had to "tell" the good news to other friends.

"Maybe you are right." After saying this, Qin Miao stood up and looked around. His good eyesight allowed him to immediately spot the location of the Ferrari drivers and team leader.

At this time, Steiner, Vassell and Binotto were chatting together. Looking at the three of them laughing, it was obvious that Ferrari's car should be greatly upgraded next season.

Qin Miao glanced at the three of them, quickly passed over them, and then looked at Leclerc.

At this time, Leclerc was sitting alone in the seat belonging to the Ferrari team, lowering his head and playing with his mobile phone.

There happened to be no one around Leclerc at this time, so Qin Miao walked over.

After sitting down next to Leclerc, the other party thought the person next to him was Binotto, because Qin Miao was sitting in Binotto's seat.

"Mattia, why are you back so soon?" Leclerc asked without raising his head.

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, then looked at the nameplate in front of his seat and realized that this was Binotto's seat.

But Qin Miao has no skin, because this is not the main purpose of Qin Miao coming to find Leclerc.

"it's me."

After hearing the familiar voice, Leclerc tilted his head and saw that it was Qin Miao and said, "Why did you sit down without saying hello? I thought it was Binotto here."

"Which one of us is following which one?" After Qin Miao made a fool of himself, he asked as if unintentionally: "By the way, what model is your plane?"

"You came here to ask this?" Although Leclerc was a little confused, he still replied: "What's wrong with the Bombardier Challenger 350? Do you want to use it on the plane again?"

"Tsk." Qin Miao tutted dissatisfiedly: "In your eyes, do I only know how to fly on planes?"

Leclerc glanced sideways at Qin Miao, put away his phone, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Damn it." Qin Miao scolded: "Wasn't it always a good idea to take advantage of your plane? I wouldn't take advantage of it if it wasn't along the way. Most people wouldn't have a chance to take advantage of me, so you just have to be content."

Leclerc crossed his arms and looked at Qin Miao with an expression like "I just want to see your quibbles."

Qin Miao waved his hand: "Forget it, if I don't tell you this, why don't we go back to Monaco together after the banquet?"

Leclerc showed a real expression.

Sure enough, he came to me to catch a flight.

However, Leclerc did not agree to Qin Miao, but shook his head and said: "It may not be convenient. I still have things to deal with in Paris. It will take some time before I can return to Monaco."

Qin Miao was stunned, why didn't this guy follow the routine? Shouldn't I say that?

Then after Leclerc said it was okay, he could say, seemingly unintentionally, "I won't mess with you this time and use my plane."

You don't follow the routine at all!

But since you Leclerc are not going to follow the routine, I won’t pretend either: “How did you know that Gulfstream sent me a Gulfstream G650?”

Leclerc: ...

???

"what?"

His movements and expressions were exactly the same as those of Zhou Guanyu, and the confusion on his face was very similar.

At this time, Leclerc fully expressed his inner shock, confusion and confusion.

Qin Miao now regrets that she is not the one with the deformed face on the camera in those short videos. If she were the camera person, she would be able to record the scene in front of her.

However, unlike Zhou Guanyu's question, Leclerc nodded after being surprised for a while and said: "If it is Gulfstream, it is indeed possible to send you a plane directly. After all, you have a high reputation in Europe and Asia, especially It’s your motherland. I see many people on Twitter saying that you are basically a national hero in your country. It can be said that everyone knows and knows about you.”

Qin Miao touched her nose and said modestly: "I am only generally popular in China, and you are quite famous in your country. Basically, there is no one in Monaco who doesn't know you."

But in fact, China is a place where victory is all about victory.

As long as you achieve success abroad, your popularity and visibility in China will grow exponentially.

If after Qin Miao entered F2, only a very small number of people in China who paid attention to F2 knew about Qin Miao. After Qin Miao's first victory in F2, this number began to grow explosively.

However, as Qin Miao wins more and more times in F2, the growth rate of the audience who know Qin Miao is gradually slowing down.

After all, there are only a small number of people who pay attention to F2 and racing, so when the F2 competition reaches the later stages, Qin Miao's number of new fans will be very limited.

When Qin Miao finally won the F2 world championship, only about one thousandth of the people in China had heard of Qin Miao's name.

But as Qin Miao entered F1 and won his first career F1 race championship, Qin Miao's fans really began to grow explosively.

After Qin Miao's first F1 race, it's hard to say how many fans Qin Miao gained, but F1's ratings in the Asia-Pacific region increased by 70%.

After Qin Miao won the first race championship of his career, F1's ratings soared by 40%. This was after a full season of competition and the ratings had reached saturation. increase.

This growth rate is truly terrifying.

Now that Qin Miao has won the F1 world championship, Qin Miao alone occupied a ten-minute special report on the Xinwen Network that night.

You must know that this is a news network, and Qin Miao is alone for ten minutes.

This gold content basically means that about half of the Chinese people have heard of Qin Miao's name.

Therefore, Qin Miao's words were completely overly modest in front of Leclerc.

Leclerc rolled his eyes: "How many people are there in Monaco? How many people are there in your country? And do you think I will believe what you said?"

Qin Miao simply stopped acting: "Yes, I'm just here to show off to you. Just tell me whether you envy Gulfstream for sending me a plane, right?"

"Tsk." Leclerc looked at Qin Miao with great disgust: "Now I think your presence here is a bit of an eyesore."

Qin Miao smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, the important things have been said, and it's time for me to leave."

After saying that, Qin Miao stood up and prepared to leave, while Leclerc shook his head helplessly.

What kind of thing is it to hurt your friends? He came here just to show off. The most annoying thing is that he actually let him pretend.

It is undeniable that Leclerc is indeed a little envious. Why the hell didn't anyone send me a plane?

Although the maintenance cost of the aircraft is not low, it is not that Leclerc cannot afford it, he just cannot afford it.

However, when Qin Miao finished chatting with Leclerc and was about to return to his seat, Binotto also finished chatting with the other two team leaders. After seeing Qin Miao, Binotto was surprised for a while, and then came to Qin Miao with a smile: "Qin Miao, I didn't have time to congratulate you when we were in the paddock, but I don't think it's enough to tell you now. Late, congratulations on becoming the world champion."

Looking up and shaking hands with Binotto, Qin Miao thanked: "Thank you very much, Mattia."

"Actually, when I was in F2, I guessed that you would have such a day." Binotto was a little sad when he said this: "It's just that what I thought at the beginning was that you would get all this while sitting in a Ferrari car."

Qin Miao was a little embarrassed now, but over the past year, Qin Miao had learned more or less about worldliness.

So Qin Miao quickly reached out and patted Binotto on the shoulder and said: "Relax, Sainz is pretty good too, isn't he? Sainz has also defeated Leclerc many times this season. At least this shows that Sainz Si is still capable, all he needs is a faster car."

"Hey, just say it nicely to comfort people. Why did you bring me along?" After hearing what Qin Miao and Binotto said, Leclerc yelled dissatisfiedly.

Leclerc's words dispelled the somewhat dull atmosphere between Qin Miao and Binotto. Qin Miao and Binotto looked at each other and smiled.

Then the two men let go of their hands, and Binotto said: "Good luck next season, I hope Mercedes can adapt to the ground effect car in 2022."

"I also hope that your car will be fast enough next season. Red Bull and I have had enough battles and want a change."

"Indeed, Verstappen is not an opponent suitable for fighting, no matter who he is." When saying this, Binotto smiled.

Qin Miao shared the same sentiment and smiled together.

"Okay, the party is about to start, I'll leave first."

"Goodbye~"

……

After putting on a show in front of Leclerc and reminiscing with Binotto, Qin Miao returned to his position.

At this time, the riders who had just gone out to chat were also back.

Qin Miao did not forget to say hello to them after sitting down.

They are all colleagues, so there is no problem in finding common topics at this time. Before the award ceremony, everyone chatted together.

Soon, the staff informed that the award ceremony was about to begin. The lights gradually dimmed, the chatter gradually became quieter, and finally stopped, and finally the entire award ceremony became quiet.

After the lights dimmed to a certain level, the screen at the end of the stage began to play the promotional video prepared by the FIA.

Competition clips from all events under the FIA, as well as videos of drivers winning the championship after a certain event, and even footage from some competitions in the early days of the FIA's formation.

Although Qin Miao is already the F1 world champion, he is still a novice in the racing industry.

So Qin Miao was quite interested when watching this.

Soon, the video comes to an end,

As soon as the lights came on, a child drove a car into the venue.

The kid drove his racing car all the way to the center of the award ceremony.

Then amid the music, FIA President Jean Todt appeared and tied the helmet on the little boy himself.

Then the FIA ​​awards ceremony officially began with the opening remarks of the female host.

At this time, Qin Miao noticed that there was food on the table in front of him.

When he just came back, Qin Miao was busy chatting and didn't pay attention at all.

However, the portions of the food in front of Qin Miao were not large, just a small piece of steak as big as a palm, a glass of red wine, and some salmon with caviar.

However, Qin Miao didn't have any taboos about food. After taking the wine glass a little further, Qin Miao started to eat the beef in front of him with a knife and fork, and then started to eat salmon.

Anyway, the process of this award ceremony was basically the same as that of previous award ceremonies. Basically, no awards would be awarded in the early stage, so Qin Miao did not listen carefully, but mainly focused on eating.

As he was eating, Qin Miao suddenly felt Hamilton next to him nudge him with his arm.

Qin Miao was stunned. While chewing the salmon in his mouth, he looked at Hamilton.

I saw Hamilton gesturing in the direction of the big screen.

Qin Miao turned his head and saw a close-up of himself eating on the big screen.

Qin Miao was embarrassed for a moment, then quickly adjusted himself, raised his thumb to the camera, and then pointed to the things on his plate.

It basically means: This stuff is really delicious.

……

[Hahahaha, everyone came to attend the award ceremony, but Qin Miao was the only one who showed off in the audience and was caught doing it]

[You usually don’t eat when attending a banquet like this, right? And the riders seem to have strict requirements on food]

[That’s someone else. I heard that when he was in F2, all the parties Qin Miao attended were eating. He ate fried chicken, cola, and everything. What stood out was that he had no taboos.]

【Aren’t you afraid of getting fat? 】

[I don’t know, but so far the Mercedes team has not said that Qin Miao has delayed training or affected the speed of the car due to weight issues]

[Look at this child who is hungry]

[Poor Sanshui, please go back to China as soon as possible. You will definitely be full when you come to my house]

[Upstairs, your abacus is blowing my face]

……

Because of Qin Miao's relationship, many domestic video platforms have also realized the influence of F1 after Qin Miao, so they started negotiations with the FIA ​​early.

The FIA ​​naturally hopes to open up the Chinese market like the NBA, but the entry barrier to the racing industry is still a bit too high, so the FIA ​​has not made any big progress in the Chinese market.

The emergence of Qin Miao gave the FIA ​​an opportunity. Therefore, facing the quotations from these domestic platforms, the FIA ​​was basically not prepared to collect money for F1's broadcast rights. It first opened up the Chinese market.

So at this time, many domestic platforms can watch F1 races, and naturally you can also watch the FIA ​​awards ceremony.

In short, the camera on the scene let Qin Miao finish his thumb gesture and let him go again to the host.

After that, Qin Miao didn't dare to be distracted.

It was the first time that he was photographed eating in the audience when other drivers went on stage to receive the award. He could also explain that Qin Miao had forgotten to eat dinner and was really hungry, so he wanted to eat something to cushion his stomach.

But if you’re still eating after being caught once, that doesn’t make sense.

The first thing that was awarded was not an award, but some young drivers who were responsible for awarding and transporting trophies today were called to the stage.

These kids are indeed drivers, and they are here mainly to deliver trophies to other FIA race champions.

There should be a sense of inheritance in it.

If you give them an award today, someone else will give you an award from now on.

This is also an encouragement to them.

After that comes the official awards ceremony.

The first to appear were the rally drivers.

More than twenty drivers from fifteen rally categories took to the stage with their trophies.

In fact, after this session, Qin Miao had already entered a state of looking at the stage with her arms folded, but her eyes were already distracted.

As a result, Qin Miao directly missed most of the awarding sessions in the low-level formula.

It wasn't until F2 that Qin Miao came back to his senses.

Because of this link, Zhou Guanyu and the team leader of Zhou Guanyu’s UNI-Virtuosi Racin team came to the stage to receive the award.

Afterwards, the host even conducted a brief interview with Zhou Guanyu and asked Zhou Guanyu what his prospects are for entering F1 next season.

And Zhou Guanyu's answer was relatively formulaic and very simple.

Qin Miao, who was sitting in the audience, even felt that this was the script that the FIA ​​asked him to memorize before Zhou Guanyu came on stage, and that Zhou Guanyu could just read it out directly after he came on stage.

After all, this award ceremony is actually time-limited, and each link has a specified duration.

Soon, Zhou Guanyu’s award-winning session ended.

Then Qin Miao was called away by FIA staff.

Qin Miao actually also has a mission.

As the F1 world champion, he needs to award awards to the world champions of the lowest level karting events.

The most awesome formula racing world champion driver awards an award to the world champion of the lowest level karting event. This is also a legacy.

So Qin Miao followed the FIA ​​staff to the backstage.

Fortunately, there was a unicycle performance after the F2 awards ceremony, so Qin Miao had plenty of time.

After Qin Miao came to the backstage, the FIA ​​staff immediately explained the next process to Qin Miao.

After listening, Qin Miao nodded to express that he had remembered it, and the next step was the awards ceremony. (End of chapter)