How did I become an F1 driver?

At the same time, after a sprint race and a race, the drivers' points standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao.391
2: Verstappen.357
3: Leclerc.262
4: Perez.251
5: Hamilton.237
6: Sainz.134
7: Norris.93
8: O'Connell.80
9: Alonso.51
10: Bottas.41
11: Vettel.28
12: Zhou Guanyu.26
13: Ricardo.26
14: Gasly.21
15: Magnussen.20
16: Tsunoda.9
17: Stroll.8
18: Mick.6
19: Albon.1
20: Russell.1
21: De Vries.1
After the race, the points gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen had reached 34 points, a score that Verstappen could not surpass or tie no matter how hard he tried in the next race. Therefore, the 2022 world championship came to an end one race ahead of schedule.

And because of the nearly 100-point gap between Verstappen and Leclerc, Verstappen has locked in the second place of the year. Although he is still a long way from Qin Miao's world championship, at least Verstappen's results have improved significantly compared to last year's 2021 season.

At least from third in the world in 2021 to second in the world this year.

After this race, the team standings are as follows:
1: Mercedes: 628
2: Red Bull: 608
3: Ferrari: 396
4: Alpine: 131
5: McLaren: 119
6: Alfa Romeo: 67
7: Aston Martin: 36
8: Little Red Bull: 30
9: Haas: 26
10: Williams: 3
Although the Brazilian Grand Prix decided the drivers' championship, it is clear that the team championship is still a suspense.

Moreover, from the perspective of the F1 team, the benefits of winning the team championship are, to a certain extent, greater and more direct than those of the driver championship.

For example, if Mercedes continues to win the team championship this year and becomes the nine-time champion team, then the money Mercedes will receive in dividends at the end of the year will be 2% more than Red Bull, which ranks second.

Therefore, Mercedes may earn $2 million more in annual dividends than Red Bull.

This is just the amount of bonus more than the second place. An F1 championship team can get at least $2 million in year-end dividends a year, plus the sponsorship of the team champion by the team sponsor and other sponsorships after winning the championship. It can be said that as long as the team wins the team championship, the team can get at least $ million in guaranteed income.

However, we all know that Ferrari is the F1 team with the longest history and the deepest heritage in the paddock, so when Ferrari distributes dividends at the end of the year, there is an award specially set up for Ferrari.

Therefore, even though Ferrari's performance this season is not very good, it can only rank third in the team standings.

However, if the prize money for the third place is included in the bonus for the long-term cooperation award (exclusive to Ferrari), the bonus dividends Ferrari received in F3 this year are actually higher than those of the Mercedes team, which won first place.

It’s about that much, around $1000 million.

Of course, this is just an analogy. After all, no one knew whether Mercedes could really win the constructors' championship before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After all, the Red Bull team is not slow this season.

On the other hand, Arrow finished sixth in the team this year, and the two Arrow drivers also made great contributions. But to a certain extent, if Arrow can ensure half of the car's performance as Mercedes, then this season Arrow is likely to challenge McLaren's fifth place. An improvement in one place means an increase in bonus income and dividends of at least 1000 million US dollars.

Moreover, the Arrow team is expected to have a better chance of gaining a foothold in the domestic market.

After all, there is a Chinese driver like Zhou Guanyu in their team.

However, because the Arrow team often retired due to car failures, many people in China criticized Arrow, after all, the Mercedes team set a good example.

As Mercedes has not had any obvious problems with its car during the race all season, it will be difficult for Arrow to avoid being criticized.

In short, no matter what, after the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix, the 2022 season has not come to a complete end. Everyone knows that the final race in Abu Dhabi still has a lot to watch.

That is the battle for the first place between Mercedes and Red Bull, and of course it is also about the competition for position between Hamilton, Perez and Leclerc.

After the game was over, and Qin Miao completed a series of work including post-match interviews, what he wanted most was to return to his family and share with them his joy of winning the championship. Although this was not the first time, Qin Miao felt that he would never get tired of the feeling of finally getting rewarded after a year of hard work.

However, as a two-time world champion, Qin Miao also knew that it was impossible for him to go off work directly after the game. It could even be said that Qin Miao's current get off work time was much later than normal.

For example, there will be post-race press conferences and fan meetings, as well as handprints at the FIA ​​Hall of Fame, post-race team celebrations, group photos, etc.

A lot of work was forced into Qin Miao's schedule the moment he won the championship, and he couldn't change it even if he wanted to.

After Qin Miao came down from the podium, all the members of the Mercedes team had already changed into the customized uniforms of the world champions, and everyone had a satisfied smile on their face.

The Mercedes team is well-known for its generosity. After all, as a top racing team, it will certainly not treat its employees unfairly in terms of staff salaries and benefits.

Although the Mercedes team did not win the team championship in the 2022 season at this time, after winning the driver's championship, everyone will receive an extremely generous bonus.

And everyone is full of confidence about next week's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After all, everyone knows that with the current recovery of Qin Miao and Hamilton, even if they fail to defeat Verstappen in tomorrow's race, they will definitely defeat Perez. Then winning the championship will be a natural thing.

Of course, speaking of bonuses, the one who received the most bonuses in the Mercedes team after this race was actually Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao never said it to the public, he knew that after winning the driver's championship, he could get a bonus of 1500 million US dollars from the team.

And because he settled in Monaco, the 1500 million US dollars does not have to be taxed, and all of it can go into Qin Miao's pocket, which makes him feel very comfortable.

To be honest, Qin Miao now really thinks that settling in Monaco is an extremely correct decision, because if he had not settled in Monaco, he would have to pay at least more than 3000 million US dollars in taxes to Britain in the next two years.

If the money was given to China, it would not be a big deal, after all, Qin Miao was a law-abiding citizen. But the thought of bringing the money back to England made Qin Miao feel very uncomfortable.

In any case, after the race, all the Mercedes drivers entered a state of ecstasy and started celebrating wildly.

This time, when Qin Miao finished his work and returned to the door of the team's P room, before Qin Miao even went in, Reyes and the others rushed out of the team's P room with strange screams in front of Qin Miao's astonished eyes.

Before Qin Miao could react, Reyes and his team lifted Qin Miao up. Even Hamilton's crew, strategy team staff, and team logistics staff all appeared out of nowhere.

Then they gathered around Qin Miao and threw him into the air over and over again.

"Fuck! A sneak attack!" Qin Miao only had time to exclaim before he was thrown directly into the air by them.

Amid the cheers, Qin Miao really flew up and down, flew up and down.

Although Qin Miao had experienced this trick used by the team's CS last year, he still didn't feel safe until he sat in the cockpit of the racing car and felt the strong change in gravity.

Fortunately, Qin Miao noticed from the corner of his eye that there were many people below. Even if someone really failed to catch him, if he was hit like this, someone would probably take the blame for him.

After being treated like a toy for a while, Qin Miao was finally let go by them.

Looking at the smiling expressions on these people's faces, Qin Miao was unable to curse for a moment. He could only shake his head helplessly and prepare to walk into the team's P room.

At this moment, Qin Miao saw Toto standing beside him, looking at him with a smile full of satisfaction and pride on his face, and applauding himself.

However, seeing Toto's smile, Qin Miao felt frightened.

At this moment, Qin Miao didn't want to reminisce about the past with his mentor. He just gave a look to Reyes and Franky.

After all, these two people are the colleagues who have the most contact with Qin Miao at work. Franky has been Qin Miao's track engineer since F2. He instantly understood Qin Miao's thoughts with just a glance from Qin Miao.

Then the three of them rushed to Toto in front of him in his astonished gaze.

then……

Toto was also carried up.

To be honest, when the other members of the team saw Qin Miao, Franky and the other two being so bold as to directly take on the shareholders of the team, the other members of the team were a little confused.

And the smile on Toto's face, which was originally a gentle and relieved smile, froze in an instant.

The same smiles were seen on the faces of the other team members.

No, man.

How dare you?
Dare to lose the boss?
But they saw that there was no extra anger on Toto's face, but more panic, and instantly others became interested.

You should know that although the Mercedes team has a no-blame culture, even if you make a mistake, as long as you realize your mistake and promise to change, the team will not actually punish you.

There will be no fine and no possibility of dismissal.

But Toto, the boss of the team, is actually a rather stern and serious person on weekdays, at least when dealing with the middle and low-level staff of the team.

The expression on his face would only be much warmer when he was dealing with the team's senior management and drivers like Qin Miao and Hamilton.

So when everyone found out that Toto was not angry at this time, they realized: this is a great opportunity to make fun of the team owner, Toto Wolff.

I have been working for the Mercedes-Benz team for so long, and this is probably my only chance. If I miss it, I will miss it forever!

After realizing this, everyone in the Mercedes team rushed forward and let Toto experience the feeling that Qin Miao just had.

Moreover, this farce of the Mercedes team did not start after the race ended and they left the paddock, but they started celebrating in the passage area outside the team's P room as if no one was around.

Many VIPs and staff from other teams were watching and taking photos with their mobile phones.

It has to be said that the celebration after winning the driver's championship was really fun for the Mercedes team. Toto didn't get angry after being let down. He just cursed and kicked Qin Miao, the instigator, in the butt in an unfriendly manner.

He is probably the only one who dares to kick the world champion in the ass at this time.

Qin Miao patted his butt and didn't care.

However, FIA has a rule that teams cannot celebrate behind the pit lane, because it is easy to cause congestion and stampede. After all, in addition to team staff, there are also VIPs from other teams in the rear lane. Although they are called VIPs, they are still tourists in the end. Tourists will be curious. If you celebrate here, they will definitely watch. When more and more people gather, it is hard to say what accidents will happen.

As a result, Mercedes-Benz was fined 5 euros for this crime.

These 5 euros can even directly crush some ordinary families with little savings, but for the wealthy Mercedes-Benz team, these 5 euros are not a big deal at all. Afterwards, Toto did not even punish Reyes and others who were the instigators of the accident.

Anyway, this fine will not be included in the budget cap, so you can impose it as you like.

After the celebration, Qin Miao and his friends returned to the door of the team’s P room and took a group photo.

Although the second and third place trophies placed in the middle of the photo might seem a bit out of place when it comes to making everyone smile, in reality no one thought there was anything inappropriate about the photo. The team staff also smiled happily and raised the champagne in their hands high to celebrate.

A few of them were more unrestrained and even drank the champagne in their glasses when taking group photos.

As the cameraman called out, "Three, two, one, eggplant."

The group photo was over, but after that, Qin Miao and Hamilton not only did not celebrate with the other members of the team, but instead ran out of the crowd.

When the two of them were in the racing car, they were going so fast that nothing could catch up with them.

But now, the two of them were not running faster than the champagne sprayed by their colleagues.

When these bastards were taking the group photo, they were holding a huge champagne bottle in their hands, and they started shaking it before the photo was even over.

Now that the photo was over, they immediately began to pour champagne towards Qin Miao and Hamilton.

As for Toto standing in the middle...

The white shirt he was wearing was now completely soaked with wine and became translucent.

But Toto didn't run away, he just used his hands to block Champagne's attack.

After the fight, Qin Miao and Hamilton returned to the team's team home lounge and soaked in an ice bucket for a while.

Although the temperature today was not too high, the two drivers had a high-intensity race on the track after all, and physical consumption and lactic acid accumulation were inevitable.

I also took it as a bath, since I was covered in champagne during the celebration.

At this point, Qin Miao and Hamilton’s work was all finished.

The next Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and today's Brazilian Grand Prix are back-to-back races, which means that there is another F1 race next week, and the 2022 season will end after it is completed.

Moreover, the distance between Brazil and Abu Dhabi is quite far, and it is necessary to cross the entire Atlantic Ocean and the entire African continent.

Although a team supply was prepared in Abu Dhabi long time ago, the team staff and drivers still needed to rush to Abu Dhabi within three days.

The journey is still very tiring.

The Mercedes team did not make any upgrades to the car in Abu Dhabi this Grand Prix weekend. It just replaced the high-drag rear wing with a medium-high downforce rear wing. This rear wing is still the old one that has been used in other Grand Prix before, which highlights its thriftiness.

On the other hand, Red Bull, a normal team, basically will not make any adjustments to the car in the last race of the season. Even when Verstappen and Mercedes were competing for the Drivers' World Championship last year, the two teams did not make any upgrades to their cars in the last Grand Prix.

But this Grand Prix weekend, Red Bull actually upgraded their rear suspension.

To be honest, when the Mercedes-Benz team's engineers and strategy team received this news, they really felt their buttocks tighten.

Horner, Marco, it's not very fair of you to do this.

The performance of the car is not important for next season, right?
Are you planning to break the budget cap next season?
Roll back this upgrade, asshole!
Because Red Bull announced the news so early, it was announced on the same day after the Brazilian Grand Prix that Red Bull would have a new rear suspension the following week.

So the Mercedes team's strategy team didn't sleep well during this holiday.

After all, this upgrade of the Red Bull team is directly related to the ownership of the Mercedes team's team championship.

On the contrary, Qin Miao didn't feel anything about this matter.

Qin Miao has already won the Drivers' World Championship, so he has no need to pursue points for the double champion this season. Anyway, no matter which double champion he gets in the final race of the season, he will be in a safe position.

But after all, Toto and Mercedes have done Qin Miao a favor, so he will still go all out in next week's race, and may even fight harder than usual.

After all, there is no burden...

He doesn't feel any psychological pressure playing bumper cars on the track...

However, despite the tight schedule this week, Qin Miao still spent a day in Brazil with his wife after the competition.

Qin Miao didn't go out to play or anything, he just stayed in the hotel for a day. Because Qin Miao was there, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng stayed in the hotel room during the day, and the three old people didn't come to disturb the couple's world of two.

With no elders watching over her, Qiu Meng simply lay on Qin Miao and started to play with her phone and watch videos in revenge.

After all, during this period, Qiu Meng's work and rest schedule was strictly required, and even the time he spent using electronic products was strictly limited.

The girl herself complained: "I'm not pregnant at all, I committed a crime, I'm just in jail at home."

Qin Miao didn't have any good solutions for herself. After all, she was the elder. Although Qin Miao's words still carried a lot of weight at home, basically Qin Miao only had a say in important matters. As long as Qin Miao mentioned such things, his mother would roll her eyes.

So Qin Miao could only listen to Qiu Meng's complaints in the hotel and act as a human pillow on the bed.

But there was still a competition after all, so Qin Miao went to the airport and flew directly to Abu Dhabi the next day.

Qiu Meng did not go this time. After all, the journey was too long, and since the driver had already won the world championship, Qiu Meng was not too concerned about the team championship.

So this time, only Qin Miao and Barber went to Abu Dhabi. Zhou Guanyu, who was originally planning to hitchhike on the plane, left first because Qin Miao needed to stay in Brazil for one more day.

After all, not everyone is a world champion, and everyone still hopes to get more points in the last race so that they can rank higher in the driver's standings.

The flight lasted nearly 6 hours, but I didn't feel any discomfort during the process. After all, it was my own private plane and the whole flight process was enjoyable. It's just that long-distance travel brings mental fatigue, which cannot be eliminated in a short time.

After landing, Qin Miao felt a heat wave coming towards him, but this heat wave was at least much softer than the temperature in the Middle East at the beginning of the season.

It is now the end of 2022. Even though the Middle East has high temperatures all year round, the average temperature in Abu Dhabi during this period is much milder than normal.

However, the temperature difference between day and night is still relatively large. The average temperature during the day can often reach 30 degrees, while the lowest temperature at night is 18 degrees Celsius.

But as luck would have it, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is ​​a night race, so the two practice sessions during the day are not of much reference value.

Mercedes did not fulfill the FIA's mandatory requirement to give young drivers testing opportunities this season.

So Qin Miao doesn’t have to go to work during the practice session this Grand Prix weekend.

Qin Miao's car was given to the team's young training driver Antonelli to drive.

As for De Vries…

Originally he was considered a youth driver of Mercedes, and normally the team's testing tasks should have been given to him, but this year Dove played a beautiful game for Williams, which made many teams take a fancy to his talent.

He was signed directly by Toro Rosso.

The contracts have probably been signed by now.

So the driver lineup of the Red Bull Racing team next season will be De Vries and Tsunoda.

It’s interesting to say that Yuki Kanoda was born in 00 and is now 22 years old, but he is a veteran who has been fighting in F1 for two years. He entered F1 in the same year as Qin Miao.

His teammate Dove was born in 95 and is 27 years old this year.

The 27-year-old rookie paired with the 22-year-old veteran is quite dramatic.

I just don't know if De Vries can replicate the speed and talent he showed on the track this season when driving a Williams car.

After all, the Red Bull Racing team is notoriously impatient, and if you don’t perform well, you may be removed from the team mid-season. (End of this chapter)