How did I become an F1 driver?

The rest of the process is the same as after a normal Grand Prix weekend.

Pack up and go to the weigh-in and participate in the post-match interview.

Then he went on stage to receive the award.

The two Mercedes drivers guarded Verstappen in the middle.

Under normal circumstances, it would be unlikely for Qin Miao to smile when seeing this scene. It was already a great favor to Verstappen that he didn't have a stern face.

But today Qin Miao had a smile on his face from beginning to end.

Qin Miao was so happy when he thought about being able to hug his precious daughter after the game.

After the podium session, the director gave the driver's total points standings and team's total points standings after today's race.

1: Max Verstappen: 183
2: Qin Miao: 149
3: Hamilton: 130
4: Perez: 89
5: Alonso: 84
6: Leclerc: 57
7: Sainz: 57
8: Stroll: 32
9: Ocon: 20
10: Gasly: ​​13
11: Norris: 12
12: Zhou Guanyu: 6
13: Bottas: 4
14: Hulkenberg: 4
15: Piastrid: 4
16: Albon: 4
17: Kakuda: 2
18: Magnussen: 1
The team standings are as follows:
1. Mercedes: 279
2. Red Bull: 272
3. Aston Martin: 116
4. Ferrari: 114
5.Alpine: 33
6. McLaren: 16
7. Alfa Romeo: 10
8. Haas: 5
9. Williams: 4
10. Lynk & Co: 2
I won’t go into detail about these data and the like here. The ranking has not changed much since the last game.

And for Qin Miao, he has no regrets about today's game.

Even though he was a little unhappy after losing the game, the negative emotions in his heart disappeared quietly when he saw his precious daughter after the game.

After coming down from the podium, taking a shower and changing clothes, Qin Miao couldn't wait to return to the team's lounge.

Sure enough, I saw my daughter in the lounge.

The little guy was holding the bottle and drinking milk with relish.

After seeing Qin Miao coming, she did not stop what she was doing. She just kept sucking on the pacifier while looking at Qin Miao.

Seeing Xiao Muchu's appearance, Qin Miao suddenly felt a sense of security and satisfaction for some reason.

"Come and hold me?" After seeing Qin Miao coming over, Qiu Meng handed the child in her arms to Qin Miao.

"Okay!" Qin Miao took his daughter from Qiu Meng's hands without hesitation, held her in his arms and watched her drink milk. The more he watched, the more he liked her.

Why is this little thing so rare?

However, Qin Miao's state of enjoying heavenly bliss did not last long.

Because Barber soon found Qin Miao and told him that the post-match press conference was about to begin, and before that, people from Netflix also came over, and it seemed like they had something to find Qin Miao about. After finishing his busy days these two days, he still had to record an interactive video with some foreign internet celebrities and bloggers, and after finishing these, he still had to attend the post-match press conference.

This is roughly what an F1 driver does after a Grand Prix.

So Qin Miao left his wife and daughter reluctantly and threw himself into work.

Qin Miao first went to meet the people from Netflix.

Although the "Speed ​​​​To Survive" series of documentaries produced by Netflix is ​​called a documentary, in fact it is more like an F1 documentary film in which many plots have been "artistically processed".

However, Qin Miao had to admit that this Netflix documentary not only brought a lot of fame and extra income to F1, but also to the drivers.

After all, many car fans got into the game because of Netflix documentaries.

Therefore, Qin Miao did not refuse their visit.

Besides, I will have a lot of things to do after the competition, and I have no idea when I will be able to finish them. Moreover, the times for these activities have already been arranged, so it will be difficult to make time to meet people.

Qin Miao was not used to making others wait for him, so he chose to meet with the people from Netflix first.

However, after meeting the other party, Qin Miao was a little confused about the other party's intentions for a while.

After meeting Qin Miao, the people from Netflix made it clear that they wanted to reshoot a scene.

To be honest, for a documentary film, reshooting a scene is a very troublesome thing. After all, strictly speaking, few of the drivers can act, and even if they can, their acting skills are definitely not as good as those of professional actors.

Moreover, Qin Miao couldn't think of any shots that needed to be re-shot.

After a few in-depth conversations, Qin Miao realized that the shot the other party wanted to reshoot was the scene where he found Toto after he was about to join Ferrari and confessed to him that he would be leaving Mercedes next season.

This scene is very "special" for both Qin Miao and Toto.

But for the audience and car fans who enjoy watching funerals, this is a scene worth looking forward to.

Although due to the environment at the time, Netflix was unable to capture real-time footage like at the F1 Grand Prix, they could ask Qin Miao and Toto to recreate the footage at that time!
To be honest, Qin Miao couldn't help but feel that these people at Netflix are truly geniuses.

Therefore, Qin Miao did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

Although Qin Miao no longer remembers the specific content of the conversation, he still remembers the general method and process.

After the discussion, Netflix thanked Qin Miao and went to look for Toto again.

He said that he would arrange a time for the photo shoot after we have discussed it.

After communicating with Netflix, Qin Miao continued to devote himself to his work.

After finishing the interview matters, Qin Miao returned to the team home to attend the team meeting after the race. It was already past 5pm.

The team meeting at this Grand Prix weekend was somewhat different from previous team meetings. After this Grand Prix, the first half of the 2023 F1 season came to an end.

Therefore, the FIA ​​will reallocate the usage time of wind tunnel and CFD simulation according to the team rankings.

Unfortunately, the Mercedes team was ranked first in the standings at that time.

As a result, Mercedes' wind tunnel and CFD simulation time was significantly reduced in the second half of the season.

The research and development progress of the racing car will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, at the team meeting within the team, many people discussed whether they could overtake in a roundabout way.

Since the time spent on wind tunnel and CFD simulation has been reduced, we can spend more R&D expenses and time on engine development and application.

In addition to this, the next Grand Prix returns to Europe.

Almost all teams are headquartered in Europe, so after returning to Europe, the upgrades of each team will be brought up one after another.

The Mercedes team also has a lot of things to arrange in advance during this period.

After the team meeting, it was already past 8pm local time. Qin Miao, Hamilton and others left the team house in the dark.

When going downstairs, Qin Miao accidentally discovered that staff wearing Pirelli clothes were packing the tires used in this Grand Prix weekend in the area where the Mercedes team stored tires.

Looking at the busy Pirelli staff, Qin Miao asked Hamilton beside him: "Will Pirelli send someone to collect the tires after the race?"

Hamilton nodded and replied: "Every time we collect tires, Pirelli will have someone come to take charge of the handover, but this is the first time I have seen so many people come at once."

"How about going to see what's going on?"

Although Qin Miao really wanted to join in the fun, but thinking of his wife and daughter who were still waiting for him in the hotel, Qin Miao shook his head and said, "Forget it, there are still people waiting for me, so I won't join in the fun."

The old man also knew who was waiting for Qin Miao, so he didn't say anything: "Then let's go."

……

The long journey was nothing to the two adults, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng. In fact, Qin Miao was already used to this kind of working condition of traveling all over the world. But for little Muchu, it was a bit too tiring.

So Qin Miao and Qiu Meng rested for a day in Canada before returning to the UK.

In fact, Qin Miao was originally planning to return to his home in Monaco, but the time agreed by Netflix to shoot the famous scene was Wednesday.

The reason for choosing this mid-range time is that Toto will be very busy starting from Thursday, and it will be difficult to make time to shoot this video afterwards.

Compared with Toto, Qin Miao is obviously more free, so Qin Miao can only follow Toto's work flow.

After returning to the UK, Qin Miao rested at home for a day.

I went to the team to report on Wednesday.

When Qin Miao rode his bike to the headquarters of the Mercedes-Benz team and went to his office to put his personal belongings, he was very surprised to find that a lot of photographic equipment had been placed at the door of his office without him knowing when.

At this moment, in an empty office not far from his own office, people were coming in and out, constantly moving things in or taking things out.

But Qin Miao remembered very clearly that the office was originally an empty office with nothing in it.

After thinking about it for a while, Qin Miao realized that this should be someone from Netflix.

They should be preparing for the next shoot here.

And it didn't take long for them to recognize Qin Miao. After recognizing Qin Miao, they confirmed the work flow for this morning and then took Qin Miao to put on some simple makeup.

After finishing everything, Qin Miao came to the vacant office with a high turnover of personnel that he had just seen.

When Qin Miao arrived here, there were not many people in the office.

The interior has also been rearranged to look like a normally used office.

There are many murals hanging on the walls of the office, and there is even a pot of cactus on the table.

Qin Miao couldn't help but wonder, were they filming a video here?
Why not go to Toto's office?
While Qin Miao was still wondering, the director in charge of the filming at Netflix came over and greeted Qin Miao with a smile.

As if he had guessed Qin Miao's inner doubts, the other party explained: "We can't really go to Mr. Wolfe's office to shoot this video. After all, there are many things in Mr. Wolfe's office that cannot be made public. If we shoot a video in Mr. Wolfe's office, we will definitely leak a lot of privacy unintentionally."

Qin Miao nodded in understanding: "Okay, when do we start?"

"Mr. Wolfe is already putting on makeup. Let's discuss the process and your positioning during the filming. As for the conversation between you and Toto after the filming starts, you can do it freely. Just try to recreate the scene at that time. It's very simple." After that, the other party confirmed again: "Do you still remember the conversation at that time?"

Qin Miao shrugged: "To be honest, I don't remember it very clearly, but I still remember the general process."

"That's enough! You can calm down and prepare yourself first." After saying that, the other party hurriedly went to arrange other things.

Ten minutes later, Toto, wearing the white shirt exclusively worn by the Mercedes team management, walked out of his office. After seeing Qin Miao who was already waiting, Toto said helplessly, "To be honest, I really don't want to recall the situation on that day. For me, it has become a terrifying scene that wakes me up every night after dreaming about it."

Qin Miao also smiled helplessly.

But at least now Toto can say these words in a joking tone, which at least shows that he is not so disgusted by this matter in his heart.

"Then I think I should feel honored to appear in your dream." Qin Miao also made a joke.

"It's better if you come less often."

……

The follow-up was relatively simple, at least the whole process did not require Qin Miao to use his brain much.

Qin Miao and Toto roughly recreated the scene at that time under the lens of Netflix.

To be honest, before reshooting this scene, Qin Miao had never thought that Toto was also a talented actor.

Because Netflix wanted to shoot the entire film in one take, it started from Qin Miao’s perspective.

Qin Miao walked out of his office, then came to Toto's office door, knocked and went in.

After sitting down, Qin Miao looked at Toto's smile.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Qin Miao got straight to the point.

During the whole process, Qin Miao didn't see any strange expression on Toto's face, it was very natural throughout.

It really gave Qin Miao a feeling of replicating the scene when he first went to look for Toto.

Qin Miao also saw the disbelief and surprise on Toto's face when he heard the news that he would leave Mercedes for Ferrari after next season.

Toto had no problems during the whole process, but he had to NG twice because of Qin Miao.

There's no way, I really can't help it.

But you can't blame Qin Miao for not having acting skills, because after seeing the expression on Toto's face that is rarely seen on normal days, Qin Miao, who has a full understanding of Toto, can't help himself.

This is also the reason why Toto and Qin Miao have a too harmonious relationship on weekdays.

However, compared with the young handsome men in China, Qin Miao is still relatively good. At least he did not use a stand-in and did not report a number at this time.

After getting familiar with it for a while, I managed to get a scene that satisfied the Netflix director. (End of this chapter)