How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 114 Chapter 112: Entering Prema Racing
The headquarters of the Prema Racing team is a brick factory building full of signs of time, but it just looks like it is full of signs of time.

Walking into the factory under the guidance of the staff, Qin Miao found that the inside of the factory is full of modern facilities, whether it is decoration or internal equipment.

Then Qin Miao came to Luo Xin's office with her luggage.

The smile on the other party's face after seeing Qin Miao was very sincere, and the wrinkles on his brows and the corners of his eyes indicated that he was in a good mood at this time. Seeing Qin Miao seemed to see the bright future of his team.

"Welcome to Prema Racing, Qin! I have been waiting for a long time, and I am looking forward to our cooperation in the next year." As soon as he approached, without shaking hands, Luo Xin happily gave Qin Miao a big hug .

Hugging with each other, and gently patted each other's back, Qin Miao said seriously: "Thank you, thank Mr. Luo Xin for trusting me, and I will try my best to complete every game in the next season. "

Luo Xin smiled, ignoring the work he was busy with just now, and said directly: "I think you are ready for work, I will take you to apply for entry and deal with the next thing?"

After speaking, he took Qin Miao to the inside of the factory.

Although the F2 car is the same every season, the team will also make certain fine-tuning of the car according to the driver's driving habits and physical data to suit the driver.

When Qin Miao came to the team today, in addition to taking photos of the team's makeup and recording a video for the team's promotion, he also needed to measure Qin Miao's hands and his body data after sitting in the monocoque of the racing car, and Based on these data, Qin Miao customized his steering wheel and racing seats for this season.

These things are like a soldier's gun, a cavalry's saddle, and a tank's artillery. They are extremely important, and naturally they need to be prepared at the beginning of the season.

How can a soldier go to the battlefield without weapons and armor at hand? The racing car seat and steering wheel are Qin Miao's armor and weapons.

Because after a while, it will be time to test the performance of the new car, the running-in between the driver and the car, and the driver's adjustment. It is just time to check whether the seat and steering wheel of the car are comfortable to use during the test. There is still time to adjust if appropriate.

What flattered Qin Miao was that when he was busy with all this, Luo Xin was by Qin Miao's side throughout the whole process like a conscientious ordinary worker.

It was as if he was not a team leader with a heavy workload to deal with, but just an ordinary worker in charge of receiving Qin Miao.

"Qin, there is one last thing, and that is the driver's number."

Qin Miao nodded and asked, "Do I need to choose a driver number myself?"

Rossin smiled and shook his head and said: "No, no, only F1 drivers can choose the driver number they want, and the driver numbers of all FIA events except F1 are applied by the team, you can only use the team to give you the number. number."

Speaking of this, Rosin changed the subject: "But the good news is that you still have a choice, because our team has four driver numbers that can be used, and Mick has already used the number 20. Currently we still have 21, 22 and The 23rd can be chosen."

"So, which number do you want?"

This really stumped Qin Miao, he had never thought about the driver's number before.

Now being asked suddenly and given a choice, Qin Miao didn't know which one to choose.

Then Qin Miao used a very conventional method of counting soldiers and generals, and directly chose No. 22.

"Number 22."

"Of course, but I'm a little curious why you chose this number."

Qin Miao shrugged: "I chose randomly..."

Luo Xin also shrugged like Qin Miao: "Okay, your decision..."

"Okay, the number 22 will appear on your racing suit and car in the future."

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Ever since she came to Vicenza and found Rosin, Qin Miao has been busy.

Basically, I ran here to test my physical fitness and customize a new racing suit, ran there to test my eyesight, and moved to another place to adjust the size of my helmet. In short, I never stopped.

However, most of the troubles were resolved on the first day, and Luo Xin arranged a new dormitory for Qin Miao.

After all, it is just a private team. Naturally, Prema can't be as rich as Ferrari and directly build a community for employees to live in.

So the dormitory arranged for Qin Miao is just a local homestay. For foreigners like Qin Miao, the local homestay is both unique and cheap, and the price/performance ratio is directly full.

Although the living area of ​​this homestay is much larger than the staff dormitory in Maranello, with more than 90 square meters, and even a small attic where you can store some sundries, the environment is not as good as that in Maranello. It's much worse.

However, because we live in an urban area, the transportation and surrounding infrastructure are fairly complete.

The only thing that makes Qin Miao and Qiu Meng interesting is that their homestay has a back door, and the back door faces a small river, and the surrounding houses are basically built along the river, and every household faces the river There is a back door in every direction, and there are many boats on the river.

Vicenza is only [-] kilometers away from the famous water city of Venice. It is understandable that there is a little bit of Venice here.

However, after seeing the river, Qin Miao looked at Qiu Meng with some curiosity and put forward a constructive suggestion: "If I block the river and build a toll station, and charge 0.5 euros for a boat, you can do it in a year. How much money do you make?"

Facing the idea that Qin Miao came up with with my power of thinking, Rao Qiumeng was stunned for a while knowing that Qin Miao would sometimes be out of tune.

Then he knocked on Qin Miao's head angrily, and then went back to the room to pack his luggage.

Qin Miao simply made a joke. After rubbing the place where he was knocked, he moved a stool and sat by the river. He took out his mobile phone and ordered a computer and the peripherals needed to play with the computer.

Because Qin Miao is still in the Ferrari youth training, Qin Miao still lives in the house in Maranello, so Qin Miao did not bring the computer and simulator in the house.

But after ordering these things, Qin Miao looked at the slowly flowing river in front of him, and ordered a fishing rod that was not too expensive.

If you get tired of playing games, you can come to the back door to be a fisherman.

I just don't know if the fish caught in this river can be eaten...

With Qiu Meng's voice came: "It's time to eat!"

After hearing this, Qin Miao got up and closed the back door. Although it was a novelty for Qin Miao, who had never lived in such a place, to find that the back door was a small river, he also knew that mosquito eggs were the most likely to breed in the water. So it's safer to close the door if nothing happens.

Today's busy day is over.

There was nothing to say all night, and Qin Miao woke up very early the next day. After all, it was the first day of work, and he still needed to make a good impression on the boss and colleagues.

Qin Miao's job today is mainly to get to know the team members that Prema arranged for him. From now on, these people will be responsible for Qin Miao's TR on the field, changing tires, tuning, vehicle maintenance and other work.

It can be said that from today onwards, within a period of one year, these people will be one with Qin Miao, and everyone will prosper and lose together.

Different from F1, there are only seven tire changers in F2, namely the front jack technician and the rear jack technician, and then the tire changers for the four tires and the technician holding the indicator board for the drivers to see.

These positions are all held by technicians. They also have to change tires while tuning the vehicle. To be honest, it is really not easy.

Moreover, the tire changers for two drivers in a team are universal.

Qin Miao's game engineer, who is responsible for communicating with Qin Miao in TR, is the same as Jeff who communicates with players in the game "F1 2019".

His name is Trick French, he is a fat middle-aged man, about 1 meters tall, with a relatively ordinary appearance, but his hair is uncharacteristically thick, which is not what a foreigner of his age should have. The kind of baldness.

In addition to him, the other is Qin Miao's chief technician. This is a Chinese man named Sui Wentao. He looks 27 or [-] years old. He looks very energetic with a straight head and muscular arms. He smiles like Leclerc. There are two shallow dimples on the face.

Although he looks Asian, he is actually a British Asian. Because his parents came from China to do business, he was born in the UK and can speak Chinese, but it is the same as Zhou Guanyu's previous problem. Use inverted sentences.

These two are the most important people in this team to Qin Miao.

One provides key information to Qin Miao during the race and more detailed and data-based feedback on the car, and the other is to debug the car for Qin Miao before the race and adjust the car to the state Qin Miao wants.

Neither Qin Miao could offend them, so Qin Miao behaved very politely in front of them.

Of course, a bowl of water must be leveled, and Qin Miao also gave due respect to the others.

After getting acquainted with Qin Miao, they also introduced themselves.

Qin Miao's race engineer Franky is only responsible for sitting on the podium, and he can only sit on the podium of the race, because he has to convey any information on the field to Qin Miao who is racing in the racing car.

As for Qin Miao's chief mechanic, Sui Wentao, it was more difficult. He was also one of the tire changers and was in charge of the rear jack of the racing car.

In addition to these two, there are also Steve and Alvin who belong to Qin Miao's car team.

The two of them were in charge of changing the tire on the left side of the car, and they were also responsible for helping Qin Miao debug the car.

These four people are the owners of Qin Miao's car crew.

As for the other people, they are all from Mick Schumacher's team. They came here this time mainly because they needed to change Qin Miao's tires during the race, so they came here to get to know Qin Miao.

After saying hello to each other, the people belonging to Mick's car crew left, leaving only Qin Miao and four people.

After thinking about it with some doubts, Qin Miao asked curiously: "Aren't there seven people in the car crew who change tires? Why do we only have three here? Does Mick's car crew have one more person than us?"

Sui Wentao explained: "That's right, but Mick's crew has not only one more person than ours, but three more people. As for the reason and the identities of those extra guys...you come from Ferrari's youth training. Yes, it’s impossible not to know, right?”

Qin Miao smacked her lips and changed the subject: "What is our work today?"

At this time, Franky spoke up: "Our main task today is to get to know each other well, and then deal with some miscellaneous things, and the day's work is almost over.

We have to wait for about a month for the new cars of this season. By then, we will be familiar with the vehicle structure, redesign the vehicle painting and other things, which will be enough for us to be busy for a while, and the opening match of the new season will start soon after the busy work. "

Qin Miao raised her eyebrows: "So we don't have any specific work content today?"

Frankie nodded with a smile: "That's right, come on Qin, we are the happiest every time a newcomer joins us, because the team will reimburse most of our travel expenses."

So, Qin Miao, who thought she was coming to work, was dragged out by other crew members for a day of fun, eating and drinking.

As expected of a local, Qin Miao originally thought that if he went out to play, he would go to Venice, the world-famous water city. After all, Venice is only 60 kilometers away, and it takes less than an hour to drive there, but they took Qin Miao with them. Went to some local tourist attractions in Vicenza.

This place perfectly fits Qin Miao's fantasy of Venice. It is also a village on the water. The water is very clear, there are crowds of flowers and birds, and there are not many people. Most of them are locals, and the food is very cheap. The only disadvantage is that it is remote. , ordinary tourists simply can't find this kind of place.

Also because tourists don't know this kind of place, there are few people here and the environment is very good.

Under the leadership of the crew members, several people came to a restaurant with local characteristics.

To entertain foreign guests, eating the most famous local dishes is a kind of treat.

Because this time is similar to the Bureau of Commerce, the purpose is to build a good relationship with colleagues, so Qin Miao did not bring Qiumeng when she came out to play this time.

But to be honest, although the environment is good and the food has unique local characteristics, Qin Miao found that the three views he developed in China are somewhat different from these people abroad.

So when communicating with these people, I feel somewhat uncomfortable and difficult to understand.

And after all, they just met each other, and the best way for men to get closer is not suitable for Qin Miao.

On the one hand, Qin Miao doesn't drink, and he has a girlfriend again. At this time, it is impossible to follow them to do things that men love to do.

So the progress of the relationship between the few people was very slow on the first day, but after getting along with each other on the first day, the two parties can be considered to be familiar with each other.

On the second day, Lubosi finally arrived late.

Because Lubosi is Qin Miao's physical trainer and was not arranged by the Prema team, so the Prema team did not arrange a dormitory for Lubosi, nor did they have this obligation.

But it's not a big problem, Qin Miao and Qiumeng's dormitory is already big, even if Qin Miao converted another room into a room for playing games, there is still an empty room.

After Lubosi came here, he could just sleep in Qin Miao's place, and even because he lived with Qin Miao, his daily training to supervise Qin Miao was easier than before.

(End of this chapter)