How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 128 Chapter 126: Strange Contract (8000 words, plus 720 words)

Hearing Binotto's straight to the point, Qin Miao fell into deep thought.

It's obvious what Teacher Bi came to find Qin Miao. Like many team leaders who called Qiu Meng, Qin Miao knew their purpose.

It's nothing more than taking a fancy to Qin Miao's racing talent after he started to hang up, and wants to recruit Qin Miao to fight for them in the F1 field next season.

However, it is not easy to negotiate a driver contract with a transaction value of hundreds of millions of pounds, so it is not uncommon for the negotiation time span of a driver contract to be one or two months.

The period of negotiation also happened to allow the major teams to observe Qin Miao's performance in the F2 arena. If the performance is good, then everyone will be happy.

Although Qin Miao was able to take the initiative in the negotiation process with the team in this situation and was able to offer a higher price, this was because Qin Miao's strength was worth the price and could be negotiated.

If Qin Miao's performance is not good, it will be easier. Find an excuse to terminate the negotiation or make the other party feel that he is perfunctory during the negotiation.

At this time, basically anyone with a little insight will know that the negotiation is almost over by this time.

But all of this has a premise, that is, the negotiation between the two parties is based on the state of your wish and my wish.

But now the problem lies here.

Qin Miao has certain concerns about becoming an F1 driver after what he saw in Ferrari during this period and after he went to the paddock to experience it.

After all, I am also a driver. When I went to participate in the grand prix, Qin Miao observed the grand prix from a different perspective than the audience.

When the audience went to participate in the grand prix, what they saw was how many good cars appeared on the scene, who were the celebrities and celebrities, which drivers they saw, whether they wanted to get the driver's autograph, whether they bought peripherals, and what fun things were there.

As for Qin Miao, what he observes is what kind of work the drivers have and what they need to do during the work process.

Then put it in yourself...

numb...

After I came to the Grand Prix on Thursday and finished walking the track, I transitioned to Friday, and then basically from Friday to Sunday for three days, I spent at least four hours a day dealing with spectators and reporters, even more so. Not to mention the places that Qin Miao couldn't see.

So it's not that Qin Miao doesn't want to drive those F1 cars that can be called track cars compared to super sports cars. To be honest, no driver can resist the temptation to drive an F1 car.

But Qin Miao is somewhat autistic, somewhat resistant to the kind of life that must be shown with a smiling face, and the announcements are constant, and most of the time in life has to be exposed to the spotlight.

So you let Qin Miao drive F1, no problem, but to become an F1 driver, Qin Miao really has no such plan in a short time.

Faced with Binotto's invitation, Qin Miao remained silent for this reason.

Because he was thinking about what he should say to express that he didn't want to change his family, but he didn't plan to drive an F1 car and become an F1 driver in a short time.

Seeing Qin Miao's silent appearance, Binotto and Lawson felt helpless.

Compared with Red Bull and Mercedes, Ferrari is the team that knows Qin Miao's strength best. After all, they are drivers in their driver academy. Ferrari's youth training has a very mature assessment system.

There will be special personnel to observe these youth training drivers all the time, and observe and record all aspects of these drivers' daily life, such as training enthusiasm, personality, hobbies and so on.

As for the performance on the field, it is basically a state that is obvious to all, and everyone is racing. If a driver performs well, you can just look at his lap time. For people like Binotto , if you want to know more about the strength of a driver, just look at their track analysis chart in addition to the lap time.

There is no need to find someone to analyze anything.

Therefore, these people will be highly professional if they focus on a little bit.

Then they gave Qin Miao such an evaluation:

[Too sloppy, although the training is never late, the amount of training will not be short, but there is no record of any additional training, the enthusiasm for playing games is even consistent with the enthusiasm for training, mild social fear, not gregarious, aloof, peaceful and peaceful , Lack of assertiveness, someone must supervise the food to ensure that they don't eat indiscriminately. 】

It can be said that in the eyes of those professionals in the youth training camp, Qin Miao's character is doomed that he will not be able to become a qualified driver in this life.

But there was no way, Qin Miao's talent in racing was so good that even Binotto felt amazing.

Originally, some people in Ferrari thought that Qin Miao might be just talking on paper, and that he would be better on the simulator.

However, in an internal test of Ferrari, Qin Miao slapped all the Ferrari youth drivers, and at the same time slapped all the Ferrari executives who thought he was not worthy of his name.

In the face of this kind of genius, Ferrari does not want to, and cannot miss it.

But Qin Miao's life style is indeed a little too loose, so Ferrari is going to put Qin Miao on F2 for a while to let him wake up.

After he realizes his problem, he will start talking about joining F1 next season.

It's just that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. Even Ferrari didn't expect Qin Miao's performance in the first round of F2 to be so amazing. Qin Miao proved his racing talent to the entire racing world by winning the double championship in the main race and the sprint race. What a horror.

Before Ferrari had time to digest this huge surprise, bad news came to its door: Basically, the teams in the paddock that wanted to strengthen their drivers called Qin Miao's agent, and it was said that the conditions for driving were extremely favorable.

At that time, Ferrari couldn't sit still, and the hoes of other teams swung into their own vegetable gardens. If they could still sit still, then all the top executives of Ferrari could really be pulled out and killed.

So after getting the news, Ferrari held a brief meeting internally and directly discussed the future treatment for Qin Miao within a day.

Although it seems that Ferrari's reaction time is much slower than that of other teams, the other teams are still making verbal promises to Qin Miao at this time, they are just trying to contact Qin Miao, and they may have to wait for a while if they are really interested.

But Ferrari is different, they have arranged all the terms of the contract directly, as long as Qin Miao signs the contract, and after the end of this F2 season, he gets the top three and earns 40 points.

Then Ferrari will give Qin Miao enough pre-season testing time next season to save up the driving time of F1 cars stipulated by the FIA, and go directly to F1 next season.

But whether he can go to Ferrari depends on Qin Miao's performance in F2.

In the end, the silence was broken by Qin Miao, who caused the silence: "Teacher Bi, I understand your thoughts, and I also know that you are worried that I may leave Ferrari, but you also know that we Chinese are very affectionate. , Ferrari led me into the field of racing, and it was Mr. Lawson who discovered me from ordinary people, and I have feelings for Ferrari!"

"So rest assured, I won't be leaving Ferrari anytime soon, at least not until the end of this F2 season."

"As for being an F1 driver...to be honest, I don't resist driving an F1 car, but I don't like being in the spotlight for a long time, and I don't like being interviewed by reporters. Knowing that I can't speak my true heart, I don't want to participate in paddock politics and fight with other people, I just want to drive well, so I don't want to enter F1 anytime soon. "

After listening to Qin Miao's thoughts, Binotto and Lawson exchanged glances.

This is where they have concerns about Qin Miao, but they found that they and other teams that wanted to poach Qin Miao missed one thing, that is, no one thought that Qin Miao did not become an F1 driver idea.

What made Qin Miao back down were the pre-match activities, post-match interviews, and paddock politics that could increase Qin Miao's popularity to a certain extent.

You must know that the more activities you participate in in the paddock, the greater your influence will be, and the influence can be directly discounted in the paddock.

As long as you have influence, countless sponsors can't wait to step through the threshold of your home and send you money.

Summarizing the meaning of Qin Miao's words in his mind, Lawson quickly thought of a person, Kimi Raikkonen.

Qin Miao's speech and statement are basically exactly the same as Kimi's behavior in the paddock.

However, Kimi showed her side after entering the paddock, while Qin Miao chose not to enter the paddock to show her side.

These two people can be said to be rare works that are rare in the F1 paddock in a century.

Scratching his little hair with some headaches, Lawson just wanted to persuade Qin Miao. After all, Qin Miao's identity is still very important to Lawson.

Because most of the F1 drivers who came out of the Ferrari Driver Academy did not enter the Ferrari F1 team in the end, and now there is only one Leclerc.

In order to prevent Ferrari's youth training talents from going to other teams to take the title, Lawson, the person in charge of Ferrari's youth training, knew that he still needed to win over Qin Miao.

But before he spoke, Binotto took the lead and asked, "Then what if we can stipulate in the contract that we can reduce your proportion in commercial activities?"

After all, F1 is a business alliance, Liberty Media Group is here to make money, and the drivers' media activities are also a key source of income for the team.

So Binotto didn't say that Qin Miao could not be allowed to participate in commercial activities, but said that the proportion of Qin Miao's commercial activities should be reduced.

Qin Miao was taken aback for a moment, then her eyes lit up.

The young man couldn't hide anything in his heart, and the change in Qin Miao's expression completely fell into the eyes of Binotto who was sitting in front of him.

As soon as he saw Qin Miao's expression, he knew there was something interesting about this matter. Qin Miao's resistance to F1 was not because he didn't want to drive F1, but because he was disgusted by F1's commercial activities and paddock politics.

That being the case, according to Qin Miao's intention, reduce the amount of business activities he needs to participate in, and find an influential driver to be Ferrari's third driver. All these activities will be handled by him, and Qin Miao gave him more free time except for the most basic activities.

Before Qin Miao could express his opinion, Binotto said again: "Of course, you also know that the FIA ​​will implement the budget cap limit next year, so we don't have much budget for drivers' salaries. If you don't want to participate in commercial activities, we will You have to find a No. 2 driver to help the team fill this vacancy, so your salary will inevitably be very low.” Binotto added: “Also, the contract you requested is too special, I will give it to you. Your contract also needs to bear a lot of pressure, and the board of directors will definitely come to inquire, so you must show convincing results this F[-] season."

salary?Qin Miao hasn't spent the money given by the system's father until now, so if the salary is low, it should be low.

As for the results, there is no need to worry. Qin Miao's proficiency in the system has reached 2+ in the 12 races of F300 this season.

To put it bluntly, Qin Miao could run two laps on these tracks with her eyes closed in her own F2 racing car.

As long as the team and the car don't hold him back, Qin Miao is confident of winning this year's F2 driver championship and most of the races.

As for the sprint race, it's hard to say.

Because predictably, after I won both the main race and the sprint race once, I will basically not be able to comfortably overtake in the next sprint race like last time.

Except for Zhou Guanyu, all the F2 drivers ahead of Qin Miao will try their best to defend Qin Miao who is about to overtake in the sprint race.

Because they wanted to curb Qin Miao's performance, and let the driver running in front try to keep the distance between Qin Miao and Qin Miao as far as possible.

Qin Miao cannot win all the championships alone.

After all, those who can rank ahead of Qin Miao in the sprint race in the reverse order are regarded as drivers with certain strength. If they are not sure, they will be eighth in the race, and the reverse start of the sprint race will start to compete for the championship.

At this time, if someone can help block Qin Miao from behind, even for a second or two would be good!
So it is foreseeable that in the next season, it is very likely that all F2 drivers will fight against the boss Qin Miao in the sprint race.

Because of this, after the end of the Austrian Grand Prix, what Qin Miao thought was that he would still run normally during the main race, but he would maintain his health during the sprint race. After all, we all know that the F2 sprint race is a bit of a porker. What do other people think of Zhou taking all the championships in the main race and sprint race?
Qin Miao is not a person without empathy. The other 21 drivers have worked hard for a whole year, and none of them has touched the championship trophy. Is this plausible?

But...after hearing Binotto's request...

Pork?I even moved the table where the pig was killed.

What do you think of me, Qin Miao?Why don't you just hold back, why do you want me to let you run slowly?I am not your father!

However, if Xiao Zhou has any hope of winning the championship, Qin Miao may really have a "mechanical failure" on the track...

In short, all F2 colleagues, sorry for this season!
If you want to fight the boss, just fight the boss. After all, when playing MMORPG, who hasn't been wiped out by the boss group several times?
For my special contract, I will suffer you!

……

Qin Miao is indeed autistic, but for a person who likes racing cars and is somewhat autistic, it is impossible to refuse this kind of contract offered by Binotto.

We chatted together for more details about the contract, and then the two parties finalized the contract.

This contract has strict requirements for Qin Miao, that is, he must become the driver champion with a dominant performance in F2 this season.

In Qin Miao's F1 driver contract, in addition to the most basic obligations of the driver, the number of media, team business activities, and fan activities has been significantly reduced. Basically, Qin Miao only needs to do business once for each grand prix. After that, most of it was Qin Miao's private time.

As for the salary issue, Qin Miao claimed that his first-year salary was 200 million euros, but in fact, after deducting some miscellaneous taxes, he could only get a little over 100 million euros.

For a rookie driver, this salary is quite suitable, but for a genius of Qin Miao's level, this salary is a bit low, but considering that Qin Miao's contract basically has no clauses for commercial activities, this The contract suddenly made sense again.

Of course, Qin Miao and Binotto have just discussed the general matters of the contract at this time, and it will take a while to actually sign the contract.

After all, the original set of contracts is no longer applicable to the current situation and has to be re-drafted.

On the other hand, when signing the contract, a notary lawyer must be present, and someone must help Qin Miao determine whether there are any hidden clauses in the contract.

Although Qin Miao didn't think that Ferrari would trip her up in the contract, it was a necessary process. Even if Qin Miao didn't plan to hire a lawyer, Qiu Meng would still insist after knowing about it.

After chatting, the three of them prepared to leave separately. Qin Miao looked at her phone. There was still some time. After returning to the hotel, she could play two games of CSGO.

Just when Qin Miao got up and was about to shake hands with Binotto to say goodbye, Binotto held Qin Miao's hand, hugged Qin Miao, and patted Qin Miao on the back: "I am looking forward to next season." work with you."

Qin Miao hugged back and said with a smile, "Of course, I'm looking forward to it too."

Of course, Binotto has not yet realized what kind of beast his contract and commitment have unleashed on the F2 field.

When Qin Miao breaks one record after another, Binotto will think back to today. When Qin Miao heard himself say: "You must show convincing results this F2 season", Qin Miao's face was full of convincing results. What exactly does that inexplicable confident smile mean?

After talking about the matter, Binotto still had work to deal with, Qin Miao was also busy going back to the hotel to play games, and the three parted at the entrance of the coffee shop.

This news will not spread in a short time. On the one hand, the F2 season has just started, and Ferrari has confirmed the F1 drivers for the next season.

Although Qin Miao performed amazingly, but only ran one race now, it would be very hasty to release this news.

And now that Qin Miao has agreed, it shouldn't be Ferrari's people who are anxious.

When Qin Miao's performance in F2 is stable, Ferrari fans will be anxious.

When the news that Vettel will leave Ferrari is released, then Ferrari fans will start to speculate who will replace Vettel next season.

After guessing around the drivers in the F1 paddock, we designated some candidates, and then looked down to F2 to see if there were any good seedlings for Ferrari's youth training.

Look at it...Huh?How come there is a fried fish here... No, fried fish can no longer describe the strength of this buddy, this buddy is directly pumping water from the fish pond.

What else to choose, just this kid!
When Ferrari fans start to shout Qin Miao's name under Ferrari's social accounts, Ferrari will release the news that Qin Miao has joined Ferrari, which will definitely be another wave of excellent marketing.

Back at the hotel, Qiumeng was wearing a pair of narrow-frame anti-blue light glasses on her nose, which added a bit of intellectual beauty to her cute little face.

But Qin Miao didn't have much interest in this tune, and Qiu Meng's dress was usually at work, so Qin Miao didn't bother her.

He came to the computer and opened his own steam.

Although Zhou Guanyu is not playing games at this time, his Steam account is online.

Not in a hurry to ask him to play games, Qin Miao cheerfully sent a message to Zhou Guanyu on Steam
Sanshui: [in? 】

[Tell you good news. 】

Soon, Zhou Guanyu replied that he should be sitting in front of the computer, but he didn't play the game.

Shanghai Tiger: [? 】

Sanshui: [This news is a bit explosive, don't get excited, don't get overwhelmed, don't shut yourself up, take a deep breath. 】

Shanghai Tiger: [? ? ? 】

Sanshui: [Aren't I a pigeon this afternoon?]

【That's Binotto and Lawson coming to me together】

After sending this passage, Qin Miao happily leaned back on the chair, then took out her mobile phone from her trouser pocket, put it on the table and started counting down: "Three, two, one~"

The moment Qin Miao's countdown ended, Qin Miao's cell phone rang.

After connecting to the phone, Zhou Guanyu's voice came from the other end: "What do you mean? Ah? No, shouldn't this be just a normal meeting? What do you mean by adding a fucking one so I don't get excited, don't get overwhelmed? Don't tell me... How dare you impress them in just one game? Don't be kidding..."

In fact, the news Qin Miao sent to Zhou Guanyu is not worthy of Zhou Guanyu's excitement, but combined with the above "Don't get excited, don't be overthinking, don't shut yourself up" and then look at the passage from Qin Miao.

Zhou Guanyu had to doubt the purpose of Binotto looking for Qin Miao.

Why is this guy signing a contract with Ferrari to become an F1 driver just by relying on his excellent performance in one race?

Impossible, no reason, this is too fast, right?Why!Is Bihi crazy?

At this moment, Zhou Guanyu admitted that he was a little excited, as if the values ​​he had built up over ten years had completely collapsed at this moment, smashed to the ground, and was even crushed by Qin Miao.

Listening to the surprised and unbelievable words of the friend on the receiver, Qin Miao smiled slightly: "As you thought, the details of the contract have been initially finalized, and now I am waiting for Ferrari to issue a contract. After the contract is signed, my buddy will be you. Someone who can't climb high."

After Zhou Guanyu received the news from Qin Miao, he also had mixed feelings in his heart.

However, Zhou Guanyu is not the kind of person who is afraid of his brother's life suffering, but also fears that his brother will lead the way.

Because Zhou Guanyu's family is not short of those Land Rovers.

His heart was complicated because he just couldn't understand why Qin Miao was so lucky even if he was so talented.

Although Ferrari's F1 team has not won a championship for many years, Ferrari is to F1 like Jerusalem is to the West, and Tifa is to the 3D zone.

In a way, Ferrari is sacred in F1.

Even if such a team is down and out, there are countless drivers rushing for its driver's seat.

But I never expected that my good friend Leclerc during the Ferrari youth training period drove a Ferrari after a year of experience in Arrow. Now my good buddy Qin Miao is even more extreme, and he didn't go to the F1 team for experience. An F2 race I personally invited Binotto to do it, and I will report to Ferrari next season.

For a moment, Zhou Guanyu began to wonder if he had some kind of buff. Anyone with a good relationship with him could enter Ferrari, and the better the relationship, the faster the entry speed.

It took a while for Zhou Guanyu to readjust his mood, but there was one thing to say, Zhou Guanyu was really envious of Qin Miao's racing talent.

When I first met him, he was even just a passerby with a certain talent in the simulator, but in just one year, Qin Miao has grown to the point where Binotto personally invites him to join Ferrari as a talented driver.

After regaining his emotions, Zhou Guanyu seemed to be gnashing his teeth, but actually jokingly said: "Damn chicken, you have to treat me to dinner tonight!
...No, I have to find the most expensive restaurant in the vicinity, not the best but the most expensive one, if you don't kill you, it's hard to solve the hatred in my heart! ! "

Qin Miao smiled and shrugged her shoulders: "Yes, you can choose the best ones, but let me tell you in advance that people's physiques are different. You may not be able to eat some dishes that I can eat. Even if you eat them, you think yours What will the physical trainer look like?"

After saying this, Zhou Guanyu, who had just calmed down his emotions, was completely outraged.

"Ahh! Qin Miao! You should die!!!"

Zhou Guanyu's defense was completely broken by Qin Miao's small combo.

"Stop talking nonsense, it's still some time before dinner, the number one is playing games."

"Here we come! But do you remember how many times FPL kills teammates and gets kicked?"

……

After Qiumeng dealt with her own affairs, Qin Miao also talked about her situation with the girl, but the girl's reaction after hearing Qin Miao's words was not as intense as Zhou Guanyu's.

Qin Miao didn't care, and discussed the details of his contract with Qiu Meng. After checking and filling in the gaps, today's time has passed.

The next day Qin Miao had to return to the team to report and start training.

Qin Miao's work content is not much, and he does not need to enter the team's factory to develop new components with engineers like F1 drivers.

Qin Miao's main work content is to maintain his racing car with Sui Wentao and the others to understand the role of racing car parts on the track.

In addition, there are actually learning driving skills and watching other people's excellent driving videos.

But as far as Qin Miao's lap time at the Red Bull Ring is concerned... Basically, the single laps of those F1 drivers are worth watching for Qin Miao, but the car Qin Miao is driving at this time is different from the F1 car, and there is no reference for him to read sex.

So after the end of the first subject, Qin Miao found out in a daze that her day's work was over.

Because he didn't want to leave work early, Qin Miao simply took Sui Wentao's unused laptop and watched the movie.

Playing games in the temporary P room is really a bit too arrogant, so Qin Miao didn't make any progress, so he watched the movie, and when asked, it could be said that he was researching whether the car chase scene in the movie could be used for reference.

This state continued for two days until Thursday.

Logically speaking, today is the day to go to the track, but because the Red Bull Ring held two consecutive grand prix, I ran it only a week ago, and the track has not been renovated, so this time I can avoid the track.

Today is the day when Qin Miao signed the contract with Ferrari. Qiu Meng found two professional lawyers in the UK through Zhou Guanyu's relationship to handle the contract.

The whole process was unremarkable, the content of the contract was pretty much the same as what Qin Miao and Binotto had discussed, but there were quite a few people from the Ferrari F1 team,
These include F1 team leader Binotto, racing director Mekis, chassis director Resta, power department head Guatier and so on.

Basically, all the high-level executives of the Ferrari F1 team were present. Presumably, Qin Miao is also a very special existence for them.

Originally, the term of this contract was three years, that is, from the beginning of the 21st year to the 24th year.

However, because Qin Miao's requirements in this contract were a bit too deviant, in the end, Ferrari's board of directors shortened the contract time, which was more inclined to a gambling agreement, to one year.

If Qin Miao performs well this year, Ferrari does not mind paying a high price to keep Qin Miao, and they are also confident, because apart from Ferrari, basically no team will allow the official driver in the team not to participate media event.

If the performance is acceptable, but not as good as expected, then you, Qin Miao, stay in Ferrari honestly and become the number two driver. Don’t be so crazy. If you should accept the job, you should work honestly and go out to accept it. The interview is also frank.

And for Qin Miao, a one-year contract is not a bad thing. A car under low-voltage and low-exposure conditions can be driven for a year.

After signing the contract, both parties were very happy, and then went back to their respective homes with the contract.

Originally, when Qin Miao returned to the hotel, she thought that her life would return to normal, and she still had at least half a year to live.

But in the afternoon, Qin Miao was called to the paddock by Binotto.

After Qin Miao arrived, Binotto didn't ask Qin Miao to do anything else. He knew that F2 drivers had a lot of leisure time, and most drivers would use this free time to study or practice their racing skills.

But Qin Miao is different. There is only a super driver's license between this guy and F1.

Basically there is nothing to improve.

Binotto thought for a while and felt that it would not be a problem for Qin Miao to stay idle at home, so he pulled him over to let him familiarize himself with the specific preparations for each Grand Prix of the Ferrari F1 team.

After all, Qin Miao is also idle when she is idle, and she can gain some knowledge by taking a walk more.

Qin Miao: ...

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