How did I become an F1 driver?

For some reason, this McLaren fan suddenly felt a sense of anticipation.

What if this is really Qin Miao?
So he just hesitated for a while, and then without saying a word, he quickly went to the Ferrari surrounding area and bought a set of Qin Miao's small helmet and SF24 car model. After spending more than US dollars, he quickly came to Qin Miao's autograph area.

Qin Miao, who was happily reading the messages in the group, noticed the person coming in front of him, put away his phone and looked up.

When Qin Miao raised his head, a friendly smile was already on his face.

"Hello, can you sign?"

When this McLaren fan saw it, he was like, wow, it’s really Qin Miao? !

No, why didn’t you inform Qin Miao before that there would be a signing event today?

But it didn't matter. On second thought, it was actually a good thing for him that Qin Miao didn't notify him in advance about his autograph session today, because he was the first person to discover Qin Miao and ask for his autograph, so he didn't need to queue up for the autograph.

Even because there was no one else waiting behind him, he clearly found that Qin Miao was very patient at this time and he could chat with Qin Miao for a few more minutes.

After Qin Miao bent down to sign his name on his helmet and model, and the assistant beside him returned them to him, Qin Miao and the McLaren fan started chatting across the guardrail.

"Qin Miao, why are you here alone? If you don't notify us before the signing, no one will come, right?" Although this McLaren fan could not hide his excitement, he was still a little confused.

Qin Miao had nothing to do, so he smiled and answered, "Actually, my original schedule did not include signing at the event, but when I passed by here, I suddenly had the urge to come and see if there was any lucky winner. Look, you just happened to meet me, didn't you?"

"How did you become a McLaren fan? Have you ever considered liking the historic Ferrari F1 team? I know the old Ferraris may be a little abstract, but I promise that this season Ferrari will not disappoint any Iron Buddha."

Qin Miao immediately began to prepare to incite McLaren fans to rebel.

"Look, the current McLaren is not as fast as our Ferrari in terms of racing speed, and its historical heritage is far behind our Ferrari. Its drivers are even less attractive and capable than our Ferrari. To be honest, brother, you should give up the dark and join the light as soon as possible!"

This McLaren fan was obviously confused by Qin Miao's words. He looked around with a guilty conscience, and when he found that no one was paying attention to this side, he asked tremblingly: "Is it appropriate?"

The other party asked whether it was appropriate for Qin Miao to poach players from McLaren in his current position. Qin Miao's understanding was whether it was appropriate for him, a McLaren fan, to turn over a new leaf and join the Tiefu Temple family.

"What's inappropriate about this?" Qin Miao looked behind him and said to the assistant assigned to him by Ferrari, "Bring two sets of team uniforms over."

After the uniforms were brought over, Qin Miao signed his name directly on the chest of one uniform, then handed the unsigned uniform to the other party and said, "Put it on, and you will be a member of the Iron Buddha Temple after you put it on!"

This car fan really didn't expect Qin Miao to play like this.

But the Triple Crown winner personally hands you a Ferrari jersey and lets you wear it, and you don’t have to spend any money.

To be honest, this McLaren fan can't think of any reason not to betray McLaren in the short term.

"it is good!"

After the other party said this firmly, he took off his McLaren uniform and put on the Ferrari uniform.

"That's right." Qin Miao smiled and sat back down.

When this car fan wanted to say something, someone else discovered Qin Miao here and had just lined up behind this McLaren fan.

So after the other party changed his clothes, he hurriedly took the peripheral products he had just bought and asked Qin Miao for an autograph.

Before Qin Miao signed for the other party, he said to this quasi-Iron Buddha Temple: "Welcome to join the Iron Buddha Temple!"

It is worth mentioning that among all the active F1 drivers, Qin Miao's autographed peripheral products have the highest price in the secondary market, without a doubt.

A signed team jersey of Qin Miao has now been sold for 3 RMB.

Because compared to other drivers, Qin Miao has very few autographs.

The only way to get Qin Miao's autograph is to meet him on the street and shamelessly ask for his autograph. The only other way is to be in the paddock, when Qin Miao is passing through the team's P room area, and when the audience with VIP tickets hands Qin Miao their Ferrari hats and pens, Qin Miao will take them and sign them.

In addition, although Qin Miao also sent autographs to his relatives and friends, the number was indeed not much.

In addition to Qin Miao's huge fan base in China, if we add in those abroad, there simply would not be enough to share. This is why Qin Miao's autograph is very precious.

After the first person made the discovery, more and more people gathered.

But Qin Miao is a free and easy person, so if he said half an hour, it would be half an hour.

After half an hour was up, Qin Miao did not sign autographs for anyone else except for taking off his hat, signing his name and handing it to a little girl who was no more than three or four years old and was still in her mother's arms.

As for why it was given to this little girl, and not to a little boy not far away who looked like a future star and was wearing a Ferrari hat...

Because this little girl reminded Qin Miao of his own daughter.

As for the fans’ dissatisfaction about not getting Qin Miao’s autograph after he left.

As mentioned before, there are very few people who come here to get the drivers' autographs wearing Ferrari clothes. Most of them are McLaren and Alpine fans.

Since Qin Miao was not a fan of Ferrari, it was natural that he would not receive any preferential treatment.

What's more, Qin Miao came here with great excitement, so it's natural for him to return with great pleasure now.

When returning to the Ferrari team's P room, Leclerc was here to check the weather conditions.

After noticing Qin Miao coming over, he asked in surprise: "Why are you so late today?"

Although Qin Miao is lazy, he is indeed very punctual. Although Qin Miao is not late now, the time he usually arrives at the team's P room is different.

Qin Miao replied: "I signed autographs for a few fans on the way, so I was delayed."

Leclerc nodded and did not ask any more questions. Instead, he looked at the weather forecast and said, "It won't rain today. The probability of rain is even zero, but the wind is very strong, 0 kilometers per hour. Look at these bends. You have to be careful when you turn them."

Qin Miao also leaned over to take a look: "Indeed, there is no obstruction on the edge of these turns. The windproof ability of the guardrail of this track is very poor. You can't be careless when cruising. These turns are high-speed turns. Once an accident occurs, it will be difficult to recover."

Leclerc smiled helplessly: "The race hasn't even started yet and you're already thinking about cruising?"

"There is a saying in our country, 'Before thinking about victory, think about defeat first.'" Qin Miao said with a confident smile.

Leclerc waved his hand: "Don't send me compressed files. I don't understand."

Qin Miao spread his hands: "This is not an idiom, it's just a passage in The Art of War, and the meaning is even literal."

After spending a long time with Qin Miao, when chatting with Qin Miao, Qin Miao would not only play around with Leclerc, but sometimes also use idioms or something.

For a foreigner like Leclerc, an idiom is a huge compressed package. Just four words can directly condense a huge story. The fucked up thing is that almost all Chinese people can open this compressed package as soon as they receive it.

But foreigners like Leclerc need a long time to understand.

"All in all, I felt like I was cruising most of the time in today's game," Qin Miao said with his arms folded across his chest.

Leclerc raised his eyebrows: "Want to bet?"

"What are you gambling?"

Leclerc thought for a moment before saying, “I heard that Ferrari has reopened the LaFerrari production line for you?”

Qin Miao shook his head: "It's just a proposal. The general content is that if I win the world championship this season, Ferrari will reopen the LaFerrari production line, but will only produce ten special edition LaFerrari named after me."

"What's it called?" Leclerc asked curiously.

Qin Miao recalled: "It seems to be called Ferrari Qin."

Leclerc: ...

In fact, what Leclerc was thinking was that if he won, he would no longer be called Ferrari Qin, but Ferrari Leclerc.

But Leclerc thought about it and felt that it was inappropriate because he was not worthy.

So Leclerc thought about it and said: "If I win, your name should be on the car you drive, and then the name will be changed to Leclerc."

Qin Miao thought about it and nodded: "Okay, but what if you lose?"

Leclerc shrugged and said, "I'll replace the inscription on my next custom Ferrari with yours."

"A word is settled!"

After making a small bet for fun, the two returned to their daily work.

I won’t go into too much detail about the pre-match preparations here.

When Qin Miao appeared in the broadcast screen again, Qin Miao had already appeared on the pig cart during the driver's parade.

However, Qin Miao's work attitude at this time was still a bit lazy. He and Leclerc leaned on the edge of the guardrail together, waving and greeting the fans at the scene, discussing something with Leclerc, and pointing to some bends or shoulders on the track from time to time and saying something.

It is worth mentioning that due to the efforts of Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, the two of them have made the F1 cake bigger in China. The number of domestic F1 fans has increased sharply, so Five Star Sports has strengthened the weight of F1 competitions.

Although Five Star Sports is a state-owned enterprise, state-owned enterprises now also need to be responsible for their own profits and losses. When broadcasting F1 races, the ratings of the entire Five Star Sports are the highest.

Although because of Qin Miao's performance now, more and more TV stations are broadcasting F1, CCTV-1 even broadcasts it frequently, and there are also viewing channels on the Internet. There are even rumors that Internet giants such as Tencent and ByteDance are also interested in buying F's online broadcasting rights.

But there is still a large number of fans who only watch the race on TV.

So now even the pre-race drivers' parade has started to be broadcasted by Five Star Sports. It makes money, so it's not a big deal.

The only thing that fans have criticized is that the number of advertisements inserted during the broadcasts of Five Star Sports has increased significantly.

The workload of the three commentators also increased as a result. Despite this, the three commentators did not feel bored watching Qin Miao's performance on the track, and they even enjoyed it.

After the parade, the national anthem was sung again before the race, and Qin Miao and his team began to make final preparations before the start of the race.

During this preparation time, Qin Miao met an acquaintance on the track, Jay Chou and his wife Kun Ling.

After chatting with the other party with a smile for a while, Qin Miao even took him around in front of his new car and introduced him to the features and data of his new chariot.

Although Qin Miao had just met Jay Chou once before and attended a fan meeting of Qin Miao together, this was the first time Jay Chou saw Qin Miao's Ferrari.

As a man who loves cars, Jay Chou naturally likes this Ferrari F1 car.

It's a pity that the other party did not come to Qin Miao immediately. If he was still in Ferrari's P room, Qin Miao would definitely not mind letting the other party sit in this SF24 to experience what it feels like to drive the fastest Ferrari car. But now the car has stopped on the track. In order to prevent accidents, no one except the driver and team staff is allowed to touch the car.

So Qin Miao just chatted with Jay Chou and his wife for a while on the track and took two photos together.

Then the two left the track.

However, after meeting Qin Miao, Qin Miao had to play his role as a Ferrari shareholder to some extent.

They were supposed to watch the race in the VIP seats, but after getting the approval of Ferrari shareholder Qin Miao, they successfully entered the Ferrari team's P room to watch the race.

Putting aside this little episode, while waiting, Qin Miao and Leclerc checked the information of today's track. After confirming that it was correct, Qin Miao came to the front of Leclerc's car and gave Leclerc's car a BUFF. After they were ready, the two entered their own cars.

After all pre-race preparations were completed, the team staff began to evacuate the track.

After the radio test, Franky also told Qin Miao the weather conditions on the track at the time.

After everything is ready, the warm-up lap begins.

After completing the warm-up lap, Qin Miao came to his starting position and began to warm up the car, preparing to execute the starting procedure.

At this time, Qin Miao was thinking that after the start, he should have a chance to overtake in the interior of T1.

Although the distance from the starting point of the Albert Park Circuit to the braking point of T1 is not long, and Qin Miao himself knows that his advantageous start rarely translates into improved rankings, it is as if he has been cursed.

But Qin Miao was still prepared to try to overtake Verstappen after the start.

After all, it’s just that the number of successful conversions is small, not that Qin Miao has never done it.

What if Verstappen makes a mistake at the start?
Qin Miao also knew that he would not lose any position if he tried to attack Verstappen.

Not to mention that with Qin Miao's defensive ability, it is not difficult to block the attack from behind, not to mention that the driver who started behind Qin Miao was Leclerc.

In the last race, Leclerc was willing to lose his position to help Qin Miao defend the driver behind him, and he will definitely do the same in this race.

It can be said that Qin Miao’s only task at this time, without any worries, is to see if he can bring Verstappen down.

However, Qin Miao was more careful when he started this time, and was prepared to move as close to the outside as possible after starting.

To prevent Verstappen from compressing his track position after the start and then colliding with him. (End of this chapter)