How did I become an F1 driver?

You have to know that Qin Miao was taking his own plane. Although he applied for an air route during the process of returning home, that was the military's business. Qin Miao didn't believe that the news of his return would be leaked from there.

So logically speaking, when Qin Miao came back, apart from the staff of the fleet, only the members of his crew knew about it, and even his family didn't know. But someone took a photo of Qin Miao leaving the airport.

Then the next day, various interview invitations came in.

Some self-media are relatively easy to deal with. Just ask the people in the company to politely refuse them. But what do you do when someone from CCTV comes to invite you?
The key person calls you politely, asks about your well-being and is courteous and considerate, and is very considerate both in terms of appearance and substance.

How can you refuse this?

So Qin Miao returned to China on Sunday and was taken to participate in an exclusive interview with CCTV on Monday morning.

After finishing this, Qin Miao thought it was not bad that he still had a few hours of rest. Then he was humbly pulled away by the director of the local Culture and Tourism Bureau, who said that he would personally serve as a guide for his country's triple crown champion and take Qin Miao around Shanghai.

This turn naturally requires some filming.

By the time we were done, it was already evening.

Qin Miao could only return home exhausted.

Wednesday, attend an event.

Thursday, marketing campaign.

On Friday, Leclerc also came to Shanghai. Qin Miao couldn't even find time to pick up his friend at the airport because he and Zhou Guanyu and Ye Yifei went to participate in an interview with three Chinese F1 drivers on CCTV-.

On Saturday, Ferrari's marketing department pulled Qin Miao and Leclerc away.

The two recorded a lot of material together in Shanghai.

Of course, most of the time it was Qin Miao, a Chinese man, who took Leclerc around here. Because Qin Miao and Leclerc had a good relationship, the originally boring recording process became more interesting with the two of them playing and playing.

Sunday is the roadshow stage for Qin Miao and Leclerc.

Ferrari rented a street in Shanghai and took out Ferrari's 2019 F1 car SF90.

Although the performance of this SF90 was not top-notch at that time, it was even suppressed by Mercedes-Benz's W10.

But this is the closest car Ferrari can produce to the 24-year-old model.

As for the racing cars of the ground effect era, Ferrari will not put them on road shows because some of their designs are still used on the current SF24.

However, this SF90 uses the Ferrari racing livery of the 24th season, and the numbers are also 66 and 16.

Speaking of paint, we have to mention that Ferrari also brought a special edition paint to this race. The red color of Ferrari was directly changed to the red of the national flag, and the five-pointed star was also printed on the Ferrari car.

In addition to Ferrari, Lynk & Co and Arrow also brought special edition paint jobs.

Everyone knows that the Chinese market is huge, and now is the time to make money. If not now, when?

Back to the topic.

Qin Miao originally thought that there wouldn't be too many fans coming here to watch the road show, but when he and Leclerc drove to the scene, they found that there were long queues not only inside the venue, but also outside the venue.

To be honest, Qin Miao had never seen so many people crowded on a street in his life.

Considering the large number of people at the scene, Qin Miao and Leclerc were able to enter the venue only after they were well disguised.

Although it is a roadshow, it is impossible for the car fans on the street to just perform activities like drawing donuts.

There is still a process of visiting some of Ferrari's memorable items. During this process, the team took out F1 cars, racing suits, and helmets or photos of Ferrari's own old and new cars and drivers.

But before all this, there was a signing session between Qin Miao and Leclerc.

After entering the venue, the two changed into Ferrari team uniforms, and just as they came from the backstage to the area where they were signing autographs for fans, they were shocked by the number of fans at the scene.

Looking from where the two of them were signing, the crowd was blocked by fences that had been erected in advance, and these fences forced the crowd to turn at least twenty times, with at least thirty or forty people at each turn.

But despite this, the number of people looking for Qin Miao and Leclerc's autographs extended from the huge venue arranged by the organizer to outside the venue.

It can be seen that the organizers of this Ferrari event have already made the maximum estimate of the number of fans who will come to the scene, but they are still few.

After all, there are just too many people in China.

As soon as Qin Miao and Leclerc appeared, the fans who had been impatiently waiting burst into loud cheers.

Qin Miao and Leclerc naturally greeted the fans at the scene with a smile.

The two were soon drowned out by the cheers of the fans.

The security guards at the scene saw the group of people who were originally quietly playing with their phones become crazy after seeing Qin Miao and Leclerc, and they all acted as if they were facing a great enemy and were on high alert.

After Qin Miao and Leclerc tried their best to calm the fans for a long time, the fans at the scene gradually calmed down and began to line up in an orderly manner one by one.

Qin Miao and Leclerc then sat in their seats and started today's signing event.

This time, anything can be signed. Of course, it would be best if it is a small gift bought at the event, but it is not mandatory.

After all, admission requires a valuable ticket, and getting the driver's autograph requires a lottery after buying the ticket. A large number of people cannot come here to get the driver's autograph even if they have bought a ticket, but despite this, there are still so many people queuing at the door.

At the beginning, some fans would bring their own car models or Ferrari jerseys to ask the two for autographs, and they would chat for a while while signing and everyone was very happy.

But as time went on, some things began to appear that Qin Miao could not have imagined.

After Qin Miao signed a male fan's simulator steering wheel, a female fan who looked a little nervous came up next.

Then Qin Miao greeted the other party with a smile, and the other party handed Qin Miao a photo in a frame.

After taking it, Qin Miao looked at it curiously, then raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Qin Miao was very surprised by this photo, mainly because he didn't expect that a car fan would bring such a photo to him.

Qin Miao poked Leclerc, who was signing autographs next to him, with his arm, handed the photo to him and asked, "Do you remember this scene?"

Leclerc looked at the photo carefully, then shook his head and said, "I don't recognize it. I just see that this person is you."

In this photo, Qin Miao and a man in a white racing suit are driving side by side on a simulator.

"You have such a brain."

Leclerc raised his eyebrows: "You mean, this person is me?"

Qin Miao Xiaoxiong spread his hands: "What else? Why should I show you?"

Leclerc frowned and scratched his head: "When did it happen? Why don't I remember it?"

Before Qin Miao could explain, the female fan who sent the photo said excitedly: "It was at Silverstone in 19, when you were participating in an event, and Qin Miao, who was still an F2 driver at the time, happened to meet you. This is a photo of the two of you running on the simulator." Leclerc looked at him in surprise, then looked at Qin Miao: "Is that so? How come I have no impression of it at all?"

Qin Miao frowned, realizing that things were not that simple: "Damn, you didn't deliberately say you forgot because you lost to me when we were running the simulator, did you?"

Leclerc: ...

"You kid! As expected!!"

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Of course, in the end, Qin Miao and Leclerc still signed autographs for this female fan whose eyes looked somewhat strange.

Normally, when fans ask them for autographs, Qin Miao and Leclerc can only ask for one of them, but this photo is indeed of great significance, and Qin Miao and Leclerc became familiar with each other because of what happened at that time.

So both Leclerc and Qin Miao signed this photo.

To be honest, Qin Miao and Leclerc were both curious about how this fan got this photo.

The other party said that he just happened to be at the scene at the time and saw Qin Miao's handsome concentration when driving the simulator, so he took such a photo.

Neither Qin Miao nor Leclerc thought the other was suspected of lying. After all, Qin Miao was just a nobody at the time, and Leclerc was fully armed, so no one could recognize him.

The key point is that the main perspective of this photo is obviously Qin Miao, and Leclerc next to him was obviously taken in passing.

I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.

Qin Miao still wanted to take this photo, but the other party was well prepared. After all, it was a photo she took herself, so she printed two more copies this time and put them in photo frames. Now that Qin Miao and Leclerc wanted it, the other party gave the photos to Qin Miao and Leclerc without hesitation.

Sometimes the creativity of car fans is unlimited. Some fans come to Qin Miao and Leclerc with photos that are of great significance to them and ask them for autographs. Naturally, there are also fans who come to them with abstract photos and ask them for autographs.

When a photo of Qin Miao wearing a Mercedes racing suit, sitting in a car, taking off his gloves, and picking his nose through the helmet was handed to Leclerc, Leclerc couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Qin Miao curiously leaned over to see what was going on, and then discovered his own ugly photos.

Qin Miao looked at the male fan in front of Leclerc helplessly and said directly: "This is a violation of the portrait rights! The photo is confiscated!"

Leclerc elbowed Qin Miao: "Where did you get the portrait rights? And doesn't Ferrari have the portrait rights?"

Then Leclerc signed his name on the photo quickly, looked up and said to the fan: "Keep this photo well, but remember to send a copy of the photo to my work email. I think my social media avatar has been found."

Qin Miao:? ? ?
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After the signing event, both Qin Miao and Leclerc felt a little sore in their backs, but at least it was over.

Next is the roadshow.

The two men, who had already changed their clothes, got into the racing car and began to draw donuts on the street under the eager gaze of the fans.

There are also sudden acceleration and deceleration segments.

Qin Miao even performed a drift show on the track using the SF90, which had adjusted the overall downforce of the car to the lowest.

Although F1 cars are not suitable for drifting, after all, the downforce provided by the car's aerodynamics is too great. It can be said that all the ideas in designing F1 cars are the opposite of drifting.

But you can't resist Qin Miao's strong car control ability.

He can drift on the street in an F1 car.

Anyway, for most of the fans at the scene, this trip was worthwhile.

As for those who are dissatisfied, it is mainly some scalpers who want to drive up the price of Qin Miao's autograph. However, after they came in, they found out that they still need to queue up if they want to get Qin Miao and Leclerc's autographs.

The scalpers will naturally not be happy after their little plan failed.

Although there were always some scalpers who eventually got Qin Miao's autograph, they were still a minority.

After the event, Leclerc went to Qin Miao's house for a quick meal and then returned to the hotel.

Because starting from tomorrow, we will officially enter the Shanghai Grand Prix competition week.

But he didn't know if it was Qin Miao's illusion, but he always felt that as the competition week began, Shanghai became a lot more noisy than normal.

Of course, Qin Miao himself knew that this was just his illusion.

However, even though it was race week, Qin Miao still could not rest. The team only gave Qin Miao one day of rest on Wednesday during this Grand Prix weekend, and he had to go back to work on Thursday.

So two days before this Grand Prix weekend, Qin Miao was still busy attending various activities in various places in Shanghai.

Of course, the main purpose is to increase the influence of the Shanghai Grand Prix. As for those commercial activities, Qin Miao didn't even touch them. There are only three words to describe him: he has no shortage of money.

Soon, it was Wednesday.

Normally, Qin Miao could have taken a short rest today, but he did not do so, even though he did stay at home and did not go out.

Because the race is actually a relatively unfamiliar track for Qin Miao.

After all, he had only ever driven an F4 car on that track. Although he had driven other cars, they were mostly civilian sports cars, which were in no way comparable to the characteristics and grip of an F1 car.

So at this moment, Qin Miao was naturally thinking about getting more familiar with the track on the simulator.

Therefore, Qin Miao did nothing else for the whole day on Wednesday and just stayed at home running the simulator.

In fact, Qin Miao still wanted to be lazy. If he didn't use his rest time to relax, he would not be Qin Miao. However, the Shanghai Grand Prix is ​​the first Grand Prix weekend this season with a sprint race.

There is already little time for practice sessions. If I continue to be lazy, will I still be able to win the championship?

Time flies and it is Thursday.

The first thing Qin Miao and Leclerc did when they arrived at the paddock was to walk the track.

Because there had not been an F1 race for a long time, new asphalt was re-laid at the last race, although Ferrari team staff came to the track in advance to measure the asphalt and shoulders of the track.

But these are just paper data for Qin Miao and Leclerc, and are not clear enough.

So in order to be absolutely sure, both of them came to the track.

The Ferrari with its special livery also brought new upgrades to this Grand Prix weekend, including the car's sidepods, suspension, rear wing, beam wing, radiator and engine.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this upgrade of Ferrari was actually prepared for Qin Miao.

Ferrari also wanted Qin Miao to win the Grand Prix in his home race, which would not only increase Qin Miao's reputation in his country, but also help Ferrari's sales to reach a new level. (End of this chapter)