109: The Dark Inside Story of Ferrari
The two played seven or eight games together at night, probably because they used too much energy during the game, or maybe because the sudden surge in strength made Qin Miao a little uncomfortable, Qin Miao's performance tonight was not too good, and it was far from the usual state that he could go up and give two slaps when he met a professional brother, and he could only say that he barely dragged his teammates back.
However, at this time, the purpose of Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu to play the game has changed from upper points to entertainment, so Zhou Guanyu doesn't care about Qin Miao can't continue to fly with him, just have fun.
After the game session was over, Qin Miao returned to the bedroom.
And Qiu Meng, who appeared in front of Qin Miao, put on the sailor suit that made Qin Miao's attack speed skyrocket.
However, this time, the black pantyhose turned into stockings, and the absolute realm of Bai Huahua saw that Qin Miao, a young man with strong blood, couldn't stand it.
So in the face of Qiu Meng's bold provocation, Qin Miao rushed forward without saying a word.
The process between this will not be repeated too much, although the pantyhose at this time has been replaced by stockings, but it still can't avoid being crushed by Qin Miao.
And Qiu Meng also had a deep understanding of how good Qin Miao's physical strength was now.
When she got up the next day, Qiu Meng looked at the place where Qin Miao had been tossed for more than two hours, and then punched Qin Miao's fast-cut abdominal muscles with an angry punch.
was going to take a day off, but in the afternoon, Lawson called Qin Miao and asked him to go to the office.
After all, it was his top boss, and Qin Miao couldn't refuse.
After changing into work clothes, Qin Miao pedaled the scooter to Lawson's office.
It is worth mentioning that because Qin Miao and Qiu Meng's powder blue scooters are very eye-catching, and because Qin Miao's working hours are the same as those of most Ferrari engineers, many Ferrari employees found that Qin Miao's scooter was time-saving and fun, so when they had time, they asked Qin Miao to get the shopping link of the scooter, and then they also made a short trip.
Now, if you wake up early, you can see a lot of Ferrari employees riding scooters to work in the Ferrari campus.
Lawson didn't lock the door today, but after Qin Miao arrived, he still stood at the door and knocked on the door.
And Lawson, who was making coffee in the office, instantly put a smile on his face when he saw that the person who came in was Qin Miao, and invited Qin Miao to sit down at the table where he was entertaining.
According to Lawson's current posture, the topic of this meeting should not be related to work.
Lawson didn't say anything first, but poured Qin Miao a cup of coffee and asked Qin Miao if he had adapted to working and living in Ferrari during this time.
In fact, this is just a foreshadowing before starting to talk about business.
Qin Miao is naturally full of praise for Ferrari's working environment.
After a while, the conversation turned to the main topic.
"You should already have a hunch, in yesterday's test, you used your perfect performance to conquer the team leaders, and many people exchanged phone numbers with you, right?"
Qin Miao nodded a little reluctantly.
"My phone has been ringing since yesterday, and it has only been quiet at this moment.
Yes, although there are a lot of people looking for you, there are only a few teams that are really competitive on the field, and there are a lot of people in these teams who have a good relationship with me, so they want to ask me what you think about next year's season? ”
Qin Miao asked tentatively, "What do you mean exactly?" ”
"A lot of teams are interested in you, but the choice is up to you, so they want to know if you want to drive enduro or formula racing next year, and of course if you want to go rally, I can also get in touch with you, and they want to get your exact answer and then they can prepare accordingly."
Qin Miao didn't ask what to prepare, but began to think about his future outcome.
I originally wanted to run the 24 Hours of Le Mans, after all, who doesn't like a handsome supercar that has been professionally modified for racing and has been installed with an aerodynamic kit to look even more handsome.
However, Qin Miao, who has experienced formula cars, really feels that formula cars are more fun to drive than GT cars, although the appearance of formula cars is not necessarily as good as GT cars, but the speed is definitely faster than GT cars.
Qin Miao recently found a passage when she was visiting Station B: Children only make choices, and adults want them all.
Therefore, after Qin Miao's short thought, he was still ready to continue his previous plan, first run in F2 for a few seasons, and after running to F2 and not himself, he directly transferred to Le Mans.
"I want to run F2 now."
The smile on Lawson's face did not decrease, and after hearing Qin Miao's answer, he asked, "Is there an F2 team you want to go to?" ”
Qin Miao shook her head.
Although he really wants to be teammates with Zhou Guanyu, he also knows that he and Zhou Guanyu are not in the same youth training system now, although Lawson may really communicate with UNI-Virtuosi about joining after mentioning it, and no matter what his strength is, Zhou Guanyu knows that he can run F2 and is willing to join UNI-Virtuosi, Zhou Guanyu, who holds shares in UNI-Virtuosi, will definitely agree and try his best to operate in it.
So it's likely that there will be two Chinese drivers in an F2 team.
Of course, Qin Miao would not make such a blind request at this time to give Lawson eye medicine.
After thinking for a while, Qin Miao pondered and said, "I don't actually have a specific idea in my heart, but I believe in your vision and judgment Mr. Lawson, do you have any team recommendations that are suitable for me?" ”
Although all F2 cars have the same performance, different teams have different understandings of the car, and the ability to tune the car will naturally be different.
And Qin Miao really doesn't know much about the F2 team, and he is familiar with two F2 teams, one is the UNI-Virtuosi team.
After Zhou Guanyu left Renault in anger at Ferrari, his family directly invested in UNI-Virtuosi in order to prevent Zhou Guanyu from being excluded by the team, and now Zhou Guanyu is one of the shareholders of this team.
The other team is Prema, which Qin Miao borrowed a car to train for a while.
The team doesn't really have any interests with Ferrari, and the two teams just have a good relationship.
And Qin Miao is not sure about the situation of many F2 teams, it is indeed a more suitable choice to let Lawson, an old fritter who has been operating this road for many years, help him as a staff officer.
At the same time, Qin Miao also knew that his strength, which had been forcibly improved by the system to close to ninety points, was a fragrant dumpling that exuded an attractive taste all the time in the eyes of the team leaders, and letting Lawson help Qin Miao choose also gave Lawson the opportunity to do favors to a certain extent.
I believe that Lawson, who gave him such a good opportunity, could not choose a bad team for himself.
And by doing this himself, Lawson can remember a little bit of Qin Miao's goodness, and if there is any inside information in the future, Lawson can also ventilate Qin Miao in advance.
After hearing Qin Miao's statement, the original smile on Lawson's face became even more obvious, and there was even a hint of appreciation in his already gentle eyes when he looked at Qin Miao.
This kid is sensible! Yes!
"I think Prema is a good one." Lawson didn't shirk either, pretending to think briefly for a while before he spoke: "First of all, you and the Prema team itself has a certain basis for cooperation, and the two sides can't say that they know the roots, but they can barely have a basic understanding. Secondly, they have another driver from our Ferrari Academy team: Mick Schumacher ......"
Lawson didn't mention that they were also drivers from the Ferrari Drivers' Academy, and that they could take care of each other in the future.
After all, he is a youth leader, can he not know the relationship between the drivers under him?
Although Qin Miao can't say that there is no one in his eyes in private, he is indeed a little arrogant, and his popularity has not become very good.
Although Qin Miao did not look down on other drivers, after her first attempt to communicate with other drivers and was ostracized, Qin Miao never took the initiative to talk to any of Ferrari's academy drivers.
And Qin Miao's attitude also made other drivers not very interested in Qin Miao, and it wasn't until yesterday that Qin Miao really beat a group of drivers with his own strength, and the situation changed.
During the celebration banquet, many drivers tried to talk to Qin Miao, but they were all ignored by Qin Miao.
Now the relationship is even more stiff.
So Lawson chose a different method of insertion.
He first glanced at the door of the office quietly, and then lowered his voice and leaned into Qin Miao's ear and said: "You should be familiar with the surname Schumacher, this surname has a good status within our Ferrari, and because of this, many high-level executives are looking forward to Mick's talent, so this year, that is, the second year of Mick F2, there will be engineers who will be sent to F2 to help him transfer cars, and you can also rely on your identity to see his settings......"
No, Qin Miao just sent Lawson a big favor, and the other party immediately reciprocated, seriously, under normal circumstances, who would tell Qin Miao this kind of news that can be said to be an internal scandal?
However, Qin Miao was not too interested in this, because he had a skill card, he could familiarize himself with a racing car in a very short time, and he could easily feel which tuning was the most suitable for his driving style and the current track when driving.
Regarding Mick's training, Qin Miao looked a little sneering.
However, during the training period of the Prema team, he got along quite well with several engineers in the F3 division, so Qin Miao did not refuse, nodded and said, "I believe in your choice, Mr. Lawson." ”
Lawson didn't say too much about this kind of tacit thing, and after seeing that Qin Miao agreed, he moved on to another topic. "Okay, now that the team problem is solved, it's time for the contract. Lawson had already gotten up and gone to the back of his office as he spoke.
After opening the safe in his office, Lawson pulled out two papers.
"What kind of contract is this?"
Lawson was stunned: "Didn't you read the draft contract that was given to you yesterday?" ”
“…… Did you give me a contract yesterday? …… I remember...... I seem to have lost it during the celebration. Qin Miao scratched her head.
Lawson: "......"
"Hey, it's just a sponsorship contract, basically no strings attached, a total of 15 million euros of sponsorship, but after deducting miscellaneous fees, and then deducting the fees of next year's driver academy, you can finally leave more than 13 million euros."
Hearing Lawson's explanation, he simply converted the exchange rate between the RMB and the euro in his mind, which is almost about 100 million.
The system will never give Qin Miao less money, but it will never give more points, and when the time comes, what Qin Miao will have in his pocket will definitely be assets worth 100 million.
But Qin Miao still keenly captured a word that made him a little concerned: the cost of the driver academy.
"Do I still need tuition fees to study at our Driver Academy?" Qin Miao asked with some confusion.
Lawson didn't care about Qin Miao's ignorance, because Qin Miao didn't enter the Ferrari youth training system through formal channels, but came in by lottery in his own brain, and it was normal that he didn't know much about some internal rules.
"In the first year, it's basically free, as long as you have talent, we will let young drivers come in for free and try for a year, but after a year, even if you are talented, you have to pay tuition, because whether it is daily training, accommodation and food, etc., you have to spend money." ”
Qin Miao was clear, and he had no opinion, anyway, it didn't matter if he took more or less of the money for nothing.
"So are there any restrictions in this contract?" There is no free lunch in the world, even if it is a reward given by the system, but maybe this price is very small for Qin Miao now.
Lawson replied: "There are basically no restrictions for you, this contract does not restrict you from what you are not allowed to do, but it does require you to have the Anglo-Dutch Shell logo on your helmet from now on for seven years." ”
Qin Miao was puzzled: "Is this all?" Wasn't it a sponsorship from Ferrari? ”
Lawson smiled: "Although the Anglo-Dutch Shell logo appears on your helmet, we at Ferrari also paid half of the money, after all, you also know that our good relationship with Anglo-Dutch Shell has lasted for more than half a century.
When the world sees the Anglo-Dutch Shell logo on your helmet, they think of us Ferraris.
Of course, this contract is conditional on you signing a new year with our Ferrari Driver Academy, but this requirement is basically the same as no limit for you.
And the contract that Anglo-Dutch Shell gave you with us is not about your present, but about your future. ”
Qin Miao nodded slightly, then looked at the other contract and asked, "Then this is?" ”
"Team Prema's driver contract starts after Halloween this year and runs through Halloween next year."
Qin Miao was surprised: "Why is it only one year?" ”
It stands to reason that Qin Miao, a genius of this level, has the opportunity to sign a contract with him, and the team is eager to sign a contract with him for one hundred and eighty years, and the contract liquidated damages are also set very high, that is, after Qin Miao has money in the future, Qin Miao takes the initiative to terminate the contract, and the team earns a wave of liquidated damages.
However, instead of doing this, the Prema team only signed for one year, which made Qin Miao a little incomprehensible.
Lawson said with some emotion: "This is the treatment of a genius, if you are just talented, but the talent is not so strong, the Prema team will indeed sign you a contract of at least three years as you think, but you also know that your talent has become strong to another dimension, and in the face of a genius of your level, no matter how greedy people will give you the green light." ”
(End of chapter)