People have also speculated about the possibility that Mei Ben will buy Qin Miao back to sit on the cold bench.

But after thinking about it, I felt that it was impossible, if Mei Ben really planned to buy Qin Miao back to sit on the cold bench, it would be impossible for them to pay the liquidated damages of Qin Miao's contract.

If you can pay this money, you can see that Mei Ben definitely wants Qin Miao to work.

At this time, public opinion in the paddock was turbulent, and everyone was puzzled by Mei Ben's operation.

There were also many reporters who went to Meiben's headquarters to interview Meiben's senior management, but they were all rejected by the will.

And there hasn't been a Grand Prix in recent times, so the answer to this question will have to wait until the Belgian Grand Prix starts at the end of August.

However, people with a heart still have unearthed more directions that can be excavated in this public opinion.

For example, a reporter approached Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher at Prema Racing and asked him what he thought about the matter.

Faced with this opportunity to expose himself, Mick naturally would not refuse.

Although the relationship with Qin Miao is not good, there is no enmity between the two, at most they can only be regarded as strangers.

So in the face of the reporter's interview, Mick didn't add fuel and vinegar, but just told the truth.

But to be honest, Qin Miao's impression on Mick's side is indeed not very good, so even if Mick adheres to a fair and objective attitude in evaluating Qin Miao, the ass of this interview is destined to be crooked from the beginning.

And this interview just happened to meet the first impression of Qin Miao by many passers-by and audiences, so the newspaper where this reporter worked enjoyed the first wave of dividends of this hot event.

After all, many people in the paddock now want to know the deeper news of Mei Ben's matter, but Mei Ben is so desperate that no news has been released.

And these are a little useful, but they are not very useful, but the news related to Qin Miao is easy to attract the attention of some melon-eating people who don't know the truth.

The way this reporter opened a breakthrough between the people around Qin Miao was emulated in a short period of time.

What is "Youth Teammates Sharply Comment on Qin Miao's Behavior", "Qin Miao in the Eyes of Prema Technicians", "Qin Miao's Evaluation of Qin Miao by the Restaurant Owner Who Qin Miao Frerequents", ......

For a while, everyone began to share this big cake unscrupulously like hungry jackals, and they couldn't wait for all the dogs Qin Miao had seen to come over and ask a few questions to write a column.

Of course, there are also some real interviews and subjects.

There was a reporter who interviewed Hamilton, the six-time champion who may become Qin Miao's teammate in the future.

Small talk and pleasantries are skipped, and the main question is reached.

"Lewis, did you already know that Mercedes might make a change in the number two driver next season?"

"I know, I had received emails before it happened, but at the time I just thought that there might be a new guy in our team, I thought he was just coming over to be a test driver or a reserve driver or something, and I didn't think that the other person might come into the team as the number two driver, and we didn't even know each other."

"And Lewis, do you agree with this approach of Mercedes?"

"Of course, I believe in Toto's vision, just as they would believe in me on the field.

However, I still think that the current team needs consistency, not a young man who is very driven. ”

……

Well, although the old man didn't say it explicitly, his dissatisfaction with the team's choice in his two answers was basically on the surface.

Qin Miao was originally not good enough in the paddock because of his lack of affinity in F2 and Ferrari youth training, and now as soon as this report comes out, Qin Miao's public opinion environment is even worse.

Toto, on the other hand, just watched and didn't do anything more.

Looking at the almost one-sided negative assessment, Mercedes' athletic director, Markus Walker, asked, "Are we putting too much pressure on him?" ”

With Mei Ben's ability, he is actually fully capable of controlling the comments in the paddock at this time, so that the comments about Qin Miao will not be flying all over the sky like now, and most of them are still negative comments.

But Toto just clasped his hands to his chest, looked at the data graph in front of him and said without looking back: "If this pressure can't stand it, then there is no need for Qin Miao to continue on the road of F1."

If he really can't stand it, let him run the simulator for three years, and it is said that the simulator drove quite well when he was in Ferrari.

Besides, the contract we gave him stipulated that if there was no race, Qin Miao would only have a basic salary of 600,000 yuan, and we would not have much to lose by letting him sit on the cold bench. ”

Obviously, the basic salary in Toto's contract to Qin Miao is very low, but there are many rewards, so he has this plan.

Although Toto is really optimistic about Qin Miao's talent and his future.

But as the executive director and team principal of Mercedes, Toto must have the team's interests at heart in these matters.

"Well, then public opinion about the paddock ......"

"Treat it coldly, wait for the heat of this matter to subside by itself." Toto didn't look back.

Walker wrote down Toto's instructions in his notebook, but sighed slightly in his heart, because it was not so simple to retreat from the heat of this matter.

What's more, Qin Miao is still an active F2 driver, although the attention of F2 drivers is pitiful compared to F1 drivers, as long as he has been participating in the competition, he has been continuously exposed.

At that time, how much pressure Qin Miao was under had and Walker already had a rough guess.

Just when Walker recorded Toto's instructions and was about to leave, Toto suddenly said: "By the way, you have to do the work on Bottas's side, the main thing is to stabilize his mood and strive to make him play normally in the rest of the season." ”

Walker's face, which was originally calm, suddenly put on a bitter look.

If the external problem after Qin Miao joined Meiben is the incomprehension of public opinion and fans, then the internal problem is Bottas's emotional problem, and secondly, there is a Russell problem.

However, Bottas's problem is a little more serious than Russell's, after all, this is an active driver, and his presence is related to Mercedes points.

After seeing the expression on Walker's face, Toto smiled: "Don't worry, Bottas's job is actually not difficult to do, he has been in Meben for four years.

I could tell that the No. 2 driver of the four years had tired him, after all, no one wanted to have someone on top of him who could always hold him down, and he had already had the idea of leaving Mercedes and going to another team to experience what it was like to be a No. 1 driver. ”

Although Walker's face was still full of suspicion, he still nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to him when I get back." ”

With that, Walker left, leaving Toto alone sitting in his place with his hands on his chest and looking at his computer's monitor.

And on the monitor, it is the telemetry data that Qin Miao sent to Toto, Qin Miao's last few games......

Qin Miao knew that his public opinion in the paddock had already shown signs of collapse, and he had a momentum that would be left behind for thousands of years.

However, Qin Miao's response to this is also very mature, just two words: no matter!

Also because Qin Miao has changed teams recently, Qin Miao needs to be busy with a lot of things.

It's like the things brought from Maranello have to be sorted out, and they can't be kept in Zhou Guanyu's house all the time, right?

Even if Zhou Guanyu didn't mind having a bunch of sundries at home, Qin Miao couldn't care about it.

So during this time, Qin Miao not only needed to find a house, but also needed to move.

There are more minor problems caused by moving, and during this time, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng have not done anything else, they are busy with these things.

Because Meiben's factory is in the UK, if nothing else, Qin Miao will have to live in the UK for a long time like Zhou Guanyu.

This is a good thing, and the two can still meet each other from time to time.

After Qin Miao took care of all these chores, the time had come to Thursday, August 27.

Qin Miao, who had just taken care of her own affairs, didn't have time to rest for a day, so she went to Belgium non-stop.

The Belgian Spa-Francorchamps circuit is one of the most proficient of all Qin Miao's tracks, and there was no rain throughout the race week, so the final result of the qualifying session was no longer in suspense at the beginning of the race.

1:57.111.

This is Qin Miao's qualifying results.

The second place went to Tsunoda, and the third place went to Ma Zeping.

After arriving in the middle of the season, these people gradually became familiar with the racing car and began to exert their strength, but it is a pity that compared to Qin Miao, they can still only be regarded as ordinary people, and the results are just like that.

Qin Miao's tire selection changed a little during the main stage of this game.

Qin Miao wanted to eat up the points in this race, so in the starting stage of the race, Qin Miao did not choose to start with soft tires as usual, but hard tires, and then made a pit stop in the last few laps, and got the fastest lap in the state of light fuel load.

The final result was that Qin Miao took all the 27 points he could get.

Sprint Race Qin Miao points +17.

After three games, Qin Miao's total points in the end were: 46 points.

Because the background of the start of this game is that Qin Miao joined the shocking melon of Mei Ben.

As a result, the ratings of this F2 race were unusually high, the number of viewers tripled, and the number of people watching the race on television reached an unprecedented 150,000.

Fortunately, after the game won the championship, the host who interviewed Qin Miao was an official staff member of the FIA, and did not ask some inappropriate questions to make Qin Miao's mentality, and asked some very conventional questions.

The March of the Volunteers resounded on the top podium of F2 for the 16th time.

Halfway through the F2 season, the national anthem of other countries has not been released on the top podium of the F2 field, whether it is the main race or the sprint race, the final award stage is all "March of the Volunteers".

Those who have been following F2 will even be able to hum the melody in their own heads.

This is a disguised cultural export.

After the race, about 20% of the audience who did not understand Meiben's approach was like an epiphany, and instantly understood Meiben's senior management.

Strong, indeed strong.

What Qin Miao and other F2 drivers showed on the field was not a dimension at all.

And after the race, Qin Miao sent his trophy to Ferrari.

Although Qin Miao's contract with the Ferrari F1 team was terminated, Qin Miao's contract at Ferrari's youth academy has not changed much.

Although both the Ferrari F1 team and the Ferrari Academy are part of Ferrari, they are actually two different departments, but the two departments have been working together more frequently.

Therefore, although Qin Miao has terminated his contract with the Ferrari F1 team, his contract with the Ferrari Driver Academy is still in effect.

Only at the end of this season, Qin Miao's youth training contract will end after Qin Miao's contract with Mei Ben takes effect.

And one of the more interesting things is that.

That is, after the news began to circulate in the paddock that Qin Miao was about to leave the Ferrari system next season and join Mercedes, the relationship between Mick and Qin Miao, who was basically in a relationship with Qin Miao, has eased to a certain extent.

After all, after Qin Miao left Ferrari, there was no direct conflict of interest between the two, and it was logical that they could exchange things about racing during the team meeting.

After Spa finished the game, Qin Miao did not stay in Belgium for long.

As soon as the team meeting was over, Qin Miao returned to Vicenza with the team.

The new Grand Prix was held in Monza, Italy, and Vicenza was only a two-hour drive from Monza, so for Qin Miao and them, coming to Monza to play was similar to playing at home.

There is no need to repeat the process of the game, Qin Miao brought back a full 46 points.

However, the more he ran in this game, the more Qin Miao felt that he was an outsider.

After all, Qin Miao's space to show her strength was very limited throughout the competition weekend.

After the start of the race, it is a normal lap.

The only thing that was interesting was that Qin Miao kept overtaking when he ran the sprint race.

But now Qin Miao is starting to get a little bored even if she runs a sprint race.

Because almost all the people in front of Qin Miao would not defend Qin Miao.

Although after seeing Qin Miao appear in his rearview mirror, he will not lose speed like a slow train encountering a fast car, but no one will take the initiative to defend Qin Miao when Qin Miao is attacking.

Because it's not necessary.

Defending Qin Miao has to lose his speed, the key is that he can't prevent it, so there is no need to waste time on such meaningless things.

So now Qin Miao is not challenging to run F2 races at all, and he is playing in circles and brushing up on the track proficiency throughout the whole process.

After this game, 80% of the audience who were curious or bored with Qin Miao recognized Qin Miao's strength, and also understood Toto's intention to sign Qin Miao unusually.

If such a genius is placed outside, it will be a time bomb for Mei Ben, because Mei Ben can't be sure whether Qin Miao will enter Red Bull or Ferrari in the end, and then rely on his own personal strength to forcibly make up for the gap in vehicle performance like a head brother, and give Mei Ben a little genius shock.

And in the interview session before going on stage to receive the award after the competition, Qin Miao typed the script in his heart as he had done countless times before when he took the stage to receive the award, waiting for the host's question.

But as soon as the host came up, he said: "Congratulations, Qin, you have become the overall champion of Formula 2 in the world in 2020!" ”

"Huh?" (End of chapter)