Although he hadn't watched the news broadcast for almost three or four years, the news broadcast was still what Qin Miao remembered.

And Qin Miao never imagined that she would be able to appear on the news broadcast one day, and her name and appearance would also spread to thousands of households in China.

To be honest, I was very excited, I felt that my hands were shaking, and the excitement level was not much different from the feeling that Qin Miao won the championship in the arena yesterday.

The feeling of winning the championship is a kind of satisfaction that has finally been rewarded after putting in hard work and sweat, and a refreshing feeling that has finally pretended to be a big force after paying a lot of hard work.

And after seeing the news broadcast today, Qin Miao felt more that her efforts had been recognized by the elders in the family.

And the news broadcast had just finished watching when Qin Miao's phone rang.

When I picked up the phone, I saw that the caller's location was written on my mother.

Qin Miao picked up the phone with some excitement.

"Hey, Mom, I'm on the news!"

……

My mother called and said that the main thing was Qin Miao's news broadcast, but rarely, Qin Miao heard the excitement in her mother's tone.

After this matter was finished, my mother began to ask Qin Miao and Qiu Meng how their lives were abroad.

After asking, he told Qin Miao to pay attention to safety or something, in short, it was the regular family's advice to the wanderer.

If Qin Miao was still in high school, Qin Miao might have been a little impatient after hearing his mother's advice.

But now it's different, Qin Miao is working outside, and it's abroad, and she hasn't seen her mother for almost two years.

Therefore, the current Qin Miao not only did not have any impatience with his mother's nagging and advice, but listened very seriously.

However, this call didn't last long, Qin Miao's mother is not a person who likes to nag, and she said so much today, mainly because she hadn't seen Qin Miao for too long, and she missed it a little, and it was almost the same after she finished saying what she wanted to say.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Miao's mother turned around and went out to show off to her neighbors.

Qin Miao also let out a sigh of relief, and then packed up his somewhat excited mood and found Hamilton again.

"Are you done?"

Qin Miao nodded: "I just went to watch our country's news broadcast." ”

Hamilton smiled and raised his eyebrows: "So attentive, it seems that you are on the news network in China, your country's population base is so large, I believe you are now a household name in the sports circles of your country." ”

"Not necessarily, it's just a news broadcast, and most young people don't watch the news much at night now." Qin Miao was a little modest.

Hamilton shook his head: "You Chinese are like this, too modest, when I first came into contact with Chinese, I even thought that your modesty was the truth."

But in any case, you've been able to achieve this because of your hard work, so I think we should celebrate it. ”

Then the old man took Qin Miao to a vacant lot in the backyard of his winery, and at this time, there was already a waiter here to prepare a golf cart for the two of them, and there were two golf bags behind the cart.

Qin Miao was a little surprised when she saw these equipment: "There is also a golf course here?" Isn't this a vineyard? ”

Hamilton laughs: "The golf course isn't mine, it's just right next to my winery, so I bought a golf cart and put it here, so I can go there and play if I have time." ”

……

stayed here with the old man until the evening, played golf for a while, and then went to have dinner with the old man, because he didn't drink, so Qin Miao drove home in his own car.

Qin Miao had to admire Hamilton's thoughtful hospitality, and went to Hamilton's house as a guest, and the staff of his winery even washed his car.

Meeting with Hamilton this time, Qin Miao felt that this was a very daily gathering between two friends, and she didn't have to worry about what she said when her friends met being passed out, and she didn't have to intrigue, so she relaxed and spent a pleasant afternoon with her friends.

However, Hamilton's daily life has also brought a certain impact to Qin Miao, a small citizen in the market.

So on the way home, Qin Miao couldn't help but think about everything she saw at Hamilton's house.

And something beyond Qin Miao's expectation was that he had been here at Hamilton for a long time, and it was already completely dark when he came out.

Qin Miao naturally couldn't send the car for maintenance at this time.

So I can only drive the car home and send it for maintenance when I have time later.

After returning home, Qiu Meng was curled up on the sofa in the living room in her pajamas while watching a movie, waiting for Qin Miao to come home.

To be honest, when you open the door, you can see your lover waiting for you at first glance, which is a very happy thing.

After Qin Miao came back, Qiu Meng rushed Qin Miao to take a bath, prepared clothes for Qin Miao, and also put several contracts in front of Qin Miao's computer.

According to Qin Miao's habit, after coming back and taking a shower, he would go to play with the computer for a while, and then go back to his room to sleep.

So putting these contract documents in front of his computer was just enough for Qin Miao to take a look at before playing the game.

Qiu Meng couldn't get out this morning because of these contracts, and it took a day for this girl to screen out some contracts that she thought were suitable and sort them out.

If Qin Miao can only have a certain reputation among the team's senior management and some spectators who specialize in low-level formula racing and domestic fan groups in F2, after entering F1, Qin Miao only left an impression in the hearts of those who watched F1.

"Oh, this young man is very strong, he was favored by Toto, and he got lucky to enter Mercedes."

With Qin Miao's two races in F1, one was more amazing than the other, and the second one won a sub-race championship by chance, Qin Miao's commercial value suddenly increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And because of Qin Miao's own nationality, after he got good results in F1, many domestic and foreign companies came to Qiu Meng to seek cooperation with Qin Miao.

Of course, Qiu Meng also believed that she was so busy that she didn't have time to go out, and the business department on the side of the Meiben team was probably also working overtime.

With Qin Miao's excellent performance on the field, Qin Miao's attention in China will naturally rise, and the big domestic companies with money will definitely not mind giving Mei Ben a sponsorship to increase their international exposure.

So after Qin Miao came out of the shower, he looked at the stack of documents on his desk and was a little stunned.

didn't bother Qiu Meng, who had been busy all day, Qin Miao picked up these contracts and studied them for a while.

In fact, these are all contracts found according to Qin Miao's requirements, the workload is very small, at most it is to issue a portrait right, and then help the sponsor record a voice or a video, if Qin Miao works hard, all the contract requirements can be completed within one day after signing all these contracts.

However, Qin Miao did not sign all these contracts as decisively as before, not because Qin Miao didn't trust Qiu Meng, nor because he was not short of money, but because Qin Miao had other considerations.

To be honest, the current Qin Miao is a little disgusted with his identity as the No. 2 driver.

Toto's team instructions sounded the alarm for Qin Miao, if he was just a driver, then in Toto's eyes, he belonged to the kind of role that could be manipulated at will.

If you don't want to be played by Ferrari anymore, and you don't want to be asked to do something you don't want to do, then Qin Miao needs to have a background, power, and someone to support her.

But as far as Qin Miao's communication ability is concerned, it cannot be said that it is impossible to know some bigwigs in the paddock and let the bigwigs support him, it can only be said that it is as difficult as the sky.

So Qin Miao has to open up a new track and find a new way to play: find sponsors, big sponsors!

Since the network is not good, then go with the capital.

The next time you give orders to the team, you have to consider whether the sponsor behind you will say yes.

After all, Qin Miao is still quite confident in himself and those big bosses in China, and he thinks that there should be many companies that choose to sponsor the Meiben team because of his current influence in China.

Moreover, some foreign companies that want to explore the domestic market should also hope that they have more say and lens on the field.

At the same time, Qin Miao's words to Hamilton were not groundless, he did envy Hamilton's winery a little, and he also liked the atmosphere there.

Although Qin Miao's cash is now enough for him to buy a winery of the same specifications as Hamilton, it is not impossible for Qin Miao to buy a local medieval castle in England.

But Qin Miao learned from the casual chat with Hamilton that even if Hamilton bought the winery, he also sold some wine, but the winery was still in a state of long-term loss.

That is, Hamilton has money and doesn't care about this loss at all.

Qin Miao could indeed buy that level of property now, but the follow-up maintenance and maintenance costs of these things were not much cheaper than buying them.

And after you buy it, the British government has a requirement for you, you have to maintain your castle, because it is kind of a cultural relic.

Qin Miao is currently only in a state of income with a dead salary, and he can't support such a place at all.

Thinking of this, Qin Miao put down the contract in his hand, turned his head to look outside the door and shouted, "Daughter-in-law, tell you something." ”

After a while, Qiu Meng came in, she was a little surprised, Qin Miao did not directly and gladly accept these extremely lenient contracts, but still nodded patiently: "You say, I'll listen." ”

"I want to make money and I want to have a say in the paddock, so I want to change a number of contracts, preferably with more money."

Qiu Meng was stunned for a moment, and then scratched her hair with a headache.

Although she really loves Qin Miao, this guy's thinking is a little too jumpy, and Qin Miao said that the work she did in a day was basically in vain.

This really confirms the saying: the boss moves his mouth, and his subordinates break their legs.

But what can Qiu Meng do? The husband I chose, spoiled.

……

The two chatted at home for more than two hours, Qin Miao told his lover about his general thoughts and the goals he wanted to achieve, Qiu Meng recorded Qin Miao's requirements while screening the cooperation applications he had received during this time in his mind, and simply screened the contracts that met Qin Miao's requirements.

The next day, Qin Miao resumed her daily training, it is worth mentioning that Qin Miao reduced her physical training amount, but only maintained the physical training amount to keep her body functions from continuing to degenerate, and the rest of the free time was all invested by Qin Miao in improving her driving skills.

Qin Miao's main research object is his teammate Hamilton.

Next to his G-Force seat, he set up a monitor with footage and telemetry from Hamilton's qualifying session and a Mercedes simulator on the other.

Qin Miao first ran a lap according to his habits, and then looked at Hamilton's race video and ran a lap according to Hamilton's line.

Feel the difference between the two running styles, and then cut the telemetry of the lap you just ran and compare your lap rhythm with Hamilton's rhythm.

On average, Qin Miao can speed up her lap time by about 0.05 seconds per hour in this way.

By now, there is not much room for Qin Miao's personal ability and lap time to improve, and if he wants to speed up, he can only pick out the details like Qin Miao.

At the same time, when picking the lap speed for long distances and lap details, Qin Miao did not forget to train his starting speed and tire protection ability.

Qin Miao found that although the tires did have an advantage after arriving in F1, if Hamilton also entered the state of tire protection, his tire loss would only be about 18% less than that of the old man.

Although this value is already a lot, Qin Miao can obviously perform better.

Qin Miao knew that this value was so small, mainly because his ability to protect tires was delayed, so during this time, Qin Miao also watched the driving style of many drivers when protecting tires.

If you have any doubts, you can ask Hamilton, after all, the relationship between the two is really good now, as long as you don't disturb when the other party is busy, Hamilton will usually help Qin Miao answer her doubts.

Also because Qin Miao suddenly became angry and strong, Qin Miao's daily routine of training in the morning and playing in the afternoon and evening became training in the morning and afternoon and playing in the evening.

Evolved from daily fishing to 9 to 5.

This kind of life lasted for three days, and on April 23, Qin Miao entered the daily work rhythm that an F1 driver should have.

After the physical training in the morning, I went directly to the team headquarters to report for duty.

The rest of the morning had a meeting, and the performance of the last station in Imola was okay, although there were also a lot of problems and small flaws, but the flaws were not hidden, and when talking about these issues, Toto, who sat on the stage and presided over the meeting, did not bring too many negative emotions.

In addition to finding the problems that were made on the track, Toto also talked about the work goals that the team's design and manufacturing department needs to complete during this period, and pointed out that Qin Miao and Hamilton need to actively cooperate with the team's design department.

Then there's the logistics department, which needs to keep the logistics of the Mercedes team smooth during the Portuguese Grand Prix, as well as to ensure that new components made during this time are shipped to Portugal as soon as they come off the production line at the factory.

After the morning meeting, Qin Miao and Hamilton had lunch in the team cafeteria.

During the lunch break, Qin Miao was called to his office by Toto to talk about the instructions of the team in the previous race, and just as Hamilton said to Qin Miao, Toto sincerely apologized to Qin Miao and said that these things would not happen in the future.

Qin Miao, who had long been concerned about this, naturally generously said that this matter had passed.

Both sides were satisfied with the conversation, and the outcome was very happy.

After coming out, Qin Miao was called by Hamilton to the team's honor room.

Hamilton took Qin Miao to walk around here, talked about the history of these cars, and talked about the interesting things that happened during the race of these cars he drove.

In the afternoon, Qin Miao and Hamilton both entered the working state.

Qin Miao discussed with the staff in the simulator department how the feedback of the newly designed parts was loaded on the simulator.

Hamilton and Bottas, on the other hand, worked in the team's design department to contribute to the team's subsequent car upgrades.

After five days of such work, on Wednesday 28 April, Hamilton did not come to the factory, except for Bottas, who had lost a lot of work because the driver was gone, and continued to assist the engineers in the team factory.

Hamilton is busy with his other work, such as endorsement, attending fashion events or charity events.

Although Qin Miao changed his rhythm of life and inevitably had to run the activities of various sponsors like Hamilton, many of his business contracts are still being negotiated.

After all, Qin Miao's requirements have increased, and the contracts he wants are not like those simple contracts in the past, which can be signed directly after determining the requirements of both parties, and all the terms have to be carefully considered.

So during this time, Qin Miao was quite leisurely for the time being.

But Toto always couldn't look at Qin Miao's leisure.

Qin Miao's home is next to the factory in Megan Brackley, and there are either locals or Qin Miao's colleagues and staff members living around.

Then Toto specially found a Meiben staff who lived closer to Qin Miao, if there was more urgent work during the break, he would ask this staff member if Qin Miao was not at home, and if he was at home, he would call Qin Miao with kind words and invite him to go to the factory to help get off work.

The most annoying thing is that Toto actually helped Qin Miao calculate the overtime salary, whether it is a holiday or not, it is calculated according to the highest triple salary.

However, Qin Miao's basic salary is only $600,000, which is the lowest among all team drivers.

Even Tsunoda, the sixth-ranked driver in the F2 standings, has a base salary of $1 million.

And Qin Miao, the F2 champion, has a base salary of only 600,000 yuan......

Although the team gave Qin Miao a championship bonus of $600,000 on the third day after Imola finished, this was another price and had nothing to do with the base salary.

After careful calculation, Qin Miao's hourly salary is only 208 US dollars, and an hour of overtime is 624 US dollars per hour.

Converted, Qin Miao can earn about 4,477 yuan for one hour of overtime.

This number may seem like a lot, but you must know that Qin Miao now has a racing fund of more than 100 million yuan, and at the same time has more than 5.5 million liquidity.

After having so much money, Qin Miao can't say that he can't say that he can't look down on the more than 4,000 yuan, but there really isn't much psychological fluctuation.

Even Qin Miao was willing to give Toto money, so that he didn't call himself to go to the factory to work overtime when he was resting.

That's the case today, a new set of tail wings went down the designers' drawings in advance, and after blowing the wind tunnel for more than 50 hours, the data map obtained was imported into the simulator, and it happened that Bottas was on vacation today, if the simulator test could be completed today, this new set of tail wings could be used in next week's competition, so in order to catch up with the schedule, Toto made a phone call to Qin Miao, who had nothing to love all over his face.

When working overtime, there is no 8-hour work system, Qin Miao came to the factory from more than ten o'clock in the morning, and has been running back and forth between the design department and the simulator department, and when he came out of the Meiben team headquarters again, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening.

But fortunately, the test of the rear wing was finally completed, and the simulator effect obtained was quite satisfactory, but I don't know how it performed on the field.

After returning home, Qin Miao didn't have the heart to play with the computer, and after taking a shower, she fell asleep directly on the bed.

29th.

After Qin Miao got up in the morning, she took something from the refrigerator to cushion her stomach, and then completed her daily training, after the training was over, Qin Miao called Barber with a mask, and the two flew to Portugal together.

Qiu Meng was still dealing with Qin Miao's contract and had no time to accompany Qin Miao to Portugal.

Because Qin Miao didn't have the opportunity to run the Portimão track in F2, and the last time I met Hamilton, Hamilton also told Qin Miao that the Portimão track is a track with frequent ups and downs, and if you want to get good results and good speed on this track, you must go to the track yourself and get familiar with this track.

So no matter what, Qin Miao definitely had to come to the scene to take a lap and measure the length of the track and the ups and downs of the track with his feet.

After all, the ancestor said it well, but it is shallow on paper, and he never knows that he has to do it.

No matter how realistic the simulator is, Qin Miao uses VR equipment for daily training, the difference in height of the track and the sense of weightlessness brought by the height difference, and the actual feedback of driving the car in that state is different from reality.

After getting off the plane and going out of the security check, Qin Miao went to the hotel they had prepared for herself under the arrangement of the staff of the Meiben team.

After putting down the things, Qin Miao directly took Barber to the arena.

On Monday, the Portimão circuit was already preparing for this week's Portuguese Grand Prix, so by the time Qin Miao arrived, all the peripheral facilities had already been installed.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao saw a lot of Asian faces on the side of the road outside the track before entering the gate of the track, Qin Miao didn't care about it at that time, and when he parked the car in the driver's parking lot and got out of the car, those people walked towards Qin Miao with a light in their eyes.

(End of chapter)