In fact, the main thing is that Toto saw that Qin Miao's work during this period was really hard, not only on the field, but also in the team factory behind the scenes.

Qin Miao's contribution to the Meiben team even made Toto, a capitalist, feel a little embarrassed, coupled with Qin Miao's talent and growth ability that he has shown now, so Toto wants to give Qin Miao a mention.

Since it is necessary to mention the treatment, it is natural to sign a new driver's contract.

Of course, if it doesn't work, Toto has other plans.

As for looking for Qin Miao this time, Toto is ready to find Qin Miao to come over and sign a guarantee contract.

That is, Toto is worried that someone will take advantage of the expiration of Qin Miao's contract with the Meiben team to pry the wall.

If there is a guarantee contract, in this case, if Meiben and the other team have the same treatment, Qin Miao must give priority to the Meiben team.

In fact, Qin Miao's contract was mentioned on the board of directors of the Meiben F1 team, since Qin Miao should be cultivated as Hamilton's successor, then it is not safe to look at only a three-year contract.

Originally, Toto wanted to wait for a while to talk to Qin Miao about it, but seeing Qin Miao's efforts in the simulator department, he happened to do it together.

"I still think that way." Qin Miao expressed her attitude after hearing Toto talk about the contract.

Toto was not surprised, and after thinking for a while, he said: "In this way, you have indeed helped the team solve a lot of problems recently, and your contribution to the team cannot be ignored."

At the end of today's work, go to the finance department to get a bonus. ”

Qin Miao: ?!

And this good thing?

But then Toto said, "Of course, this is only the first thing I did when I came to you this time.

Another thing is that the team wants to sign a guarantee contract with you. ”

After that, Toto explained the meaning of the guarantee contract in general.

Qin Miao didn't hesitate, and agreed very happily.

Don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, not to mention that this contract is basically not binding on Qin Miao.

After settling the matter in two or three sentences, Toto didn't mean to send off the guests, but chatted with Qin Miao about next season's car.

Toto lit a cigarette and turned on the exhaust system in his office before saying: "Red Bull is still biting us behind this season, and you also know that we can't stop the development of the car for the current season at this time, but you can guess what it means." ”

Qin Miao nodded: "It means that there are no more resources allocated to the research and development of next season's car." ”

Toto nodded: "Predictably, next season we won't be racing too fast.

I'm sure the rise of Ferrari and Red Bull is inevitable next season.

The next season for Ferrari will definitely be their best in 10 years. ”

Toto said this to the extent that Ferrari Qin Miao is clear, after all, most of Ferrari's resources this season have been invested in the development of the car next season.

Coupled with the fact that their team leader is Mattia Binotto, an absolute boss in engine development, I believe that next season's Ferrari will definitely be eye-catching.

"I can understand Ferrari, but why should Red Bull be a threat for us next season? Shouldn't Red Bull be in the same predicament as we are? Qin Miao asked curiously.

After talking about this, Toto rubbed his eyebrows with a little headache: "That's true, but Red Bull has an advantage that we can't match, and that is their chief technology officer, Adrian Newey."

Unlike the CTO of other teams in the paddock, Nuvey experienced the era of ground effects first-hand, and even the first ground effect car in F1 was designed by Nuvey.

I can assert that in the age of ground effects, Red Bull's cars will be half a season ahead of all other teams in the development of floors, and possibly more. ”

Listening to Toto's analysis, Qin Miao also began to have a headache.

But soon, Qin Miao discovered that something was wrong.

He seems to be just a driver, although because he often communicates with the team's engineers about some problems in the car, Qin Miao's knowledge of the design and aerodynamics of his car has increased to a certain extent.

However, Qin Miao did not feel that he had the ability to solve the problem of the team's backward R&D progress due to insufficient resources.

Suddenly, Qin Miao realized something.

But before Qin Miao could fully react, Toto said to Qin Miao seriously: "So in order to make next season's car more competitive, I will trouble Qin Miao to go to the team more recently."

We're going to ask Bottas to help you out in the near future, so you two don't have to run this season's stats and run more of next season's stats. ”

Qin Miao: ?

To be honest, Qin Miao really wanted to refuse.

I can't do it, I'm just a stinky driver, and I can't carry such a difficult task on my small shoulders.

You'd better find another job!

But Toto directly silenced Qin Miao with a word.

"You don't want to get an uncompetitive car next season, do you?"

Where, on earth, did you learn all these broken totos?

Sure enough, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no prize money for nothing.

In the end, Qin Miao's expression was a little distorted, and she left the headquarters of the Meiben team with the $800,000 bonus from the team.

Mixed emotions inside.

In fact, with today's situation, Qin Miao himself also needs to pay a certain amount of responsibility.

He has helped the team basically use up the R&D budget for this season, and now it's not the R&D department's problem, it's the production department's output that can't keep up with the R&D department's R&D speed.

Now many parts have passed the CFD and wind tunnel test stages, and Qin Miao and Bottas have also run through the simulator, basically meeting the team's performance requirements for these new parts, but the production department can't build them at all because of the problem of scheduling.

It can be said that in the next few races, the two drivers of Mercedes have small upgrades in each race.

Because this year's promotion budget has run out, Toto's side is starting to think about next season.

Then he set his eyes on Qin Miao.

……

Tuesday.

When Hamilton asked Qin Miao to go to a fashion event together, Qin Miao was not available.

At that time, the old man was surprised for a while.

After all, Qin Miao's rest time is usually Monday and Tuesday.

After learning that Qin Miao was forced to work overtime in the team by Toto, Hamilton could only sigh: Honest children are easy to suffer.

But young people, it is a blessing to suffer losses, especially when Qin Miao suffers losses, he can still enjoy the benefits after Qin Miao suffers losses.

Then the young man should suffer more!

Of course, Hamilton still comforted and encouraged Qin Miao on the phone, and then he continued to play music and dance happily.

On Wednesday, Qin Miao received the task of the system as usual.

However, in addition to the regular ranking tasks, Qin Miao also received a task to obtain the fastest lap of the main stage.

The reward is also relatively simple and crude, directly $1 million.

This is exactly the time when Qin Miao is ready to buy a house, and it is naturally good to have more money in the account.

More budget means that Qin Miao and Qiu Meng can buy a better house.

So for such a task, Qin Miao has no reason to refuse, so he hopes that the next Turkish Grand Prix will be a good weather.

After Wednesday arrived, it meant that the Turkish Grand Prix was about to start, and Qin Miao naturally began to pack her things and prepare to leave for Turkey.

The team had already helped Qin Miao book a local hotel in Turkey before that.

Right next to the Istanbul Circuit, it's only a 10-minute walk to the track.

Qin Miao got on the plane on Wednesday morning, the plane landed in the afternoon, and after coming to the hotel, Qin Miao stayed in the hotel and didn't go out.

Even Leclerc asked Qin Miao to go out for dinner, but Qin Miao refused.

There are too many test tasks for Qin Miao in the past few days, although they are not tired, and even Qin Miao can often enjoy them when she runs the simulator.

But there are too many of them, and testing a dozen or twenty a day is too great for mental attrition.

Now that she finally needs to go to the track, she has a half-day break, Qin Miao doesn't want to do anything, so she wants to find a quiet place to stay for a while.

Fortunately, no one bothered him in the afternoon, and Qin Miao didn't go out in the hotel all day on Wednesday.

On Thursday, it's the familiar game day again.

After having breakfast and changing into the team uniform, Qin Miao took the staff of his own team and started walking the track.

Because he was not familiar with this track, Qin Miao and all the staff of his car team were very careful about the observation and inspection of the track when they walked the track.

After leaving, Qin Miao went to participate in a sponsor event.

After the sponsor event, we had a lunch and a half-hour break in the afternoon, followed by interviews and video recordings of some small events.

Finally, autographs were given to the spectators and VIPs who arrived at the paddock on Thursday.

After completing the above work, Qin Miao's work for the day was over.

After returning to the hotel, rubbing herself, her face was already sour with a smile, Qin Miao sighed.

Although Thursday was as busy as he was when he was at the team to test the new season's cars, he had very little time to rest.

But for some reason, Qin Miao felt that it was easier to run data on the team's simulator than to be watched by countless fans in the paddock to participate in various activities.

It really confirms the saying, people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away.

Regardless, the Turkish Grand Prix weekend officially begins.

Friday, the day when the first and second exercises begin.

As usual, I arrived in the paddock and had all the pre-race preparations before the practice began.

In the first training stage, Qin Miao was mainly familiar with the track, and he was not like Hamilton and Verstappen, two drivers who had already raced on this track.

All he knows about the track is based on the team's simulator data and the one he walked yesterday Thursday.

Qin Miao, who drove on this track for the first time, naturally needed to be more cautious.

Although the track was re-asphalted, after Qin Miao really brought his car onto the track, it felt like Hamilton said, the driving feel of this track was not much different from that of the simulator.

However, Qin Miao didn't run too presumptuous in the first training stage, and while helping the team collect data, he gradually tested his cognitive limits for this track.

In the end, Qin Miao was only the eighth to bring back, more than a second slower than the first Hamilton.

But after practicing, and seeing that this person is Qin Miao, everyone is accustomed to Qin Miao's poor results in the practice stage.

Even if one day Qin Miao's results in the practice stage surpassed his teammates, then the audience would be a little surprised.

Two exercises.

Because of the data collected in the first training stage and the driving experience, Qin Miao also dared to push his car to the limit this lap.

It's just that sometimes overconfidence isn't a good thing.

Qin Miao passed the three corners of T3, T4, and T5 during the simulation of the second practice qualifying match, because she didn't grasp a detail well, and she was a little too limit-oriented.

In addition to T4, it is another blind left turn with a downhill slope, and when Qin Miao cuts the corner, there are too many shoulders on the T4 on the right front wheel.

The left front wheel of the car bounced off because the shoulder was too high, and the grip of the rear wheel was lost on the spot because the balance of the car was disrupted.

Qin Miao directly acted as a spinning top on the track.

Also because of Qin Miao's mistake, a yellow flag appeared for the first time in the first time period.

Of course, the track in this area is still relatively spacious, and Qin Miao's speed is not fast enough at this time, and after two laps of the top, Qin Miao regained control of his car.

However, this set of soft tires on Qin Miao's racing car is completely wasted.

Somewhat frustrated, he drove the car back to the team's P room, and Reyes was the first to come over to comfort him.

I still suffered the loss of not being familiar enough with the track.

Apart from this hiccup, there were no surprises for either Mercedes driver in the rest of the test.

Soon, the second practice ended.

Hamilton finished the second session with a time of 1:23.804 and once again took first place in the second session.

Qin Miao's time gap this time was slightly smaller than that of her teammates, 0.5 seconds slower than Hamilton, and ranked fourth.

The two drivers in front of Qin Miao are Verstappen and Leclerc.

After Friday's work, Qin Miao also asked Hamilton for the opponent's test data for this game.

This is the first time Qin Miao asked Hamilton for data after the race, after all, Qin Miao is familiar with the previous track, and he is confident that he will be thoroughly familiar with the track in the three practice sessions, and he believes that he can have a good performance in the main race stage.

But the Istanbul track is different, Qin Miao had too little preparation for this track before, so he could only brazenly ask his teammates for off-site assistance.

Hamilton did not refrain from Qin Miao's request, and happily shared the data of his two practice matches with Qin Miao.

Even Hamilton instructed Qin Miao that if there was anything he didn't understand, he could go over and ask him at any time.

Qin Miao was naturally busy thanking her.

(End of chapter)