Qin Miao didn't stay long at the FIA dinner site, at nine o'clock in the evening, after saying goodbye to Toto and them, Qin Miao put her world championship trophy into a suitcase specially used by FIA to keep the trophy with the help of FIA staff.

Then Qin Miao took the suitcase to the airport.

Now Qin Miao has also deeply experienced the benefits of having a private jet, when the work is over, he can take off to the airport and go to the place he wants to go immediately.

At this time, Qin Miao's mother and daughter-in-law had also gone shopping in Paris, and they didn't buy any fashionable luxury goods or anything like that, they were completely here to visit in Paris.

By the time Qin Miao came back, the two of them had already returned to the plane.

After all, Qin Miao had already said before that he would go back to Monaco directly after attending the FIA awards ceremony.

And the plane is spacious enough, Qiu Meng and her mother will not feel oppressed and crowded when they stay on the plane, and even Qiu Meng can use Qin Miao's computer to handle some business in the company on the plane.

However, when Qin Miao came back, as soon as he entered his plane, he smelled the familiar aroma of food.

This is the fragrance of her mother's cooking that has been burned in Qin Miao's memory since she was a child.

It's just that the smell is already very light at this point.

As soon as Qin Miao got on the plane, the only flight attendant in the crew greeted Qin Miao's arrival at the door: "Mr. Qin Miao, welcome to board." ”

"Good evening." Qin Miao nodded at the other party and asked, "When can we leave?" ”

"Now the captain can contact the tower to prepare for take-off if you want."

"Let's go, then."

"Okay, this flight departs from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and arrives at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, with an estimated flight duration of two hours."

Monaco is too small to build a large airport, so Monaco only has a helicopter.

But the good news is that there is Nice's Côte d'Azur airport ten kilometers away from Monaco, so Qin Miao usually flies there by plane and then takes a car home.

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Qin Miao nodded and carried his trophy onto the plane, and nodded at the other party in thanks.

"I'm honored."

"Coming back?" Seeing Qin Miao coming up, Qiu Meng, who was drinking tea with her mother, waved her hand at Qin Miao.

"Are you hungry?" My mother asked: "I saw you eating during the live broadcast, and there didn't seem to be anything to eat on the table, Qiu Meng specially gave you hot food, in the microwave." ”

Qin Miao felt a warmth in her heart, this is her family.

If it was Zhou Guanyu's coercion, when he saw that he was eating during the broadcast, he would probably make fun of himself with this matter, but only his family would worry about whether he was hungry.

However, Qin Miao shook her head and said, "Actually, I'm fine, I ate a lot in the second half of the dinner, and I'm not hungry yet, but where did you two get this tea set?" ”

"This, it came with it on the plane, and it was turned out when I just turned over something, what about Xiao Zhou?" Mom asked.

Qin Miao said while taking off his suit jacket: "His family lives in London, and it is true that we are on the way to France, but it is not a trip back to Monaco." ”

At this time, Qiu Meng also handed a cup of tea to Qin Miao, and Qin Miao just wanted to pick it up and take a sip.

The old mother stretched out her hand to Qin Miao and said, "What about the championship trophy?" Show me. ”

Qin Miao's hand hadn't touched the teacup yet, and after hearing her mother's words, she could only reluctantly get up and go to the box where she put the trophy, and took out the trophy in the box and put it in front of the two women with shining-eyed eyes.

If Qin Miao was still a little nervous when he put the trophy in Toto's hand, in front of these two women, the weight of the trophy in Qin Miao's eyes began to plummet.

Anyway, I heard that this thing is made of titanium alloy or something, so I'm not afraid of falling at all.

Soon, the plane lifted off and flew towards Nice.

Qin Miao took off her blazer, and the whole person lay directly on the zero-gravity chair.

……

By the time Qin Miao returned to her home in Monaco again, it was already half past eleven in the evening.

After returning home, after putting the luggage away, Qiu Meng made the bed for her mother, while Qin Miao lifted the dust cloth on the sofa and furniture in the living room.

After putting away these dust cloths again, Qin Miao picked up his F1 World Championship trophy, which was already stained with Qiu Meng and his mother's fingerprints.

Looking at these fingerprints, Qin Miao smiled helplessly, and then took the trophy into his trophy showroom.

Although Qin Miao does not have a special tool for wiping trophies at home, there are cloths and water to wipe the computer screen.

However, Qin Miao was also afraid that the water would be corrosive or something, so he just wiped his trophy carefully with a cloth.

After making sure that there was nothing missing, Qin Miao carefully put the trophy in his hand into the empty seat that had been prepared a long time ago.

Looking at the gap that was filled, Qin Miao suddenly had a sense of satisfaction that the vacancy had been filled.

I'm awesome!

After secretly satisfying herself, Qin Miao took out her mobile phone and took a photo of her trophy wall, and then directly posted it in a small group of Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao, Leclerc, and Norris.

Cleansing and self-respecting Xiao Langjun: [Picture]

[You see I'm not awesome]

Shanghai Tiger: [That's it]

I don't want to be the fourth: [Tsk, general]

Norris: [Tsk, general]

Shanghai Tiger: [Tsk, general]

Clean and self-righteous Xiao Langjun: [Hmph, a bunch of duplicitous things]

[I bet you must be so jealous at this time that you scratch your ears and cheeks, and you can't wait to replace me]

I don't want to be the fourth: [Thinking too much]

Shanghai Tiger: [+1]

Norris: [+1]

Clean and self-righteous Xiao Langjun: [Husky refers to people]

[You three have hard mouths, after you die and are cremated, your mouth can still be kept, lying in your ashes and still shouting: not hot]

……

There was no way to pretend to be a little meaningless in front of his friends, Qin Miao turned off his mobile phone while thinking about when to invite these people to come to his home again to see his trophy wall and the new F1 World Championship trophy.

At this time, Qin Miao also had a rare feeling of sleepiness.

It can be said that participating in a dinner party consumes Qin Miao's energy no less than an F1 race, after all, Qin Miao has to strain her body throughout the dinner, especially the so-called tailor-made suit that doesn't feel so good on her body.

So Qin Miao didn't have any other activities tonight, took a shower, and after making sure that her mother was not used to it, she went to bed and went to sleep.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Qin Miao had a rare lazy sleep and woke up at ten o'clock in the morning.

After Qin Miao gradually woke up, Qin Miao faintly heard the sound of the TV playing from his living room.

This is the first time Qin Miao has experienced this feeling, that is, the sense of security that she knows that someone is at home as soon as she wakes up.

In the next two days, Qin Miao completely let go of the burden on her body, never touched the simulator, did not exercise, and lived a leisurely life of stretching out her hands in clothes and opening her mouth in food.

It completely returned to the life state when Qin Miao was still studying before he came into contact with racing.

I have to say that it is really comfortable not to have self-discipline, and the whole person is quiet, lazy and relaxed.

But when the time came to the third day, after Qiu Meng and her mother had already visited the whole of Monaco, they were a little unbearable.

Then the two went directly to other European countries to open maps.

This time Qin Miao didn't follow, but gave the plane to the two of them, this rare rest time Although Qin Miao knew that many companies wanted to find him to endorse during this time, Qin Miao didn't have any idea of moving, he just wanted to stay at home and rest.

Qiu Meng also knew that Qin Miao had been very busy this year, and he was finally able to have a break, so Qiu Meng naturally didn't want to toss him.

And after the assault work in some spare time in the past two days, Qiu Meng also completed all the work that had been accumulated in his company for a long time.

So she took her mother-in-law with her, and the two of them began to travel around Europe.

And Qin Miao either started a live broadcast and played games at home during this time, or rented a boat at the Monaco dock to call Leclerc, and then the two ran to the open sea, chatting while fishing, and the life was also very comfortable.

As for the issue of eating, Qin Miao may still be a little entangled in the past.

When the daughter-in-law is not at home, there is no one to cook for her, so she has to eat takeout or go out to eat.

But now Qin Miao can cook, and eating is not a problem at all.

In short, Qin Miao comfortably gave herself a seven-day vacation.

However, seven days later, Qin Miao started her work again.

In fact, the main thing is to help the team run data on the simulator, and at the same time, it is necessary to finish the team's work, and finally you can meet the winter break.

So seven days later, Qin Miao returned to the UK again and went to the factory in Brackley.

When Qin Miao came to the team factory again, he saw the new car of the Meiben team next season, W13.

At this time, the W13 has been finalized, but the difference is that the W13 at this time is still in the state of a pure carbon fiber body.

There is no paint on the body, and there is no sponsor's logo.

However, these will be determined before the release of the new car livery, and Qin Miao doesn't care.

And as everyone in the team got together in the middle of '21 to discuss, the W13 had zero sideboxes, or more accurately, a vertical sidebox design.

The edge of the rear of the chassis is integrated with stiffeners to connect with the rear hood to increase the rigidity of the chassis.

According to the data from the Mercedes Wind Tunnel, the aerodynamic efficiency of this car is very good, and because there is no side box, the weight of the whole car is also considerable.

And because of the efforts of Qin Miao and Bottas, although the side box of the car is subtracted, the overall heat dissipation efficiency of the car has not been discounted.

In short, in the eyes of all the designers of the Mercedes team, the aerodynamic design of this car is satisfactory to everyone, and everyone has a lot of confidence in this car.

They all feel that even if they enter a new era, they will still make the Mercedes team a member of the championship team.

At this time, someone has to say: will such a design without side boxes not comply with FIA regulations?

But in fact, Mei Ben has been working in F1 for so long, of course, he knows not to do things that do not meet the regulations.

So this wave of Mercedes directly took advantage of the loopholes of the FIA rules to design this zero-side box car.

But if you're looking for faults, you'll see that the design of the Mercedes car looks different from what the FIA expected, but from a regulatory point of view, it's really in line with the rules.

All in all, now Mercedes is counting on this car to take them all together to win the ninth Constructors' Championship.

The only thing worth mentioning is that after Qin Miao saw the car and the connection of the rear floor of the car in the team's maintenance workshop, he still felt that the design concept of this car was not particularly good.

Qin Miao felt that the chassis of the W13 was a big problem.

This is not only Qin Miao's intuition as a driver, but also the feeling that Qin Miao gained about aerospace knowledge after the system instilled Qin Miao's experience in piloting aircraft.

But if Qin Miao raised the doubts in his heart at this time, it would be meaningless, because the cars had already been designed and finalized, and the cars had appeared in front of Qin Miao.

Speaking out at this time, apart from demoralizing the staff inside the fleet, does not gain anything.

And even if Toto was full of trust in Qin Miao, after Qin Miao expressed his doubts, Toto pulled the racing car design department without saying a word and cut the concept of the car's zero side box.

But race car design is a systematic project.

It's not that you don't want this side box, just redesign a side box.

Changes to the sideboxes have a direct impact on the weight of the car, the tyre load, the weight distribution, the overall aerodynamic efficiency of the car, and even the consistency of the car.

In short, Formula 1 is a complex machine, and changes in one place can have a huge impact on the whole body.

At this time, the zero-side box concept is not needed, which is basically equivalent to starting to design an F1 car from scratch shortly after the end of the 21 season, which will be used in three months' time.

Even if it is Mercedes, the performance of the car designed in such a short period of time will not be much better than Haas's car, and basically it can only rely on the performance of the Mercedes engine to play the track.

Sometimes, if you don't really hit your head in front of the cold reality, neither the people nor the team will look back.

"How do you feel about the new car?" Mike Elliott stood beside Qin Miao, looked at the car he had led to design, and asked proudly.

After this season, there were inevitably personnel changes within Mercedes.

Mike Elliott became the new technical director and took charge of the Mercedes team's car design, which is considered the technical position of the Mercedes team.

James Alisson, on the other hand, was promoted to the team's chief technology officer, and Mike Elliott needed to report to him.

The positions of the others have not changed much, but they have all increased to varying degrees in terms of salaries.

Don't say anything that is not conducive to unity, so Qin Miao nodded against his heart and said: "It's very innovative, I hope that the effect shown by this car on the track will be better than the effect in the wind tunnel and CFD." ”

"Of course, we are confident in it! And the data from the simulator and the wind tunnel have proven the excellence of our car design. ”

Qin Miao nodded, and then asked curiously: "Has the team considered that if the car's zero-side box concept is really successful, and our car has once again become the fastest car in the paddock, will the FIA knife our car on the rules of the side box, so that we will be directly banned from using this side box concept in the 23rd season?" ”

Qin Miao's words obviously hit the point, and after listening to Qin Miao's words, Elliott directly began to bow his head and ponder.

Qin Miao's words are actually very reasonable, after all, FIA has not done this kind of thing, such as the bottom plate of the racing car, FIA cut the bottom plate of all teams short because the bottom plate of Meiben Racing was too strong.

And what stands out about this design is that it is a maverick, which is completely exploiting the loopholes of the rules.

As long as the other teams are clearly opposed, the FIA side may not be able to withstand pressure from other quarters.

After a while, Elliott said, "Yes, you're right, it's a possibility......"

"But, to be honest, we subconsciously ignored this consideration." Elliott said: "And Qin Miao, you must know that the W13 at this time is already very perfect, and it only needs to repair and change some of the most basic components, and it can be tested directly on the track."

At this point, we didn't have the time or budget to reinvent the wheel.

And even if that happens, the FIA will give us at least a year to prepare and design a new car. ”

Qin Miao also nodded, and did not continue to delve into this topic, but asked, "Has the data of the racing car been imported into the simulator?" I tried the W13's driving experience. ”

Elliott also put a smile on his face again: "Of course, if you want, you can go directly to the simulator department now, your words woke me up, I feel that there are some ideas in my head that need to be verified now." ”

What Qin Miao didn't know was that Elliott had indeed discovered a flaw in his design, but he didn't have the idea to tell Toto about it, and he was ready to continue to optimize the performance of the car on the basis of zero side boxes according to the team's original plan.

It's not that Elliott isn't worried about the big stick of FIA sanctions, it's that Mercedes is now really unable to turn back.

"Okay." After nodding, Qin Miao was about to leave, but before turning to leave, Qin Miao still said to Elliott: "By the way, congratulations on your promotion." ”

Elliott smiled and replied, "Thank you." ”

After Qin Miao came to the simulator department of the team, he started his own work again.

It's just that the effect of Qin Miao's work during this time is very limited, although the simulator of the Meiben team has a high degree of realism, and even a small bump on the track can be fed back to the driver.

But the new season didn't really go down to the ground, and the team's simulator department only got CFD simulations and wind tunnel data.

Although the authenticity of these data is high, there is no substitute for the real driving experience.

Therefore, at this time, in addition to getting used to sitting in the cockpit of the new season, the vision of the cockpit with the tires has increased, is more to strengthen his familiarity with some relatively weak tracks.

It can even be said that Qin Miao at this time is playing a game.

For some people, work can be a painful thing.

But for Qin Miao, driving a car on the team's simulator and exploring the limits of his speed little by little is a form of entertainment, and no matter how long he plays, Qin Miao will never get bored.

This feeling is a bit like playing a souls-based game, painstakingly memorizing the boss's moves and swinging forward, and then relying on the familiarity of the boss to defeat the other party, the same as the happiness that all souls-based players are pursuing.

And Qin Miao will also get such a sense of accomplishment after breaking the fastest record of a track on the simulator or track.

……

Qin Miao's stay in the UK was actually not too long, she stayed in the team factory for three days, and after a period of time, Qin Miao also began to give herself a holiday, so she drove her RV and took her mother and daughter-in-law to travel in the UK.

Although Daiying basically does not do anything in the international community, it can be regarded as promoting Daiying to say that there is a big lack of great virtue.

But there are a lot of beautiful scenery in this country.

It's also fun to play around as a family.

It wasn't until December 23 that Qin Miao returned to the house he rented in Brackley with his family.

Because tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and the day after tomorrow is Christmas, the work of the team has entered a final state during this time.

But the most important thing now is to go to the team's year-end party.

The reason why it is important is because there are two points that stand out from this party, the first is to send money, and the second is to have a holiday after the party.

For migrant workers, the combination of these two words is basically similar to heaven.

At this party, Toto gave Qin Miao a bonus of 7 million US dollars in front of everyone, which is the reward for Qin Miao after becoming a world champion, which is equivalent to about 50 million yuan.

At the same time, the team also prepared an AMG ONE for Qin Miao, and considering that Qin Miao won the drivers' championship this season, there will be a 1 specially designed for Qin Miao by the Meiben team on this AMG ONE.

It represents the status of the champion of this car.

Of course, judging from the current situation of AMG ONE's difficult birth, Qin Miao will probably have to wait a long time if he wants to get this customized supercar of his own.

Of course, second-place finisher Hamilton also received $7 million.

This is mainly because the team is thanking Hamilton for his contribution to the team over the years, and the highlight is that there is no credit and hard work, not to mention that Hamilton has 7 world championships in front of him.

Another meaning is to use the $7 million to calm Hamilton's emotions.

You see, you and Qin Miao both get a bonus of 7 million US dollars, and in our hearts, you are as important as Qin Miao.

(End of chapter)