First of all, the Mercedes team's car speed is actually quite good this season, and the engine is basically at the same level as Red Bull's Honda engine, although it does not have the same advantage as when it first entered the hybrid era, but there is no disadvantage.

In other words, the engine is not a shortcoming of the Mercedes team, at least not for now.

Therefore, Qin Miao also took these three attribute points to make up for the team's shortcomings in aerodynamic design and chassis research and development.

It can be regarded as a more reasonable distribution.

However, Qin Miao's improvement of his racing car did not stop there, Qin Miao also used his remaining [Golden Skill Improvement Card].

This card was drawn out of the golden ten consecutive when Qin Miao won the championship at the end of the 2021 season, and Qin Miao was not in a hurry to use this card at the beginning, but now it just came in handy.

Directly upgraded his original purple skill of [Guide of the Research Department] to gold.

[Research Guide(Gold)]: When equipping this skill, the average team skill rating is +10, and the goal achievement rate when developing team parts is +5%]

Originally, the attributes of the current Meiben team were to add the 5 attribute points that originally came with Qin Miao's purple skill.

Now with 5 more points, the team's attributes and ratings are as follows:

[Team: Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team.]

Team Rating: 85.1→90.1 (+5)

Racing Problem Detection Ability: 81→86 (+5)

Simulator development capability: 82→87 (+5)

Racing Tuning Capability: 89→94 (+5)

Match Strategy: 87→92 (+5)

Race Car Protection: 75→80 (+5)

Tire change capacity: 90→95 (+5)

R&D capability of power department: 94→99 (+5)

R&D capability of aerodynamics department: 88→93 (+5)

Chassis R&D capability: 86→91 (+5)

Durability development capability: 83→88 (+5)】

After Qin Miao's skills took effect, many attributes of the Meiben team, which were still hovering around 80 points, went directly to 90 points.

The R&D capability of the power department, which was already more prominent, directly rushed to 99 points, almost a full score.

At the same time, there has been a very terrifying increase in other abilities.

In short, because of the existence of Qin Miao, the R&D capabilities of the Meiben team, which was already at the forefront of the team, have made a qualitative leap.

Although the team attribute seems to be bluffing, for the Meiben team, the effect of such a high attribute is not as great as imagined.

Since the FIA has officially introduced the budget cap rule since last season, Mercedes has not been able to invest resources in the development of cars without any loss, as was the case in the hybrid era before the ground effect era.

Therefore, even if the staff of the Meiben team were strengthened by Qin Miao and had countless good ideas in their minds, the team could not accept all the orders, so they could only selectively select some of them for improvement and upgrading.

Not to mention that Qin Miao only has four skill slots now.

In addition to the three that must be brought on weekdays: [diligence and clumsiness], [physical fitness (purple)], and [no disease and no disaster], Qin Miao can only bring one additional skill.

Not to mention the [Car God (Gold)] that Qin Miao had to equip during the competition.

So when the time comes, the Meiben team will find that when it comes to the race weekend, the brains of all the staff of the team are not so fast, and as long as there is no competition, everyone's brains will turn fast, one by one, as if they don't want money.

However, Qin Miao also got a piece of news that I don't know if it was good or bad, that is, the three team free attribute points he used to upgrade the team were not like his own skills, and if he left the team, the skills would leave with him.

Once these three skill points are added to the team, they will always belong to the Mercedes team.

As for the explanation of the last one, [+5% goal achievement rate when developing fleet components]

Roughly speaking, when a team develops a new component, the team sets a goal for the component, such as what kind of metrics need to be achieved.

With this entry, the team R&D department has a 5% more chance of reaching this goal than they would normally do.

It's a great skill for the team.

After completing all this, looking at the team's rating at this time, Qin Miao is still confident that he will regain his competitiveness this season.

At the same time, Qin Miao also added one more item to his daily skills, as long as it was not a competition day, it was estimated that this [Guide of the Research Department (Gold)] Qin Miao would not be able to take it off.

Even if not for the team, but for yourself.

……

Qin Miao and the Mercedes team didn't spend much time in Bahrain, nor did they have a meeting to reflect on what they didn't do well in this race, because the next week was another Grand Prix in the Middle East: the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah Circuit.

This track is actually a rather painful track for the current Mercedes, especially for the two drivers, in the literal sense of the word.

After the game, Qin Miao and Hamilton disbanded on the spot, and then the two only needed to report to the paddock by Wednesday afternoon.

At that time, the team will make a post-race summary meeting for the Bahrain Grand Prix based on the data analyzed at the Brackley factory in the past few days.

Because of this, Qin Miao also briefly got two days off.

It's just that although it is a break time, in terms of the daily habits of F1 drivers, it is estimated that the drivers are in racing training and physical training for the past two days.

What is more special about Qin Miao is that he has significantly reduced his physical exercise recently, but because of the existence of the system, Qin Miao's physical fitness only needs to maintain normal exercise, and there will be no decline in physical function.

Because of this, Qin Miao has at least 2 hours more time per day than a normal F1 driver, and Qin Miao usually spends this time on the simulator.

However, Qin Miao didn't have any rest time at all.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, the day after the Bahrain Grand Prix, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu went to a local hot pot restaurant in Bahrain for dinner.

This is completely a friend's private appointment for dinner, and the two did not talk about work during this period.

"Hey, I can only eat hot pot when I go out to eat with you." After clipping a chopsticks into his bowl, Zhou Guanyu sighed.

Qin Miao nodded: "Normal, hot pot is heavy on oil and salt, for professional drivers like us, it is a natural enemy, and the nutritionist of the team has to fry his hair directly after seeing it." ”

After finishing speaking, Qin Miao skillfully showed off a slice of beef full of red oil.

"Speaking of which, I'm a little envious of you." Zhou Guanyu's tone was full of sourness: "Why can you kid eat anything, and you don't have any after eating?" ”

Qin Miao Yile: "The problem of physique, just like my racing talent, you can't learn it." ”

Zhou Guanyu shook his head: "Forget it, don't say these unhappy words, continue to eat." ”

Qin Miao was unhappy now: "Why is it making people unhappy?" I think this is a good topic, and it is necessary to extend it. ”

Zhou Guanyu rolled his eyes, and then talked about the purpose of asking Qin Miao out this time: "There are a lot of endorsements in China looking for me, I'm a little entangled, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Qin Miao didn't even think about it: "Are you short of money?" ”

"I ...... Not much lack of money. ”

"Is there something wrong with the family that wants you to help?"

"No, my family's business is not bad, and even because of me, my family's business seems to be a lot better."

Qin Miao asked curiously, "Then you have nothing to think about taking on any advertisements?" ”

"I just can't make up my mind to ask you."

At this time, Qin Miao was even more puzzled: "I don't believe that you Zhou Guanyu can't afford to hire a professional operation team, why don't you ask them to ask me?" ”

"Honestly, I'd rather trust your judgment than they do."

Qin Miao didn't eat anymore, and after putting the chopsticks on the table, he hugged his chest and looked at Zhou Guanyu with a curious face, trying to see some clues from his face.

But looking at Zhou Guanyu's sincere eyes, Qin Miao could only shrug her shoulders helplessly: "Our families are completely different, my family can only be regarded as a well-off family, I can eat well, and I am not afraid of running out of new clothes to wear during the New Year's holidays, so if I encounter an advertisement looking for me, I will screen it a little, it will not affect my daily life training, and even those advertisements that do not require me to attend and have no impact on my image are the ones I am most willing to accept."

At the end of the day, I do advertising to make money.

But you are different, you have a family and a room, and there is no shortage of money at home, what is the purpose of receiving advertising?

Unless you just want to expand your influence in China to accept advertising, I really can't think of a reason for you to accept advertising. ”

"Actually...... I have this idea because I feel that my family has paid so much for me, and a place in the Arrow team is 30 million euros, and I want to do something for my family, even if I don't earn a lot, but at least I can prove to my family that I am capable now. Zhou Guanyu finally said what he thought in his heart.

Qin Miao reached out and patted Zhou Guanyu's shoulder.

Just when Zhou Guanyu felt that Qin Miao would comfort himself, Qin Miao suddenly said: "You can have such a performance on the field, you are already very happy to be a father, and you don't need to do anything for this family anymore." ”

In an instant, there was still a trace of seriousness between the two of them, and Zhou Guanyu scolded directly: "Get out!" ”

What kind of bad friends are you making?

Just thinking about taking advantage of yourself, just this is the world champion?

This is a child who hasn't grown up, it's so naïve!

"I don't have a rebel like you!" Zhou Guanyu scolded Qin Miao loudly.

After making trouble for a while, the two continued to eat, but at this time, the atmosphere between the two that was still a little heavy disappeared, Qin Miao thought about it and said, "Actually, I feel that there is no need to think so much now.

In terms of your family situation, it doesn't matter if you have money or not, your top priority now is still to improve yourself and get a good result on the track.

But if you really want to do something, I'll go the same way and take on ads that won't have a big impact on your daily training. ”

Zhou Guanyu nodded: "Eat vegetables, eat vegetables." ”

……

After that, the two were chatting more often than not.

However, after eating, Zhou Guanyu didn't have any work in the afternoon, so he suggested that Qin Miao go back to the hotel with him for two CSGOs.

was then ruthlessly rejected by Qin Miao.

If it's okay at this point in time, it's understandable for Qin Miao to go to the whole two CSGOs, after all, Qin Miao's personal ability improvement at this point in time no longer depends on hard training day and night, but the accumulation of time and the breakthrough brought by the brilliant performance of a certain game.

But Zhou Guanyu can't do it, although Zhou Guanyu is older than Qin Miao, he is better than Qin Miao!

Qin Miao has little room for improvement because of the existence of the system, and the next thing is all accumulation and precipitation, but Zhou Guanyu still has room for growth.

Qin Miao doesn't think Zhou Guanyu can beat Bottas this year, but in a year this year, Zhou Guanyu has to narrow the lap gap between himself and Bottas a little bit, right?

Bidding farewell to Zhou Guanyu, who was a little disappointed that he didn't play games with his thighs, Qin Miao returned to the hotel, packed his things and went to Saudi Arabia.

Although Bahrain and Saudi Arabia share a border, the locations of the two tracks are a bit far apart, and they need to cross the entire Saudi Arabia, so Qin Miao also took his own plane to get there.

On Wednesday, at the regular team meeting, all the team executives were present.

Elliott, as technical director, is telling everyone on the team about the problems the team found in Bahrain last week.

In fact, this work is normally handed over to the team's chief technology officer, James Alison, but because the other party is still working on the new base plate and side box in Brackley, there is no time at all, so Elliott has to do it for him.

He was also impressed by the performances of the Ferrari and Red Bull teams on the track last week, and he is now calculating the significance of the aerodynamic shape of the two teams.

After half an hour of the meeting, Elliott explained all the problems and then talked about the improvement plan proposed by the team, as well as the specific implementation time and performance indicators of the car after the implementation of this improvement plan.

It's like a briefing to everyone in the team on the car's next upgrades, followed by a question session.

Qin Miao and Hamilton remained silent in the middle of this kind of meeting, as the two men stood out on these key car design issues, and they couldn't make any constructive comments at this time.

simply remained silent.

When the meeting was over, everyone naturally left with their own things.

It's just that after leaving the team house, just out of the door of the team house, and about to ride his scooter to the parking lot to drive away, Toto sent a message to Qin Miao on his mobile phone: "Have dinner together in the evening, if it's convenient, you can bring Qiu Meng." ”

Qin Miao looked at the information on the phone and scratched her head, although she didn't know what Toto was suddenly looking for herself, Qin Miao still replied, "Okay, where to eat?" ”

After all, the team owner, director and manager, invited you to have a meal after work, there was no way to refuse, and Qin Miao returned to the hotel, in addition to running a simulator, he was more watching car video.

"I'll send you the location when I'm done with my work." After sending this one, Toto went back to working on the paperwork at hand.

P.S. Sorry for only 4K today. (End of chapter)