"Speaking of Ferraris, the paddock has ...... lately"

"Fake." Before Zhou Guanyu finished speaking, Qin Miao directly interrupted the spell casting.

"Have you ever thought about going back to Ferrari?" Zhou Guanyu asked with a thief in his heart.

Qin Miao pursed her lips, then nodded and said, "I won't brag anything with you, I really thought about it."

Who has grown up watching F1 without a child's dream? Don't you want to have a chance?

But you know, I have a relationship with some people in Ferrari, and even if Binotto does call me back, and he does his best to protect me in the team, I won't be in a good position when I go back to Ferrari, and they can always find a way to disgust me. ”

Zhou Guanyu also nodded, but he didn't know if he was sure of this aspect of the Fameng, or Qin Miao's situation after returning to Ferrari.

But at this time, Qin Miao's phone rang suddenly.

Qin Miao's public phone is generally in Qiu Meng's hands, this time he came to participate in the Grand Prix alone, and he did bring the phone, but now is Qin Miao's rest time, and he came out to chat with friends, so it was naturally impossible for him to bring the company's phone, so it was Qin Miao's private phone that rang at this time.

After taking out her mobile phone and looking at it, Qin Miao raised her eyebrows unexpectedly.

Flashed the phone to Zhou Guanyu, and while Zhou Guanyu was watching in surprise, Qin Miao picked up the phone.

"Mr. Li, good morning."

The person who called Qin Miao was Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holdings.

This is also the reason why Zhou Guanyu was so surprised, after all, the two of them were still talking about this matter just now, but they didn't expect the other party's phone call to come directly, which really confirmed the sentence: Cao Cao Cao arrived.

And seeing Qin Miao's unprepared appearance of concealment, Zhou Guanyu knew that Qin Miao wanted to let him hear the conversation between the two of them.

But soon, Li Shufu said, "Good evening, Qin Miao, where are you now?" How a little noisy. ”

Qin Miao reacted at this time, she is still in the bar, although the songs sung by the singers on the stage are still relatively safe lyric songs, but the bar is destined to not be too quiet here.

Qin Miao hurriedly said, "I'm really sorry, wait a minute." ”

After finishing speaking, Qin Miao hurriedly hung up the phone and beckoned to Zhou Guanyu.

After the two went out of the bar together and found a quiet location, Qin Miao called Li Shufu back.

"Hey, Mr. Li is sorry, it was a little noisy just now, is there any good news for you looking for me this time?"

Li Shufu on the other end of the phone said with a smile: "Good news, you will know in a while, I came here this time to ask you, I haven't signed any new contracts with the Meiben team recently, right?" ”

Qin Miao paused, and then said: "Toto has talked to me a few times recently, but I didn't agree, but because you also know, I won the world championship once, so the team gave me a salary increase, but so far, my contract in Mercedes is still three years, and it expires after the end of the 23 season." ”

"Haha, your choice is very right, with your talent, you can get a better contract, and now Mercedes' car is not competitive, if their car is still not competitive enough next season, you need to pay more if you want to stay, and with your strength, you don't have to worry about no team not wanting you, when the time comes, it is very convenient to sit on the ground and start the price or have other ideas."

The corners of Qin Miao's mouth twitched, and when she talked about it in a hurry, Qin Miao already roughly knew what Li Shufu meant by making this call, but she just didn't say it explicitly.

"Mr. Li, to be honest, I think the Mercedes team will have earth-shaking changes next season, and I still believe in my colleagues."

"Of course, Toto Wolff is a good leader and owner, and the Mercedes team has a lot of experience enough to be competitive with the car."

"By the way, Mr. Li knows Zhou Guanyu, right?"

Zhou Guanyu, who was curious about eating melons on the side, was stunned, wasn't he still talking about the Meiben team just now? Why did you suddenly get involved with yourself?

"Of course, I'm watching F1 live on TV almost every race day, but you can understand by now that people like me really can't help themselves when they're busy, so I miss a lot of exciting races, and I probably just take some time to watch the replay clips of the race after the race, and I really don't have time to watch qualifying.

But I've watched both the qualifying and the race of the Monaco Grand Prix, and one thing to say, you've run really beautifully on the track. ”

"Haha, it's over, the track is more suitable, and the luck is better." Qin Miao said modestly.

"But compared to you, Xiao Zhou's luck is indeed a little worse, obviously there are many races where you can get points, but they are all messed up by the team, I feel that I have done a better job than them."

When talking about this topic, Qin Miao could clearly feel Li Shufu's indignation.

It seems that this owner also really likes racing.

But what domestic fan who really likes racing is not angry after seeing what happened to Zhou Guanyu?

Obviously, these mistakes can be avoided.

"Hahaha, of course, with your brain, don't say be the leader of a strategy group, leader, a team is no problem.

And Zhou Guanyu came to me to complain about this matter after the game.

But if I want to say, Zhou Guanyu's ability is actually good, but the crotch-pulling performance of the Arrow team limits his performance on the field. ”

"Haha, huh? Then I'm going to have to watch the next races, and now your races are looking a little boring, and you're cruising most of the time. ”

Qin Miao smiled helplessly when she heard this: "No way, now the speed increase that our team's engine upgrade can bring is not much, under the current technical rules, the aerodynamic upgrade is the most cost-effective, the situation creates heroes, this is the law, it is unavoidable." ”

"It's hard to imagine that a young man of your age can see so thoroughly."

"Society is a big dye vat, and you can encounter any strange things in the paddock, so it's good to get used to it."

"Okay, I still have things to deal with here, so I'll hang up first."

"Alas, well, you pay attention to your body."

……

After a few more polite words with Li Shufu, Qin Miao hung up the phone.

Looking at Zhou Guanyu, who was full of curiosity, Qin Miao shook the mobile phone in his hand and said, "Cao Cao Cao called." ”

Zhou Guanyu asked curiously, "What did Mr. Li call you for?" ”

Qin Miao said as she walked towards the inside of the bar: "Tell me a message, and ask about something by the way."

But seriously, you're going to have to knock me one. ”

Zhou Guanyu also heard that Qin Miao had just said a lot of good things for himself in front of Li Shufu, so he saw Zhou Guanyu hugging his fists: "Father-in-law!" ”

"Hey." Qin Miao nodded comfortably.

After the two of them sat down in their seats again, Zhou Guanyu asked curiously: "Tell me quickly, what news did Mr. Li tell you?" ”

After Qin Miao sat down, she took a sip of water unhurriedly, and then in Zhou Guanyu's expectant gaze, she said in the style of a godfather: "Has your attitude changed so much?"

You just shouted at your father, and now you don't even want to add a ...... in front of the paragraph you just said

I feel like you don't respect me, you don't treat me as a friend. ”

The corners of Zhou Guanyu's mouth twitched when he heard this, but in the end he swallowed his anger and said, "You tell me." ”

"Well, that's right!" Qin Miao nodded in satisfaction.

Then Qin Miao said unhurriedly: "I feel that Geely should be going to do it recently, but I don't know if they are going to buy all the Martin in their entirety, or if they are partnering with the oil guys in the Middle East to take all the shares of the others, but Geely definitely wants to get it in the hands of the team."

After all, with the results we have achieved in F1, our influence in China is not small. ”

"Don't do it, I'm not worthy." Zhou Guanyu was very self-aware at this time.

Qin Miao thought for a while and said: "Vettel's words, Martin is probably not going to let go, after all, the veteran, staying in the team can play a big role in the team's development and tuning of the new car, but the young master is estimated to not be able to stay, and there should be a vacant seat at that time." ”

Speaking of this, Qin Miao looked at Zhou Guanyu with a smile: "If Geely really wants to enter, it is estimated that it will take 24 years, you can try to contact it then, I just interceded for you, and your nationality is also here, if they really have a place, and you happen to be not bound by the contract, maybe you can really get in." ”

Zhou Guanyu was happy at first, and then he felt a little painful: "24 years, ......"

"It's been a long time, but don't worry, no matter how stupid the Arrow team is, it's still an F1 team, as long as you tie with Bottas in qualifying and the main race stage, I believe that Arrow won't tilt more resources on Bottas at that time."

"In the end, Mr. Li asked about my contract, and he probably still wanted to pull me into Martin after my contract expired.

After all, buddy's own influence and traffic are here. Qin Miao flicked the dust on his clothes.

Zhou Guanyu looked at Qin Miao: "What do you mean?" Is it possible for the two of us to fight for a driver's seat? ”

Qin Miao rolled her eyes: "How is it possible, the current Martin team is actually a little impetuous, first from the match point to Martin, it is estimated that in a few years it will change from Martin to Lotus, Geely, or Lynk & Co, etc., such a big high-level and personnel change, I don't believe they can still take out a competitive racing car."

Although I don't have much attachment to the World Championship position anymore, I would definitely prefer to stay in a team with competitive speed, and didn't I tell you that Geely's cars don't think about them until they can compete for points in the points zone.

But with Aro's current forced state, you can really wait for them to come in and think about it, after all, no matter which team it is, it's a trough, and it's okay to stay at another trough. ”

The corners of Zhou Guanyu's mouth twitched, but he still nodded, he knew it.

After chatting about the same, Qin Miao raised her hand and looked at her watch, and then said to Zhou Guanyu: "It's not early, let's go, let's go back." ”

"Okay."

"Still depressed?"

"Depressed? What depression? ”

Qin Miao raised her eyebrows and looked at Zhou Guanyu with a "you kid" expression.

Seeing that the other party still looked indifferent and very calm, Qin Miao regretted very much that he didn't take out his mobile phone to take a picture of Zhou Guanyu's decadent and depressed appearance when he came to the bar.

"Damn, just your mouth, you can definitely burn a pair of relics when you die in the future.

When the time comes, there will be only one mouth left, still lying in your ashes, shouting that it is not hot. ”

“qnmd。” Zhou Guanyu smiled and pushed Qin Miao.

After that, Qin Miao drove away with the Maybach that the convoy gave him, while Zhou Guanyu stayed next to an Alfa Romeo in the parking lot, watching Qin Miao's Maybach go away, and a touch of firmness and decisiveness flashed in his eyes.

"I can't be too far behind you." Zhou Guanyu muttered.

After returning to the hotel, Qin Miao deleted the memo on her mobile phone to call Li Shufu.

In the next few days, Qin Miao still deliberately paid attention to the news of the Martin team, but the strange thing was that it was as if Li always came to tease Qin Miao, and it was calm.

Of course, it can also be the calm before the storm.

After staring at it for several days without any news leaking out, Qin Miao gave up and began to concentrate on preparing for the Canadian Grand Prix.

On Thursday, Qin Miao came to the paddock, walked the track, and looked at the terrain.

has already run two street races in a row, and Qin Miao is indeed nostalgic for the traditional track now.

At least it's not as dangerous as a street race, and you can feel like the parapet at the edge of the track is coming at you.

It feels like dancing on the tip of a knife.

Although Qin Miao's Monaco ran particularly beautifully, many people even called Qin Miao's final lap of qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix a miracle lap.

But Qin Miao at that time actually didn't have a bottom in his heart.

On Thursday, all of Qin Miao's work processes were going normally.

The Mercedes team didn't bring any upgrades to the car this week, in fact, the team factory has brought an upgrade to the front wing, but due to time and transport issues, it will take Saturday to get to the paddock.

So there were no upgrades to the car this week, and the team was ready to save both upgrades for the next round of the British Grand Prix, while the development of a new rear suspension on the team's side was already on the agenda.

This rear suspension was put on the agenda after last week's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

The main function is to increase the rigidity of the rear suspension of the car to ensure that the dolphin jump does not occur so easily when the car is driving at high speeds.

The development of this rear suspension was still involved in the team, mainly because after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Hamilton lodged a serious protest with the team at the post-race meeting over the car's dolphin jump.

There's nothing wrong with that, after all, Hamilton's old bones were almost knocked apart by the dolphin jumps of the racing cars on the track.

After the race, Hamilton almost couldn't climb out of the car on his own.

The team couldn't let its seven-time champion be killed by their own car, so they rushed to the development of the project.

At the same time, the team is putting pressure on the FIA.

The two-pronged approach is bound to solve the problem of the dolphin jump of the car.

However, the rear suspension problem of the car is easy to solve, after all, the main design is to reduce the dolphin jump phenomenon of the car.

Therefore, this upgrade can be applied before the UK station at the slowest speed.

Therefore, next week's Mercedes home race, the team's car performance can still be expected a little.

Let's not let Qin Miao and Hamilton compete for the championship of the sub-station, but at least the podium can still be thought of.

In the first practice stage, because there was already a track to get familiar with this car, Qin Miao's practice in the first practice stage returned to the relaxed freehand of the past.

Although the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit is also a high-speed track, it is not as extreme as the Baku circuit in Azerbaijan, so when Qin Miao ran the flying lap in the first training stage, the dolphin jump phenomenon of the car was not so serious.

That doesn't make much of a difference to Hamilton.

The second and third practices were also successfully completed, and both Qin Miao and Hamilton found their most comfortable car settings, but Hamilton still put forward the need to adjust the position of the monocoque at the end of the third practice, and the team held a post-race meeting.

Although Hamilton is trying his best to adapt now, he is also getting older, and after driving with a driving habit for so many years, it is really difficult for the old man to change.

Moreover, Qin Miao does not rely on the characteristics of the car, so for next season's car, the team will indeed move the cab position of the car backwards.

For these reasons, Hamilton was not able to bring out the full performance of the W13.

Therefore, this season, whether it is the main race or qualifying, Hamilton has never defeated his teammate Qin Miao.

Although neither Hamilton fans nor the senior management of the Mercedes team thought that Hamilton was bad.

But Hamilton still has a sense of urgency and anxiety.

Throughout the practice session, everyone at the Mercedes team did their job without any problems.

The only thing that made Qin Miao a little uncomfortable was that it was raining lightly on the track during the third practice.

And the rain continued into the qualifying phase three and a half hours later.

And it lasted the entire qualifying phase.

In Q1 of the qualifying stage, because the rain on the track was relatively heavy, everyone changed to full rain tires at this stage and ran on the track all the time.

Because the track conditions get better and better as the drivers keep driving, the speed of the car will naturally get faster and faster.

Q1 went smoothly, with some drivers skidding while running laps on the track, but the drivers were able to stabilize their cars.

In the end, the drivers who were eliminated in Q1 were: Norris, Gasly, Vettel, Stroll, Tsunoda.

However, when the race came to Q2, the situation on the track began to be frequent.

First, Leclerc's car suffered a mechanical failure directly after returning to the team's P room after Q1, so that Leclerc did not get out of the pit lane for the entire Q2 to run a valid flight lap.

Pérez, who had just won the Azerbaijani street race in his last race, seemed to be a little uncomfortable with the layout of the traditional track, and the T3 directly locked the right front wheel in the flight lap.

But the key corner is another heavy braking point, so Pérez's tyre locked up and directly missed the braking point.

Although Pérez released the brakes as soon as he wanted to regain the car's grip and steer into the corner, it was a little too late.

The experienced Pérez was already aware of the inevitability of the crash by the time he arrived.

If you force your car into a corner at this time, it is easy to crash sideways into the track wall.

So to avoid that, Pérez had to tap the brakes lightly, reduce the speed of the car as much as possible, and slammed straight into the grass and hit the parapet headfirst.

This type of impact is the least costly for the team.

After all, such a collision will lead to a front nose wing that only damages one racing car, but if it hits it sideways, the car may need to be replaced not only the front nose wing, including the rear wing side box floor, and even the front and rear suspensions may need to be replaced.

Sometimes you have to feel how fast an F1 driver reacts.

However, because the Pérez car crashed in such a lethal position, it was just before the T3 cornered at the braking point.

The point is that it was still raining at this time, and Pérez's car was also directly stuck in the parapet, and it was impossible to push it backwards, so it had to be put on a crane.

With all the elements, the competition will decisively dispatch the red flag.

And despite the red flags on the track for more than 20 minutes, there was no joy on the faces of all the Ferrari staff, because just 20 minutes was not enough time for Ferrari to fix Leclerc's engine.

So until the end of Q2, Leclerc still couldn't get out of the team's P room.

Of course, Leclerc wasn't alone, and although he didn't use the same engine as Farah, Norris also suffered a mechanical problem in this race, and the car spent the entire Q2 in the team's P room.

In the end, the drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Bottas, Albon, Russell, Pérez, Norris, Leclerc.

It is worth mentioning that perhaps because of the conversation on Monday that inspired Zhou Guanyu's fighting spirit, or because he wanted to show himself more in front of Geely, which had not yet entered the stadium, Zhou Guanyu's performance in today's game was not bad, and he broke into Q2 for the first time in his career.

Pérez, Norris, and Leclerc didn't run a single lap on the track.

It can only be said that Zhou Guanyu's luck in this qualifying match is finally a little better.

And Zhou Guanyu also defeated his teammate Bottas in the qualifying stage for the first time.

However, Qin Miao didn't have much joy in her heart after looking at Zhou Guanyu's results, rain has always been Qin Miao's old problem.

This will make his mood a little bad because of the rain.

The team also told Qin Miao early that the rain would last for the entire qualifying stage, and Qin Miao had already accepted his fate at this time, and he only hoped that it would not rain in the race tomorrow. (End of chapter)