How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1195: Chapter 452: Showy Moves

When Qin Miao returned to the track, he saw Mick’s car on the inside lane and felt a bit wistful.

After all, the other party used to be his competitor, and his speed in F2 was not bad. But after entering F1, he completely broke apart.

He didn’t have the speed and ability of his father.

However, regardless of all this, it has little to do with Qin Miao, as he isn’t particularly familiar with Mick.

During the second practice, it was still raining, but compared to the first practice, the rain on the track was much lighter, and Qin Miao’s focus was on long-distance testing.

There’s not much fun to watch during the second practice, and Qin Miao didn’t continue to stir things up on the track. He completed all his testing tasks honestly under the team’s requirements and supervision.

Then the work for Friday was over; get off the car, shower, change clothes, and attend the post-race press conference, thus ending Friday’s workday.

But after returning to the hotel, Qin Miao posted the video of his drift on his social platform.

Seeing those expressions of amazement, Qin Miao’s face was full of smiles.

Actually, this drift was indeed intentional by Qin Miao, mainly in that the throttle he gave was not a mistake, and saving the car was Qin Miao’s subconscious reaction.

But after realizing he found that tightrope-like balance on the rain-filled track, Qin Miao instinctively wanted to maintain that balance longer, which resulted in the arc of the drift.

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On Saturday, Qin Miao got up as usual.

Today, the climate conditions at Suzuka Circuit finally turned for the better. After opening the curtains and looking at the sunshine outside, Qin Miao let out a rare sigh of relief.

He got up and went to the paddock after a simple warm-up.

Arriving at the paddock, while having breakfast, Qin Miao got some unexpected news from Frankie.

Gasly joining Renault Team to replace Brother Tou, who will be leaving next season.

The reason, of course, is that Brother Tou announced on August 1st that he didn’t want to stay with the Alpine trash team anymore and immediately went to Aston Martin.

Thus, there was a vacancy in the Alpine team, but Qin Miao did not expect that the person to fill this vacancy would be Gasly.

Looking at it now, Alpine surprisingly formed an all-French team lineup.

To be honest, Qin Miao admires the French courage, but he feels this approach won’t go far; either the drivers will fail, or the cars will underperform.

Not to mention the traditional palace drama in France, surely the internal atmosphere of Alpine won’t be very stable.

But Qin Miao is ultimately just a driver, so for the game buddy who played games together, he can only take out his phone and send a congratulatory message.

At least for Gasly now, moving from Red Bull to Alpine is definitely an upgrade.

Alpine, no matter what, counts as a manufacturer team, and Alpine cars’ performance is indeed stronger than Red Bull’s.

After breakfast, Qin Miao attended a media interview and various VIP activities. Before the third practice, Qin Miao received another piece of news.

Just after Gasly announced joining Alpine, Red Bull announced that they signed Nick De Vries, offering a one-year driver contract.

Qin Miao is familiar with this driver; after all, he was a test and reserve driver for the Mercedes team, and although Qin Miao hasn’t raced with him, they’ve worked together for quite some time.

Moreover, just a month ago at the Italian Grand Prix, De Vries replaced Albon, who went for appendicitis surgery, and drove Williams’ car to bring a point home for the Williams Team.

Such a performance on the first encounter with F1 cars indeed warrants an F1 driver contract, and De Vries has proven his strength in other series.

But even Qin Miao didn’t expect this driver contract to come so fast.

Just after showing his performance, a month later he got an F1 driver contract; what kind of protagonist template is this...