How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 161 - 110: Vacation

"Alright." Lawson didn’t explain much. After ensuring there were no discrepancies in the two contracts he produced, he handed them and their copies to Qin Miao, saying, "Take them back and carefully go over the contract terms with your wife. It’s best to consult a lawyer to check for any oversights. Just get back to me within a week."

Qin Miao nodded and took the contracts: "Then I’ll be off?"

"Go ahead. Although there won’t be any assessments after this period, and you can even return to your country if you wish, I hope your training doesn’t fall behind. I’m looking forward to your performance in F2 next season."

"I definitely won’t disappoint you." Qin Miao nodded earnestly.

...

Three days later, the Prema Racing team confirmed on its website the driver lineup for next year: Mick Schumacher from Germany, son of Michael Schumacher, and Qin Miao from China.

Qin Miao is also the second Chinese driver to serve this team. (The first was Zhou Guanyu)

This news is far more sensational than when Qin Miao quietly joined the Ferrari Young Driver program.

After all, it’s normal for young people to join the Ferrari Driver Academy every year.

But this news is different. F2 is the top tier racing series in the world, second only to F1. Although F2 has become more of an F1 supporting race, it is still a pure speed machine on the tracks that surpasses many supercars.

And compared to F1, F2 involves more close racing, which early-arriving audiences appreciate for its intense competition.

Some spectators really enjoy watching drivers grow and focus on F2 races, predicting potential F1 drivers based on their performances.

So, after Prema Racing released this news, many people became interested in Qin Miao.

They started gathering information about Qin Miao in every possible way.

And actively began searching online for details about Qin Miao, eager to understand what this driver is capable of warranting a place in Prema Racing alongside Mick Schumacher.

Of course, the happiest about this news was the domestic F1 fan community.

It’s already hard for a Formula driver to emerge domestically, but now on the F2 track, besides having championship contender Zhou Guanyu, there’s an addition of Qin Miao in the Ferrari’s training team: Prema.

To describe the feelings of domestic fans upon receiving this news with three words would be: it’s New Year’s!

[Zhen, are you serious?]

[Who is this guy? How come I’ve never heard of him before?]

[There was some news abroad recently about him joining Ferrari’s young driver program]

[Recently? You mean within a year he moved directly from Ferrari’s training to F2? How was his performance in F3?]

[Whoa, this guy seems never to have raced in F3...]

[As you say, I’m starting to have wild theories. Could this guy be really strong?]

[Not necessarily, maybe he’s a pay driver who used connections.]

[Where would a pay driver come in the youth training, and can you directly pay your way into F2?]

[Take it easy, he’s a young driver, I don’t have much expectation, as long as he’s not blown away by his teammate Mick in F2’s first season it’s fine]

[Indeed, now in F2 besides Xiaozhou it’s just him, so it’s better to take it steady and progress alongside Xiaozhou]

...

Right at the moment when Prema Racing officially announced this news, Qin Miao’s system stirred with new activity:

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to the host for joining the F2 team: Prema Racing]

[Team skills unlocked]

Team: Prema Racing

Overall team rating: 64.2

Vehicle adaptability: 70

Racing issue detection ability: 69

Simulator capability: 65

Racing setup ability: 75

Race strategy formulation ability: 60

Car protection ability: 50

Tire change crew ability: 61

[Note: Host can activate team passive skills boost only after the contract becomes effective]

...

[System task generating...]

[Task 1: Leapfrogging]

[Leapfrogging: Directly promote to an official F1 team driver after the first F2 season ends.]

[Basic rewards: All Attributes +2, Golden Lottery *1]

[1 Star: Join an F1 team as a pay driver. No additional rewards]

[2 Star: Attract F1 team’s attention through skill and enter the F1 team through normal procedures. Rewards: Golden Lottery +2]

[3 Star: First entry into F1 and join one of the three major marquee teams (Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari). Rewards: Golden Lottery +3]

...

[Task 2: Supernova]

[Supernova: Achieve pole position in the first F2 race and convert pole into victory]

[Rewards: Blue Lottery *1, (Blue)*1]

...

[Series side mission: Have 10,000 fans]

[Rewards: Free attribute point *1]

Qin Miao saw these messages on the plane to England.

Now he finally understood what the team skills mentioned in his skill called [Research Department’s Guide] were all about.

But at the same time, Qin Miao had another doubt. He received team skills only after joining Prema Racing, but didn’t he also have a ChinaGT team contract some time ago? Why didn’t he have the skills back then?

However, Qin Miao didn’t delve deeply into this insignificant query but focused his attention on more important information.