How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 616 - 267: Battle in Italy (6K, Bonus Update 11/16)_2

But after all, the ultimate winner was himself, while Hamilton's efforts throughout the race only earned him a second place, so Qin Miao generously forgave Hamilton.

"Hahaha, just lucky, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning!"

Even though Qin Miao's words were full of the unique modesty of Chinese people, Hamilton could see the corners of Qin Miao's mouth almost reaching his ears through the visor window of the helmet.

Coupled with Qin Miao's tone of pride and excitement, no matter how Hamilton listened, he felt that Qin Miao's words were simply showing off to him.

But as mentioned earlier.

Qin Miao was the champion of this leg of the race, and he further widened the gap between himself and Hamilton on the standings. As a freshman, Qin Miao really had the capital to brag.

After chatting a few words with Hamilton, Qin Miao went to find Verstappen.

Although a little discord occurred between the two on the track, when their cars collided, they both almost wished to kill each other.

But now, off the cars, with a bit more clear-headedness, they regained the ability to think.

Moreover, Qin Miao also knew that the collision was indeed his fault, so when facing Verstappen, Qin Miao could sincerely apologize to him.

"Sorry Max, I was impulsive during the crash, I should have given back the position on the track to you." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Verstappen was truly surprised by Qin Miao's words.

He had been racing for many years and had never seen a driver who, after crashing into another's car and being penalized, would proactively seek out the other driver to apologize.

Because this can easily lead to attacks from the other driver's fans in the public opinion.

Other teams could also use this to press the FIA to cancel the opponent's results and so on.

However, it's worth mentioning that when Qin Miao apologized to Verstappen, his voice was not loud, and the two were in the middle of the track, so basically no one understood what Qin Miao said.

And in Qin Miao's view, apologizing was not a big deal.

After all, he held the championship in his hand; an apology was nothing compared to the championship, it was not worth mentioning.

Despite being a bit surprised that Qin Miao would apologize to him, he still lost the chance to compete for the championship because of the collision with Qin Miao, and almost couldn't keep third place.

So in response to Qin Miao's apology, Verstappen appeared extremely perfunctory, said nothing, merely nodded before letting go and went to the interview.

Qin Miao didn't mind; he smiled and waved to the Chinese fans who came to support him with the Chinese flag, then went for the weigh-in.

After the weigh-in was finished, Qin Miao jogged all the way to the Mercedes team staff, smiling and giving Frankie, Toto, and all the team staff cheering for him a warm hug.

Toto and the others were so excited that they slapped Qin Miao's helmet.

Their praises for Qin Miao's performance in this race were endless.

After a while, Hamilton also arrived, and the two Mercedes drivers celebrated among the crowd for a while.

When the celebration at Mercedes ended, Qin Miao took off his helmet to prepare for the interview.

And Verstappen had already taken off all his equipment and began the interview.

The reason Qin Miao knew this clearly was because when Verstappen was interviewed, there was an exceptionally enthusiastic cheer from the audience.

It was a stark contrast to when Qin Miao had just gotten off the car.

Despite Verstappen only achieving a third-place finish in this race.

But as the home driver of the Netherlands, as long as Verstappen could get on the podium, most Dutch spectators bought into him.

After all, Verstappen was currently the only Dutch driver in the F1 paddock, and besides him, there were no other Dutch drivers for the audience to support.

Qin Miao didn't pay much attention to Verstappen's interview; instead, while waiting for Verstappen to finish, he noticed Hamilton approaching both his car and Verstappen's car to have a look.

It happened that Qin Miao's car was damaged on the right side, while Verstappen's car was damaged on the left.

After the race, Verstappen was third, so his car was parked just to the right of Qin Miao's car.

Therefore, if Hamilton stood between Qin Miao's and Verstappen's cars, he could see all the injuries on both cars.

Seeing Hamilton's actions, and considering that Verstappen's interview didn't seem to be ending soon, Qin Miao was also curious and went to see Verstappen's car.

Qin Miao only knew through the team TR that Verstappen's car was seriously damaged, but he didn't know exactly how serious it was as the instigator.

Now, upon closer inspection, the left broken wing that collided on Verstappen's car was gone.

The floor was also damaged.

Being able to keep his ranking in the last part of the race with such a car was indeed tough for Verstappen.

After glancing around, both Qin Miao and Hamilton marveled at how Verstappen managed to finish third with such a broken car. Finally, both Qin Miao and Hamilton were pulled over by Hamilton's fitness coach Angela for the interview.