How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 704 - 294: Arthur Leclerc_2

The most crucial thing is that if Qin Miao needs to work at the team and might be busy late, having a familiar place to rest after leaving the team's factory without having time to return to Monaco is definitely a good idea.

It's worth mentioning that the first thing Qin Miao did upon returning home was to have his two sports cars sent back to Monaco.

In the UK, he only left a campervan for getting around.

This week, Qin Miao's work at the team continued to focus on the development of ground effect cars for the next season. Additionally, the team provided special design drawings for the Mexican Grand Prix.

There weren't many improvements in this set of design drawings; it increased the car weight by 15KG, and this weight mainly concentrated on the car's cooling system.

After all, compared to other tracks, the Mexico City Grand Prix is relatively higher in altitude, 2240 meters above sea level, which brings thinner air density and naturally more challenges to the car's cooling efficiency.

To increase the car's cooling efficiency, better radiators or larger radiators need to be used.

Mercedes' modification plan for the Mexico City radiator data is to enlarge the air intake of the side box, and add air-guiding fins at the intake location, while increasing the radiator's size to allow more airflow, thereby increasing cooling efficiency, but at the cost of significantly increased car weight.

Although this may not be a particularly good improvement plan, in a situation where resources are limited, being able to come up with such a plan is already commendable. Besides, this design plan will only be used for the Mexico City race; making it too perfect would be a waste of resources.

Qin Miao naturally assisted in testing for a while and also exchanged some insights about the tests with Bottas.

The eventual outcome was gratifying. After being affirmed by the two drivers, the manufacturing department of the Mercedes team started the urgent production of the car parts specifically for the Mexican Grand Prix.

It's worth noting that since confirming his destination for the next season, Bottas seemed much more relaxed, no longer wearing a sour face with a battle-worn look when meeting Qin Miao.

The relationship between him and Qin Miao quickly warmed and grew closer.

When seeing Qin Miao at the team factory this week, Bottas even gave Qin Miao an artistic photo of himself nude.

Honestly, this was something Qin Miao couldn't truly appreciate, but he couldn't refuse Bottas's goodwill either.

After all, in the eyes of these foreigners, this might actually be considered a rather precious gift.

So Qin Miao reluctantly accepted Bottas's goodwill, but when he brought the photo home, he really wasn't sure where to place it in his house.

It seemed unlucky to hang it anywhere.

Finally, he chose to hang it in his trophy room.

On one hand, Qin Miao rarely visited his trophy room; on the other hand, receiving a gift from Bottas after snatching his driver seat at Mercedes was a distinct kind of honor.

Getting back to the main topic, after confirming the radiator improvement plan for the Mexican Grand Prix, Qin Miao began his simulator work for next season's car.

Meanwhile, Qin Miao also improved his various attributes considerably during this period.

Host Name: Qin Miao

Age: 20

Overall Rating: 92.3→92.9

Stamina: 99

Mentality: 94→95

Stability: 97

Qualifying Ability: 95→96

Start Ability: 88→89

Race Endurance: 94

Tire-saving Ability: 81→84

Rain Combat Ability: 83→82

Attack Ability: 92→93

Defense Ability: 100

All these improvements were achieved naturally by Qin Miao through racing and simulators, without using any system tools.

Of course, there's also some bad news: Qin Miao found that after exceeding his talent limit, the attribute points would decrease over time. His Rain Combat Ability, for example, had dropped from 83 to 82, and Qin Miao had a premonition.

The decline in his Rain Combat Ability would continue until it eventually returned to a score of 80.

Qin Miao could only accept this with resignation.

Meanwhile, the team's score also improved, but the increase was much smaller compared to Qin Miao's personal abilities.

Team: Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

Team Overall Score: 84.7→85.1

Ability to Detect Car Problems: 81

Simulator Development Ability: 80→82

Car Debugging Ability: 89

Race Strategy Formulation Ability: 87

Car Protection Ability: 75

Tire-changing Ability: 90

Power Unit Department Capability: 94

Aerodynamics Department Capability: 86

Chassis Department Research Ability: 85

Durability Development Ability: 81→83

Looking at the team's improved data, Qin Miao felt that only the durability aspect was an improvement the team pondered on their own, while the simulator development ability was entirely based on the data accumulated from the relentless testing by him and Bottas during this period. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

However, any improvement is always good, as it means that next season the team will be able to provide Qin Miao with a stronger car.

Of course, since Qin Miao moved, he naturally didn't have as much time to devote to work.

After a day busy at the team, Qin Miao returned to Monaco.

And from the time he returned to Monaco until he needed to go to the track to prepare on Thursday, he didn't receive any calls from Toto.