How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1331: Chapter 501: Changes at Home

"So, this championship trophy in my hand doesn’t solely belong to me; it belongs to everyone in the team."

Another round of thunderous applause erupted from the audience.

This wasn’t a post-race interview, just an award ceremony stage interview, so the questions weren’t many.

The responses were brief and to the point.

After wrapping up the questions for Qin Miao, the host brought Horner back up from the audience, joining the world champion and team champion along with the president of the FIA and the CEO of F1 for a photo on stage.

With that, the 2022 FIA End-of-Year Gala came to a close.

Next, it was dinner time, where everyone could eat and drink at their seats, or if they preferred, leave directly, since the main event of the day was already over.

After Qin Miao came down, Toto took Qin Miao’s championship trophy.

Even though it wasn’t the first time he’d seen it, Toto still carefully examined Qin Miao’s world championship trophy in his hands.

In fact, Toto had once been a driver for a while.

However, people’s physique and talent can’t be generalized—Toto might be world-class in finance and management, truly a rare top talent.

But in terms of driving race cars, compared to Qin Miao, Hamilton, and others, Toto could only be considered average.

So, ultimately, Toto gave up becoming a driver, instead turning towards being a team manager and a finance tycoon.

After all, having had such an experience in his life, seeing the driver’s world championship trophy, Toto couldn’t help but feel a bit envious.

But Toto had reached the age of knowing his destiny, so it was merely a bit of envy without any further thoughts—after watching for a while, he returned the trophy to Qin Miao.

For the Mercedes team, today’s award ceremony might have been a bit disappointing, but for Qin Miao personally, it was incredibly perfect.

Elsewhere, aside from the top three drivers in 2022, one more F1 driver also stepped onto the award podium today.

This person was Zhou Guanyu, and the award he received was the Best Rookie Award.

Of course, actually, besides Zhou Guanyu, nobody else could have received this award.

After all, throughout the 2022 season, F1’s paddock only had Zhou Guanyu as the new driver.

Even if more new drivers joined the F1 family during this period, given Zhou Guanyu’s performance in his first year, and with Alfa Romeo being the only team underweight at the beginning of the season, it was highly probable he would win this award.

In summary, Zhou Guanyu’s award was well-deserved.

After the award ceremony, naturally, everyone was eating and drinking at the venue.

However, after Qin Miao got his championship trophy, he greeted Toto and left.

After all, Qin Miao had been abroad for quite some time during the break, and what he really wanted now was to return home.

Generally, after the FIA award ceremony, Qin Miao actually needed to return to the team’s headquarters to understand the development approach for next season’s car, hold a meeting, and maybe work for a few more days before vacationing.

But as the world champion, and not that Qin Miao wanted to slack off, just that with a pregnant woman at home and being away for a long time, he wanted to go back to his family.

So after mentioning it to Toto, he agreed to Qin Miao’s leave request.

Allowing Qin Miao to go on vacation early.

So, after leaving the award ceremony venue, Qin Miao went straight to the airport, without any luggage, just with his phone and world championship trophy, flying back to China.

Although every year before the end, this world championship trophy must be returned to the FIA, after the driver becomes world champion, the trophy can still remain in their hands for a period of time, provided it’s not damaged.

Of course, upon winning the champion driver title, it’s impossible not to leave a single souvenir.

Although the FIA will reclaim the driver’s world champion trophy, they will recast a trophy exclusively belonging to the year’s world champion driver as a keepsake.

Since Qin Miao left at night, he pretty much slept the whole way, so upon returning to China, he didn’t feel too tired.

After the plane landed, Qin Miao’s vacation officially began.

And Qin Miao, arriving home, planned to stay in for about a month, so he gave his crew a long vacation, while he took a ride-share car back home.

When Qin Miao got home, it was already completely light outside, around eight-thirty in the morning.

This time coming home, Qin Miao wouldn’t worry about something like last time, being unable to open the house door.

Last time he came home he got the house keys.

Returning home, he stood at the doorstep and Qin Miao decided not to alert his family, wanting to give them a surprise.

So Qin Miao didn’t even bring the luggage inside, just left it at the doorstep,

holding a box designed by the FIA specifically to carry the world championship trophy.

Upon entering, Qin Miao was stunned because suddenly at the entrance there was a black-and-white dog head.

Though Qin Miao didn’t raise a dog, he knew quite a few breeds. If he wasn’t mistaken, the one at his entrance should be a Border Collie.

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