How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1334: Chapter 502: Unexpected Enthusiasm (Part 2)

However, facing Qin Miao, although you can cuddle, kiss, and hold, it won’t last very long.

It’s almost like: "It’s enough for you to hold me, how can you push your luck?" kind of feeling.

And when Qin Miao pets the cat, the dog will come over and forcefully interrupt.

Either by nudging the cat aside with its butt or by whining continuously next to them.

If guessed correctly, the dog is probably jealous.

Could it be said there’s no doubt it’s a Border Collie?

Now back home, naturally, Qin Miao enjoys a life where everything is done for them.

Even if cooking was possible, both mom and mother-in-law wouldn’t let Qin Miao into the kitchen, strongly asserting that a race car driver cooking is just not right.

As a result, Qin Miao spent nearly 20 days at home not doing much of anything.

Stayed home until the New Year’s Day of ’23.

During this period, Qin Miao just exercises a bit every day, walks the dog, watches TV with the wife, plays some games, and rarely leaves the house.

But on New Year’s, Qin Miao still went to see Boss Zhou, which has become Qin Miao’s annual practice.

Speaking of going out, something happened during this time that Qin Miao found quite regrettable.

Because after the FIA announced the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix, about a week later, the domestic circumstances were completely relaxed.

But by then, it was just the wrong timing to add the Chinese Grand Prix back into the 2023 calendar.

Because during that week, all the teams had already signed logistics agreements with logistics companies, and all the tracks had started preparing for the races according to the scheduled dates.

Contracts and everything had been fully signed; if changes were made at this time, the total breach of contract fees for the FIA and all teams would exceed 300 million US Dollars.

The F1 machine could no longer make a U-turn.

This news made Qin Miao and many domestic fans quite uncomfortable.

The FIA and F1 were also somewhat helpless; had they held out for just another week, the 2023 Chinese Grand Prix could have been smoothly held, and they would certainly have made more money then.

However, at least in the foreseeable future, there will definitely be a Chinese Grand Prix in 2024, and the Shanghai circuit is also aware of Qin Miao’s influence domestically.

Therefore, starting from the last season, since Qin Miao began making their mark in the paddock, they have been crazily expanding the grandstands at the Shanghai circuit, with seats expanding from 50,000 to 65,000, and now there are three new grandstands under construction. Shanghai’s ultimate goal is to at least double the size of the covered grandstand to 100,000 seats.

Of course, in 2024, Jiushi Sports could never have imagined that even after expanding the grandstands, all regular seats would be sold out within three minutes of being released, leaving only a few VIP packages worth tens of thousands.

And even these VIP packages were all sold out within the next 12 hours.

But those are stories for another time.

In the past holidays, Qin Miao could indeed just stay home for months without a care.

But now, Qin Miao can’t do that anymore.

Having gained fame, Qin Miao has inevitably met many friends on the F1 path.

Moreover, now that things have completely opened up domestically, Qin Miao thought this would be a good time to visit friends in Shanghai.

Qin Miao has always kept in touch with the three commentators from Five-Star Sports.

There’s even a group chat with those commentators from Five-Star Sports.

However, due to work reasons, Qin Miao seldom speaks in the group, it’s mainly Fei and the others chatting, with Qin Miao occasionally responding after seeing the messages.

But because Qin Miao had opportunities to meet the Five-Star Sports commentators and could chat online from time to time, Qin Miao wasn’t too unfamiliar with them.

Plus, Qin Miao is aware that the three commentators from Five-Star Sports are known to be big fans of Qin Miao, and with the 24th Shanghai race about to restart, Qin Miao wanted to seize the opportunity while there was still free time to run a few laps.

On one hand, to familiarize with the track ahead of time, but mainly because Qin Miao was itching to drive.

In Changsha, there’s no track that’s particularly suitable for Qin Miao’s performance. Suddenly moving from a highly pressured environment to a relaxed one naturally makes Qin Miao feel relaxed and comfortable for a short period.

However, not touching a race car for a long time and only using a racing simulator couldn’t meet Qin Miao’s daily training needs or scratch the driving itch.

Additionally, Zhou Guanyu had completed his work in Hinwil, Switzerland, and after spending a few days in the UK, he returned home, now in Shanghai, and invited Qin Miao to stay at his place for a few days.

Besides, after the news of Qin Miao returning home was released, invitations for interviews by CCTV and various domestic variety shows poured in.

But except for the CCTV interview, Qin Miao declined them all.

Abroad, Qin Miao lived completely under the spotlight, being watched no matter what was done.

Now back home, all Qin Miao wants is to rest.

This approach by Qin Miao naturally drew the ire of many.

After all, many of those inviting Qin Miao could stir up a storm in the entertainment industry, and they were offering Qin Miao a lot of money, with appearance fees alone over 10 million RMB.

But as the first two-time Asian champion in history, the world’s youngest F1 world champion, the fastest to win two titles in the world, and the first driver in the world to win two world championships in two years, Qin Miao indeed has the qualification to be arrogant with so many titles under his belt.

So these people could only quietly grumble in their hearts; standing out to criticize Qin Miao was absolutely out of the question.

And this time, Qimeng actually wanted to go with Qin Miao, but her mother-in-law firmly said that once the child is born, Qimeng can do whatever she wants, even go bungee jumping, but before the child is born, life must be disciplined.

In fact, Qimeng’s life is what many people hope for, the only downside being restricted schedules and the strict control over electronic device usage time.

Long-distance travel was naturally prohibited as well.

So it was only Qin Miao who went to Shanghai alone.

However, on the way to Shanghai, Qin Miao felt a bit troubled because, peculiarly, Qin Miao had given the flight crew holiday time off, so even though the plane was parked at the airport, there was no one to fly it.

Although Qin Miao knows how to fly, peculiarly, he doesn’t have a pilot’s license. Even if he could fly, the route needs to be applied for in advance; without an approved route, even with a license, taking off is impossible, as in China, unlike abroad, the airspace is controlled by the military.

So Qin Miao reluctantly had to choose a commercial flight to Shanghai.

Then, Qin Miao’s travel information got leaked.

The moment Qin Miao used his personal ID to buy a ticket, people interested learned that Qin Miao was heading to Shanghai.

Even down to the exact flight and landing time was known.

And this news spread quickly.

Qin Miao was completely unaware.

Because while home, Qin Miao had stayed quite low-key, subconsciously thinking that winning two world championships hadn’t created too much of a stir domestically, or perhaps after some excitement, the ripples he’d created gradually returned to calm with time.

But in fact, many fans were silently cheering for Qin Miao, surfing online with high intensity, praising Qin Miao.

Then as these fans continued cheering, they got the news that Qin Miao was about to land at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.

As for how Qin Miao’s flight information got leaked?

Don’t ask, because nobody knows.

But it didn’t affect the fact that local fans and those nearby, having gotten Qin Miao’s specific flight info, swarmed to the airport.

Before Qin Miao’s plane even landed, over 600 people had crowded the airport’s exit.

Though in a regular F1 Grand Prix, 600 people wouldn’t be much, but at an airport, 600 people clogging a terminal made it densely packed with heads everywhere.

And Qin Miao only left the house after celebrating New Year’s, and today is Wednesday, a weekday.

Qin Miao’s flight was also a morning flight.

Regular fans definitely have their work and lives; it’s impossible to abandon work to crowd the airport.

Moreover, Qin Miao only booked the ticket after arriving at the airport, leaving little time for fans to react.

Plus, those willing to come to the airport represent only a small fraction of Qin Miao’s fans.

After all, everyone knows going to the airport is a waste of public resources.

Even after excluding many reasonable fans, there were still so many, making it truly terrifying.

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