How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1351: Chapter 508: Beginning Contract Negotiations 3

If nothing unexpected occurs, Lynk & Co might continue using the design of the Toro Rosso cars for this entire season, or even the next.

A new car design concept might only appear after two seasons.

And this black and gold version of the AT04, if nothing goes wrong, will be patched up by the Lynk & Co and Lotus teams over the next period of time.

The appearance of Qin Miao naturally drew quite a bit of attention from people within the Lynk & Co Team’s pit garage.

However, seeing that Qin Miao did not make any further actions, but was just outside the garage watching the Lynk & Co Team’s livery like a bystander, and adding the fact that everyone in the Lynk & Co Team knew they had changed leadership, they inexplicably developed a lot of goodwill towards Qin Miao, so no one bothered him.

As for the head of the Lynk & Co Team, Tost, who had changed into the black team uniform, he came over with a face full of wrinkles in his smile upon seeing Qin Miao.

If it were the Tost from when he was the team principal at Toro Rosso, upon seeing Qin Miao come over to watch the excitement, he would only think, Qin Miao is just Qin Miao. The composure and calmness of a two-time world champion are evident here. He isn’t rushing to understand his own car’s performance before the opening race, but instead is here watching the excitement, totally unbothered.

But now his identity is different, his boss has changed from Red Bull to Geely, and he himself has become the team principal of Lynk & Co.

Even though it’s still the same original team from Toro Rosso, and the team headquarters haven’t changed.

But after all, the identity is different now.

To some extent, he and Qin Miao can be considered fellow countrymen.

Having this relationship, Tost naturally began to fantasize, is there a possibility that after Qin Miao’s contract expires at the end of this season, he might directly join Lynk & Co?

What? There’s already talk that Qin Miao has started negotiating with the Mercedes team?

Can’t a person fantasize a bit during broad daylight?

What if?

Back when Lynk & Co was still Toro Rosso, Tost studied why Qin Miao was so strong.

Undeniably, Qin Miao’s driving skills are top-notch, and his defensive capabilities are unparalleled in the entire paddock.

But these abilities still belong to what drivers can achieve to a degree. If the opponent’s car performance is overwhelmingly strong, Qin Miao’s abilities wouldn’t have a place to shine.

If you can’t even catch up with them, don’t even talk about attacking and defending.

The main reason Qin Miao could really arm-wrestle with Verstappen on track during the 2022 period was actually his sensational, Pirelli-baffling tire management capability.

Tost calculated that if Qin Miao came to Lynk & Co, the team could rely on his tire management ability alone to become a regular in the points zone.

If the team’s subsequent development was strong, with Qin Miao’s presence, using a mid-tier car to become a podium regular was almost inevitable for Lynk & Co.

But obviously, Tost was about to be disappointed. Qin Miao really just came by today to watch the excitement, and he didn’t even have the idea to talk with Tost.

Seeing Tost come out to find him, he was even more surprised.

But since Tost came over anyway, Qin Miao still had a chat with him.

From the conversation, Tost also realized that Qin Miao had no intention of joining Lynk & Co, but Tost didn’t feel it was a pity.

After all, with Qin Miao’s current results and age, Tost couldn’t think of what circumstances would make Qin Miao choose to come to Lynk & Co.

Only if Lynk & Co’s car performance wasn’t significantly different from Mercedes could Qin Miao have a reason and motivation to join Lynk & Co.

But that’s not something Tost can manage now.

Of course, this wouldn’t affect Tost’s intention to get closer to Qin Miao.

So the two of them chatted for a while.

Qin Miao also asked about a lot of things related to Lynk & Co.

Then Qin Miao learned some internal news that he didn’t know before.

That is, Lynk & Co is a bit like a hybrid frankensteined team.

Because the internal staff composition of Lynk & Co is especially complex.

Lotus is responsible for designing the aerodynamics, Lynk & Co is responsible for designing the chassis, and Geely and Volvo are responsible for communicating with Red Bull for designing the power unit and battery.

As for the suspension and such, they still use the personnel from Toro Rosso.

Of course, this just means the team personnel resources are a bit complex; once they joined Lynk & Co, everyone’s allegiance was realigned to the Lynk & Co Team.

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