Zhou Guanyu stayed at Qin Miao’s house until September 22 before leaving for the UK.
With the end of the vacation, Qin Miao also returned to his regular daily routine.
In the blink of an eye, it was September 25, Friday, the beginning of the Russian Grand Prix.
This week, Qin Miao remained strong in his performance. After three days of competition, his score increased by 46 points, and his dominance in F2 continued.
However, with Schumacher’s surge in the second half of the season, Zhou Guanyu’s second-place spot was replaced by Mick Schumacher.
At this time, Mazepin was also eyeing Zhou Guanyu’s third place.
After the competition, Qin Miao completed the task required by the Mercedes contract of standing on the podium for ten scoring races, so the penalty owed to Mercedes was considered settled.
Moreover, if there were no surprises in the subsequent two Abu Dhabi Grand Prix races, Qin Miao could make a small profit from the contract.
Not much, just 1.88 million euros, after taxes.
In addition, this money wasn’t from the system; it was Qin Miao’s earnings based on his ability, so he could use the money as he pleased.
After the race, as usual, Qin Miao gave his trophy to Ferrari, and he himself returned to his home in Vicenza to relax for a while.
This period of racing was too intensive, and even with Qin Miao’s physical fitness, he felt overwhelmed.
In fact, the F2 race schedule was not originally so packed. A regular F2 race is held once every half month or once a month, un year with one race a week or once every two weeks.
However, now that the well-known influence has passed, there will be no F2 races during this period.
The next F2 race will be held on November 27, and there are two months of free time in between.
But Qin Miao and Qimeng couldn’t leave the house because the outside risks were still quite high, so during this time, Qin Miao and Qimeng stocked up on food at home, preparing to live like hibernating hamsters for this period.
These two months weren’t difficult to endure. Qin Miao wasn’t much of an outgoing person. As long as he had a computer, he could stay in his room for a month without going out.
Plus, with Qimeng’s company, occasionally setting up a fishing rod at the back door, wearing a pair of headphones, sipping tea, sitting for an entire afternoon.
High-intensity training in the morning, practicing driving a bit to maintain racing proficiency in the afternoon, the rest was Qin Miao’s leisure time.
In such a comfortable state, Qin Miao lazed around for two months.
November 25, Tuesday.
Qin Miao packed his things and reported to the team.
After arriving at the team, the staff did a comprehensive assessment of Qin Miao’s state after two months of rest and performed a full physical examination. Once they confirmed there were no major issues with Qin Miao’s body condition, all preparations for the start of the race were completed.
Then it was back to the daily routine: familiarizing with the car, meeting, and studying the track.
Afterward, Qin Miao had to ponder his car settings - such as choosing the brake center for corners, differential allocation, car tuning, and studying other drivers’ race footage.
Even though it might seem like Qin Miao was quite laid-back, he had quite a lot of work during the preparation time before the race started. Updates are released by novel-fire.net
November 27, the day before the Bahrain Grand Prix started.
This particular event was Prema’s most expensive transportation expense for a race.
Unlike previous European races, Bahrain is in Asia; road transport takes too long, and air transport is too expensive, so Prema ultimately chose to ship by sea.
The cars and equipment rocked on the sea for more than half a month, then traveled by road before reaching the circuit.
Even though sea freight is already the cheapest transport method, the transportation costs for the entire team’s equipment and cars still amounted to over 100,000 US Dollars.
As for the final two races, Qin Miao had no intention of slackening. After a few words of advice from Toto, Qin Miao now attached great importance to the race points.
Qin Miao smoothly secured all 46 points from the two races.
With the final sprint race of the Bahrain leg ending, Qin Miao set a record in F2 that is unprecedented and unlikely to be surpassed in the future.
Qin Miao completed a terrifying 14-race winning streak in F2 (this includes sprint races).
It’s worth noting that other than Qin Miao, no one else in the entire history of F2 has been able to win a feature race and a sprint race at the same time.
Plus, Qin Miao’s total score of 516 points almost guarantees that future competitors will find it impossible to surpass.
Furthermore, Qin Miao’s heavenly result of 20 wins in one season established a nearly unbreakable single-season victory record.
Also, in all 12 events of the year, totaling 24 scoring races, it was always the Chinese driver who stood on the highest podium.
In short, Qin Miao, this year, was completely dominating all F2 drivers by himself.
At the same time, Prema Racing naturally became the team champion of F2 this year.
As of now, Qin Miao’s total personal points have reached a staggering 516 points.
The combined scores of the two drivers from UNI-Virtuosi Racing, even if they added the runner-up Mick Schumacher, amounted to only 501 points, leaving Qin Miao with a 15-point advantage over the bottom five drivers put together.
All in all, Qin Miao’s performance this season on the track can be summed up in two words: