How Did I Become an F1 Driver?
Chapter 121 - 92: Striking Gold

Chapter 121: Chapter 92: Striking Gold

Qin Miao collected quite a lot of data this morning, enough to fill 20 sheets of A4 paper.

Fini was naturally busy for a while.

At this point, someone might ask, it’s already 2019, with such advanced networks, why not just email a document smaller than 1MB instead of using such an ancient method as faxing?

Indeed, storing paper documents that can fill a room can easily be converted to data that fits into a slightly larger hard drive.

But compared to the word ’safety,’ a little hassle isn’t a big issue.

The potential benefits a genius driver can create in the future are unimaginable; if these documents were leaked, Qin Miao, who has only verbally agreed to join Ferrari but hasn’t signed yet, might very likely be poached by another youth training team.

Although Fini didn’t know the intricacies between Qin Miao and Lawson, as the F3 team’s manager, he certainly had a basic sense of confidentiality.

After sending out these documents, Fini put on a relieved smile, followed by full joy and anticipation.

As someone who handled Qin Miao’s documents, he naturally saw them, and after confirming the data’s accuracy, he had a basic understanding of Qin Miao’s strength.

Young, talented, diligent, and genuinely loves the sport of racing.

These are the labels he put on Qin Miao.

Although people with these qualities may not necessarily succeed on the race track, those who succeed on the race track will definitely have these qualities.

After seeing Qin Miao’s data, he knew that Qin Miao’s future would be bright.

Although he didn’t know if he would become a genius like Leclerc, it shouldn’t be much worse.

As the manager of Prema team’s F3 division, he needed achievements to climb up.

Although their division has garnered considerable accolades in F3 these past few years, based on Qin Miao’s performance today, he is definitely a piece of the championship puzzle.

Moreover, Fini also deduced from Lawson’s words that Qin Miao would soon join the Ferrari youth training, and according to Wofa’s tradition, this kid will likely spend a year training under him.

If Qin Miao can maintain his current performance, winning another F3 team championship under him wouldn’t be a fantasy.

That would add another achievement to his record, and with Prema team’s F2 performance not being very ideal this year, the higher-ups already had issues with the F2 manager.

If Qin Miao performs well, it might not be impossible for him to reach that position.

Thinking of this, Fini’s smile became even brighter, and he couldn’t help but anticipate Qin Miao’s future performance even more.

He leisurely walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office, looking at the P room location, prepared to take a good look at the team he controlled.

Then he saw Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu walking out of Prema team’s P room together.

Seeing this scene, Fini’s heart skipped a beat.

He, having been Zhou Guanyu’s former manager, naturally recognized Zhou Guanyu, but that didn’t stop the feeling of panic when he saw Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao together.

Because Zhou Guanyu currently had another identity as a member of the Renault youth training.

A member of the Renault youth training getting so close to our Ferrari folks, could it be you’re here to poach?

Realizing this, Fini couldn’t care about just having faxed Lawson, who was still reviewing the documents, and decisively picked up the phone to call him.

This duck that’s already on the plate cannot be allowed to fly away.

When the call connected, Fini hurriedly asked, "Lawson, has Qin officially signed with your Ferrari Driver Academy yet?"

Lawson’s side came the sound of paper flipping, seemingly reviewing the documents Fini just sent, and he replied calmly, "Fini, this is a Ferrari internal business secret; you know you shouldn’t be prying into this matter."

"But I saw Qin and Zhou interacting, you know Zhou’s current identity, and their interaction does us no good."

Lawson naturally knew Zhou Guanyu’s current identity, but he also knew that Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao were compatriots, and most Chinese people liked to stick together when abroad, especially young ones.

So Lawson thought their closeness was most likely due to their shared nationality.

Moreover, Qin Miao was just a driver Lawson decided on a whim, and he wasn’t too concerned about how he would develop. If Renault did poach Qin Miao, he wouldn’t mind.

After all, he chose the driver with a casual ’take it or leave it’ attitude; whether Qin Miao could even pass the Maranello test was still a question.

But Fini didn’t see it that way. As a team manager, he knew that a young driver’s other qualities could be below par, or even very poor, but a driver’s single-lap speed is the most critical component in assessing his talent level.

Because only when your speed is fast enough do you have enough cultivation value in the eyes of the team.

After all, from the team’s perspective, if you aren’t fast enough, why should we spend energy developing your physical reaction speed, for instance?

Having seen Qin Miao’s training data, knowing that Qin Miao’s speed could already surpass many F3 drivers and easily secure pole positions in qualifying, he knew that Qin Miao was an invaluable genius that, under no circumstances, could be allowed to slip away.