Chapter 1288 - 484: Taking Down Binotto
On the other side, after Qin Miao won this year’s world championship, his commercial activities inevitably increased.
Originally, activities related to Qin Miao were always controlled by Qin Miao’s management company within a range that Qin Miao could accept, about no more than five commercial activities per week, which also included those happening within the racing circuit.
Basically, each week Qin Miao just needed to attend some opening ceremony, or make an appearance, and sometimes even simpler, record a video, and his work would be done.
But now it’s different, after two world championships, many times Qin Miao started to feel a bit out of control.
The Abu Dhabi officials invited Qin Miao to be their tourism ambassador, initially, Qin Miao was not prepared to agree, and he could indeed refuse, but the people in Abu Dhabi had done their homework on Qin Miao, and they directly got the local ambassador to help persuade him.
The ambassador personally called Qin Miao, how could he refuse?
Including some activities at the embassy, they also invited Qin Miao.
Even some Emirati princes who originally had a good relationship with Qin Miao came to Abu Dhabi to watch the race; they wanted to invite Qin Miao for a meal and hang out before the race started.
Qin Miao initially wanted to refuse, but the appearance fees offered by these people were just too high.
Just by going out to have dinner with them, chatting for a while, taking a few photos to post on social media, letting them show off, they gave Qin Miao 5 million US Dollars...
Qin Miao has been a world champion twice now, what kind of situation has he not seen?
This situation, he really hadn’t seen before.
Looking at those 5 million US Dollars in cash, when the money was credited, Qin Miao couldn’t help but wonder: do these people’s money grow on trees?
In short, when Qin Miao sat in the team’s lounge on Thursday afternoon, he really regretted coming to Abu Dhabi so early.
From Tuesday to today over these three days, Qin Miao hadn’t gotten more than an hour of rest, making him extremely exhausted.
The only good news was, Qin Miao had gained some experience in socializing, so after a day of smiling, his facial muscles didn’t seem overly stiff.
He had long been accustomed to having a smile on his face after meeting people, and after the team’s special professional training, Qin Miao could always make his smile look very gentle and approachable.
Stretching lazily, just as Qin Miao was about to lie down in the team’s lounge for a while and then go back to the hotel to rest, the door of the lounge was knocked.
Qin Miao called out: "Come in, the door’s not locked." Then, the person who entered surprised Qin Miao.
"Old Zhou?" Looking at Zhou Guanyu who came in, Qin Miao sat up unexpectedly from his reclining position.
At this moment, Zhou Guanyu was still wearing Alfa Romeo’s team uniform, and coming to the Mercedes team’s house indeed had some sense of discord, but judging by Zhou Guanyu’s familiar movements, it wasn’t his first time here.
In fact, it was indeed so, their good relationship was well-known in the racing circuit.
If Zhou Guanyu had something, he would directly come to the team house to find Qin Miao, let alone now it’s only Thursday, and Mercedes team hadn’t even started their truly important work, and at this time, even some VIP fans were allowed to come in and visit the team’s house.
Zhou Guanyu familiarly took a bottle of water from the refrigerator in Qin Miao’s lounge, then sat down on the sofa.
Qin Miao didn’t find it strange, instead, he curiously asked: "What brings you here?"
Zhou Guanyu found a comfortable position and said: "I want to ask you something."
"Let’s hear it."
"I have a 2-point gap with Vettel on the leaderboard, but I can’t ensure that I can surpass Vettel on the driver leaderboard today, so I wanted to ask if there’s any possibility during the race stage for you to take out Vettel directly. I’ll give you 500,000 if it happens!"
Qin Miao: "Get lost! You came here just to chat nonsense with me?"
Zhou Guanyu laughed and didn’t mind, after taking a sip of water, he said: "It’s still about the Geely matters."
Qin Miao leaned back but didn’t rush to speak; he recollected the recent commotion in the racing circuit and then said: "Recently, I haven’t really heard much about Geely in the racing circuit, I’ve been busy lately and haven’t paid close attention, did anything happen?"
Zhou Guanyu scratched his head, smiling awkwardly said: "Not that anything happened, it’s just that Geely contacted me, wanting me to join them in 2025."
Speaking of this, Zhou Guanyu paused: "Has Geely approached you lately?"
Qin Miao scratched his head: "No, and I haven’t heard much about Geely recently either. From what you said, has Geely reached out to you recently? How are they doing?"
Zhou Guanyu shook his head: "I don’t know much about them either, and our team hasn’t been performing well in the latter half of this season; I’ve been very busy lately, so I haven’t really kept up with Geely stuff, only after they contacted me recently did I get to know about them."
"Tell me."
Zhou Guanyu thought for a while: "What I know is, Geely has already completed negotiations with a team, both sides should start drafting the contract process, and this negotiation is endorsed by the FIA and the Liberty Media Group, so Geely entering F1 is a sure thing, but I don’t know specifically when they will enter F1, and which team Geely has bought."