How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

After breakfast, Qin Miao asked Leclerc to tidy up the mess while he went to the storage room to search for something.

After all, Prince Jacques would be visiting soon. Even though he is a guest, he’s still the legitimate heir of Monaco and has such a fondness for him.

Although Qin Miao is a two-time world champion, he is just an ordinary person in Monaco. He definitely needs to prepare some gifts for the prince’s grand presence.

After rummaging for a long time, Qin Miao found a full-scale model of the W13.

These models and the 1/4 helmet models were given to Qin Miao by the team’s logistics department, meant as gifts to give away.

Mercedes has always been great in terms of employee benefits, especially for the drivers. Essentially, anything they can give, they’ll prepare a share for the drivers too.

The reason Qin Miao chose to give this model is because Mercedes has ceased the model authorization for the W13 car.

Mercedes themselves know how slow this car is, and the team considered this car the biggest scandal of 2022. It’s embarrassing to talk about, so there’s no need to mention its peripherals.

Therefore, all model cars and products related to W13 have been discontinued, shifting production to W13B.

However, this hasn’t affected the sales of the W13 model at all. Instead, due to its limited edition status and Qin Miao’s performance this season, the value of the W13 model car has soared.

After all, Qin Miao truly held onto Leclerc and Verstappen with this car at the start of the season, preventing them from widening the points gap, which then led to Qin Miao’s later dramatic comeback after upgrading to W13B.

After confirming that the model’s packaging and the model itself were undamaged, Qin Miao opened the model and signed his name on the black acrylic board inside before putting it back.

With Qin Miao’s "enchantment," this W13 model car is now the world’s only W13 model signed by Qin Miao.

With his own strength and honors, giving gifts to fans is easy, Qin Miao thought happily.

After determining the gift, Qin Miao was about to leave the storage room when Leclerc came in drinking milk he had just taken from the fridge, curiously peeking in from outside the storage room.

Seeing Qin Miao’s storage room, his eyes were full of curiosity.

Rather than a room for storing sundries, Qin Miao’s room is more like a warehouse.

Because Qin Miao and Qimeng both have slight OCD, gifts from the team and others, and those that can be regifted, are categorized and placed in a big box.

Thus, Qin Miao’s storage room looks exceptionally tidy. With one glance, one can see what is in each box.

"Preparing a gift?" Leclerc walked in after asking curiously.

Then he naturally saw so many things in Qin Miao’s warehouse.

Curiously grabbing one thing, he found it was a full-scale helmet model from Qin Miao’s 2021 season.

This item is nice, already out of print, and it seems Qin Miao was the driver with the fewest special edition helmet releases in the 21 season. Hence, Qin Miao’s helmet sales were good, and indeed this helmet looks nice, so Leclerc didn’t refuse, deciding to take it home and display it somewhere.

After selecting the gift, Qin Miao stood up and saw Leclerc’s action, but he didn’t mind. If Qin Miao himself wanted these things, it would only take a word, and he had too many full-scale helmet models; one big box in the storage room held over thirty in stock.

Apart from the items in the honors display room, Qin Miao didn’t mind Leclerc taking anything.

Not bothering with Leclerc rummaging through his house, Qin Miao reminded him to put things back properly, then took the gift to the study, found a gift-special wrapping bag, and somewhat awkwardly wrapped it.

After all, these tasks at home were usually done by Qimeng, and Qin Miao was indeed unfamiliar with the method of wrapping gifts.

Once done, the exterior looked barely acceptable.

After preparing the gift, Qin Miao left the room, seeing Leclerc holding quite a few things.

Casting a casual glance, he hadn’t taken anything valuable, just two helmet models and a box of Lego bricks.

Although Qin Miao didn’t mind how much Leclerc took from his house, seeing those two identical helmet models in his hand piqued Qin Miao’s curiosity: "Why are you taking two identical helmets?"

Leclerc looked down at the two helmet models in his hand, smiling and said, "They’re for gifts."

Qin Miao nodded without thinking much, instead starting to sort through things, preparing to entertain the guests later.

Once Qin Miao was done and rested a while, a knock sounded at his door.

Upon hearing the knock, Leclerc put away his casual demeanor at Qin Miao’s house, stood up from the sofa, and straightened his clothes.

He also winked at Qin Miao, signaling him to go open the door.

Qin Miao had no objection, stood up and looked around his living room to ensure nothing was amiss, then put on a full smile practiced in the paddock as he went to open the door.