How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1081 - 412: Urging Marriage? Urging Children!

Qin Miao rubbed his temples that day, feeling a bit of a headache as he went on.Originally, Qin Miao had just finished a half-month-long back-to-back race, thinking he finally had some time to rest. Why did such a troublesome matter suddenly come up?

However, fortunately, Qin Miao wasn’t troubled the next day. As soon as he woke up, he saw a piece of news on his phone.

Geely Holding and the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund have commenced investment negotiations with Old Stroll’s Yew Tree Investment Group.

Geely and the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund intend to acquire all of Old Stroll’s shares.

At the same time, Geely has also initiated other negotiations with Old Stroll concerning the full acquisition of the team formerly known as Racing Point, now Aston Martin.

Although the Aston Martin Team is the factory team of Aston Martin, it’s only considered a factory team because Old Stroll is both a major shareholder of Aston Martin and the owner of the Aston Martin Team.

But team and manufacturer are actually two different entities, so Geely is very keen on entering F1 due to Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, mainly by acquiring a team.

Although they could attempt to establish their own team and join the F1 family, this process is too complicated and requires at least a $200 million entrance fee.

So after considering everything, Geely still thinks it’s more economical to directly purchase a team.

The additional negotiations with Aston Martin involve some of Geely’s other commercial strategic layers, which Qin Miao hasn’t asked President Li about.

But this news undoubtedly dropped a bombshell into the recently calm paddock rumors; as soon as the news broke, everyone inside and outside the paddock was discussing whether Qin Miao would immediately join a Chinese team following the Chinese manufacturer’s entry.

After all, his contract will expire in 2023, and there’s no additional option, plus the performance of the Mercedes car is somewhat underwhelming right now.

Many people feel that Qin Miao might just leave Mercedes directly.

Unlike the differing opinions around Qin Miao, there’s a consensus inside and outside the paddock about Zhou Guanyu.

If Geely successfully completes the acquisition of the Aston Martin Team, Zhou Guanyu would definitely leave Alfa Romeo and join the Chinese team.

After all, he only signed a rookie contract with Alfa Romeo with an annual salary of $100,000.

In any case, this bombshell caught many teams in the paddock off guard.

The landscape within the paddock is likely to undergo significant changes due to these negotiations, though the talks have just begun, and the final results remain unknown.

When Qin Miao snapped out of the news, he completely forgot about his mom pushing him to have a child.

Today, Qin Miao didn’t even have time to play games; he opened various social media platforms to check out the news.

Actually, Qin Miao wanted to call President Wang to ask about the situation, but now Qin Miao was not the reckless rookie he once was; if he called, it would signal to the other party that he had intentions about Geely.

But if Geely actually enters, and since they would be unfamiliar with the F1 paddock’s car development rhythm, not joining Geely might break the good relations they had because of just one call.

So Qin Miao restrained his impulse.

But while Qin Miao held back, some couldn’t; Zhou Guanyu called shortly after.