Chapter 1085 - 413: Toto’s Visit

"And in the foreseeable future, F1 team valuations are only going to climb. It’s entirely possible Geely will just walk away because Old Stroll’s asking price is too high."

Toto nodded as well and said, "Yeah, all of this is still an unknown.

But I’ll say it again: you are the cornerstone of the future Mercedes team. We will do everything we can for you. Please trust our ability and determination."

"Of course..."

Once they’d more or less finished talking business, Toto pointed at the room Qimeng and Suzy had gone into and said, "Actually, I’m really curious what your fully assembled F2 championship trophy wall looks like in your room."

Qin Miao simply spread his hands toward the door of his honor room and said, "Perfect, let’s go take a look together."

This was actually Toto’s first time at Qin Miao’s place. After all, as the boss, it’s a bit inappropriate to keep showing up at an employee’s home.

So he was quite curious about Qin Miao’s trophy wall.

They stood up and walked into Qin Miao’s honor room together.

At this moment Qimeng and Suzy were still inside. Qimeng was introducing each trophy to Suzy like she was reciting treasured collections, explaining in which race Qin Miao had won it and by how many seconds he’d led the car behind.

But the trophies in this storage room at Qin Miao’s house weren’t actually the real F2 trophies; they were one‑to‑one replicas Qin Miao had asked some acquaintances at Ferrari to make.

The material and appearance of the trophies were basically identical to the originals, while the real trophies had been sent to his home in Monaco.

The security situation in Monaco is actually a bit better than in the UK. After all, the place is full of rich people—if something goes missing and the rich stop choosing to live and buy property there because they feel unsafe, Monaco would really lose face.

Besides, Qin Miao’s Monaco apartment is on a high floor, and there are security measures in and around the honor room.

So the risk of theft isn’t very high.

Meanwhile, because Qin Miao’s fame in the F1 paddock has been rising, quite a few fans with some clout, or with friends working in the paddock, know that his house in Brackley is not far from the Mercedes factory.

Some particularly well‑connected fans even know his exact address.

So for safety’s sake, Qin Miao moved all his real trophies away. But since he spends a lot of time living in Brackley, it’s impossible to completely stop all his relatives and friends from coming over to hang out.

So Qin Miao had a whole new batch of trophies made.

They weren’t actually that expensive. Because the order was large, he got a discount and ended up spending only around 500,000 US Dollar.

And since the Ferrari guys had already taken his trophies back to copy once before, making them again wasn’t a hassle.

As for Qin Miao’s F1 world championship trophy and all those F1 Grand Prix winner trophies, he keeps all of them in Monaco.

But to be honest, even if you put Qin Miao’s F1 world championship trophy in front of all his F2 race‑winner trophies and the F2 championship trophy, it still looks a bit less "dominant" in comparison.

So when Toto saw that whole cabinet full of trophies, he inevitably showed a look of admiration in his eyes.

"It’s hard to imagine how you managed to win this many trophies back in F2. Was there really no driver that season who could threaten you at all?" Staring at the wall of honors, Toto couldn’t help sighing like this.

Qin Miao shrugged. "Ever considered the possibility that I was just too strong? Back in F2 I was already regularly using the kind of tyre offset strategies I run now to score points. Basically my tyre pace was over 0.3 seconds per lap faster than the F2 guys in my cohort. Add in the fact that I was already quicker than them on raw ability, and taking this many trophies was just logical.

Of course, I also have to thank Prema from back then. In my first—and only—season in F2, they didn’t randomly make my car break down from time to time the way Ferrari does."

Hearing this, Toto gave Qin Miao a completely speechless look.

How did the most historically decorated team in the paddock end up sounding like a clown coming out of this guy’s mouth?