How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 829 - 334: The Youngest World Champion in F1 History

Although Hamilton's expression was not very pleasant at the moment, after Qin Miao finished the post-race interview, he still took the initiative to come to Qin Miao, and after shaking hands with Qin Miao, he congratulated him.

Even though Qin Miao felt that Hamilton probably had a lot of negative emotions internally at this moment, he knew that these negative emotions were not directed at him, but probably at Rosberg and FOM's arrangements. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Qin Miao didn't dwell on this issue, he smiled and congratulated Hamilton on winning this year's final race, then went to Qimeng's side.

Hamilton and Verstappen still had interviews to do, so the post-race award ceremony wasn't so urgent.

So at this moment, Qin Miao had plenty of free time to be with the person he most wanted to share his joy with.

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On the other side, when Hamilton came in front of the interview cameras, prolonged cheers and applause immediately rang out at the scene.

This was a tribute to the past and also a tribute to the seven-time champion Hamilton.

Although Hamilton didn't achieve his eighth championship this year, his performance this season was by no means poor, and this race week's competition was nothing short of perfect.

Whether in practice sessions or qualifying races, he displayed results befitting his historical status.

Therefore, the audience's applause and cheers for Hamilton lasted for at least half a minute.

It wasn't until Hamilton's face showed slight emotion that it eased.

After the applause and cheers subsided a bit, Hamilton's post-race interview officially began.

"Lewis, this season's competition was very exciting, and your performance has consistently been great. It's a pity you couldn't laugh till the end, but you must be proud of yourself this season, right?"

While interviewing Hamilton, Rosberg wasn't deliberately sarcastic toward Hamilton. In fact, having moved beyond past grievances, Rosberg still had some admiration for Hamilton deep down.

It's just a pity that because of his relationship with Hamilton, his words inevitably get over-interpreted.

However, Hamilton didn't mind and responded to Rosberg's questions naturally.

"Yes, everyone worked hard this season.

But first, I must congratulate my teammate Qin Miao on winning the driver's championship this year. His growth rate is truly astonishing.

This season, the team and I have given it our all; everyone worked very hard, and we've given everything we had."

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After Hamilton's interview quickly concluded, amid a full house of cheers, Hamilton waved to the audience and went backstage to prepare for the award ceremony.

At this moment, Qin Miao also controlled Qimeng's emotions, gently hugged him, and then went backstage with his gear to prepare for the award ceremony.

The last to be interviewed was Verstappen, and today's post-race interview unusually proceeded in a normal sequence.

However, compared to Qin Miao's joy and Hamilton's melancholy, Verstappen's emotions were more stable.

After all, before the race began, Verstappen knew he had a chance to win, but the probability wasn't very high, so ultimately taking third place was acceptable to him.

When it was Verstappen's turn for the interview, his situation was similar to Hamilton's, and the audience also gave applause and cheers for Verstappen, though it was evident that his applause and cheers didn't last as long as Hamilton's.

The audience's cheers for Verstappen were mainly because he was the only driver this season to pose a threat to Mercedes' championship title.

After Verstappen's interview concluded, the broadcast showed footage of fans waving flags and cheering for Qin Miao's performance in this race, along with Mercedes fans.

During this process, the three commentators from Five-Star Sports started discussing Qin Miao's performance on the track this season.

"To be honest, before this season began, and even back when Qin Miao was dominating F2 in 2020, achieving a terrifying result and winning the F2 world championship, we only thought he might eventually enter F1 and become an excellent official F1 driver and win a few more races. But we never dared to hope that Qin Miao could stand on F1's highest podium and take away that honor coveted by all F1 drivers."

At this moment, Bing chimed in: "Exactly, and we must remember, this is only Qin Miao's first year in his professional career, and he's already won the F1 world championship. He's still young, with a lot of growth potential. I'm already beginning to anticipate how strong Qin Miao might become in the future."

Zhou Haoran said: "But now that Qin Miao has truly received this honor, looking back at his performance in F2, it only makes us feel it wasn't so strange after all that Qin Miao ended up achieving such results, because his performance in F2 already foreshadowed all this."

"Haoran," Fei suddenly asked out of curiosity, "Back in '19, did you ever think you'd see such a scene one day?"