How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 150 - 104: Significant Increase in Strength (Part 2)

Directly used eight Free Attribute Points to max out his defensive ability.

After a long time, Qin Miao had a relatively clear understanding of the system’s rating system.

Scores below 79, improvement just requires effort and sweat, but breaking through 79 to 80 requires long-term accumulation, and breaking through 89 to 90 requires talent.

As for beyond 90, each point of improvement requires ten times the effort than before.

So after maxing out his defensive ability, Qin Miao broke through the bottlenecks of stamina, race long-distance, and attack ability.

In total, 11 Free Attribute Points were spent, leaving Qin Miao with 4 points to freely allocate.

Luckily, the system didn’t force Qin Miao to use up all these Skill Points, so these extra 4 points were kept for future breakthroughs.

After assigning points, Qin Miao’s current attributes are as follows:

Overall Rating: 78.8→（+1.1）

Stamina: 90→（+1）

Mentality: 81

Stability: 85

Qualifying Ability: 77

Starting Ability: 71

Race Long-Distance: 80→（+1）

Tire Management Ability: 65

Rain Combat Ability: 59

Attack Ability: 80→（+1）

Defensive Ability: 100→（+8）

After maxing out points, seeing his defensive ability had reached the limit, Qin Miao didn’t have much excitement on his face, as that familiar yet strange feeling invaded his mind once again.

This feeling was the same as when Qin Miao obtained that B-level driver’s license half a year ago, a pile of knowledge and skills poured into his mind instantly, causing a moment of painful headaches, and for a while even losing the ability to scream.

But as before, it was just a momentary thing.

Soon Qin Miao returned to normal, and after experiencing this indescribable pain, Qin Miao found that his thinking ability had changed remarkably.

Now there was much more knowledge in Qin Miao’s mind, such as advanced defensive maneuvers, a bunch of dirty tricks that don’t violate the rules, and many defensive moves that would be penalized but not seriously.

These things could now be used as easily as Qin Miao’s hands, like an instinct.

Upon confirming his state had significantly improved, Qin Miao didn’t intend to waste his night’s rest and directly started practicing at the Fiorano Circuit on his simulator at home, planning to drive through the track on his electric scooter the next day.

Others weren’t clear, but Qin Miao, to achieve a good result in the upcoming tests, even halved his routine stamina training. According to Lubos’ assessment, Qin Miao’s current physical training could only maintain his current body strength; training this way wouldn’t lead to any growth, the only benefit being more time saved for track practice.

However, Lubos understood and supported Qin Miao’s approach, and their cooperation was currently quite good. As long as nothing unexpected happened, Qin Miao would likely employ him as his Physical Trainer for a long time.

If Qin Miao could achieve a good result in this test, it’s predictable that his status would rise along with Qin Miao’s.

Also knowing that the race day for Ferrari’s youth training drivers was approaching, Ferrari had stopped testing vehicles at Fiorano Circuit and handed the track over to the youngsters to practice and get familiar.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qin Miao drove around the track twice and also ran through two sets of Pirelli GT3 tires with his car equipped with GT3 aerodynamics kit.

Due to the specialty of Qin Miao’s car, the results he achieved with this car didn’t provide much reference value, mainly helping Qin Miao get accustomed to the driving feel on this track.

But Qin Miao felt he had done everything he could on this track, with limited room for improvement.

And this sense of achievement and feeling came the day before the race.

At this moment, Qin Miao had done everything he could; for six days he didn’t even have the time to accompany Qimeng.

As the saying goes, do your best, leave the rest to fate.

Qin Miao felt he had done everything he could, so on the last day before the race, he planned to calm his mind and take half a day off.

However, Qin Miao’s system had to go against him, and just as Qin Miao was about to relax properly before the race, a system mission came in.

[Ding!]

[Detecting competition]

[Mission: Show your fangs

You’ve been laying low for long enough, it’s time to let the world know your terrifying racing talent. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Mission Requirement: Win the upcoming race and lap at least one car from the same group.

Reward: All Attributes +2*N (Note 1: N=Number of lapped cars)(Note 2: Half of max attribute points will convert to Free Attribute Points), Passive Skills: [No Illness or Calamity], Skill Slot*1]

[No Illness or Calamity]: Equip this skill, and the host will not have any illnesses before dying of old age.

Seeing that, Qin Miao... well, the system mission reward clearly indicated that the system didn’t want Qin Miao to slack off at all.

Even if not for this All Attributes +2*N reward, for his lifetime health of No Illness or Calamity, and for that extra Skill Slot, Qin Miao knew he couldn’t take half a day off and needed to continue practicing.

So until the day before the race, which was the day for testing and tuning cars for the race drivers, Qin Miao didn’t manage to get more than half an hour of rest.

Of course, effort brings rewards, not to mention a gifted talent like Qin Miao.

Though the recent emergency practice didn’t allow Qin Miao to become as familiar with Fiorano Circuit as Monza, where he could replicate the entire track including Matthew’s entrance in his mind, he memorized details like the asphalt condition of turns, where the braking points were, how elevation changes affect the car, corner angles, the height of curbs, and the grip of the curb paint.

All these were etched in Qin Miao’s mind through lap after lap practice.

The next day, Qin Miao, Lubos, and Qimeng went to Fiorano Circuit together.

Since Qin Miao had occupied Qimeng’s bike, using it too frequently, Qimeng had no choice but to get a new one for himself.

So going to Fiorano Circuit this time, the two went on bikes, while Lubos could only watch helplessly as they rode away.

Fortunately, Fiorano Circuit was nearby, just about three hundred meters to the left of Qin Miao’s dorm street, so Lubos didn’t have to walk for too long.

Though not Qin Miao’s first visit there, he waited for Lubos to arrive before entering the Fiorano Circuit.

As Qin Miao was there to inspect the F3 he’d be driving in tomorrow’s race, he needed Lubos to guide him around.

As for potential issues with the car, Qin Miao wasn’t worried at all, because these cars were manufacturer-inspected before being delivered, unlikely to have hidden flaws, and Qin Miao still had several Man and Car Unity Skill Cards on him.

After seeing his car, he sat down, slapped a Skill Card on it, and all issues would reveal themselves.

Even if there were unsolvable issues, Calming the Machine Soul could be used to get through the race without problems.

Apart from car inspection, practice and tuning on the track were needed today.

Qin Miao didn’t look for familiar engineers for vehicle tuning help, not because nobody was willing to help him due to poor relations, but rather he didn’t know anyone in Ferrari in this regard.

His work in the F1 simulator mostly involved tuning the simulator and testing new parts, interacting more with design staff like Li Qin, with little contact with actual technicians.