How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 108: Chapter 106: The crushing qualifying match

The nature of Lawson's meeting is a bit like drawing cakes for his employees, but Ferrari's cakes are not like those small start-up companies that can only be seen but not eaten. Maybe eat this pie into your own mouth.

The content of Lawson's meeting mainly talked about the process of the game, as well as some precautions during the game:

The morning time is the qualifying stage of the three groups. There will be a total of two hours at noon plus the time for eating and resting. After that, there will be three groups of races, namely F4, F3, and touring car races.

Qualifying determines the ranking of the main race stage, and it will not start in reverse order like the official F2 race. You will start the race in whatever position you get in qualifying.

As for the rewards, Lawson said that as long as one wins the championship of the current group, it is possible to get the rewards, but the specific content of the rewards is what Lawson did not specify, just: "After one of you wins the championship Just know."

After explaining the content of the meeting clearly, Lawson gave Qin Miao and the young drivers a certain amount of time to digest.

Taking advantage of this time, Qin Miao carefully observed the drivers who were about to compete with her. Most of them were children, and some of them were minors under the age of ten.

But it is not difficult to see their hesitation and tension from those immature faces.

There are also quite a few drivers who seem to be older than Qin Miao, but these people may also appear to be in a hurry because of their race.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao did not see Mick Schumacher and several other official drivers who belonged to the Ferrari youth training in the crowd.

Qin Miao didn't pay much attention either.

After a while, people got up and left one after another.

Seeing this, Qin Miao knew it was time to prepare for the competition, so she followed their steps and left the meeting room.

At this time, there were already many people sitting on the stands of the track.

Among these people, there are many photographers carrying cameras, but most of them are dressed in suits and leather shoes, dressed like successful people, and there are also many casually dressed spectators who even hold juice drinks and beer in their hands.

It's just that everyone knows that it is absolutely impossible for the audience to come here at this time.

Among the group of people in the auditorium, the most conspicuous man was wearing a Ferrari F1 team uniform, with curly hair, black round glasses, and an extremely tall man.

As long as he sees this dress, his name will immediately appear in the minds of everyone who knows the sport of F1: Mattia Binotto.

The current leader of the Ferrari F1 team, fans "kindly" call him Bihi.

However, those who are familiar with him usually call him by his name or Bi teacher.

Qin Miao also called him Teacher Bi in private.

The two had a lot of exchanges in private, thanks to the opportunity Binotto gave Qin Miao to test the simulator. When Binotto came to accept the upgrade results of the simulator or the test status of new parts, he would always find Qin Miao to find out. What is Qin Miao's opinion on the new parts or the changes in the new version of the simulator.

After going back and forth, the two of them became acquainted, but the degree of understanding between the two parties was actually not high, because the topics of their communication were more about work.

At the same time, besides him, there were also many team leaders from customer teams who used Ferrari cars in GT races. After all, they have such a relationship with Ferrari. For Ferrari's youth drivers, they will definitely have Some preferences.

In addition to them, the team leader of the Formula team that has a good relationship with Ferrari came to the scene, and there were also many professional driver agents.

Teams need good drivers to improve the overall strength of their team, and driver agents also need to find good clients to increase their income and popularity, and many young drivers generally do not have driver agents, and this game is a way to find good clients. Potential young drivers, and went to communicate and try to sign the opportunity.

For these talents at Ferrari, many people are salivating.

The qualifying session in the morning starts in the order of the touring car race, F4, and F3.

Because the number of people is not large, the total time for the three qualifying matches will not exceed two hours.

It happened to be 3:10 in the morning when Qin Miao and his F30 group came on stage.

Qin Miao drove the car into the track under the reminder of the radio in his ear.

At the same time, four F3 racing cars drove out of their P room, and their speeds were not slow. Obviously, like Qin Miao, they all wanted to fight for a relatively empty flying circle position in the next qualifying race.

Qin Miao was not in a hurry, and completed a tire warm-up lap in a satisfactory manner, then paused slightly before the penultimate corner, and waited for the F3 car in front of him to run a little farther before stepping on the accelerator. .

At this time, the track in front of Qin Miao was relatively empty. Gradually fueled, Qin Miao began to speed up continuously, and officially started his first flying lap in qualifying after crossing the finish line.

Qin Miao has already figured out the route of the track and all the curves. Although it is not possible to drive around with eyes closed, Qin Miao basically remembers all the braking points.

Coupled with the fact that Qin Miao had done two flying laps on this track during practice yesterday, and was familiar with the limits of the current F3 car, it can be said that Qin Miao is full of confidence at this time.

After the first lap was finished quickly, Qin Miao made the fastest lap in the current F3 class, 1:08:201.

When Qin Miao finished the first lap, Lu Bosi's voice came from the TR: "1:08:201, now you are ranked first, a full three seconds faster than the No.2 driver!"

When it came to the end, Lubosi's voice was trembling.

Lu Bosi was ignorant before, so he didn't know Qin Miao's talent.

So Lubosi just regarded the fact that the Ferrari Driver Academy assigned him to Qin Miao as an ordinary job.

But as the time spent with Qin Miao increased, Lu Bosi found that Qin Miao was really hardworking, the kind of person who would pull others to take the initiative to practice more.

Although this kind of person is rare, there are quite a few such people in the world, so Lawson just admires Qin Miao a little bit at this time.

But when Qin Miao became the test driver of the Ferrari F1 team simulator, Lu Bosi knew that Qin Miao's talent was as terrifying as his perseverance.

But at that time, Lu Bosi just had a premonition that Qin Miao was really strong. He knew that Qin Miao was strong, but he didn't know how strong Qin Miao was.

And the result of this qualifying made Lu Bosi completely aware of Qin Miao's depth, and he was very excited that he hugged Qin Miao's thigh.

Although this speed is not the limit speed that an F3 car can run on this track, it is definitely not slow, and Qin Miao's lap is not the same as the second time yesterday in order to have an effective bottom line. The test is pushing towards the limit like that, and the results are not as fast as in the practice match.

After the lap, Qin Miao went straight back to the maintenance area to change the tires.

After finishing that lap just now, Qin Miao felt that she was in good condition today, and planned to push to the limit in the next two laps.

Although the set of old red tires on Qin Miao's car will not lose any obvious speed loss if he runs two more laps, this is after all a qualifying race. In Qin Miao's opinion, it is worth changing even for a thousandth of a second. A new set of red tires to go for.

While Qin Miao was changing tires, the drivers on the field also began to work hard.

It's just that Qin Miao's results in that lap just now are like a mountain pressing on everyone's heads. During this period of time, none of the drivers on the field has achieved faster results than Qin Miao.

After finding a gap and coming out of the maintenance area, Qin Miao made his second speeding lap non-stop.

In this speeding lap, Qin Miao unreservedly pushed the car to the limit, jumping repeatedly between out of control and almost out of control.

Qin Miao learned from TR that there is still a gap of more than one second between her first speeding lap and No.2.

After getting the news, Qin Miao knew that the result of his first flying lap might be able to get the pole position directly, and the worst would be the first two rows of the grid.

After getting the news, Qin Miao felt confident. He didn't have to worry about the future, and he was ready to do his best to set the lap time from the second lap.

Then Qin Miao ran with all her strength in the second lap: 1:07:701.

With brand new tires and Qin Miao's striving for the limit in every corner, Qin Miao did not make any mistakes during the flying lap, so she achieved a terrifying speed of 0.5 seconds faster than the first flying lap.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that his result had set a new record for the fastest F3 car on this track.

At this time, Qin Miao's acquaintance, Fini, the head of the Prema Racing team's F3 division, was also sitting in the stands watching his race.

Looking at the fastest lap displayed behind Qin Miao's name on the scoreboard, Feeney was so happy that the corners of his mouth almost reached behind his ears.

Originally, when Qin Miao was practicing in the British Prema team, Feeney knew that Qin Miao's talent was terrifying. Now, after four months, Feeney found that Qin Miao was not a flash in the pan. When he saw Qin Miao again, Feeney He was even pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Miao's strength had grown significantly in just four months.

Among other things, putting Qin Miao's strength in F3 is a blow to dimensionality reduction. He estimated that after he recruited Qin Miao, Qin Miao would only be able to play in F3 for one season at most.

But no matter how you say it, you, Qin Miao, have to drive in F3 for a year before going to F2, right?
So at this time, Feeney can't wait to talk to Lawson after the qualifying race is over, and then use the friendship between himself and Qin Miao to invite him to have a meal together, chat about cooperation and joining the Prema team About the F3 branch.

I need another genius and F3 team champion under my command. Although this genius experience card can only be used for one year, but it can be enjoyed for a year is a year. Thinking of Qin Miao driving his own team's car on the field after joining the team. The appearance of killing the Quartet, Finny was too excited just thinking about it.

Just as Finny was dreaming about his bright future, a person sat in the empty seat next to Finny.

As a worker, Feeney has a deep understanding of the figure and aura of his boss, so after finding someone sitting next to him, Feeney glanced at him from the corner of the eye and felt that the figure of the person sitting beside him Very familiar.

Turning his head to look over, Feeney was startled at first, and then found with some horror that the person sitting next to him turned out to be his immediate boss, the team leader of Prema Racing: Rene Rosin.

(Note: The English translation is Luo Xin, and the Chinese and English translations will be unified later.)
"Hi, Rosin, I didn't expect to meet you here." As a subordinate, Feeney naturally stood up to greet his boss immediately.

Luo Xin nodded with a smile and said, "It's really hard work for you. You have to come here to inspect young people in hot weather."

Feeney replied: "It's all my job, and I should do it."

"Have you found any talented drivers?" Rossin asked while looking at the electronic screen erected not far from their stand, looking at the rankings and driver names on the screen.

In fact, Feeney didn't want to let Rosin realize Qin Miao's terrifying talent too early, because after Rosin knew that there was such a genius as Qin Miao, it was very likely that Rosin would take Qin Miao to F2 directly.

If this kind of thing really happened, Qin Miao would have nothing to do with him.

But this is his immediate boss after all, even if he didn't explain Qin Miao's strength to him at this time, with Qin Miao's strength, Luo Xin could see Qin Miao's talent when he came to the competition.

Moreover, I am already determined to win Qin Miao, and it is absolutely impossible to miss a driver of Qin Miao's level. At that time, a top F3 driver contract will definitely be handed over to Qin Miao.

With a contract of this level, Luo Xin, the team leader, will definitely ask, and I still have to explain it to him when the time comes.

So after a short and almost imperceptible trade-off, Feeney still said honestly: "I am very optimistic about a Chinese driver. You should have an impression of him. He borrowed our F3 car for training some time ago, and the training The results are very good, and the driving skills have improved significantly."

"I have an impression of him." Rosin said with a look of sudden realization: "After I read his statistics, I wanted to sign him, but at that time he had already signed a contract with the Ferrari youth academy and was preparing to come to Mara. Nero is studying. At the same time, the two places in our F3 team are also full, and the performance of the two children is also good, so the idea of ​​​​signing him was put on hold by me."

Feeney hurriedly said: "At that time, I actually had an idea about him. I thought about letting him drive in the F3 team for a year after the end of the season. I guarantee that as long as he comes to me, we will definitely get a team next season." champion."

Seeing Feeney's urgent look, Rosin nodded slightly with a smile: "I have the same opinion as you. If this Chinese driver comes to our F3 team, he will certainly be able to support our team in a short time. Another constructors' championship for the F3 team."

Feeney hurriedly nodded in agreement with his leader's words, but before he wiped the cold sweat off his brow slightly, Rosin changed the subject: "But I think it's not impossible to come directly to my place based on his current performance. "

Feeney:? ? ?
(End of this chapter)