How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 117 115: Walking the track with Zhou Guanyu
However, it was impossible for Qin Miao to explain the reason to Franky. After a few chats, the two began to wait for Sui Wentao's inspection results.

The inspection in this aspect is also relatively simple. The car-machine system of the F2 racing car has a self-inspection function, just start it and let it self-inspect.

Soon the results came out. Sui Wentao came to the two of them with a strange expression on his face, and said honestly, "The telemetry system is fine. We checked the computer before Qin Miao came back, and there was no error displayed..."

After finishing speaking, Sui Wentao looked at Qin Miao, and Frankie also stared at Qin Miao, with astonishment in his eyes, but more of surprise and a trace of ecstasy that couldn't be concealed.

But that's not all, and then Frankie pointed to the table representing the fuel quantity and said: "There is also fuel consumption. You are nearly 6% less than Mick."

After hearing the news, Qin Miao was also a little dazed.

Qin Miao could understand why his tire consumption was less than Mick's, but he didn't know why his fuel consumption was so much less than Mick's. After all, there was no fuel consumption reduction skill in his skill list.

Qin Miao, who was puzzled by this, just attributed it to Mick's driving habits.

And Qin Miao's abnormal tire wear cannot be hidden.

Some people from Mick's crew came to ask Qin Miao if their data was wrong. When they came to ask, their expressions were not very good. They might think that Qin Miao and the others were fooling them with fake data.

At the end of the day, even Frankie took out the backup data on his computer and showed it to the other party, and they believed that the outrageous data that his mother opened the door for the outrageous and the outrageous home was real.

Today's test lasted for two days. After all, F2 is a standardized car, and there are not so many places to test and adjust. Two days is enough for Qin Miao to get familiar with his crew and understand the characteristics of this car. Car condition.

Next, Qin Miao and their destination: Austria.

It is worth mentioning that, before the two big trucks of the Prema team were about to leave Maranello, Mick did three more flying laps on the track, using soft tires, but these three laps did not refresh Qin The flying lap record that Miao made on the first day.

Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car, heard from Sui Wentao that when Mick got out of the car and took off his helmet, his whole face was smelly.

Qin Miao just smiled at this, his relationship with Mick is not very deep, even as Qiu Meng said, Qin Miao is not false to all the drivers of the Ferrari youth training.

Although Qin Miao no longer ignored Mick directly after the two entered the same convoy, at most they just nodded at each other, basically saying nothing.

I believe that after this happened, the relationship between Mick and Qin Miao would become more rigid.

After returning to Vicenza to rest for two days, the two cars of the Prema team set off again and went to Austria to participate in the first race of this year's F2 and also the first race of this year's F1.

Austria borders Italy. From the map, Austria is on the head of Italy, and Vicenza is in the north of Italy.

So it takes more than 400 kilometers to drive from the headquarters of the Prema team to the Red Bull Ring, and it takes four and a half hours to arrive, which is almost like a long trip.

On the road, Qin Miao played Red Police with his crew members using the ROG notebook that Qiumeng gave him.

This is the advantage of the team having a truck. In order to ensure the safety of the car during transportation, the team has a double-layer shock absorber inside the rear cargo compartment.

This thing is a bit like a large gimbal that can hold things.

After asking, Qin Miao realized that it is very difficult to realize this thing, so this thing is also very expensive, and this kind of truck is usually used to transport antiques or other valuable and fragile items.

It also has something to do with Prema's background. After repairing two transport trailers that were eliminated by Ferrari, they can continue to be used after repairing them, and the effect is very good.

As long as the truck driver does not pursue the limit when cornering like Qin Miao, the experience of sitting in the car is still very good. Basically, the bumps on the road are not felt, and the vibration is very slight. Only when going uphill or A noticeable level change can be felt when going downhill.

The only pity is that there is no Internet in such an excellent environment, so Qin Miao and the others can only use the laptops that are usually used to adjust the racing settings to play Red Alert and CS1.6, which can be played with LAN.

The Prema team set off in the morning and arrived at Stiespielburg, where the Red Bull Ring is located, at noon.

Qin Miao is a rookie in F2, but those people in the Prema team are all veterans, and they drove the team car into the track with ease.

Then find the organizer to register, and today's task will be completed.

Of course, Qin Miao's task is just completed. Sui Wentao and other technicians of the Prema team will also unload the cars of the two drivers at this time, and build a temporary P room for the racing car at the designated location.

At that time, they still have to collect tires and the like. Anyway, they didn't have a rest all day today.

And Qin Miao needs to walk around the track before the sun goes down today, because practice and qualifying will start tomorrow.

After confirming that his racing car was settled, Qin Miao looked around and found UNI-Virtuosi Racin where Zhou Guanyu was located. Their team was two places next to his team's P room.

After saying hello to Sui Wentao, Qin Miao went over to have a look curiously.

This is the first time Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu's F2 car this year in reality.

Compared with last year, there is no change in the paintwork of Zhou Guanyu's car this year, but the driver number has changed from No. 7 to No. 3.

I didn't see Zhou Guanyu near the P room, went in and asked them and they said that Zhou Guanyu was not there, so Qin Miao took out her mobile phone and called him.

"what's up?"

"Who the hell are you? You're not in the Red Bull Ring at all."

"It's here? Why are you here now?"

"Stop talking nonsense, there it is, let's go to the track together, and I'll see if I can secretly learn something from you."

"It's time to eat. It's too hot at noon so you don't want to go. I'll go in the afternoon when the temperature cools down a bit. I'll call you then. Did Qiumeng come?"

Qin Miao was speechless: "What the hell are you thinking about my wife?"

Zhou Guanyu replied faintly: "She gave me a gift just because it was my birthday, and you old man just said happy birthday, and then asked me if I could play games!"

Speaking of this, Qin Miao is also a little bit wrong, probably because she has never received a gift for her birthday since she was a child. For so many years, Qin Miao has always been resistant to preparing gifts for others.

On the one hand, he doesn't know what to give to others, and on the other hand, he also thinks that giving things to others is an extremely troublesome thing.

So Qin Miao, who only knew about Zhou Guanyu's birthday after hearing Qiu Meng's reminder on Zhou Guanyu's birthday, didn't think too much about it. It happened that he was also planning to ask Zhou Guanyu to play games at that time, so after posting a happy birthday, he asked: [When will you be on the account? 】

The point is that Zhou Guanyu gave Qin Miao a souvenir worth more than [-] yuan during Qin Miao's birthday this year. Comparing the two, Qin Miao seems a bit uninteresting.

So when Zhou Guanyu said it, Qin Miao would feel that he was wrong.

"Ahem, what, someone is looking for me here, hang up first, and call me when I walk the track in the afternoon..."

After finishing speaking, Qin Miao hung up the phone directly, looked around with some guilt, and found that Zhou Guanyu was not in the vicinity, and then hurried back to the P room of his motorcade.

After returning to Room P, Frankie ran over and asked Qin Miao when he was going to walk the track.

After talking to him about his thoughts, Franky also felt that it made sense, so he put the itinerary into the afternoon in his notepad.

During this spare time, Qin Miao packed her luggage and brought Qiu Meng back to the hotel where they were staying.

In the afternoon, Qin Miao was also relatively free. He took out his laptop and started playing games. However, since the screen of the laptop was not as good as that of the computer at home, Qin Miao did not play competitive games, but played "Dead Cell" and the like. Small games to pass the time.

Without Lubos watching, Qin Miao basically lost all subjective initiative, and everything will be fine if he completes the prescribed amount of training. He never does extra training and plays games whenever he has spare time.

Although he knew that this was not good, but a young man of Qin Miao's age had just gained power and was favored by so many people. There was only Qiu Meng who spoiled him so much that no one could control him at all.

Qin Miao played the game until Zhou Guanyu called, and the two went to the Red Bull Ring again.

When Qin Miao came to the P room of his team again, his vehicle preparation work had been completed, and at the same time Qin Miao also saw Zhou Guanyu here.

This man is studying next to his racing car.

Because Zhou Guanyu used to be a driver of the Prema team, and many people in the Prema team knew that Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu had a good relationship. In addition, everyone was a driver, so they would give some face.

So Zhou Guanyu went to the side of Qin Miao's racing car like a spy, looking around and no one cared.

"What are you doing? Studying competitors' racing cars, right? Be careful, I'll sue you at the FIA!" Qin Miao walked over with a smile.

Hearing the familiar voice, Zhou Guanyu straightened up, and when he saw Qin Miao, he couldn't help but put on a smile on his face: "Just sue, I don't believe that you have any business secrets to hide in this shabby car."

"Then I'm as tall as two Disney's legal counselors." Qin Miao had already come close while speaking.

The two friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time due to special reasons smiled at each other, and then gave each other a big hug.

After hugging, Zhou Guanyu looked at Qin Miao with a complicated expression: "You said, why did you enter F1 in your first season as a driver? Is there something wrong with Luo Xin's old eyesight?"

Qin Miao waved her hand angrily: "Go, buddy is talented and intelligent, Luo Xin has a discerning eye, and he can see at a glance that my talent is against the sky, and I will become a great weapon in the future."

Regarding Qin Miao's words, Zhou Guanyu did not refute, but shook his head and said, "Stop talking nonsense, let's go to the track."

Qin Miao had no objection to this, so she called Frankie and brought Qiu Meng an umbrella, and Qin Miao's team was ready.

Zhou Guanyu also went to his P room and called his crew members. A group of seven people entered the track from the pit entrance of the Red Bull Ring.

The Red Bull Ring track is Qin Miao's favorite track, because when he first started playing games and couldn't afford a steering wheel, it was very easy to run on this track with the handle, and he didn't need to fine-tune the handle when driving. Rod, just hit the handle to death.

After entering the track, the two started to move along the lane of the car while chatting.

The Red Bull Ring track has a total length of 4.318 kilometers. A few people walk around and have to check the asphalt and road shoulders on the track. It is estimated that they will not be able to return within an hour and a half.

Walking to T1, Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao chatted.

"How often do you pass T1?" Zhou Guanyu was curious.

After thinking for a while, Qin Miao replied: "If you drive the F1 simulator, you will start to brake at about 80 meters, and then exit the corner in third or fourth gear... I have never run it in reality. I will have to drive tomorrow to know the specifics."

Zhou Guanyu nodded.

After all, Zhou Guanyu had run this track before. After realizing that it was the first time for Qin Miao to run this track, he began to tell Qin Miao some skills he knew.

"Look at this." Zhou Guanyu squatted on the road shoulder at the entrance of T1 and said to Qin Miao: "Although the road shoulder here is bumpy, it is very small. You can eat as much of the road shoulder as you can during qualifying. A wide turn-in line is more profitable than the speed loss caused by bumps."

After hearing Zhou Guanyu's words, Qin Miao also knelt down and touched the shoulder of the road with her hands to feel the height of the shoulder. It was indeed like what Zhou Guanyu said, the height of the shoulder was only 1 to 2 centimeters.

F2 cars have some loss of speed when the tires are inflated, but a loss of grip is unlikely.

After seeing this place, the two came to the APEX point of T1, which is the apex of T1.

The road shoulder at this place is different from the road shoulder at the entrance, because it is a small uphill, so the road shoulder is relatively high, and the speed loss will be relatively large if you press it up. The best route is to press the white line on the outside of the tire, but as far as possible Don't hit the shoulder.

As for the height of the road shoulder after the corner, it is the same as the entrance, but there is a yellow sausage shoulder on the outside of the road shoulder.

In this place, Zhou Guanyu said that he usually takes a little bit off, trying not to press the road shoulder as much as possible, because it is easy to slip after being pressed.

But Qin Miao put forward a different opinion: "Look at the paint on the shoulder of the sausage."

Qin Miao pointed to the bright yellow sausage road shoulder and said: "There are obvious traces that have just been brushed. I feel that the tires should be pressed on it. When you practice, you can try to ride on the left tire. I feel that this place is so beautiful. If you run, you should be able to squeeze out an advantage of about 0.1 seconds per lap."

Zhou Guanyu rubbed his chin in thought, then stretched out his hand to touch the sausage shoulders that had been repainted not long ago, and felt that the friction force was really good: "Don't say it, don't say it, maybe your method is really good, practice tomorrow I'll try it when it's time to race."

There is nothing to talk about in the next part of the road. Just step on the accelerator all the way. Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu even chatted about games while walking this part of the road.

At the same time, the photo of the young Chinese driver of the Prema team and the Chinese driver of the UNI-Virtuosi Racin team walking on the track together was discovered by a photographer who came in advance to find a camera angle.

He thought this scene was very interesting, so he took a photo and posted it on his social account, and this photo was sent back to China at a fast speed.

(End of this chapter)