How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 119 Chapter 117: Dominance Begins to Show
After a fight, Qin Miao kicked Zhou Guanyu on the butt, and Zhou Guanyu was slapped on the head again, and the incident passed.

After all, the race was about to start later, and it would not be worth the loss to continue to hide at this time, so the two returned to their respective cars.

After everything was ready, it was almost time for the practice match to start.

"Radio test, can you hear me?"

"Well...it's clear. Franky, please turn off the music."

"...Okay." Franky turned off the music in Qin Miao's earphones, and then said: "The countdown to the practice match: 3, 2, 1...start!"

Hearing Franky's voice, Qin Miao started the engine of his racing car, while Sui Wentao walked quickly to the side of the track. After observing the road conditions, he signaled Qin Miao not to drive, because many cars hadn't started before the practice race. I have already lined up at the exit of the pit lane, and the traffic at the exit is a bit congested at the moment.

Although he saw Qin Miao's talent, he was a rookie after all. Sui Wentao was worried that Qin Miao's squeeze in the traffic would make him nervous.

So it was a little bit late to put the car in.

Coincidentally, when Sui Wentao released the car, Zhou Guanyu was also released by his motorcade, and he happened to be right behind Qin Miao's car.

After Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu's helmet with blue and white porcelain elements through the rearview mirror, he suddenly felt a phantom pain in his ass. Damn, Zhou Guanyu didn't spare any strength from the kick he gave him just now.

But after Qin Miao drove into the track and started to accelerate, Qin Miao didn't have the extra thoughts to think about some messy things.

As if a switch on Qin Miao's body was turned on the moment he came out of the maintenance area, the distracting thoughts in Qin Miao's mind were eliminated at this moment, and the whole person instantly entered a state of extreme concentration.

At this time, Frankie's voice came from the TR: "Familiarize yourself with the track in the first two laps, and conduct a long-distance test with a total of 7 laps on the third lap, and then return to the maintenance area to change a set of soft tires to test the soft tires. In the last 10 minutes of the practice session, return to the garage to drain the oil, and use the old soft tires to test the qualifying speed. This is our arrangement today.

Is there anything else you want to add? "

"No, help me pay attention to the traffic situation on the track." Qin Miao's voice was calm at this time, even a little cold, compared with the usual tone of Qin Miao when speaking, it can be said to be a different person.

Franky didn't care too much, he thought it was caused by the clutter of TR's electronic equipment.

In the first three laps of the track, Qin Miao mainly experimented with some things he learned yesterday when he walked the track with Zhou Guanyu, to see if today's track conditions can be used in the test later on these tips.

Three laps was enough time for Qin Miao to memorize these things by heart.

At the end of the third lap, Qin Miao started the long-distance test.

This stage is mainly to test Qin Miao's speed and tire performance during long distances when driving an F2 racing car with heavy fuel.

Then in the second lap of the long-distance test, Qin Miao brushed the third stage of purple, with a time of 1:17:001, temporarily reaching No.1 in the practice match.

This speed is at least 0.4 seconds faster than those drivers who started flying laps on soft tires.

If after seeing Qin Miao's results, Franky was so clear and happy, then the Prema Racing team leader Rosin who was sitting next to him let out a sigh of relief, as if he was about to let himself go. All the stagnation, worry and negative emotions in my heart are spit out.

At this moment, Luo Xin had a sense of security that Qin Miao took Qiu Meng to claim the prize and saw the cash entering his bank account.

Luo Xin’s feeling during this period is similar to that of Qin Miao back then. He knew that Qin Miao was very strong, and he also passed many internal tests and real car tests to prove Qin Miao’s strength, but Qin Miao never competed on the field. No one knows what kind of performance Qin Miao, who is invincible in the training games and tests, will perform in the real arena.

Luo Xin would always feel a little uneasy and uneasy in his heart, coupled with the recent occurrence of such a major event sweeping the world, the external pressure and the internal pressure made his whole nerves a little tense, and after a long time, he felt physically and mentally exhausted. tired.

But it's different now. Qin Miao's performance in the practice match faithfully fulfilled his due talent.

On the other side, in Ferrari's large red touring car, Ferrari's team leader Mattia Binotto and technical director Simone Resta are both sitting in a place similar to a living room.

However, there are only the two of them in the conference room that is usually used for meetings at this time, and they are not discussing anything, but staring at the TV screen in the conference room together, and the F2 practice game is playing on the TV.

……

Qin Miao on the track completed the seven-lap long-distance test on hard tires, and broke his lap record twice on the second lap. Now the fastest lap was brought by Qin Miao to 1:16:607. Duan's fastest speed was made by Qin Miao.

"Okay, the test is complete, the data is very good, and the effect exceeds our expectations, let's go back to the garage first."

Qin Miao returned to the maintenance area as promised.

However, Qin Miao didn't stop there. Instead, after changing a set of soft tires, he drove onto the track and began to test the degradation of the car's soft tires on this track.

On the podium in the maintenance area, Rosin and Frankie fell silent as they watched the telemetry data from Qin Miao's seven laps.

Because Mick drove out of the maintenance area faster than Qin Miao, he had already changed to the hard tire test and started another round of testing before Qin Miao came back, so the two of them had Mick's data here at this time.

The data shows that Qin Miao's fuel consumption is 7% less than Mick's, and tire consumption is 20% less than Mick's...

If these data can be achieved by other drivers as long as they run a little more conservatively, then Qin Miao has this kind of loss and at the same time, the terrifying data of 0.3 seconds faster than Mick per lap will make the dividing line between geniuses and mortals It was clearly placed in front of the two people who saw this data.

This kind of data appears in the comparison of teammates and teammates, and we generally call it:

Hang and beat.

In the next soft tire test, Qin Miao's speed became even faster. He broke his own lap time record on the first lap, and after all seven laps were completed, the fastest speed came to 1:15:919.

However, Qin Miao was broken by someone after completing this lap time, which is normal, because Qin Miao is using this set of tires at the rhythm of the long-distance race, and he still has at least 50% of the oil on the car , You can only run fast to be a ghost.

The good news is that Qin Miao has completed all his long-distance tests today. Franky got the tire wear data of Qin Miao on this track, and based on these data, he started to formulate the tires for the sprint race and the main race in the next two days Use strategy.

At the same time, Qin Miao returned to the garage and drained part of the fuel in his racing car, leaving only enough fuel for Qin Miao to run five laps, and then released Qin Miao to do the flying lap.

Qin Miao didn't run for long. Due to traffic and time constraints, Qin Miao only ran two flying laps before the end of the practice session. On the first flying lap, Qin Miao made 1:14:295.

And the speeding lap at the back was blocked by a slow car, Qin Miao knew that he was blocked, and lost at least 0.2 seconds of time, and he had already pushed to the limit, and he knew that it would be impossible for him to lose this 0.2 seconds It was time to refresh the fastest lap he created, so Qin Miao gave up and slowly drove the car back to the maintenance area.

And in the TR, he kindly greeted the Russian driver named Ma Zeping who blocked him in Chinese.

"Have your fucking eyeballs been eaten by dogs? If you don't need your eyes, you can donate them to those who need them! If you can't drive, you can go home and play with your tmd naiko. Such a big car is coming from behind you. Do you see Miss you? Don’t fucking let me catch you, catch you, I’ll give you a rearview mirror, QNM’s idiot thing!”

It is worth mentioning that since Qin Miao said this in Chinese, no one could understand it. Of course, the director did not release this passage.

2020赛季F2的第一次练习赛在秦淼回到维修区之后也就结束了，秦淼以1:14:295的速度排在第一。

Kakuda Yuyi came in second, 0.91 seconds slower than Qin Miao.

Zhou Guanyu was one full second slower than Qin Miao and ranked third.

As for Qin Miao's teammate Mick... this person is ranked nineteenth, and his lap time is 2.5 seconds slower than Qin Miao...

But this is just a practice game, and the lap time can be enjoyed, but basically it doesn't have much reference value.

After the practice, the drivers and staff of each F2 team also packed up their things and evacuated from the maintenance area.

The next step is the first practice of F1. They can't block the door of the F1 team's P room to affect the highlight of this grand prix.

Qin Miao and his team members had no time to watch the F1 race. After packing up their things and hurriedly returning to the P room of their own team, the two teams of Prema team got together for a meeting.

Rossin didn't say anything about Mick's car being slow, he just explained to the crew members the precautions for qualifying and cheered them on.

After a brief rope-twisting meeting, Qin Miao and his crew members returned to their P room and began to check the car.

Naturally, no problems were found in this inspection. Although Qin Miao drove fast, her driving style was gentle and did not take much effort. The wear and tear on the vehicle caused by a practice session was very small.

During the F1 practice session, Qin Miao took a break, added some water, and took the time to play games for a while, and the time soon came to the F2 qualifying session.

It is still the same process, pushing the car, pulling the tires and taking the tire changing equipment to the door of the P room in the maintenance area to prepare.

After the intense preparation time, the time for qualifying is approaching.

Although today is Friday and you still have to go to work in the morning, Qin Miao's mother took a rare day off today, recalling the method Qiu Meng taught her to hang up the VPN, open the official website of F2, and call Out of the live broadcast interface.

Although she is usually in a state of letting go of her son regardless of whether she cares about it, this is her son after all, and today is his first competition, no matter how important it is, she can't miss this opportunity.

Soon he found Qin Miao's name among the English abbreviations. After all, the three words QIN, which are Chinese pinyin at first glance, are quite conspicuous among the abbreviations of a group of foreigners.

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At the same time, Five Star Sports, which is well-known among F1 fans, also uncharacteristically started the live broadcast ahead of schedule.

However, unlike the past, what they screened in advance was not the opening promotional video of F1, but F2.

After the F2 exclusive Formula 1 Theme finished playing, the three hosts of Five-Star Sports appeared on the TV screen.

After the on-site director signaled the start of the live broadcast, the host Bing Ge began to greet the audience in front of the TV: "Good morning, audience friends, welcome to the first stop of the 2020 Formula One Grand Prix brought to you by Five Star Sports, Austrian Mat Race: Live broadcast of Formula [-] qualifying, I am Brother Bing.”

"I'm Brother Fei."

"I'm Zhou Haoran."

Just when all the viewers were wondering why the five-star poisonous milk started the live broadcast so early, and the content of the live broadcast was not F1 but F2, Brother Bing explained:

"We all know that there is another Chinese driver in F2. After internal discussions in our station, we will also start live broadcasting F2 qualifying, two sprint races and the main race from today. Cheer for the two young Chinese drivers."

Fei Ge added: "The two Chinese drivers fighting in F2 are Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao. Zhou Guanyu was born on May 1999, 21 and is 2001.3.7 years old this year. Qin Miao was born on March 19, [-] and is [-] years old this year. [-] years old."

When introducing the two drivers, the director thoughtfully put their mugshots in racing suits on the screen behind the studio.

Afterwards, several poisonous milks from Five Star Sports chatted about the details of the two drivers, and then changed the topic to the completed F2 practice race.

Soon, following the notification from the broadcaster, the live footage was shown on the field.

The first shot is the exit position of the maintenance area of ​​the Red Bull Ring. At first glance, at least a dozen cars are crowded at the exit position, in order to have a relatively good space for lap time in the next qualifying process. .

As the green light at the exit of the maintenance area turned on, more and more racing cars drove out of the maintenance area.

However, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were still not in a hurry. Qin Miao started the engine and drove the car out after the people in the maintenance area had almost left.

Now Qin Miao is using the old soft tires that he just used for lapping for long distances.

Originally, Rosin and Frankie wanted Qin Miao to change to a new set of soft tires. Based on the speed Qin Miao achieved in practice, it is really possible to use a new set of soft tires in qualifying. Gained pole position.

The two points for pole position in qualifying are also very sweet.

But Qin Miao didn't think it was necessary. He also looked at his tire failure data and knew that he could use soft tires as hard tires.

Qin Miao is confident that he can get the top three in the qualifying stage, so he wants to save an extra set of brand new soft tires for the sprint stage.

Anyway, I have the skills to use soft tires as hard tires. There is no problem at all. When the time comes, the grip of soft tires is matched with the durability of hard tires. The top three in sprint races, and more than ten points are no better than your qualifying races. The pitiful two points in pole position are strong?
At that time, I will still have a set of brand new soft tires and hard tires to use in the main race.

Be bolder, with soft tires, I might be able to get a podium in the back row of the sprint race, and then hold my position in the race, and get another podium. Isn’t this like a heifer entering a bull The group—it's awesome.

Facing Qin Miao's decision and idea, Franky wanted to refuse. After all, the uncertainty of doing so was too high, but Rosin confirmed the feasibility of this matter after verifying and calculating. The only problem now is It is whether Qin Miao can use this set of old soft tires to achieve good results in qualifying.

(End of this chapter)