How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 121 119: Five red lights are on

After the meeting was over, Qin Miao sent Zhou Guanyu a WeChat message.

This is a WeChat that Qin Miao re-registered abroad. Her only friends are her mother, Qiu Meng, Zhou Guanyu, and Boss Zhou, her biggest benefactor.

The WeChat and QQ that Qin Miao used to use in China have been handed over to Qiu Meng to take care of them.

It’s not that Qin Miao is indifferent to his former classmates and friends. The main reason is that now Qin Miao spends most of his time on training and studying, and a small part of his rest time is also used by him to play games to relax, and he basically has no spare time to reply to WeChat. Things like QQ deal with interpersonal relationships, but China is a society of personal affection after all, and interpersonal relationships must be maintained.

At this time, Qiu Meng, Qin Miao's manager, had more spare time than Qin Miao, and she was more mature and sophisticated than Qin Miao in terms of worldly relationships, so she was the most suitable candidate.

After Qin Miao sent the wechat to Zhou Guanyu, the other party quickly replied to Qin Miao, and then sent Qin Miao the address of the meal.

The three of them went to a buffet together. Qin Miao had gradually forgotten his instructions when Lu Bosi was not around. Take two bites.

While eating, Zhou Guanyu watched as Qin Miao was eating high-fat, high-calorie foods like steaks, fried chicken burgers, cola, etc. After eating, he even showed off a large box of ice cream as dessert, his eyes rolled. The child is about to stare out.

"Fuck, Qin Miao, you can't beat it?" Zhou Guanyu's eyes were full of shock.

He can still understand eating steak. After all, drivers still have a high demand for protein, and beef is a famous high-protein food.

But fried junk food such as ice cream, coke and fried chicken burgers are natural enemies for athletes. Even if he eats a fried chicken wing, he will have to repent for a long time. The annual amount of junk food, how can this not shock Xiao Zhou.

Of course, Qin Miao didn't explain anything, just wiped his oily mouth and showed Zhou Guanyu a meaningful smile.

Zhou Guanyu didn't understand, but he was shocked.

After returning to the hotel at night, Qin Miao went to bed early after taking a shower. He had a race to run tomorrow, so he didn't want to stay too late.

Silent all night.

The next day Qin Miao got up early, and Qiu Meng also got up very early today.

The two simply cleaned up the room, and then set off for the track.

After arriving at the track, there is a routine preparation, warm-up before the game, reaction training, concentration training and so on.

Because Lu Bosi was not there, Qin Miao came here by himself.

Although capable, this is the first time for Qin Miao to run a race on an FIA-certified track.

Although there were no spectators at the scene due to well-known reasons, Qin Miao also knew that there would be many people watching his game on TV, so Qin Miao was still a little nervous at this time.

The heartbeat began to speed up involuntarily, and sweat inevitably appeared on the palms of the hands.

However, Qin Miao's tense state did not last long. Under Franky's signal, Qin Miao knew that the first round of the F3 race was over, and they would transfer the car and equipment to the maintenance area in 10 minutes. Ready to start the F2 race.

After indicating that she had received the signal, Qin Miao took the bag containing her racing uniform and walked into the team locker room.

He took off his casual clothes, put on a layer of sweat-absorbing and close-fitting inner cushion jumpsuit as a base layer, and then put on the red, white and green one-piece racing suit of the Prema team.

The weather is hot today, which is good news for the car, but not so good news for the drivers.

So Qin Miao just put on the trousers of the racing suit, and Qin Miao tied the sleeves around her waist in a knot just like how she wore a jacket when she was a child.

It's very convenient to do this, and it won't be like Vettel's two sleeves hanging around his body, and he won't swing it around when he walks.

After getting dressed, Qin Miao went to the track alone. At this time, there were many team members pushing cars, tires, tire changing equipment and tire changing tools towards the maintenance area and track.

If you look down at the sky, you can see the crowd rushing towards the track from the temporary P room of F2 like a long dragon.

When he came to the maintenance area, his car had already been pushed onto the track by Sui Wentao and the others.

In the maintenance area, I found my water bottle in-ear noise-canceling headphones, sweat-absorbing headgear, helmet, gloves and steering wheel.

After taking these equipments, Qin Miao went to the track.

There is a connecting exit between the track and the maintenance area, but in the middle, Qin Miao has to pass a lot of vehicles to get to her racing car from here.

At this time, there are still more than ten minutes before the start of the F2 broadcast, which can be regarded as a certain amount of spare time, so Qin Miao walked there at a leisurely pace.

When he came to his car, the familiar figure of Zhou Guanyu's car in front of Qin Miao's left did not appear. After confirming that Zhou Guanyu was not here, Qin Miao did not put more energy there.

Instead, he asked Sui Wentao, "Is it possible that it will rain this time?"

Sui Wentao obviously had already read the weather forecast, and he didn't even think about it after hearing Qin Miao's question, and immediately replied: "The probability of rain is less than 15%, and there is basically no possibility of rain during the race. "

Qin Miao nodded clearly.

Then Sui Wentao said: "The racing car has already been inspected for you in advance, and it is in good condition. Next, we will see your performance."

Qin Miao gave him a thumbs up: "Look, there you go."

After taking a sip of the health potion in the kettle, Qin Miao put on all the equipment on her body.

Although the sun is very bright now, it will be very hot after putting on the racing suit, but it is less than 10 minutes before the start of the race, and the heat will not last long, and Qin Miao saw that Sui Wentao got stuck in the small cart where the tires were placed. A red parasol with the Prema team logo on it.

After putting on the equipment, Qin Miao jumped on the spot and moved his limbs, and then with the help of Sui Wentao, he got into the monocoque of the racing car.

After entering the racing car, Qin Miao locked the headrest, installed the steering wheel, and started the racing system. During the self-inspection of the racing system, Qin Miao inserted the plug of his earphone into the built-in TR system of the racing car.

"Hey hey hey? Can you hear me?"

Franky's voice sounded: "Yes, very clear."

"receive……"

After testing the status of TR as a matter of routine, Qin Miao turned to look at the auditorium above the P room.

There was a beautiful figure looking at him, and when he saw him looking, a bright smile appeared on the other person's face.

Then, under Qin Miao's somewhat astonished eyes, the girl showed her great love with both hands in front of the public.

Qin Miao is a little autistic, and naturally has a little social fear.

If you let an introvert like Qin Miao do this kind of action in public, he would really be ashamed to death, and seeing his girlfriend doing this kind of action to him, although very touched, but still subconsciously digging with his toes.

After a while, Qin Miao gave Qiumeng a thumbs up to show that you are awesome.

After looking away, Qin Miao was ready to buff her racing car.

After a set of routine operations, Qin Miao feels that he may encounter many accidents today, but it is absolutely impossible to encounter accidents where the car retires due to mechanical failure.

And Sui Wentao, who has been holding an umbrella for Qin Miao to shade Qin Miao, obviously saw Qin Miao's movements, so he didn't say anything about it. After all, there are many drivers like Qin Miao who will do some special things before the start of the race. The ceremony, to bless oneself can have a relatively good luck in the next game.

Qin Miao's buff was added, and the five starting lights in the distance also turned on at the same time.

At this time, the five red lights are not ready to start, but to indicate that all drivers have entered their cars within 1 minute, and the race is about to start.

And it wasn't until this time that Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu who hurried over.

Fortunately, at this time, the equipment on his body has been put on.

When Zhou Guanyu passed by Qin Miao, he turned his head and glanced at Qin Miao who was already sitting in the racing car.

The two didn't have time to communicate, but they both saw a strong fighting spirit in each other's eyes.

In the simulator, the two of them had no shortage of trucks, and they were provoked by each other to torpedo each other quite a few times. (Here mainly refers to torpedoing Qin Miao after Zhou Guanyu was caught in a panic)
But this is indeed the first contest between the two sides in reality.

It is undeniable that both of them admit that the other is their best friend in the paddock, but neither of them wants to admit defeat in this kind of competition between friends.

Because after winning the opponent, in the future life, it will be more natural to pretend to be aggressive in front of the opponent, and the opponent cannot refute.

……

"Good morning, audience friends. Welcome to the first stop of the 2020 Formula One Grand Prix brought to you by Five Star Sports, the Austrian mat race: the live broadcast of the F2 main race. I am Brother Bing."

"I'm Brother Fei."

"I'm Zhou Haoran."

After the opening speech, the three commentators brought the topic to the main topic:
Brother Bing concluded: "After yesterday's fierce competition in the qualifying stage, the driver Zhou Guanyu from Shanghai, China won the pole position, while the driver Qin Miao from Hunan, China ranked second with a gap of 0.18 seconds."

Fei Ge: "Because of the excellent performance of the two Chinese drivers, a new history was created in yesterday's qualifying session, that is, for the first time in the F2 qualifying session, two Chinese drivers won pole position and The second place also broke the record of Chinese drivers getting No.2 in qualifying when they entered the F2 field for the first time, a breakthrough from zero to one."

Fei Ge added: "It is unprecedented for two Chinese drivers to appear on the F2 field at the same time, so from now on, any achievements of Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu are important to us. These are new records."

Zhou Haoran said: "The most exciting thing is that the two Chinese drivers have shown a strong dominance on the field. Now we can expect the two Chinese drivers to win the championship in the F2 race, and even have more ideas. Be bold, and look forward to the two of them entering a higher racing hall one day."

……

After the opening remarks, the three hosts chatted with the two drivers on the field and their private relationship.

After that, the director showed the camera to the arena.

At this time, one of the five red lights on the track had gone out, leaving only four red lights still on.

The meaning of only four red lights is actually to remind the team's staff to evacuate the track as soon as possible, and the race is about to start.

So after the four red lights came on, Sui Wentao reached out and shook hands with Qin Miao, then said: "The game is about to start, we have to withdraw, I wish you the best of luck."

Qin Miao nodded: "Look."

During the period when the staff was evacuated, there were only three red lights left. At this time, only a few team members were left on the track except for the FIA ​​staff to make final preparations.

Soon the three red lights became two, and after the two red lights appeared, the drivers on the field started the engines of their F2 cars one after another.

The roar of 22 engines resounded through the audience.

At this time, all the team members have withdrawn from the track one after another, only the official FIA staff and Matthew wearing the FIA ​​vest stood on both sides of the track to confirm the situation of the car and the track.

As the last two red lights went out one by one, only Matthew was left on the entire track.

At this time, Qin Miao could no longer feel any nervousness. After sitting in the racing car, Qin Miao was in the same situation as countless times before. Knowledge of racing.

As if he was born to eat this bowl of rice.

The yellow flag was waved in the rear, and the red light turned green at five stops.

At the front, Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao drove out of their grid immediately, and the warm-up lap of the race began...

During the warm-up lap, Qin Miao also tried to wear as many tires as possible so that his tires would have sufficient grip at the start of the race.

Today's weather temperature is relatively high, and the track temperature is not bad, so Qin Miao didn't wear it that badly. After all, he used the soft tire at the beginning to test how many laps he can run on the soft tire in the current environment. .

It can also be regarded as a preview for tomorrow's sprint race. Although the team's calculations are based on Qin Miao's tire wear, a set of soft tires can run the entire 28-lap sprint race, but Qin Miao still wants to do it before the actual situation. Test the degradation of this set of soft tires.

Soon the tire warm-up lap was over, and Zhou Guanyu and Qin Miao stopped in their grids one after another.

Qin Miao's parking was not perfect this time, there was about 10 centimeters left between the tires and the white line.

However, this distance will not have too much impact on the next departure.

Qin Miao practiced the start during the practice match, so she is familiar with the next operation.

When the F2 cars in the back row enter the grid and the safety car is parked at the rear of the team, the F2 race will begin.

Soon, the race officer at the back of the team waved the green flag in his hand, and the five red lights turned on one by one.

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