How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 122 120: Five red lights go out

The racers in the queue stepped on the accelerator slightly in neutral.

Qin Miao didn't know how the others started, but he kept his engine speed at around 6000 rpm, fixed his eyes on the five red lights above, and pressed the clutch button after the five red lights went out.

Amidst the engine roar of 21 F2 engines, five red lights went out, Qin Miao also pressed the clutch button at the same time, the clutch gear was coupled with the engine, and the rear wheels of the red Prema racing car started instantly, driving the car to start grid.

Qin Miao started perfectly this time, much better than Zhou Guanyu, and her reaction was at least 0.2 seconds faster.

The time of 0.2 seconds may actually feel like an instant, but this 0.2 seconds is definitely a great advantage in racing, a sport where milliseconds count.

So before the traffic flow entered T1, Qin Miao had surpassed Zhou Guanyu and came to the first position by relying on his excellent starting ability.

After confirming that he had rushed to the first position and Zhou Guanyu was not a threat to him, Qin Miao glanced at the vehicles behind.

Because after he surpassed Zhou Guanyu, he didn't make too many moves, he just kept his outside line, and wanted to use a wider track width or a faster exit speed after cornering.

Zhou Guanyu didn't do this to attack Qin Miao, and based on his understanding of Qin Miao, it was too difficult to come back after being overtaken by Qin Miao. Qin Miao's defensive ability was extremely terrifying. Zhou Guanyu really I have no confidence to surpass Qin Miao.

So all these actions of his are to defend his teammate, another driver whose start is comparable to Qin Miao: Callum Yilot.

Although this racing car is red, it is actually a driver of the same team as Zhou Guanyu, but this person and Qin Miao are from the same youth training team, and both belong to Ferrari.

Because the start was good enough, after Qin Miao passed Zhou Guanyu, Yilot also passed Zhou Guanyu on the inside with his own speed.

So just a start, Zhou Guanyu lost two positions, from first to third.

"Five red lights go out and the game begins!"

"Qin Miao got off to a good start and surpassed Zhou Guanyu before entering T1!"

"Zhou Guanyu's teammate Yilot also made an amazing start. He got into second place just by starting in fourth place!"

"However, Zhou Guanyu firmly stands on the outside line. Even if Yilot surpasses Zhou Guanyu in the initial stage, he has to go inside when he enters T1."

As Bingge said, although Zhou Guanyu lost two positions at the start, he defended the outside line when he exited the corner at T1, so he had a higher exit speed than Ilott, who was on the inside. In the long straight between T1 and T3, Zhou Guanyu has an obvious speed advantage.

So after entering the straight road, Zhou Guanyu began to catch up with Yilot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even before reaching T2, where the sense of presence is not high, Zhou Guanyu tapped outside.

Also because Zhou Guanyu took the outside line before entering T2, so when he passed T2, which turned right, Zhou Guanyu directly overtook Yilot by half the body.

But then there was a low-speed right turn. Yilot, who was walking on the inside line, could squeeze into the inside line by late braking and overtake Zhou Guanyu.

Even when exiting the corner from T1, Yilot held the inside line because of this kind of thought.

And at this critical moment, Zhou Guanyu's good brother, Qin Miao made a move.

He has been leading all the time, in fact, the two turns of T1 and T2 can open the distance of at least two car bodies from the car behind.

But at the beginning stage, he noticed that Zhou Guanyu was not doing well, and he was still a little worried about his big brother, and found that Zhou Guanyu started fighting with Yilot in T2.

So when T3 entered the corner, he slowed down a little bit, and he didn't take a wider line when turning, but cut the shoulder of the road.

Qin Miao himself was faster than the two of them, and when the front of his car was aligned with the apex, it happened to be the time when Zhou Guanyu and Yilot came behind Qin Miao's car.

At this time, Qin Miao's body just blocked Yilot's route, and gave way to Zhou Guanyu's route who was taking the outside route.

Although Qin Miao has the risk of being pouted by Yilot, Qin Miao also knows that Yilot, who has a chance to win the podium in the first competition in 2020, cannot be so careless.

So he boldly blocked his line.

And the fact is just as Qin Miao thought.

Facing Qin Miao's body that was almost horizontally in front of him, Yilot chose to slow down helplessly, while Zhou Guanyu who was on the side just saw the needles, got rid of the fight with Yilot, passed T3 smoothly, and was in Qin Miao's car. After fueling the flames, he won the second position.

"Zhou Guanyu! Relying on T1's outside speed advantage, he successfully caught up with Yilot on the back straight!"

"Wheel to wheel side by side! T2 is relying on the outside line to tap! Is there any chance for T3 to overtake?"

Zhou Haoran said: "I guess it's impossible. Ilott can seal off Zhou Guanyu's line as long as he brakes late here."

And just as Zhou Haoran finished speaking, Qin Miao blocked Yilot because of the line problem, and gave up Zhou Guanyu's position on the screen.

"Qin Miao?! When Qin Miao entered the corner, he blocked Yilot, who was inside!" Fei Ge exclaimed.

Brother Bing couldn't help it: "Hahaha, this way Zhou Guanyu didn't lose too many positions, and the top two are still Chinese drivers."

At this time, Zhou Haoran, who was also full of happiness and relief, asked suddenly: "Could Qin Miao deliberately create opportunities for Zhou Guanyu?"

Before the other two commentators answered, Zhou Haoran explained the reason for his analysis: "I've seen the video of Qin Miao's qualifying match. He usually takes the outside line in T3, and he won't Going inside to cut the shoulder like I just did..."

The entire studio was silent, and then the three commentators analyzed the possibility of this matter.

On the field, after helping Zhou Guanyu out of the siege and making sure that he will not be attacked by Yilot in a short time, Qin Miao started to run at his own pace.

However, Qin Miao still gave Zhou Guanyu a hand, because Qin Miao did not follow the team's arrangement when running at his own pace, and first pushed with all his strength to pull away the distance of at least 2 seconds from the rear car.

After Qin Miao passed T3 and confirmed that Zhou Guanyu's position was preserved, he began to protect the miscarriage according to his own rhythm.

If Zhou Guanyu can catch up with his rhythm, then Qin Miao doesn't mind letting Zhou Guanyu keep up with him. As for Zhou Guanyu's attack.

Just kidding, with my 100 top defensive ability and the fact that I drive a standard car, if Zhou Guanyu can surpass Qin Miao in the game, Qin Miao will give him P250 for pistol rounds in future games.

But after the race, not only did Zhou Guanyu fail to overtake Qin Miao, even if Qin Miao was running at a tire-safe rhythm, Zhou Guanyu, who was behind the car, had to push to the limit if he wanted to keep up with Qin Miao.

And Zhou Guanyu can barely keep up with Qin Miao when he can absorb Qin Miao's wake. Although Yilot, who lost his rhythm because of Qin Miao's dirty routine, is still ranked third, but because of that brake, He was separated by at least 1.5 seconds by Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu.

And this gap is still being gradually widened at a speed visible to the naked eye. After the first lap is finished, the gap reaches 1.7 seconds, the second lap is 2.1 seconds, and the third lap is 2.9 seconds.

Basically, Qin Miao was at least 0.6 seconds faster than Yilot in every lap.

And Zhou Guanyu was thrown away by Qin Miao by 1 second before the DRS was turned on in the competition.

It's not that Zhou Guanyu doesn't want to chase anymore, the main reason is that he really can't catch up.

Even if he could barely absorb Qin Miao's wake, the gap between the two was still being widened by Qin Miao.

From Zhou Guanyu's perspective, Qin Miao's routing seems to be controlled by a machine. Whether it is braking, corner entry, corner cutting, or corner exit, every step is done just right. Push to the limit with as little tire wear as possible.

And when Zhou Guanyu drives, there will be some flaws more or less.

Compared with Qin Miao, the braking may be one meter late or one meter early for a corner, and the angle of entry into the corner is smaller or larger, basically it will not have much impact on the speed.

But the accumulation of little will make more, and Zhou Guanyu will not be able to catch up with Qin Miao even if he pushes with all his strength.

So after the third lap, Zhou Guanyu was honest and started to run at his own pace.

then……

Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were out of camera.

On the seventh lap, Qin Miao pulled away from Zhou Guanyu by 2.5 seconds and Yilot by 3.6 seconds.

Because it is an F2 race, the director prefers to show more F2 drivers.

When those corners with relatively large angles appeared in the broadcast screen, Qin Miao's car was basically invisible.

Because by the time the F2 troops appeared in the camera, Qin Miao had already passed the corner and started to move towards the next corner.

On the eighth lap, Qin Miao refreshed his fastest lap speed: 1:17:667.

On the ninth lap, Qin Miao completed laps against other racers for the first time in the F2 field. The unlucky one who was lapped was elementary school student Yuki Tsunoda.

This buddy seems to have encountered a mechanical failure and entered the station once. When he came out, he was not far in front of Qin Miao. Qin Miao caught up with him in two laps, and then easily completed the lap on him with the blue flag.

On lap No.11, British driver Jack Aitken made the first pit stop and put on hard tires.

There are still 29 laps left before the end of the race.

At the same time, Qin Miao once again broke his fastest lap record: 1:17:555.

On lap No.12, the pit window opened, and three cars entered the pit to change tires.

On lap No.13, the time gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu came to 6.5 seconds, while the gap between Zhou Guanyu and his teammate Yilot widened slightly: 1.7 seconds.

Seeing the gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, Brother Bing commented sharply: "This is completely like F1 drivers delegating F2 to fry fish..."

On lap No.18, Zhou Guanyu came in to change tires, and the tire changer performed perfectly, taking a total of 6.2 seconds.

After Zhou Guanyu got out of the pit, he fell into the sixth position, in front of him was the Russian driver Artem Makarov who did not pit.

On the second lap of No.20, almost all the drivers of the team stopped and changed to hard tires. The reason for saying this is basically because Qin Miao was still running with that set of soft tires at this time, and refreshed it again in this lap. My fastest lap: 1:17:332.

Seeing this, Brother Fei couldn't help exclaiming: "Which rock did this Qin Miao jump out of? He has a strong starting ability, and his defensive ability was a glimpse just now. Now his ability to protect his pregnancy is so terrifying. After running 22 laps, the soft Tire can actually refresh his own fastest lap record?"

I almost said, this kid is so terrifying, he will become a big weapon in the future.

At this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu who had already entered the station was 42.7 seconds.

But at this time, Qin Miao still had no intention of pitting. With the blessing of his skills and his deliberate driving style, the average wear of Qin Miao's set of soft tires was only 31%, and there was not even a cliff point in grip. arrive.

Cliff Point As the name suggests, tire wear has a strong correlation with tire grip.

As the tires wear, the grip of the tires will gradually decrease, and this decline in grip is very gentle.

And when the tire wears to a certain extent, the speed of grip loss will suddenly accelerate, and this place is the cliff point of the tire.

No.20 six laps, Zhou Guanyu’s car failed to shift gears after exiting T1 corner. Although it was not possible to stop directly on the track, the speed dropped a lot because it couldn’t shift higher gears. serious.

On the seventh lap of No.20, Zhou Guanyu stopped for maintenance, and when he came out again, he had already fallen to the end of the line, just in front of Qin Miao.

Seeing Zhou Guanyu in front of him, Qin Miao was stunned for a while.

I thought to myself that I didn't stop to change the tire, why did Zhou Guanyu give me an under cut?
After asking in TR, I found out that there was something wrong with Zhou Guanyu's car.

Looking at the unlucky guy in front of him with some pity, Qin Miao replied to Frankie that he knew.

As for Five-Star Sports, the three commentators all sighed when they found out about Zhou Guanyu's racing car failure. Take hold.

But under such a good situation, Zhou Guanyu's racing car pulled his hips.

How can this not make the domestic audience who are paying attention to this game feel sorry.

On lap No.20, Qin Miao's persistence paid off. Force India's youth driver Atem Makarov's car had an engine failure on the straight between T1 and T2 where Zhou Guanyu's car failed.

Unlike Zhou Guanyu, Zhou Guanyu was able to drive the car back for repair if he persisted, but his car had a direct engine, and it wouldn't ignite when it was turned off.

Therefore, the race will convert the yellow flag into a safety car while showing the yellow flag.

And Qin Miao, who hadn't pitted for 29 laps, had just entered the cliff point with the soft tire. Although the grip had begun to decline rapidly, she could still hold on for another lap or two.

But now that there is a free pit stop for the safety car, Qin Miao will naturally not let it go, so he pits for a white tire.

At the same time, after seeing Qin Miao enter the station, it was still the familiar meeting room of Ferrari. Binotto put away his notebook and left here together with Resta.

Sui Wentao and the others practiced changing tires a lot in private, so this time the tire change went very smoothly.

And he knew that Qin Miao had a great speed advantage. Even if they changed each tire for 5 seconds, Qin Miao still ranked first when they went out, so there was no psychological pressure when changing tires.

When leaving the station, Qin Miao still maintained his position, behind him was Zhou Guanyu's teammate Ilot, and behind him was Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher.

It wasn't easy for this guy from the sixth grid position to catch up all the way to third.

The rise of the Prema team was already foreseeable at this time.

Qin Miao, who was frying fish in F2 as soon as he came out, and the son of Michael Schumacher, who chased from sixth to third all the way.

To say that Prema won't win the championship this year is beyond reason.

(Add more post in the afternoon)

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