How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 129 Chapter 127: Domination Qualifying (6000 words, fill 2000)

Although his rest time disappeared, Qin Miao was really curious about the normal work and operation of the Ferrari F1 team during a grand prix.

So I stayed according to Teacher Bi's arrangement.

Qin Miao spent a day inside the Ferrari team on Thursday.

Because Qin Miao has worked in the simulator department of Ferrari, many people in the F1 team know Qin Miao. In addition, Qin Miao's outstanding performance in F2 last week and his status as a Ferrari youth trainer, so there is no People were surprised that Qin Miao appeared in Ferrari's work area.

Even after the work was over, a Ferrari mechanic invited Qin Miao to have dinner with him at night.

But Qin Miao politely declined, after all, there will be an F2 practice match and qualifying match tomorrow.

On Friday, driven by her own biological clock, Qin Miao got up to take a shower, took a rest after breakfast, and then completed the daily basic physical training.

After finishing all this, Qin Miao came to the paddock.

At the point where he came, many F2 team staff were already busy in the temporary P room of F2.

Qin Miao has long been accustomed to this, and the contract signed the day before yesterday, as well as the identity change brought about by the contract, did not change Qin Miao's mentality.

On the one hand, it is not yet time for the contract to take effect. On the other hand, although Qin Miao has the habit of showing off and showing off that young people have, Qin Miao likes to rely on her own strength to pretend to be aggressive, while Not identity.

So Qin Miao, as usual, came to the team's temporary P room and started working.

Today, Qin Miao's work content is not much, because most of the work content has been completed last week, and this week's work content mainly revolves around the maintenance and testing of Qin Miao's racing car.

Do your best to ensure that Qin Miao's car does not have mechanical failures during the race.

As for the tuning and debugging of the racing car, it has not been changed. On the one hand, Qin Miao’s tuning settings were already in an ideal state last week. In addition, there is no field data to support it. Random fine-tuning may destroy the That set of training settings is very comfortable for Qin Miao to use.

So staying still at this time is the best choice.

After everything is ready, there is still a long time before the start of the F2 practice session.

Qin Miao can take a break. Originally, Sui Wentao and the others, like Qin Miao, could take a break before the start of the F2 practice match.

But taking advantage of this rest time, Luo Xin directly dragged Sui Wentao and the others to practice changing tires.

Idle is also idle, and I just took advantage of this time to practice changing tires and prepare for tomorrow's main race and the day after tomorrow's sprint race.

So Qin Miao smiled and watched Sui Wentao and the others practicing tire changing under the scorching sun. After watching for a while, Qin Miao leaned over curiously and said that he would try it too.

Anyway, the current tire changing practice was added temporarily, mainly because Rossin didn't want the team members to be idle during normal working hours.

So they did not refuse Qin Miao's request.

Changing tires is actually a technical job, because you have to be not only fast, but also accurate.

The tire change of F2 is different from that of F1. There is only one worker for each tire in F2, and the tire change process is much more complicated than that of F1.

First, after the car stops in front of you, aim the tire change gun in your hand at the tire bolt and insert it, then pull the trigger to loosen the bolt, grab the side strip of the rim, and rely on the strength of your arm to directly remove the tire from the racing car take it down.

After that, use the muzzle of the tire change gun to block the nut on the new tire. At this time, the tire change gun and the nut on the tire have become locked. Insert the hub, and then lock the nut with a tire change gun.

After playing it twice, Qin Miao lost interest, because after mastering the skills, Qin Miao found that the speed of changing tires depends on your proficiency in changing tires, which doesn't mean much.

Playing with the mobile phone in the team's P room for a while, and then under the notice of the race, many F2 teams that had been waiting for a long time rushed out of their temporary P room, pushing cars or tires, or carrying Follow the equipment and rush towards the maintenance area.

The F2 practice session is about to start...

After changing into the racing suit in the locker room, Qin Miao came to the maintenance area with ease, helped Sui Wentao and the others sort out the sundries, and after that, Qin Miao moved his body around his racing car, and then began to put on the equipment.

After getting ready, Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and got into his racing car.

It is worth mentioning that because of Qin Miao's excellent performance on the field last week, Qiumeng has received many calls from sponsors who are interested in sponsoring Qin Miao in recent days, but most of them still want to give Qin Miao company that puts out rider loans

The so-called driver loan is also easy to understand. After all, racing is a sport that requires money to enjoy. Normal F2 drivers get driver seats through sponsorship of F2 teams. Sometimes the teams buy their cars with money. , and some like Qin Miao bought it with his own money.

Since you have paid for this position, do you, the driver, have to pay for the loss of tires and fuel parts of the vehicle?

Of course, it is impossible for the team to do nothing. The team will be responsible for the logistics support of the drivers, and will give the drivers a number and quota for participating in the competition, and will also be responsible for the logistics and transportation of the racing cars.

Teams like Qin Miao's are only a handful of drivers who can't wait to offer him directly. Prema is also a relatively rich big team. They are naturally willing to invest in Qin Miao in order to win the F2 driver's championship.

The driver loan is a company that issues an interest-free loan to a driver they are optimistic about. The loan is as much as you borrowed, and you can pay them back as much as you want.

But before the loan is repaid, you have to print the logo of the lender on your helmet or racing car, and some contracts even stipulate that the driver must continue to give credit to the car and racing suit within one year after the loan is repaid. The other party advertises.

However, this kind of contract is a sure-fire deal for both the driver and the lender.

After chatting with Qin Miao, Qiu Meng did not choose driver loans, but chose a few sponsorships with basically no requirements and less money, nothing else, just to save trouble.

Because of this, Qin Miao's racing cars and racing suits had a few more advertisements at this time, but most of these advertisers were not very well-known. Compared with the Anglo-Dutch Shell and Ferrari on Qin Miao's clothes, they were completely inferior Not enough to watch.

After Qin Miao was ready, the practice race also started. The director was very sensible and immediately sent the camera to the pit lane, locking on Qin Miao's car.

Last week, Qin Miao has completely become the focus of F2, and he is the favorite to win the F2 championship this season.

The director also gave enough respect and attention to this F2's popular fried chicken.

After fastening the seat belt, Sui Wentao came over to help Qin Miao check the headrest seat belt and helmet. After confirming that there was no problem, he gave Qin Miao a thumbs up in front of the helmet to indicate that the car was ready.

Qin Miao nodded, stretched out his hand to shake with Sui Wentao, then Sui Wentao stepped back, Qin Miao started the car, and drove the car out of the maintenance area after the countdown to the start of the practice race.

During the time when Qin Miao drove the car out of the maintenance area, whether it was the camera above the maintenance area or the photographers carrying cameras, they all locked their lenses on Qin Miao's car.

Until Qin Miao drove his car out of the maintenance area.

There is nothing to say about the practice race. Qin Miao had already found a suitable setting for this track last week, so the room for improvement and improvement in the practice race is very limited.

Maybe it's just a more refined adjustment to Qin Miao's current settings, but the improvement that can be brought about is very small, at most only 0.05~0.1 seconds.

Of course, this is only for Qin Miao. For other drivers, they still have a lot of potential that can be discovered on this track.

So Qin Miao just drove his racing car with soft tires for seven laps and came back, and didn't go out until the end of the practice session.

Qin Miao is going to start saving tires now, because of the contract with Ferrari, he knows that he has to perform better in the F2 arena, so Qin Miao still wants to get his hands on the championship in this week's sprint race .

As for the race?

Without bragging, as long as his car has no problems in the main race, Qin Miao is confident that he can easily win the championship in the main race.

The practice match came to an end under Qin Miao's touch, and it was a familiar process to move things away...

In the afternoon, Qin Miao and the others came to the pit lane again after receiving the notice of the race, and now it was qualifying.

The qualifying stage was different from the practice match, and Five Star Sports started the live broadcast.

Because of Qin Miao's relationship, whether it's the audience or the three anchors of Five Star Sports, they are looking forward to the performance of the two Chinese drivers, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, in the F2 arena.

After the familiar opening scene, the live broadcast on TV came to the exit of the maintenance area in the qualifying stage.

Although qualifying has not started yet, more than ten F2 cars are already waiting to be released at the white line at the exit of the maintenance area.

Qin Miao's departure was still not so active, and Qin Miao drove out from her parking position after all the cars lined up at the gate had left.

At this time, those drivers who were doing the warm-up lap had already run halfway.

But Qin Miao didn't care. On the one hand, he believed that even if his lap time was blocked, he could still enter the top five. On the other hand, he believed in the time Frank set for himself.

After all, Frankie is not Ferrari's strategy group.

With 24 minutes and 31 seconds left before the end of qualifying, Qin Miao pressed his speed at T7 after running two warm-up laps under the prompt of Franky, and then began to accelerate rapidly to complete his first flight lock up.

The time is 1:14:349, three-stage purple, temporarily ranked first.

而2分钟之后，周冠宇也进入了1分14秒的大关，圈速1:14:933，以0.6秒的差距来到秦淼身后。

The viewers and commentators of Five Star Sports just love the picture now, with two Chinese drivers dominating the top two.

Naturally, he did not hesitate to praise the two of them.

However, Qin Miao knew that his lap time was not the limit. During the first Austrian Grand Prix, his lap time in the practice race was faster than this.

So Qin Miao went back to the maintenance area to adjust. When the countdown to the end of qualifying came to 14 minutes and most of the F2 cars returned to the maintenance area for adjustment, Qin Miao drove the car out.

Qin Miao's departure time will not allow enough time for the engine of his car to cool down. Although the engine of the car in this state can still run normally, compared with the fully cooled engine, the explosive power is less. some.

But despite this, Qin Miao still managed a time of 1:14:019 with a car that was not in the best condition.

It was only 0.2 seconds away from breaking the 13-second mark. Although it was a pity, Qin Miao's result still broke the F2 fastest lap record of the Red Bull Ring.

After completing this single lap, Qin Miao felt pretty good. If he changed to a new set of soft tires, he was confident that he could break into 13 seconds, but it was not necessary. This result was enough for him to get the pole position in qualifying.

Besides, Frankie in TR had just praised Qin Miao excitedly: "Awesome! You..."

Frankie was silent for a while after speaking halfway, and then said to Qin Miao helplessly: "Please go back to the maintenance area again, there will be staff at the entrance of the maintenance area to guide you."

Qin Miao was curious: "What's wrong?"

"...The FIA ​​asked you to come back and weigh yourself. Your qualifying speed is too fast. The FIA ​​should be suspecting that your car is too light."

This has nothing to do with discrimination, it's purely because after Qin Miao set the fastest F2 lap on this track, the FIA ​​needs to prove to others that Qin Miao has no violations.

Shrugging her shoulders, Qin Miao will not run for the remaining ten minutes after running this lap anyway, so let's weigh it.

When we returned to the entrance of the maintenance area, several orange warning tubes had been placed on an open space at the entrance, and in the middle surrounded by the warning tubes was an iron thing like the base of a horsepower machine. It's just that this thing is used for weighing.

In fact, the normal process of weighing is that Qin Miao parks the car under the simple weighbridge, and the FIA ​​staff will push Qin Miao's car up. During this process, Qin Miao only needs to control the direction.

But Qin Miao didn't know, the first time he was called back by the FIA ​​for weighing, he directly drove the car to the weighbridge.

And because Qin Miao came in from the entrance of the maintenance area, he drove towards the weighbridge at the speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour stipulated in the maintenance area.

Seeing that Qin Miao was running to the front without slowing down, the FIA ​​staff who were preparing to help Qin Miao push the car were shocked.

But a player like Qin Miao who has full control over the car is naturally impossible to make such a low-level mistake.

Qin Miao started to slow down about 60 meters before approaching the weighbridge. At this time, you have to admire the extreme light weight of the F2 car and its terrifying deceleration ability.

The distance of 60 meters has reduced the speed of the vehicle from 80 kilometers per hour to 20 kilometers per hour.

Because getting on the weighbridge had to go up a small slope with a certain slope, so Qin Miao was stuck at a speed limit, just in time to charge up and use up all the potential energy of the car.

He parked his car on the weighbridge in a seemingly ferocious but disciplined way.

The FIA ​​staff looked at Qin Miao getting out of the car after parking the car, and his face was full of helplessness.

You said he violated the rules and he didn’t do anything, that is, he drove the car on the weighbridge, you said he didn’t violate the rules, he directly drove the car on the weighbridge...

In the end, Qin Miao was not punished. For geniuses, no matter whether it is F1 or F2, they will give some convenience in some innocuous matters.

The weighing process was very fast, and calling Qin Miao was not just for weighing, but also for a car inspection, which was exactly the same as the car inspection after the race.

Qin Miao's car is naturally well-behaved, there is no problem at all.

After the weighing, the FIA ​​staff was about to signal Qin Miao to sit back in the car and drive back to continue the qualifying race.

Then he watched Qin Miao drop his racing car and leave with his helmet on in bewilderment...

He just left...

No...you don't want your car anymore? ? ?

Fortunately, before Qin Miao weighed in, he told his team that there is no need for him to continue running with his current result. Basically, there is no possibility of breaking his record for the fastest lap. If so, then Qin Miao is willing to give up the pole position again.

So not long after Qin Miao left, Sui Wentao and the others came over with tools, and then pushed the car away under the bewildered eyes of the FIA ​​staff.

Five Star Sports, the two commentators looked at the situation on the field for a moment, and then quickly figured out the reason.

"Qin Miao should be very satisfied with his current results. He is not going to run anymore. He wants to save an extra set of soft tires and do another sprint race..."

……

When walking back to the temporary P room of his team, Qin Miao passed Zhou Guanyu's car.

Zhou Guanyu, who was holding a parasol in the car, looked at Qin Miao who was passing by in a daze, and a big question mark appeared in his head, what is this person doing?Isn't the qualifying competition over yet...

Ask your racing engineer, good guy, the fastest lap record in qualifying for the Red Bull Ring F2 was just refreshed in one lap.

Based on Zhou Guanyu's understanding of Qin Miao, this guy probably doesn't intend to run away anymore.

He looked enviously at Qin Miao walking out of his field of vision. To be honest, Zhou Guanyu also wanted to experience Qin Miao's feeling of only doing two flying laps in a qualifying match, and then leaving get off work directly at halftime.

Drivers with personality will naturally be able to get more footage from the director. First, the director gave the camera to Qin Miao's car. At this time, the car was not pushed back to the Prema maintenance area by Sui Wentao and the others, but went directly to the back of the maintenance area. , It turned out to be directly pushed to the temporary P room where Prema was stationed.

Really leave work early.

It was also thanks to the inspection of Qin Miao's racing car that was completed during the weighing session just now, so they could push Qin Miao's car back directly, otherwise they would have to wait on the track until the qualifying session was over and the unified inspection was completed , to push the car back and put it away.

As for Qin Miao, after walking back to the Prema team's station on the side of the pit lane, he crossed the track and shook hands with Frankie, and then said to Rossin, "Boss, I'm off work."

Luo Xin didn't stop him, and waved his hand: "Go."

Like Qin Miao, Luo Xin doesn't think anyone can beat Qin Miao's lap time today. The pole position is already stable. Since the big brother of his team wants to leave early, let him leave early. Qin Miao drives the fastest Lap is so hard, why go back early and take a rest?
Then the director watched Qin Miao cross the track again, took off his equipment, lowered his head slightly, and went straight into the half-drooped rolling door of the P room of the Ferrari team...

The director and everyone who saw this scene through the director's lens were taken aback.

Hey~ No!
How come you, an F2 driver, directly entered Ferrari's P room?Even if you are a driver of Ferrari youth training, it is not suitable.

Is no one in charge?Wouldn't Ferrari have a problem?
It's just that no one will be able to help them answer this question, but also because of Qin Miao's action, new rumors began to spread in the paddock, that is, Qin Miao has already entered the Ferrari F1 team.

It's just that neither Qin Miao nor Ferrari paid any attention to this rumor. If there is no enthusiasm, no one will care about this rumor after a long time.

As for the competition scene, under normal circumstances, Qin Miao would go directly back to the hotel to play the game after completing his qualifying tasks.

But it's not working now, he was forced by Binotto to go to the Ferrari P room after qualifying and wait for the second practice of F1 to start.

And during the entire second practice period of F2, Qin Miao had to stay in Ferrari's P room to familiarize himself with the working process and working habits of Vettel's technicians.

Because these technicians are likely to become Qin Miao's technicians next season, Binotto wants Qin Miao to develop relationships with these technicians early and get to know each other better.

As a migrant worker, Qin Miao naturally has no objection to the request made by her immediate boss, and strictly speaking, Qin Miao is still at work at the moment.

After coming to the P room, I found several technicians looking at the equipment in the P room. After greeting them, Qin Miao found a place to sit down and started playing with her mobile phone, waiting for the second practice of F1 to start. .

……

Although Qin Miao alone has become the biggest highlight of the entire F2 qualifying race, Qin Miao's departure will not affect the progress of the F2 qualifying race.

With the end of the countdown, F2 qualifying also ended.

Indeed, as Qin Miao thought, there is basically no possibility of Qin Miao's running results being broken by anyone other than Qin Miao himself.

最终，秦淼以1:14:019获得冠军，周冠宇以1:14:549的成绩排在第二。

Qin Miao specially called Zhou Guanyu during the simulator practice in the past few days. When Zhou Guanyu was driving the simulator, Qin Miao also taught Zhou Guanyu a lot of things, and also made some settings on this track without reservation. He told Zhou Guanyu that although Zhou Guanyu would not directly apply Qin Miao's car settings, some settings could also give Zhou Guanyu some inspiration, so Qin Miao expected him to get such a result in the end.

The third is Kakuda Yuyi with a speed of 1:14:803.

And Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher ranked ninth, more than one second slower than Qin Miao.

Qin Miao began to wonder what reason this guy would use in the post-match meeting after the grand prix.

(End of this chapter)