How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 141 Chapter 139: Message in the paddock (6K, plus 1524)

In fact, Qin Miao's current racing setup is not the most suitable for this track, and Qin Miao's driving is also a bit awkward.

After all, that incident was a big blow to everyone in the team, and almost everyone's state was affected by it.

And this racing car gave Qin Miao the feeling that the overall downforce on this track is insufficient. Some corners that can be passed at full throttle after adjusting the settings in Zhou Guanyu's mouth, Qin Miao has to find the limit line of the track to fully Throttle past.

Although this kind of tuning setting can allow Qin Miao to gain enough speed in the qualifying stage, once a mistake occurs, even a small mistake may cause the speed of the car to drop sharply, so this set of tuning is in Silverstone. This track is a bit too extreme and not suitable for use in the main race.

After all, it is impossible for someone as strong as Qin Miao to be in a state of concentration throughout the game, and to pass every corner perfectly, just like a textbook.

But despite this, Qin Miao finally got the pole position.

There is no way, the strength is here, and the strength of the opponent is not that strong.

It's like when the mouse DPI is not adjusted properly when playing CSGO, this will definitely have a significant impact on the player's competitive state, but this is just a situation where he can't beat the enemy with a gun at the level he is in.

But this small setback will not affect his state when frying fish.

After all, the settings were not adjusted properly, so Qin Miao's lap time in this qualifying race was not ideal, and he failed to break Zhou Guanyu's F2 fastest track record on this track last season.

The final result was just enough to get the pole position, and the No.2 was Zhou Guanyu who sucked a wave of Qin Miao's wake.

For the two Chinese drivers to get the pole position again, the domestic car fans naturally once again rushed to tell the whole world to celebrate.

Of course, some people began to gradually feel dull.

For the first time, two Chinese drivers won the first and second places in the qualifying race, and even brought back the first and second places in the main race. After everyone knew it, it was full of gongs and drums, firecrackers were going off, and Weibo hot searches all ranked third in one go. indivual.

The major media directly published articles praising the performance of the two drivers on the field.

And now?

"Qin Miao took the pole again! Zhou Guanyu is second!"

"Oh,"

"? Hey, no, Qin Miao got the pole position, are you so calm now? I remember the first time you heard that Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu got the pole position and No.2, you were so happy that you wanted to directly Hit the ceiling and fly out."

"I'm happy, but it's not news that Qin Miao got the pole position now. It's news that he didn't get the pole position when it didn't rain..."

……

Look, there are only three grands prix and six points races. Domestic audiences are already accustomed to Qin Miao calling the shots in F2.

Domestic car fans quickly transitioned from only seeing drivers from other countries shining on the field, to finally seeing Chinese drivers shining on the field, and then to Chinese drivers killing all sides on the field, and finally to the present: take a It's just pole position, what's all the fuss about?

Their tastes have been spoiled by Qin Miao in a short time.

After qualifying, Qin Miao didn't have much expectation for tomorrow's game.

Anyway, the champion is his own.

But it is worth mentioning that today Ferrari still wants Qin Miao to go to their garage to observe the practice race. Today they introduced a new upgrade, and they want Qin Miao to see the effect of the car upgrade and the car upgrade. In this case, I have a bottom line in my heart.

But Qin Miao ignored him and went back to the motorcade for a meeting. After the meeting, he went back to Zhou Guanyu's house in Zhou Guanyu's car.

Rather than sitting in the P room of Ferrari, Qin Miao would rather go back to Zhou Guanyu's house to hone and improve his driving skills on the simulator.

After returning to Zhou Guanyu's house, Qin Miao got on the simulator.

After all, this is Zhou Guanyu's house, so Zhou Guanyu can naturally see Qin Miao's efforts.

Friends are so serious, you can't just sit around, right?
So he also joined Qin Miao's practice.

Because Qin Miao is only weak in rain fighting, Zhou Guanyu wants to have Qin Miao as his training partner, so he can only practice driving with him in the rainy environment of the simulator.

During the afternoon and evening, the two of them basically stayed on the simulator and didn't get off.

On Saturday, the F2 race stage.

Today is a sunny day, which is very suitable for Qin Miao's performance.

After what happened on Friday, Qin Miao was much more serious than before when inspecting the car today.

Although he was still making a show, Qin Miao took a look at basically every part that needed to be checked.

After all, there was a problem just yesterday, so today's technicians are cautious and cautious, insisting on doing the best in every detail, so naturally other problems are impossible.

After the inspection is completed, the car is pushed onto the track, and the subsequent process will not be described too much, and the warm-up lap will begin soon.

The traffic flows out of the grid under the leadership of Qin Miao.

It is worth mentioning that Yilot, who was ranked fourth at the start, stalled the car directly on the grid because of too much fuel at the start.

F2 car flameout is a very troublesome thing.

If the engine is stalled away from the pit lane, the driver who stalls the engine can happily leave work early.

But Ilot was lucky, he stalled on the grid.

And it is still in the warm-up lap state, so he was finally pushed back to the maintenance area by Matthew, restarted the car with the help of the team's ignition tool, and started from the maintenance area.

F2 are all standard cars, and Yilot doesn't have Qin Miao's unbelievable strength, so his game is basically ruined.

And after this little episode, the subsequent game process has entered a normal state, and the highlight of the game is a smooth and stable ancient well without waves.

In a nutshell, Qin Miao made a perfect start. Qin Miao opened up the distance between him and the car behind him at a steady speed. Qin Miao had run 19 laps on the silverstone circuit with a set of soft tires. Didn't drop too much.

However, after the [-]th lap, he chose to stop for a tire change, but the tire changer made a mistake, and Qin Miao changed the tire three seconds slower than normal.

However, the relative time gap between Qin Miao and the car behind was more than nine seconds before entering the station, and the three-second loss was not worth mentioning at all.

Qin Miao crossed the line after 29 laps, and he once again turned pole position into victory.

Today's race was almost like this. Qin Miao won the fastest lap and all the victories without any difficulty.

I don't know why, but many people feel that after having Qin Miao, watching F2 games also has a feeling of watching F1 games, because the two games have one thing in common, that is, there will always be such a monster who can Leading the field, and after the start, he didn't get much broadcast footage of the game.

"Congratulations to Qin Miao for winning another championship in F2. I just did a simple calculation. Qin Miao never got a single shot from the director during the main race except when starting and pitting to change tires." Watching the race end After Qin Miao came out of his car to celebrate with his team staff, Zhou Haoran congratulated and said.

Hearing Zhou Haoran's words, Brother Fei couldn't help but laugh: "There's no way, even if the director wanted to show Qin Miao some more rebroadcast footage, there's nothing interesting about him, after all, he's the only one on the track in the entire arena. Run around."

Brother Bing corrected: "In fact, Qin Miao still has a few slow cars in the back. I think overtaking these slow cars should be the only fun left for Qin Miao on the track."

Don't tell me, Brother Bing is right, Qin Miao has felt bored since he started.

The short-term fun is to find the best way to run the car on this circuit at Silverstone.

But Qin Miao soon discovered that no matter how much he stuck to the details of the wiring, he could not refresh the fastest lap he had created so far with a heavy fuel load. It is unlikely that the tires and fuel consumption are almost exhausted.

After all, hard tires are still relatively serious in terms of speed loss.

So Qin Miao entered a state of boredom for a period of time. Fortunately, three laps before the end of the race, Qin Miao caught up with a few slow cars.

Among these people, there are those with bad driving skills and some with good driving skills.

People with poor driving skills found that Qin Miao was approaching and immediately slowed down and gave way to the traffic lane to let Qin Miao pass.

Those with good skills will generally choose to let Qin Miao pass in the DRS area, which will have the least impact on their own speed.

But to be honest, super slow trains really don't have any sense of accomplishment, but for Qin Miao, who has been bored for a whole game, super slow trains are also a rare entertainment.

To be honest, Qin Miao sometimes wonders if he should let Franky play audio novels or songs in his TR...

After winning the championship, he brought the car back to the entrance of the maintenance area, and after stopping in his own position, Qin Miao got out of the car.

As usual, Qin Miao didn't celebrate much, taking off her gloves and walking towards her crew members.

After bumping fists with Sui Wentao and the others, Qin Miao took off his helmet, turned around and waited for the arrival of the other two drivers at the entrance of the maintenance area.

Under normal circumstances, Qin Miao is not so enthusiastic, but today is different, Zhou Guanyu won the second place.

On the field, there was another scene where the Chinese driver [-] and [-] brought back.

Qin Miao, who is Zhou Guanyu's adoptive father, feels that it is necessary for him to give the encouragement a father should give to his child after the other party has achieved good grades.

After all, there was a gap of more than 15 seconds between the cars behind, so Qin Miao waited for a while before the second and third drivers arrived late.

Zhou Guanyu came in first, followed by Ma Zeping.

After Zhou Guanyu's car parked, Qin Miao walked over and held his hand, and patted Zhou Guanyu's helmet.

"Awesome, Xiao Zhou, you are indeed a coward. You really have two skills, but you are still a little bit worse than being a father."

Zhou Guanyu, who fought with Ma Zeping for a whole round to finally keep his second position, was quite happy at first, but after hearing Qin Miao's rebellious speech, the little bit of happiness in his heart disappeared.

"Go away!"

Pushing Qin Miao in dissatisfaction, Zhou Guanyu got out of his car.

When picking off the equipment, Zhou Guanyu threw his helmet into Qin Miao's arms angrily.

Qin Miao naturally took it with a smile.

After Zhou Guanyu took off his sweat-absorbing hood, Qin Miao returned the helmet to him.

The two celebrated each other and encouraged each other, and then went to weigh together.

After completing the weighing process is the interview.

There is nothing to say about this. Qin Miao has not missed any post-match interviews so far, so even though he has not received special training for interviews, he has nothing to say about what to say during the interview. You can understand what you can't say.

After the interview, the three went to the podium together. Originally, during this process, the director would show some wonderful overtakings during the race.

But this time the competition was not like this. The director showed the camera to the three people who were walking upstairs to the podium.

And at this time, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were photographed childishly hooking each other's shoulders together, and then walking upstairs with shoulders and backs while pushing each other.

"The relationship is really good." This is the number of times Brother Fei feels the good relationship between these two young people.

After that, there is nothing to say about the process. The national anthem is played on stage, awards are received, and champagne is sprayed.

During the champagne spraying stage, neither Qin Miao nor Zhou Guanyu let anyone go.

In the past, Qin Miao still had about two-thirds of the champagne in the bottle after the champagne-spraying session.

But this time Qin Miao greeted Zhou Guanyu, and there was not a single drop left in the whole bottle, all poured on Zhou Guanyu's head.

The originally brand new Pirelli championship cap was completely wet.

Qin Miao was not much better, the front and back of the clothes were completely soaked.

The front was painted by Zhou Guanyu, and the back was made by Ma Zeping and Franky.

But in any case, the main race of the British Grand Prix is ​​over here.

The standings and scores for this game are as follows:

Qin Miao+25
Zhou Guanyu+20
Ma Zeping +15
Kakuda+12
Longard +10
Ilot +8
Drey Traz +6
Drugovich +4
Tiktum +2
Mick +1
Zhou Guanyu scored 21 points because he stopped for a set of soft tires on the [-]st lap, and then snatched the fastest lap from Qin Miao's hands by relying on the light-loaded oil and the terrifying grip of the soft tires. .

If I remember correctly, this is already Zhou Guanyu's second fastest lap taken away from Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't know the news until after the game, so she didn't care about it. It was just two points, and it didn't have much impact on the final result.

And what Qin Miao likes most is that his teammate Mick Schumacher did not perform well in this game today and only scored one point.

Strictly speaking, Qin Miao and Mick are not enemies now, but at most they both dislike each other.

But there is still a layer of teammates between the two.

In a racing car team, there is basically no difference between teammates and enemies.

After all, you and your teammates drive cars with roughly the same settings, and it is easier for people to compare them intentionally or unintentionally.

However, Qin Miao has crushed Mick in all directions since the first F2020 race of the 1 season, and has not lost so far. It can be said that he has beaten his teammate Mick Schumacher in all directions and without dead ends.

But even so, Qin Miao didn't mind seeing his teammates suffer.

After Zhou Guanyu finished the race as the runner-up, his overall ranking in the standings surpassed his teammate Yilot, and came to second place with a one-point advantage.

However, compared with Qin Miao's 150 points, Zhou Guanyu's 59 points are really not enough.

After the game, there was a brief meeting, and then the team disbanded, so what should I do.

And Qin Miao, like yesterday, was indifferent to Ferrari's invitation. After the game, he went back to Zhou Guanyu's house and continued to practice.

Qin Miao refused one after another, which also made Ferrari discover the abnormality.

It's understandable to reject Ferrari's invitation for the first time, after all, everyone has a time when something is urgent.

But Qin Miao refused Ferrari's invitation time and time again. No matter how stupid and corrupt Ferrari was, he still noticed Qin Miao's abnormality.

No need to think about it, they also knew why Qin Miao behaved like this, but Binotto was also full of helplessness after discovering Qin Miao's immature behavior.

He can actually see Qin Miao's talent, so after signing the driver contract with Qin Miao, as long as Qin Miao's performance in the first year is not too bad, he will give Qin Miao another contract to give Qin Miao enough growth time.

But he didn't expect that after the high-level executives of Ferrari found out that Qin Miao's ability to fight in the rain was not good, they immediately lost confidence in Qin Miao, and began to contact McLaren people, trying to sign the current McLaren team. Driver Sainz.

Binotto does not deny Sainz's strength, but in Binotto's view, Qin Miao's talent is better than Sainz's.

However, Qin Miao is not registered in Europe, nor in the United States, nor in Russia, but in China.

It’s not that Chinese hukou is not good, but that Chinese hukou can’t be enjoyed in a paddock dominated by Europeans, and it’s easy to be discriminated against by other invisible racists.

The distrust of Qin Miao's strength by the Ferrari executives is a kind of discrimination.

Binotto actually knew that Ferrari's executives might find other drivers to replace Vettel, but he believed that with Qin Miao's strength, the position would definitely belong to Qin Miao in the end.

So he didn't take this matter too seriously. Binotto subconsciously thought that even if Qin Miao received the news, he would be able to calm down, calm down, and continue to complete his own work with a normal heart. .

He ignored the kind of aloofness that Qin Miao showed in the youth training camp. This is a capable but extremely aloof master who basically can't stand a little grievance.

What Ferrari did was basically like lighting a firecracker under Qin Miao's ass.

But you can't blame Binotto for not caring about Qin Miao. After all, he has a lot of work on weekdays, and he knows Qin Miao's strength enough to see his potential. He cares about Qin Miao very much.

After all, no matter what Qin Miao said, he was just an F2 driver now, and Binotto didn't have that much time to get to know him better.

So I didn't expect Qin Miao to resist in this way.

It's all about betraying the rhythm of Ferrari.

So in order to stabilize Qin Miao, Binotto squeezed out time during the preparation time before the start of the race to call Qin Miao.

The topic of the chat was relatively routine. It was nothing more than telling Qin Miao that Ferrari was only in contact with McLaren at the moment, and the specific matters had not been finalized. After a round of internal testing, with Qin Miao's strength and talent, there is still a good chance of defeating the opponent.

In short, Binotto is trying his best to paint cakes for Qin Miao and comfort Qin Miao's emotions.

To be honest, Qin Miao really doesn't have any ill feeling towards Binotto, it may be because of Binotto's background in technology, Qin Miao feels that Binotto has a serious and serious attitude of seeking truth from facts.

Therefore, Qin Miao tried her best to accept and understand Binotto's advice and reassurance, but Qin Miao didn't promise anything.

The next morning, when she returned home after training, Qin Miao found three missed calls on her mobile phone. The number of this mobile phone was Qin Miao's private number. There is no possibility of harassing phone calls.

Picking it up, it turned out that it was Qiu Meng calling. Qin Miao naturally called back immediately after seeing it.

"Hello? What's wrong with my daughter-in-law?"

Qiu Meng's tone on the other end of the phone was very distressed: "What have you been doing these few days when I'm not here?"

"What did you do?" Qin Miao was very puzzled.

Qiu Meng said: "Mei Ben and Red Bull's youth training team called me early in the morning to ask if you have any ideas about changing the family. Red Bull offered a very high salary as soon as they came up, and even offered to help you pay for the youth training. The liquidated damages of the contract, the premise is that you agree to join the Red Bull youth training."

"Tell me, what happened?"

Qin Miao scratched her face, and muttered in a low voice, "I just didn't go to their P room to watch the F1 race as Ferrari told me these days... As for mobilizing so many people?"

Qiu Meng helplessly raised his forehead, Qin Miao didn't have any self-consciousness at all, didn't he know how attractive a person like him who can play fish in F2 aboveboard is to those teams that aspire to be F1 team champions?
Although Qin Miao is still in F2, but based on his performance in F2, everyone knows that Qin Miao has a great possibility to enter F1 next season and become an official F1 driver.

So at this time Qin Miao received far more attention than Qin Miao expected.

"Tell me more."

Qin Miao briefly explained to Qiu Meng what she had done during this period of time.

Qin Miao took the information and went to figure it out by herself.

But before hanging up the phone, Qiumeng still asked how to deal with the calls from the youth training of other teams.

After thinking about it, Qin Miao said that the inquiries from these teams were put on hold for the time being, and she did not reject them outright.

After Qin Miao dealt with these matters, Zhou Guanyu just opened the door and walked in from the outside. After seeing Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu asked, "Sanshui, are you not going to stay in Ferrari anymore?"

After hearing Zhou Guanyu's question, Qin Miao was full of question marks: "What do you mean?"

"The person in charge of our Renault youth training just found me out of the blue and asked me to ask if you are interested in joining our Renault youth training."

PS. The monthly pass has reached 24, and the total addition has reached [-] chapters.

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