How did I become an F1 driver?

It is worth mentioning that because the driving simulator does not actually drive an F1 car, Qin Miao can master the driving of the car on the simulator without too much adaptation time.

So in the follow-up tests, Qin Miao was sometimes faster than Hamilton.

However, everyone in Mercedes also knows that although the simulator and the F1 car can communicate with each other and the driving feeling is very similar, they cannot be equated after all.

Qin Miao's performance on the simulator can be very good, but after sitting in the F1 car, no one knows whether Qin Miao can really maintain his precise control of the car under the pressure of G force above 2G.

Even if it can be maintained in a short period of time, what about the long-distance driving of more than 300 kilometers in the main race?

Therefore, regarding Qin Miao's data, the staff were very calm.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao is very busy during this time, but the old man is busier than Qin Miao, and Bottas is also very busy.

The main reason is that the sponsors of Mercedes are not optimistic about Qin Miao's performance on the field. They think that Qin Miao will give up his position to Bottas after three games, so this year's sponsor advertisements are mainly shot by Hamilton and Bottas.

Qin Miao miraculously had a period of time to focus on training.

Time is spent in such busy work.

Although the old man is busier than Qin Miao, Qin Miao's work content is similar to that of the old man.

Because Qin Miao lives close to the team factory, if there is any problem, Qin Miao has to go back to the team to work after a phone call from Toto.

However, more often than not, the design department blows out some new aero kits. After importing the data of this part into the racing car in the simulator, Qin Miao needs to come over to test the effect of adding the new upgrade.

Soon, the time came to March, the winter test and the first grand prix of the year were held in this month.

On March 3, Qin Miao came to Bahrain with Toto to participate in this year's winter test.

Although living close to the team is easy to be pulled over by the boss to work overtime temporarily, but it is not without any benefits.

The most obvious thing is that Qin Miao can take the car to participate in the competition at any time. Even if Qin Miao finds a way to go to Bahrain, there will be a team to help him reimburse the air ticket or something, but it is missing a step to issue an invoice and ask the team for financial reimbursement, isn't it?
After arriving in Bahrain, Qin Miao was naturally arranged in a hotel.

After becoming an F1 driver, Qin Miao no longer needs to find a hotel by herself, and the hotel should not be too expensive.

Qin Miao's board and lodging is in charge of special staff in Meiben, and the standards are not low.

After the accommodation problem was resolved, the team prepared a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle for commuting for Qin Miao.

These cars belong to local dealers, and they are completely free for the team and drivers to use. Not only do they not need to pay, but the other party even rushed to deliver them.

May 3st, morning.

Qin Miao drove to the paddock early, parked the car in the parking space specially prepared for the drivers by the organizer, and then took Qiumeng and walked into the paddock with her backpack on her back.

And Qin Miao found that from the moment he got off the car, the lenses of several cameras were pointed at him.

You must know that this is not the day when the grand prix starts, it is just a winter test.

This is the first time Qin Miao has brought his girlfriend Qiu Meng together under the cameras of the paddock in a fair manner. If there is no accident, someone will find out the relationship between himself and Qiu Meng at noon.

Qin Miao didn't care too much about it. He never kept it a secret that he had a girlfriend, and it was normal for drivers in the paddock to have girlfriends.

Not paying attention to these undisguised shots, Qin Miao walked into the paddock with Qiu Meng.

Because Mercedes won the team championship last year as in previous years, this year the Mercedes team is the team closest to the entrance of the maintenance area, followed by Red Bull Racing, and then McLaren, continuing according to the team ranking.

After walking through the passage in the paddock, Qin Miao first entered the car home of the Mercedes-Benz team.

The Auto Home is the big rectangular boxes opposite the P room, with the team members coming in and out.

The method of assembling this car home is that more than a dozen trucks transport the building materials to the paddock, and then the staff assembles it within a day.

That's right, although this thing was pulled over, it was not pulled over directly, but assembled after being pulled over.

There is a storage area for living materials in the team home, which can be self-sufficient in the paddock from various parts of the racing car to garbage bags, stationery, water, food, and clothing.

During the grand prix, all the staff of the team eat and drink here. Self-sufficiency is not just talk, it is self-sufficiency in the literal sense.

Moreover, the food and diet of all the team members were shipped from Brackley, England.

This is the care that the captain Mark Webber gave to the younger drivers in 07.

In addition, there is also a work area in the car home, where simple maintenance and repair of racing cars and circuit arrangement can be carried out.

Then there is the tire placement area. The tires of the two F1 cars during the Grand Prix will be placed here, and the left and right sides will be placed separately to prevent confusion when picking them up.

After all, the tuning of the car is different from driver to driver. If the wrong tire is installed during the race, there will be serious problems on the field.

The entire car home has two floors, the downstairs is the mechanic, and the upstairs is the engineer.

On the one hand, the upper floor can be used as a conference room, and on the other hand, it is used to monitor the data of the racing car during the race. After all, there are more than 1 sensors on the F300 car, which cannot be seen by a P room and podium.

Therefore, the P room and the podium will only look at some very important data, and other less important data will be handed over to the engineers here and the engineers in the Mercedes factory to be responsible for remote monitoring.

If there is any problem, it will be communicated to Toto and the others through the team's internal TR.

And Qin Miao's current destination is the engineering department upstairs.

Qin Miao came earlier today, so when Qin Miao opened the door and came in, there were still many people not in place.

Seeing Qin Miao push the door in, many people reached out to greet Qin Miao. Apart from relaxing during the Chinese New Year, Qin Miao did not forget to ask Toto for the list of team members.

During this period of time, he flipped through it from time to time, memorizing the names and looks of two people a day. Now Qin Miao can almost recognize these staff members.

So Qin Miao could also call them by name, and greeted them, Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and sat in his own seat.

Before the start of every Grand Prix, Mercedes will hold a meeting here, and the main participants in the meeting are engineers and drivers.

The meeting content is recorded throughout the process, which is convenient for the drivers or engineers to extract the meeting content when they go back to review.

After waiting here for about half an hour, other staff arrived one after another, but the old man was the last one to arrive.

However, the rest of the team didn't say anything, probably because they were used to being late for the old man's team meeting.

After everyone is here, the first meeting of Meiben's new season will begin.

Technical Director Mike Elliott was the first to speak:

"First of all, welcome everyone to the new season. I hope that in the new season, everyone can make persistent efforts and win the double championship of the team and driver again."

"Let's stop here if it's irrelevant. Now let's talk about the main goals of our team during the winter test."

"The first and most important thing is to verify whether the data simulated by the simulator is consistent with reality, and to test the aerodynamic data."

"The test content on the first day is mainly about aerodynamics, and the data of the rear end and front end will be fed back in the morning."

"At the same time, there is also the engine. We specially strengthened the durability of the engine during the winter break, but whether it is really useful on the field has yet to be tested. This test project will be tested by Hamilton's car team."

"The second is the tire wear test. This year's Pirelli tire formula has not been modified. Qin Miao and your team tested the degradation limit of the W12 using this tire formula and the degradation of grip. I need enough data."

"There is also a new car with an upgrade on the front brake duct. The simulator shows that the upside-down brake ventilation inlet can suck in more cold air, but we don't know how efficient it is in reality. This task can be easily tested when you two teams test other items..."

At the beginning of the meeting, Elliott took a notebook and listed the data that the team needs today, and then asked the drivers to run on the track to get these data.

Of course, during this period, drivers can also find their own training.

After he spent more than 6 minutes assigning all these tasks, it was time for the heads of various departments and drivers to put forward their ideas and concerns.

Qin Miao was the first to express her opinion:

"I don't think I'm suitable for the job of testing tire wear. I don't think my tire degradation rate is a reference."

After all, with two passive skills on Qin Miao's body, the 38% reduction in average tire wear is no joke.

Others couldn't hold on to hard tires after running 50 laps. Qin Miao still had an average level of grip after running 50 laps on a set of hard tires, and ran for 70 laps with high intensity.

On the track where other teams had to stop twice, Qin Miaohuang and Bai finished the race with one stop, and the speed didn't slow down at all.

The other drivers stopped for Huang Bai, and Qin Miao stopped for red and yellow.

Pirelli specially tuned belongs to yes.

But Elliott said:
"Rejected, this task was assigned to you in consideration of your excellent tire protection ability in F2, so we want you to try the limits of W12 tires."

Faced with Elliott's statement, Qin Miao could only nod helplessly.

What else can he say?Tell him that he has a system, and the tires can be saved so much because he has a system skill bonus?
And after Elliott finished speaking, other people had already stepped forward to ask their own questions, so Qin Miao had no choice but to give up in the end.

But the degradation data of my own tires really don't have any reference...

A meeting lasted for about three to ten minutes, and most of the people who raised their own questions got an answer or solution that satisfied them.

After the meeting, Qin Miao and Hamilton had about an hour to make final preparations before the race. After 1 hour and 20 minutes, the four-hour countdown for the East Test will begin.

Both got up from their seats.

After exercising her body, Qin Miao picked up the tablet computer prepared for her by the team, and turned around to enter the room with her name and national flag printed on the door.

This is Qin Miao's lounge, not far away, just behind Qin Miao's chair, just turn around and open the door to enter.

After entering, Qin Miao closed the door and adjusted the mode of the glass in her lounge from frosted to translucent, because no audience would come in the paddock during the winter break, and Qin Miao was not worried about her privacy.

Qin Miao's room is not big, only about ten square meters.

Someone is going to say at this time, my toilet is more than ten square meters, and your Mercedes driver lounge worth tens of millions is only ten square meters?This is a bit unreasonable, right?
But you should know that Qin Miao's lounge is built in a car home whose size is strictly limited by FOM. It is considered luxurious to have a 10-square-meter lounge in this place that is more expensive than a house in the BJ school district.

The room is not big, but there are many things.

A sofa that Qin Miao can lie down on completely, a TV that can watch the SKY TV broadcast at this time, a wardrobe that can put clothes, and a toilet.

Basically, everything Qin Miao needs during preparation can be found here.

Also because of the special attributes of the driver's lounge, Qin Miao's next door is the old man's lounge, and there is a layer of not-so-sound-proof board between them.

In addition, the old man likes to sing during the waiting period, so Qin Miao sat in his lounge and prepared to read the minutes of the meeting just now, and prepared to plan himself. When he was in the test steps on the field later, the old man's singing came from next door...

Qin Miao shook her head helplessly, then put on noise-canceling headphones.

This noise-cancelling headset is also given by the sponsor.

Qin Miao received three pairs of these noise-cancelling headphones in the driver gift package.

There are countless other team uniforms, shoes, watches, etc. customized according to his figure.

But Qin Miao hadn't looked at it for long when someone knocked on the door of her lounge.

It's just that because Qin Miao was wearing noise-canceling headphones, he couldn't hear the knock at the door at all.

The noise-cancelling headphones can block the terrifying noise of the F1 racing engine, so it's normal that Qin Miao couldn't hear the knock on the door.

However, the person who knocked on the door obviously had a good relationship with Qin Miao. Seeing that no one answered Qin Miao's door, the other party directly opened the door.

Although Qin Miao couldn't hear the sound, Qin Miao's eyesight was still good. From the corner of her eye, Qin Miao turned her head when she saw someone coming at the door.

I saw a man wearing black trousers and a white Mercedes work vest standing at the door.

When Qin Miao raised her head completely to see who the other party was, Qiu Meng's small face appeared in Qin Miao's eyes. (end of this chapter)