How did I become an F1 driver?

Although Qin Miao's driving style gradually became more conservative after entering T1, he was familiar with the performance of the car while adapting to the feeling of driving F1.

Even if you have a new body, you have no problem controlling it, but you still have to gradually get used to it, right?
After a simple exit circle, Qin Miao began to speed up.

But after all, it was just a test. Qin Miao didn't push the limit very much, but just ran the data at the request of the team.

And when a car is running on the track, other Mercedes team members will also gather together at this time to watch the changes in Qin Miao's racing data, which naturally includes Toto.

This is Qin Miao's first time driving a Mercedes car on the track. Both Qin Miao and the rest of the Mercedes team hope that Qin Miao will be more stable when driving, whether it is for Qin Miao's self-confidence or for the sake of the car.

After the first lap, Qin Miao's driving was quite satisfactory, and his speed was average. At this time, he only ranked No.13 in the lap ranking list.

Those who are knowledgeable know that it is only the winter test stage, and the team will not show their cards at this stage, and there may even be a situation where the aerodynamic layout of a car in the winter test stage of a team is completely different from that in the race stage.

So for the winter beta, most of the old viewers just watched the fun, and some old viewers didn't even watch it, after all, the winter beta is really boring for the audience.

But this year in a mysterious ancient oriental country, the number of people watching the practice match has increased more than ten times compared to previous years.

Due to Qin Miao's sudden rise in F1, when he was announced as China's first F1 driver, the news stayed on Weibo's trending search list for three days.

As a result, many people who only knew F1 before, but basically didn't know much about it, also became interested in this sport and paid attention to it.

After seeing the results of Qin Miao's first lap, many irritable newcomers began to question themselves in the post bar.

Of course, these car fans who started to question without knowing anything will eventually realize their mistakes in the contempt of old car fans.

After finishing the first lap, Frankie's voice sounded in the TR: "The speed is good, keep it up, if possible, gradually increase your lap speed within a controllable range, but the main thing is to ensure that there are no mistakes. Our current goal is to get enough test data."

"receive."

Qin Miao answered in her TR.

On the second lap, Qin Miao began to test the braking point of the car based on some data on the simulator, but the braking point was at least 25 meters earlier than when he practiced on the simulator.

Because of Qin Miao's adjustment, his speed on the second lap was 0.5 seconds faster than the first lap, and he also gradually got used to the higher G force when cornering than F2.

On the third lap, Qin Miao tested the braking point more deeply, and Qin Miao's speed was 0.7 seconds faster than the first lap, and gradually began to get used to the feeling of being restrained by the seat belt when braking.

On the fourth lap, when cornering, Qin Miao began to try to press some road shoulders that did not lose much speed. Qin Miao's speed was 0.9 seconds faster than the first lap.

At the same time, there is a new instruction in the team's TR: "Drive more aggressively and use up as many tires as possible."

……

Qin Miao ran a set of medium tires on the track for thirteen laps.

Thirteen laps did not reach the wear limit of the tires, but the data of [-] laps was enough for the team to estimate the wear of Qin Miao's subsequent tires based on Qin Miao's tire wear at this time.

Driving the car into the pit lane, turning on the speed limit button in the pit lane, Qin Miao kept the speed and drove into the parking position of his team.

There was no tire change or anything. After arriving at the place, Qin Miao was directly lifted up by the front and rear jacks. The two pulley blocks were put into the bottom of the car, and then Qin Miao's car was pushed into the P room.

After stopping, Frankie couldn't wait to run over and start asking Qin Miao a question: "How is the consistency of the vehicle when cornering? Is there any understeer in the first corner and oversteer in the second time? Is there any other undiscovered problems caused by tire wear besides insufficient grip and reduced traction?..."

Qin Miao took off his headrest and helmet, and while wiping his sweat with the towel prepared by the team, he began to answer Qin Miao's questions according to his feelings during the thirteen laps just now.

But after giving all his feedback to the team, Qin Miao also gave feedback on the MGU-K problem.

In Qin Miao's opinion, the charging effect of his MGU-K looks very good, but under the action of the human-vehicle integration skill card, Qin Miao feels that his charging efficiency is only about 80%, and the wear rate is too fast.

After talking about his feelings with Franky, Franky wrote down Qin Miao's question, and said that he would ask the staff in charge of MGU-K data to compare Qin Miao's racing data with the expected data later.

While communicating with Frankie about the data he obtained on the field, Qin Miao's car was blocked by the team's screen again, and the rear hood was raised again.

While checking the wear and tear of Qin Miao's racing car after running, the technicians exported the data from the sensor of Qin Miao's racing car.

During the entire winter test period, it was almost in this working state.

After setting the goal, the drivers go to the track and start running the data. After running the data, they come back to give feedback. If they find any problems, they will also write down any abnormalities. On-site inspection, if there is really no way to solve it, they will return to Brackley after the winter test.

If the data of the car during the entire winter test is within the acceptable range, whether it is errors or other things, then the department responsible for measuring and recording tire data is the one that is most confused.

Because Qin Miao's tire wear data is so against the sky, if you don't compare it with the drivers of other teams, you can compare it with Qin Miao's teammate, the old man. Qin Miao's tire wear is about 30% less than the old man's.

Although this was Qin Miao's intention to protect the tire, and the speed was not as fast as the old man's, but Qin Miao's data made Toto think that his team had developed some black technology for this year's racing car, or that Qin Miao paid Pirelli to specially adjust the formula for Qin Miao's tires.

But after seeing the old man's tire wear data, Toto dispelled his unrealistic idea.

All in all, after more than 4 hours of work, the Mercedes team has gained a lot and obtained some of the data they want.

At the same time, without Qin Miao's knowledge, he passed the first test given to him by the team.

After a short break at noon, another brief meeting was held, and the test continued in the afternoon.

It is worth mentioning that Toto found that Qin Miao gradually became familiar with the W12 during the afternoon test, and the speed was also getting faster and faster without increasing the tire and fuel consumption. Obviously, he had found the feeling and the best route of this car on the track. The lap time also climbed to the third place in the current overall list.

Realizing that the situation was wrong, Toto called an emergency stop, called Qin Miao back, told him to slow down, and added an extra 10 kilograms of counterweight to his car.

Although the ranking of the practice match is at most just for people to watch, but this ranking still has a certain reference value.

It doesn't matter how high or low the other teams are in this ranking, but Mercedes can't be too high.

After all, the FIA ​​has already begun to move its knife against Mei Ben. Before the game officially starts, Mei Ben's image should be more well-behaved.

During the winter test phase, you can hide as much strength as you can, and you must not stand out.

The four-hour test in the afternoon allowed the Mercedes team to obtain 70% of the planned data. Generally speaking, the harvest during the winter test did not meet expectations.

However, this is considered a crime other than war, because all this is not caused by personnel negligence or unreasonable arrangement of links, but because of sandstorms in Bahrain today.

In such an environment, not only the car cannot reach its best state, but the state of the driver is also affected by this environment, and even the staff cannot show the best mental state in such an environment.

This can be seen from the fact that Qin Miao was sweating profusely after only running for half an hour during the first test.

When Qin Miao's cockpit was on the track, the internal temperature was very stable, basically kept at around 45°.

This situation occurred, on the one hand, because the local weather was really hot, the air temperature was 34°C and the track temperature was 49°C, coupled with the heat transfer from Qin Miao’s engine, and the ventilation environment in the monocoque was basically better than no ventilation, finally constituted a sauna-like environment.

To be honest, Qin Miao was really tired and happy during this time.

I am tired because I not only need to enter the racing car test from time to time, but also have to communicate with other technicians about the problems I encountered on the racing car and the changes I feel after the adjustment when I return to the P room.

Qin Miao basically couldn't find any chance to breathe.

I am happy because driving an F1 car is really cool, even more so than Qin Miao imagined.

Especially as I gradually became familiar with the car, the team also allowed me to lift the restrictions and push the line and speed to the limit.

The feeling of being pulled by the G force, fighting against the G force, and speeding on the track is really wonderful, more exciting than a roller coaster.

Of course, the result of that lap was not good, after all, the 40kg counterweight on Qin Miao's car was pressed.

Nine p.m.

Qin Miao got off her car, and while high-fiving her crew members to celebrate the end of the day's work, she took off her equipment.

This is the case with the Bahrain circuit. Whether it is the F1 race or the winter test, it is busy from day to night.

Finally handed over the work, and after greeting Hamilton and Toto, Qin Miao returned to the car home with her own things.

Qin Miao's work today is over, and so are the work of other Meiben staff.

Although there are still many problems that have not been resolved, the winter test is finally over. Other problems can only be solved after returning to the factory in Brackley.

And Qin Miao had just walked out of the P room of her motorcade, and when she was about to go back to the car home and asked Qiumeng to go back to the hotel together, she was caught by the FOM broadcaster who happened to be passing by.

After answering a few questions, Qin Miao left the paddock.

In the next two days, Qin Miao's working status was basically the same, and the entire F1 winter test came to an end amidst grains of dust.

And on the second day after the winter test ended, when Qin Miao and the others returned to Brackley's factory with a hard drive full of test data, Qin Miao's system that had been dead for almost three months finally came back to life.

[System upgrade complete...]

[Scanning host status...]

[Scanning complete! 】

[Host: Qin Miao
Age: 19
Overall Rating: 90.3
Stamina: 99
Mentality: 93
Stability: 97
Ranking ability: 89
Starting ability: 82
Race long distance: 92
Tire protection capacity: 77
Rain Fighting Ability: 82
Attack power: 92
Defense ability: 100]

【Team: Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
Overall Team Rating: 84.7
Racing problem spotting ability: 81
Simulator capacity: 79
Racing tuning capacity: 89
Match strategy making ability: 87
Racing protection power: 75
Tire changing capacity: 90
Power department capacity: 94
Aerodynamic department capacity: 86
Chassis department research capacity: 85
Durability development capability: 81]

【Ding!new task. 】

[Mission 1: Outstanding talent]

[Requirement: Get points for participating in the F1 Grand Prix for the first time, the more points you get, the more rewards you get]

[Reward: Team Free Attribute Point +1, Floating Reward: 1 drawable points (increasing with the number of points obtained)]

(Note: After the task is completed, a new lottery module will be opened.)
[Mission 2: Attract countless fans]

[Requirement: Be the driver of the week voted by the audience after the Grand Prix. 】

[Reward: Free Attribute Point +1, Health Potion Portable*1]

Seeing the system and system tasks floating in front of her, Qin Miao became interested.

Not to mention the last one, the audience's vote is a very subjective thing, Qin Miao is not absolutely sure that he will be able to win this honor during the Bahrain Grand Prix, let alone driving a Mercedes.

With a strong first impression of the Mercedes, even if Qin Miao is a rookie, it is only natural for the audience to get good results in the Mercedes.

If he really wanted to complete this task, Qin Miao reckoned that he would have to be at the end of the team... No, start in the maintenance area, then fight all the way to the points area, and then reach the top five.

Not paying attention to this impossible task, Qin Miao focused on the first task.

Qin Miao is quite curious about this task, because he has a new lottery module.

There has never been any rubbish in the lottery draw of his own system. Qin Miao thinks that the things given in this new lottery system should not be too bad. If there is no accident, the lottery system should use the first task to reward the raffle points.

In addition to these two tasks, the overall score of the Mercedes-Benz team is also quite interesting.

To Qin Miao's surprise, after coming to F1, the number of abilities of the team increased from 7 to 10.

Compared with the F2 team, the F1 team has one less car adaptability.

This is not surprising, after all, this car is developed and manufactured by itself, so it is impossible not to adapt.

In addition, there are four more attributes, which are the ability attributes of the four main departments.

To be honest, Qin Miao thought that a championship team like Mercedes should have a higher score. After all, in the past few years, the drivers and team champions in the paddock have all been rounded up by Mercedes.

But I didn't expect that the average score of Mercedes was only 84.7 points.

However, this is not the effect of Qin Miao's passive skill [Guide of the Research Department (Purple)].

To be honest, Qin Miao is a little curious, if he hangs on this skill for a long time, what kind of Mars rover can Mei Ben develop next year?
It's a pity that Qin Miao's current passive skills are very useful, but the skill slots are too small, and he can only carry three.

Apart from other things, the two skills [Strength and Health] and [No Disease and Disaster] cannot be taken off anyway. After all, this one is to prolong Qin Miao's life, and the other is to ensure Qin Miao's health.

The last position can only be replaced according to the application scenario.

Also because of the shortage of skill slots, Qin Miao turned her attention to the remaining 4 golden lottery draws.

If there are no accidents in this level of lottery, there will definitely be particularly good things and skills drawn.

But Qin Miao saw that he had fewer and fewer human-vehicle integration skill cards, and finally resisted the impulse in his heart, and decided to save 10 golden lucky draws before starting the draw.

He had a hunch that the next time the golden ten consecutive draws would be the reusable human-vehicle integration skill card.

If you can't bear it a little, you can make big plans. Qin Miao can still distinguish the priorities.

2021.3.25, Thursday.

Qin Miao followed the convoy's plane to visit his loyal Bahrain Sakhir again.

Considering that the risk of the epidemic is still high, Qiu Meng does not have Qin Miao's physique who is not afraid of getting sick when living with patients, so Qin Miao let her stay at Brackley's house and come out alone out of safety considerations.

After getting off the plane, Qin Miao was taken to the paddock by the staff arranged by the team.

This person is the physical trainer arranged by the team for Qin Miao. His name is Horatio Barber. When Qin Miao heard his name, Qin Miao almost said something about the old eight secret hamburger.

He looks ordinary, with blond hair and blue eyes. He looks like a normal Angsa person. He is the same height as Qin Miao, but much thinner than Qin Miao.

All the year round, there is a Mercedes team uniform and long trousers to show people.

In addition to Qin Miao's physical training, Barber is also responsible for Qin Miao's daily diet.

Everything Qin Miao ate and drank during the Grand Prix was prepared by Barber.

Of course, Qin Miao's thermos that has been with her for many years does not count among them.

This time in Bahrain, Qin Miao’s car was still a Mercedes-Benz provided by a local dealer. Qin Miao didn’t check the model carefully. It wasn’t his car anyway, so it didn’t matter what model it was.

After arriving at the paddock, Qin Miao's work has just begun.

First go to the FIA ​​to sign in, and then, under the leadership of Alisa, go to the pre-match interview site prepared by FOM for the drivers.

This is a mandatory requirement for all F1 drivers. There is an interview before the race and an interview after the race, all in the same place.

Videos of these interviews will also be uploaded to F1's official website for fans to watch.

The questions that the host asked Qin Miao were those commonplace questions:
How does it feel to be at the F1 Grand Prix for the first time?Are you nervous?Do you have any goals for this weekend?Which driver do you think is closest to you in the paddock?Is it possible to be on the podium in the first grand prix of your career like your teammates?

All in all, these are questions that are relatively easy to answer, but they are indeed questions that many people are curious about.

After the interview, Qin Miao's media work did not stop there.

Because after this interview, Qin Miao had to attend a meeting with the audience, which was equivalent to a symposium.

Several drivers sit together, a host sits opposite, and a crowd of spectators are in the audience. The host asks questions, and the drivers answer.

The interview just now was for the audience watching TV, and this one is for the audience who came to the scene.

After all, if you spend money to watch the race live, you must enjoy some privileges that spectators who watch the race at home cannot enjoy, such as meeting F1 drivers, having the opportunity to get the hats worn by the drivers, and getting autographs and the like.

Although the current general environment is still not optimistic, the number of people attending this Grand Prix still reached 30, which is really incomparable with the previous [-] to [-], but having an audience is a good start.

The 20 drivers will be interviewed separately on 4 different stages at the same time. This is also to avoid crowd gathering as much as possible and let their fans go where they should go.

As for Qin Miao, in addition to Qin Miao himself, there are Norris, Russell, Kakuda, and Leclerc.

Basically, they are all young people. The oldest is Leclerc, and the youngest is Qin Miao.

Qin Miao is 19 this year and Leclerc is 24.

Not to mention Qin Miao and Leclerc, they are old friends, have eaten hot pot together, and even almost became teammates.

This is the first time Qin Miao met after saying goodbye to Leclerc last time.

"Hahaha, Qin, I knew from the beginning that you could enter F1." Leclerc, who was chatting with Russell, saw Qin Miao enter the backstage of the stage with his press officer, and immediately put on a smile that was much brighter than before.

Qin Miao also stepped forward with a smile, and after shaking hands with Leclerc, the two hugged each other strongly.

"Look at your clothes, Mercedes! It seems that some people are very likely to stand on the highest podium in the first year of their careers, win races and the like." Although he was joking, Leclerc had a strong feeling in his heart that things were different.

It is hard to imagine that Qin Miao, who was still an ignorant teenager, had already stood on the same stage as himself in just two years, and even joined the Mercedes-Benz team.

Of course, Leclerc didn't feel any jealousy, who is not a genius boy?
Qin Miao just smiled and didn't answer.

After exchanging pleasantries with Leclerc, Qin Miao turned to other people, shook hands with Norris, and said hello to Kakuda, and finally arrived at Russell.

Although Qin Miao's EQ is not high, he is not blind. After seeing Russell, Qin Miao can clearly see the hostility towards him in the other party's eyes.

Because according to common sense, if there is no Qin Miao, the position of the second Mercedes driver is actually the person in front of him.

After all, Russell is considered a young driver trained by Toto, and it also means that Russell will replace the second driver of Mercedes after Bottas left.

However, a Qin Miao suddenly appeared and grabbed the position that Russell was about to acquire.

It's no wonder he can be kind to Qin Miao.

Qin Miao also knew that she had taken his place, but she didn't have unnecessary emotional fluctuations in her heart.

Is it useful for you to stare at me?If you have the ability, you can take the position back! (end of this chapter)