How did I become an F1 driver?

There were originally 57 laps in today's race, but because Perez stopped on the track during the tire warm-up lap, he ran an extra lap for the tire warm-up lap. This lap should be recorded in the race laps. So there were only 56 laps in the main race, and at this time the safety car came out, and the safety car took another 3 laps, and there were only 53 laps left in the final race.

On the third lap of T3, the safety car dome lights went out, and the safety car will enter the pit after this lap.

After Qin Miao saw it, she began to grind the tires as hard as she could, but after reaching T12, she did not do these operations. Instead, she tried to stick to Verstappen as close as possible.

Because after T13, Verstappen may accelerate to start at any time.

At this time, the director also put the live broadcast footage on Qin Miao's car camera. After all, he is the best viewing position at the start of the car.

Qin Miao kept her car in the third gear, fixed her eyes on the Red Bull racing car in front of her, and waited for Verstappen to start sprinting.

In order to concentrate, Qin Miao didn't even dare to grind the tires left and right, because according to Qin Miao's own defensive experience, when the tires of the car behind were grinding, it was time for him to grasp the timing and accelerate the start.

And Verstappen in front of Qin Miao was indeed grinding the tires to heat up the tires while staring at the rearview mirror, trying to catch Qin Miao's timing, but Verstappen did not expect that Qin Miao, the first The novice who entered F1 in 1 year is so experienced, and he didn't show himself any good opportunities.

In this case, what Verstappen can do is to continue to press the car. Anyway, as long as the car starts before the finish line, it will be fine.

Although Qin Miao's method can ensure his starting reaction speed to the greatest extent, Qin Miao's method will cause Qin Miao's tires to cool down and reduce their grip.

Faced with these choices on the field, generally there is no right or wrong, it just depends on the driver's own thoughts at the time.

As for the old man behind Qin Miao, he was the one who was more relaxed at the moment. Like Verstappen, he started grinding the tires left and right to heat up the tires.

In addition, the old man often accelerated violently, and then stepped on the brakes to heat up his brake discs.

This is actually another way to heat up the tires. Through heat conduction, the heat from the brake disc is transferred to the tires. In this way, the heating efficiency of the tires is not as high as that of the tires, but the loss of the tires will be very small.

Everyone is very patient, Qin Miao does not wear tires, Verstappen does not speed up.

This state continued until Verstappen was still about 50 meters away from the starting straight.

Suddenly, Qin Miao found that the car in front started to move away from him, and the Honda engine on the Red Bull in front also started howling loudly.

Qin Miao's body reacted faster than his brain. Qin Miao, who was only slightly on the accelerator, suddenly stepped on the accelerator by 3/4.

But Qin Miao's tires are a little too cold, but Qin Miao's start will be perfect if the elevation is about five degrees, but there is no if.

Because the tires were too cold, Qin Miao gave a little too much oil this time, and his rear wheel idling briefly for two laps.

Regardless of the F1 engine, it takes less than 0.1 seconds to idle for two laps, but the loss of grip during this 0.1 second time is not a small mistake.

Verstappen on the field has gradually widened the gap with Qin Miao since the start, and Hamilton behind Qin Miao also shortened the gap with Qin Miao at a speed visible to the naked eye, and before entering T1 A series of operations such as tapping side by side have been completed.

"Verstappen is on the move!"

"Qin Miao's start was not very good, Hamilton was already side by side with Qin Miao, and Leclerc behind him was also ready to move."

Before entering T1, Qin Miao found that Hamilton was already side by side with him, and the front of the car passed him by a lot.

Qin Miao already had the idea of ​​letting him go at this time. After all, Leclerc was behind them, and he was very close. If he and Hamilton got into a fight, Leclerc would have an opportunity.

Qin Miao would not do this kind of thing that hurts relatives and makes enemies happy until he and Hamilton have no enmity.

So after entering T1, Qin Miao left enough space for Hamilton, and the two Mercedes entered the corner side by side in this way, sealing all the lines behind Leclerc.

However, since the two Mercedes have always been side by side, neither of them took the best route when they exited the corner, so they entered T1, and after exiting T2, Verstappen in front had already opened up by 0.3 seconds away.

Toto, who was sitting in the room P, frowned when he saw this scene.

"No, it won't work like this."

Toto turned his head to look at Qin Miao's track engineer Franky.

Although Toto didn't say anything, Frankie met his eyes after hearing Toto's words.

At this moment, Frankie knew what Toto meant.

In any case, in the first opening race of this year, the two Mercedes drivers must not have any inclination to fight. If the two of them continue to fight, Toto will issue a team order.

But Qin Miao, who was far away on the field at this time, seemed to know Toto's thoughts. After exiting T3, he found that Hamilton's cornering speed was similar to his own, and after he did not intend to give up space, Qin Miao relaxed a little. accelerator.

Next is T4, a high-speed right turn with heavy braking, and Hamilton is on the right of Qin Miao at this time, although due to tuning reasons, without DRS, Qin Miao's speed is about 7 kilometers per hour faster than Hamilton, But this section of the straight is not enough to allow enough distance between myself and Hamilton.

So if Qin Miao keeps his position, a late braking of T4 Hamilton can block all of Qin Miao's turning lines.

It might even be possible for Leclerc behind him to take advantage of the loopholes, so Qin Miao gave up his position to Hamilton.

From the outside, it seemed that Hamilton was better than Qin Miao in cornering, and gradually surpassed Qin Miao at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Qin Miao~ Oh, what a pity.

Qin Miao's cornering speed was not as fast as Hamilton's, and he dropped to third after restarting the car. "

"You are still young, so you should be a little nervous. I hope Qin Miao can adjust her state well in the next game."

Contrary to the worries of the commentators, Toto in the Mercedes P room can see the driver's accelerator and brake circuit diagrams in addition to the broadcast screen, so Toto actually knows that Qin Miao deliberately let Hamilton go. of.

To be honest, as a boss, Toto felt relieved after seeing this scene.

Because team orders generally leave some bad impressions on the drivers, it is easy to create a rift between the drivers and the team.

But for the benefit of the team, the team order has to be issued.

After the order from the team was given, Toto and the others would definitely spend a lot of effort in comforting the driver.

And Qin Miao's behavior of being sensible and making the team leader feel at ease really increased Qin Miao's favorability in Toto's heart.

The cars in front of the next few corners did not find any chance to overtake, and Qin Miao also stabilized his third position.

Although Leclerc behind him made several tentative attacks, they all said that they were tentative attacks. No matter how suddenly Leclerc behind him suddenly pulled his head and braked late, Qin Miao knew that the other party was cheating, so he didn't care much at all. , and not much attention was paid to his own rearview mirror.

In terms of defense, Qin Miao still has a little experience.

Qin Miao knew when the other party was really threatening him.

However, although Qin Miao quickly let Hamilton pass, Hamilton was unable to catch up with Verstappen who was also using medium tires ahead, and even the lap speed gap between the two reached 0.4 seconds per lap. .

So when the first lap was over, the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton came to one second.

Of course, we all know that this speed is not reasonable. This is actually the effect that Verstappen got after using up all the power in his battery.

After all, Qin Miao was using soft tires. After letting Hamilton pass, he did not lose much speed, and was not pulled away by Hamilton. After one lap, he still stayed in the wake zone behind him.

As for Leclerc, he didn't try anymore after running a lap, because at this time, the gap between Qin Miao and him had reached 1 second, and he was thrown out of the DRS area directly. pressure.

This is actually the difference between the cars.

Just when everyone thought that the game had officially started, everyone began to enter the cruise mode and began to intrigue.

There was another safety car on the field, but this time it was a virtual safety car.

Because the front wing of Gasly was knocked off at the rear, the track was full of debris at this time, and it had to be cleaned up.

Fortunately, this virtual safety car did not last long, and it was withdrawn after 30 seconds.

After passing the line on the fifth lap, DRS also turned on.

It is worth mentioning that after the fifth lap, Hamilton asked in his TR: "Is there a speed gap between Qin and me? Am I faster or he is faster?"

Despite the suddenness of Hamilton's question, his team engineer dutifully answered; "Qin is 0.4 faster per lap than you."

Hamilton actually knew that Qin Miao started with soft tires, so it was normal for him to wonder if his speed was faster than Qin Miao.

After getting the news, Hamilton didn't say anything more, but when the two Mercedes came out of T3 one after the other, and came to the DRS area between T3 and T4, Qin Miao turned on his own DRS and quickly approached Hamilton. But Hamilton did not defend, just took a normal line, and Qin Miao completed the side-by-side with Hamilton in the middle of the straight, and completed the overtaking before the braking point.

During this period, Hamilton did not make any movements, which can be understood as he let Qin Miao go.

At this time, the director also gave the picture to the two Mercedes.

One of these two is a seven-time champion, and the other is the emperor of F2, the holder of the highest win record, and this record is basically unlikely to be broken.

The topic and attention of these two people are not small, so the pictures of the two of them are also the director's extra attention.

"Hey, when Qin Miao drove the DRS to overtake Hamilton, Hamilton didn't defend directly?"

"I think the focus of our attention should not be that Hamilton did not defend Qin Miao, but that Qin Miao was able to perform like this for the first time when he entered the F1 arena. He started with the top card in qualifying. Although there were some minor flaws in the race, But after entering the long distance, he will not be pulled away by his teammate Hamilton, and he can even overtake, you must know that his teammate is the seven-time champion Hamilton."

"This year's race is good. Honda's engine is powerful, and the two drivers of Mercedes should be close in strength. These three drivers will definitely stage a fierce battle in this year's race."

"Actually, there is another point to watch." Zhou Haoran interjected at this moment.

Without waiting for the other two commentators to ask, Zhou Haoran explained: "Don't forget that Qin Miao switched from Ferrari to Mercedes, we can also see the face of Ferrari leader Binotto after Qin Miao achieved good results... ..."

……

[Take the bamboo shoots? 】

[Listen, is this human speech? 】

【Is it a Ferrari joke? 】

【Ferrari Clowns】

[What kind of rotten fish is this Sainz? 】

[I have also taken Ferrari. There is a talented driver in the youth training system who can arm-wrestle with Hamilton. Alas, but I just don’t need it. I have to find Sainz to come back as the No. 2 driver]

[Proposal to mail a batch of clown noses to Ferrari]

……

On the field, Qin Miao was also taken aback when he found out that Hamilton gave way to him. Qin Miao had already prepared herself mentally for being unable to overtake the opponent under Hamilton's defense this lap.

But Qin Miao did not expect that Hamilton would actually give way to the car if his speed was faster than what he said to himself before the race.

At this time, Qin Miao couldn't tell exactly how Qin Miao felt in his heart, but after passing Hamilton, Qin Miao began to chase Verstappen ahead.

But Qin Miao is not in a hurry at this time, because his tires are faster than Verstappen no matter what, and the durability is not much worse, just keep his pace.

On the seventh lap, the gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen decreased from 1.5 seconds to 1.3 seconds.

After this lap, Frankie's voice came from Qin Miao's TR: "Qin, you are 0.3 seconds faster than Verstappen every lap, and the tire condition is similar to Verstappen, so please push."

Qin Miao was taken aback when he heard this. He kept track of the time. Although he had an advantage in speed compared to Verstappen, he was only 0.1 more per lap, not as fast as 0.3 seconds...

It was also because Qin Miao was too concentrated during the game that she didn't have the spare brain to think about the hidden meaning in this sentence.

This is actually the team putting pressure on Red Bull Racing through TR.

Although there are false reports in the data, Qin Miao's speed is indeed faster than Verstappen's, so don't worry about how much faster.

Not long after the team's remarks, there was also some communication among the TRs on Verstappen's side, and the general meaning was to ask Verstappen to advance.

Keep a safe distance of at least three seconds from the vehicle behind you.

So on lap 10, the gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen came to 1.8 seconds.

At this time, Verstappen was leading the race on the track, and the two Mercedes were chasing behind one after the other.

Leclerc, who was originally ranked fourth, was overtaken by Norris, and Norris was now more than 7 seconds away from Hamilton.

Although 10 laps had been carried out in the race at this time, it only took 6 laps to actually run.

The gap between Mercedes' car and the car behind came to a terrifying 1.1 seconds per lap.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao is indeed faster than his teammate Hamilton on the medium tire after using the soft tire, but not much faster, only 0.3 seconds per lap.

And this gap was just made up by Hamilton using DRS, so the gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton has been kept within one second at this time.

Toto was also amazed after seeing this scene.

To be honest, he was already mentally prepared for Hamilton to fight alone in the first race. Even the Mercedes team made a plan for Qin Miao to crash in the first race. He also had a plan in his heart to comfort Qin Miao after his mistake.

Of course, there are also some people who think that Qin Miao's performance will not be too bad even if he is on the field for the first time.

It's just that even most of this group of people think that Qin Miao needs one or two games to adapt. No one thought that Qin Miao's performance could be so good.

When the director showed the camera to Toto, everyone could see the slightly raised corners of Toto's mouth even though his arms were folded.

Obviously, although the current Mercedes-Benz cars are not in the position Toto expected, the current performance of the two is satisfactory enough for Toto.

The three cars in front basically have no shots at this time, because Qin Miao will not be able to catch up with Verstappen in a short time, and if Qin Miao does not make mistakes, Hamilton will not be able to surpass Qin Miao. The three cars are currently in a Cruise status.

On the contrary, the cars in the back were very happy, changing tires for changing tires, and overtaking for overtaking cars.

On the 13th lap, the front camp, which had no live footage for two laps, was suddenly favored by the director again.

Hamilton received instructions from the team to pit and put on hard tyres.

You must know that Hamilton is using a medium tire, which is far from reaching the grip limit of his tires at this time.

Hamilton's pit stop and tire change tactics are actually putting pressure on Red Bull. After putting on the new hard tires, Hamilton's speed is definitely faster than Verstappen who is using the old medium tires, even faster than Qin Miao.

After Red Bull found out that Mercedes had changed, the team and the strategy team in the factory became busy.

According to the old man's posture, he probably wants a set of hard tires to run straight away, but it is not ruled out to wait for the last few laps to stop and change to soft tires. The old man does have a new set of soft tires in his tire reserve. .

Of course, Mercedes' operations don't stop there.

Because after Hamilton stopped to change tires, Frankie's voice came from Qin Miao's TR: "Qin, we still have a lot of tires, push as hard as possible."

Although this TR sounded like Qin Miao was only accelerating, the team actually hoped that Qin Miao could attack Verstappen during Hamilton's pit stop, so as to provide Hamilton with more favorable conditions for the next under cut.

The team's original strategy for Qin Miao was to stop at red and white, and then run the whole game steadily.

But Qin Miao's current performance is beyond the team's expectations, and the speed is much faster than predicted, so the team's strategy team is going to give Qin Miao some strength.

And Qin Miao, who originally ran long distances in a way to protect his tires, started to speed up even though he was puzzled after receiving the team's order.

On the 14th lap, Qin Miao erased the 0.9 second gap between himself and Verstappen and entered Verstappen's DRS zone.

Of course, there is a price for the sudden explosion. Qin Miao's ERS energy is all used up. At the same time, Qin Miao's tire wear speed in one lap has caught up to four laps of normal driving.

But from now on, Qin Miao will also start to put pressure on Verstappen.

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On the 16th lap, according to calculations, Hamilton had already overturned his teammate Qin Miao by pitting ahead of time. According to the forecast given by the director, Hamilton had already arrived 0.5 seconds behind Verstappen at this time. , and Hamilton's speed still has an advantage over Verstappen. If he continues to run in this state, Hamilton will complete the under cut against Verstappen.

Not to mention that Qin Miao also came to 0.7 seconds behind Verstappen at this time, and the two had already started an offensive and defensive game.

However, most of Qin Miao's offenses are tentative offenses, which are threatening, but if they defend normally, it is not too difficult to defend.

But as long as he defends, Verstappen has no way to follow the normal route, and Verstappen's speed will inevitably be lost if he does not follow the normal lane.

After Hamilton under cut Verstappen, the gap between the two cars will also be widened.

On lap No. 16, Verstappen, who got stuck on the inside line at T1 and braked late to squeeze Qin Miao's cornering line, completed another defense against Qin Miao, but after this defense, Verstappen was in his team's TR Zhong asked: "What should I do? Has he pitted? Why does his soft tire still have grip?"

While the director was playing the scene of the fight between Qin Miao and Verstappen, there was an estimate of the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton after the pit stop at the bottom of the screen.

At this time, the data shows that Verstappen will fall behind Hamilton by two seconds after entering the station. At this time, Hamilton has completed the under cut of Verstappen.

Soon, a voice came from the TR of the Red Bull Racing Team: "OK, Max, wait a moment, we are studying and trying our best to defend."

Hearing the three commentators of Red Bull TR, they also joked: "Mei Ben is indeed a lot more aggressive after having a newcomer this year. The soft tires on 16 laps can still catch up to the medium tires on 16 laps, forcing Vesta Pan is asking the team what to do."

Brother Fei asked curiously: "Qin Miao is the first driver who forced Verstappen to ask the team what to do?"

Zhou Haoran replied: "It is indeed the first one."

On the 18th lap, Qin Miao received an instruction from the team TR: "box, box."

"OK, Box."

Although he knew that he was going to pit in this lap, Qin Miao still did not give up on Verstappen in this lap. The DRS area between T10 and T11 even entered the corner with Verstappen, but Qin Miao No matter how he can keep the tire, the wear of almost 50 laps, and he didn't save the tire when chasing Verstappen, the tire wear has reached [-]% at this time, and there is really not much grip.

After finally passing T13, Qin Miao drove into the maintenance area, while Verstappen breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn, are all the rookies so fierce now? When the driver number 66 was hidden, I thought it was Hamilton who was putting pressure on me from behind. (end of this chapter)