How did I become an F1 driver?

Before entering the maintenance area, Qin Miao slammed on the brakes. When passing the white line in the maintenance area, the speed dropped to below 80 kilometers per hour. After turning on the speed limit button on the maintenance area on his steering wheel, and stepping on half of the accelerator, Qin Miao kept Entered the maintenance area at cruising speed.

The maintenance area of ​​Mercedes is the first one on the far right of the entrance of the maintenance area, so Qin Miao saw the staff of his team and the indicator lights in their hands after entering the maintenance area.

Qin Miao, who has practiced numerous pit stops, was nervous and her heart rate was over 120, but after a long period of training, Qin Miao had developed the muscle memory of pit stops to change tires, so this pit stop was very precise , there is no deviation in the parking position.

Although the staff of the team did not enjoy Qin Miao's skill blessing at this time, the attributes of the Mercedes-Benz team itself are very high, so Qin Miao's final tire change time in this pit stop was 2.1 seconds, which is a very good result.

After putting on hard tires, Qin Miao was 1.7 seconds behind Hamilton. At this time, Hamilton was 16 seconds away from Verstappen. As long as Verstappen entered the pit, Hamilton's under cut would be considered a success.

When Qin Miao left the station, Frankie's voice also came from the team TR: "Qin Miao, your appearance circle is very important, it is related to whether you can under cut Verstappen."

Qin Miao didn't answer, but after receiving the news from the team, she was highly concentrated and began to do her best to do lap times.

One lap after Qin Miao pitted, Verstappen finally pitted.

It's okay to be under cut by Hamilton. After all, this is Mei Ben's conspiracy. If you don't want to be led by the nose by Mei Ben, you can only pinch your nose and admit this dumb loss.

But if Qin Miao is also allowed to complete the under cut for Verstappen, then Red Bull's strategy team will not pass, and they will leave collectively.

So on the second lap after Qin Miao pitted, Verstappen also pitted.

It took 2.8 seconds to replace the medium tire with the medium tire. After coming out, there was still a gap of more than 7 seconds between Verstappen and Hamilton.

But Verstappen uses medium tires, while Hamilton uses hard tires. There is a gap of 0.5 seconds between the two tires on this track. In this case, it is only time for Verstappen to catch up with Hamilton. question.

It's just that there is a small variable between Verstappen and Hamilton in this game.

That is Qin Miao, he finished the same as his teammate Hamilton, for Verstappen under cut.

The reason is more complicated. On the one hand, Mercedes changed tires 0.7 seconds faster than Red Bull. Qin Miao, who was originally behind Verstappen in the DRS zone, ran faster than Verstappen. When Stapan came out of the pit lane, Qin Miao was exactly one second in front of him.

Horner and Newey teamed up to suppress the Red Bull strategy group who was about to resign and continued to urge them to work.

But there was no one to comfort Verstappen on the field. If he wanted to win the championship, he had to surpass Qin Miao in front of him.

At this time, Mercedes and Red Bull's team TR sounded the order from the team to the driver almost at the same time.

"Qin Miao, do your best to defend against Verstappen's attack."

"Overtake Qin as soon as possible, we need to chase Hamilton ahead."

……

After this passage, Qin Miao put most of his attention on the rearview mirror, and Verstappen also started to accelerate at this time. Before entering the station, the ERS had been fully charged. use.

On lap 21, Verstappen came to the DRS area behind Qin Miao and began to put pressure on Qin Miao frequently.

In the data panel in front of Toto, there is the speed gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen at this time.

Although Horner, who was sitting on the podium beside the track, frowned, he was not worried that Qin Miao would cause Verstappen any trouble, because he knew that with Verstappen's ability, he wanted to surpass Qin Miao The words are relatively simple.

At this time, Toto was really worried, because at this time Qin Miao was 1 second slower than Verstappen's laps. This gap can be easily placed by Verstappen in a normal game. Qin Miao surpassed.

Although Qin Miao performed very well in the test on the simulator at the Meiben factory, these are only test data and have not been practiced on the field.

This is the first time Qin Miao really showed his defensive ability on the field. Toto and all the Mercedes team members are very nervous at this time.

Except for the data analyst, most people stopped their work and looked up at the two racing cars in the broadcast.

At this time, the director also gave the camera to Qin Miao and Verstappen. After all, Qin Miao's performance at this time determined to a certain extent the final champion of this game.

At T1, Verstappen already had Qin Miao's DRS at this time, so he had already tapped to Qin Miao's outside line in the middle of the starting straight.

The reason why he didn't tap the inside line was mainly because Qin Miao went directly to the dirty side after getting out of T15 and gave Verstappen a certain position on the traffic lane.

There are better driving lines, and Verstappen will definitely not miss it.

In addition, today's wind is blowing head-on on the starting straight, Verstappen's wake effect and DRS effect are outstanding, even before the braking point of T1, he has already surpassed Qin Miao on the outside.

The front of Verstappen's car surpassed 1/4 of that of Qin Miao's car, and then braked to enter T1, while Qin Miao braked late to make up the 1/4 gap, so the two entered T1 almost at the same time. When turning right, Qin Miao oppressed Verstappen's traffic lane, but did not push Verstappen directly out of the track, and still left him more than 1.2 car spaces.

But if this space is used, Verstappen's angle of entering T2 will not be very good, and the speed will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, Verstappen did not line up with Qin Miao to enter the corner, but took a cross line with Qin Miao after Qin Miao braked late, and obtained a faster exit speed than Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao is in front of the two corners of T2 and T3, the speed of Verstappen with the blessing of the Honda engine is faster than Qin Miao.

The gap between the two cars is shortening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Beautiful, Qin Miao defended his position, but Verstappen's crossing line is obviously faster than Qin Miao after exiting the corner, and the DRS area is next."

"Wait, why did Verstappen's speed slow down on the big straight after T3?"

"DRS! It's DRS, Qin Miao has DRS! When entering the DRS detection point before T1, Qin Miao happened to fall behind Verstappen, so Qin Miao now has DRS to use!"

……

Relying on the precise calculation when entering T1, Qin Miao did deliberately let Verstappen go in T1, allowing the opponent to get the DRS monitoring point first.

Although the speed of the Mercedes car in corners this year is not as fast as last year, and the absolute speed of the car is not as good as the Honda engine, but it is not so much worse. In addition, Qin Miao is biased towards understeer. , the straight-line speed will be faster, and Qin Miao has DRS, so Qin Miao even widened the gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen on this straight road.

But regardless of Qin Miao's carefulness in this defense, after entering T4, Qin Miao has come to a section of road where he does not have to worry about being overtaken.

On the one hand, there are many curves in these places, and there is no suitable overtaking route at all. On the other hand, because the speed of the Mercedes car in the second stage is faster than that of the Red Bull, Qin Miao can also relax a little. With tense nerves, he waited for Verstappen's next attack.

Rhythm is very important in racing competitions. Verstappen's failure to attack Qin Miao will lead to the loss of his own rhythm to a certain extent.

So after the failure of the attack in this lap, Verstappen did not catch up to within one second of Qin Miao until after T14 in this lap.

Before passing the DRS monitoring point of T14 this time, Verstappen had no DRS bonus, so he could only approach Qin Miao by relying on the wake flow which was much stronger than normal. Only Verstappen in the 3nd stage DRS area got a chance to attack Qin Miao.

This time, Verstappen used an inside attack. After all, he just attacked Qin Miao for the first time, and the opponent defended that attack by defending the inside to press Verstappen's offensive line.

Because Verstappen has the bonus of DRS at this time, when entering the braking point, the two cars once again formed a state of lining up into the corner.

This time, Qin Miao stood firmly on the outside line, only turning to the right when Verstappen was side by side with him, slightly forcing Verstappen's forward route.

Although it seemed that Qin Miao only started to change lanes when Verstappen got to the back of his car, which was somewhat immoral, but there was nothing wrong with Qin Miao's operation.

Because of the regulations of the tournament, it is not allowed to change lanes continuously when defending, but Qin Miao was in a normal driving state, and only changed lanes once when Verstappen came to his side, and Qin Miao also gave Vesta Pan left the track space for two car bodies, and did not squeeze him out directly.

So Qin Miao's operation is in line with the FIA ​​competition rules.

But this oppression did have a certain impact on Verstappen.

No matter who it is, when they suddenly see a car squeezing towards them, their first reaction is to release the accelerator in an attempt to avoid it.

The reactions of the F1 drivers were different. After Verstappen found out, he just turned right to avoid Qin Miao's squeeze.

But Qin Miao's defense method that harms others and benefits himself really disgusted Verstappen.

It may not have any effect on Verstappen's speed, but it definitely has a certain impact on Verstappen's heart.

In the game, Qin Miao's operation is called playing with people's mentality.

After suppressing Verstappen's turn-in angle, Qin Miao returned to the normal turn-in line.

Before Verstappen could do anything, Qin Miao had already taken a cross-line route.

Qin Miao predicted in advance that Verstappen would brake late and get stuck on his turn-entry line.

And Verstappen did, as Qin Miao predicted, brake late to try to seal Qin Miao's turn-in line, but Qin Miao, who had been prepared for a long time, was not affected in any way, and exited the corner from behind Verstappen's buttocks. , Even after exiting the corner, because he was faster than Verstappen, he regained his position.

However, Verstappen lost his 0.6-second rhythm due to his late braking and a slightly larger line.

Although Verstappen's speed is faster than Qin Miao's, he has to run half a lap longer to catch up to 0.6 seconds.

After two laps of fighting, the gap between Hamilton and Qin Miao has reached 10 seconds, and there is a possibility that it will continue to increase.

Verstappen also started to get a little impatient.

Although the wear speed of medium tires and hard tires in Bahrain is not much different, it is not impossible. As time goes by, Verstappen's speed will become slower and slower. The less likely it is that Pan will catch up to Hamilton and pass him.

After defending Verstappen for two laps, Qin Miao has figured out some of Verstappen's offensive habits in his heart, and has confidence in his defense on the third lap.

……

In Meiben's P room, Toto, who was still full of worries, looked at Qin Miao's data in front of him, and the corners of his mouth were about to split behind his ears.

From time to time, I also chatted with Qin Miao's track engineer Franky.

At this time, Franky was also full of surprise, because he had never seen Qin Miao's defensive ability when he was in F2.

This is mainly due to the fact that in F2, no one can make Qin Miao show his defensive talent. It is not a joke to be 0.5 seconds faster than other drivers every lap.

And now it is the first time Qin Miao has shown his defensive ability in front of the world.

It was only now that the audience knew that Qin Miao's strongest strength was not his ability to protect the fetus, but his defensive ability.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

From the eyes of ordinary viewers, they just knew that Qin Miao defended Verstappen for two laps.

And those who are really professional can see that Qin Miao is very relaxed when defending Verstappen.

This can be seen from Qin Miao's defensive actions.

If you observe carefully, you will find that Qin Miao never needs to reverse the fine-tuning to accelerate after exiting the corner.

From this point alone, it can be seen that although Qin Miao is under pressure at the moment, it is definitely not too much, and the operation has always been stable without any deformation.

"I had already overestimated Qin Miao as much as possible, but now after seeing his performance on the field, I realized that I still underestimated him." What he said after defeating Verstappen, who was faster than himself by an average of 1 second.

Qin Miao defended Verstappen for 5 laps.

Until the 27th lap, Verstappen relied on two laps of dormancy to fully charge the battery of his car. Relying on the Dongfeng and DRS of T1 and the fully discharged battery, he pulled his car speed to a terrifying 340 kilometers per hour. Three-quarters of the straight was forcibly passed by Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was actually going to defend against Verstappen, but after seeing Verstappen's close rate, Qin Miao knew that facing Verstappen with a terrifying tail speed, no matter how hard he struggled, he would not be able to defend He attacked this time.

So Qin Miao reversed the previous normality of crazily oppressing Verstappen's route, and directly kept his own driving route unchanged, letting Verstappen pass by him.

And Qin Miao's strict defense against Verstappen for five laps can be regarded as the completion of the task assigned to him by the team. No one can fault Qin Miao.

During these five laps, Hamilton opened up a gap of 17 seconds.

"...I can't defend this time." Seeing Qin Miao being overtaken, Brother Fei said with some emotion: "But one thing to say, Qin Miao's defensive ability is indeed a bit strong."

Brother Bing answered: "Indeed, Qin Miao's defensive ability is beyond everyone's expectations. From the comparison given in the match just now, it can be seen that Verstappen's laps are actually faster than Qin Miao's, and Sakhir in Bahrain is still a relatively good track for overtaking, but under such unfavorable conditions, he actually defended Verstappen for 5 laps."

"Qin Miao did give us all a surprise in terms of defensive ability. I believe that Mei Ben will be very happy after returning from this game, and based on Qin Miao's current strength, his position in F1 is basically stable. Come down, if there is no better driver, Mercedes is unlikely to take Qin Miao down." Zhou Haoran interjected.

……

On the field, Verstappen just broke free from Qin Miao's defense. Although the time difference between himself and Hamilton in front was a bit big at this time, Verstappen still started to push forward with all his strength.

And Qin Miao has completed his task, and the fight just now consumed a lot of tires and fuel for Qin Miao, so in the next race, Qin Miao started to run long distances with a tire-safe running method.

As for behind Qin Miao...

Norris, who ran the fastest, was 25 seconds behind Qin Miao at this time. To be honest, they saw Qin Miao at this time as bigger than Verstappen saw Hamilton in front of him.

After the fight between Qin Miao and Verstappen ended, the director watched the excitement and switched the camera to Ferrari's podium.

Ferrari team leader Binotto's shaggy hair appeared in the camera.

At this time, Binotto was wearing a mask, and everyone couldn't see his face clearly, but it must not be too good.

Although Qin Miao did not say in the paddock why he left Ferrari to join Mercedes, there are many well-informed people in the paddock. Now Qin Miao left Ferrari because he couldn't drive in Ferrari, basically everyone in Tiefosi knew of.

Now that the director broadcasts everything on the small screen, everyone who knows about it will smile heartily.

【Camera language】

[The director couldn't speak, but he showed us a joke in the language of the camera]

【Take it on the spot】

【Class A war criminal】

[BiHi does have two skills in knowing people and making good use of them]

【This director is too naughty】

[One thing to say, I still don't understand why Ferrari had a father like Qin Miao back then, so it had to go find some kind of Sainz]

[Which home flower has the fragrance of wild flowers? 】

【Hot method ethane】

……

"Good job, Qin Miao, we now have more tactical options, now we need to stop for soft tires on lap 46, try to chase Verstappen during this time, get it?"

After hearing the team's TR, Qin Miao was taken aback, and then replied with a little excitement: "Okay, I will do my best."

In fact, Qin Miao's strategy at this time is still to use his current set of hard tires to run the entire race. Neither the team nor Qin Miao has the idea of ​​re-entering the station and changing to soft tires.

And this TR is actually deceiving people and putting pressure on Red Bull.

Qin Miao was a little excited because it was the first time she lied to someone. This feeling of doing bad things was quite special to Qin Miao.

After Red Bull heard Mercedes' TR, the strategy team began to calculate frantically again, and Horner rubbed his eyebrows with some headaches to guess Mercedes' tactical intentions.

Horner, who couldn't think of a good solution in a short period of time, even lost his mind for a moment. Horner thought of the phone call he made to Qin Miao's agent when Qin Miao was still in F2.

If I had persisted at the time, would it not be that Qin Miao defended Verstappen for five laps, let Hamilton distance himself, and left the big trouble to himself and his strategy team? It was Qin Miao who defended Hamilton for five laps and allowed Verstappen to distance himself. Was it Mercedes who had a headache?

But this was just an unrealistic idea in Horner's mind. Soon Horner put this idea behind him and began to study the situation on the field at this time.

In the subsequent race, the three drivers in front had no camera.

Qin Miao's game also came to the familiar rhythm of the winter test.

In the end, Red Bull chose to stand still and let Verstappen try to chase Hamilton.

On the 34th lap, Hamilton pitted on this lap, and Verstappen was still more than 7 seconds away from Hamilton at this time, but Verstappen's speed began to be a little bit bad, and he may pit and change at any time Put on new tires.

The hard tires on Hamilton's side actually still have enough grip, but Mercedes directly predicted your Red Bull's prediction and chose to pit earlier than you.

Do you want to climb over the wall?I will directly raise the wall for you.

Moreover, when Hamilton entered the station at this time, he could not only avoid the slow car in front of him that was about to be lapped by himself, but also obtain a clean airflow that was spacious enough for lap time.

After seeing the operation of Mei Ben, the staff of Red Bull's strategy team were really numb, and many staff in charge of strategy were almost fuming at the moment.

If Qin Miao were to take the position of Red Bull's strategy group, Qin Miao would take off his clothes and quit. Are you here to run a competition or play "Sun Tzu's Art of War"?Why are there so many minds?
And Qin Miao was just about 5 seconds ahead of Hamilton.

At this time, Verstappen's set of medium tires has run 16 laps, but there is still enough grip, and the speed is not far behind Hamilton's new hard tires.

On lap 39, Hamilton came within a second of Qin Miao.

And Qin Miao also reciprocated Hamilton. When he was faster than the other party, Hamilton did not stop him, but now Hamilton is faster than Qin Miao. Qin Miao didn't even wait for Toto to say anything, and directly gave Hamilton the driving lane. out.

Let the other party drive the DRS and pass.

Seeing this scene, the commentator Brother Bing said with emotion: "At the beginning of the race, Hamilton gave way to Qin Miao, and now Qin Miao blocked the car for Hamilton and gave way to Hamilton.

It would be unreasonable for Hamilton not to invite Qin Miao to have a good meal after the game. "

ps. I haven’t counted the superfluous updates recently. After I finish the 27 chapters of the updates, I will count the latest monthly ticket additions and reward additions. (end of this chapter)