How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 167 Chapter 165: The Three Circles of God

"But on the other hand, this can also prove that there is no problem of driver disagreement in the Mercedes team after the driver change."

"Originally, there was no problem of disagreement between drivers in the Mercedes team. It should be said that Toto's insight and insight found that Qin Miao's strength is not weaker than Bottas, and there will be no unnecessary conflicts in the team. Growth drivers.

As long as there are no accidents, just one Qin Miao is enough for Mei Ben to last for more than five years. "

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After running in F1 for a period of time, Qin Miao now has a basic understanding of his own strength.

Just like what I guessed after I became invincible in F2, I did have the strength of an F1 driver early on, and it is still the strength of a top driver.

But it's not the top group of top drivers, because the old man and Verstappen are both faster than Qin Miao. If there is no accident, Qin Miao's strength should be at the same level as Perez Bottas. , maybe a little stronger than Perez, Bottas is hard to say, after all, Qin Miao has no chance to compete with him now.

Therefore, Qin Miao, who knew the gap, did not deliberately block his teammates, because it was unnecessary, and letting his teammates lose less than a second of time was not enough for other drivers to catch up with him, and it would not affect Qin Miao's ranking in this race. So Qin Miao did what came easily.

On the 40th lap, Verstappen finally chose to pit, and this time Verstappen switched to hard tires. In the last [-] laps, Verstappen could try his best to chase Hamilton in front without saving tires.

Unfortunately, after Verstappen got out of the station, another Mercedes just appeared in front of him.

After leaving the station, Verstappen looked at the flashing red light at the rear of the car ahead, and suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

Although it only took 1.9 seconds to change tires for the Red Bull this time, Verstappen had a hunch that his 1.9-second advantage was a complete joke in front of the Mercedes in front.

At this time, Qin Miao, who was running a long distance with a tire, heard the voice from the TR of his team again, but this time it was not Frankie, but Toto: "Qin Miao, Verstappen is here. With 1.7 seconds behind you, defend Hamilton for as many laps as you can."

Qin Miao was taken aback, didn't this guy just overtake?Why did you run behind yourself again?

Although he had doubts in his heart, facing Toto's request, Qin Miao would not, and had no reason to refuse, but he still asked, "How many laps will you defend him specifically?"

Now it's Toto's turn to be stunned, can you still precisely control the lap time of the specific defending opponent?

But Toto didn't think deeply about it. After Qin Miao asked him, Toto said: "The more the better, but according to our calculations, you only need to defend Verstappen for three laps. Hamilton's championship in this game is a certainty." It's gone."

"understood."

Qin Miao didn't refuse Toto's request either. As I said earlier, Qin Miao's speed in this race was not as fast as that of Verstappen and Hamilton, and the other drivers couldn't cause Qin Miao any trouble. It's also idle, so it's better to defend Verstappen for fun. Anyway, defending Verstappen will not affect Qin Miao's speed too much.

After answering a sentence, Qin Miao's lap speed decreased a little, about 0.2 seconds slower than Qin Miao's cruising state per lap.

The main reason is that Qin Miao needs to defend Verstappen at this time, and Qin Miao needs to use his own ERS system to defend Verstappen. During the time when Verstappen is chasing him, Qin Miao needs to give Charge your own battery.

When the F1 car is charging, the taillights will flash. Seeing Qin Miao's flashing taillights, Verstappen swallowed, feeling a faint pressure on his shoulders.

Verstappen didn't know why, he always felt that the car of the Chinese driver in front was much wider than that of other drivers, and it was very difficult to overtake him.

Five Star Sports.

The three commentators also came to their spirits at this time.

When Qin Miao defended Verstappen for the first time, he had already brought enough surprises to the three commentators. Now that he can watch the offense and defense between Qin Miao and Verstappen again, as the audience and commentators, they really feel that Very happy.

"Verstappen goes out! Although the tire change speed of 1.9 seconds is really fast, it may even be the fastest tire change speed in this race, but it is a coincidence that Verstappen fell behind after leaving the station. Behind Qin Miao." Brother Bing said happily.

"This is a good show, how many laps can Qin Miao hold Verstappen this time?" Fei Ge is also full of anticipation at this time.

"I feel that Qin Miao only needs to block Verstappen for three laps, and Hamilton's championship will be secured in this game." Zhou Haoran still likes to speak with statistics.

"It shouldn't last that long. After all, Qin Miao's set of hard tires has been used for 22 laps. At this time, Qin Miao's tire wear is not low." Although he is looking forward to the next attack and defense, Brother Bing still So said.

Zhou Haoran retorted: "But when I watched the F2 race last year, Qin Miao's tire protection ability was almost the only one in F2. Qin Miao's set of tires should be in good condition, right?"

"Do you think it's possible that Qin Miao's set of white tires is going to run the entire race?"

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In fact, just as Zhou Haoran guessed, Qin Miao's tire wear is only 29% at the moment, and he has not passed the cliff point. He still has enough grip, and it is no problem to last the whole game under normal conditions.

But if defending Verstappen, Qin Miao's tire consumption will inevitably increase, so at this time Mercedes' strategy team has begun to calculate the possibility of Qin Miao using the two-stop tactic.

At the same time, Verstappen caught up behind Qin Miao in one and a half laps, and got another chance to attack Qin Miao on the starting straight by relying on DRS.

On the 42nd lap, Verstappen has a long memory at this time. During the five laps of fighting with Qin Miao, he already knew that Qin Miao is difficult to deal with in short-range hand-to-hand combat, so he wanted to surpass Qin Miao's words must be like the last time he surpassed Qin Miao, surpassing Qin Miao in the DRS with absolute speed in one go.

In order to be able to complete his work in one battle, Verstappen chose to directly drain all the remaining 14% of his car's remaining 40% of the battery after the T[-] came out this time.

Having experienced Qin Miao's defense package, he knows how terrifying Qin Miao's defensive ability is, so in order not to be trapped by Qin Miao for too long, Verstappen chose to gamble everything this time.

DRS, windward, wake, ERS, all the advantages are superimposed together again.

When Qin Miao saw the approach rate of the car behind him, he knew that he could not rely on his skills to defend the opponent on the curve, but when Verstappen overtook him, he still slightly squeezed the opponent's driving line.

Then Verstappen completed a tap overtaking at two-thirds of the starting straight.

Verstappen was not affected by Qin Miao's squeeze either.

This time Verstappen still passed the DRS detection point in front of T1 faster than Qin Miao, but the first time Verstappen was only about 0.09 seconds faster than Qin Miao, and this time Verstappen was directly faster than Qin Miao. Qin Miao was 0.15 seconds faster.

Maybe 0.15 seconds does not sound like a long time, but on the field, this is the distance of more than one car.

Just as Verstappen was about to enter the corner normally, he suddenly saw Qin Miao's racing car's front wing appearing in his rearview mirror.

When I looked over, I found that Qin Miao's approach rate was ridiculously fast at this time.

And at the node position of his turn, he was side by side with himself. At this time, Verstappen really couldn't understand how this Mercedes braked so late and so hard, how did it keep the front wheels from locking.

Although there was such a moment of random thoughts in his mind, Verstappen still understood Qin Miao's intention: he was going to block his turn-entry line by braking late at the limit.

But what Qin Miao did was bound to give up a crossing line for Verstappen to go, but at this time, Verstappen was not so happy because Qin Miao gave up the crossing line for himself, because Qin Miao With DRS, even if I crossed Qin Miao in T1, Qin Miao will be able to overtake Qin Miao again in the second DRS area...

But despite this, Verstappen still surpassed Qin Miao by crossing the line.

Just as Verstappen thought, after leaving T3, Qin Miao surpassed himself in T4 by relying on double acceleration of ERS and DRS and a late brake.

Even defending Qin Miao this time is not as clean as before. The angle of entry into the T4 corner is relatively large. Verstappen took the outside line, while Qin Miao relied on himself to enter the T4 corner first. There was no room for Verstappen on the outside, and Verstappen was directly squeezed out of the track.

In fact, Verstappen doesn't have to worry about being squeezed out as long as he eases the accelerator, but they are all F1 drivers, and at this time Verstappen still has the opportunity to challenge Hamilton, and everything can be discussed, but it is impossible here Take the time to let off the throttle.

So in the end, no surprise, Verstappen was forced out of the track by Qin Miao.

After being squeezed out, Verstappen complained in TR unsurprisingly: "F**k! He pushed me out, how could he do that?"

After seeing this scene, Red Bull just shook their heads helplessly. What can they say?Qin Miao's first turn has priority, so his operation is okay?

Certainly not, so do you want to have a driver's mentality?

So in the face of Verstappen's complaints, Red Bull can only say comfortingly: "OK, MAX, we will report it."

And this voice was also played to the director. After hearing Verstappen's complaint, Fei Ge commented sharply: "Qin Miao's defense is not a problem. This kind of defensive action is within the allowed range of FIA rules, and Verstappen also used this trick when defending, so anyone can say that Qin Miao's defense is dirty, but you are the only one who can't do it."

And the happiest one at this time is Mercedes. Seeing Qin Miao forcefully squeeze Verstappen out, the technicians in the Mercedes team who were concentrating on looking up at the monitor directly cheered. Toto also smiled with satisfaction.

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On the track, fortunately, the outer shoulder after the T4 corner is not high, and the area is flat, so although Verstappen was squeezed out of the track, his speed did not drop too much.

However, Verstappen still lost some rhythm after making a mistake, so Verstappen did not find a good overtaking opportunity in the second half.

It wasn't until the 43rd lap that Verstappen found another chance to attack in the DRS area after T10.

This time it was Qin Miao's own problem. After the corner, the fuel was a little slower, resulting in a much slower cornering speed than Verstappen, and Verstappen also had a DRS bonus.

Halfway through the straight, Verstappen had already tapped Qin Miao's outside line, and was side by side with Qin Miao before entering the corner.

At this corner, Qin Miao couldn't force Verstappen's line as he defended last time. Because of the chain reaction caused by that small mistake, the opponent didn't brake late or anything, just relying on DRS just before entering the corner. It was one front wing away from Qin Miao.

Now the track priority is in the hands of Verstappen, Qin Miao has no way to continue to defend hard.

But Qin Miao did not give up his position, and the two cars entered the corner side by side. After entering the corner, because of the superior performance of the Mercedes-Benz racing car, Verstappen couldn't get rid of Qin Miao. The trolley passed T11 and T12 wheel-to-wheel again, and arrived at T13 all the way.

After the two cars came to T13 side by side, Qin Miao's position became the outside line, and Verstappen wanted to reproduce Qin Miao's operation just now, relying on his own line right to squeeze Qin Miao out of the game road.

But Qin Miao predicted Verstappen's thoughts, and instead of laughing and laughing with you, he braked early and exited the corner.

Looking at Qin Miao who did not appear on the left side of his car, but braked ahead of time to turn and then started to accelerate, Verstappen felt his scalp tingle for a moment.

Because Qin Miao is like a roundworm in his stomach, always able to predict his thoughts and the next operation he is going to perform.

But despite this, the advantage of the Honda engine on the straight and the grip of Verstappen's new hard tires still showed their advantages at this time, so Qin Miao and Verstappen were still side by side at the corner , The two cars continued wheel-to-wheel like this, and no one let the other come to T14 all the way.

And Qin Miao deliberately turned off the ERS mode that he had been driving all the time before entering the DRS detection point of T14, so before the two cars passed the DRS detection point before T14, Verstappen was a little faster than Qin Miao First pass the DRS monitoring point before T14.

Because he entered the corner later and was still on the outside, Qin Miao did not compete with Verstappen this time. Let Verstappen go ahead, and he took a wider route.

And Verstappen took the defensive line, because he didn't know how Qin Miao would attack him.

But because Verstappen is taking the defensive line, his exit speed is actually not as fast as Qin Miao, and now Qin Miao has both DRS and super effective wake, and ERS still has half the battery .

Qin Miao's relative speed is 10 kilometers per hour faster than Verstappen.

Just after passing the starting line on the main straight, Qin Miao tapped on Verstappen's inside lane.

And Verstappen also cut to the inside to defend immediately, and Qin Miao naturally turned to the outside.

Verstappen also followed up, but at this time Qin Miao had already pulled out the inside line, and Verstappen could only leave a certain amount of space for Qin Miao, and tried to use his own turbulence to disturb the aerodynamic effect of Qin Miao's car. .

But these bells and whistles are useless, because Qin Miao's relative speed is too fast.

So Qin Miao has already surpassed Verstappen after only running to four-fifths of the straight on the start.

So far, Qin Miao has defended Verstappen for three laps.

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"What is the gap between Hamilton and me now?"

"24 seconds, good job Qin Miao, it is impossible for Verstappen to catch up with Hamilton."

"receive."

ps. I'm a bit stuck today, only 4K...

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