How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 177: Chapter 175

After a long illness he became a good doctor. After all, Qin Miao is a ruthless man with full defensive ability. Naturally, he saw Verstappen's thoughts immediately.

You don't want me to be comfortable in the corner, do you?OK!
Qin Miao didn't hide either, the one who stood out was the one who was barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes.

Going straight wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen into the corner.

And Verstappen also braked early to prepare to cross the line just like Qin Miao surpassed Leclerc.

As for Qin Miao, he directly adjusted the brake balance to ensure that the front wheels had enough steering force when braking, braked against Verstappen, and then leaned to the right just like Verstappen's turn-in rhythm For better turn-in lines.

During this process, the two cars have been entering the corner in a wheel-to-wheel state.

Verstappen, who was going to brake late to cross the lane, was stunned when he found that Qin Miao hadn't surpassed him.

He just watched helplessly as his best turn-in route was blocked by Qin Miao.

When going out of the corner, Qin Miao can walk on the shoulder, while Verstappen, who is on the inside line of T3, can only eat the speed bump on the shoulder.

As for not giving up the best route, just bumping out with Qin Miao?

What's the matter, Qin Miao is the number two driver of Mercedes, and Verstappen is the number one driver of Red Bull. If Qin Miao trades for a loss, it is Verstappen and Red Bull, and the profit is definitely Mercedes.

Although Verstappen does not seem to be smart on the field, and his defensive and offensive methods are also very torpedoed, he still has a clear distinction between benefits and success or failure.

Moreover, it takes less than two seconds from braking into the corner to exiting the corner, basically there is no extra time for the drivers to think and weigh the pros and cons.

So after seeing that Qin Miao did not leave room for himself, Verstappen, who knew that this game was very important to him, immediately chose to avoid Qin Miao.

Because Verstappen directly pressed the speed bump on the road shoulder when entering the corner this time, the car was directly bounced by the speed bump under the action of the suspension, and Verstappen's cornering rhythm was inevitably affected. .

And Leclerc also picked up a wallet during the attack and defense between Qin Miao and Verstappen. When Verstappen was still bouncing on the shoulder of the road, Leclerc came behind Qin Miao and snatched it. A second position.

When Verstappen returned to the track again, he was surrounded by two Ferraris.

And after Qin Miao completed the overtaking, whether it was intentional or unintentional, the on-site director confirmed that there were no other overtaking scenes on the track, and immediately gave the camera to the perspective of Toto Wolff, the leader of the Mercedes team.

Although Hamilton fell out of the championship due to a mistake at this time, Qin Miao's sudden outburst gave all Mercedes fans a reassurance.

After seeing this scene, Toto clenched his fist with his right hand and shouted: "Nice!"

The audience can clearly see the blue veins bulging between Toto's neck.

Although the audience couldn't hear exactly what Toto yelled, it could be seen from his performance and actions that Qin Miao's performance just now made Toto very satisfied.

Of course, what Qin Miao used to overtake in such a controversial way was naturally the complaints from the Red Bull team staff in the race, the verbal criticism from Red Bull fans on Twitter, and the frenzied telegrams sent by Verstappen in TR .

Verstappen: "****! *********************!"

But if you insist, Qin Miao's operation is really fine.

Because Qin Miao braked late when entering T2, even though the two were wheel-to-wheel, Qin Miao's front was more or less out of reach, so his front was actually in front of Verstappen, Qin Miao have line rights.

Moreover, Verstappen used this method to squeeze his opponents out of the track a lot, so except for Red Bull fans who would be very angry after seeing Qin Miao's actions, most of the passers-by who knew Verstappen Regarding Qin Miao's behavior, he can only sigh with emotion: "Top defense!"

After hearing the words in Verstappen's TR, Verstappen's track engineer could only persuade Verstappen to calm down and continue the race with a steady mind.

As for the fans of Qin Miao and Mei Ben after seeing Qin Miao's operation:
"Hahahaha!"

"Brilliant!"

"Yes! That's how to defend against Verstappen!"

"Defend Verstappen with a Verstappen defense!"

"hard!"

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After the corner, Qin Miao came to the leading position, and behind him was Leclerc of Ferrari. Behind Leclerc was Verstappen. Behind Verstappen was Sainz, followed by Hamilton and Norris.

That's right, after Qin Miao passed Verstappen in T2, Hamilton also gained a faster straight-line speed by relying on a better starting speed than Norris, and surpassed Norris on the straight before T2.

Norris also knew that his start was not very good, so he didn't make extra moves in the face of Hamilton's attack, and just let Hamilton go.

After all, he also had to be wary of Ricciardo, the driver behind Hamilton. If he got into a fight with Hamilton at this time, Ricciardo behind him might take advantage of himself.

So after weighing the pros and cons, he did not choose to defend Hamilton.

After Hamilton overtook Norris in front of him, the two drivers of Mercedes both completed the overtaking of the driver in front of them in T2 at the beginning stage.

For the next part of the journey, the rankings of the top six did not change much, and there were no good overtaking points in the next two time periods. At this time, the track conditions have also improved, so there are no drivers appearing after pressing on the wetland. mistake.

No.40 eight laps, after this lap, the race will turn on the DRS, but the DRS of this lap has nothing to do with the top ten drivers, because they have already passed the DRS monitoring point after the DRS is turned on , and there is only one DRS monitoring point on the Imola track, so this lap is basically like this.

However, Leclerc still found something wrong, that is, Qin Miao in front of him has been running the race at a rhythm of protecting his tires, and his ERS use time is very short.

According to Leclerc's racing experience, he could tell at a glance that Qin Miao was charging his battery.

The most important thing is that his lap time is still about 0.3 faster than Qin Miao, but he just cannot surpass him...

Qin Miao can always rely on some methods that do not violate the rules when Leclerc has an idea, and get the car stuck at the key node of Leclerc's progress, which makes Leclerc extremely uncomfortable, and misses the great opportunity to overtake while feeling aggrieved.

Leclerc couldn't figure it out, what was Qin Miao trying to do?
Shouldn't you open the distance with the car behind you the first time after you have the advantage?What are you swaying around here?Are you not afraid that I will eat you raw on the starting straight with DRS and ERS after this lap?

But Leclerc soon had no such extra thoughts, because Verstappen behind him attacked him.

In the V-shaped corner of T7, Verstappen braked late and blocked Leclerc's inside line, trying to copy Qin Miao's operation: Leclerc was squeezed out of the track when T7 exited the corner.

Of course, Leclerc is not a soft persimmon. After discovering Verstappen's intentions, he immediately thought of a solution.

Isn't it just crossing lines? Which driver has not used this method to defend against the enemy's attack or overtake?
Leclerc took advantage of the opportunity to let Verstappen go first, and he took a cross line. After exiting the corner, he snatched his position back by relying on a faster speed.

After some fighting, the 0.6-second gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc was directly opened to 0.9 seconds. This shows how much speed will be lost if a corner does not follow the normal route.

Nine laps of No.40, Verstappen behind Leclerc turned on his DRS, but Leclerc himself also has DRS, and like Verstappen, he has the wake of the driver in front to eat, so Verstappen Although this attack narrowed the distance between himself and Leclerc, it did not create a chance to surpass Leclerc.

The gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc has only been reduced from 0.9 to 0.3, and Leclerc has not been able to surpass Qin Miao, so the top three positions remain unchanged.

Same as before, in the first lap after the restart, except for the position obtained by Qin Miao after Verstappen was squeezed out of the track, there was no change in the ranking of the first group.

As the race progressed, Leclerc gradually discovered something was wrong, that is, Qin Miao's speed seemed to be a little slower.

But he couldn't allow him to think too much. Behind him, Verstappen relied on his racing performance and started to attack again.

Turning out of T15, Verstappen's cornering speed behind him is obviously faster than Leclerc. After Leclerc found out, he naturally defended his inside line immediately. Verstappen's cornering speed was faster than himself. It is already impossible to prevent the opponent from taking the lead. Now all Leclerc can do is to block the inside line when entering the corner, so as to prevent Verstappen from having a comfortable cornering angle.

It's better to be at the apex when Verstappen goes off the track because of the bad entry angle.

But the good news is that Qin Miao entered the corner too slowly this time, just blocking Leclerc's outside line. Verstappen's inside line was blocked by Leclerc, and Qin Miao's Mercedes on the outside line blocked it. Tapan and Leclerc are side by side, and the speed is not as fast as Qin Miao because of the poor cornering angle when exiting the corner.

So Verstappen's attack ended without a problem, while Leclerc defended the attack without any danger.

In the lap, Qin Miao led the drivers all the way across the finish line, then passed T1, and started a new round of fighting at T2.

Qin Miao had a fight with the two cars behind him when they were in T17, and because of their fight, Qin Miao got another respite, so when he entered T2, Qin Miao still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai , pulling away Leclerc and Verstappen behind him into a corner.

Verstappen lost a lot of rhythm due to a T17 overtaking error in the previous lap. Although he was not overtaken by the car behind him, in this lap of T2, even with DRS, Verstappen could not be ahead of T2. Find an opportunity to surpass Leclerc.

However, Hamilton at the back gave everyone in the Mercedes team a reassurance, because he relied on DRS, ERS and wake in the T2 position, and directly killed Sainz in front of him on the straight. .

Sainz also struggled, tried to defend, squeeze Hamilton's turn-in line and so on.

It's a pity that in the face of the huge speed gap of 20 kilometers per hour, all the operations of Sainz were in vain.

The ranking changed again. With thirteen laps before the end of the race, Hamilton had chased two positions forward with a new set of soft tires, and came to the fourth position. Ahead was a fierce battle with Leclerc. Verstappen.

To be honest, when Hamilton passed Sainz and looked at the three cars 2 seconds ahead, he really felt unreal. Can Qin Miao really be so good at stopping it?
If you say help yourself to block, you will help yourself to block, the key point is how can he still block to the first place?
And the lineup in front doesn't do lap time?Just been fighting?The race has already started three laps and only opened up a gap of two seconds?

And Verstappen in front was also anxious, but he really couldn't help it.

Fortunately, the car was not damaged after being pushed out of the track by Qin Miao, but the two attacks he tried were blocked by Leclerc.

After two failed attacks, Verstappen watched Hamilton behind him catch up, and the pressure gradually came to Verstappen's heart.

In the second lap, Qin Miao still maintained his own rhythm, and although Leclerc behind him wanted to get rid of Verstappen's attack, Qin Miao was in front of him. He wanted to get rid of Verstappen's attack. It also depends on Qin Miao's face.

Moreover, on T2, the corner most likely to overtake Qin Miao, Verstappen behind him would always covet his own position and attack him, which made Leclerc have to defend.

So after another two laps, Leclerc still did not overturn Qin Miao. The good news is that Verstappen did not overtake Leclerc. Instead, he still lost a lot of speed in the car with Leclerc and was still trapped. In the third position.

The bad news is that at this time Hamilton has run two laps in clean air and came to the DRS area within 1 second behind Verstappen.

It's T2 again.

Behind Qin Miao, Leclerc and Verstappen are still tense, ready to attack and defend again in this lap.

Leclerc is still guarding the inside line, but thinking of Qin Miao's defensive behavior that directly squeezed himself out of the track lanes, Leclerc left a certain distance on the inside line at this time, only about 0.7 The width of the car .

In this way, no matter how much Verstappen compresses his own space, he will always have a certain cornering angle.

Moreover, there is not much space left by Leclerc, and there is no possibility of allowing the car behind to take advantage of loopholes.

(End of this chapter)