How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 187 Chapter 185: Accident (6000 words, plus 520 words)

However, Qin Miao didn't care about the 20-minute cooling time, because he knew that Verstappen's soft tires were definitely not as durable as his own medium tires. He estimated that if he defended Verstappen twice, his soft tires would not be as durable. Grip it.

To be honest, Qin Miao's defense this time is mainly to catch Verstappen and is eager to win, but he doesn't want to change his mentality.

If Verstappen forced his way into the corner just now, Verstappen would have a high probability of throwing off Qin Miao directly.

Of course, Verstappen also has the risk of being pushed by Qin Miao's left front wheel.

Although this possibility is not great.

But Verstappen didn't dare to bet on whether Qin Miao could control his car, so he chose to give up this adventure.

After all, the game has just started at this moment, and everyone's physical reserves are relatively sufficient, so their brains are relatively clear and they can control their inner emotions.

There are still 55 laps left in the race. In these 55 laps, Verstappen has many chances to surpass Qin Miao, and Hamilton did not pull too far away. Even Verstappen can still see Hamilton's taillights. There is no need to rush this for a while.

Verstappen looked at Hamilton's car in the distance with confidence in his eyes.

……

After seven laps, Verstappen looked at the flickering taillights of Qin Miao's racing car 0.4 seconds ahead of him, and couldn't help asking in his team's TR: "I saw that Qin Miao is using medium tires. My soft tire has no grip, I think we can try to under cut Qin Miao now."

From Verstappen's voice, it is not difficult to hear that he is a little irritable.

"Received, MAX, No. 18 lap pit stop." Verstappen's track engineer quickly replied, judging from their fast response speed, it should have been a long time ago for Verstappen Advance to under cut Qin Miao's idea.

The words in the Red Bull Racing TR were also reviewed by the FIA ​​director.

"Hahahaha." Brother Fei, who understood the hidden meaning of Verstappen's words, laughed directly: "Verstappen must have been annoyed by Qin Miao's guard, knowing that he can't get over Qin Miao , the tires are also a little bad, so I started to want to rely on the pit stop to under cut Qin Miao."

Brother Bing also smiled and said: "It must be uncomfortable to be locked, especially when your speed is faster than the opponent's."

[Fuck, Qin Miao is so strong? 】

[The defense master is joking with you? 】

[Yes, Verstappen certified defensive master]

【Master Qin?It’s not a good name either]

[I also don't think it sounds good. What do you think of the nickname Qin Lao Er?Catchy]

【Second Qin is okay】

【walk slowly】

On the field, Qin Miao naturally knew through Frankie that Verstappen was about to enter behind him.

After all, the TRs of all teams are the same.

But just like Red Bull can't follow Mei Ben's tactics in order to win the championship, it is impossible for Qin Miao, who has an advantage, to follow Red Bull's tactics.

Moreover, Qin Miao and Verstappen did not use the same tactic. Now that Qin Miao's neutral tires still have enough grip, it would be too wasteful to stop and change tires.

Therefore, Qin Miao on the track still maintained his own rhythm, and at this time, the gap between Hamilton and Qin Miao had reached three seconds.

Hamilton simply entered the cruising state, keeping the gap between himself and Qin Miao at more than three seconds.

Sainz, who is ranked 4th, is slower than Qin Miao and Verstappen. Even if the two have been on the defensive line for the past few laps, Sainz can only rely on DRS to hang. Behind the two of them drove the little DRS train.

With Verstappen's pit stop, without Verstappen's DRS maintenance in front, Sainz began to be opened up by Qin Miao at a speed of 0.4 seconds per lap. Looking at Qin Miao who was gradually going away, Sainz was full of powerlessness.

To be honest, Sainz was really excited when he knew he could go to Ferrari.

Even though he knew that he wanted to get the position of the No. 2 driver and needed to beat Qin Miao in Ferrari's internal test, he didn't care very much, and even had some contempt for Qin Miao.

a Chinese?What kind of talented driver can appear among the Chinese?
F1 is not F2 like a play house. Any F1 car is a beast, and it is not something that Qin Miao, who has only touched F1 cars a few times on the simulator, can drive.

So even though he knew that he needed to have an internal competition with Qin Miao, Sainz, who has many years of experience in F1, was not in the slightest panic about it, and was going to teach this Chinese kid a good lesson.

It's just that the incident that made Ferrari lose face happened later: Qin Miao left, and Mei Ben justly pried away the corner of Ferrari directly.

Originally, this kind of behavior of betraying his old club in the paddock was not ashamed by everyone, not to mention that Qin Miao betrayed Ferrari, a team with a long history and profound foundation and a huge fan base.

Surprisingly, the public opinion in the paddock at that time did not criticize Qin Miao too much. On the contrary, many Ferrari fans criticized Ferrari executives angrily, and Binotto was the most unlucky one.

After all, he was the team leader of Ferrari, so he became the target of fans who didn't know the inside story, but he was the one who wanted Qin Miao to stay in Ferrari.

It can only be said that time is fate.

At that time, Sainz was quite happy, thinking that Qin Miao was very self-aware and very knowledgeable about current affairs.

It's just that with the start of the 2021 season, Sainz discovered something was wrong.

Even the whole Ferrari people noticed something was wrong.

In the first grand prix after joining Ferrari, Sainz only got eighth in the final result. Although his position is the same as his qualifying result, he is not afraid of his poor performance, but he is afraid that someone will perform better than you.

Ferrari's rebellious Qin Miao achieved a good result of P1 in the qualifying stage of the first F2 Grand Prix in his career.

Although he only got the 3rd place in the main race, which is one place lower than his qualifying result, but no one can deny the horror shown by this young Chinese driver in the sport of racing Talent and unbelievable defensive ability.

Then the comparison between the Mercedes driver and the Ferrari driver...

Ferrari was scolded even more fiercely.

And now when Sainz looked at Qin Miao, he no longer had even a little bit of contempt in his heart. If it's okay, who would dare to underestimate a driver who has twice as many points as you?

However, because his performance was not as good as his teammate Leclerc, nor as good as a newcomer like Qin Miao, Sainz was under a lot of pressure from the public opinion.

But these have nothing to do with this game.

Back to topic.

After Qin Miao was sure that he could not catch up with Hamilton, and Sainz behind him was no threat to him, he also started the long-distance cruise mode.

After Verstappen got out of the station, he fell into the sixth position, just behind Norris. With the medium tires on, he will definitely stop again in the future, but I don’t know after Verstappen entered the station. What tires will be used.

On the second lap of No.20, the pit window opened, and Sainz took the lead to change tires.

Ferrari didn't work hard, with a total time of 2.2 seconds and a time of 25 seconds through the pit lane.

Seeing the change in the ranking, Qin Miao, who had been keeping within five seconds behind Hamilton, asked curiously in the TR: "How is the wear of my tires?"

Franky replied: "The condition of the tires is better than expected, but we recommend that you protect your tires as much as possible. We are studying the feasibility of Plan C."

In fact, there is no such thing as Plan C at all, it’s just another code name. To Qin Miao, an insider of the Mercedes-Benz team, Frankie’s words basically mean: “You run conservatively first, don’t worry about it. To control whether Verstappen will under cut you, let's study whether it is feasible for Huang Hong to stop."

Qin Miao was a little surprised. Is the condition of her tires so good today?
"receive."

The race continued, and after the pit window opened, the drivers also pitted one after another.

However, none of the drivers in the front group chose to pit. It is worth mentioning that with the exhaustion of the tires, the time gap between Hamilton and Qin Miao, which had been gradually pulled to 5 seconds, was slowly shortening.

When the race came to the 34th lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton in front reached 3.6 seconds, and this number was still decreasing.

However, Qin Miao's driving style remained unchanged, and the ERS power reserve remained at around 50%, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

And Perez behind him has been pulled away by the two for 16 seconds, posing no threat to the two Mercedes drivers.

On lap 37, Hamilton chose to pit for a tire change because of tire wear.

Qin Miao started to take the lead logically.

On the track, Qin Miao found the pure driving pleasure that he had lost for a long time in F2.

And within a short period of time, Qin Miao once again entered the ethereal state where people and vehicles are one.

His driving on the track is all carried out in accordance with his most comfortable driving style.

Naturally, after entering this state, Qin Miao's speed increased significantly, and Qin Miao even used a set of neutral tires that ran 38 laps to achieve the fastest single lap.

Just when everyone in Mei Ben thought that Qin Miao might be able to win the championship again in this race, on lap No. 40, Qin Miao felt that his car had an obvious problem when it just entered the third time period. setback.

After this setback, the whole car lost power, and the speed began to slow down significantly.

Although the engine was still running at this time, Qin Miao responded when he stepped on the accelerator, and the engine speed did not appear abnormal, but the power of the engine could not be transmitted to the tires.

After losing power, Qin Miao's racing car naturally entered into a sliding state. Qin Miao immediately asked in the team TR: "Fuck! The engine has no power? No power, what happened? Franky, what's the matter?"

After hearing Qin Miao's TR, the team naturally checked the data on Qin Miao's racing car for the first time.

Soon Franky replied: "It should be a mechanical failure, I'm sorry Qin Miao, I'm afraid we will retire."

Although Qin Miao roughly guessed what was wrong with his car the first time something went wrong.

However, Qin Miao, who knew that he had systematic skills, did not want to believe that his racing car would give him a challenge on the track. Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car before the start of the crucial race, did not feel that there was anything unusual about the racing car. The car is buffed.

There is no reason to go wrong!
But what Frankie said just now was like a basin of ice water, and it was poured directly from the top of Qin Miao's head, which made him tremble.

At this time, the director also found something wrong with Qin Miao's racing car, and aimed the live broadcast camera at the location of Qin Miao's racing car.

The speed of Qin Miao's car began to slow down visibly, and as Qin Miao's speed became slower and slower, the cars that were originally behind Qin Miao also flew past Qin Miao one by one.

Soon, the competition released a yellow flag in the third time period where Qin Miao was.

"Is this a Mercedes? Did Hamilton have a problem with his car just after he came out of the maintenance area?!" Seeing a slowed-down Mercedes on the track, Flying Brother was a little surprised.

Brother Bing saw the number 66 behind Qin Miao's racing car with sharp eyes: "It's not Hamilton! It's Qin Miao, Qin Miao's car has a problem!"

"Ah? Qin Miao's rhythm is very good in this race. He has a chance to win this race! What's wrong with the car?"

"Oh, what a pity."

"Hey~"

The three commentators were very surprised that Qin Miao's car had a mechanical failure, but retirement due to a car failure is inevitable in motorsports, so all they could do was feel sorry for it in the studio. Afterwards, they resumed their normal work.

Because Qin Miao just lost power in the third time period, the car did not stop and was still gliding by inertia, so Franky from the team asked: "Is it possible to bring the car back by gliding? "

After all, Hamilton had just stopped for a tire change, and Red Bull's No. [-] driver Perez hadn't stopped for a tire change. If the safety car appeared at this time because Qin Miao stopped on the side of the track, Hamilton would be at a loss.

Qin Miao naturally knew this too, but in order to obtain high downforce, the resistance of the F1 car itself is also very large, so Qin Miao felt the current speed of his car and observed the speed drop rate of his car He replied: "Impossible, I can't take the car back, but I will try my best to park the car at the entrance of Matthew."

Although it was hard to see the drivers passing by his racing car, Qin Miao still forcibly calmed down his emotions at this time.

Qin Miao also walked the track before the race to know where Matthew's entrance was in the third time period.

And Qin Miao directly slid into the entrance of Matthew by gliding on the inertia of his racing car. Seeing that Qin Miao was so sensible during the race, he didn't deploy the safety car, and quickly lifted the yellow flag.

The Red Bull team staff and fans who were a little happy to see Qin Miao's car had a mechanical failure were also a little bit sorry to see Qin Miao slide his car into the Matthew tunnel.

It should have been that Mercedes lost a driver, and then caused the safety car, and Red Bull made a lot of money.

But in the end, only one Qin Miao retreated.

When Qin Miao went to the entrance of Matthew, he really didn't step on the brakes. He forcibly crossed a gravel field and drove into the Matthew Passage, exhausting all the inertia of the car.

After Qin Miao's racing car went wrong, the director didn't show the camera to the field, which has become a little monotonous. After all, there are often overtaking cars on the track, and the scene of a driver like Qin Miao retiring from the race is usually not seen. .

The helicopter hovered above Qin Miao's head, and the photographer on the helicopter fixed his lens on Qin Miao.

As for Qin Miao, despite the team's request, the race club did not send out a safety car.

But after a week of preparations, countless meetings, and countless times of practice on the track on the simulator, the pre-match meeting on the opponent's tactics predictions, all preparations, all expectations, in this one It all disappeared in an instant, and Qin Miao had the same feeling as when she knew the relationship between Fan Yue and Zhu Hong.

Discomfort, loss, resentment, irritability, anger, powerlessness.

In an instant, negative emotions filled Qin Miao's mind.

Turning off the car, Qin Miao sat in the car for a long time without moving.

Seeing that Qin Miao didn't get out of the car, Matthew on the side of the road thought he had encountered some problem, so he hurried over to ask Qin Miao if he needed help.

Qin Miao waved them away, and now he just wants to sit in the car and calm down for a while.

Why did the car break down mechanically? It shouldn’t be. I buffed the car before the race started.

Thinking of this, Qin Miao turned on her system and looked at the system's description of her skills: [Comfort Machine Soul (Blue)]

[Description: Active skills, after use, can greatly reduce the failure rate of the target mechanical creation within the next two hours. 】

"Tsk... greatly reduced..." Qin Miao clicked his tongue.

This sound is more of a vent. After all, the system technology does not say that the car will not have problems. During F2, other drivers’ cars have more or less problems, but my car has not had any problems throughout the season. This is almost a great contribution to the system's skills.

You can't ask too much for a blue active skill either, can you?
Sighing, Qin Miao could only lament her bad luck.

But Qin Miao didn't stay in the car for too long, and got out of the car after the crane came over.

After getting out of the car, Brother Fei said: "Get down, come down, there shouldn't be any problem with the body, it's just the first time I encountered a mechanical failure of the racing car, and some want to stay in the car for a while."

Zhou Haoran added: "This should be the first mechanical failure that Qin Miao encountered. Qin Miao was too smooth in the past. It is normal to feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable when encountering such a situation for the first time."

After getting out of the car, Qin Miao installed her headrest and steering wheel honestly, and then watched Matthew hoist her car onto the cart.

After confirming that her car was hoisted onto the dray, Qin Miao walked towards the maintenance area wearing a helmet a little lonely.

The director also gave a close-up of Qin Miao's back, which looked really lonely.

When returning to the maintenance area, Qin Miao saw Barber and Mercedes Chief Technical Officer James Allison waiting for him at the entrance of the maintenance area.

After getting along for more than two months, Barber is now not only Qin Miao's physical trainer and nutritionist, but also Qin Miao's personal secretary and assistant.

During this period, Qin Miao stayed with him longer than Qiu Meng, and the relationship between the two was also good. After Qin Miao retired due to a mechanical failure, he naturally ran over very worried, wanting to know more about Qin Miao. psychological condition.

And the main purpose of James Allison's coming here was also to comfort Qin Miao.

He is the second in command of the Mercedes team under Toto, and Toto really can't leave at this time, so he can only be let over.

The fact that he came over and waited for Qin Miao at this time is that the Mercedes-Benz team is sending a message to Qin Miao. You will not lose your position as the team's No. 2 driver because of a mistake in this race.

Qin Miao smiled reluctantly at the two of them and said, "I don't know the process for the first time. What should I do after I retire?"

Barber pursed his lips and gave Qin Miao a hug and said, "Go back to the hotel and have a good meal, then take a hot bath and sleep comfortably."

Qin Miao thought about it, and Barbour's proposal seemed to be a good one.

James Allison also came over and patted Qin Miao on the shoulder and said, "Yes, I suggest you do the same. At the same time, I can decide to give you a day off and allow you to go to Spain to report on Thursday afternoon. During this time, you Just go home and have a good rest for a while, and spend time with your family.”

"Thank you." Qin Miao nodded gratefully.

……

After the three briefly met each other, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room.

Qin Miao's crew members felt a little guilty when they saw Qin Miao.

After all, Qin Miao still has the possibility of competing for the championship in this game. Although the possibility is not high, he is also a runner-up seat for the last time.

But because of the mechanical failure of the racing car, he finally retired from the race. Not only Qin Miao couldn't accept this result, but those who provided Qin Miao's racing guarantee service were also a little bit hard to accept.

Although the no-blame culture prevails in the Mercedes team, they are not to blame for Qin Miao's car problems, so they hesitated after seeing Qin Miao.

Qin Miao herself was feeling very uncomfortable at the moment, and didn't notice the strangeness of the members of her car crew.

This is the gap between young drivers and experienced drivers.

If you are an experienced driver, even though it is difficult at this time, you can still find that the atmosphere of your crew members is not right, and you will say a few words to enlighten your crew members.

As for the young driver, just like Qin Miao now, he can't take care of himself, so he doesn't have the time to care about other people.

After returning to the P room of the team, Toto moved a chair for him in front of Qin Miao and put it next to him: "Sit."

Qin Miao took off the helmet and headgear, and sat beside Toto in a somewhat decadent manner.

After Qin Miao sat down next to Toto, Toto stared at Hamilton's data and the live broadcast screen and said, "Although you retired from this game, your basic salary after the game will still be counted. I’m at a loss for the bonus, let’s count it as your No.2’s 30.”

Qin Miao:? ? ?
(End of this chapter)