How did I become an F1 driver?

This is not that Hamilton deliberately slowed down his pace to allow Qin Miao to keep up. Although Hamilton has enough time to catch up with Verstappen and surpass him, this is a game, and even Hamilton in his heyday would not Conceitedly thinking that he can get the first place in the F1 field while taking Qin Miao to the second place.

Although Qin Miao did this kind of thing covertly in F2, it was only F2 after all.

Qin Miao can keep up with Hamilton's rhythm purely because of his own strength, and the team just said that Qin Miao's tire failure curve is slower than expected, so Qin Miao can increase his speed a little bit, and at the same time Qin Miao Miao had charged the ERS for half a day after knowing that Hamilton had entered the station, and it happened to be fully used at this time.

Although Qin Miao seemed to have no need to catch up, anyway, the ones in front couldn't catch up, and the ones behind couldn't catch up, so the last few laps could just be bad.

But Qin Miao still has some pursuits. What if he has the fastest lap?

Of course, Qin Miao did not break the fastest lap of the race in the end, and only followed Hamilton for three laps. After the ERS power reserve was exhausted, he was thrown away by Hamilton.

However, these three laps also allowed Qin Miao to spend 0.2 seconds less per lap than in the normal driving state.

Five laps, 11 laps before the end of the race, Hamilton caught up to one second behind Verstappen just after the starting straight.

Relying on much newer tires than Verstappen, it is not surprising to be able to catch up in such a short time.

To be honest, when this picture appeared in front of Verstappen and Red Bull's strategy team staff, the staff of Red Bull's strategy team looked ashen on average, and then they were a little relieved. Although the final championship position did not fall in their hands, the second place It was originally the result they could finally achieve without changing their tactics.

The only thing that made them uncomfortable was the feeling of losing after winning the first place. Mercedes' pit stop had a big blow to Red Bull's morale.

If the three commentators, Brother Bing Fei and Brother Ran, are in a normal state, they hope to see Verstappen achieve something in this game.

The best is to snatch the championship from Hamilton, as the staff of Red Bull Racing thought.

After all, Hamilton and Mercedes have ruled the paddock for too long, and everyone wants to see the appearance of the dragon-slaying hero.

To put it simply, I hope to see the strong being pulled down.

But the attitude of the three commentators this year is different. What they saw when they saw Mercedes in the past was an incomparably powerful team with strong technical force, which has ruled the paddock for six years.

But now?

Mercedes is the team that values ​​Chinese driver Qin Miao the most in the entire paddock.

After bringing into Qin Miao's perspective, Mei Ben is Bole who discovers his own potential and talent.

Even domestic car fans who didn't have a good impression of Mercedes before now feel that the Mercedes-Benz logo has become more attractive.

So now after seeing Hamilton catching up with Verstappen, he said: "Meben's pit stop strategy is really beautiful, and it directly predicted Red Bull's prediction."

"One step first, step by step first."

"Mercedes' strategy team really taught Red Bull a lesson."

"Indeed, the Red Bull strategy team still has a lot to learn."

The picture after that is what everyone can guess, Hamilton began to attack Verstappen.

Although he knew that his tire condition was worse than that of Hamilton, Verstappen was still unwilling to give up the championship he already held in his hands.

Began to resist Hamilton's attack violently.

To put it simply, he started his own dying struggle.

Naturally, Hamilton will not be polite to you Verstappen. After arriving in Verstappen's DRS area, he began to fight with each other.

If the fight between Qin Miao and Verstappen is a relatively restrained competition between the two drivers, although the range of movements is not small, but within the scope allowed by the rules, there is room for the other party, as long as the other party is willing to give in. There have been instances where a significant amount of time has been lost by being pushed off the track.

Then the fight between Hamilton and Verstappen is a real hand-to-hand fight, the kind that will beat the head and bleed.

Pulling the eyeballs and pulling the hair can no longer describe the relationship between the two. When the two sides are on the field, they want to pull each other's intestines out of their stomachs and step on their feet.

The fight between the two caught the attention of the director, commentary and the audience for a while.

But what most people didn't notice was that Qin Miao had changed from being gradually pulled away by the two of them quietly to being at the same speed as the two of them. After the intense heat, Qin Miao began to quickly approach the two of them instead.

This is mainly because after the fight started, the speed of the two of them was much slower than when they were driving normally.

Eight laps, although Verstappen tried his best to defend, but the advantage of Hamilton tires was too great.

Being able to defend Hamilton for three laps when the tires are at a disadvantage is already the limit of what Verstappen can do.

So in the end, because Verstappen stepped on the accelerator in a corner, the speed of the corner was affected, and Hamilton successfully took his championship back from Verstappen's hands.

But before the spectators could savor the wonderful fight between the two top drivers in the three-lap race, another Mercedes came behind Verstappen's Red Bull without a sound.

"Qin Miao! It's Qin Miao! He's also catching up!" Brother Fei had sharp eyes, and after the fight between the two of them was over, he glanced at Qin Miao's position.

Originally, all he wanted was to feel the gap between Qin Miao and the two drivers, but after seeing Qin Miao's results, he found that Qin Miao was less than a second away from Verstappen.

【Fuck! 】

【Qin Miao! 】

[Get up, I actually saw Qin Miao start attacking Verstappen]

[Is this also included in Mercedes' calculations? 】

[When did he catch up? 】

【? ? ? 】

……

Just as the commentator and the audience were confused, after Verstappen in the car was overtaken by Hamilton, before he had time to be depressed, he suddenly found that there was another Mercedes behind him.

After seeing this Mercedes, Verstappen was in a trance for a moment. He had an inexplicable illusion, as if the car behind him was not the No. 66 Mercedes W12 driven by Qin Miao, but No. 44. .

But Qin Miao's red helmet was so dazzling to Verstappen.

It's that fucking wall of sighs.

If it weren't for the few laps that Qin Miao blocked him in front, Hamilton would never have caught up with Verstappen so quickly at this time, and there is still suspense about the follow-up of the race.

But what made Verstappen puzzled was why the wall of sighs that he had worked so hard to overcome suddenly turned its offensive and directly pressed towards him.

But Qin Miao will not give Verstappen more time to think about the reasons.

As soon as the skills were improved, Qin Miao began to put pressure on Verstappen.

Nine laps of T7 and T8 just out of the corners. In this kind of corners that are not suitable for overtaking at all, Qin Miao began to tap on the inside, constantly putting pressure on Verstappen.

As soon as Qin Miao applied a little pressure, Verstappen's pressure increased by 1%.

Qin Miao remembers that Verstappen's pressure level did not rise so fast in the past. If there is no accident, Hamilton's surpassing brought a certain amount of psychological pressure to Verstappen, so it seems that he is not in a good mood at this time. stable.

It didn't take much time, Qin Miao passed Verstappen on the No.60 lap two laps later by relying on DRS on the main straight.

In fact, when exiting the corner, Qin Miao still took the tire protection route, but after exiting the corner, Qin Miao has DRS and ERS that he has not used at all.

And Verstappen just ended the fight with Hamilton, the tires themselves are overheated and worn seriously, and the ERS power has already been used up during the fight. At this time, Verstappen can Not much to do.

That is to say, like Qin Miao defending him, he started to draw dragons in a small area on the strong side traffic lane.

And after Qin Miao discovered Verstappen's movements, he didn't suck his wake. Qin Miao's own relative speed was faster than Verstappen's, so he just pulled it straight.

After Verstappen discovered Qin Miao's intentions, he didn't move too much. The relative speed gap between the two sides was a bit large. In the face of absolute speed, skills can provide almost no help.

In the end, Qin Miao ERS did not run out of half of the battery, and had already surpassed Verstappen before the braking point of T1.

Looking at the taillights in front of his racing car that he was used to seeing, Verstappen knew that he might not be able to sleep well after the race, and that the Mercedes in front of Qin Miao was probably the one he dreamed of. tail lights.

In fact, this game cannot be blamed for Verstappen's driving problems, mainly because Red Bull's strategy team chose to be safe.

If Verstappen also pitted with Hamilton and changed to a set of medium tires that had only run two or three laps, then he would fall to a second position at worst after turning over Qin Miao.

And with this set of medium tires that surpassed Qin Miao and defended Hamilton for three more laps, the grip has reached the limit. All Verstappen can do is watch Qin Miao gradually open the distance between him and himself. distance.

Suddenly, Verstappen asked in the TR: "How long has Qin's set of intermediate tires been used? Why is his grip still so strong now?"

Verstappen's question stunned his track engineer, and then he looked up at the FIA-given display showing the status and speed of all drivers' cars. The numbers behind Qin Miao's set of yellow intermediate tires made him frowned. Jump: 53 laps.

If it was chatting on the Internet, after seeing the number of tires used by Qin Miao, he would definitely send out many question marks to express his doubts, shock, confusion, and bewilderment.

No, you, Qin Miao, have a strong tire protection ability. I can accept that you can run more than 50 laps with medium tires, but why do your tires still have grip after running for so long?And the grip is stronger than Verstappen's?

Why?
This is not scientific!
Could it be that Qin Miao is not using a medium tire at all, but a hard tire, but the outer ring is painted yellow?

Soon, the TRs of Verstappen and the team were released, and everyone discovered that Qin Miao hadn't pitted since the pit stop when Kakuta withdrew.

The three commentators also chatted about this matter.

"No, why did Qin Miao's set of medium tires run for so long?"

"I remember that he only entered the pit stop once when Kakuta retired from the race, and he didn't enter the entire race after that?"

"When did Pirelli tires become so durable?"

【Appeared, Pirelli Special】

[Pirelli really has to give Qin Miao a knock, right?What a great promotional material]

【True Pirelli】

[Strict investigation! 】

[Outrageous, medium tires are run as hard tires, the key is to be able to overtake after running for so long]

[You young people are making a fuss. You have seen Qin Miao's competition in F2 and you know that Qin Miao's ability to protect her pregnancy has always been outrageous]

……

Off the field, Qin Miao was amazed at the durability of this set of tires.

And Qin Miao also had some headaches at this time, because Verstappen had been launching tentative attacks on him all the time.

Although Qin Miao took advantage of the excessive wear and temperature of Verstappen's tires, the timing of ers running out of battery exceeded him.

But after all, Verstappen is a talented driver who can compete with Hamilton driving a Mars rover in a Red Bull.

After the tire temperature dropped and the ERS was charged for two laps, Verstappen would naturally fight for his second position.

But the good news is that Verstappen's tire condition is much worse than Qin Miao's.

Even with the blessing of the Honda engine, the limit of what Verstappen can do is to follow Qin Miao and twitch his head from time to time in the DRS area.

However, due to tire wear problems, Verstappen's grip is not enough, and he often has to brake early to prevent his tires from locking up or not braking in time.

Faced with Verstappen's approach, Qin Miao couldn't judge for a while whether he really wanted to attack or put pressure on himself.

So it's more stressful.

But the final result was good. After two laps, Verstappen's tires failed completely and he entered a cliff point.

The lap speed began to drop rapidly, basically 1 second slower than Qin Miao every lap, and this exhaustion speed was still increasing rapidly.

Of course, there are less than three laps before the end of the race. The fourth Leclerc is still 22 seconds away from Verstappen. Even if the tires enter the cliff point, Verstappen does not have to worry about losing his position.

However, the second place with the diamond in hand turned into the third place. I believe that Verstappen and Red Bull will not be in a good mood.

The two drivers of Mercedes opened the rear car for more than four seconds in the last lap, and there is no need to guess the final result of this race at this time.

Before the two drivers crossed the line one after the other, the scene shot was not shown to the staff of the Mercedes team who was hanging on the guardrail and ready to cheer wildly for the two drivers, but to Toto in the P room of the Mercedes team . (end of this chapter)