How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 201 199: Monaco (6K, plus 1120)

That's right, Qin Miao was reprimanded once.

This matter is handled by FIA President Jean Todt himself.

In fact, it is a reprimand, but it is more of a speech therapy.

After everyone left, Jean Todd sat beside Qin Miao, and then began to teach Qin Miao like an elder.

The main thing is to talk about the danger of Qin Miao's doing so, and the impact on other young drivers, and even on teenagers watching F1 races.

Although it may seem to you, Qin Miao, that you are just a child who has not grown up, but you have become the idol of other children without your knowing.

After staying in the meeting room for more than 20 minutes, Qin Miao escaped from it with a seemingly enlightened face.

So far, all off-track work has been completed.

Back at the team home, changed into racing uniforms and came to Room P. At this time, Reyes and Qin Miao’s team members had finished debugging and preparing Qin Miao’s racing car. At this time, Qin Miao’s racing car was lying quietly on the P room. on the parking lot of the room.

After handing over to Reyes, Qin Miao came to his car.

He touched the right wing of his car with some concern. Although he was fined ten places on the Monaco track after sitting on it and doing a return lap, there is one thing to say: the wind wing in this position It's really suitable for sitting on. It's very sturdy after you sit on it, and you don't have to worry about falling if you go too fast because you can't hold it firmly.

Of course, because of the characteristics of the track in Monaco, no matter how good your car is, as long as you start from the back row, your ranking in this race is basically determined, and even if there are fluctuations, it is only two or three around. It’s just a ranking, it’s impossible to improve too much.

So although everyone thinks that Qin Miao is indeed very talented, no one thinks that Qin Miao will get too good results in this competition, and being on the podium is even more nonsense.

Now everyone's main attention is on Hamilton and Verstappen.

After all, these two are the main highlights of this season. Although Qin Miao is talented, everyone can see that there is still a certain gap in strength between Qin Miao and his teammates.

So Qin Miao can only be regarded as an addition at best.

As the main player, Qin Miao naturally knew the unanimous views on his game inside and outside the paddock.

To be honest, the first time I saw it, I felt really uncomfortable. If possible, Qin Miao really wanted to find a way to slap them in the face.

But this is indeed true. Qin Miao did not miss the Monaco races in recent years when he was working out during this period. No matter who it is, as long as it falls behind, it is really too difficult to overtake the drivers in front.

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As Qin Miao got into his car and calmed down his racing spirit, Qin Miao's thoughts began to converge, and his breathing rhythm quickly adjusted.

At this time, the tires on Qin Miao's racing car are a set of hard tires. As tires for Qin Miao to familiarize himself with the track and find training data, durable hard tires are naturally the best choice.

In the first practice stage, with the end of the countdown to the first practice, Qin Miao, who had been ready for a long time, was the first to be released by the team.

Brother Bing, who was commentating on this game, saw that the first person to come out was Qin Miao and said: "The first person to come out here is the Chinese driver Qin Miao."

Zhou Haoran analyzed and said: "When Qin Miao was in F2 before, Monaco did not hold a race due to the epidemic, so this track is completely unfamiliar to Qin Miao."

Fei Ge said: "That's exactly the case, Qin Miao needs to get as familiar with this track as possible during the practice race."

"That's right, but to be honest, I'm not worried about Qin Miao's performance in today's game." Fei Ge raised the topic.

Fei Ge said: "Qin Miao's recent games have proved his stability. He has a strong heart that doesn't match his age."

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The speculation of the three commentators was exactly what Mei Ben was thinking at this time.

Qin Miao ran the Monte Carlo circuit of Monaco for thousands of laps on the simulator, but whether Qin Miao can adapt to the extremely narrow and closed street race in Monaco is still a question.

After all, the sense of speed felt by drivers on this kind of track is much, much higher than that under normal conditions.

So although no one doubted Qin Miao's strength, after Qin Miao entered the track, the staff in the Mercedes team were very worried about Qin Miao's performance on the track.

Even Hamilton, who was sitting in the car and still debugging the racing car, put part of his attention on the monitor in front of him, and this monitor was showing the broadcast screen of Sky Sports at this time.

In the broadcast screen is Qin Miao who just drove onto the track.

It can be seen that the big brother still cares about the little brother Qin Miao.

After all, to a certain extent, Qin Miao was also responsible for being fined ten.

Qin Miao, who took to the track, quickly realized the fun of the Monaco track.

That kind of collision of no more than 10 centimeters between the guardrail and your own tire, the echo of the engine from the guardrails on both sides, the fear of hitting the guard wall head-on, after quickly exiting the tunnel, the intersection of light and darkness .

These things are very difficult for ordinary drivers to master, and even a little scary, but for Qin Miao, they are all fun and challenges.

Every time the tires pass by the guardrail, Qin Miao will feel a surge of dopamine.

This feeling that if the operation is not careful, the car may be destroyed and people killed, it makes Qin Miao intoxicated.

However, in the first practice stage, Qin Miao was mainly exploring. For this track, Qin Miao can only say that he is familiar with it in the game, but the specific situation of the track in reality is unknown. Qin Miao can only rely on Go and explore it yourself.

After one hour of practice, Qin Miao entered the station once and spent 7 minutes adjusting the tuning settings of the car.

For the rest of the time, Qin Miao was familiar with the track on the track. To Frankie and Toto's relief, Qin Miao didn't have any resistance because he was fined 10 places at the Monte Carlo track. Anyway, I couldn't overtake any cars in the main race, so I just started to perform poorly.

Qin Miao's pre-match preparations were still as meticulous as before, and even more serious.

At the same time, even if Qin Miao was using hard tires, the increase in lap time was still considerable and stable.

It can be seen that Qin Miao is quickly familiarizing and mastering this track.

However, it is worth mentioning that although the lap speed is constantly increasing, Qin Miao did not run according to the rhythm of qualifying, leaving a lot of room for the track when cornering.

Even so, Qin Miao's best time in hard tire training was 1:13.

Even faster than his teammate Hamilton.

Of course, at this time, everyone is still looking for a suitable training window for their racing cars, and the results of the first practice are just a sight to behold.

Simulate a long distance, and the most you can do is run a less extreme qualifying simulation.

In the end, Qin Miao came in third in the first rehearsal, and the score at the end came to 1:13.

During the break, the team held a meeting with the drivers.

The main thing is to analyze the car tuning window found in the first practice. Qin Miao and Hamilton will also feedback some details they felt on the track during the meeting, what parts of the car need to be adjusted, and whether the tuning is appropriate.

After the meeting, after a short rest, the game came to the second practice.

Qin Miao started her second set of tires at the Monte Carlo circuit, which was a set of medium tires.

At the beginning of the long-distance test of heavy-duty fuel, look at Qin Miao's lap time, and tomorrow at the beginning of the third practice, there will be a heavy-duty test of soft tires, and combine these data to determine the main race What kind of tires did Qin Miao use to start?

In the middle of the second practice, Qin Miao drove his third set of tires, a set of soft tires, and ran a flying lap on the track.

However, when doing the lap time, Qin Miao was blocked in the second time period. Naturally, the result of this flying lap was useless, but despite this, Qin Miao was still strong in the first and third time periods.

Of course, this blocking is not Ricardo's problem, but Franky's problem.

After all, we all know that there is no way to give way to the car at the 2 corners in the second time period.

Therefore, the game will not give the corresponding penalty.

However, according to the team's calculations, if the second time period is not blocked, Qin Miao's lap time can enter 1:11.

Of course, this is not a qualifying race, and letting Qin Miao run this qualifying simulation is just to feel Qin Miao's fundamentals and see how he will perform under such a car setup.

Afterwards, some other tests and simulations were carried out, and Qin Miao also completed the pre-match data collection tasks one by one according to the team's requirements.

Also because the task assigned by the team was completed early, Qin Miao ran a few extra laps on the track without any burden in the last 5 minutes of the second practice.

Anyway, the gearbox and engine used for the practice race were used, and the tires were used to return the old tires to Pirelli after the second practice. Qin Miao entered the purest state of racing in the last few minutes: enjoying the fun of racing. .

In the end, the second practice was over, and Qin Miao had completely mastered the driving skills of the Monte Carlo track by relying on his accumulation on the simulator and the proof of reality.

To be honest, this track is really difficult, the track is very narrow, and there is no buffer zone, which means that there is no room for error when driving on this track.

Mistakes on this track are either hitting the wall and retiring from the race, or entering the emergency avoidance zone headlong. If you want to back out after entering, the time loss will be huge.

However, those who can enter F1 are the best in motorsports. Although the track in Monaco is difficult, everyone can control their cars.

But here's where the interesting thing about Monaco is that the main race of the Grand Prix requires a total of 78 laps.

Therefore, all drivers have to go through the dangers and difficulties of the Monte Carlo circuit 78 times. No one can guarantee that they will not make mistakes, lose their minds or other things during these 78 laps.

And if something goes wrong...

This track is an all-round 360-degree test for drivers' driving skills, willpower, spirit and physical strength.

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Climbing out of the racing car, taking off the helmet and sweat-absorbing hood, Qin Miao and Reyes shook hands and hugged before saying: "I feel that the steering is still a little too much, and the angle of the front wing can still be reduced by 0.5°. The pressure in the rear is well balanced, nothing to adjust."

Reyes nodded and recorded the data, and then said to Qin Miao: "The degree of tire degradation is still better than we expected, so I wonder if we can further reduce the angle of the front nose, but add more Big front wheel camber.”

Qin Miao thought about it, this operation is indeed possible, because on the track of Monaco, the rear wheel of the Mercedes-Benz car wears faster than the front wheel. Although this adjustment will cause the front wheel to wear faster, But no matter how fast the wear of the front wheels is, it is impossible to exceed the wear rate of the rear wheels.

The effect on the whole is small.

"Can you give it a try, we have another practice match tomorrow to test during the qualifying simulation?"

Reyes shook his head: "No, the risk of testing the new tuning during the qualifying simulation is too great. Our suggestion is to try the new tuning when we first start testing soft tires and heavy oil for long distances. We have data on medium tires. The two can be compared."

Qin Miao thought about it and nodded in agreement.

After confirming the adjustment and improvement direction for tomorrow, Qin Miao turned around and went to the team home for a meeting.

The content of the meeting was mainly about the adjustment of the car and whether the data obtained by the two drivers on the track after today's test met the original expectations.

I won't go into too much detail here.

After the meeting, Qin Miao went for an interview, and then Qin Miao's work for the day was completed.

Although it was really tiring after a busy day on the field today, Qin Miao did not forget to play a game of CSGO after returning home.

Of course, on the one hand, Qin Miao only planned to play for a while, and on the other hand, because of reputation considerations, he didn't start the live broadcast.

After all, you, Qin Miao, are an F1 driver. After work, you don't want to review your performance on the track and just play games when you return to the hotel.

If your performance on the second day of the race and qualifying is good enough, that’s okay. People just think you’re talented and it’s okay to relax during the break. But if you don’t perform well, it will be a source of criticism for others. Excuse.

So Qin Miao chose to admit defeat.

There was nothing to say all night, and Qin Miao continued to work the next day.

In the third training stage, there is not much to repeat. It is just a step-by-step process of collecting the data that the team had previously formulated, and then carefully adjusted the tuning of the car until Qin Miao felt that the car was comfortable enough to drive.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Qin Miao left two sets of medium tires, one set of hard tires, and four sets of soft tires.

Qin Miao has new tires available for the three stages of qualifying, and the emergence of two sets of neutral tires represents more tactical choices for Mercedes in the race stage, and even Qin Miao may directly carry neutral tires in Q2. The tire came out and ran.

At the end of the third practice, Qin Miao ended his third practice in the seventh position.

However, this ranking was obtained by Qin Miao with old tires, so there is no reference.

After the third practice, Mercedes recovered the two cars, then directly opened the hood of his own car and started replacing the engine and gearbox.

Speaking of which, Qin Miao's engine has run four grands prix, so far there has been no problem. According to Reyes and the others, the wear of Qin Miao's engine is at least 10% less than that of Hamilton's.

In other words, after the Monaco Grand Prix, Hamilton's car may need to replace some wearable parts in the engine, such as MGU-H, otherwise the car is prone to failure.

And Qin Miao's racing engine can last until Qin Miao runs the entire Monaco Grand Prix before running an Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

At the same time, Qin Miao's training settings for the third practice were also officially finalized. In terms of games, this set of training settings is more than 95% compatible with Qin Miao.

This can be regarded as finding the most suitable training setting for Qin Miao.

It is also a good thing that Mercedes is not Red Bull. Although the design of the Mercedes car is based on Hamilton's driving habits, it does not completely design the car according to the driving habits of the No. 1 driver like Red Bull.

This also gives Qin Miao the possibility to get used to Mercedes racing cars in a short period of time, and Qin Miao's driving habits are similar to Hamilton's to a certain extent. Both of them also like understeer racing cars.

Soon, it was time for qualifying.

Both Qin Miao and Hamilton were fully prepared for this race.

Today the track temperature is very high, 35°, and the air humidity is also high, 71% air humidity. After all, the Monte Carlo track is located by the sea.

On the Monte Carlo circuit, the P room of the Mercedes team is still at the entrance of the maintenance area, so Qin Miao has a long way to go to work.

Because the front of the team P room of the Monte Carlo circuit is the track, and the back is also the track, the distance in the middle is very narrow, there is not enough space for the team to put the team home, so there is no entrance behind the team P room, and Qin Miao They have to walk in from the exit position of the pit lane to work.

Because of this, Qin Miao and the others had to walk through the entire maintenance area to go to work.

So on the way to the P room, Qin Miao was always surrounded by photographers who followed Qin Miao to take pictures.

After arriving at room P, Qin Miao put on the equipment after a brief handover with the team technicians, and then got into the racing car.

Qin Miao has already experienced the driving skills of the track on the track, and Franky and the others will not say more, but Toto still waited for Qin Miao to sit in the car and came to Qin Miao's car, looking like an engineer Tighten Qin Miao's seat belt in the same way, and said: "Q1's problem is not big, our speed is not bad, we just need to determine the timing of release, you can run with it, we trust you , Believe in yourself.”

Qin Miao didn't nod, because Toto was very close to his helmet at this time, and if he nodded, he would probably hit his head, so Qin Miao just said: "Don't worry Toto, I know what's going on."

Toto reached out and patted Qin Miao's helmet lightly, and left Qin Miao's racing car.

Sometimes when adults talk to each other, you don’t need to say too much, you just need to show your attitude.

After Toto left, Qiu Meng also came to Qin Miao's side. After all, the relationship between Qiu Meng and Qin Miao lies here. At the Monte Carlo circuit, ordinary VIPs of the Mercedes-Benz team can only go to the VIP viewing area upstairs. Watching the game, Qiu Meng can just swagger directly to the team's P room to watch the game.

Handing Qin Miao's gloves, Qiu Meng said nothing, but gave Qin Miao an encouraging look.

The tacit understanding between the two of them for so many years is here. Although my lover didn't say anything, a look is enough to let the other party understand what I mean.

Qin Miao smiled at her girl, then reached out to take the gloves from Qiu Meng.

"Don't worry, your husband is invincible."

Although Qin Miao's racing car had started at this time and the noise was so loud that Qin Miao's words could not be transmitted at all, Qiu Meng still judged what Qin Miao was talking about through the shape of his mouth.

At this time, at the gate of the Mercedes motorcade, a photographer happened to capture this scene.

"This is Qin Miao and his girlfriend Qiu Meng. The relationship between the two is so good." Brother Fei couldn't help but sigh after seeing it.

Brother Bing didn't seem to know much about this, so he asked curiously: "When did Qin Miao have a girlfriend?"

Brother Ran glanced at Brother Bing a little unexpectedly. After all, as fans, they are more interested in knowing about the private life of this kind of F1 driver, and they have talked about the relationship between Qin Miao and Qiu Meng before, right?
But soon Brother Ran realized that Brother Bing should be taking care of the new audience, so he explained in passing: "It happened a long time ago. The two of them are classmates. They established a relationship after graduating from high school. Although the two They all went to college, but they didn't go.

Qin Miao went abroad to drive F2, and Qiu Meng went abroad with Qin Miao. "

Speaking of which, Brother Fei added: "But audience friends, don't think that Qiumeng is the vase by Qin Miao's side. She has a higher level of education than Qin Miao. She studied all the courses of university majors alone during the time abroad. , And now I have obtained a graduation certificate from the self-examination and graduated ahead of schedule.

These materials are available on the Internet. If you are interested in this, the audience can go to the Internet to check. "

After hearing the news, netizens who were a little jealous that Qiu Meng had a boyfriend like Qin Miao suddenly couldn't help but feel sad.

Q1 will start soon.

Due to the nature of the track, qualifying in Monaco is prone to traffic problems.

Therefore, the preparations for Mercedes were completed early, and the car's tire warmer was removed before the start of Q1, and the two cars were released directly after the start of Q1.

However, after coming out, Qin Miao pressed the car a little bit, because there were too many cars in front, and it was easy to be blocked if they followed too closely.

1 minutes before the Q14 stop clock, Qin Miao completed his first tire warm-up lap, and the tire temperature was right.

When it comes to temperature, the track in Monaco is not useless, because the track is short enough and there are no long corners, so it doesn’t matter how high the temperature of the tires is, and you don’t have to worry about serious particles in the tires when you run to the back because the temperature is too high change.

In the end, Qin Miao's score in Q1 was fixed at 1 minute 11 seconds 400.

And this result still made Qin Miao's fans feel a little stunned, because Qin Miao's result finally only allowed Qin Miao to advance to the No.12 position in a thrilling manner.

You said that Qin Miao's qualifying ability is not as strong as Bottas, and he can steadily enter the top few in Q3 of all Grand Prix qualifying games. You say he runs fast, Q1 and Q2 Didn't make it into the top five.

In Qin Miao's main race, all fans can watch Qin Miao's performance on the field with peace of mind. As long as Qin Miao's car has no problems, he can always finish the race with a qualified result according to the team's requirements.

But when it comes to qualifying, Qin Miao's fans have to prepare some quick-acting heart-relief pills in case of accidents.

(End of this chapter)