How did I become an F1 driver?

Just after passing the DRS monitoring point, Verstappen tapped Qin Miao's inside line. After turning on DRS, the speed became even more terrifying.

Just after halfway through the DRS zone, Verstappen passed Qin Miao.

During this process, Qin Miao didn't even make any defensive moves, because it was unnecessary and you wouldn't be able to defend him.

In fact, in order to ensure his own speed at this time, Qin Miao did not have too much power in the battery, so when he was overtaken by Verstappen, Qin Miao did not resist in any way.

However, after entering T1, Qin Miao still released a wave. The purpose was naturally to follow Verstappen to eat wake and DRS.

Unfortunately, Qin Miao cannot keep up with Verstappen as easily as Hamilton keeps up with Perez when saving tires.

Therefore, Qin Miao needs to use up all the ERS power in the next section of the journey to ensure that he will not be thrown out of the DRS zone by Verstappen.

However, four laps into No. 20, the team's TR rang: "Qin Miao, pay attention to controlling the temperature of the tires."

Qin Miao just woke up from a dream. He was a little over the top in order to compete for the championship position.

Qin Miao, who was woken up by the team, took a deep breath, stopped worrying about Verstappen, and started to protect the tires.

Because of this, Qin Miao was gradually pulled away by Verstappen until he fell out of the DRS zone.

No. 20 Verstappen opened the gap between himself and Qin Miao to two seconds in the seventh lap, and then started to protect his tire.

After all, the race is not even halfway through, and excessive tire consumption is not good news for the drivers.

And Qin Miao has also shifted his attention from Verstappen to Perez behind him.

At this time, the gap between Qin Miao and Perez is 1.9 seconds, while the gap between Perez and Hamilton is 2.2 seconds.

Qin Miao knew that it would be difficult for him to catch up with Verstappen through normal means.

So what he wants now is to stay in this position for a while. He still has a set of soft tires in the pit area that have only been run for three laps. If there is a safety car in the middle of the race, then he may really have the possibility of changing his fate. .

Of course, Qin Miao's idea was just self-comfort in a helpless state. Even at this time, Qin Miao's skill CD was good and he didn't throw it at Verstappen.

Because the distance gap between the two is too big, after exceeding a certain distance, even with the blessing of skills, the pressure value on Verstappen will not increase significantly.

And no one expected what would happen during the race, so instead of wasting his skills on Verstappen at this time, it is better to save them for emergencies.

On the eighth lap of No. 20, after Verstappen trapped Ma Zeping's lap, Qin Miao also trapped Ma Zeping's lap here.

After running 28 laps of the race, this guy was a full 40 seconds slower than his teammate Mick.

If he continues running according to the current state of the game, this guy will probably be 1 minute slower than his teammates at the end of the game. If he fails to keep up, he may be trapped by his teammates.

On lap No. 30, Qin Miao has been opened up by 3 seconds by Verstappen, and Qin Miao has also opened the gap between himself and Perez to 2.4 seconds.

It can be said that the top three drivers have all reached their most comfortable racing rhythm.

Hamilton was also hovering 2.5 seconds behind Perez.

This is the case with the cars this season. Because of the presence of the wind-breaking wings, it is very difficult to follow the car this season.

Because the wind-breaking wing provides sufficient downforce to the vehicle, it will also discharge turbulence towards both sides of the car, and these turbulence will destroy the aerodynamic effect of the car behind and disrupt the balance of the car behind it, making it very difficult to follow the car. .

This is also the reason why the FIA ​​will change the car to a ground effect car next season.

Because the ground-effect racing car has eliminated the wind-breaking wing, the ground-effect floor provides the main downforce for the car. The downforce provided by the floor for the car even accounts for 60% of the entire car, so the turbulence caused by the car will be greatly reduced. , it will also be easier to follow the car behind you.

It's too far off topic. These are all matters for next season and have nothing to do with the current game.

On the race track, to be honest, Qin Miao has now found the feeling he had when he was racing in F2. After he stops racing, all he can do is run laps.

The most boring thing to do is count how many Pirelli billboards there are on the straightaway.

However, due to the speed of the car, Qin Miao often ran out a hundred or ten meters before he had time to count.
But on this lap, a yellow flag suddenly appeared on the track.

Qin Miao, who was running at his own pace, naturally didn't know what was going on.

When the broadcast camera cut away, we saw that Stroll, who had started running on hard tires for 31 laps without making a pit stop, had his entire front wing shattered, his two rear wheels collapsed, and a large cloud of smoke and dust was raised behind the car. Debris from the car was flying.

Even if you look closely, you can see that the outermost front part of the monocoque has been smashed into pieces.

Although the track in Baku is much wider and faster than Monaco, it is still a street race.

After such a big accident, the safety car doesn't even work, so it's basically a red flag.

Qin Miao also immediately learned about the situation on the track through the team's TR: "Strol crashed about 150 meters away from the entrance to the pit area in the third period. There were a lot of debris. There is a high probability that a red flag will appear. Drive carefully. .”

But perhaps the race steward had his own ideas. Although there were a lot of debris on the track, he did not send out a red flag. Instead, he closed the pit area and deployed the safety car.

The reason why the pit area was closed was because the location where Stroll crashed was outside the entrance to the pit area. If he entered the pit at this time, it would most likely cause a secondary accident.

So the race stewards only deployed the safety car.

Fortunately, Stroll climbed out of the car on his own initiative. It seemed that he was fine.

After the director cut out the first-person perspective of Stroll's crash, we saw that he was driving well. Suddenly, the rear wheels of the vehicle seemed to have lost their grip, and the entire rear began to shift to the front and right.

Then the grip of the front wheels of the car was destroyed, and the entire car crashed straight into the left guard wall.

Although Stroll did not release the steering wheel in time to protect himself, the overall inertia of the vehicle was forward, so when the front of the car hit the guardrail on the left, the impact was not particularly large.

Although Qin Miao and Stroll had nothing to do with each other in private, and they only exchanged a few words when they met, Qin Miao still asked in the TR after it was determined that Stroll had a problem: "Strol Are you okay?"

"Strol is fine. He was sent back to the pit area by the medical vehicle," French replied.

It was during this boring time that the director noticed that he was bored, so he released Qin Miao's words to the audience's amusement.

After hearing this, Brother Fei said with emotion: "Qin Miao is a very caring kid. After Stroll's accident, he even asked the team specifically to ask."

Brother Bing said: "Although we didn't have the opportunity to meet Qin Miao offline, Zhou Guanyu and I once talked about Qin Miao when we were chatting on the phone. Zhou Guanyu said that Qin Miao is a person with a good personality."

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Naturally, Qin Miao didn't know that he had habitually attracted a wave of fans from passers-by with just a hint of concern.

He was still eating exhaust fumes from Verstappen's car in his own car, while constantly pumping gas and braking.

On the one hand, this method can charge your own ERS. On the other hand, this method can also heat up your brake pads, and then rely on the thermal radiation effect to conduct the temperature of the brake pads to the tires.

Mercedes' brake ventilation ducts have been optimized in this regard, so both Qin Miao and Hamilton used this method to heat up the tires.

After the safety car was used for three laps, the race committee indicated that it was now time to pit.

However, the car formation has already been set up at this time. Unless it is a team that has no hope of gaining points, no one will choose to pit at this time.

At the same time, Mazeping was untrapped in this lap, which is interesting to say. Ma Zeping was the only car that was lapped in this race.

It's just a pity that Mazeping couldn't achieve the achievement of being trapped by his teammates in this game.

No. 30 had five laps, and after the safety car was used for four laps, the dome lights went out, and the race was about to restart.

After Qin Miao noticed it, he started to warm up his tires, and as a reaction, he kept accelerating and braking.

Although Qin Miao's battery was full at this time, Verstappen didn't know.

As his biggest competitor at present, Qin Miao knew that if he wanted to attack him, he would have to show weakness when he should.

Regardless of whether it is useful or not, the attitude must be shown.

After passing T16 and entering the third section of the straight, Verstappen in front of Qin Miao began to shake left and right to warm up his tires, while the two Mercedes were constantly braking and applying oil to the brakes. Oil.

From the aerial perspective given by the director, this picture looks quite joyful.

With the green flag given by the race meeting, the race is about to restart. It depends on when Verstappen will start the fuel.

Qin Miao's eyes were fixed on Verstappen in front of him, and his skill was thrown directly on his head without any hesitation.

[Max Verstappen: Pressure value 7%]

There will be no DRS in the first three laps after the race restarts, so this is Qin Miao's opportunity. If he can complete his victory in one battle and surpass Verstappen at the start, Qin Miao feels that he can rely on his own tire advantage. Just before DRS restarted, Verstappen was thrown out of his DRS zone.

But everyone knows that the wake effect of this track is very good. The earlier the start, the more disadvantageous it will be for the drivers in the front row, so Verstappen pressed the car to the limit.

In the end, Verstappen stopped drawing about 50 meters from the entrance to the pit area, and then slammed his accelerator to death.

At this time, by coincidence, Qin Miao finished braking and stepped on the accelerator.

Therefore, from an aerial perspective, Qin Miao not only did not pull away after Verstappen started, but closely followed Verstappen. Even after crossing the finish line, Qin Miao began to quickly get closer to Weiss. The distance between tappans.

However, the cars this season are really difficult to follow. All Qin Miao could do before the braking point of T1 was to hit Verstappen's inside line once, and the front wheel moved to Verstappen's rear wheel position.

Even if Qin Miao wanted to brake late, he couldn't get the line rights.

Therefore, Qin Miao didn't make any mistakes when exiting this corner. He braked a little early, came behind Verstappen, and exited the corner on the optimal exit line.Behind Qin Miao, Perez started very normally and his speed was not slow.

But in F1, a field full of geniuses, normality means weakness, and genius and perfection are what can really shine here.

Therefore, Perez's starting speed is a bit slow for Qin Miao.

Exiting T1, Qin Miao came to the position 0.21 seconds behind Verstappen.

T1和T2之间的小直道没有任何超车的条件，秦淼也不想跟得太近导致自己在T2和T3中间的直道没有足够的距离来吃够尾流加速，现在0.2秒的差距正好。

So after exiting T2, Qin Miao directly tapped the inside to put pressure on Verstappen.

Although he knew that there was no possibility of overtaking on this small straight, Verstappen couldn't help but glance at his left rearview mirror after Qin Miao took the inside line, and saw Qin Miao's car.

[Pressure value: 8%]

Before coming to T2, Qin Miao returned behind Verstappen. When T2 entered the corner, Qin Miao took up the outside shoulder, found the braking point, braked, and then cut to the apex of the corner after reaching the appropriate angle, relying on the tire grip ratio Verstappen was better and gave the gas earlier. Because he gave the gas earlier, Qin Miao pushed his head slightly after exiting the corner. Therefore, the two tires on his right side were never closer to the guard wall when exiting the corner. 1 cm.

But Qin Miao didn't care. After exiting the corner, the racing tires were not aligned and the tires did not come off the road shoulder. Qin Miao was stuck in a position where he felt the ultimate grip, opened his ERS to full release, and pushed the accelerator The itinerary is full.

But because of this, Qin Miao pushed his head slightly after coming out of the corner, but it was not visible at all, because after Qin Miao noticed that his car was pushing his car, he had already corrected it in the opposite direction.

Qin Miao's speed after exiting the corner was obviously faster than that of Verstappen in front of him.

After Verstappen corrected his position after exiting the corner, he kept observing the movements of Qin Miao's car through the rearview mirror.

Seeing that Qin Miao had a good rhythm after coming out of the corner, he started to get closer to him quickly.

Verstappen didn't make any moves, he just moved his car to the inside.

Just now Qin Miao had a hard time overtaking himself with DRS on. Now without DRS, so what if he exits the corner faster than himself?As long as I don't give up the inside line, everything Qin Miao does will be in vain.

And as the old saying goes, get up wherever you fall.

I was shaken by you, Qin Miao, here last time, and I will never be shaken again this time.

And Qin Miao also sucked in Verstappen's wake and came to the inside of the track.

After seeing Verstappen clinging to the inside line, he roughly guessed what the opponent was thinking.

But it was obvious that Verstappen underestimated Qin Miao's cornering speed under this extreme maneuver. Although the engine was a bit poor, this performance was more than compensated for by Verstappen's wake.

Qin Miao started sucking the wake 0.2 seconds behind Verstappen until the gap between the two reached about 0.05 seconds before suddenly tapping the outside line.

Qiu Meng, who was watching the game while sitting in the Qin Miao Lounge of the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team, clenched her little fists while nervously watching the broadcast.

But after seeing the scene of Qin Miao inhaling Verstappen's wake, she inexplicably thought of the way Qin Miao held her in her arms and smelled the shampoo in her hair when she went to bed at night.

It's like he's addicted. He won't look up until he's breathless at the end.

In fact, Qin Miao's set of operations was often used on the simulator before he obtained the system.

After all, this kind of operation method with a certain degree of risk can only be used without any psychological burden when used on a simulator.

After learning and mastering this skill, Qin Miao didn't have many opportunities to use it in reality, and even fewer opportunities to show it on the field.

In fact, the place where Qin Miao is most likely to use this method of absorbing wake is in F2, because everyone there drives standard cars, but the driver's personal strength does not allow it.

So this is the first time Qin Miao has used this technique in F1.

If Qin Yun were here at this time, she would have reacted. Qin Miao had also used this kind of wake-sucking operation on her.

And it took 0.05 seconds to turn off the car, which reflected in reality that Qin Miao's front nose was almost touching Verstappen's rear diffuser before he managed to move the car out of the car in a narrow and dangerous way.

"Qin Miao, danger!" The three commentators were frightened into a cold sweat after seeing the scene where they were about to collide.

Fortunately, everything was safe, and because Qin Miao's wake was deep enough, Qin Miao took the shot from the outside before T2 was halfway through.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao did not leave much space for Verstappen when he took the turn, so he squeezed Verstappen on the dirty side of the track, leaving only 1.5 spaces for Verstappen. About a car body.

You may not be able to see the effect of Qin Miao's approach now, but as Verstappen looked at him in astonishment, Qin Miao came to his side and lined up with him at two-thirds of the straight line, and gradually surpassed him.

Verstappen knew that he had misjudged the situation. Qin Miao's speed was terrifyingly fast.

[Pressure value: 17%]

Indeed, as Verstappen thought, he was not moved out of position by Qin Miao, and Qin Miao did not use any means.

It's just an almost perfect corner, and the limit of fuel and ERS's power release after exiting the corner.

In the end, amid the cheers of the three five-star sports commentators, Qin Miao passed Verstappen by four-fifths of the car before the braking point of T3.

Just as Verstappen overtook Qin Miao, Qin Miao also relied on his absolute speed advantage to enter the corner before Verstapan and gained the right to the line even when Verstappen braked late.

Qin Miao won't laugh with you when you have cable rights.

It directly compressed Verstappen's line, which is commonly known as closing the door.

Of course, it is impossible for Qin Miao to be locked up too tightly, because if he is locked up too tightly, Verstappen may directly attack him.

Therefore, when Qin Miao closed the car, he still left 1.5 car body spaces for Verstappen to enter the corner. Verstappen would definitely not be too comfortable cornering this time.

Verstappen was obviously a little anxious after being overtaken by Qin Miao. He braked late into the corner and found that Qin Miao didn't leave much space for himself and even braked to the point where the front wheel locked up.

And because the front wheel locked up, Verstappen's front wheel grip was completely lost.

Qin Miao had already entered the corner.

When Verstappen got close to Qin Miao, Verstappen finally regained his grip and entered the corner smoothly.

But there was still a moment of brief understeer.

Verstappen's front wing was just like Qin Miao's front wing when he sucked in Verstappen's wake, and it slid past the rear diffuser of the car in front of him.

But no matter what, Qin Miao finally surpassed his opponent in T3.

"Pretty!"

"Brilliant!"

"Brother Sanshui is awesome!"

"Ouch."

"The child is crying again."

"Go and change the diaper, I have to watch the game."

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This was in Qin Miao's hometown. It was less than nine o'clock in front of Qin Miao's house. The small square where the neighbors usually used to enjoy the cool air was full of people. Everyone moved small benches from their homes to sit in the empty square. He looked up at the game screen projected on the projector.

Sitting here are all neighbors or friends who have watched Qin Miao grow up or grew up with him.

After Qin Miao passed Verstappen, everyone laughed and applauded Qin Miao, and the children were the ones who screamed the happiest.

Now every game weekend night, watching Qin Miao's game has become a regular program for the neighbors here, just like watching the news broadcast.

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Although Verstappen had a BB in the team's TR after being shut down by Qin Miao, what: Can Qin Miao know how to drive?He didn't leave a place for me at all. He was closing the door on me and blurting out things like going to the FIA ​​to complain.

But it is obvious that Qin Miao had no problems with overtaking and defense this time.

After being overtaken by Qin Miao, Verstappen's rhythm was completely disrupted.

After exiting the corner, he was almost overtaken by his teammate Perez, but fortunately this was the first lap after the safety car was withdrawn, and everyone's ERS power was still sufficient, so he got the T4 ahead of Perez. Insider.

What Qin Miao needs to do after that is naturally to try his best to release and strive to gain enough advantages before DRS opens.

Verstappen's lockup put a lot of pressure on the tires, but he couldn't bear the sigh in his heart after being overtaken by Qin Miao.

Not wanting to protect his fetus anymore, he began to chase Qin Miao quickly, which was called "on top".

However, Verstappen was quickly stopped by the team.

It is a fact that Qin Miao has a strong tire protection ability, but after Qin Miao came out of the pits and chased Verstappen for several laps, Qin Miao failed to protect his tires. He was attacking and defending at the same time. Qin Miao's tire condition was definitely good at this moment. It was not as good as before, so Red Bull believed that Qin Miao's tires would wear out significantly in the later stages of this race, so they did not let Verstappen be too anxious.

Everyone is a driver and we all know what the ultimate goal of this game is.

So after being reminded by the team, Verstappen did not continue to drive, but began to run the race at his own pace, saving tires. (End of chapter)