How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 218 Chapter 216: Listen the other way around

Toto and Qin Miao have been working together for a long time, and they are somewhat accustomed to the Chinese people's humility that is engraved in their bones.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Toto also started talking about business.

“According to the meeting’s instructions, there will only be two laps in this race.

Despite this, there is still the possibility of changes in the final ranking. I hope you will be more vigilant and strive to bring back the championship. "

Qin Miao naturally nodded and said seriously: "I have no reason to let the championship slip away from my hands."

"Okay." Toto looked at Hamilton's car, which was one Perez away from Qin Miao, and then turned back to Qin Miao and said: "There is one more thing I need to tell you. We will not stop Hamilton from racing in the next step." After two laps of attacking you, of course we will not let you give up your position to Hamilton. I hope you can understand this and understand our difficulties."

Qin Miao naturally nodded. There is nothing to say. As a No. [-] driver, the team did not give you direct instructions, which can be regarded as very preferential treatment to you, the No. [-] driver. You also expect the team to help you go to the No. [-] driver. Pressure?
After chatting for a few more words, Toto patted Qin Miao on the shoulder and went to Hamilton.

After Toto left, Qin Miao looked away from Toto, then lowered his head to turn on the phone, put on the headphones and started playing games.

Barber looked at Qin Miao's nonchalant look and clearly had something to say, but finally shut up.

In the following time, everyone was busy with the work at hand in an orderly manner. The director was also a little bored at this time, so he just looked at the faces of the riders.

In today's competition, there are many drivers who stand out.

But the most talked about among these drivers is Qin Miao.

Regardless of the previous games, in the two street races in Monaco and Azerbaijan, Qin Miao started from a disadvantageous position, and then rushed forward before the end of the game, and unexpectedly ended up in a position that did not belong to him. .

Therefore, Qin Miao received a lot of votes from the audience in this game.

At this time, the only one who can compete with Qin Miao is Vettel.

Qin Miao started seventh and now ranks first.

Vettel started in No. 11 and is now ranked fourth.

Qin Miao moved into six positions, and Vettel moved into seven positions.

Someone is about to say at this time, what kind of car do you, Qin Miao, drive?What car does Vettel drive?

There is no comparison between the two men at all.

If Qin Miao were asked to drive Vettel's car, he would definitely not have such good results!

But you know, Qin Miao's opponents are different from Vettel's opponents.

Qin Miao had to face Verstappen's defense, and the two of them had many encounters with each other on the track.

But Vettel passed more people than Qin Miao.

So at this time, the audience didn't know which driver to vote for.

When the director was bored, he pointed the live camera at Qin Miao.

Then they saw Qin Miao turning her phone sideways on the track and playing games like an Internet-addicted teenager.

In fact, Qin Miao's behavior was somewhat inappropriate. After all, it was still working time, and Qin Miao played the game without hesitation.

But no one would say anything about Qin Miao at this time.

After all, in competitive sports, the winner is the winner and the loser is the loser.

Although Qin Miao's current first position was obtained by picking up Verstappen's leak.

But why was it that out of the nineteen drivers on the field, only Qin Miao picked up Verstappen's mistake?
It's not because Qin Miao is strong enough.

The camera goes to Hamilton.

At this time, Hamilton's crew brought a new front nose wing, and FIA officials were watching.

When the camera zoomed in, everyone saw that for some unknown reason, a small hole about 1.7 in diameter was punched out on the front nose of Hamilton's car. There was also a long crack in the front of the hole, which penetrated the upper and lower ends of the front nose. .

It seems that Hamilton's crew wants to ask FIA officials to apply for a replacement of the car's front nose.

But the camera soon switched from here to other drivers.

Like Norris, Russell, Sainz, Gasly.

It is worth mentioning that when they rested, they basically sat next to their cars and waited for the game to restart. Most of them were in a daze, drinking water, and immersed in their own world. Qin Miao was the only one. Where to play games with your phone at such times.

After the camera showed some replays on the field, the camera showed Yuki Tsunoda, who is currently ranked seventh.

After seeing Tsunoda, the three commentators took advantage of the situation and started talking about Tsunoda.

"Actually, Tsunoda is one of the more talented young drivers." Feige said.

Brother Bing nodded, but his words changed: "In fact, if Qin Miao didn't exist, Tsunoda would definitely be the best candidate for the best rookie this season.

After all, in the first game of his career, he defeated his experienced teammate Gasly and scored two points, although no more points were recorded after that.

But in this game Tsunoda created a new career high ranking, reaching the seventh position. "

As Brother Hyo said, the seventh position in this game is indeed the highest ranking in Yuki Tsunoda's career.

"It's a pity that Tsunoda's supernova encountered a sun." Zhou Haoran added with a smile.

After that, the three commentators all laughed in understanding.

There is no need to elaborate too much on who this sun they are talking about is.

In fact, Qin Miao is quite envious of him, because Tsunoda is not like Qin Miao. In the second F2 Grand Prix of his career, he lost the opportunity to refresh his career's highest finishing record.

But no matter what, with the existence of such an incredible rookie like Qin Miao, Tsunoda and others will receive very little attention.

In fact, they also slandered Qin Miao privately.

It's just the same sentence. In competitive sports, as long as you have enough strength, you can ignore many rules and rumors.

Many voices that are dissatisfied with you will also be suppressed.

Qin Miao is almost in this state now.

20 minutes later, after clearing all the daily tasks in Genshin Impact and going to buy some materials, Qin Miao received a reminder from Franky: "Stop playing, the game is about to start."

After hearing this, Qin Miao obediently handed over the mobile phone and earphones to Barber, then stood up and moved his body, and after a brief warm-up, he began to put on the equipment.

After putting on the equipment, Qin Miao returned to his racing car, and then Frankie and the others helped Qin Miao restart the racing car.

At this time, there were still 7 minutes before the restart of the game. Qin Miao routinely checked all the systems of his car.

At this time, Hamilton said in the team TR: "Everyone must know that this season is a marathon, not a sprint, so we must be measured." After Hamilton finished speaking, his The track engineer and Toto Wolff also jumped in at this point to agree.

These words were spoken not only to Hamilton himself, but also to Red Bull.

On the one hand, the purpose is to remind Red Bull that I will not be too extreme when attacking.

But anyone who knows Hamilton knows that many times he has to listen to his words in reverse.

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After a period of intense preparations, the countdown reached zero and the FIA ​​released all the cars.

Because it was the last lap, all drivers switched to soft tires regardless of whether they had new soft tires in reserve or whether the soft tires were worn a lot.

After leaving the maintenance area, Qin Miao began to heat up his tires more aggressively.

The brakes were filled with oil and the tires were grinded left and right. After all, Qin Miao didn't need to worry about tire wear at this time.

At the same time, because he knows that he is the first to start, Qin Miao stops on the starting grid and the drivers behind him may even stop in their starting grid one minute later. Therefore, when Qin Miao warms up the tires, he is rushing to avoid excessive temperatures. of.

After the tire warm-up lap was over, Qin Miao also started pressing the car after arriving on the straightaway and passing the monitoring point in the DRS area.

Because if the tires of an F1 car stop, the tire temperature will drop very quickly.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the tires had sufficient temperature after starting, Qin Miao pressed the car to the maximum before starting.

Basically, he compressed his speed to 35 kilometers per hour, and then slowly used this speed to move to his starting grid.

Therefore, about half a minute after Qin Miao stopped, other drivers also stopped at their positions.

Qin Miao started from the pole position on the right side of the track. Behind him was Red Bull's Perez, followed by his teammate Hamilton, and behind Perez was Vettel.

After everyone parked at their place, the medical vehicle at the rear was also in place.

After the red flag, there was no green flag at the start. As the last car got into position, the five red lights started to light up one by one.

Soon, amidst the beeping, all five red lights came on.

The red light goes out at five stops.

Qin Miao released the clutch as fast as he could and started the car.

After successfully starting, Qin Miao immediately looked at the left rearview mirror of the car.
Qin Miao clearly saw that Perez's start on his side was not ideal, but Hamilton's start was extremely good, even better than Qin Miao's.

Qin Miao's start was quite satisfactory, with no bright spots, but no mistakes.

Soon, all the drivers rushed to T1 as fast as they could.

The starting point is only 1 meters away from the T180 braking point, so everyone’s speed is not too fast at this time.

At this time, Qin Miao still maintained the lead, while Perez was side by side with Hamilton. Even because Hamilton's start was good enough, Hamilton even surpassed Perez on the outside.

And just when everyone thought Hamilton was likely to surpass Perez on the outside of T1 this time, an accident occurred.

When entering the braking point, Hamilton's finger accidentally touched the car's brake balance adjustment button.

It doesn't matter if the brake balance is adjusted rearward, because it mainly adjusts the proportion of tire load during braking to the front or rear wheels.

In a heavy braking area like Baku T1, the consequence of shifting the braking proportional weight to the rear wheels is that the braking distance is longer at most.

But as luck would have it, Hamilton adjusted his braking center of gravity forward.

In other words, Hamilton's braking action caused the front wheels to become more involved, and the consequences were not as simple as adjusting the braking weight to the rear wheels.

After Hamilton applied the brakes, his two front wheels locked up.

The two locked tires pulled out two lines of white smoke on the track, and lost all steering ability, rushing straight towards the butt of Qin Miao's car.

Fortunately, there was still some distance between them. Qin Miao had successfully entered the corner before Hamilton's front bumped into the butt of Qin Miao's car, narrowly escaping the collision.

Although Hamilton had a better start than Qin Miao, there was at least one car distance between him and Qin Miao. Such a long distance cannot be overtaken by a good start.

Qin Miao just started normally, he didn't make a mistake.

Therefore, after Hamilton discovered that Perez made a mistake at the start, his first thought was only to surpass Perez, but did not have any thoughts about Qin Miao, who started normally.

It's just that he was a little anxious when he overtook Perez.

But this is understandable, after all, anyone who came out of the pits for the first time was blocked by Perez, and this block blocked almost half the race.

Now that there is finally a chance to surpass him, no matter who comes, it will be difficult to control himself.

It's just that the consequences of this uncontrollable impulse being brought to the field are more serious.

Due to the inertia of the car and the time it took Hamilton to adjust the settings of the car back, when Hamilton returned to the track again, he had fallen to last place.

At this time, Qin Miao and Perez had already arrived at T4 and began to attack the last two laps.

There’s not much to say about the last two laps.

After Qin Miao no longer has tire anxiety, it is not easy to defend Perez.

And to say who is the happiest person in this game, then Vettel deserves it.

Because he originally thought he was going to finish fourth in this race, but in the end Hamilton gave him a direct place on the podium.

Different from the joy of the first three drivers, Gasly in fourth was fighting fiercely with Leclerc in fifth, while Norris in sixth was eyeing behind Leclerc.

Unfortunately, Gasly's defense was very resolute, so Leclerc failed to return to the fourth place he dreamed of in the last two laps.

Qin Miao was very relaxed when running the last lap, because Perez also accepted his fate and did not show any offensive intentions in the last lap.

So Qin Miao had some free time to care about Hamilton.

When he was not nervous about cornering, Qin Miao asked: "Is Lewis okay?"

French's answer was somewhat unclear: "It feels okay, Hamilton doesn't have much mood swings."

Qin Miao raised his eyebrows in surprise at this answer, but after making sure Hamilton was fine, he didn't ask too many questions. After all, he still had a race to run.

On the other side, in Hamilton's team TR, Hamilton's voice sounded: "I'm so sorry guys."

It's just that because there was the sound of engines in the background of Hamilton's voice, there wasn't much emotion in his words.

(End of this chapter)