How did I become an F1 driver?

French replied: "Copy that, pitting this lap, but I think if you want to chase more positions, soft tires would be a good choice.

Based on your tire protection ability, the soft tire should be able to last a few more laps on the track. "

Qin Miao thought about the characteristics of this track. It was difficult to overtake and the soft tires would not last long. If he wasted too much time behind a driver, his race would be basically ruined, so he shook his head and said : "Just the medium tires, I also have a new set."

"receive."

When Qin Miao just finished talking to the team, Hamilton, who was ranked first, arrived at the entrance of the pit area.
I don’t know how Hamilton communicated with his track engineer. After arriving at the entrance of the pit area, Hamilton did not choose to pit.

But other drivers, as Russell just said, feel that they can pit and put on dry tires after the outing lap.

So the audience can see that except for Hamilton who passed by the entrance of the pit area and did not enter, all the drivers behind him, including Qin Miao, entered the pit area.

When the camera turned to the starting position, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV saw such a famous painting of the century.

There were only two cars on the starting grid that would normally be crowded, a Mercedes parked on the pole wearing semi-wet tires, and a red Mercedes medical vehicle far behind him.

To be honest, when Qin Miao went home and watched the replay of the game after the game, he really felt a sense of sadness in this scene, drawing his sword and looking around at a loss.

I just don’t know what kind of mental state it was like after Hamilton parked his car and found that all the drivers behind him, including his teammates, had pitted, and he was the only one starting on the grid.

But this famous scene and the chaos at the start are enough to completely record this race in the history of F1.

One game, two famous scenes, and Qin Miao, as a witness, honestly felt like he was participating.

Soon, the five red lights went out and the race started, with Hamilton starting from the grid alone.

Without comparison, there is no way to tell the difference, and we don't know if Hamilton will be in poor condition at the start this time due to the environment.

At this time, other drivers started to walk out from the pit area.

It is worth mentioning that because Williams' pit area is at the exit, after Russell changed the tires, there was no room in the pit channel at the exit of the track for him to jump in.

And this clever little guy did not choose to wait for the traffic to clear up from where he came out after changing the tire, but walked directly along the outside of the pit lane and came to a position alongside O'Connell.

When Hamilton started, Russell started obviously faster than Ocon.

So when the rankings on the left came out, Russell, this clever little guy, rose directly from eighth to second.

To be honest, after learning about Russell's operation through the team's TR, Qin Miao wondered why Mercedes was not last in the team last season. If Mercedes was last in the team last season, this is cheap. It's up to you to take charge.

But soon, Franky said calmly: "Sooner or later, this guy will give this position back."

Hearing this, Qin Miao felt balanced.

Enough chatting here.

During the pit stop for tire changes, Russell moved six ahead.

His teammate Latifi was not as courageous as Russell, but he relied on Williams's better position in such an environment and honestly chose to jump in the queue and moved forward two positions. fifth.

Qin Miao did not take advantage of such a small advantage when he was released, and as far as the location of the P room at the entrance of the Mercedes maintenance area was concerned, he could not take advantage even if he wanted to, so he was squeezed from No. 11 to No. 12. Ricciardo finished tenth.

The chaos and position changes at this start were no less than that of the bumper car at the start.

Although Hamilton opened up a long distance from the car behind him after starting, the time consumed during the pit stop at the start is different from that during the race.

And on the track at this time, Hamilton's semi-wet tires were not as fast as the dry tires of the cars behind him.

The gap between the two tires is at least two seconds per lap.

The commentators were frantically discussing where Hamilton would end up after pitting.

They didn't even notice that Qin Miao, whom they were most concerned about, passed Mick in front of him in T2.

As the saying goes, eating and sleeping are super fun.

This overtaking was relatively unpretentious.

When passing T2, Qin Miao put pressure on Mick on the inside, and there were obvious signs of braking late after the tap.

And Mick didn't know what he was thinking. After seeing Qin Miao take the inside offensive line, he stopped defending. Instead, he went to the outside to prepare for a wider line to cross the line to try to overtake Qin Miao.

After seeing Mick's operation, Qin Miao slowly raised a question mark in his mind.

It is true that T2 is a turnaround. In this state, it is not impossible to rely on the intersection line to regain the position in the subsequent straight.

But Mick didn't consider the performance gap between Mercedes and Haas at all.

Do you understand the value of Mercedes engines?How do you, a bastard Haas with a Ferrari engine, have the guts to play cross-wire with me?

So after exiting the corner, Qin Miao directly opened the distance between him and Mick at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Crossed lines?Although my rear diffuser is damaged and I can’t refuel that early, the gap between the cars is here, how can you catch up?
And Mick is like a pig chasing a swallow, unable to do anything except collapse and shout from behind.

After simply and easily surpassing Mick, Qin Miao was faced with Ricciardo.

At this time, the distance between the two is not that far, but after all, he is a driver who has won the championship, and he still has strength. Coupled with the characteristics of the track, Qin Miao has no idea of ​​overtaking the opponent in a short time. .

Instead, constantly put pressure on the opponent, wait for the opponent to make a mistake, and if not, wait for DRS.

The current track conditions are getting better, and I believe DRS will be turned on in the race soon.

But at the same time, Russell, who was No. 2, also began to slow down very obviously.

Seeing this, the commentators were very confused: "Why did Russell suddenly slow down?"

"Oh, what a pity. Due to the characteristics of the Hungaroring, it is easy to get good results after finishing second. It is really a pity that Russell's car has problems now."

"Did it hit somewhere? It is difficult to overtake at the Hungaroring. It is really a pity that something went wrong at this time."

The fact is that this is not because there is something wrong with Russell's car, but as French said to Qin Miao, Russell was fined for illegal overtaking in the pit area and was returned to his original position, that is, from where he was. Second was penalized to eighth.

At the same time, at the same time that Russell handed over his position, Hamilton pitted and replaced the old medium tires that had been used for three laps.

When Hamilton came into the pits, Ocon was already three seconds behind Hamilton.

This shows how big the speed difference is between semi-wet tires and dry tires.

Unlike Qin Miao, the old man has a unique Chinese trait of feeling uneasy if there is no food at home, so he does not have a reserve of new neutral tires.By the time Hamilton came out of the pit lane, all the cars had passed.

It is worth mentioning that Latifi was originally fifth, but as Russell handed over his position and Hamilton pitted to change tires, Latifi moved directly to third.

The two drivers in front of him are the leader Ocon and the No. 2 Vettel.

It's hard to imagine that Latifi would appear in the third position.

Before this scene appeared, no F1 fan would have thought that such a scene would occur on the track.

At this time, the rankings on the track are as follows:

1: O'Connell

2: Vettel
3: Latifi
4: Tsunoda

5: Sainz
6: Alonso
7: Russell
8:KIMI
9: Ricardo
10: Qin Miao

11: Mick

12: Verstappen

13: Gasly
14: Giovinazzi
15: Hamilton

And at this time, the gap between Hamilton and Giovinazzi came to 5.5 seconds.

It is foreseeable that this will be an extremely long pursuit, and it is still on the Hungaroring, a track where overtaking is difficult.

By the way, after entering the maintenance area, Ma Zeping never came out of the maintenance area.

Because when Mazeping was changing tires, he collided with Kimi who had changed tires and came out of the tire changing area. Mazeping's right front suspension collided with the left rear wheel of Kimi's car. Mazeping's right front suspension was broken on the spot, and Kimi There's no such thing as racing.

If the suspension is broken, there is basically no way to repair it urgently on the track. It is not like the DRS rear wing that is broken. You can use strong glue to glue it back together. You may even stop driving the DRS. If the suspension is broken, it is left to the drivers. There is only one choice, and that is to retire.

This was only the fifth lap of the race, and already five drivers had retired from the race, and two drivers had their cars damaged.

Qin Miao was the one who suffered the least damage.

But at this point, the game can be considered to have officially begun with a lot of stumbling.

At the end of the sixth lap, Qin Miao relied on the powerful performance of the car and his own strength to catch up to the position 0.6 seconds behind Ricciardo.

Although the downforce at the rear has been reduced a lot after the damage to the rear diffuser, the performance of the W12 itself is still there. In the last two consecutive combination corners of T13 and T14 after catching up with Ricciardo, Qin Miao took the It is a route that is more conducive to acceleration on the back straight.

And because the pressure from Qin Miao was strong enough, Ricardo took a defensive route.

Therefore, after exiting T14, Qin Miao will have a speed advantage of 5 kilometers per hour than Ricciardo. Although because of the relatively large route, the time gap between himself and Ricciardo was widened to 0.8 after exiting the corner. Seconds, but relying on the faster cornering and Ricciardo's wake, Qin Miao was still rapidly approaching Ricciardo in front during the acceleration in the latter section.

Although Ricardo noticed Qin Miao quickly approaching and then took the inside defensive line.

However, Qin Miao, who was in full fuel mode and ERS, still finished alongside Ricciardo on the outside before the braking point of T1.

And when reaching the braking point, Qin Miao's front wheel was at Ricciardo's front nose.

As for the turning back corner of T1, Qin Miao knew that if the inner line was blocked, he would not be able to pass, so Qin Miao headed towards the cross line from the beginning.

After crossing the line and exiting T1, the gap between the two was very small, only 0.3 seconds.

Although the straightaway after T1 is not too long, Qin Miao took the inside shot in the middle of the straightaway.

Ricciardo still wanted to struggle, and when he entered the braking point, he gave up the inside line to Qin Miao, preparing to copy Qin Miao's operation just now and take the crossing line.

But what Ricciardo didn't expect was that Qin Miao didn't brake late at all and entered the corner alongside him.

Ricardo was immediately suffocated and wanted to take the crossover route, and then Ricardo could only watch helplessly as Qin Miao passed him from the inside at T2, and then reached ninth place.

Ricardo looked at Qin Miao's car ahead and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness rising from his heart.

Ricciardo is also considered to be the most talented among the many drivers in the F1 field. Although he is a little acclimated to driving the McLaren this season, the Qin Miao he needs to face is not perfect. Qin Miao's car is not perfect. There was damage, but facing Qin Miao like this, Ricardo felt that he was powerless to parry, and Qin Miao would still get past him with various attacks a few times.

Although this was not the first time he had experienced this feeling, not just any cat or dog could make him feel this way.

And now Qin Miao's name is added to the list.

"He is too fast and his line is too precise. I can't guard against it." Ricciardo's somewhat helpless voice sounded in the McLaren TR.

……

"Pretty!"

After seeing the scene of Qin Miao surpassing Ricciardo, Fei Ge raised his arms and cheered: "Beautiful and accurate cross line!"

Brother Bing also expressed emotion: "It's really a pleasure to watch Qin Miao overtaking on the field now. He overtakes decisively with a sharp line and grasps the rhythm just right. There is no untimely operation."

Zhou Haoran also commented: "Qin Miao's overtaking is like a program that has been optimized countless times."

"Yes, it's so beautiful."

"Now the pressure is on Hamilton, and Qin Miao is chopping melons and vegetables in front. If Hamilton cannot catch up with Qin Miao before the end of the game, Qin Miao will open up the points gap between Hamilton and Verstappen in the standings. .”

Brother Bing smiled and said: "I used to only hope that Zhou Guanyu could enter F1 one day.

Unexpectedly, Qin Miao appeared in our sight one day.

Qin Miao's appearance was an out-and-out big surprise for us and the vast number of domestic car fans.

But exhausting our imagination, we never imagined that Qin Miao could enter a championship-winning team like Mercedes-Benz in the first F1 season of his career.

The most important thing is that as Qin Miao gradually adapts to the rhythm of F1 competition.

No, it can even be said that he has performed extremely well without adapting to the rhythm of F1. Now he is directly on the verge of overtaking him in the standings, even leading his teammate Hamilton, the seven-time champion.

This is really rare for us. "

"It's no exaggeration. Now when I dream about Qin Miao's performance on the field, I might wake up laughing..."

... (end of this chapter)