How did I become an F1 driver?

"Although it seems that the video we shot is a Dutch special video, there are always some fun fans who only like to watch the competition. They will not clearly express their likes and dislikes of a certain driver. The video we shot The main customer groups of these videos are actually these people, and the videos can effectively attract the attention of these people. Although they cannot convert them into our fans and fans, at least they will not make our popularity with passersby too bad."

"On the other hand, these videos are also a reward for our fans who support us and keep us hot in their hearts."

"Sometimes you can't just look at what's in front of you. Maybe you're still young and don't see things that deeply, but when you get older and come into contact with more people and things, you'll know whether what I'm saying is right. It makes sense.”

Qin Miao shook his head: "That's what I said, but I feel that after the Grand Prix officially starts on Friday, the audience may curse me on the spot during the meeting with the fans."

Qin Miao, who said this, remembered a video Qiu Meng shared with him after the British Grand Prix.

What was played on that video was a video of Verstappen’s fan meeting before the race.

The video started with Verstappen's appearance, and then the British audience at the scene began to chant in unison: "So f**k you max! f**k you max!"

He really scolded Verstappen in front of him. The British fans at the scene almost rushed up and pointed at Verstappen's nose and cursed him.

And at this time, Verstappen only posed a threat to Hamilton and did not surpass Hamilton in the standings. Many people even still firmly believe that this season's driver's world championship will fall on Hamilton.

Despite this, the audience was not polite to Verstappen at all.

In comparison, Qin Miao's secretly provocative behavior can be described as gentle.

At Verstappen's home stadium in the UK, he received boos and abuses. At Verstappen's home stadium, thinking about the orange smoke that would float in the audience after the game started, Qin Miao felt that this photo taken before the game A video cannot reverse the hostility of the audience towards himself and Hamilton.

Dutch car fans will still point their noses and curse when they should, and they may even curse more fiercely.

"Don't worry." Hamilton said, reaching out and patting Qin Miao's shoulder.

Qin Miao thought Hamilton would come up with a solution, but he didn't expect him to say very calmly: "As a driver, you always have to experience racing at your competitor's home court. It may be a little uncomfortable once or twice, but being scolded After a lot of it, you get used to it.”

Qin Miao: ...

Can you still get used to this shit?

……

On Wednesday, Qin Miao had no work and rested for a day in the hotel room. On Thursday, Qin Miao officially started working for a grand prix weekend.

However, when Qin Miao was about to go out on Thursday morning, Barber told her some news that she didn't know whether it was good or bad.

Bottas will join the Alfa Romeo Team with an annual salary of 1500 million next season and become the Alfa Romeo Team's number one driver next season. Kimi also announced that he will officially retire next season to experience life without F1 and racing. .

In other words, the addition of Bottas will replace Kimi's seat. At the same time, there are also rumors in the paddock that Giovinazzi will not continue to stay at Arrow next season.

As for the seat after Giovinazzi leaves, two people are very interested. One is Qin Miao's good brother Zhou Guanyu, and the other is Zhou Guanyu's teammate Drugovic.

In fact, the possibility of Zhou Guanyu getting this seat is higher. It can even be said that Zhou Guanyu is very likely to join Alfa Romeo next season.

The reason why I say this is that on the one hand, Zhou Guanyu's overall performance in F2 this season is better than that of his teammate Drugovic, and on the other hand, Zhou Guanyu has 2 million euros in sponsorship fees.

After this small combination of punches, Alfa Romeo has no reason to abandon Zhou Guanyu.

Of course, these are just speculations. After all, Arrow has not announced anything to the public, so no one can be sure.

Qin Miao has been planning to steal the old man's driver's championship during this period, and has not paid much attention to F2 matters.

After learning about this through Barber's mouth, I was a little surprised.

So Qin Miao was very curious and called Zhou Guanyu in front of Barber.

The call was connected after a while, and Zhou Guanyu's voice came over: "Hey Qin Miao? Why don't you have time to call me if you're not preparing for the game on Thursday?"

Qin Miao smiled and said, "You're taking a break from your busy schedule. I heard that you and A Luo have an argument? What's the matter? Let's talk about it."

Zhou Guanyu on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then said: "There is a confidentiality agreement, so we can't talk about it."

After hearing Zhou Guanyu's rejection, Qin Miao did not show any dissatisfaction or unhappiness. Instead, he smiled and said: "Then I congratulate you on getting rich! Just wait for next season, my brother will let you on the field." Let me give you a lesson on my buddy’s defensive abilities.”

Zhou Guanyu's face was full of confusion: "What did you say? Why can't I understand?"

Qin Miao smiled: "Okay, I just made a call to satisfy my curiosity. Now that my curiosity is satisfied, I'll hang up now. I still have things to do."

Zhou Guanyu, whose tone was full of doubts just now, said solemnly: "Okay, come on, come on, I will continue to pay attention to the game."

……

In fact, Zhou Guanyu's statement that there is a confidentiality agreement is clearly telling Qin Miao that he is already negotiating with A Luo and has a confidentiality agreement. There is a high probability that both parties have strong intentions and the negotiation process will be very fast. It is even possible that this He has signed a contract with Arrow and will enter F1 next season.

Qin Miao was naturally sincerely happy for his friend.

However, with Kimi's departure, the only veteran drivers still active in the paddock are Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel.

Many old car fans also lamented this.

The new generation is better than the old generation.

Qin Miao was also a little sentimental. After all, Qin Miao still liked Kimi.

But this is F1, people come and go, but the pursuit of the championship never changes.

The activities on Thursday were still the same, there was nothing much to say, but there was indeed a scene on Thursday that was just as Qin Miao expected.

When attending the fan meeting before the game, the fans at the scene greeted Qin Miao cordially and enthusiastically: "F**k you chinese! F**k you qin."

"You're a clown, you're worthless!"

Although it was very uncomfortable to be scolded, Qin Miao knew that if he acted angry, the Dutch fans at the scene who had opinions about him would become very happy.

So even though he heard people in the audience scolding him by name, Qin Miao's performance was the same as when Verstappen heard someone scolding him at the British Grand Prix. There were basically no excessive emotional fluctuations on his face. With a faint smile on your face, you do whatever the host wants you to do, and you are always interacting with the audience.

It was impossible to tell that he was being scolded.

Those who don't understand English think the audience is cheering for Qin Miao.

However, I still felt a little unhappy after being scolded. Fortunately, after Qin Miao's pre-match fan meeting, Qin Miao heard from Barber that Hamilton was also treated like him, and even Hamilton was treated more luxuriously than himself. too much.The abuse against Hamilton lasted for a full five minutes, and the entire pre-match fan meeting only lasted 5 minutes.

After this little episode, work after Thursday became uneventful.

Friday: The start of two practice sessions.

Qin Miao finally got rid of the continuous rain in Spa. The weather near Zandvoort in the Netherlands has been particularly good in the past week, and there is no hidden danger of rain.

The two practice sessions on Friday were all about collecting data, and nothing special happened, so I won’t go into details here.

Saturday: Day of third practice and qualifying.

The third practice was still about collecting data and confirming the tuning of the car. After confirming that everything was OK, Qin Miao was going to use a set of mid-to-high downforce tuning for qualifying and the race.

This week Mercedes only has a small upgrade to the front wing end plate. It does not improve the performance of the car much. It mainly focuses on sorting out the airflow of the car. This upgrade will discharge more dirty airflow to the rear of the car instead of the front wheels, thus Let these dirty airflows affect the following car.

But last week's high-downforce rear wing was just right for use in Zandvoort.

Zandvoort is also a very difficult track for overtaking, because Zandvoort has many curves, and these curves are extremely narrow, and most of the curves on the track have inclinations.

This makes it easier for the driver to corner, but also increases the possibility of the car spinning on the track, and also increases the probability of the safety car being dispatched.

And because the track is so close to the beach, there are often unexpected winds blowing during the race.

Qin Miao was hit by these winds once during a practice session, which caused him to lose weight. Fortunately, he was able to control the car without any accident.

I hope the wind on site during qualifying won’t intensify Qin Miao’s performance.

The three types of tires provided by Pirelli for this competition are the hardest, C3 to C1.

At the same time, Pirelli also proposed three pit stop strategies for all teams this week.

They are two strategies with two stops and one yellow and white strategy with one stop.

Because Zandvoort is a track with relatively high tire wear, I believe there will be many teams choosing to stop twice this week, but it is not impossible to finish the race with one stop for yellow and white.

There is something special about Qin Miao. Based on the tests of three practice games, the pit stop strategy prepared by the team for Qin Miao is to stop for white and red.

However, it does not rule out the possibility of the car encountering other situations on the track, so the team also reserved a new set of three types of tires for Qin Miao.

It is worth mentioning that last week’s Belgian race canceled the rule that the tires used in the Q2 stage of qualifying must continue to be used in the race.

But because it was raining in Belgium at the time, the drivers used semi-wet tires throughout Q2, so it couldn't be seen.

So from now on, the fastest lap of Q2 will be run on soft tires in qualifying, and white or yellow tires will be used in the race.

After three practice sessions, the team reserved a total of six sets of new tires for Qin Miao.

There are four sets of soft tires, one set of medium tires, and one set of hard tires.

Soon, qualifying begins.

Qin Miao got into the car, and Frankie explained to Qin Miao the status of the track at the podium.

"Today the air temperature is 18°C, the track temperature is 35°C, and the air humidity is 62%. These data are the same as during the third practice.

One thing you need to pay special attention to is that the wind is very strong today, with a west wind of 18 kilometers per hour, which is much stronger than during the third practice, so be careful when exiting corners in T3 because the downforce caused by the crosswind is lost, and in T11 You can also brake a little later appropriately. You can go on the track to feel this for yourself during the tire warm-up lap. "

"Okay, received." Qin Miao responded, and then began to wait for the countdown of qualifying to end.

At this time, the director was also switching the camera in a boring way, showing the audience the cars and drivers.

Soon, the camera came to Arrow's P room.

Then everyone saw No. 88 Kubica appearing in Arrow's car.

The reason why Kubika appeared in Kimi's car is because Kimi, who just announced that he will retire after the end of this season, was diagnosed with the new crown virus. Now he is unable to compete, so the qualifying and race stages of this game It's all up to Kubica.

Because the Zandvoort track is relatively narrow, even if the driver in front deliberately gives way to the driver behind, it is still very thrilling to run on the Zandvoort track, which is only large enough for four cars to pass side by side.

So at this time, the team’s release time is particularly important.

Some teams even deliberately release their drivers to run during periods when no one is running.

Of course, this cannot be a Mercedes. The strategy team of the Mercedes team is not like that of Ferrari, and the car release process in the qualifying stage is still somewhat good.

Although Qin Miao pushed hard on the first flying lap of Q1, he used a set of soft tires that had been simulated in qualifying during the practice session. Therefore, after completing his first flying lap, his results were not particularly outstanding. , only ranked tenth.

In fact, the time gap between Qin Miao and the first-placed Verstappen is only 0.8 seconds, but the qualifying speed gap between drivers in dry conditions is very small.

Therefore, Qin Miao's ranking after finishing the first lap was not very ideal.

Qin Miao's fans burst into tears after seeing Qin Miao's Q1 results: [Back!That familiar feeling of cerebral infarction is back! 】

【started again】

[I don’t know where I learned this bad habit. Look at Hamilton and Verstappen. Although they also like to hide things, they don’t raise the blood pressure of car fans]

[Hamilton and Verstappen hide things in their pockets, but Qin Miao hides things in chrysanthemums]

【Too deep】

[How I hope I can understand mathematics in seconds next time]

[Can you drive on this broken road? 】

[Ever since I became a fan of Qin Miao, I have to always have a quick-acting heart-saving pill to watch the qualifying matches, otherwise I will leave as soon as I say it]

[Damn it, watching a ranking match is scarier than watching a ghost movie] (End of this chapter)