How did I become an F1 driver?

However, as mentioned before, the priority in qualifying is to be safe. Qin Miao's result was also because he was using old soft tires.

So after Qin Miao used a brand new set of soft tires on the second flying lap, Qin Miao's performance immediately improved.

After the second flying lap of Q1, Qin Miao came to the first place with a time of 1 minute, 09 seconds and 591 seconds.

Qin Miao's fans originally complained because Qin Miao's first flying lap in Q1 was a bit slow and he was already pushed to the safety line of Q1.

After suddenly seeing Qin Miao's results, many people slowly put a question mark on their heads.

【? 】

[Broken, Qin Miao Q1 is getting up soon! 】

[You are not Qin Miao!who are you? 】

【quick! 】

[Qin Miao finally understands how to be considerate of car fans. Every time I see him running lazily in Q1Q2, my heart beats.]

……

Although Qin Miao's Q1 result was quickly squeezed out, Qin Miao finally advanced to eighth place without any surprises.

It is worth mentioning that in this race, Perez was blocked by slow cars several times when he came out to run because the team released the car at the wrong time.

The last flying lap failed to produce a valid result, so in the end Perez unfortunately stopped in Q1.

The race will start at No. 16.

It is also a pity.

Of course, this feeling is limited to Red Bull fans and the staff of Perez's team.

Mercedes was almost crazy with joy after knowing that Perez stopped in Q1. Mercedes will be able to play a fair two-on-one match tomorrow in the race. Everyone feels that after this game, Mercedes is very likely to win at Vesta. Pan's Dutch home court brought him down.

During the break between Q1 and Q2, Toto began to ask Qin Miao if he would consider starting the race with medium tires tomorrow.

What?Other riders will most likely start on medium tires, so why do you still ask Qin Miao this?

Is Qin Miao's neutral fetus a neutral fetus?That's a hard tire with the grip of a medium tire.

The team's race strategy for Qin Miao in this race was originally the same as Hamilton's starting on soft tires.

The difference is that Hamilton needs to stop twice, while Qin Miao only needs to stop once.

Toto asked Qin Miao to consider starting with yellow tires, so naturally he had the idea of ​​​​letting Qin Miao help Hamilton stop Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao must have run a long distance before pitting after starting on yellow tires.

At this time, Qin Miao's neutral tire is in a state of gradual decline, and it is very likely that Verstappen will appear behind Qin Miao after entering the station once.

This approach is in the overall interest of the team and will not damage Qin Miao's speed too much. It even retains the possibility of Qin Miao winning the championship.

But this approach was still a bit unfair to Qin Miao, so when Toto talked to Qin Miao about this matter, he used a discussion tone, and Hamilton also chose to avoid it at this time.

When Toto and Qin Miao talked about this matter, it was really inappropriate for him, the ultimate beneficiary, to be present.But it was clear that Toto and Hamilton were angry over this incident.

After all, it’s not a big deal for you, a first-year No. [-] driver, to be on top of the team’s seven-time champion in the championship, right?

Of course, Qin Miao has been in the paddock for half a year and has learned more or less to assess the situation.

Although Toto seems to be consulting with himself, Mercedes' main goal is to ensure that Hamilton wins the championship this season.

Qin Miao's position in the team at this time was entirely supported by Qin Miao's own excellent driving skills, the skyrocketing sales of Mercedes-Benz cars in the Chinese market, and the sponsorship of Mercedes-Benz by Yili behind him.

The power behind Qin Miao is indeed strong enough, but compared with the team's desire to create an unprecedented eight-time champion Hamilton, the power behind Qin Miao is obviously not enough.

After all, there are already two seven-time champions in the history of F1, but eight-time champions do not exist. The century of making history and leaving their own names in the history of F1 is what everyone in the entire Mercedes team is looking forward to. Yes, just like those people in ancient times who wanted to leave a name in history, the attraction of a name in history is extremely terrifying.

This is the highest need in Maslow's need theory, self-actualization need.

So even if the chairman of the Daimler Group comes over, he has to weigh whether his weight is enough to make the Mercedes team change its mind about leaving a name in the history of F1.

Although Qin Miao rejected Toto's request at this time and Toto would not say anything, there was bound to be a rift between himself and Hamilton.

Although Qin Miao had defeated his teammate Hamilton on other tracks before this game, most of them were done by chance, which made people feel that Qin Miao had no intention of challenging Hamilton subjectively.

Qin Miao secretly wanted to pull Hamilton down, which was completely different from his openly expressing in front of Toto that he wanted to risk his life with Hamilton.

So when faced with Toto's request, Qin Miao agreed without even thinking about it.

Isn’t it just running long distances with medium tires?Soft tires later in the race?It can be done!I know my brother very well!
However, after actually agreeing to Toto's request, Qin Miao still felt a little uncomfortable. After all, those who can become F1 drivers are only one-in-a-million geniuses, and basically all of them are arrogant people. Toto's These words clearly told Qin Miao that you are not as good as your teammates, so you have to make sacrifices for your teammates.

But there is no way, if you want to gain a foothold in this paddock, you have to suffer these grievances.

Become a grandson first and then a father.

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It is worth mentioning that during a flying lap in Q2, Russell, who performed very well in last week's race and this week's Q1 race, had an accident on the track.

When cornering at high speed, the right front wheel of Russell's car hit the road shoulder, which eventually caused the right front wheel of Russell's car to lose grip and spin, and even directly triggered a red flag on the track.

Fortunately, Russell's car did not have any major problems, and it was repaired during the red flag period. On the first flying lap of Q2 after the red flag ended, Russell returned to the track, but his speed was obviously not as fast as last week and Q1. It's almost time.

It felt like his energy after defeating Qin Miao last week was directly knocked out of him.

At the same time, another Williams driver Latifi also had the same problem as Russell, and the two drivers even had the problem in the same place.

Latifi was not as lucky as his teammates. Russell's collision was caused by the car gently grazing the barrier, which was no big deal. However, he was directly stuck on the barrier, and the suspension on one side of the car was completely broken. , and this time the red flag on the track was knocked out again.

Because when Latifi crashed, there was only a little over 2 minute left before Q1 stopped the clock.

This time is not enough for the Q2 drivers to come out of the pit area and go on the track to run a warm-up lap and then cross the line for the final flying lap.

So the Q2 results were fixed at the moment Latifi crashed. (End of chapter)