How did I become an F1 driver?

On the other hand, Qin Miao barely undercut Russell, but then Qin Miao had to face Sainz in front.

Although Sainz and Qin Miao did not have a direct conflict in points like Hamilton and Verstappen.

But there is some unresolved conflict between the two about the Ferrari seat.

So when Sainz found Qin Miao appearing behind him, he never thought about giving up his position so easily.

Although Ferrari's car this year is indeed not as good as your Mercedes-Benz W12, I'm sorry if I don't cause you any trouble, Qin Miao. After I joined Ferrari this season, I was sent a cordial "greeting" by Ferrari fans.

Then Qin Miao felt the pressure Sainz put on him.

Sainz had already started to charge the battery of his car before Qin Miao came to a threatening position behind him. When Qin Miao passed Russell and came behind Sainz, Sainz Suddenly started to discharge.

Qin Miao didn't have much power when he came out of the pit area. He also needed power if he wanted to follow Hamilton on the train. After all, it is difficult to follow the car this season. Without power, he would easily be thrown out of the DRS by the car in front. district.

When he just overtook Russell, Qin Miao also used up all the limited power in his racing battery. For a while, there was really nothing he could do against Sainz.

Therefore, when Qin Miao came behind Sainz, he could only barely stay about 2 seconds behind Sainz, maintaining the time gap between himself and Sainz.

At this time, Qin Miao was charging his battery while putting pressure on Sainz, and he was also looking forward to Sainz's possible mistakes.

On lap 25, Qin Miao was still trapped behind Sainz due to battery issues and was unable to overtake in a short time.

Hamilton, who had run 24 laps on the medium tire, even turned purple on the track.

1 minute 39 seconds 908.

The pace of other people during this time period was basically around 1 minute and 40 seconds.

It should be said that he is worthy of being a seven-time champion. He is not much worse than Qin Miao in protecting his tires seriously.

On the other side, although Norris in front of Hamilton was being eroded by Hamilton little by little on the advantage he had established not long ago, there was still an 11-second gap between the two because of Russell.

So at this time, Norris just felt the pressure, but the pressure was not enough to make Norris lose his position.

On lap 28, Qin Miao, who had charged 80% of the car's battery, stopped joking with Sainz in front of him.

It’s the start straight after T18 again.

Although your Ferrari engine is indeed powerful, if you take out DRS, ERS, and rich mode and your wake, how should you deal with it?

Sainz: ...

Sainz discovered Qin Miao's terrifying closing rate and didn't even defend. He just ran his own pace on his own lane.

Qin Miao took the inside shot of Sainz after passing T1, and then completely overtook Sainz at the exit of the pit area. After passing Sainz, Qin Miao quickly returned to the normal driving line.

By the time Qin Miao reached the braking point of T2, he had already opened up a car body gap behind Sainz.

Sainz looked at the back of Qin Miao's car and could only say helplessly in the team TR: "I'm sorry everyone, the absolute speed of the Mercedes car is too fast."

Sainz was not even willing to praise Qin Miao's racing skills, but instead cited the performance of the Mercedes car.

But no matter what, after surpassing Sainz, Qin Miao's ranking reached tenth.

The driver in front of Qin Miao also changed to Gasly, and the difference between him and Gasly at this time was 3 seconds.

I looked at my battery level at this time, it was 21%.

Qin Miao thought for a moment and charged the car's battery while chasing Gasly. After catching up with Gasly, the battery was almost enough to launch an attack.

Moreover, Gasly was still in a state of not having entered the pits at this time, and Qin Miao was confident that he could surpass his opponent even though the battery was not that sufficient.

However, as Gasly is a Toro Rosso driver, he should not take advantage of the situation and should defend Qin Miao as much as possible within his capabilities.

Of course, the top priority is to catch up with Gasly in front, and then we can talk about offense and defense.

But Qin Miao did have a good idea. When Qin Miao caught up with Sainz, Marco took out his mobile phone and called the racing director of Toro Rosso.

After Qin Miao passed Sainz, Marco reappeared in the P room of the Red Bull Racing Team as if nothing was wrong.

Not long after, Toro Rosso gave Gasly a team order to do their best to defend Qin Miao.

On the same lap, Hamilton finally chose to pit.

Although his speed has always been maintained well, the advantage established by Russell for Norris was too great. Until now, the time gap between Hamilton and Norris has remained at 11 seconds.

Seeing that he could no longer catch up with Norris in front of him with this old set of medium tires, Hamilton decisively chose to pit and replace with new hard tires, naturally with the intention of undercutting Norris.

At the same time, Verstappen also chose to pit.

Hamilton and Verstappen pitted almost in tandem.

However, unlike Hamilton's change of medium tires to hard tires, Verstappen changed the hard tires to medium tires.

For Hamilton, there was no problem with his pit stop, it was just a regular pit stop.

But for Verstappen, it was too early to pit on the white tires on his car.

You must know that there are still 34 laps left before the end of the race. Although it may rain at the end of the race, it is too early for Verstappen to pit and change to medium tires at this time.

I believe that the later in the race, Verstappen's tires will struggle more and his speed will become slower and slower.

Of course, Red Bull’s approach is not incomprehensible.

Those with bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes.

If Verstappen, who started at the back of the team, had a chance, he would have to chase Hamilton fiercely. At worst, the rain would be heavier than expected in the final stage.

I didn’t have many things on hand, so I wasn’t afraid of playing stud with someone like Hamilton who wore shoes.

The contributions and benefits of both parties are simply not proportional.

After Hamilton came out, he fell behind Sainz, and Verstappen fell behind Russell.

There is Ricardo and Russell between the two.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao has already appeared in front of Hamilton at this time.

This time the Mercedes team's strategy team did not bury Qin Miao, he even directly overcut his teammates.

But the difference is that Hamilton has a greater tire advantage than Ziens. If Qin Miao is not fast enough, I believe Hamilton will catch up again soon.

Whether the team can seize the conditions and opportunities created by the team for Qin Miao depends on Qin Miao himself.

On lap 29, Verstappen quickly killed Russell in front of him and began to chase Ricciardo in front.

On lap 30, McLaren finally asked Norris to pit for tire changes.

Naturally, they were replaced with hard tires.

This pit stop lasted 2.9 seconds for tire change. Although it was a bit slow, considering the time advantage Norris had achieved previously, this time loss can only be said to be negligible.

When Norris came out, he was in front of Gasly and behind Leclerc.

At this time, including Gasly, the four drivers in front of Norris were all drivers using hard tires, and none of them had ever pitted.

In other words, Norris still maintains his first position at this time.

In addition, Norris has more than six seconds of clean air in front of him, and Gasly behind him can also block Norris's pursuit of Qin Miao and Hamilton to a certain extent.

And Norris is also 6 seconds behind Gasly.

In other words, even if Qin Miao kills Gasly and starts chasing Norris, Norris will not worry about Qin Miao catching up with him in the short term.

Moreover, during the time when Qin Miao was chasing him, Hamilton behind Qin Miao probably got rid of the shackles of other drivers and began to chase Qin Miao.

If Qin Miao is replaced by Bottas at this time, McLaren will still be a little worried.

Because everyone knows that Bottas is Hamilton's wingman and Mercedes' No. 2 driver.

If Hamilton catches up with Bottas at this time, the Mercedes team will definitely ask Bottas to give up his position, giving Hamilton enough space to chase Norris in front.

Then the pressure will come to Norris.

But things are different now.

Although Hamilton is still at the end of his prime, Hamilton is already 36 and he is no longer young.

Qin Miao is only 19 this year. Qin Miao, who is 17 years younger than Hamilton, is as talented as Hamilton back then.

Even Qin Miao is still ahead of his seven-time champion teammate Hamilton in the standings at this time.

Although there is a high probability that the appearance of these two drivers means that the dominance of the Mercedes dynasty may continue and last for many years.

But this also gave rise to another problem. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and it is inevitable that there will be conflicts of interest between the two drivers on the track.

At this time, the Mercedes-Benz team had no way to deflect.

After all, both drivers are too important to them, one is the present and the other is the future.Therefore, Mercedes-Benz can only let the two drivers decide the winner on the field. All they can do is pray silently that these two people will not get on top when fighting.

The performance of the cars driven by the two top drivers is still the same. It is conceivable that there is no way for these two to determine the winner in a short period of time.

And this is undoubtedly great news for McLaren and Norris.

On the 31st lap, Qin Miao originally thought that it would take at least 3 laps from catching up with Gasly to taking action against Gasly.

After that, coupled with Gasly's vigorous resistance, he had to pass Gasly around lap 32 or 33.

It's just that he overestimated Gasly's ability to protect tires. Gasly, who had never stopped to change tires, really wanted to defend Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao stuck behind Gasly after exiting the corner from T18. Qin Miao's exit speed was obviously faster than Gasly. Then on the straightaway, Qin Miao didn't even enter the DRS zone, so he leaned against Gasly. The absolute speed surpassed Gasly from the outside.

Moreover, when Qin Miao surpassed Gasly, he was just before the DRS monitoring point of T1, so after arriving at T1, Qin Miao still had additional DRS to use.

By the time Qin Miao reached the braking point of T2, he had already opened up a huge time gap of more than 0.4 with Gasly behind him.

It's really not that Gasly didn't work hard, but that Qin Miao's overtaking this time was too fair and honest, and it was pure speed without any skills.

After passing Gasly, Qin Miao came to fifth place. Norris was 6 seconds ahead. Except for Norris, the other drivers in front were all drivers who had never pitted before, so they are not considered here.

After surpassing Gasly this time, Qin Miao basically did not have any fight with Gasly, so there was no loss in speed, and the gap between Qin Miao and Norris remained unchanged.

When he came behind Norris, Qin Miao immediately asked among the TRs of the team: "How does my speed compare to Norris?"

There was silence on the TR end for a while, and then Frankie replied: "Your lap time is about the same as Norris's. You are 0.1 second faster than Norris per lap. Please use more speed if you can."

"receive."

After answering Franky, Qin Miao began to gather his energy and try his best to run his lap time.

However, what Qin Miao, who was obsessed with chasing Lloris, did not notice that Sainz behind him was overtaken by Hamilton on the 30th lap.

And after Qin Miao passed Gasly, Hamilton followed closely and started to attack Gasly.

Before the 32nd lap, Hamilton used the same method as Qin Miao to overtake Gasly in the DRS area between T10 and T13, and copied Gasly again.

Gasly, who was powerless against Qin Miao, was equally powerless against Hamilton.

Gasly: ​​"You are sick, both of you."

After Hamilton passed Gasly, the time gap between him and Qin Miao was only 2 seconds.

Unlike the two Mercedes drivers who were cutting melons and vegetables at the front, Verstappen at the back was basically locked up by Ricciardo.

What stands out is that no one can do anything if the water in the well does not interfere with the water in the river.

On the 34th lap, Qin Miao, who was running his own pace in front, was finally caught up by his teammate Hamilton.

However, after these two laps, Qin Miao actually chased Norris for one second. At this time, the time gap between the two was only 5 seconds.

It took Hamilton three laps to catch up to the DRS area behind Qin Miao, which shows that Qin Miao's speed is not slow either.

When Hamilton chased into the DRS area behind Qin Miao and began to frequently put pressure on Qin Miao from behind, the director interestingly switched the TV broadcast to the P room of the Mercedes-Benz team, and the camera focused on Aimed at Toto Wolfe's face.

At this time, Toto was still as usual, with his arms folded across his chest, leaning on his position, staring at the surveillance screen in front of him.

However, Toto's face did not show the emotion that the audience expected. At this time, Toto looked very calm, as if the two drivers about to fight on the field were not drivers of his own team.

But no one knew what Toto was thinking specifically at this time.

Strictly speaking, this is actually the first time Qin Miao has had a head-on confrontation with his teammate Hamilton on the field.

In the past, either Qin Miao or Hamilton was far ahead, or Qin Miao took the initiative and gave up his position directly.

But today, judging from the actions of Qin Miao and Hamilton, neither of them wanted to give up their positions like this.

Then of course, on the 35th lap, the two men started fighting.

At the braking point of T17, Hamilton braked late and was 0.5 seconds behind Qin Miao's car when exiting the corner. If nothing unexpected happened after exiting the next corner, Hamilton could rely on the 0.5 seconds between himself and Qin Miao. The gap was enough to overtake Qin Miao on the next straightaway.

After all, Hamilton will have both DRS and wake support by then, and as expected, Hamilton will take a wider exit route when exiting the corner of the T18.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Qin Miao's rear wheel skidded slightly when exiting T17. This was obviously because he was anxious about accelerating when exiting the corner.

Although Qin Miao quickly counterattacked and rescued his car that was about to lose control, this move was very fatal in defense.

So much so that Hamilton directly forced his way into the inside line of Qin Miao's car.

After exiting the corner, he directly used his inside advantage to surpass Qin Miao.

The audience at the scene was even more shocked when they saw this scene.

When the three commentators from Five Star Sports saw this scene, they all held their heads in their hands in disbelief.

Because in their impression, what really defies Qin Miao is his defensive ability.

But such a talented driver who is like a defensive master in their hearts would actually make such a low-level mistake when facing Hamilton.

"It shouldn't be. With Qin Miao's ability and mentality, there is no reason for him to make such a low-level mistake in a place like this." Brother Bing said this directly and clearly.

"Based on Qin Miao's past performance, he really shouldn't have made such a mistake."

The other two commentators also nodded in agreement.

But before the two of them could express their opinions more, the situation on the field changed again.

Although Qin Miao was passed by Hamilton from the inside when he entered T18.

But when Hamilton passed Qin Miao, he took the inside route, so Hamilton's route out of T17 was not very good, and Qin Miao only had a rear wheel slip, which was not a big mistake. There was a loss of speed, but not much.

When exiting T17, it was only a little slower than Hamilton who temporarily changed his exit route.

So when the two entered T18 one after another, the time gap between the two only remained at about 0.8 seconds.

Then the two entered the main straight and began to accelerate with all their strength.

In the process, everyone unexpectedly discovered that after Qin Miao made a mistake and was overtaken by Hamilton, instead of being quickly pulled away by Hamilton, Qin Miao began to gradually get closer to Hamilton.

After passing T1, he relied on the wake to arrive 0.5 seconds behind Hamilton.

After passing T1, Qin Miao successfully turned on the DRS of his car.

With the dual support of wake and DRS, Qin Miao's speed was at least 15 kilometers per hour faster than Hamilton.

Hamilton sensed something was wrong when he discovered Qin Miao's mistake.

Now looking at Qin Miao approaching him quickly in his rearview mirror, Hamilton finally understood why Qin Miao, who is known for his defensive ability and good stability, made that low-level mistake at that time.

Although Hamilton had never heard of the idiom "retreat in order to advance", he also guessed Qin Miao's intention.

However, the lead was already in his hands, and there was no way Hamilton would give it back again.

Therefore, facing Qin Miao who was coming towards him with great momentum, Hamilton kept staring at the distance between Qin Miao and himself, and did not immediately go to defend inside.

When Qin Miao came about 0.2 seconds behind Hamilton and prepared to tap the inside line, Hamilton took advantage of the fact that the two cars had not reached the braking point at this time and directly changed lanes towards the inside line with Qin Miao at the same rhythm.

After seeing this scene, Qin Miao naturally continued to take direction, while Hamilton kept pressing Qin Miao's position.

But in the end, Qin Miao was pushed to the edge of the track, leaving a certain position for Qin Miao.

After all, the edge of the Sochi track is a protective wall, not a normal open track grassland, otherwise Hamilton would have more room to suppress Qin Miao.

Also because a certain amount of space was left for Qin Miao, Qin Miao's speed advantage was able to be used.

In the end, Qin Miao still tapped Hamilton's inside line, and Hamilton knew that Qin Miao's layout was successful after he discovered that Qin Miao inserted his inside line.

As they have just arrived at the exit of the pit area, Qin Miao, who is relatively faster, will overtake him before the braking point of T2.

So Hamilton returned to his normal driving lane in the next section, and Qin Miao also passed him before the braking point of T2, just as Hamilton expected.

Hamilton did not feel upset because of the failure of an attack. To be honest, this was the first time Hamilton had experienced Qin Miao's defensive method. This kind of driver who likes to plan in advance is rare.

Not only did Hamilton not feel that a failed attack was anything to be upset about, he actually became a little excited.

And Qin Miao also felt a lot of pressure from Hamilton.

How the hell could this bitch catch up so quickly?
Just when the two drivers were each thinking about what defensive routine or offensive tactics they should use for the next attack/defense.

Their TRs rang together, and Toto's voice reached their ears: "Pay attention to safety, you two should know what is most important to the team in this game."

Hearing Toto's words, both Qin Miao and Hamilton were stunned. Although this could not be regarded as a team instruction, it also gave the two people who were ready to take out real things to fight with each other a bottom line in their hearts, that is, there should be no Too dangerous action.

This can be regarded as a slight cooling down of the two guys who were about to get fired up. (End of chapter)