How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 287 290: The Perfect Start

After a few words of silence, Qin Miao was sure that the photo was of good resolution. He waved to Leclerc and said, "The photo is for giving away. When the time comes, you can sign it for me. I'll leave if I have anything else to do." ”

Seeing Qin Miao preparing to leave, Leclerc also put away his doubts: "Okay, just print out the photo and bring it to me. I look forward to your performance in this game."

"Thank you, Le Laosi, for your blessing." Qin Miao gave Leclerc a perfunctory hand.

Whether it was his words or actions, Leclerc could see Qin Miao's perfunctory attitude, so he laughed and cursed: "Shut up!"

"Hahaha~"

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On the way back to the motorcade, Qin Miao sent the photo he took to a staff member in the marketing department with whom Qin Miao was relatively familiar, and asked him to make the photo into a photo of the highest standard and then print it out. to myself before the end of the main race at the United States Grand Prix.

Qin Miao's request is actually not difficult, but it is just a bit ultra vires. After all, Qin Miao usually only has a cooperative relationship with the marketing department, and he has no power to order the employees of the marketing department to do anything.

Although foreign countries are not a humane society, sometimes the driver's face is relatively easy to use.

So Qin Miao had just arrived at the team's home when the other party brought the photo over.

But at this time, Qin Miao was making final preparations before the start of the game. It was impossible to go to Leclerc with this photo and ask for his autograph.

Not only did Leclerc have no time, Qin Miao also didn't have time.

So after thanking him, he handed the photo to Barber and said: "Remind me after the game to take this photo to Leclerc for his autograph. I want to take it as a gift."

Barber nodded and put the photo away, and then Qin Miao continued to prepare for the game.

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Listening to the hot dance songs of the cheerleaders on the track, Qin Miao had already put on her racing suit and came to the team's P room.

After saying hello to his crew members, Qin Miao entered the car and performed the final routine inspection before the start of the race.

At 3 o'clock in the morning domestic time, Five Star Sports.

"Hello, viewers, welcome to the 2021 Formula One Grand Prix USA brought to you by Five Star Sports..."

Along with the pleasant voice of commentator Li Bao, Five Star Sports also started live broadcast of this game.

The three commentators from the qualifying stage are still responsible for commentating this game today. They are Li Bao, Zhou Haoran, and Wang Yang.

During the period before the start of the game, the warm-up topic of the three commentators in the live broadcast room mainly revolved around how many places Qin Miao could chase in this game.

After all, there are lessons learned from the Monaco game. All Qin Miao's fans know that Qin Miao is very talented in terms of offensive ability and pursuit ability. In addition, Qin Miao is driving a Mercedes car.

Not only them, but all the viewers watching this game are looking forward to Qin Miao's performance in today's game.

At the same time, they are also discussing how the points gap between Qin Miao, Hamilton and Verstappen will look after this game.

After all, Qin Miao is a Chinese driver, and as commentators, they naturally think from Qin Miao's point of view, and the same is true when watching the game.

So when chatting, I tended to think that Qin Miao could get good results in this game.

Soon, the F1 theme song and the opening credits of the 2021 season began to play.

As the credits finished playing, the broadcast screen came to the game.

The first shot of the broadcast was given to Qin Miao, who started at No. 17.

At this time, the crew next to Qin Miao's racing car was conducting final inspections, and the four brand-new intermediate tires had been wrapped in tire warming blankets.

When the camera came over, you could still see Qin Miao sitting in the cockpit of his racing car, closing his eyes and relaxing.

Even Qin Miao's helmet was tilted inside the cockpit, looking particularly relaxed.

"The one who appears in the camera is our Chinese driver, Qin Miao." Before every grand prix starts, as long as there is a shot of Qin Miao, Five Star Sports will introduce it to the audience.

This has become their habit.

Although many people are already aware of Qin Miao's existence, because Qin Miao's performance abroad is getting better and better, his domestic influence is also increasing day by day along with his performance. Almost every live broadcast, Five Star Sports will There is a new audience coming in.

Naturally, the commentators of Five Star Sports need to answer the question that the new viewers are most concerned about, that is, who is Qin Miao.

At this time, the camera just switched to Qin Miao's eyes, giving a close-up.

Qin Miao seemed to feel something, and her eyelids that were still drooping opened.

His eyes were looking right into the camera.

Then Qin Miao blinked at the camera.

However, Qin Miao will not be seen much after that. In today's game, Qin Miao will definitely put on an overtaking show for all the fans who like him.

But the battle between Hamilton and Verstappen ahead is also one of the highlights of today's game.

Many Qin Miao fans even expect that Qin Miao can challenge the positions of Verstappen and Hamilton in this game.

After all, given the current incompatibility between Verstappen and Hamilton, it is really possible for Qin Miao to catch up when they get into a fight.

Soon, staff on both sides of the track evacuated.

After receiving the instruction, Qin Miao also put on the protective patches on his helmet and goggles.

The tire warm-up lap is about to begin.

As the two green lights came on, Verstappen took the lead in using his grid.

After that, the cars behind him followed one after another, and Qin Miao was no exception.

After a simple warm-up lap, the riders stopped at their respective positions one by one.

Qin Miao adjusted the racing mode to the starting mode and stopped exactly on his starting grid.

Because he started from the end of the team, Qin Miao stopped as hard as possible in his position in order to lower the tire temperature of the people in front.

If possible, Qin Miao hoped that the people in front would start fighting at the beginning, giving him enough time to pursue them.

Of course, Qin Miao just thought this way. He also knew that based on the racing skills and racing IQ of these people, basically no one would do it rashly in the initial stage.

Even if you want to take action, it will only happen if the driver in front makes a mistake, or if you start off particularly well.

However, as the five red lights in the distance gradually lit up, the somewhat messy thoughts in Qin Miao's mind disappeared.Taking a deep breath, squinting his eyes and staring at the five red lights in the distance, Qin Miao began to increase the speed of his engine.

At this moment, Qin Miao felt that time had slowed down. He could even hear his own heartbeat very clearly, but Qin Miao treated the heartbeat as noise and blocked it out.

At this time, he directly lost his hearing, and all his senses were left with vision and the five indicator lights in the distance.

All five red lights came on and then went out in an instant.

Qin Miao suddenly released the clutch button, and the car started instantly!

Qin Miao's car ejected and started immediately.

Starting at the back of the team is not as leisurely as when Qin Miao started at the front of the team. At this time, Qin Miao not only has to pay attention to the position of the drivers and vehicles in front, but also be careful about car accidents ahead and avoid them after the car accident.

You should also devote some of your attention to looking behind you to prevent someone from starting too fast and knocking you out.

After all, behind him are Alonso, who started very sharply, and Russell.

Both of these drivers are very good at the starting stage. If they don't want to lose the leading position they finally won in the qualifying stage at the starting stage, it is crucial whether Qin Miao starts well this time.

After the start, Qin Miao's speed was good, but Alonso, who had always started well, failed to get up well. Of course, it is also possible that the seniors knew that they did not want to get many positions at the end of the team at the start, but only wanted to finish the start without any surprises. .

Therefore, the elderly deliberately did not run too fast at the beginning.

After a successful start, Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and came to the braking point of T1 wheel-to-wheel with Mazeping, who was in front of him on the left.

Whether it was Qin Miao or Ma Zeping, neither of them thought that one day they would be able to turn wheel-to-wheel.

Ma Zeping had no intention of blocking Qin Miao, but he also did not give up the inside line.

Qin Miao simply went to the outside line.

The outside line of T1 at Circuit of the Americas is very spacious. When Qin Miao came to the outside line and was about to enter the corner, looking at the scene of four cars on the left entering the corner side by side, Qin Miao honestly chose to take his foot off the accelerator. To blend.

It is worth mentioning that in the middle of the corner of T1, Latifi pushed Stroll, who had not started to get up, and made him spin around.

Therefore, all the cars behind these two drivers were affected by the collision and slowed down.

On the contrary, Qin Miao, who ran to the outside line, was not greatly affected by this.

After exiting the corner, the driver in front of Qin Miao became Russell.

That's right, Russell started at No. 20.

Sometimes you have to admire Russell's ability to find opportunities. Starting from the back of the team, he just has the advantage of being inside.

When other drivers were blocked on the track due to the car accident in T1, he forced his way in from the innermost corner and overtook them at a speed faster than all other drivers taking the outside lane.

To be honest, Qin Miao was stunned when he returned to the normal driving lane and saw a Williams in front of him.

When did this guy come up?

The section of road after exiting T1 is full of continuous curves, and there is basically no place for overtaking on this section of road.

So Qin Miao followed Russell while paying attention to Vettel and Alonso behind him.

That's right, now from No. 12 to No. 15, the same four guys who were punished to start at the back of the team after changing the engine.

Looking at the two people appearing behind him, Qin Miao could only shake his head and sigh, these veterans have really rich competition experience.

Qin Miao's ranking has not changed since then.

However, for Qin Miao, reaching four positions directly from the start was an achievement that he could not have imagined before the start of this game. Now he could not be more satisfied.

"Well done Qin Miao, now you are ranked No. 13, continue to maintain the rhythm and strive to be in the top three before the end of the game. We believe in you." After the start was over and the game was on track, Frankie passed the team TR immediately. Sending encouragement to Qin Miao.

"Copy that, watch my performance."

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At this time, the P room of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team was filled with joy.

Toto clenched his fist hard after the start and celebrated.

The reason why Toto is so happy is that on the one hand, Qin Miao's start was really good and he went directly to the fourth position, and on the other hand, it is because Hamilton's start was also perfect.

At the start, Hamilton was faster than Verstappen in pole position.

In addition, the starting position of Circuit of the Americas is not very friendly to the pole sitter.

Turn T1 is a left turn and the pole sitter starts on the right side of the track.

This means that as long as the second-placed driver is half a car behind the pole-sitter at the start, the second-placed driver can easily pass T1 and steal the lead from the pole-sitter. Location.

Hamilton obviously started well this time, although Verstappen noticed that Hamilton had a good start and then turned to the left to compress Hamilton's line.

But at this time, the two were already side by side, and Verstappen's move did not have a very good effect except pushing Hamilton to the dirty side of the edge of the track.

During the braking phase, Hamilton braked even earlier than Verstappen, but because Hamilton stood on the inside line, he exited the corner faster than Verstappen. When he exited the corner and reached the shoulder at the edge of the track, Hamilton was even faster. It directly pushed Verstappen off the track.

Of course, Verstappen did not lose a lot of speed after being squeezed out of the track. Rather than saying that he was squeezed out, it is better to say that he took the initiative to avoid danger.

When he returned to the track after T1, Verstappen did not lose position.

However, after exiting the track, the grip of the paint surface outside the track is not as strong as the asphalt on the track.

So when Verstappen returned to the track, he faced front wheel to rear wheel with his teammate Perez, Verstappen in front and Perez in the back.

This is a position where the two can fight. As long as Perez is determined enough, it is not impossible for him to imitate Hamilton and push Verstappen off the track.

But there is really no conflict of interest between Perez and Verstappen at this time.

Even if Perez wins the championship and fastest lap in every race throughout the next season, he will not be able to catch up with Verstappen's points at the end of the season.

In addition, Perez knows that if he and Verstappen get into a fight, the team will definitely give him team instructions.

So after following Verstappen through two corners, Perez actively chose to slow down and let Verstappen pass.

At this point, there was a little mishap at the start, but it was generally smooth, and the race officially started.

(End of this chapter)