How did I become an F1 driver?

After the race, when the top three drivers went to the track to receive their awards for interviews, the cheers continued.

The commentators of Five Star Sports also felt a little complicated after watching this game.

On the one hand, they are happy that in this game, the Mercedes team rarely lost all their previous competitiveness.

As strong as Hamilton, he couldn't make a difference in front of Verstappen. He could only watch as Verstappen gradually widened the gap between him and himself.

Such an exciting game, as well as the increasingly confusing results, are extremely exciting for the commentators and the audience.

On the other hand, due to the accident in the starting stage, Qin Miao's points advantage, which had been in the lead, was further reduced.

He is about to fall out of the top spot in the driver standings.

Although they all know in their hearts that Qin Miao, as a first-year driver, has a chance of winning the driver's championship in the first year of his career, but it is definitely not high.

But they still have unrealistic illusions about this. What if?
But this accident poured cold water on their inner fantasies. Although Qin Miao's subsequent pursuit was not unexciting, Qin Miao's loss in ranking and points was real.

However, as commentators, although they were a little uncomfortable with Qin Miao's accident on the field, they still needed to fulfill their duties as commentators after the game.

"In any case, let us congratulate Red Bull Verstappen and Perez for their unexpected good results and dominant performance in the Mexican Grand Prix." Finally, Brother Bin concluded: "I believe After this game, everyone here at Red Bull will be happy for a while."

“But we also hope that after this race, Mercedes can find the reason why the performance of the car is so far behind Red Bull, and we hope that next week’s Brazilian Grand Prix can adjust the car’s condition back.”

"Finally, I also hope that Qin Miao will not give up moving forward because of a loss in a game. There will always be fans behind you to support you, and we will always stand behind you to support you."

"Okay, due to time issues, this live broadcast ends here. Audience friends, see you next week!"

……

After stopping the car, Qin Miao looked at the broadcast footage on the nearby broadcast truck and felt a little pity.

If it hadn't been for that mistake, I might have been one of those three people. What a pity.

All I can say is that if luck is not on your side, then fate will come.

But before Qin Miao could feel hurt, Leclerc came over.

Seeing Qin Miao looking up at Verstappen's post-race interview on the broadcast screen, Leclerc joked: "Let's see if you still call me Le Laosi. Now you have become Lao Si."

Qin Miao rolled her eyes angrily, and the sad mood just now was washed away by this sentence.

“I finished fourth because a car accident knocked me to the back of the team, which does not represent my ability.

And before you mocked me, did you ever think about it... It seems like you didn't even get fourth place, right? "Qin Miao smiled evilly at Leclerc.

"Pull it down." After waving his hand, Leclerc squatted down. At this time, Leclerc was looking at the left front wheel of Qin Miao's racing car curiously.

Leclerc came here to chat with Qin Miao this time. The two people's homes were not far away. If he wanted to chat with Qin Miao, it would only take about ten minutes for Leclerc to ride a bicycle.

This time Leclerc came here mainly to see how Qin Miao's tires were wearing.

Because Rodriguez Brothers Speedway is a clockwise track, the left front wheel of the car is the most susceptible to wear among the four tires and is also the most severely worn.

If you want to know the specific degree of wear of Qin Miao's set of tires, you can get a glimpse of the full picture by looking at the tires.

From Leclerc's perspective, the inner tube of Qin Miao's tire was basically worn down to about 2 millimeters of rubber, and the Kevlar fiber pattern inside the tire could even be seen from the black tire skin.

Leclerc had a feeling that if Qin Miao continued to run a few more laps with this set of tires, no more, just three more laps, this set of tires would definitely burst on the spot.

"Your tires are worn like this, why can't Gasly and Sainz catch up with you?" Pointing at the tires that can be described as candles in the wind, Leclerc turned to Qin Miao in confusion. asked.

Qin Miao also half-crouched beside Leclerc: "Want to learn? I'll teach you."

Leclerc didn't feel sleepy when he heard this: "Teach me, how do you explain it, how much does it cost? How did you do it?"

Qin Miao smiled mysteriously: "I cheated. I have a skill that can reduce my tire wear by 30%."

After hearing Qin Miao's answer, Leclerc rolled his eyes and almost rolled his eyes to the sky. He wanted to fool me and make up a decent reason!

"I don't want to say forget it." He waved his hand boredly, and Leclerc stood up and went to weigh himself.

Qin Miao shook her head helplessly. She told the truth. If you don't believe it, you can't blame others.

After looking at the tires of his car, Qin Miao stood up and weighed himself with some fear.

Not long after Qin Miao left, basically all the drivers who knew about Qin Miao's feat in this game, after parking their cars, ran to Qin Miao's car to see how worn out Qin Miao's left front tire was.

Then he went to weigh himself while sighing at Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus.

This naturally includes Gasly who is fifth.

Looking at Qin Miao's tire that was almost wearing out the Kevlar fiber, Gasly could only sigh.

This person is really perverted. Perez's title of master of fetal preservation may put him to shame in front of Qin Miao.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that after the game, domestic fans gave him the nickname "Pirelli's son".

This shows his incredible performance in the job of protecting the fetus.

It is worth mentioning that after the game, Pirelli also transported Qin Miao's set of tires that should have been destroyed after the game back to Pirelli's headquarters in Milan, Italy.

And that night began the research and analysis of Qin Miao's set of tires.

Then researchers at Pirelli headquarters were a little surprised to find that Qin Miao's set of tires was not fundamentally different from other drivers' tire formulas and internal rubber properties.

In other words, Qin Miao is only using a set of ordinary C2 hard tires that are no different from other drivers.

Of course, despite being confused after the test, Pirelli still collected Qin Miao's set of tires. After all, the fact that Qin Miao could run an entire race on a set of hard tires was quite memorable. .

But these are all things for later, so I won’t mention them here for the time being.

As Verstappen and others completed the steps to receive the award, and after listening to the Dutch national anthem at home in Mexico, FOM also gave the driver rankings and scores for this game.

1: Verstappen +26 (fastest lap)
2: Hamilton +18
3: Perez +15
4: Qin Miao +12
5: Gasly +10
6: Leclerc +8
7: Sainz +6
8: Vettel +4
9: Kimi+2
10: Alonso +1
11: Norris
12: Giovinazzi
13: Ricardo
14: O'Connell

15: Stroll

16: Russell
17: Latifi
18: Ma Zeping
19: Mick (retired)
20: Yuki Tsunoda (retired)
It is worth mentioning that although the broadcast screen was not shown to the audience, during the race, the team asked Leclerc to give his position to the faster Sainz, allowing Sainz to try to chase the faster driver in front of him. Sri.But the final result was obvious, he didn't catch up at all.

After all, it was only 15 laps from the end of the race, and Sainz was still 12 seconds away from Gasly in front.

Ferrari is not a Mercedes, and compared to Toro Rosso and Gasly who performed so bravely at the Rodríguez Brothers Circuit, Sainz does not have such terrifying speed.

So the end result is that the exchange between Sainz and Leclerc did not have any effect.

However, later in the race, after Sainz found that he could not catch up with Gasly, he still returned his position to Leclerc.

It can be regarded as consolidating the harmonious atmosphere within Ferrari.

So after the game, Leclerc's ranking is still ahead of Sainz.

After this race, the overall driver standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao 315
2: Verstappen 307 (+22→+8)

3: Hamilton 295 (+26→+20)

4: Perez 151
5: Leclerc 143
6: Norris 128
7: Sainz 107
8: Ricardo 91
9: Gasly 72
10: Alonso 51
11: Vettel 49
12: O'Connell 36
13: Stroll 20
14: Tsunoda 14
15: Russell 10
16: Kimi 7
17: Latifi 3
The points gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao has narrowed from 22 points to 8 points, and now the pressure is on Qin Miao and Hamilton.

If Qin Miao still fails to finish in front of Verstappen in the next race, Qin Miao's leading position in the standings may not be maintained.

After this race, the team standings are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 610
2: Red Bull: 458
3: Ferrari: 250
4: McLaren: 219
5: Alpine: 87
6: Little Toro Rosso: 86
7: Aston Martin: 69
8: Williams: 13
9: Alfa Romeo: 7
10: Haas: 0
After this game, the team's position in the standings did not change much.

However, due to the presence of Gasly, Toro Rosso gained a lot of points in this game. Therefore, the points gap between Toro Rosso and Alpine became 1 point.

The competitive relationship between the two teams has officially entered a fever pitch.

Although the team rankings of the Midstream Group are not like those of Mercedes and others, one ranking determines the ownership of tens of millions of dollars.

But the prize money gap between the fifth and sixth-place teams is also as high as $5 million.

Neither team wants to give up this income that can make their year-end financial reports look better.

Unlike these two teams, which are getting more and more gunpowder, Haas on the side stands out for its tranquility.

It's just that there is still a touch of sadness mixed in the tranquility of these years.

According to unknown professionals, Mick Schumacher's retirement cost the Haas team more than $60 to repair the car.

Because of the hard work of the Russian Crown Prince and the German Crown Prince.

The season hasn't even ended yet, and the two have already spent more than $500 million in car damage costs on the Haas team.

When this data was placed in front of the English teacher's desk, English teacher Steiner really pressed his finger on the switch - numb.

Haas, which was originally intended to be used for car development for next season, had to use next season's budget to repair the car this season.

The operations of these two princes can be said to have seriously delayed Steiner's plan. The research and development expenses for the car next season will really be cut again and again.

If it crashes again, the Haas team will be out of money...

Fortunately, there is also Ma Zeping as a financial sponsor in the team who can restore blood to the team.

And Steiner also had his own unique insights into saving money, which finally prevented Haas from going bankrupt.

However, there is a point. The boss of Haas chose Steiner to be the team leader of the Haas team because Steiner can save money more than other team leaders.

After all, compared with car sellers like Mercedes, Ferrari, and McLaren, Haas, a machine tool maker, really can't afford that much money.

But if nothing else goes wrong, Mick has secured his spot at the top of the repair list this season.

……

After the game, Qin Miao completed the weigh-in and was on his way to the post-game interview when he suddenly noticed that Russell and his assistant went to the FIA's small black room together.

Noticing Qin Miao's gaze, Barber asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

"Russell, where are you going?"

Barber took a look and said, "Russell, didn't he squeeze you out once on the track? He was found to be a deliberate operator and was called a black room by the race stewards. I guess he will have to deduct points from his super license."

Qin Miao nodded clearly and recalled the scene that just happened on the field.

However, Qin Miao soon thought with some confusion: "Didn't I just take away your position as Mercedes driver? As for the season being almost over, do you still remember?"

Of course, Qin Miao can stand and talk without pain in her back.

He, Qin Miao, came all the way up on a rocket. When he entered Mercedes, it was not even him or his agent who contacted Mercedes, and then he started normal driver contract negotiations.

Instead, it was Toto, the boss of Mercedes-Benz, who personally approached Qin Miao and invited him.

Qin Miao, who was invited, has never experienced it, so naturally he doesn't know how difficult it is to enter a top team and become an official driver of this team.

It's normal not to understand Russell.

It can only be said that sometimes, if you have talent and there is an enviable untapped market behind you, it is really popular.

Post-match interview session.

Qin Miao was naturally a little frustrated and said that the result of this race did not meet expectations. Although he once again gave the fans an overtaking show, Qin Miao still said in an interview that compared with the drivers from behind, He yearns more for Verstappen's driving style.

He came to first place at the start and then ran the entire race without any worries.

After answering a few more questions, the interview session ended.

However, Qin Miao was unable to get away and return to the team immediately after the interview ended. He was stopped by other riders who were not in a hurry to leave after the interview.

PS. Sorry, the status is not good today, only 4K.

I'm really sorry, but I have to kowtow to you readers. (End of chapter)