How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 301 Chapter 304: Seven in five laps
But no matter what, the race has to be run.

So when other drivers stopped on their grid one after another, Arrow also took off the tire heating blanket on Kimi's car and let Kimi out.

Soon, with the medical vehicle at the rear in place and the green flag waving, the main race of the Brazilian Grand Prix was about to begin.

Five red lights come on and off.

The moment the five red lights went out, Qin Miao started smoothly without any accidents.

For Qin Miao, this start can only be said to be satisfactory.

Not too fast, but not too slow either. After the red light went out, Qin Miao started to accelerate in 0.2 seconds, which was Qin Miao's average level in daily training.

But unlike Qin Miao's average performance, Verstappen on the other side reacted a little faster than Qin Miao at the start.

In addition to the starting advantage, Verstappen also has the advantage of tire temperature and the advantage of inside track.

So after the start, you can see that Verstappen, who was originally behind Qin Miao, is quickly and firmly narrowing the gap between himself and Qin Miao after the start.

Seeing this, Qin Miao also knew that Verstappen's starting speed was a bit fast and he might not be able to prevent it.

But after all, the ranking of the competition is related to one's position in the standings and the team's total points.

So even though Qin Miao saw Verstappen's speed, he was already prepared.

But at the T1 apex, Qin Miao still braked late and tried to squeeze Verstappen off the track.

However, at this time, due to various advantages, Verstappen was wheel-to-wheel with Qin Miao at the center of the corner, so he had no reason to give up his lane rights.

Seeing Qin Miao squeezing towards him, Verstappen didn't panic at all and refused to give in at all.

Then there was a slight collision between the outer walls of the two tires.

However, this collision was not serious, it could even be said to be minor, and no parts fell off the two cars.

This was mainly because Qin Miao found that Verstappen was not letting him go and then he corrected his direction a little bit.

Now compared with Verstappen, Qin Miao, who leads the overall standings, has become the one wearing shoes.

It's no longer like at the beginning of the season, where he dares to say: "I'm going to break up with you!" What stands out is his recklessness.

But because of this, Qin Miao completely lost the opportunity to start from pole position.

When entering the T2 apex, Verstappen passed Qin Miao by half a car.

At this time, facing the car squeezed by Verstappen, Qin Miao had no choice but to drive the car to the refuge area outside the track.

After all, Verstappen is in front of him at this time, and he owns the track line rights. If he collides with Verstappen, he will be responsible.

The good news is that Qin Miao's position did not drop significantly when he returned to the track, and he only fell to second place.

Then we exited T3 all the way.

It is worth mentioning that after coming out of T3, Perez took advantage of Qin Miao's shortcoming of returning to the track to speed up slower than normal driving after rushing out of the track in T2, and caught him on the straight between T3 and T4. Qin Miao's wake.

It’s not hard to guess what Perez’s intentions were at this time. He just wanted to kill you while you were sick.

After sucking in the wake on the straightaway at the start, he took the inside line and overtook Qin Miao to move up one position.

An old driver is an old driver, and I have to say that Perez seized this opportunity extremely well.

It's a pity that the person he needs to surpass is Qin Miao. Alonso has to praise his incredible defensive ability.

After Perez caught up, Qin Miao immediately changed lanes to defend inside.

Then brake late 10 meters after passing the braking point.

Just when Perez saw Qin Miao's braking point and thought Qin Miao would definitely rush out of the track...

Qin Miao stopped.

Not only did he brake, he entered the corner faster than Perez and exited the corner faster. He easily defused Perez's attack with a late brake.

Even Qin Miao was not pulled too far by Verstappen in front of him because of his defense against Perez.

This is completely a reflection of the driver's personal strength. Qin Miao's braking on the inside line has the charm of Verstappen's braking at the starting stage last week.

Everything is so extreme.

And looking at Qin Miao, who regained the position and quickly stabilized his car into the rhythm of the competition, Perez could feel very calm inside.

Not even surprised by this.

At the beginning of this season, when Perez watched Qin Miao's performance on the field, he still felt like he was looking at a monster and felt that he was getting old.

But now, all that is left in Perez's heart is peace. No one can, or at least should not, compare with these monsters.

After defending Perez's attack, Qin Miao followed Verstappen for two laps, and these two laps made Qin Miao realize that his speed in this game was about the same as Verstappen's.

Therefore, unless something unexpected happens, it will be difficult to overtake Verstappen on the track after losing his position in this game.

Although somewhat unwilling to accept it, Qin Miao had to admit it.

Now if he wants to overtake Verstappen, he can only wait until the later stages of the race. After Verstappen's tire grip drops, Qin Miao can use his stronger tire grip than Verstappen to try to attack Verstappen. .

Therefore, not long after the start, the time gap between the top three drivers stabilized, and all three entered cruise mode.

Qin Miao had no intention of attacking Verstappen ahead, and Perez at the rear was gradually pulled away by Qin Miao and Verstappen.

At this time, after the director discovered that there was no longer any smell of gunpowder between the three of them, he decisively showed the camera to Hamilton.

Compared with Qin Miao and Verstappen, Hamilton's performance in this game is what the audience is looking forward to more.

Hamilton did not let the expectations of the live audience go to waste.

In just one start, Hamilton went from tenth to eighth.

One was Hamilton, who took advantage of the car's engine to overtake O'Connell at the T1 braking position after the start. The other was Norris, who started brilliantly, but he collided with Sainz after he started. The left rear wheel collided with Sainz's. After the collision, the left front tire blew out and fell to the back of the queue.

And on the first lap of T8, Hamilton relied on the car's stronger mechanical grip on the outside to forcefully overtake Gasly in front.

After crossing the line on the first lap and arriving at T1 on the second lap, Hamilton relied on the terrifying tail speed of the new internal combustion engine and used the tail speed to overtake Vettel at the end of the straightaway.

DRS is not even turned on at this time.

After surpassing Vettel, Hamilton's ranking smoothly reached sixth.

On a short straight after one lap, Hamilton overtook four cars!Four cars!
Should it be said that he is worthy of Hamilton?

Before the start of the race, everyone knew that this race was Hamilton's pursuit show. Sooner or later, he would catch up from tenth to behind Qin Miao and Verstappen.

But in everyone's expectation, Hamilton should be the same as a sprint race, only overtaking one car in one lap at most.

Before this race started, no one could have imagined that Hamilton would overtake four cars in one lap.

Maybe this is the gold content of seven crowns.

After overtaking Vettel, the drivers in front of Hamilton were the Ferrari duo.

Sainz on Ferrari's side did not cause any trouble to Hamilton. After the T11 came out of the corner on the second lap, Hamilton began to quickly catch up with Sainz.

After entering the full-throttle section, Hamilton used his terrifying tail speed to quickly approach Sainz in front of him.

At the end of the second lap and at the beginning of the third lap, Hamilton easily overtook Sainz in front of him without DRS.

The commentators were also full of praise for Hamilton's driving in these laps.

When the game reached the third lap and the situation on the field became a little clearer, the on-site director began to replay what happened on the field in the early stages.

Mainly the start of Qin Miao and Hamilton, but also the replay of the collision between Norris and Sainz.

The three commentators from Five-Star Sports had not long regretted Qin Miao's wrong start in today's game. When the camera turned, the game had reached the fifth lap, and the three commentators from Five-Star Sports were a little surprised to see , Hamilton had unknowingly overtaken another Ferrari in front of him, and in front of him was Perez.

Five laps, only five laps, Hamilton had moved forward seven places.

Qin Miao, who was running in front, accidentally glanced at the rearview mirror, trying to determine the position of himself and Perez, when he saw Hamilton behind him from a distance.

At that time, a big question mark popped up in Qin Miao's mind.

Did the other drivers behind have collective engine explosions?It’s only been five laps, how come Hamilton has reached place B?
However, Hamilton's pressure on Qin Miao was not particularly great at this time. Although Qin Miao was always 2 seconds behind Verstappen, he and Verstappen had already left Perey behind in five laps. It was 3 seconds, and Perez got rid of Leclerc behind him for 3 seconds.

Therefore, Hamilton's fierce overtaking momentum needs to be slowed down, and he has to run a long distance before he can continue to attack.

However, before Qin Miao and Verstappen could further distance themselves from Hamilton, the safety car came out.

Although I was a little annoyed to see the safety car, the time gap that I had managed to open was gone.

But neither Qin Miao nor Verstappen was surprised by this.

Because of the T1 position of the track, pieces of Yuki Tsunoda's car were left on the track, and the entire front nose of Yuki Tsunoda was hung on the advertisement for the T2 apex.

And there are a lot of carbon fiber fragments outside the corners of T1.

If a driver overtakes from the outside of T1 at this time, it will easily overwhelm these debris.

These debris had been left there for more than two laps, and it could even be said that it was too late to bring out the safety car at this time of the race.

On the second lap when these debris appeared, Qin Miao began to wonder why the FIA's work efficiency became so slow.

The safety car was brought in from lap seven to lap ten.

Because the safety car was used for three laps, almost all team drivers had two more laps of fuel in their cars, and the tire wear was at least two and a half laps less than in a normal race.

So after the safety car passed this time, Frankie immediately told Qin Miao that the team's simulator department had updated his pit stop time, which would be one lap later than the normal pit stop. The benefit was that Qin Miao was in the pit stop. There is no need to worry about tire wear before pitting.

After Qin Miao answered, it was considered that he knew, and then Qin Miao began to follow Verstappen's rhythm.

After receiving the prompt from the team, Qin Miao felt that he could try to put pressure on Verstappen in the next period of time.

At this time, the safety car has been withdrawn, waiting for Verstappen to start.

Qin Miao believes that Red Bull Racing will definitely give Perez an order to slightly suppress Hamilton's rhythm after starting.

So even though Hamilton used the safety car to quickly come behind him, Qin Miao didn't pay much attention to Hamilton in the starting stage.

On the one hand, it was because he knew that Perez was behind him to block Hamilton. On the other hand, for Qin Miao, it was more important not to be pulled too far away by Verstappen after the start.

Therefore, it can be clearly seen in the starting stage that while Verstappen was drawing dragons left and right to warm up his tires, Qin Miao was stuck behind Verstappen's car without making too many movements, staring at him. Verstappen ahead, pay attention to his every move.

And Perez opened the distance between him and Qin Miao by more than one car body, and he was also drawing a dragon.

Verstappen pressed the car to the extreme, with the slowest speed being only 30 kilometers per hour. He pressed the car all the way to the last grid position before suddenly starting to accelerate.

Although Verstappen's pressure was a bit surprising, it is not incomprehensible, after all, whether it was yesterday's sprint qualifying or Hamilton's performance after the start today.

These clearly show the terrifying tail speed of the Mercedes car on this track.

A later start at this stage means a shorter straight for the Mercedes to accelerate, which can all be turned into Verstappen's advantage.

In the end, Verstappen started to accelerate suddenly when he was about to reach the last grid position.

Also benefiting from Verstappen's extreme press, although Hamilton's starting reaction was not far behind, and he gradually began to be faster than Perez in front of him in the later stages, but before reaching the braking point of T1, Hamilton was still Failed to tap inside Perez's car.

Although it was a pity that he did not get a higher ranking in the starting stage, Hamilton was already satisfied after the start.

At least this time the safety car greatly shortened the time gap between himself and Perez.

After starting, Perez began to accelerate.

He also knows that with his own ability, he can defend Hamilton, but he absolutely cannot.

So I started to accelerate, preparing to suck in Qin Miao's wake and eat Qin Miao's DRS at the same time.

It's like trading tire life for speed.

The only effect of this approach is to greatly increase the difficulty for Hamilton to surpass himself and increase the tire wear of Hamilton behind him.

There is no doubt that this is the team order given to Perez by Red Bull Racing.

It's just that Qin Miao had no intention of giving Perez a wake.

However, not long after the race restarted, on lap No. 12, Mick collided with Kimi again.

Mick's front nose was damaged, and after his front nose hung in front of the car for the entire second time period, it finally fell off on the track.

Mick's front nose just stayed on the track.

For the second time in the competition, the physical safety car was not dispatched, but a virtual safety car was dispatched.

This time the safety car was brought to lap No. 15.

(End of this chapter)