How did I become an F1 driver?

In any case, the FIA's penalty results have come out, and the basis for this penalty is written in black and white in the F1 competition rules, so no one will raise any objections to the penalties of these two drivers.

So in tomorrow’s race, the starting order is:
  1: Hamilton

2: Gasly
  3: Alonso
  4: Norris
  5: Sainz
  6: Qin Miao

7: Verstappen

8: Tsunoda

9: O'Connell

10: Vettel
  ……

On the other side, when Hamilton knew that both Qin Miao and Verstappen had been punished, his mouth was even harder to suppress than AK.

Had there not been other people around him at the time, Hamilton might have laughed out loud on the spot.

But fortunately, he endured it in the end.

However, after Hamilton received the news, he obviously relaxed and his mood improved significantly.

The kind who walks with wind in his eyes, and has a smile on his face when he sees his fans in the paddock.

After all the pre-game activities are over, the game is about to begin.

Under the sunset in Qatar, Qin Miao and Barber walked onto the brightly lit track together, and then came to the front of their cars.

After putting on his equipment, Qin Miao entered the racing car.

After some adjustments, the staff withdrew.

The tire warm-up lap started smoothly.

During this process, Qin Miao naturally overheated his tires as usual, but it was just not as high as when he started in the front row.

Soon, the warm-up lap ended, and as Hamilton finally stopped at his position, the drivers behind him also took their positions one by one.

It is worth mentioning that before Qin Miao parked his car, he angled his car towards the lane of the track.

Qin Miao also knew that the grip on the dirty side of the track would be insufficient, so he wanted to move directly towards the driving lane after starting and take a relatively clean track.

However, after a normal start and then moving closer to the traffic lane, tire traction will be lost during the turning process.

Therefore, Qin Miao set the angle in advance during the preparation stage, so that Qin Miao did not need to waste too much traction on steering when starting.

As Mazeping finally parked his car again.

Five red lights come on and off.

Game start!
  Amid the roar of the F1 engine, Hamilton took the lead and got off to a very good start.

After this start, Hamilton quickly opened up the distance from the driver behind him.

Gasly, who started in second place, reacted a little slowly, while Alonso behind Hamilton started equally well.

Hamilton and Alonso started at almost the same time.

Therefore, Alonso, who was faster after the start, was ready to attack Gasly.

However, Gasly, who was behind Hamilton, did not give up the inside line to Alonso.

Although Alonso had an advantage, this advantage was not enough to allow him to directly catch up from third to second, so after arriving at T1, in order to avoid accidents, Alonso relaxed a little on the accelerator and gave up the position. Gave it to Gasly.

After starting and passing T1, there was no change in the rankings among the top three drivers.

On the other hand, Qin Miao's side.

Verstappen and Qin Miao had an extremely bright start, on par with Hamilton.

Compared with the two of them, Sainz, who was ranked fifth, started half a beat slower.

But after starting, Verstappen encountered a somewhat embarrassing situation.

His starting speed was about the same as Qin Miao's, but both of them had to be faster than Benson, and Qin Miao walked directly towards the lane after starting, so Verstappen found that he was faster than Benson at the start. And what we saw after Sainz's outside tap was not a gap, but the butt of Qin Miao's car.

Helpless, Verstappen could only give up the middle of the track where the track environment was relatively better, took a breath of the wake provided by Qin Miao's car, and then went to the outside.

During this process, an orange McLaren slowly appeared on Qin Miao's right side.

Obviously, in the starting stage, Norris started worse than Sainz, and was immediately overtaken by Qin Miao and Sainz.

Then coupled with Verstappen outside the track, the T1 of the first F1 Grand Prix at the Lusail International Circuit showed four cars entering the corner side by side.

During the turn-in phase, Sainz, who was on the outside of the track, would definitely suffer a big loss.

Next is Qin Miao, then Norris and Verstappen.

When exiting the corner, the four of them were still side by side, but after starting to accelerate out of the corner, Qin Miao squeezed out of Sainz, while Norris squeezed Qin Miao's exit line.

Qin Miao had no choice but to let Norris surpass him.

After all, Qin Miao now has no line rights.

Unlike the three drivers on the left, who were trying to attack and defend each other in an extremely dangerous position, Verstappen was not directly involved in this sharp waltz.

He was always on the outside, and after braking, he made the corner completely close to the inner shoulder of T1.

Because of the fighting from other drivers, Verstappen took a route here that was not the best exit line.

But it is such a route that Verstappen loses almost no speed after exiting the corner.

Even because there is no need to worry about the position of other drivers, Verstappen still has enough space to accelerate after exiting the corner.

So when we came to T2, because Verstappen took a different route from other drivers and exited the corner very quickly, he directly caught up behind Alonso.

However, Verstappen did not have the right to line at this time, so when Alonso went to the outside line to enter the corner, Verstappen had no choice but to move outside the track in order not to collide with the opponent.

As a result, Verstappen fell behind Alonso.

The key is, Alonso is ranked third!

Verstappen, who returned to the track, was already wheel-to-wheel with Norris, who had left Qin Miao behind.

And when it came to T4, Verstappen relied on the stronger car's high-speed cornering performance to surpass Norris, who was alongside him on the outside.

Qin Miao at the rear had just surpassed Sainz beside him. After seeing this scene, Qin Miao could only sigh with emotion: The brave will starve to death and the timid will die.

If you had Qin Miao come over, he would really not dare to force a corner in such a traffic jam.

If he fails to avoid it, he may have to retire from the race on the spot. In a more serious accident, the car may be damaged and the front nose may be broken, requiring a pit stop for replacement.

In this most critical period of points competition, any loss is unacceptable.

Verstappen dared to take the risk, and the key was to achieve it.

Therefore, Qin Miao only surpassed Sainz in front of him after the start. However, because Verstappen caught up from seventh to fourth after the start, Qin Miao was still in fifth position at this time.

However, Qin Miao also saw that the speed of Norris' car in this game was indeed much lower than that of his own Mercedes, so in the second timing period, Qin Miao stayed 0.5 seconds behind Norris. All the way to the last corner of lap 1.

After exiting the straightaway, Qin Miao began to absorb Norris's wake and turned on ERS to accelerate.

Because Qin Miao was very close to Norris when exiting the corner, Qin Miao hit the inside of Norris just halfway through the straight.

Although Norris knew that he might not be able to guard against Qin Miao, he didn't want to give up his place just like that. So after Qin Miao tapped his inside, Norris took advantage of the situation and drew a dragon to the inside, trying to defeat Qin Miao. Push towards the dirty side of the track.

They tried to use this method to make Qin Miao's tires hit the debris on the track and slow down Qin Miao's acceleration.

However, Qin Miao did a good job of sucking up the wake. When he reached the white line at the exit of the pit area, he had already passed Norris by half a car and got the line rights of T1.

Moreover, the engine of the Mercedes car was powerful enough and did not allow Norris's plan to succeed.

After realizing that he could not defend Qin Miao's attack, Norris returned to his normal driving lane.

Therefore, before the first time period of the second lap was completed, Qin Miao completed overtaken Norris and ranked fifth, with Verstappen in front of him.

Because of the fight with Norris, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen widened to 1.5 seconds.

However, when Qin Miao came behind Verstappen, he did not rush to start attacking. Instead, he followed Verstappen for two laps and came to the fourth lap.

After these two laps, Qin Miao clearly felt that his speed should be about the same as Verstappen. He might even be slightly faster than Verstappen in this race, because he was following Vesta. In the past few laps behind Pan, Qin Miao had been protecting his tires and not pushing forward with all his strength. However, the time gap between them remained at 1.5 seconds, with no change.

You know, with a time gap of 1.5 seconds, the turbulence of the car in front will affect the aerodynamic efficiency of the car behind.

However, before Qin Miao could figure out what to do next, Alonso in front overtook Gasly in front of him after DRS was turned on.

On the next lap after Gasly was overtaken, Gasly had an accident on the exit of the T16 corner. Gasly "accidentally" ran off the track.

Therefore, Verstappen naturally used DRS to overtake Gasly in front of him on the straightaway.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, was too far away from Verstappen and did not even enter the DRS area behind Verstappen, so he could only look at this opportunity to move up one position and regretted missing it.

Not long after, Franky’s voice reached Qin Miao’s ears through TR:
  "The team boss of Toro Rosso has just given a team order to Gasly. They want Gasly to consume as much of your tires as possible."

"I'm starting to hate Little Red Bull!" Qin Miao muttered.

"Who says it isn't? Well, concentrate on the game. I believe you will be able to kill Gasly soon."

"receive."

After silently complaining in his heart, Qin Miao began to accelerate.

Gasly's performance in the second half of the season was indeed outstanding, and he even suppressed Red Bull's Perez more than once.

But after all, what he was driving was just a Toro Rosso. In terms of the design of the aerodynamic package, it was definitely not as good as Mercedes.

Naturally, there was no way to widen the time gap with Qin Miao in areas from T2 to T16 that were not easy to overtake. Instead, Qin Miao always followed Gasly closely, 0.4 seconds behind him.

After exiting T16, when Gasly saw the time gap between himself and Qin Miao after exiting the corner, he no longer even had the desire to defend Qin Miao.

How to prevent this?
  With a one kilometer long straight road, coupled with Mercedes' terrifying engine and DRS, it's impossible to prevent it at all.

And this is indeed the case. After exiting the corner, Qin Miao quickly shortened the time gap between himself and Gasly. By the time he reached the grid position, Qin Miao had already surpassed Gasly in the entire car.

Qin Miao came to fourth.

On the same lap, Verstappen also used the same method as Qin Miao to pass Alonso in front of him.

Alonso, like Gasly behind him, made no defensive moves and watched Verstappen leave.

Verstappen came in second.

At this time, the time gap between Hamilton and Verstappen reached 5.2 seconds.

Now it depends on whether Verstappen can effectively shorten the time gap with Hamilton.

On the other side, Qin Miao also used DRS to surpass Alonso on the 8th lap. After gaining another place, Qin Miao came to third place.

This time he overtook Qin Miao without even using ERS. He overtook Alonso with just DRS.

After reaching third place, Qin Miao and Verstappen recovered all their penalty grids.

However, because of Alonso's obstruction, Qin Miao was 3 seconds behind Verstappen at this time, and the time gap between him and his teammate Hamilton was more than 8 seconds.

"It's so beautiful, keep it up." French said after Qin Miao completed the overtaking: "Our current speed is very good. If this situation continues, it is expected that we will catch up with Vesta in five laps. Pan.”

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment: "5 laps? Am I faster than Verstappen in this race?"

"Yes, after DRS was turned on, you have already achieved two fastest laps."

After Qin Miao heard this, not only did he not feel any joy, but he felt a little pained in his balls. Because he could achieve the fastest lap, it meant that Hamilton in front of him was trying to protect his tire.

As soon as French finished speaking, on the 10th lap, Hamilton wiped out Qin Miao's fastest lap.

It was Hamilton's track engineer who probably reminded him that Qin Miao and Verstappen were already behind him.

After the fastest lap, the time gap between Hamilton and Verstappen behind him widened to 5 seconds.

And as the race progresses, the time gap between Hamilton and Verstappen continues to widen.

By the time the race came to lap 13, the time gap between the two of them had reached 6.5 seconds.

During this period, Qin Miao shortened the time gap between himself and Verstappen to 1.5 seconds while charging.

A familiar location.

After charging for so long, it’s time to use all the power on Verstappen.

So on lap 14, as Qin Miao began to release the power in his car, he entered the DRS area behind Verstappen. (End of chapter)