How did I become an F1 driver?

It is worth mentioning that the time lost during pit stops at Russell International Circuit for tire changes is approximately 22 seconds.

The positions of the first three drivers did not change after coming out of the pits, they were still in their original positions.

In other words, this race only lasted 19 laps, and the time gap between the three of them and Alonso in fourth place was more than 22 seconds.

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After Qin Miao came out, he naturally had a different idea.

Qin Miao began to speed up.

Due to the team's temporary decision, Qin Miao also switched to a two-stop tactic in this race, so Qin Miao no longer has to worry about tire wear in the next race.

In addition, the local temperature in Qatar tonight is only 26°C, which is very comfortable for the heat dissipation of the racing car. Qin Miao does not have to worry about overheating of the racing engine.

So after coming out, Qin Miao began to accelerate to chase Hamilton in front of him.

On the 20th lap, you can see that the original 10-second time gap between Hamilton and Qin Miao has been shortened to 8.9 seconds.

Qin Miao chased Hamilton for 1.1 seconds in one lap.

The reason why Qin Miao was able to catch up so quickly was not only Qin Miao's acceleration regardless of tire wear, but also the reason why Hamilton basically had no sense of crisis at this time and was running normally to protect his tires.

While Qin Miao was accelerating with all his strength in this lap, Verstappen behind him was also accelerating.

Verstappen knew that after Qin Miao put on new tires, the temperature of the tires must not have risen. He had one lap to warm up the tires, and he might be able to use this opportunity to overtake Qin Miao.

Then Verstappen was a little surprised to find that due to the turbulence of Qin Miao's car, he could not catch up with Qin Miao...

Moreover, his tentative attack behind Qin Miao had no way of interfering with Qin Miao's rhythm of the game.

Even on lap 21, the time gap between the two was widened to 2.5 seconds.

In the next few laps, Verstappen stayed in this position behind Qin Miao, trying to put pressure on Qin Miao, but neither the sudden acceleration nor the tap before the braking point on the track brought any pressure to Qin Miao. any impact.

Qin Miao seemed to not see Verstappen behind him constantly putting pressure on him, and still ran his own pace normally on the track.

Verstappen was not surprised by this. Qin Miao's defensive ability has always been like this.

Lap 28.

After 8 laps, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton was fixed at 5 seconds.

Qin Miao also gave up chasing Hamilton because he really couldn't catch up. After Hamilton started to speed up, Qin Miao could only chase Hamilton for less than 0.2 seconds per lap.

And Qin Miao has a feeling that Hamilton is now in a normal racing state. If he starts to accelerate, he may not be able to catch up with him.

On the other side, Verstappen also followed Qin Miao at a position of 2.7 seconds with no movement.

Mercedes' car was really strong in this race. Even if Verstappen knew that his personal ability was stronger than Qin Miao, he still couldn't catch up with Qin Miao. Now it's a bit difficult to stay in this position behind Qin Miao.

From then on, the top three riders officially entered the cruising state.

The most surprising thing about this lap was that Ferrari made a two-car pit stop.

What is even more surprising is that there was no accident in Ferrari's tire change this time.

Sainz changed tires in 2.2 seconds and Leclerc in 2.4 seconds.

Both riders switched from medium to hard tyres, and both changes were silky smooth.

Although this time the tires were changed to another team, such as Mercedes, Red Bull, or even McLaren, this tire change can only be said to be excellent.

But here at Ferrari, such a tire change is enough to make the Iron Buddha Temples feel ecstatic.

Even many people with rich association skills have begun to imagine that Ferrari will rise strongly next season and kill everyone in the paddock to finally reverse Ferrari's decline in recent years, step on Mercedes and beat Red Bull with one fell swoop. Won the team and driver double championship in the 2022 season.

It's rare for the Tiefo Temple people to eat something good.

On lap 38, after 10 laps, Verstappen gradually became unable to keep up with the rhythm of Qin Miao in front of him as the tires wore out and time passed.

At this time, Qin Miao still maintained a time gap of 5 seconds with Hamilton in front of him, but the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao increased from 2.7 seconds to 4.4 seconds.

On lap 40, there are 17 laps left before the end of the race.

Qin Miao asked Franky: "I should have a set of soft tires in my tire reserve, right?"

Franky didn't know why Qin Miao suddenly asked this, and the tactics he formulated did not include the option for Qin Miao to change to soft tires, because the strategy team had copied the yellow, white and red pit stop strategy, and all he could say was that the speed was terrible.

Despite his inner doubts, French dutifully replied: "Yes, you will leave yourself a set of soft tires as a backup for the main race of almost every race."

Then Qin Miao curiously asked: "How many laps can my soft tires run on this track?"

“The test result in Friday’s second practice was 13 laps, but the setup we used at that time was different from now.

If you were to pit now, the life of the soft tire would be about 11 laps. "Frankie looked at the data he recorded.

"I know." After answering, Qin Miao stopped talking, but the speed of the car increased slightly.

This is not that Qin Miao is planning to use up the tires quickly so that he can stop at the right time to change them. Qin Miao is causing trouble for Hamilton's crew.

I put forward an idea, do you want to follow it up, do you want to think about the feasibility of my idea, and the possible consequences after I do this.

In short, Qin Miao happened to be running quite boringly at this moment, so he used the team's TR to create trouble for Hamilton.

After all, as the saying goes, idleness is idleness.

Moreover, Qin Miao really felt that it was feasible to change to soft tires after he pitted, so Qin Miao was not worried that the Hamilton team would not respond accordingly after knowing his idea.

And the reality was just as Qin Miao expected.

After learning through TR that Qin Miao had asked about the team's tires, Hamilton's crew was in a panic.

But before they could calculate anything, Verstappen chose to pit on lap 42 and put on medium tires.

This can be regarded as a relatively effective solution that Verstappen came up with for Hamilton. Since Qin Miao's soft tires can only last for 11 laps, then I will pit when there are 15 laps to go before the end of the game. You Follow or not?
  If you pit, you can only use medium tires. On this track, which requires more tire wear than Silverstone, it is impossible for soft tires to still have enough speed after 15 laps.

Even if your Qin Miao's tire protection ability is incredible, your speed in the last few laps will definitely drop significantly, and you will face the risk of being overtaken by Verstappen.

And if you don't pit, but wait until the appropriate pit window before pitting, then Verstappen, who is using the medium tires, will definitely be able to undercut Qin Miao.

After all, the medium tire is 0.8 seconds faster than the hard tire on this track every lap.

It is indeed easy to overtake on this track with soft tires, but can you, Qin Miao, be sure that after passing Verstappen, your tires still have enough grip to chase Hamilton?

At this time, some people will be confused.

This is obviously the best time for the Mercedes-Benz car to watch the infighting. Why does Red Bull want to help Hamilton?

But in fact, Verstappen really couldn't catch up with the two Mercedes drivers in this game.

The next best thing is that compared to Qin Miao, they definitely hope that Hamilton will win the race.

After all, Qin Miao is still leading the driver standings. If he wins another championship, there is no need to watch the last two races of this season. As long as Qin Miao does not retire from the next two races, he can win this season's championship. Drivers' Championship.

So this is the main reason why Red Bull does this.

After Verstappen pitted, Mercedes also called Hamilton and Qin Miao back.

The truth has been stated before and I won’t go into details here.

Another two-car pit stop, but Mercedes still completed its task steadily.

Hamilton put on the medium tires and it took 2.4 seconds to change the tires. Qin Miao also put on the medium tires and it took 2.0 seconds to change the tires.

Although Qin Miao's tire change speed is 0.4 seconds faster than Hamilton's, when it is really reflected on the track, this advantage can be ignored.

The only thing worth mentioning about this tire change is that Hamilton used old medium tires, while Qin Miao used brand new tires.

This can be said to be the only variable in the championship of this game.

After coming out of the pit area, Qin Miao and Hamilton's positions did not change in any way, and Verstappen behind them did not catch up.

Even the time gap between the three of them didn't change much.

However, on lap 44, Qin Miao still got slightly closer to Hamilton and set a new fastest lap.

However, Hamilton returned the favor on the next lap, widening the time gap between the two to 5.4 seconds and taking back the fastest lap.

Then on lap 47, Verstappen also set a new fastest lap.

Next, the three drivers in front were constantly setting new fastest laps. As for chasing people, they couldn't catch up at all. At this time, the director did not focus on the three drivers, but on Perez and other drivers behind.

In the last ten laps, for Qin Miao and the three championship drivers, this game was no longer fun.

Instead, the two drivers behind, Latifi and Russell, suffered punctures one after another.

And it can be seen in the replay that both drivers hit the outside green shoulder at T8.

The tire puncture was caused by excessive bumps on the green shoulder of the T8.

After seeing this accident, French immediately reminded Qin Miao: "Don't go on the outside green shoulder of the T8. Both Williams drivers had punctures because they went on the outside green shoulder."

Qin Miao didn't see what happened specifically at the time, but the yellow flag only briefly appeared on the track and did not trigger a virtual safety car or safety car. From this, it can be seen that the tire blowouts of the two drivers were not serious. Consider it serious.

So Qin Miao didn't ask any more questions and just replied: "Received."

Soon, the race came to the last lap.

At this time, Hamilton was 7 seconds away from Qin Miao behind him, and Qin Miao was 3.9 seconds away from Verstappen.

In the end, Hamilton crossed the line first and won the 101st victory of his career.

When Qin Miao brought it back for the second time, he completed all the tasks assigned to him by the team.

Verstappen unfortunately finished third.

The most surprising thing is that the driver who finished fourth was Alonso.

After the race started, Tou Ge seized the opportunity to start in the front row and ran steadily throughout the race without letting Perez behind him catch up.

And at the same time, Qin Miao became the most popular driver with 30% of the votes in this competition.

During the return lap, when Qin Miao was expressing his gratitude to Franchi and all the Mercedes staff in the team TR, Franchi suddenly interrupted: "Well, Qin Miao, according to the data given by FOM, you seem to He became the most popular driver voted by the audience in this race.”

Qin Miao: "Huh?"

"My performance in this game doesn't seem to be as good as Hamilton's, right? Why me?" Qin Miao's tone was full of doubts and confusion.

"Well, we don't know. Maybe the audience at the scene thought it was rare for you to defeat Verstappen in this game?" French was also full of confusion.

In fact, Qin Miao only has 1% more audience support than Alonso.

Qin Miao can understand why Alonso's vote rate is so high. After all, he is a two-time world champion and Alonso is so old. It is indeed not easy to be so competitive on the field.

Soon, Hamilton, Qin Miao and Verstappen parked their cars on the track, almost at the entrance to the pit area and the exit of the track, with the audience seats next to them.

Hamilton was the first to get out of the car after stopping the car. When Qin Miao parked the car, Hamilton had already got out of the car and waved to the audience.

After parking his car, getting out of the car and reinstalling the steering wheel on the car, Verstappen arrived belatedly and parked his car in third position.

After getting off the car, Qin Miao naturally waved to the audience.

The audience at the side suddenly burst into cheers that were even louder than when Hamilton got out of the car to interact with the audience.

What surprised Qin Miao was that not only did the audience cheer louder than Hamilton after he got off the car, but there were also many guys who looked like they were from the Middle East holding Chinese flags and cheering for Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was a little confused for a while. After thinking about it, he could only judge that although he only finished second in this game, he still maintained the first position in the overall standings.

After smiling and waving at those people, Qin Miao turned around and hugged Hamilton who was walking towards him.

"You are too fast in this game, I can't keep up at all." After the hug, Qin Miao said helplessly: "Do you still have energy left in the later stages of the game?"

Hamilton did not answer Qin Miao's words, but asked: "It seems that you are much faster than Verstappen today."

Qin Miao: ...

Although he had no choice but to be ignored by Hamilton, Qin Miao also knew that now was not the time to talk about this.

After giving Hamilton a perfunctory sentence and saying hello to Verstappen, Qin Miao went to weigh in for an interview.

The host responsible for the interview today is Jenson Button. In the early days, he was also nicknamed Jenson Button because of translation problems.

The first driver to be interviewed was Hamilton, who won the championship today.

The old man's interview was as always. No matter what results he achieved today, he would always thank the fans who came to watch the game at the beginning.

This kind of operation will undoubtedly bring more fans to the old man, and will also make himself more popular among the public.

Soon, Hamilton's interview ended, and Qin Miao came to the host's microphone.

"Qin Miao, I'm sorry that at this critical moment of the championship, you only finished second. Is this a timely stop loss?"

Qin Miao didn't hesitate much. When he was being interviewed in the past, Qin Miao would worry about whether he would have any bad impact if he said something wrong in the post-game interview.

Until Qin Miao saw Verstappen's interview.

Pan Zi has always been outspoken in post-match interviews, and he dared to say anything when he got anxious.

But Verstappen has not been severely punished for his inappropriate remarks in interviews so far.

At most, his popularity with the public is not that good. In the F1 arena, as long as he has the ability, that's all.

As long as your character is not so bad that it causes outrage and resentment, you can force many people to ignore your character problems if you are strong enough.

So when faced with the host's question, Qin Miao said without much thought: "Don't worry, Verstappen and Hamilton have been chasing me in the standings, and I have always been in crisis about this. I felt that Hamilton was very fast in this race. I tried to chase Hamilton many times after overtaking Verstappen, but the result was obvious.

In the end, I was quite satisfied with this result. At least I still had some breathing space after the championship was taken away by Hamilton. "

"There are only two games left in the season. Do you think you can defend your current position in these two games?"

Qin Miao spread her hands helplessly: "I don't know, just take it one step at a time. I hope I can create my own history."

After answering the two questions, Qin Miao's pre-match interview for this game came to an end.

After the interview, Qin Miao celebrated with Franchitotto and other Mercedes executives. After that, Qin Miao was called by the FIA ​​staff to the podium upstairs to receive the award.

Soon, the post-game awards ceremony began.

After listening to the familiar British national anthem, the awards ceremony officially began.

The people in charge of awarding awards are local government officials in Qatar. Judging from their clothes, you can tell that these people are very rich.

After all, they are all dressed in white robes with a white cloth on their heads.

After the awards ceremony was over, the director played the scene of the team leaders of the two teams, Mercedes and Red Bull, leaving from under the podium.

Soon after, the rankings and scores of this race were given: After this race, the driver rankings were as follows:
  1: Hamilton +25
  2: Qin Miao +18
  3: Verstappen +16 (fastest lap)
  4: Alonso +12
  5: Perez +10
  6: O'Connell +8
  7: Stroll +6
  8: Sainz +4
  9: Leclerc +2
  10: Norris +1
  11: Vettel
  12: Gasly
  13: Ricardo
  14: Yuki Tsunoda

15: Kimi
  16: Giovinazzi
  17: Mick

18: Russell
  19: Ma Zeping
  20: Latifi (retired due to puncture)
  After this race, the overall driver standings and their rankings are as follows:
  1: Qin Miao 351
  2: Hamilton 345 (+11→+6)

3: Verstappen 338 (+13→+13)

4: Perez 174
  5: Leclerc 155
  6: Norris 130
  7: Sainz 119
  8: Ricardo 91
  9: Gasly 78
  10: Alonso 65
  11: Vettel 49
  12: Ocon 48
  13: Stroll 26
  14: Kakuda 14
  15: Russell 10
  16: Kimi7
  17: Latifi 3
  After the race, Hamilton and Verstappen exchanged positions.

The positions of other drivers have not changed much. After all, it is the end of the season, and the points gap between drivers has been widened, making it difficult to change the rankings.

However, due to the delay in winning a championship in these recent games, the points gap between Qin Miao and the second place has been further narrowed.

After the race, the team standings are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 696
  2: Red Bull: 512
  3: Ferrari: 274
  4: McLaren: 221
  5: Alpine: 115
  6: Red Bull: 92
  7: Aston Martin: 75
  8: Williams: 13
  9: Alfa Romeo: 7
  10: Haas: 0
  With the help of the Haas duo, so far this season, the Haas team has still achieved nothing.

However, judging from their state of not making any upgrades throughout the season, it is not surprising that they can finally achieve such results.

After the final team standings came out, the Qatar Grand Prix came to an end.

The broadcast screen of Five Star Sports also cut to the three commentators.

"Let us once again congratulate Hamilton. He led every lap of this game from the beginning, and finally won the Qatar race championship with a dominant performance!" Brother Bing from Five Star Sports began to summarize Hamilton's achievements in this game. Performance.

Fei Ge also said: "Yes, Hamilton's performance in this game was indeed impeccable, and Qin Miao and Verstappen could only keep up with Hamilton in the later stages of the game, but they could not catch up with Hamilton at all. It can be seen that Hamilton has been running very smoothly in this race."

"At the same time, as fans, we also hope that Qin Miao will not be affected by the two opponents gradually approaching from behind after this week's race, continue to maintain the stability and speed he has shown now, and continue to finish the final race. two games.”

"We did imagine that Qin Miao could win the driver's championship this season, but even if Qin Miao does not win the final championship this season, we will not blame Qin Miao, his existence is enough for us! "

"Okay, after this game is over, I hope Qin Miao can take a good rest and adjust his condition. Finally, let's meet again at the Saudi Grand Prix in half a month!" (End of Chapter)