How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 324 327: Pan Zi’s signature defensive moves

However, in today's game, if Hamilton wants to finally win the driver's championship, he not only needs to defeat Verstappen to win the race, but also depends on Qin Miao's performance on the field.

However, despite the serious situation, British car fans did not show much pessimism, and all of them were full of confidence.

British car fans even booked an entire grandstand at the scene. The grandstands were all fluttering British flags, and their clothes were also uniform in blue, white and red.

It does seem a bit oppressive, at least for the Qin Miao fans who came to watch the race.

It's just that changes in the outside world at this time cannot affect Qin Miao at all.

Now Qin Miao's running game feels a bit like being in a sports car team simulator.

In the simulator, there is also a special rendering for the audience area of ​​the live stands. Over time, once Qin Miao enters the state, he can directly ignore the audiences on both sides of the stands.

So even in the two games at Red Bull's home court this year, Qin Miao was not affected by the Orange Legion on the scene.

Those two races did not result in a good result. It was purely because the characteristics of the Red Bull car were too suitable for the Red Bull Ring.

In just one second period, the Red Bull car can easily beat the Mercedes car by about 0.3 seconds.

Back to the topic.

The warm-up lap passed quickly. Two minutes later, Qin Miao, who was behind Gasly, stopped his car in the twelfth starting position.

At this time, the tire temperature is just right, the racing car is full of fuel, and the battery is already ready to go.

As Mick Schumacher, who was last in the queue, parked his car at his place, the medical car was in place, the green flag at the rear waved, and the five red lights lit up one by one, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was about to begin.

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"Okay, let's take a look at the final race of the 2021 season, the start of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix!"

"The five red lights go out! The game begins!"

On the field, Qin Miao's start this time maintained the superb starting level he has always shown.

After the start, the speed is obviously faster than Gasly.

Even compared to the one directly in front of him, Alonso, who has always been known for his starting speed, is 0.05 seconds faster.

Gasly did receive instructions from Dr. Marco, that is, he must help Verstappen defend Qin Miao behind him no matter what.

And not just Gasly, the two drivers Tsunoda and Perez also received instructions from Red Bull.

Tsunoda Yuki waited for Qin Miao to come behind him and then tried to defend Qin Miao as many times as possible.

On Perez's side, he mainly assists Verstappen to gain an advantage over Hamilton, that is, he does his best to help Verstappen win the championship in this game, and then if there is a chance, he can help Verstappen. Then defend Qin Miao.

The best thing is to wait until Perez comes out of the pits just in front of Qin Miao's car, and then let Perez use new tires to defend Qin Miao, whose tires are already old.

It can be said that Perez is very busy in this game and also under great pressure.

He is different from Gasly Tsunoda, the two Toro Rosso drivers. If these two people failed to guard Qin Miao in this game, it is because the performance of the Toro Rosso car is here and there is nothing they can do about it.

But Perez couldn't do it. This was a reason he couldn't express and it couldn't be defended.

Moreover, Red Bull always replaces the No. 2 driver. Although this is only Perez's first season with Red Bull Racing, if his performance in this game is not good enough, the consequences can be imagined.

Perez was under a lot of pressure at this time, and he needed to use his performance in the last race to prove his worth to the team.

But after Gasly started to receive the task, he saw Qin Miao quickly catching up with him on the outside of the track and surpassing him in a short time. He was not disappointed because he could not complete the task assigned by Marco. Whatever sense of guilt was born, it was more of the same sense of powerlessness he felt when facing his teammate Verstappen.

Why are some people born with terrifying talents in racing, as if they were born to kill everyone on the racing track?

When it comes to God's reward, Verstappen's talent is not as good as Qin Miao's.

Of course, when Gasly was thinking this, he didn't realize at all that he was also the kind of person with incredible talent.

But compared with people like Qin Miao, Verstappen, and Hamilton who are forced by God and begged for food, his talent is indeed not that good.

But to become an F1 driver, join Red Bull, and win a race championship, Gasly's achievements and talents actually exceed 90% of F1 drivers.

He is also one of those people whose talents are incredible in the eyes of other middle and lower-level F1 drivers.

It's just that he is somewhat accustomed to this state now.

After the start, Qin Miao relied on his starting reaction to surpass Gasly before T1 and ranked eleventh.

Although Alonso in front did not start as fast as Qin Miao, his speed was not much slower than Qin Miao.

So it can be seen that although Qin Miao slowly shortened the time gap between himself and Alonso after the start, Qin Miao did not really find himself behind Alonso until the drivers came all the way to T1. Opportunity to attack Alonso.

So in the initial stage, Qin Miao just stepped forward to catch up to a position.

Although Alonso's speed was pretty good at the start, the performance of the car hampered the veteran's performance. Alonso had an inside tap before T1, but for safety reasons, Alonso still failed to overtake him in the end. Yuki Tsunoda.

In addition to the two drivers before and after Qin Miao, the performance of the two drivers in the front row at the start was a bit surprising.

Even if Verstappen wins the final race in this game, he may not be able to win this year's driver's championship, but if Verstappen doesn't fight for it, a miracle will never happen.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

Therefore, in this game, Verstappen still went all out, which is also in line with the character that Verstappen has always shown. But I don’t know whether Verstappen was affected by his disadvantage in the standings or by other reasons that affected his competitive state. Verstappen didn’t get up well at the beginning, and his speed was even faster than behind him. Norris is slow.

However, Hamilton was the driver who started the best in this race. Hamilton's starting speed was even faster than Qin Miao.

Therefore, the audience can see through the broadcast screen that Hamilton passed Verstappen directly on the left front and 1 meters away from the braking point of T100.

The battle for first and second place in this game seems to be over before it even begins.

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Hamilton's lead at this time was also due to the opportunity given by Verstappen. Otherwise, if he started at Verstappen's normal starting pace, even if Hamilton started faster than Verstappen, he would probably have to compete with him in T1. Verstappen's bayonet was red and he braked hard to determine the final outcome of this game.

Of course, due to Verstappen's mistakes and Hamilton's terrifying starting speed, this scene did not happen. Hamilton immediately came to the first place to lead the race after starting.

After taking the lead, Hamilton didn't think about much at this time, except for glancing at the rearview mirror from time to time to observe the position gap between Verstappen and himself.

When running a race, he worships all the gods he knows, doesn't know, believes in, and doesn't believe in, and prays that Qin Miao will not be able to catch up behind Verstappen and finish third in the later stages of the race.

There were no problems such as car accidents at the start of this race. Everyone started smoothly. However, this start was even more difficult for Red Bull, which was already demoralized because of the low possibility of Verstappen winning the championship. A disastrous start.

The only thing that can make Red Bull feel a little relieved at this time is that after the start, Perez successfully moved up one position and came to third. In this game, Perez is likely to compete with Verstappen in the pit stop strategy. Produce coordination.

However, everything is unknown at this time, and we still have to wait for the game to continue to find out.

Of course, after starting, Qin Miao was not in a hurry to attack Alonso in front of him.

Although Alonso was much slower than himself at this time, Qin Miao's acceleration was obviously faster than Alonso after some corners and exits.

But Qin Miao knew that his main goal in this game was not to chase Hamilton and snatch the championship away from Hamilton, but to finish third.

In Qin Miao's opinion, the third place is really not that difficult. All Qin Miao needs to do to get this place is to protect his car and finish the race at a normal speed.

On the track, just when everyone thought that Hamilton's race was about to continue normally, even if Verstappen really wanted to attack Hamilton, it would be when DRS turned on and took advantage of the soft tires to launch an attack.

In this game, Hamilton and Verstappen started their first confrontation.

Before even completing a lap after the start, Verstappen followed Hamilton from T1 to T5.

After exiting T5, Verstappen relied on his soft tire's cornering advantage and was not pulled too far away by Hamilton after exiting the corner, even though Hamilton's Mercedes car had stronger engine performance and cornering speed at this time. , but Verstappen relied on his own set of soft tires. After exiting the corner, he was not thrown away by Hamilton, but was sucked into Hamilton's wake.

Then on the longest straight at the Yas Marina Circuit, Verstappen began to shorten the time gap with Hamilton in the middle of the straight.

After that, the two came to the braking point of T1 together. Verstappen was even more probing the inside line at this time, but at the normal braking point position, Verstappen had not yet tapped Hamilton's inside line.

Hamilton, who knew the distance between himself and Verstappen, did not defend Verstappen at this time, so Hamilton took the normal route into the corner at this time.

But Verstappen suddenly braked late and forced his way into Hamilton's lane.

Forget it, after all, Verstappen's behavior can be regarded as a normal attack and defense, and soft tires do have certain advantages in braking compared to medium tires.

Soft tires have better braking points, braking timing, and braking efficiency than medium tires.

Hamilton actually still has an advantage at this time. After all, if he continues to run like this, Hamilton still has the right to the line. The worst thing is that the two cars will enter the corner side by side, and then he will regain his position in T7 by relying on the inside advantage.

But after forcing his way into Hamilton's lane, Verstappen had no intention of stopping. He performed a very classic way of exiting the corner and squeezing his opponent off the track.

The key is that the layout started at the apex of T6. At that time, Verstappen did not take the optimal exit route after passing the apex, but directly pushed against Hamilton and pushed him towards the outside of the track. .

If Hamilton had encountered such a situation before and was squeezed off the track by his opponent, he might not have been able to think of a good solution for a while.

But after several battles with Verstappen on the track, Hamilton also learned something from Verstappen.

So after being squeezed out of the track by Verstappen, Hamilton stopped running on the normal track and cut corners directly. After running a T7 less, he returned to the track.

In this way, Hamilton will have to take one less corner than Verstappen. After returning to the track, Hamilton's speed will naturally be much faster than that of Verstappen who enters the corner normally.

By the time the broadcast footage showed Hamilton again, he had surpassed Verstappen by at least 5 car lengths.

And judging from Hamilton's actions, he had no intention of returning this position to Verstappen behind him.

After Verstappen saw Hamilton's actions, he naturally complained in the team's TR immediately: "He cut the corner!"

Red Bull immediately began to comfort Verstappen: "Don't worry, we will communicate with the FIA ​​and the race stewards about this matter. Now you can concentrate on running your own race and leave the rest to us."

Hamilton was not to be outdone. After turning the corner and returning to the track, he immediately said in the team TR: "Verstappen squeezed me off the track!"

Hamilton's track engineer responded to Hamilton after a brief discussion with the team: "We don't think there is anything wrong with what you did."

This is completely a corner where the public is right and the mother-in-law is right. Therefore, how to punish Hamilton's cornering operation this time has to be decided by the race stewards.

On the field, after returning to the track, the time gap between Hamilton and Verstappen had reached 2.4 seconds, but Hamilton knew that he had gained at least a 1-second advantage, so he slowed down a little and The time gap between himself and Verstappen was controlled to 1.4 seconds.

And just when everyone's eyes were on Verstappen and Hamilton, discussing who was mainly responsible this time and how the FIA ​​would punish the two drivers, Qin Miao was also in the same position. He passed Alonso in front of him silently.

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