How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 325 Chapter 328: Children are ignorant and just playing around (6K, plus 15 more updates. Thanks to the big guys for the reward)

The route Qin Miao took this time to overtake was almost exactly the same as the route Verstappen took when he squeezed Hamilton out of the track. He also relied on the advantages of tires and car performance to brake later than Alonso, and then overtook Alonso. Insider.

The only difference is that before entering the braking point, Qin Miao has already tapped Alonso's inside line.

Moreover, when exiting the corner, Qin Miao did not do as well as Verstappen, but still left enough room for Alonso to exit the corner.

However, after exiting the corner, Qin Miao still relied on the stronger tire traction of his car to grab the inside line of T7, successfully surpassed Alonso and reached tenth, and also successfully entered the points area.

Next, in front of Qin Miao was McLaren driver Ricciardo. However, due to the brief battle with Alonso, the time gap between Qin Miao and Ricciardo was 1.5 seconds at this time.

Even though Qin Miao was using soft tires, Qin Miao did not have the speed or battery power to surpass another person on the first lap.

But after Qin Miao reached tenth, everyone on the Red Bull side became nervous.

In the next two laps, although there was a fight between drivers on the track, there were no drastic position changes.

On the third lap, just when everyone thought that Hamilton's behavior of cutting corners would be more or less punished by the FIA, the race stewards informed that the accident between Hamilton and Verstappen would no longer be punished. investigation.

After seeing the penalty results issued by the FIA, everyone at Mercedes breathed a sigh of relief.

But the Red Bull next door started cursing her on the spot, with extremely high F content.

After the anger, Red Bull staff found Michael Massey, who was conducting the race, through the radio between the team and the race stewards on the spot to discuss the matter.

Presenting facts, being reasonable, and putting pressure on the FIA ​​at the same time also has the purpose of venting one's inner anger. This can be regarded as a routine process after a team suffers a penalty that is unfavorable to itself.

However, the FIA ​​directly rejected Red Bull's claim that Hamilton had returned the advantage gained after the corner to Verstappen, and Hamilton's corner was squeezed out by Verstappen. appeal.

Although Red Bull was helpless, it could only accept the FIA's penalty.

However, Red Bull still needs to clearly convey its dissatisfaction with this penalty to the FIA.

The five-star sports commentators were also a little surprised when they saw the penalty result.

For a long time, Five Star Sports commentators discussed why the FIA ​​made such a penalty.

In the process, Qin Miao had already reached the position 0.5 seconds behind Ricciardo.

On the third lap, there was not much chatting with Ricciardo. There was no support from DRS on the straightaway. Qin Miao simply relied on the tail speed of the W3 and the faster exit speed than Ricciardo to crash directly on the straight. Ate Ricardo.

Perhaps because of the good relationship between the two off the field, Ricardo had defensive intentions after being attacked by Qin Miao, but after discovering that the speed gap between the two was a bit large, Ricardo simply gave up on defense. Just run your normal pace on the track.

Finally, in T1, Qin Miao surpassed Ricciardo and moved up one position to ninth.

The only thing left to destroy Verstappen's championship dream is to surpass Ocon in front of him.

It is worth mentioning that in front of Ocon is Yuki Tsunoda.

At this time, the time gap between Yuki Tsunoda and Leclerc in front of him was 1.7 seconds. However, according to the data collected by Yuki Tsunoda in practice and qualifying by the Mercedes team, the time gap between Taijun and Leclerc was There is indeed a speed gap, but the gap is not so big that it will be thrown away by 1.7 seconds in three laps.

And it is worth mentioning that the time gap between Tsunoda Yuki and Ocon at this time was only 0.9 seconds.

It is obvious that this was deliberately done by Tsunoda Yuki.

Taijun knew that if he ran the game normally and defended Qin Miao, he would not be able to stop Qin Miao's attack by himself.

After a season of racing, teams such as Red Bull, Ferrari, and McLaren that may have points conflicts with Mercedes have already studied Qin Miao thoroughly.

Then they discovered that Qin Miao, a driver, was extremely terrifying in terms of his offensive and defensive abilities, as well as his sense of competition, and he was indeed worthy of the importance placed on him by the Mercedes team.

Even when many teams were studying Qin Miao's characteristics on the field this season, they slapped themselves on the thigh angrily more than once. When Qin Miao lost his driver's seat at Ferrari, why didn't he act like a supporter? How about asking someone to go up and take this talented driver under his wing?

I regret my mistake, I regret my mistake.

Of course, the most uncomfortable thing here belongs to Ferrari. Although people have been talking about letting Qin Miao go for a season, as long as Qin Miao does not retire and Ferrari does not rise, he will always be ironed out. The Buddhist temple criticized this incident.

Ahem, that’s too far off topic.

After investigation and research by many teams, it was found that Qin Miao is indeed a very comprehensive driver, but he is still a human being, and he also has weaknesses, that is, his ability to break the DRS train is slightly worse.

So a scene like this appeared in front of Qin Miao. Yuki Tsunoda of Toro Rosso lost his face and started the DRS train with Ocon.

O'Connell's character cannot be said to be that bad, but it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is selfish.

In today's game, his speed was slightly slower than that of Taijun. Originally, he thought it was the last game anyway, so he should try to score as many points as possible. If he couldn't get points, it would be fine to beat his teammate Alonso.

When facing Qin Miao, O'Connell, like other riders in the middle and lower reaches, could not resist him.

If Qin Miao catches up, he will defend. Of course, it is just a try. If Qin Miao's speed is really too fast, just let him pass. The most important thing is not to affect the rhythm of his game.

But when he suddenly discovered that Yuki Tsunoda took the initiative to slow down and let himself enter his DRS zone, Okuyasu understood what Yuki Tsunoda was thinking.

Although after seeing Yuki Tsunoda slowing down, Okuyasu was thinking about using DRS to overtake him, but at this time, foreign enemies were present, and Okuyasu knew what was more important and did not take the initiative to attack Yuki Tsunoda.

Instead, he used the DRS high-speed train to defend Qin Miao behind him.

Qin Miao twitched the corner of his mouth after seeing this scene. He didn't drive the team TR and cursed in his helmet: "Unlucky, the two eighth points scared you two into using the martial soul fusion skill, right?"

But Qin Miao's game must continue, and Qin Miao also knows that this is not the time to complain.

On the 5th lap, Qin Miao caught up with O'Connell in the DRS area.

But it was not until the 9th lap that Qin Miao found an opportunity to overtake.

After Qin Miao arrived at T5, the time gap between Qin Miao and O'Connell in front came to 0.3 seconds.

Then Qin Miao ignored the turbulence at the rear of O'Connell's car and entered T5 close to the rear of O'Connell's car. After exiting the corner, he used his set of soft tires to control the time gap between himself and O'Connell to 0.4 seconds.

After starting to accelerate out of the corner, Qin Miao turned on the car's DRS as soon as he passed the DRS detection point.

On the longest straight at the Yas Marina Circuit, Qin Miao was sucked into the wake of Ocon's racing car.

But O'Connell's will to defend was particularly strong at this time. When Qin Miao was preparing to tap inside on the track, O'Connell changed the lane directly and did not give Qin Miao a chance to overtake on the inside.

Qin Miao had no choice but to go to the outside line.

And because O'Connell has Yuki Tsunoda's DRS, he waits until Qin Miao takes the lead on the outside and gradually accelerates to finish side by side with O'Connell on the track.

O'Connell has also caught up with Yuki Tsunoda in front of him. At this time, the straight road has run 2/3, and it is about to reach the braking point. At this time, Qin Miao is just side by side with O'Connell.

Although Qin Miao has an absolute speed advantage at this time, you must know that there is a Taijun in front of O'Connell.

Because Tsunoda Yuki in front did not have DRS, the distance between him and Ocon was immediately reduced to the point where Qin Miao could not get in.

Moreover, at this time, Okuyasu had no intention of tapping Yuki Tsunoda's inside line, while Yuki Tsunoda was driving normally on the lane.

In other words, at this time, Qin Miao was locked by a Red Bull and an Alpine. Even if he had the speed advantage, Qin Miao could not take the lead. They did not leave any space for Qin Miao on the track.

This is the annoying thing about the DRS train.

It's not enough for you to overtake just one car. If you want to overtake the DRS train, you have to overtake both the carriage and the locomotive.

Sometimes we encounter the problem of DRS trains illegally occupying the road.

After arriving here, Qin Miao also felt that this overtaking would most likely end in failure.

Qin Miao, who is experienced in defense, knows that he has no room to insert from this angle.

Now all Qin Miao can do is try to put pressure on O'Connell from the outside, hoping that he will brake late and take the defensive line, so that he will have the opportunity to cross the line.

But if O'Connell does not take the defensive line and enters the corner normally, Qin Miao will have no choice but to give up this attack and look for other opportunities.

Fortunately, at the braking point, Qin Miao took the outside line. At this time, Qin Miao had already surpassed O'Connell Racing by half a car.

In order to give himself priority when entering the corner, O'Connell chose to brake late at the braking point. Even because he did not control the braking force well, O'Connell's right front wheel was braked so much that a burst of white smoke came out, but soon O'Connell lifted it slightly. A little bit of braking kept the tire damage to a minimum, and the car entered the corner smoothly.

But the tire lock still made O'Connell go a little wider.

Therefore, he gave Qin Miao the opportunity to cross paths.

So we saw Qin Miao on the field taking a wide angle at T6, and then directly cutting into O'Connell's outside line in a general direction.

But the section between T6 and T7 was still too short after all. Qin Miao was unable to fully utilize the acceleration performance of the Mercedes car and overtake O'Connell at this corner in one fell swoop. However, after reaching T7, Qin Miao was still there. Line up with Ocon on the outside.

O'Connell braked late and tried his old trick again, but Qin Miao still took the cross line.

Then there was another big straight road.

When O'Connell saw Qin Miao take the second cross line, he already guessed that he might not be able to defend Qin Miao's attack. So after exiting T7 and arriving at the DRS detection point after T7, O'Connell deliberately let go of the accelerator.

He plans to use DRS to regain his position in the DRS area between T7 and T9.

Qin Miao didn't have so many ideas, although because of the fight between Qin Miao and O'Connell at these two corners, Tsunoda had already run out for more than 1.4 seconds.

But Qin Miao was not worried at all because he no longer had DRS.

Soon, the reason why Qin Miao was not worried about this also surfaced.

Although Qin Miao did not turn on DRS on the track, on the straight, Qin Miao's speed was not slower than O'Connell behind him. It even seemed that Qin Miao's speed was a little faster than O'Connell.

O'Connell was a little confused to see that Qin Miao, who had no wake and no DRS, was faster than him just by driving an ERS, and he was still accelerating to widen the time gap with himself.

O'Connell slowly typed a question mark:?

It was not until the middle of this DRS that O'Connell began to slowly shorten the distance between him and Qin Miao due to his tail speed.

But at this time, the remaining track length in the DRS area was no longer enough for O'Connell to catch up with Qin Miao.

At this time, O'Connell had realized that even with DRS, he could not guard against Qin Miao.

The position is lost...

In fact, if O'Connell was taking a normal route when entering the corner, Qin Miao would really have no way to deal with him.

Because Qin Miao was racing to win the championship in this game. If O'Connell's defensive actions were tougher, it wouldn't matter if he violated the rules. Qin Miao would not dare to drive fiercely at all, and naturally he would not dare to play tough with O'Connell.

Therefore, if O'Kang forced himself to squeeze, Qin Miao would most likely let O'Kang go and look for another chance.

It can only be said that O'Connell's slightly selfish character limited his vision at critical moments, preventing him from considering the offense and defense of this game from another angle.

After overtaking Ocon, everyone on the Red Bull Racing team held their heads in their hands, with annoyance and frustration written all over their faces.

As early as the Brazilian Grand Prix this season, they lost the opportunity to compete for the constructors' championship, but at that time they still had hope, because Verstappen's performance this season was not inferior to the two Mercedes drivers, Hamilton and Qin Miao.

But in the last few games, Qin Miao used his terrifying stability to ensure his position in the standings. Coupled with his wonderful performance in the last race in Saudi Arabia, he directly won a crucial championship.

Everyone at Red Bull was already a little desperate at that time, but as Qin Miao demolished the DRS train in front of him and finished eighth, it was a painful blow to everyone at Red Bull.

Unlike Red Bull, everyone on the Qin Miao team at the Mercedes-Benz team began to applaud excitedly after seeing this overtaking.

After killing Verstappen, all Qin Miao needs to do now is to catch up with Perez and get third place.

I believe that with Qin Miao's strength and the fact that Qin Miao and Red Bull no longer have points conflicts after reaching eighth place, Perez's defensive willingness is not too strong.

It can be said that after surpassing this DRS train, Qin Miao has crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains in a light boat.

However, among the cheering crowd in the Mercedes-Benz P room, apart from Hamilton's crew, there were two other people who did not cheer.

These two people are Qin Miao's mother and daughter-in-law respectively.

It wasn't that the two of them were unhappy after seeing Qin Miao complete overtaking, but more because they were so nervous that they felt a little exhausted after suddenly relaxing.

"Mom, I never knew why Sanshui liked watching game games so much before. Now that I have seen this game and know how important this game is to Sanshui, I now understand the reason from Sanshui's perspective. "

Mom reached out and patted Qiu Meng's arm, and nodded: "Yes, I didn't feel this way when watching Sanshui's games at home. Now that I'm at the scene, this feeling is a bit too exciting."

……

In the racing car, fortunately, Qin Miao finally completed his mission.

As for Five-Star Sports, the three commentators were a little worried when they first discovered that Qin Miao was trapped by the DRS train. However, as Qin Miao seized a rare opportunity and completed the surpassing of O'Connell, the three of them The cheers they gave out were no less loud than those given by the Mercedes team staff.

"Nice crosshatch! That's it!"

"The tail speed of the Mercedes car, coupled with Qin Miao's terrifying car control and corner exit speed with almost no correction after exiting the corner, O'Connell can't catch up with Qin Miao even with DRS."

"This is Qin Miao! Our strongest F1 driver in China!"

……

Not the least bit sad that O'Connell has lost his place.

The next person to be surpassed was Tsunoda Yuki.

T16 on the same lap.

Qin Miao had already chased after Taijun.

Although the starting straight is not long and Qin Miao does not have DRS to eat, Qin Miao's tires have stronger grip than Yuki Tsunoda.

So the audience saw on the track, Qin Miao completed his strong attack on Tsunoda Yuki on the straightaway.

It is a complete crushing of racing engine performance.

Just after passing the finish line of the starting straight, Qin Miao completed abreast with Tsunoda on the inside line, and finally overtook him before the braking point.

In just one lap, Qin Miao demolished the DRS train in front of him, and Qin Miao also improved his ranking to seventh.

"It's so beautiful. The next driver is Leclerc. He is 4 seconds ahead of you. Keep working hard and wait for the good news." After completing two overtakings, French finally sent congratulations to Qin Miao. .

After dismantling the DRS train, Qin Miao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Copy that, how's it going over there in Hamilton?"

Qin Miao actually didn't think about surpassing Hamilton in this game. He asked this question mainly because he wanted to confirm the specific position of his teammate.

More importantly, I still want to have some confidence in my own mind, so that I know how far I am from the final driver's championship position.

"Now Hamilton is still leading P1. It seems that Verstappen will be difficult to cause trouble for him in this game." French said in a very relaxed tone, without any sense of nervousness.

This is the confidence and calmness that Qin Miao's terrifying stability and speed have brought him this season.

The general meaning of these words is that Verstappen is fast in this race, but not fast enough compared to Hamilton, so Qin Miao's main competitor in this race is Hamilton.

"Ok."

Knowing that Hamilton was fast, Qin Miao was not in a hurry. Anyway, it was still very early before the end of the game, and he had enough time to slowly and steadily catch up with the two people in front.

In the next few laps, Qin Miao's soft tires also began to have tire wear problems, which was inevitable. After all, Qin Miao didn't save much on tires in the first few laps of the game and kept pushing forward with all his strength.

Fortunately, with Qin Miao's terrifying skills, the wear of his tires was actually within control, and at least he was still faster than all the riders using medium tires.

As for Verstappen on the track, just as French said, even though he put on soft tires, on the Yas Marina Circuit, a track with mostly high-speed straights, he had very limited room to perform.

By the time the race came to lap 10, Qin Miao had already reached 1.5 seconds behind Leclerc, and his speed began to be affected by the wake of Leclerc's car.

Verstappen is still 3.1 seconds behind Hamilton, and this time gap is gradually widening.

It’s hard to believe that this is the speed that Verstappen ran on soft tires. You must know that Qin Miao, who was killing everyone behind him, also started this race on soft tires, but Qin Miao’s speed on soft tires was obviously faster than Verstappen’s. Stapan was much, much faster.

On the 13th lap of the race, Qin Miao came to the DRS area behind Leclerc.

Looking at the Mercedes racing car and the red helmet in the car that appeared in his rearview mirror, Leclerc actually wanted to let Qin Miao pass directly.

This will give Qin Miao more time to chase Hamilton and Verstappen ahead. If possible, Leclerc hopes that Qin Miao will not only win the driver's championship this year, but also be able to take the championship lead in the last race of this year. Podium.

Leclerc feels that only in this way can the final driver's championship be complete.

But Leclerc also knew that he needed to take into account the influence of public opinion, so he did not put his ideas into practice. However, when Qin Miao started to launch a tentative attack on Leclerc, Leclerc made no defensive moves at all, just entered normally. Turns in and out of turns.

After discovering that Leclerc basically had no intention of defending him, Qin Miao easily passed Leclerc from the inside in the next DRS zone and reached sixth place.

On lap 14, Qin Miao had just passed Leclerc and was about to chase Norris, who was 2 seconds ahead of him, when Qin Miao suddenly discovered...

Why? Why did a Red Bull suddenly come out of the pit area and get in front of me?

Are Red Bull really so crazy that they sent Perez to defend me so early?

After following the opponent for the first time period, Qin Miao discovered that this person's driving style was different from Perez's. This was Verstappen...

Verstappen chose to pit early to change tires on lap 14 and could not catch up with Hamilton. Verstappen was ready to use the team's tactics to try to undercut Hamilton.

In the first DRS zone on lap 14, when Qin Miao was still wondering why Verstappen pitted so early, Verstappen directly used DRS to overtake Norris in front of him at the end of the straight.

Qin Miao also reaped the benefits after Verstappen overtook Norris, surpassing Norris in the second stage of the DRS zone and reaching fifth place.

(End of this chapter)