How did I become an F1 driver?

Seeing this, Zhou Guanyu also returned to the position assigned to him by the competition: "I'm ready to take pictures, no more chatting."

"Okay." Qin Miao, who knew the process well, knew that after the photo was taken, the two of them would return to their teams to prepare for the next race. The two of them might not see each other again before the end of the race, so Qin Miao Said: "Come on, try to get top five in the first game."

Zhou Guanyu smiled bitterly. It is indeed easy to say it, but it is not easy to accomplish all this.

Afterwards, the 2022 drivers from the 20 season stood together with their teammates and took a photo.

It is worth mentioning that because Vettel is not here today, the person wearing the Aston Martin Team jersey in his place is substitute driver Hulkenberg.

After taking photos, all the drivers walked to the pre-race parade trailer in front of them.

Originally, Qin Miao wanted to change his mind during this period, because the driver parade stage is one of the few opportunities during the Grand Prix where he can completely empty his mind and just wave to the audience on the sidelines without thinking about anything.

Moreover, there are not too many spectators at the Bahrain Grand Prix track. Finding a better angle, Qin Miao can even spend 80% of the time in a daze.

But just as Qin Miao found a relatively unobtrusive position, Zhou Guanyu came over.

Before Qin Miao asked him why he came to look for him instead of interacting with the audience, Zhou Guanyu said with a shy face: "What, Qin Miao, are there any noteworthy details on this track? Now that you have time, you can tell me in detail."

Qin Miao was dumbfounded. Brother, you just crammed the Buddha's feet at the last moment. Why did you hug me here?

And this is my rare rest time. I really don’t want to use my brain right now...

However, looking at Zhou Guanyu's expectant eyes, Qin Miao sighed, but still did not say rejection: "Okay.

But I have another interview later. If you really want to hear it, you have to wait until this interview is over. "

"No problem!" Zhou Guanyu naturally agreed.

Then Qin Miao was the first to accept the interview at the host's invitation.

As the 2021 world champion, you still have this kind of treatment and respect.

After completing his pre-game interview, Qin Miao returned to his position.

Zhou Guanyu has been waiting for a long time.

Qin Miao then greeted Zhou Guanyu while greeting the audience and briefly talked about some noteworthy points on the Bahrain track.

Of course, as an F1 driver, Qin Miao also knows that even if he doesn't tell Zhou Guanyu, Zhou Guanyu's track engineer and his coach will tell Zhou Guanyu some skills.

Maybe with the size of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team, Mercedes-Benz Racing Team does know some things that Arrow Racing Team has not discovered, but these things will never be too many.

Because the advantages these things bring to drivers are very limited and cannot play a decisive role.

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu can only achieve a small gain in the end. Maybe after he has mastered it, Zhou Guanyu's single lap speed will be 0.1 seconds higher than normal during the race.

Halfway through the conversation between the two, Leclerc, who had finished the interview, came over and said, "What are you talking about?"

Not shying away from Le Laosi, Qin Miao switched the language module to English and said: "Some tips on the track, what, do you have anything to share?"

"No, I signed the agreement, so I can't talk about it."

……

After a pre-race parade of trucks doing a lap around the track, most of the 20 drivers were interviewed.

Afterwards, the drivers returned to their team’s P room for final preparations before the race.

Two hours later, the sky gradually dimmed, and lights came on on the track, illuminating the entire Bahrain track.

When the camera cut back to the track, Qin Miao was already waiting in his car.

The first scene after the director cut to Qin Miao.

There is no way, last season's world champion, now after the winter break has passed, he has directly fallen to sixth place on the grid.

This result was not even as good as Qin Miao's first career qualifying race. Not only did he start in second place, he even defeated his teammate Hamilton, the seven-time champion.

It can only be said that time has changed and things have changed.

What's outrageous is that after yesterday's qualifying ended, some people immediately began to badmouth Qin Miao on the Internet, thinking that Qin Miao had exhausted his talents and would start to go downhill this season, and was abandoned by the Mercedes team on the final straight.

However, Qin Miao's state of mind was very calm while sitting in the racing car.

Sitting in the car, he put his hands flat on his lower abdomen, listening to music and waiting for the game to start.

It is worth mentioning that the Mercedes team knows that Qin Miao likes to listen to music to relax before the game, and the quality of the team's TR is not very good.

Therefore, the Mercedes-Benz team specially upgraded the team's TR system during the winter break and improved the sound quality of the headphones of everyone in the team.

For an F1 team, this process is not a hassle, but this type of upgrade will occupy the team's budget cap.

Moreover, this kind of upgrade is completely useless in the eyes of other teams, because the sound quality of the team's TR is not a particularly important component and does not improve the performance of the car.

But that’s what Mercedes has done, and Mercedes’ headphone sponsor EPOS has also contributed a lot here.

This can only show that Mei Ben really values ​​Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was shocked when he discovered this during Friday's practice match, and then he felt a warm feeling of being taken seriously.

However, in the early stage before the game, Qin Miao did not focus all his attention on listening to the songs.

At this time, what appeared in front of Qin Miao was the task subdivision interface in his system interface.

[Mission 1: Get on the podium of the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix]

[Reward: Team free attribute point*1]

[Task 2: Do not be overtaken by any driver during the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix]

[Reward: Team free attribute point*1]

[Task 3: Overtake four cars in the main race of the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix (undercut does not count)]

[Reward: Attack ability rating +1]

Looking at the tasks this season, Qin Miao discovered a pattern, that is, the rewards given by the system last season were more focused on improving Qin Miao's personal abilities, while this season they have fully shifted to the attributes of the team.

Moreover, the tasks given to Qin Miao by the game system were not too difficult, so the rewards finally given to Qin Miao were not particularly good, at least not as good as last season. After finishing reading, the music in Qin Miao's headphones stopped, and Franky's voice intervened: "Radio test, Qin Miao, can you hear it?"

"Yes, it's very clear. I've never heard your voice so clear before when I was sitting in a racing car."

"Haha, as long as you like it.

Okay, back to the topic, the race starts in 5 minutes, and the staff on the track will be evacuated soon, so please be prepared in advance. "

"Copy that, I'm ready."

“Good luck.“

After finishing speaking, Reyes also gestured to Qin Miao, and then the team staff responsible for transporting tires and other equipment dragged their big boxes away from the track.

Only four technicians were left responsible for Qin Miao's tires and front and rear jacks.

Not long after, the insulation blankets on Qin Miao's four tires were also taken off, and they were attached to the tires of Qin Miao's racing car in a semi-encircling state to maintain the temperature of the tires.

At the same time, Qin Miao's racing car was put on the ground and the engine started.

A few minutes later, following the reminder from the race stewards, the drivers and engineers of all teams evacuated the track and waited for the start of the race beside the track.

As for Qin Miao, sitting in the racing car and looking at the butt of the Red Bull racing car that rarely appeared in front of him, his heart was somewhat complicated.

At the same time, there was inevitably a strong sense of gap. Fortunately, Qin Miao's adaptability was strong enough, and his mentality did not fluctuate too much due to the sudden change in position.

After all the staff on the track were evacuated, two green lights illuminated in the distance. Leclerc, who was first in line, stepped on the accelerator pedal and drove the car out of its parking position.

The warm-up lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix begins.

During the warm-up lap, Pirelli gave two pit stop strategies during the race.

Both suggestions are two stops.

They are red, yellow, red and red, white and red.

Because it is not mandatory for teams to use the set of tires with the fastest lap in the second qualifying session, the tire life of almost all teams has been increased to varying degrees.

It also adds many different options to the team during the race.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, chose the pit stop strategy of yellow and white for this game because of his terrifying tire protection ability and the data obtained during the three practice sessions.

So you can see that when all the riders in the front row started using soft tires, Qin Miao used a set of yellow medium tires.

As Stroll parked at his position and the medical vehicle at the rear was in place, the green flag in Matthew's hand waved.

On the Five Star Sports side, after seeing this scene, Brother Bing explained: "Attention, everything is ready for the Bahrain Grand Prix in the 2022 season... The five red lights are on... they go out, and the game begins!"

Qin Miao's reaction speed at the start was very fast, even obviously faster than Perez in front of him.

However, due to the gap in tire performance, even if Qin Miao started faster than Perez, the time gap between him and Perez only narrowed very slowly after the start, and it did not have the effect of a decisive battle. .

Hamilton on the other side didn't have a bad start, even better than Qin Miao, so Hamilton stayed on the outside after starting, preparing to enter the corner from the outside.

After Perez started, he found that Qin Miao was faster than him, but the closing rate was very low, so he relaxed his vigilance towards Qin Miao, and instead focused on Hamilton on his left rear.

Perez felt an extremely strong threat from Hamilton.

Hamilton's starting speed was originally very good, but Sainz in front of Hamilton did not start well.

Moreover, after starting, both Sainz and Hamilton chose to look inside for overtaking opportunities.

This directly caused Hamilton to correct his direction to the left in order to avoid Sainz in front of him.

You must know that any turn in an F1 car during the starting stage of the car has a great impact on the speed of the car, because part of the power originally used by the car to start in a straight line must be consumed in the steering.

Therefore, changing lanes once to the inside and once to the outside completely wiped out Hamilton's advantage at the start.

It can be said that the two Mercedes drivers had an average start this time, without any mistakes, but they did not gain any advantage through the start.

But just when Qin Miao and Hamilton thought that was the end of the start.

Perez visibly spun on exit from T1.

This gave Hamilton a chance.

Hamilton directly forced his way inside Perez at T2, and after accumulating a sufficient lead in T2 and T3, he overtook Perez in one fell swoop.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, was unable to catch Perez's flaw because of his position.

But in the two corners T2 and T3, when Perez and Hamilton entered into a wheel-to-wheel fight, Qin Miao kept sucking the wake of these two people, so that he came to the big gap between T3 and T4. On the straight, the tail speed of Qin Miao's car was astonishing, and he squeezed into Perez's inside lane just before T4.

Then braking late at T4, Qin Miao completely blocked Perez's entry line. After exiting the corner, he naturally took Perez's position and raised his ranking to fifth.

But it rained all night, just when everyone thought it was over after Perez was beaten and taken away by the two Mercedes drivers.

T8 Magruson seized the opportunity of Perez's unstable state after being overtaken by two Mercedes drivers. He braked late in T8 and forcibly inserted Perez's entry line into the corner, also passing Perez.

This can be regarded as the highlight moment of the Haas team. Not only the qualifying results are outstanding, but also directly overtaking a Red Bull at the start of the race.

The faces of Perez and everyone at Red Bull were not so good. After all, anyone who saw that their driver not only failed to gain any advantage at the start, but dropped three positions before even finishing a lap would be in a good mood.

Someone will ask at this time, isn't Bottas behind Qin Miao? Why did he become Magnussen?

The reason for this eye-catching scene is also very simple. Arrow Racing's self-developed gearbox never disappoints.

This gearbox predictably had an accident during the first F2022 Grand Prix of the 1 season.

Both Arrow drivers suffered a rough start at the start.

So much so that the two of them lost a lot of positions in the starting stage. Bottas dropped from seventh to 7th, and Zhou Guanyu was even worse. He started in 14th place and fell directly to the end of the team.

Perhaps judging from the broadcast footage and the audience's perspective at this time, this was entirely a personal mistake by the two Arrow drivers.

But in fact, both drivers Zhou Guanyu and Bottas encountered the problem of the car entering the anti-stall mode directly after starting.

If one person makes such a mistake, it can only be blamed on the driver's own problems. If two people make such a mistake, it can only be the team's problem. (End of chapter)