How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 362 Chapter 356: It’s not easy to learn well, but it’s easy to learn bad things

Although Qin Miao still ranked fifth in this game, Qin Miao also had the opportunity to look forward to the podium in this game.

According to simulation data, this track consumes very little tires. Basically, most teams will choose yellow and white to stop or white and yellow to stop on this track.

And Qin Miao can try to stop red and yellow or stop yellow and red.

In this way, as long as there is no safety car or red flag on the track, with Qin Miao's long-distance speed, he can at least try to compete with Ferrari and Red Bull.

But that may be the limit. Again, Qin Miao's personal ability has its limits. He can't even close the 0.5-second lap time gap by relying on his own personal ability alone.

The next day, Sunday, was the start of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Qin Miao has been a little indifferent to today's game. Now he doesn't have much of the desire for the championship that he had last season. At this time, he is somewhat like Alonso, purely. While you're having fun racing, try to get as far forward as possible if you can.

After completing the pre-match photos, parade, and interviews, Qin Miao rested for a while in the team. When he looked towards the auditorium in Room P, Qiu Meng stood there and looked at Qin Miao.

Seeing Qin Miao looking over, the girl's eyes were full of encouragement. She raised her fist towards Qin Miao and said, "Come on!"

Qin Miao smiled after seeing Qiu Meng's actions and gave Qiu Meng a reassuring look.

It is worth mentioning that Qiu Meng is also a person who "likes the new and hates the old".

Jay Chou also came here on Sunday, but due to the restrictions in the team's P room, today he went to the VIP auditorium upstairs. There were food, drinks and a good view there. It was indeed a good place to go, at least it was better than staying in It’s comfortable to watch the game in the team’s P room.

But Qiu Meng did not follow.

The main reason is that after spending a day with Jay Chou in the qualifying match, this girl has become familiar with Jay Chou, and the filter in her heart about idols has almost been shattered.

Therefore, Qiu Meng clearly knew that Jay Chou was watching the game in the Mercedes VIP viewing area upstairs, so she didn't bother to go up.

After the time was almost up, Qin Miao went to the track.

At this time, Qin Miao's car had stopped on the track, and the sky was gradually getting dark.

However, it was not yet time for the game to start, and we still had to wait for about ten minutes.

Qin Miao simply took her water and sat down on the wall beside the track, waiting for her car to be ready while sipping water to pass the time.

But after a while, someone also sat next to Qin Miao.

Turning his head to look, Zhou Guanyu, wearing the Arrow Racing uniform, was sitting next to Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't say anything. He took out a notebook from under his butt and handed it to Zhou Guanyu.

Qin Miao got these notebooks from Reyes. They were originally used to record the inspection status of the car. They had tables like checklists on them.

Because there are many items that need to be tested, the book is not small, and it is suitable for padding the buttocks to prevent the racing suit from being stained by the dust on the track.

Zhou Guanyu didn't mind it either. He took what Qin Miao handed over and put it under his buttocks.

After sitting down, Zhou Guanyu said: "How would you evaluate today's game?"

Qin Miao laughed: "Why are you like those reporters wandering around the live broadcast room, catching an anchor and asking how to evaluate this and that, and then taking the anchor's evaluation video to quote it out of context."

Because of Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu also broadcasts live broadcasts when playing games. After all, he is pretty good at games and often plays games with Qin Miao. With his status as an F1 driver, many fans will watch him. Naturally, I have encountered such people during the live broadcast.

However, Zhou Guanyu rolled his eyes and said, "I'm talking to you about business, don't interrupt."

"How can I evaluate it? My brother is a participant in this game."

But Zhou Guanyu shook his head and smiled: "It seems that I worried about you in vain. I thought that last season you were still dominating the field, but this season you will not be able to do it. Because the gap is too big, you will be unable to accept the reality and give up."

"Then I really thank you." Although Qin Miao said so, Qin Miao specially added the accent on the three words "thank you." It was obvious from his tone that what Qin Miao said was not a good thing.

However, Zhou Guanyu didn't care. He spread his hands and said, "Although it is said that a father's love is as strong as a mountain, sometimes a father has to put his love into practice."

After punching Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao asked angrily: "Are you here to persuade me or to mess with my mentality?"

"Haha, it's fine. I just saw you sitting here like an unwanted child, a little lonely..."

"You can't say anything nice, can you?

I found that the saying is true, distance creates beauty. Before I met you, I thought you were quite aloof. After getting to know you, I only thought you were unlucky. "

"Every cause must have its effect, and your retribution will be me!"

Shaking his head, Qin Miao changed the topic: "Has your team's starting procedure been completed? I didn't see you practice starting at the exit of the pit area during the practice race. There won't be any problems in the race today. Bar?"

It was all about sighing rarely, scratching his hair a little irritably, and then said: "I practiced, you just didn't notice.

However, although the team said that they have improved this aspect and have upgraded the system, during testing, there are still cases of forced intervention to prevent stalling after starting. "

"What should I do?"

"What should I do? Just bear with it and pray that this kind of problem won't happen at the start of the race."

"I really don't know whether I should say you are lucky or unlucky. I should say you are unlucky. Arrow's team has performed really well this season. If I say you are lucky, you often encounter problems at the start."

"Stop talking about this, it's so unlucky..."

……

After Zhou Guanyu left, looking at his back, Qin Miao still felt a little warm.

Although the two of them were basically not serious when chatting, they started to want to be each other's fathers as they chatted.

And I am not as fragile as Zhou Guanyu said, so that I feel uncomfortable when there is a gap.

But the concern of friends is something that many people can't ask for. At least because of Zhou Guanyu's trouble, Qin Miao's inner gloomy mood, which was born due to the performance of the car, has completely disappeared.

After looking at the Rolex clock in the distance, it was almost time. Qin Miao stood up, patted his butt, shook the dust off the two books, and then came to Reyes' side.

After getting the two notebooks returned by Qin Miao, Reyes also made a joke: "I have to find a way to hide the verification notebook that the world champion sat on, and I will probably sell it for a lot of money in the future." Qin Miao smiled. Giving Reyes a middle finger.

We have been working together for almost a year, and Qin Miao has no airs. He is basically familiar with the staff in the team. In addition, this is Qin Miao's team, so the relationship with them is naturally very good. There is no psychological burden at all while having fun.

After returning the book in his hand to the other party, Qin Miao put on his helmet, fixed the Hans system, and entered the racing car.

Reyes came over to help Qin Miao fix the headrest, and helped Qin Miao check various protective equipment. After making sure that there was no problem, he patted Qin Miao's helmet and said: "After checking, relax, run well, don't get caught." Knocked down by temporary difficulties, in our hearts you will always be the strongest F1 driver, you just need to wait for an opportunity now."

Qin Miao nodded and said nothing.

After another five minutes, the staff on the track began to withdraw one after another.

Franky's voice came through the team TR: "Okay Qin Miao, the race is about to start. The weather is good today. The possibility of rain is very low. The air temperature is 27 degrees and the track temperature is 29 degrees. It may be a little cold. Please pay attention. Warm up your tires fully.

The air humidity is 81%, protect your right front wheel.

Finally, I wish you good luck in the competition, come on! "

"receive."

After briefly understanding the track conditions of this race, Qin Miao waited for another three minutes, and then all staff on the track evacuated.

At eight o'clock sharp local time in Saudi Arabia, the tire warm-up lap began.

In today's race, Qin Miao started on soft tires.

However, because the driver in front of Qin Miao was Verstappen, after seeing the tires Qin Miao used in the starting stage, the commentators still had some expectations about whether Qin Miao could surpass Verstappen.

But these discussions don't matter to Qin Miao now.

After the tire warm-up lap, Qin Miao returned to his parking position, with Sainz in front and Verstappen in front and on the right.

As for the driver behind? Qin Miao still has the confidence that he will not be threatened by the two drivers behind him after starting.

As Russell at the rear stopped the car at his position, the safety car at the rear was also in place, and the race was about to begin.

Five red lights come on and off...the game officially begins!

Qin Miao's start was as stable and fast as ever, but in today's game neither Ferrari nor Red Bull drivers wanted to give Qin Miao any chance.

Therefore, it can be seen from the broadcast footage that the top five drivers started almost simultaneously. Qin Miao did rely on the advantage of soft tires to gradually shorten the gap between him and Verstappen ahead.

But this close rate is too small, not enough for Qin Miao to launch an attack on Verstappen before T1.

Moreover, T1 is a right-hand corner. Even if Qin Miao was wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen before T1, with Verstappen's position and his personality, he could not simply let Qin Miao pass him. .

The advantage of soft tires in the starting stage is just gone.

However, Qin Miao didn't feel any pity. After all, this is an F1 game. There are winners and losers, and everything can't be so smooth.

Qin Miao couldn't attack the car in front of him, but Verstappen, because of his position advantage and the car's speed advantage in low-speed corners, suddenly found an opportunity to suppress Sainz on the outside of T2, and In the left turn at T3, he used his inside advantage to complete the overtaking of Sainz.

After the start, he successfully rose from fourth to third.

Apart from this, no other driver in front of Qin Miao had any changes in position.

Behind, Zhou Guanyu once again made a puzzling start error. He originally started in eleventh place, but after starting, the car was protected against stalling at the start.

When his car regained power, his car fell to last place again.

However, the speed of Arrow's car this season is still good, so not long after he fell to last place, he caught up with Russell in front of him.

And completed the overtaking of Russell on the second lap.

In fact, Russell still struggled a bit, but in terms of straight-line speed, Williams is really not as good as Arrow's Ferrari engine.

Unlike Zhou Guanyu who quickly regained his rhythm, Hamilton's form in the qualifying stage continued into the race. When the race came to the sixth lap, Hamilton was still fourteenth. At this time, Zhou Guanyu even Caught up behind Hamilton.

In the front, Qin Miao also relied on the soft tire advantage of his car. After starting, he was not too far away from Sainz in front of him. When the race came to the 6th lap, he was still behind Sainz for 3 seconds. s position.

Qin Miao in front opened up a time gap of more than 6 seconds with O'Connell behind him, which only took six laps.

But although it seems that the Mercedes car has regained its competitiveness, in fact, Qin Miao still cannot catch up with Sainz.

Qin Miao actually tried to push forward with all his strength after the time gap between Sainz and himself reached 2.5 seconds and the turbulence of the car in front basically had no effect on him.

But Qin Miao's full push can only guarantee the same speed as Sainz.

In this state, it was difficult for Qin Miao to get close to the car in front, let alone overtake the car in front.

Therefore, Qin Miao also started cruising at this time. He needed to run as many laps as possible on his set of soft tires.

But what's interesting is that when the race came to the ninth lap, Qin Miao discovered that O'Connell behind him was fighting with his teammate Alonso on the track for some reason.

You surpass me, and I surpass you.

When Qin Miao came to his senses, due to the struggle between his teammates, the time gap between Qin Miao and them was widened to 8 seconds.

At the end of the 15th lap, Leclerc followed the example of Mercedes and said directly in the team TR before pitting that he was ready to pit.

The team's P room also followed Leclerc's wishes and moved four brand new hard tires to the track. The team staff also prepared at their respective positions and put new tires on Leclerc when he came in.

In addition, Leclerc started to accelerate after the team said it, giving people the feeling that he was going to use up all his tires in this lap.

Red Bull was instantly convinced.

Red Bull’s idea is very simple. I, Perez, am in front of you anyway, so I will become a copy ninja.

I do whatever you do, and then Perez comes in.

A dramatic scene occurred next. After Perez pitted, Leclerc did not pit, and Perez was tricked into pitting.

(End of this chapter)