How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 368 Chapter 371: Qin·Train Driver·Defense Master·Red Bull’s biggest enemy·Miao

Alonso, who did not pit, brought a big trouble to Qin Miao. If he did not pit, Qin Miao would not be able to try to attack Verstappen in front.

The safety car lasted from lap 24 to the end of lap 26, and the overhead lights went out and the race was about to restart.

After the restart, Qin Miao's starting rhythm was very stable. It can even be said that Qin Miao's starting reaction speed was faster than Alonso, but because Leclerc started at the apex of the corner, Qin Miao was just right when Leclerc started. It was right at the braking point, so Qin Miao couldn't pose any threat to Alonso in front of him after starting.

However, Alonso in front of Qin Miao was using hard tires after all, and he had already run a set of hard tires for 26 laps, so if Qin Miao wanted to overtake Alonso, he would not be under much pressure.

However, Qin Miao was still a little cautious and did not surpass Alonso after the restart of the game.

Because Perez behind him has been putting pressure on himself.

Although Qin Miao can now rely on the grip advantage of the medium tires to defend against Perez's attack behind him, he will lose if he defends for a long time. The performance gap of the car lies here, and Qin Miao has no confidence in waiting until his medium tires begin to degrade. After that, he can also defend Perez behind him.

Due to the ground effect floor of the car this season, it is easier to follow the car from behind than last season.

So Qin Miao used his little brain. He immediately gave up the possibility of overtaking Alonso, slowed down his speed, and kept a time gap of about 0.6 seconds with Alonso.

In fact, the distance could be closer, but Qin Miao kept it a little further in order not to put too much pressure on Alonso.

It’s gone a long time ago. If you continue to mess around, you may not be able to keep the podium, but you still want to fight for second place?

The race had only restarted for two laps without seeing it, and the time gap between Alonso and Leclerc in front was already five seconds? Even Verstappen was still three seconds away.

By the time the race came to lap 32, there were already seven cars in the DRS area behind Alonso.

(He is so gentle, I cried to death)

The same goes for the driver behind Hamilton.

On Qin Miao's side, because of the DRS provided by Alonso in front of him, and his actions to block Perez's entry line when exiting the corner, he was able to protect his tires to the maximum extent and at the same time, lock the car behind him. Perez.

Of course, to a certain extent, the time gap at this time is meaningless, because if there is no accident in this game, it is impossible to catch up in these 10 seconds anyway.

At this time, the time gap between Alonso and Leclerc in front has been expanded to 10 seconds.

All of this was actually caused by Qin Miao. After he locked up Perez, Hamilton in the DRS zone was unable to launch any effective attack on Perez in front of him. Even with DRS, it was useless. , because Perez in front also has DRS.

Next, the two drivers Alonso and Qin Miao formed a brief alliance on the track and pulled up a small DRS train behind them.

In short, link by link, this DRS train is getting longer and longer.

Therefore, Qin Miao felt that it would be better for him to be pragmatic and just get third place.

And not only was Perez blocked by Qin Miao using the DRS of the car in front, but Hamilton behind him and Magnus behind Hamilton also quickly joined the DRS train.

As for Qin Miao's enthusiasm for Verstappen in front of him just now?

However, as the instigator, Qin Miao naturally received complaints from the riders on the DRS train behind him among the TRs of many teams.

They are Qin Miao, Perez, Hamilton, Magnussen, Norris, Ricciardo and Albon.

In fact, Qin Miao was thinking too much. Based on Alonso's many years of competition experience on the field, he could actually roughly judge that Qin Miao had not surpassed his own ideas, so he would not pay too much attention to it. Put all your efforts on Qin Miao and focus on running your own long-distance rhythm.

After seeing this scene, Brother Bing and others couldn't help but sigh: "This is Qin Miao, our Chinese F1 world champion. Even if he doesn't have a top racing car, he can still seize everything he can use and use it." Turn it into your own advantage.”

Experienced people sometimes have such vicious vision.

After seeing Qin Miao's actions, Perez felt a little bit pained. Last season, the drivers in the Red Bull camp were still using the DRS train to defend Qin Miao, but who would have thought that this season it would be the other way around. It was really amazing. Feng shui takes turns, thirty years to the east of the river and thirty years to the west of the river.

As a result, the audience could see that the leading group on the track quickly left Alonso and the others behind.

Of course, their complaints could not reach Qin Miao's ears.

But just when everyone thought that Qin Miao, the train driver, would drive the DRS train until Alonso entered the station.

On lap 39, Verstappen stopped directly near the Matthew intersection on the track.

From an aerial view, you can see smoke coming out of the rear engine of Verstappen's car. When Verstappen went over to check, he found that the engine was actually on fire. It was obviously a Honda engine that had failed like Bahrain. problem.

There is a safety car on the track again, but this time it is virtual, and there are no car debris on the track, so the competition should not dispatch a physical safety car.

After seeing the car that Verstappen retired from the race with his peripheral vision, Qin Miao's eyes immediately lit up, holy shit! One hung up! There's a chance!

However, Qin Miao was not in a hurry. Qin Miao immediately asked among the team TR: "How is the condition of my tires?"

Frankie was also on the same page and knew Qin Miao's thoughts right away: "Very good. I can finish the whole race. You have protected your tires very well. I can rest assured to defend the people behind you in the next race." Perez."

Hearing this, Qin Miao was relieved a lot. As for Perez using this virtual safety car to pit and change tires? Qin Miao never thought about it at all.

Although pit stops for tire changes can be advantageous under the virtual safety car, the advantage is not as great as that of a physical safety car.

Moreover, there were only 18 laps left before the end of the race, and Perez was not like Qin Miao. He no longer had new medium tires.

Although Perez has the reputation of a tire protection master, his tire protection ability is not as abnormal as Qin Miao's, so let's not say that he no longer has a new set of soft tires. Even if he replaces a new set of soft tires, he will not Maybe after running the next 18 laps, there will still be enough energy left to pursue and attack Qin Miao.

Changing to medium tires was even more impossible, because there were still seven cars behind Qin Miao. If Perez pitted at this time, he would have to fall behind Zhou Guanyu.

Do you think Zhou Guanyu will help Qin Miao defend you, Perez?

So now Qin Miao can be said to be sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, waiting for Alonso to stop and change tires before he starts to accelerate to defend Perez behind him.

The virtual safety car was canceled in the middle of the 40th lap. Alonso came into the pits to change tires and ended his martial arts fusion with Qin Miao.

Qin Miao also took advantage of the situation and came to second place. Perez was in the DRS area behind Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao didn't panic at all. He opened the ERS and quickly threw Perez behind him out of the DRS area. Then the audience saw that Perez began to speed up and chase Qin Miao.

Hamilton behind Perez and the DRS train were also decompressed due to the departure of the locomotive and driver.

But what's interesting is that after decompressing, Hamilton also began to be gradually thrown away by Perez.

In the next few laps, Qin Miao relied on the advantage of his medium tires to gradually pull away from Perez in various corners, and then Perez shortened the gap with Qin Miao on the straight.

Moreover, Qin Miao controlled the position of himself and Perez very accurately. Qin Miao often let Perez's front wheel catch up with his rear wheel at the braking point, and then used his own line rights to squeeze Perez. Rez's exit line.

So much so that Perez's rhythm out of corners is always disrupted by Qin Miao. After exiting corners, Qin Miao can always open up a time gap of at least 0.6 seconds for Perez.

Qin Miao basically did nothing else in the entire next game. He used all the defensive methods and theories in his mind on Perez.

Perez was stunned for a moment.

The audience is all excited now. Every time Qin Miao successfully defends Perez's attack, there will be a burst of warm cheers and applause.

The five-star sports commentators were also excited, with excited expressions on their faces throughout the whole process.

Of course, the happiest people are the F1 official and the sponsors of Mercedes and Red Bull Racing.

Because in the last dozen laps, 85% of the director's shots were on Qin Miao and Perez.

Also because of Qin Miao's attack, Perez's hard tires were always in a high temperature state, so his tires were greatly worn. When there were three laps to go before the end of the game, Perez's tires were finally I can't hold it any longer.

Perez could only end his attack on Qin Miao unwillingly and frustrated.

However, after Perez took the initiative to slow down, the TR he communicated with the team was also released: "How did he do it? There is no way that the medium tire can last so long!"

Perez's track engineer could only reply helplessly: "Maybe, this is why he was able to win the driver's championship in the first season of his career."

In the end, Qin Miao crossed the line in second place, 25 seconds slower than Leclerc and 2 seconds faster than Perez.

Franky and the others also appeared very excitedly next to the protective wall, cheering loudly to celebrate Qin Miao who crossed the line.

Qin Miao was also very excited at this moment, raising his right hand high in the air and making a gesture.

"Although Mercedes has encountered a lot of difficulties this season, we can see that Qin Miao's strength in this game is still so strong, and his mentality has not been affected in any way by the team's poor performance this season. The fact that he directly locked up Perez for 15 laps is the best proof." Seeing Qin Miao crossing the finish line in second place, Bing Ge and others from Five Star Sports were also sincerely happy and proud of Qin Miao.

These are the kids out of our country!

"Well done Qin Miao! What a great job!" Franky also immediately sent his congratulations.

For a moment, there was thunderous applause in the P room of the Mercedes-Benz team.

"Hahaha, am I awesome?" Qin Miao was also very happy.

"Awesome!" Frankie answered Qin Miao's question in very proficient Chinese.

……

Despite the fact that Qin Miao locked up Perez in these dozen laps, it looked very easy, but the pressure on Qin Miao was still quite high.

On the one hand, it relies on the tires saved by the DRS train in the early stage. On the other hand, Perez’s car has been sucking the hot air from Qin Miao’s car for a long time. The power of the engine is not particularly strong. Finally, and most importantly, Qin Miao's control of Perez's position and a little bit of luck.

These advantages accumulated bit by bit, and finally Qin Miao brutally defended Perez for 15 laps.

When running back to the ring, Qin Miao accelerated directly to Leclerc's side.

Two friends, a Ferrari and a Mercedes, paraded around after the game in such a grand manner.

It is worth mentioning that after Qin Miao came to Leclerc's side, Leclerc gave Qin Miao a thumbs up.

Not to mention the nickname Le Laosi that Qin Miao gave himself, Leclerc still admired Qin Miao's racing talent, especially Qin Miao's defensive talent, which Leclerc felt even more ashamed of.

The defense of most F1 drivers is normal, with soldiers coming to block and water coming to cover, but Qin Miao is different from these drivers. What stands out about Qin Miao's defensive method is that he is cunning and calculating.

When to start defending at the next corner, Qin Miao may have planned it in the last timing period.

With this long-term defensive approach, Leclerc will be shocked basically every time he reviews Qin Miao's defensive video.

Leclerc wondered countless times how Qin Miao managed to concentrate on running the race while still having the brains to think about the next turn and how he should defend the car behind him, and at the same time, Can you always maintain your speed and position on the track?

This doubt has been in Leclerc's mind for a long time, and he also asked Qin Miao why.

Qin Miao's explanation is very general: instinct, as if you are born to do this.

At the same time, another Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu scored again on the field in ninth place.

At least in the first three races of this season, Zhou Guanyu proved his ability to the Arrow Racing Team. If there were no problems with the team, Zhou Guanyu could have scored points in the last race.

At least based on his current performance, Zhou Guanyu’s driver position is secure.

Qin Miao and Leclerc arrived at the podium area in the pit area one after another.

After getting off the car, Qin Miao also saw Perez getting off the car.

The Mexican took the initiative to come over, shake hands with Qin Miao and hug him: "It is undeniable that your defense in this game was crazy. Congratulations."

Faced with Perez's generosity, Qin Miao also smiled and said: "Actually, I have been under a lot of pressure during this process."

As he spoke, Qin Miao took off his helmet and sweat-absorbent and fire-proof hood and handed them to Perez and said, "Look, the hood is all wet."

(End of this chapter)