How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 369 Chapter 372: New Neighbors (8K, one more chapter due to leave)

And this is indeed the case. Normally, after a race, the sweat-absorbent hoods of the riders are usually dry, but Qin Miao's hood has sweat stains visible in many places.

Seeing this, Perez also smiled: "It seems that my game is not useless."

After chatting with Perez, Qin Miao went to complete the weighing first. Although the helmet and hood were not heavy, Qin Miao spent too much energy on defending Perez for this second place. I'm really tired now.

After completing the weighing and placing his helmet on the organizing table, Qin Miao jogged to the crowd of Mercedes-Benz racing team to celebrate.

It's just that everyone used to like to slap Qin Miao's helmet. After he stopped wearing a helmet this time, everyone started rubbing Qin Miao's hair.

Qin Miao's hairstyle, which was already looking a bit sloppy due to sweating during the long game, was made more abstract.

But after the celebration was over, Qin Miao still noticed this and took a hat and put it on his head.

Then Leclerc also finished celebrating with his team's staff, and the two were about to stand on the podium together again.

It's just that last time Leclerc was first and Qin Miao was third. This time Leclerc was first and Qin Miao was second.

But you are locked out on the track by someone who is slower than you. This feeling is extremely frustrating.

The scores for this game are as follows:

P1: Leclerc +26 (fastest lap)

P2: Qin Miao +18

P3: Perez +14

P4: Hamilton +12

P5: Norris +10

P6: Ricardo +8

P7: O'Connell +6

P8: Bottas +4

P9: Zhou Guanyu +2

P10: Gasly +1

The overall driver standings after this race are as follows:

Qin Miao smiled and said: "Actually, you don't have to go to that trouble. If you find an opportunity, give me a car that is 10 horsepower slower than yours but has comparable performance. I will let you experience it for yourself."

After hearing Qin Miao's words, the audience burst into applause and cheers.

Qin Miao shook his head and smiled bitterly and said: "It is undeniable that Perez is an experienced driver. In the process of defending him, I was actually under a lot of pressure. I also made several mistakes and the tires were also very bad. I was nervous, but luckily I managed to resist all the pressure in the end.

Those with a bad attitude may just curse and curse in the team TR.

Of course, in addition, I would also like to thank the on-site support and fans who like me. Without them, we would not be able to do this. "

Qin Miao is already familiar with this process, so I won’t go into too much detail here and jump directly to the champagne spraying stage.

Leclerc even bluntly stated that if he and Qin Miao were driving Ferraris, then as long as Qin Miao appeared in front of him, he would have no idea of ​​attacking Qin Miao, because he knew that no matter what he did, If he attacks, Qin Miao will lock him behind him.

However, Leclerc was not much better than Qin Miao. His track engineer and Qin Miao both fired endless firepower at Leclerc, so the fireproof racing suit on his body was completely soaked after a while.

After Qin Miao left, there was another burst of enthusiastic cheers. It was obvious that these voices were for Leclerc.

When spraying champagne, Leclerc poured half a bottle of champagne at Qin Miao, and throughout the whole process, he stood on the highest podium in first place. What stood out was that he was condescending.

After the game, the team packed up their things and returned directly to Europe.

It can be seen that Qin Miao was able to defend Perez for 15 laps because of Qin Miao's ability. After Perez was defended for so long, it was also Perez's ability that he could calmly chat with Qin Miao after the game.

The champagne was all poured out, and finally the three drivers who won today's race took a photo together, touched the champagne in their hands, and the award-receiving session was over.

Qin Miao nodded: "Of course, because of the addition of C5 in this game, the team and I discussed the possibility of red and yellow stops many times before the start of the game, because if there is a red and yellow stop, during the entire game, , I basically cannot make any too intense defensive or offensive actions, because this will consume the tires excessively, so that I may not be able to run the entire race.

After Leclerc's interview ended, the final award ceremony began.

But no matter what, Leclerc doesn't want to experience this feeling.

Audiences who have driven F1 know that the car is not as good as others. If you can't outrun others on the track, it is barely acceptable. If you are slow and overtaken by others on the track, although it will be uncomfortable, it is not impossible.

Not to mention a dozen laps, but as long as five or six laps, many people can't stand it.

Although Qin Miao did not win the championship in this game, the wonderful offense and defense between him and Perez on the track for 15 laps really made the audience addicted. Many people think that F1 should be like this. run.

1: Leclerc.77

2: Qin Miao.42

3: Sainz.32

4: O'Connell.28

5: Perez.26

6: Verstappen.25

7: Hamilton.25

8: Norris.18

9: Magnussen.14

10: Bottas.12

11: Ricardo.8

12: Zhou Guanyu.6

13: Gasly.5

14: Tsunoda.2

15: Alonso.1

The overall team standings are as follows:

"Haha, congratulations. Although it's a pity that I didn't see how you defended Perez right away, I believe it was a very exciting attack and defense. I will definitely go watch it after the work in the paddock is over. Watch the replay.”

So, in the end we got a satisfactory result.

After saying hello to Leclerc, Qin Miao went upstairs to prepare for the final award ceremony.

You even used this pit stop strategy to achieve such results. Before the race started, did you ever think about tire problems? "

After Qin Miao stood up, before Mark Webber had time to speak, the local spectators who had already rushed to the track burst into extremely warm applause.

Therefore, when Qin Miao was interviewed, the audience gave Qin Miao the greatest recognition.

At this moment, Leclerc exposed the dark side of his heart.

After the cheers of the fans at the scene died down a little, the captain continued to ask: "In this game, in addition to your terrifying defensive ability, you also showed another ability worth mentioning. , when other riders generally stop for yellow and white, and stop for white and yellow, you did the opposite and chose to stop for red and yellow.

1: Ferrari.109

2:Mercedes.67

3: Red Bull.51

4:Alpine.29

5: McLaren.26

6:Alfa Romeo.18

7: Haas.14

8: Little Red Bull.7

9: Aston Martin.0

10: Williams.0

After this game, it can be seen that Red Bull is in a position that does not belong to them, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that the reason why Red Bull is here is because the stability of the Red Bull racing engine is holding it back. According to Red Bull's normal speed , they should actually be ranked second in the team.

After chatting with Leclerc for a few words and making some jokes, the two drivers who both achieved good results today simply cleaned up and went to be interviewed.

The person responsible for the post-race interview was our old friend, Captain: Mark Webber.

"You're too polite. This is unnecessary." Leclerc refused decisively.

Qin Miao reciprocated the favor, smiling and waving to the fans who supported her.

The first person to be interviewed this time was Perez, and then it was Qin Miao's turn.

Therefore, Qin Miao had a lot of wine in his collar.

But I think I can still try a more radical option. After all, in the team's simulation, the long-distance speed of red and yellow stops is always faster than that of yellow and white stops. But before the start of the game, we did not expect that There will be so many yellow flags and safety cars on the track. Although I also feel sorry for the drivers who retired, it is undeniable that these yellow flags really helped me a lot. "
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Although Qin Miao's performance in this game was indeed wonderful, and it also allowed many loyal fans of the Mercedes-Benz team to see Mercedes-Benz's recent efforts, in the final analysis, Qin Miao only finished second, and he did not He is not the protagonist of this game, so after the two-question interview, Qin Miao's post-game interview also ended.

If you really don’t drive an F1 car often, you can also imagine that you are driving on a highway. However, there are only two lanes on the highway, but you are blocked by two cars traveling at 60 kilometers per hour. No matter how much you honk the horn, It was as if these two insects hadn't heard anything and were still crawling at a turtle's speed on the highway.

However, Qin Miao's 15-lap defense of Perez in this game still aroused heated discussions among many fans and professionals after the game. Many drivers even called Qin Miao out on their social platforms. overcome.

After the audience gradually calmed down, the captain said: "Qin Miao, it's unbelievable. The defense you showed today is an artistic performance. There were no unnecessary movements. Every turn and block was just right. The most surprising thing is that you actually lasted in this state for fifteen rounds!"

And Perez grinned angrily after seeing Leclerc's words. Of course you can't stand and talk without pain. Ferrari's cars are so fast this season.

But if Qin Miao really becomes your teammate, I don't think you will be in a hurry.

There won't be a race for two weeks after the Australian Grand Prix.

Qin Miao naturally followed his usual habit and returned to Brackley after work.

In the first few days, Qin Miao's work life was relatively stable and stable. Basically, he had this kind of work content every day.

However, it is worth mentioning that because Qin Miao does not attend various events as often as other drivers, he spends most of his time on the team's development and upgrade of racing cars.

Normally, even if you are a world champion, this kind of indifference to business matters can easily damage your image in the minds of such people.

As time goes by, no one will invite you to participate in various activities.

Qin Miao actually had an indifferent attitude towards this, just let it go if it was there or not.

But I don’t know why, after Qin Miao refused many, more people invited Qin Miao, and even the price went up.

Some people in the circle are even proud to invite Qin Miao to attend the party together.

The appearance fee for inviting Qin Miao is getting higher every time.

Maybe this is the so-called rare thing that makes it valuable.

Therefore, it is already Sunday, and Qiu Meng is still working at home to deal with this matter.

Finally, in the afternoon, after finishing the work, Qiu Meng walked out of the room with a look of despair, sat next to Qin Miao who was playing PS5 in the living room, and then used Qin Miao's legs as a pillow to lie down. on the sofa.

"Thank you for your hard work." Qin Miao reached out and touched Qiu Meng's face, and then continued to play the game.

Qiu Meng didn't have any emotions because of Qin Miao's attitude. The two of them had gotten along very well after such a long time.

But just when Qiu Meng was about to lie down on Qin Miao and play with her mobile phone for a while, and then think about what to cook for the evening, there was a knock on the door of her home.

Qiu Meng sighed, then stood up and opened the door.

However, when the door opened, Qiu Meng was a little surprised to see that the person standing outside was actually Zhou Guanyu.

"Mengmeng." They were all acquaintances. After seeing Qiu Meng, Zhou Guanyu also said hello to Qiu Meng.

The smile that had just appeared on Qiu Meng's face suddenly fell down. They were all acquaintances, so there was no need to keep it tight.

"Well, good afternoon." After saying hello, Qiu Meng returned to the sofa and hugged Qin Miao.

Zhou Guanyu didn't blame Qiu Meng for his poor hospitality, and found his pair of slippers in the shoe cabinet at the door of Qin Miao's house with ease.

After Zhou Guanyu sat down on the sofa in the living room, Qin Miao paused the game and asked, "Why are you here so early this week?"

Normally, if Zhou Guanyu wants to fly to the competition venue with Qin Miao, he usually only comes on Wednesday.

Zhou Guanyu smiled: "Come here and tell you some good news."

Qin Miao raised his eyebrows, and Qiu Meng, who was lying on Qin Miao's lap playing with her mobile phone, also raised her head and looked at Zhou Guanyu curiously.

Zhou Guanyu didn't like to show off, so he said directly: "Didn't we talk about the house last time?"

"House? What house?" Qin Miao was stunned for a while, and then remembered that she had indeed told Zhou Guanyu that it would be too troublesome to come to Zhou Guanyu on every Wednesday of the match day, so he might as well buy a house near his home. Forget the house.

After thinking of this, Qin Miao reacted: "Ah? Have you already bought it?"

Zhou Guanyu smiled and showed a bunch of keys in his pocket: "Look."

"Awesome." Qin Miao said, "But why didn't I realize before that you, Zhou Guanyu, are such a resolute person?"

Zhou Guanyu scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "Actually, there is a certain reason why I want to find Qin Miao for guidance. After all, Qin Miao is recognized as one of the strongest drivers in the paddock."

Qin Miao clicked her back molar in pain: "You're going to catch me and pull out the wool of a sheep, right?"

Zhou Guanyu smiled shyly: "Who said we have a good relationship?"

Qin Miao helplessly raised his forehead: "What a sin..."

After complaining, Qin Miao said: "Stop sitting here and go see your house. Is it bought or rented? Does it have furniture and everything? Do you need help?"

"I bought it." Zhou Guanyu said, "It comes with decoration and furniture. The sanitation has been taken care of, so I don't need to trouble you."

After the test, Zhou Guanyu continued with some embarrassment: "After knowing that I was Zhou Guanyu, the owner who was still hesitant sold it directly, saying that he liked you very much and wanted my help to get a helmet signed by you. I have a spare at home. A helmet, right? Give one to me and I’ll do it as a favor.”

Qin Miao's mouth twitched.

Although there were 1 words stuck in his throat and he wanted to say them out, Qin Miao finally shook his head helplessly, and returned to his home amidst the chatter of Qiu Meng curiously asking Zhou Guanyu which direction his home was. A tool room specially used to store things.

Because Qiu Meng comes here to clean it from time to time, there is no dust in Qin Miao's tool room.

After searching, Qin Miao found three boxes containing his helmets from last season.

There are all unopened helmets here.

Qin Miao remembered that these were given to him by the team. On the one hand, he could keep them for himself, and he could also give them away to others.

However, although it is said to be given away, this helmet is no different from the helmet Qin Miao wore during the game last season. It is basically a normal competition helmet.

Qin Miao picked up a box and came out.

"No, the helmets from last season have not been opened. Should I sign on the box or directly open it and sign inside the helmet?" Qin Miao said while holding a black helmet box.

Zhou Guanyu thought for a moment: "Let's put it on the box. If the other party wants to have your signature on the helmet, I can just bring it over for you to sign. Anyway, our homes are close to each other now, so come over." It’s also convenient.”

Qin Miao rolled her eyes and said, "Thank you so much." "Pfft..." After hearing Zhou Guanyu's words, Qin Miao didn't say anything. Qiu Meng on the side couldn't help laughing.

Qin Miao glanced at the girl helplessly, then picked up a golden signature pen and wrote his Chinese name, English name, and sixty-six on the box.

This is Qin Miao's driver number, just written in Chinese.

I believe Zhou Guanyu will explain it to the other party by then.

"Is that all right?"

Zhou Guanyu took it and looked at it. He weighed the helmet in his hand and said unexpectedly: "Is it really a guy? Isn't it a bit expensive?"

Qin Miao rolled her eyes angrily: "Do you still expect to get fake goods from me?"

"That's true."

"Let's go and show you my new home!"

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Zhou Guanyu's home is not too far from Qin Miao's home, the straight-line distance is less than 500 meters, and it only takes ten minutes to walk normally.

In the days that followed, fans who liked to watch Qin Miao play games had a hard time because of Zhou Guanyu's presence.

Because Qin Miao rarely goes out at night when she is at home alone. The main reason is that Qin Miao is a public figure after all. Although Qin Miao is not averse to being in the spotlight now, foreigners often have no sense of propriety.

After seeing their favorite driver or other celebrity, they will be very enthusiastic.

When facing his fans, Qin Miao can't show a cold face. He often spends a long time after meeting fans, and even delays Qin Miao's sleep time.

In short, because of this series of reasons, Qin Miao basically doesn't go out much at night.

However, when he doesn't go out at night, he still has to find a way to relax and have fun, so Qin Miaocai usually plays games at home.

And now that Zhou Guanyu is here, the two men can always find some weird ways to entertain themselves, such as going to watch football games together, fishing, buying Lego of the same size, setting a time to see who can fight faster, or buying Two RC remote control cars set up a simple arena in the backyard of home and use this to compete.

In short, these two people can always find some weird ways to entertain themselves.

But this kind of day did not last for two days.

When he is not working, Qin Miao follows a normal work schedule.

But Zhou Guanyu is different. Qin Miao doesn't have to accept advertisements, and he has no obsession with making money. What stands out is that one is enough.

But Zhou Guanyu still has a lot of work.

I seem to have a lot of free time these days, also because I need to move, so I have put down a lot of team marketing work.

So in the next two days, Zhou Guanyu started shooting various advertisements, gatherings, and activities in the fashion industry.

Of course, as an F1 driver, Zhou Guanyu is still conscious and has never stopped training on his physical fitness and racing cars.

Soon, it was Wednesday again.

System tasks appear again.

Compared with the system tasks issued this time in Australia half a month ago, both the difficulty of the tasks and the richness of the rewards have been improved.

However, it is still a little less interesting than before.

Qin Miao still only has two tasks this week. One is to overtake a driver on the track during the race, no matter who it is, even a slow car.

The reward is a 0.2 increase in attack power.

Another task is to finish the race in the top five.

The reward is $200 million in funding.

The first one has nothing to say, it is just giving away points, while the second one is for Qin Miao to compete with his teammate Hamilton, because as long as Red Bull solves the stability problem of the car this week, let alone Mercedes to compete for the podium. , it will be very difficult to grab a fourth place.

However, Qin Miao didn't think Honda could solve the engine problems in half a month.

So this task shouldn't be too difficult.

After looking at today's tasks, Qin Miao stretched and got up. After washing up, he drove to Zhou Guanyu's house. After taking Zhou Guanyu with him, the two went to Italy together.

The country is familiar to both drivers.

Because both of them spent some time here as young drivers, as drivers who came out of Ferrari's youth training, both of them actually have some special feelings for Ferrari.

Zhou Guanyu is actually okay, after all, strictly speaking, Arrow is a Ferrari team.

Since Qin Miao joined Mercedes-Benz, he has basically been a stranger to Ferrari.

Even talking about it now makes people feel sad.

……

Although Qin Miao has been bringing skills to improve the team's research and development capabilities this week, in fact, the team has basically not brought any obvious upgrades in car performance this week.

The team even subtracted the appearance of the car and deleted the small wings on both sides of the cab.

At the same time, some internal components underwent adjustments and weight reductions that Qin Miao could not see. The final result was that the car lost 2 kilograms in weight and the resistance was slightly smaller. Other than that, there was no improvement.

Although these two kilograms may not sound like much, the weight loss of these two kilograms is reflected in the lap speed of the track car. Qin Miao's single lap speed is at least 0.05 seconds faster than the previous lap speed.

Killing in 0.001 seconds on the track is not unheard of, so the weight loss of these two kilograms is still quite important.

However, although the team did not upgrade for this race, the team will have two different upgraded components for the Miami Grand Prix half a month later. By then, I believe the performance of the car will be improved again.

After getting off the plane, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu separated and went to the hotels booked by their respective teams.

What made Qin Miao feel headache was that after he and Barber got off the car, he saw car fans waiting for him at the door of the hotel.

In fact, this is normal. After all, the hotel where the team stays is rarely kept secret due to sponsor relationships. People with connections can find it with a little inquiry.

What really gives Qin Miao a headache is that his group of car fans are a little too happy-go-lucky.

At the door of the hotel, he saw someone holding up a photo of himself.

But this time it’s no longer Qin Miao’s maniacally laughing mug shot, but the husky pointing emoticon he saw on his mug shot last week when he was on a pre-game parade.

Seeing this, Qin Miao just shook his head in confusion.

However, Qin Miao didn't make too many other expressions. He had an interview to attend later, and he was still pressed for time.

Moreover, Qin Miao was also afraid that after he had a few words with them, these people would do something fancy for him.

After returning to the hotel and putting away his things, Qin Miao drove the Mercedes electric car from the back door to the paddock.

Time flies and it's Friday.

The weather in Italy has not been very good these days. It has been rainy and rainy. It started to rain lightly on Friday morning.

When Qin Miao came to the team home for a meeting, the meteorological department directly said that it was likely to rain during the first practice session, and the situation in the second practice session might be slightly better, but there was also a possibility of rain in qualifying and the race. .

When it rains, Hamilton's team members don't feel anything. It's just normal weather conditions. There may be some troubles, but it's not too difficult to deal with.

But after Qin Miao's crew members learned the news, a shadow fell over everyone's hearts involuntarily.

In their eyes, if Qin Miao, who is extremely talented and has an unlimited future, has any weakness, it is Wei Yu.

As long as it rains during the race, Qin Miao's condition cannot be said to get worse, but in many cases, Qin Miao's cornering angle will tend to be conservative.

Qin Miao's state is a bit like when a doctor checks your knee jerk reaction and hits your knee with a small hammer, the knee will jump. It has almost become the instinct of Qin Miao's body.

The team also tried to help Qin Miao correct these problems, but with little success.

However, after trying for a period of time to no avail, the team soon became relieved. After all, no one is perfect and there will always be some shortcomings.

And this is actually not a particularly obvious shortcoming of Qin Miao, because the rain only limited Qin Miao's performance and brought him down from the level of a top driver to the level of a mid-level group driver.

His speed in the rain is still impressive, but it's just not as amazing as his performance in the race.

Therefore, the staff of Qin Miao Racing Team were only slightly worried, but they did not take this matter too seriously. It was fine if it rained during the practice session.

It’ll be fine if it doesn’t rain during the race.

After the morning meeting, we started to prepare for the game, and soon it was time for practice.

It was almost as predicted by the team’s meteorological department. It started to rain before the first practice session started, and the rain was quite heavy.

However, after the first practice officially started, the rain became noticeably lighter, but it did not stop.

Although it is still raining, the rain does not affect the normal driving of the car.

So most drivers put on semi-wet tires and started practicing on the track to collect data.

Qin Miao is no exception.

It is worth mentioning that in the past, Qin Miao only needed three-quarters of the time to complete the tasks assigned to Qin Miao by the team in a one-hour practice session, but today Qin Miao completed the entire practice session. I almost missed completing one project test.

Looking at Qin Miao, who was completely different from the dry state, Toto saw everything in his eyes, but said nothing.

After all, Toto had read countless evaluation reports about Qin Miao before extending an olive branch to Qin Miao.

What Toto remembers most is the period when Qin Miao controlled Thunder in F2. The only time Qin Miao retired was because of rain on the track.

After discovering this, domestic car fans also analyzed the reasons for Qin Miao Ruoshui from the perspective of metaphysics.

Among them, the one with the most likes is: [Let me analyze it, Qin Miao may have been told by a fortune teller, and he lacks water in his life.

And Qin Miao's surname is Qin. There is a grain under the character Qin, which requires water to grow. In addition, there is a lack of water in life, so normally, the word that Qin Miao's parents think of should be "沝" (zhuǐ), but the word "沝" is "沝" (zhuǐ). It's a rare word that's hard to pronounce, so I'll just call it Miao.

Looking at it now, Qin Miao's Miaozi water is too much, so I conclude! Qin Miaoruoshui is the reason for this. 】

[Awesome, there is still this way of interpretation]

[Strange knowledge has been added]

[Does Sanshui still have such a saying? 】

【what? 】

It is worth mentioning that the last one [Huh? 】 In fact, Qin Miao's mother happened to see it when she was browsing the forum about her son, so she posted a question "Huh?" with some confusion. 】.

When she was thinking of a name for Qin Miao, she actually didn't think too much about it at all. She threw the dictionary into the sky, and when it fell down, she opened it and found the pinyin of "miao".

Among all the cats, Miao was the only one whose name more or less resembled that of a boy.

So I called him Qin Miao.

When she named Qin Miao, she never thought about so many complicated things...

Sure enough, as long as you become famous, no matter how many stupid things you do, there will always be someone to help you make it right.

(End of this chapter)