How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 381 Chapter 384: The Curse of Ferrari Youth Training

On the other side, Qin Miao looked at the words "Leclerc DNF" that popped up on his steering wheel, feeling a little complicated.

On the one hand, Qin Miao was happy that the second place he had been fighting for in this race could be easily obtained after Leclerc retired.

On the other hand, this Ferrari always played tricks at critical moments like this, and Qin Miao was a little bit dumbfounded after seeing it.

But think on the bright side, at least Leclerc no longer has to endure the 50-plus-degree heat on the track like they did.

It's just like people who have a good relationship with Qin Miao have bad luck. On lap 29, just two laps after Leclerc retired, Zhou Guanyu also discovered that there was a problem with his engine.

No more gas.

Finally, after discussions and inquiries by the team TR, it was determined that the racing engine had a mechanical failure.

In the end, Zhou Guanyu had no choice but to withdraw from the competition.

This is Zhou Guanyu's second consecutive race in which he has retired without finishing, and Zhou Guanyu still retired in sixth place.

On lap 33, Qin Miao’s speed remained stable.

After Qin Miao found out through Team TR that Zhou Guanyu had also retired, his mind was filled with questions.

In fact, it was Qin Miao's entrance window at this time.

It's like I've surpassed you.

If Qin Miao pits at this time, he will fall behind Perez and in front of Bottas.

And said that with his speed, he can still wait a little longer.

The team did some math and asked Qin Miao to pit at this time. There would be no problem at all with two sets of soft tires for the next 33 laps, and with Qin Miao's ability, he could run at full strength for the next 33 laps.

At this moment, Qin Miao also sympathized with Zhou Guanyu. This guy was really unlucky.

What made Pirelli sweat profusely at this time was that Qin Miao's single lap speed was only 0.9 seconds slower than at the beginning of the race. This speed was completely acceptable.

However, after the team asked Qin Miao in the team TR, Qin Miao was still not ready to pit.

And Verstappen behind Qin Miao also respected Qin Miao very much at this time. He never thought about surpassing Qin Miao. He caught up to the position 2 seconds behind Qin Miao and started cruising at Qin Miao's speed.

At this time, there was only Verstappen behind Qin Miao and no car in front of him.

What do you mean?
Is Zhou Guanyu really so unlucky?
Retired from two games in a row?

Should we say that Zhou Guanyu and Leclerc are indeed good friends? These two guys who came out of Ferrari's youth training retired from the race in pairs.

However, the above paragraph is just a joke. After retiring from one game, Qin Miao could take this opportunity to laugh at Zhou Guanyu's luck, but he retired from two consecutive games, and it was not because of his own fault. A mistake, but a retirement due to the team's mistake.

Although he sympathizes with Leclerc and Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao knows that these things have nothing to do with him now.

They have retired from the race and got off work early, but he still needs to continue working hard for a podium place.

Judging from the speed and stability Zhou Guanyu showed in this game, it is very likely that Zhou Guanyu will take home 6th place in this game.

Anyway, you, Qin Miao, have not stopped to change tires so far. You will always have to stop to change tires. If you come to the stop, there will be no restrictions in front of me.

Qin Miao waited until there were 20 laps left before the end of the race, which was lap 46.

Behind Qin Miao, apart from Verstappen, Perez was 10 seconds behind Verstappen.

Without much thought, Qin Miao informed the team: "I'm ready to pit."

The team immediately started preparing tires for Qin Miao after receiving it.

As for the tires they prepared for Qin Miao, there is no doubt that they will prepare a new set of soft tires for the pit stop at this time.

After all, with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, he could complete the remaining 19 laps directly on a new set of tires, and the speed would not be too slow.

And Qin Miao pushed forward for the last lap on the track. Although this last lap did not allow Qin Miao to set the fastest lap on the track, the speed of this lap suddenly opened up the distance behind Perret. This is a time difference of 0.3 seconds.

Although it is only 0.3 seconds, you have to consider that Qin Miao has already run 46 laps on this set of tires.

And seeing Qin Miao in front of him finally pitting, Verstappen felt a sense of relief for some reason.

This plague god is finally gone.

People's situations and feelings are sometimes different. Verstappen in the front breathed a sigh of relief, but Perez on the other side was ready to fight.

Because Qin Miao only fell 8 seconds behind him after coming out of the pit area.

After Perez saw Qin Miao come out of the maintenance area, he was still expecting that Qin Miao would not be as fast as he imagined when he came out.

But by the time Qin Miao finished his first lap, Perez, who was already sweating profusely due to the high temperature and huge physical exertion, was even more sweaty now.

Because Qin Miao's speed in this lap was a full 0.9 seconds faster than him.

Although he knew that this was the speed brought by the soft tires to Qin Miao, normally Perez would not be too nervous when seeing such speed, because the soft tires could not last long on the track.

It's just that the name of the person who appeared behind him is Qin Miao. This guy's management of tires is better than a certain star's management of time.

And this is Qin Miao's lap performance. For a while, the temperature of Qin Miao's set of soft tires did not rise.

If he were running normally, Perez had a feeling that he might be killed by Qin Miao.

Next, the on-site director did nothing else but focus the camera on the two drivers Qin Miao and Perret, and put a comparison chart of the single lap speed between the two.

Let the audience clearly compare when Qin Miao caught up with Perez and completed his overtaking of Perez.

When Qin Miao was frantically chasing Perez from the front, Hamilton, who silently fell to the end because of the collision at the beginning, had already appeared behind Bottas.

Like his teammate Qin Miao, Hamilton only made one pit stop except for the pit stop in the starting stage, so he relied entirely on a set of medium tires like Qin Miao to last four years. More than ten laps. Moreover, after Qin Miao came out of the pit, only 2 laps passed, that is, lap 49. Hamilton also chose to pit and put on a set of soft tires.

Hamilton is also preparing to learn Qin Miao's tire strategy, relying on the advantage of soft tires in the later stage to increase the strength of the drivers in front, at least to defeat Bottas.

Hamilton dropped to seventh position after emerging from the pit lane.

You must know that he started today's game in sixth place. After the start, he encountered an accident and dropped to 19th. To be able to return to this position with 16 laps left before the end of the game, Hamilton is already very good in today's game. Perfect.

On the track, Qin Miao didn't even need ten laps, but only eight laps, which was the 55th lap. With 11 laps to go before the end of the race, Qin Miao came behind Perez.

It took two laps to catch up behind Perez, and after recharging the battery of his car a little, Qin Miao took advantage of the car's absolute speed advantage on the 57th lap of the start straight to finish on Perez on the outside. of transcendence.

Although Perez tried to draw a dragon when facing Qin Miao's attack, occupy the inside line, and squeeze Qin Miao to the dirty side of the track, in front of Qin Miao, these operations seemed somewhat redundant.

Because Qin Miao completely relied on his speed advantage to eat Perez alive.

The speed advantage brought by soft tires is fully demonstrated at this moment.

After passing Perez, the driver in front of Qin Miao became Verstappen.

However, there were only 9 laps left before the end of the race, and Qin Miao was still 13 seconds behind Verstappen.

This time gap is too big. Even if Qin Miao pushes forward with all his strength in every subsequent lap, it is impossible to catch up with Verstappen.

So after overtaking Perez, Qin Miao's speed gradually slowed down.

After all, there were still 9 laps left before the end of the race. Qin Miao had used the tires a little too hard in the previous period. In the last few laps, although the tires did not go directly over the cliff point.

However, the speed of the tires dropped very quickly in the later stages, so Qin Miao also wanted to protect the tires a little, at least to have a certain margin to prevent Perez's possible attack.

However, in the later stages of the game, Qin Miao's position did not change much.

Perez behind Qin Miao seemed to be defended by Qin Miao and lost the motivation to attack Qin Miao. Even if Qin Miao's speed slowed down, he had no intention of attacking Qin Miao.

Even Perez felt for a moment that Qin Miao was too bored and deliberately slowed down to play with himself.

On the other side, Sainz behind Perez did not defend Hamilton's attack on the soft tire. Finally, on lap 61, Hamilton surpassed Sainz and rose to fourth.

However, Hamilton's position did not last long. When the race came to the 64th lap, the Mercedes team reluctantly told Hamilton in the team TR.

"Sorry, Lewis, the temperature of the car's engine is a bit too high right now. Please try to avoid running the engine at full power in the next race, because this may cause your engine to fail and retire. If this is not possible, you can give up your position to the race. Enns.”

And not only Hamilton, but also Qin Miao received the same notice.

However, even if the team did not tell Qin Miao through the team TR, Qin Miao had already felt through his own skills that the temperature of the car's engine was too high.

The temperature of the track today was too high, and the temperature inside the driver's monocoque was close to the 60°C mark.

The internal operating temperature of Mercedes' engines this season is generally around 130°C, which is on average at least 20°C higher than the engine operating temperatures of other teams.

Normally, given Mercedes-Benz's engine durability, a 20°C increase in temperature will not affect the engine's performance output when on the track.

However, the temperature of the track in today's race was too high, and the air intake of Mercedes' car this season was small and the air intake volume was not large, so it can be said that such a situation is inevitable in the end.

However, this problem had little impact on Qin Miao, because when the team notified Qin Miao, Qin Miao was still a certain distance away from Perez behind him.

So from now until the end of the race, although Perez found that Qin Miao's speed was much slower, there were only two laps left before the end of the race when he found out.

In the end, Qin Miao easily defended Perez's attack and finally crossed the line in second place.

The race was over at this point, but what was surprising after crossing the line was that the fastest lap of the race was not Verstappen's, but Perez's.

At the same time, although it was a pity that Hamilton could not try to get on the final podium due to the heat dissipation problem of the car's engine, Hamilton in this game chased from 19th to 4th, which was better than his starting position. Going up 2 positions.

Although he fell to fifth place in the end, I have to say that Hamilton's performance in this game was indeed outstanding.

Therefore, not surprisingly, Hamilton won the evaluation honor of the audience's favorite driver in today's game.

Qin Miao started second and brought home second.

Many uninformed spectators thought that the Mercedes-Benz team's results were because the team had regained the competitiveness of its cars.

But the team knows that the reason why this game seems to have restored the competitiveness of last year is actually entirely due to Qin Miao's personal ability.

Therefore, although the team staff are happy for Qin Miao because of his good results, everyone also knows that the tasks on their shoulders are still very heavy.

After parking the car in the podium area after the race, Qin Miao got out of the car and briefly celebrated with his crew members. Many people could see the clear back of Qin Miao's black racing suit through the broadcast. Incomparable sweat marks.

Qin Miao, who is physically as strong as Qin Miao, was sweating like this on this track. This shows how harsh the conditions of this competition are.

Of course, besides the high temperature on the track, there were other reasons why Qin Miao sweated so much in this game.

That is, Mercedes' W13 engine has a higher operating temperature than other teams' engines, so Qin Miao and Hamilton's cabin temperatures will be higher than those of other teams.

But these are all in the past. After working hard for a whole game, it’s time to reap the rewards.

It is worth mentioning that the three drivers in today’s game had completely different performances during the post-race interview period.

It can be easily seen that Verstappen was happy after winning the championship in this race, while Qin Miao was still calm after finishing second. There was no over excitement or low mood, and his answers to questions were also very formulaic. It looked like It was a trivial thing.

However, considering his status as the defending champion, this performance is considered normal.

On the other side, after it was Perez's turn to be interviewed, it could be seen from his interview that he was not very satisfied with the result of today's game.

After all, on the field, Perez was completely outsmarted by Qin Miao, who drove a car with worse performance than him.

But this is just because Perez is feeling uncomfortable. No one at Red Bull thinks his performance in today's game is not good enough. After all, Verstappen has been locked up by Qin Miao for so long, and it is normal for Perez to be unable to beat Qin Miao.

(End of this chapter)