How did I become an F1 driver?

The only thing worth mentioning is that when the race came to Q3, the track had already been cleared of a traffic lane.

Although there are still some low-lying areas with water damage, 95% of the locations are dry lanes.

However, all drivers, including Qin Miao, did not change to dry tires, but continued to use semi-wet tires to set lap times on the track.

The same was true for Qin Miao. He first ran a third-ranked effective lap on the track using dry tires, and then started running cooling laps on the track.

Just when everyone who followed Qin Miao thought that Qin Miao would use this set of tires to continue running a flying lap on the track after the cooling lap, Qin Miao was called back.

Then when there were five minutes left before the end of Q3, Qin Miao came out and ran a flying circle again.

So far, no one has found any problems, and Qin Miao is running the qualifying race normally.

However, with two and a half minutes left before the Q3 stoppage, Qin Miao entered the pit area again.

Then under everyone's gaze, all the tire changers of the Mercedes team ran out of the pit area, holding brand new soft tires in their hands.

And after Qin Miao came in and stopped in the tire changing area, Hamilton also entered the pit area.

At this time, Red Bull and Ferrari realized that Mercedes wanted to let Qin Miao and Hamilton change to dry tires before the end of Q3 to test their speed.

Anyway, the two were ranked third and fourth in qualifying at this time, but this time Hamilton was third and Qin Miao was fourth.

And at this time, there is a 0.7 second time gap between the two and Alonso who is fifth. The team expects Qin Miao and Hamilton's results to be enough for them to end the game with their current rankings.

Therefore, with two less competitors, the team decided to take the risk and let the two drivers switch to dry tires.

As for the problem of giving way to the car behind, the two drivers will drive the car with dry tires into a rainy area on the track to let the tires cool down...

Isn’t it enough to just run the race during the warm-up lap, prevent the car behind you from catching up, and find a suitable opportunity to start?

Anyway, there are only ten cars on the track now. Isn’t it hard to find such an opportunity?
And now, this is the time to make a pit stop!
After Qin Miao came out, he started to accelerate, and when possible, he wore the tires to a small extent on the driving line of the track, trying his best to warm up his tires.

Although some teams saw Mercedes' idea and immediately recalled their drivers to pit and put on dry tires, Mercedes' pit time was very accurate. Verstappen and Sainz passed Within ten seconds after entering the maintenance area, two people were called in.

In other words, if dry-terrain tires are really useful at this time, and Verstappen and Sainz are going to pit to change tires, there will not be enough time after they come back from a circle to pit and change to dry-terrain tires before going out for a run. A flying circle.

And if this method is really true, the driver behind will not be as fast as the two Mercedes cars.

This is a conspiracy thought up by a Mercedes team.

You can see it as soon as I make a move, but even if you see it, there is no solution, you can only watch.

Ferrari and Red Bull have actually been keeping an eye on Mercedes in the team TR, but before this incident happened, there was no movement on the Mercedes side, and no one in the team TR mentioned it.

It was as if this incident was a spur-of-the-moment idea for the entire team.

Therefore, the two teams that have excluded Mercedes from the ranks of competitors this season were somewhat unprepared for this sudden change.

At the same time, they couldn't help but start to feel a little worried.

After all, Qin Miao and Hamilton stole the first and second places in qualifying.

Moreover, the two Mercedes drivers now have a good relationship.

If the two of them directly combine in the main race, and Qin Miao relies on Hamilton behind him to drive the train, it will be very troublesome to try the under cut.

Because Qin Miao and Hamilton will definitely compress the car formation very tightly.

In that case, even if you are ranked third, you may end up in twentieth place after coming out of the pits.

Normally, you only need to protect the tire behind the driver in front, or wait for the other driver to stop first to change the tire.

But Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is incredible. The durability of medium tires is comparable to the durability of hard tires of some teams with good tire management. Even the speed is still the speed of medium tires. Who can't see this? Headache?

Therefore, Qin Miao and Hamilton completed their respective warm-up laps and started the last flying lap of the Q3 qualifying session, with the fans at the scene expecting and Ferrari and Red Bull fans watching nervously.

In fact, when warming up the tires, Qin Miao inevitably hit some wet spots on the corners.

At that time, the car's tires were cooling down and the car was showing signs of slipping.

Fortunately, Qin Miao stabilized his car.

Although that curve delayed Qin Miao's time by at least 0.2 seconds.

However, compared to Red Bull and Ferrari, the cars of Qin Miao and Hamilton still have an absolute speed advantage on the straights and on the corners that have already been completed.

After the flying lap started, Qin Miao immediately went purple in the first timing segment, and even wiped out Verstappen's time of 0.5 seconds in one timing segment.

And Hamilton was in even better shape. Qin Miao had just turned purple, and he followed closely behind and took Qin Miao's fastest time in the first period.

Seeing this, whether it was the domestic commentators, the fans of the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team, or the staff on the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team podium, they all had sincere smiles on their faces.

But everyone on the Mercedes podium already felt that they had calculated everything they could and felt that victory was within their grasp.

Suddenly a yellow flag appeared on the track.

Everyone in the Mercedes team was shocked when they saw this, but after a closer look, they found that this yellow flag was in the first timing period and would not affect Qin Miao and Qin Miao, who had already arrived in the second timing period. hamilton.

But then they felt a little relieved, but soon began to silently urge the broadcaster's staff to bring up the footage of the accident that triggered the yellow flag on the track.

Then the scene that made them feel cold soon appeared on the broadcast screen.

Mick Schumacher's Haas car was parked on the grass outside the track at this time, and Mick Schumacher's accident happened in the same position as Perez.

The barrier that Perez hit just now was hit again by Mick Schumacher.

The difference is that Mick Schumacher's racing tires at this time were using a set of soft tires, and compared to Perez's choice between lightning and flint, Mick Schumacher was obviously discovering that the car could not brake. After stopping, I panicked and instinctively wanted to turn right to save the car.

The consequence of such a wrong decision was that Mick Schumacher's car lost control on the spot, and the entire car was slapped sideways on the wall of the track.

Fortunately, it was a braking point. Mick's car was not very fast, and when his car ran sideways into the grass, the four tires also slowed down his speed somewhat.

So this collision was the same as Perez's. No car debris was hit on the track, and even the damage to Mick Schumacher's car was not serious.

But the terrible thing is that, like Perez, Mick's car was also stuck in the cushion with impact marks.

Although the two drivers' cars crashed in different positions, the nature of Mick Schumacher's car accident was almost exactly the same as Perez's.

Toto could tell at a glance that this racing car needed a crane to get it out.

Since Bianchi's accident, as long as a crane enters the track, a red flag will inevitably appear during the race.

After realizing this, an idea flashed through Toto's mind, that is, let Qin Miao finish the lap quickly.

Hamilton is still about ten seconds behind Qin Miao. If something like this happens, he will never be able to finish the lap no matter what.

Qin Miao had already finished the second timing segment and was also purple. In summary, he had even eliminated Verstappen's single lap speed by one second.

It's a pity that sometimes things just don't work out.

When Qin Miao was about to brake and enter T12, the race meeting showed a red flag.

As long as a red flag appears before you cross the line, even if you are only 0.001 seconds away from the finish line, if a red flag appears, your result will be cancelled.

At this time, there is only 3 minute and 1 seconds left before Q30 stops the watch.

This time is not enough. After the red flag is over, the drivers come out of the pit area and run another flying lap.

And even if there is only 1 minute and 50 seconds, the track will be almost done by then, and the drivers of Red Bull and Ferrari will be able to come out and run a clean flying lap.

Mercedes' tactics were messed up by Mick alone.

Director Mi, you did a great job!

After seeing this, fans of Red Bull and Ferrari wanted to drag Mick Schumacher out of the car and give him a kiss.

Benefactor!
Faced with this accident, everyone at Mercedes-Benz could only sigh helplessly.

They have done their best in everything they do, but fate is not on their side.

The final qualifying session has ended. The starting rankings of the top ten in tomorrow’s race are as follows:
1: Verstappen

2: Alonso
3: Sainz
4: Qin Miao

5: Hamilton

6: Magnussen

7: Zhou Guanyu
8: O'Connell

9: Ricardo
10: Mick Schumacher
To everyone's surprise, experienced veteran driver Alonso appeared in the top three in qualifying at this time.

Mainly because Alonso ran very well on the flying lap before the red flag, and the track at that time was indeed almost dry, so the first brother's results were very good.

Qin Miao and Hamilton can only be ranked fourth or fifth.

Of course, what makes all domestic car fans happy is that Zhou Guanyu lived up to his reputation as a rainmaker and performed extremely well in the rain battle, finishing seventh.

And many people believe that Zhou Guanyu's current seventh place is not Zhou Guanyu's limit, but the limit of Arrow's broken car.

Especially on the premise that Zhou Guanyu's teammate Bottas didn't even make it to Q3, Zhou Guanyu's performance today is evident.

After driving back to the inspection area, the two Mercedes drivers, Qin Miao and Hamilton, felt a little melancholy, and they went to weigh in side by side.

In the post-race interview after qualifying, the helplessness of the two drivers could also be seen.

After the game, someone announced the damage to Mick's car. It was not serious, only a front nose was damaged. The direct economic loss was only about US$20.

It's much cheaper than Mick's one in Monaco.

In the post-race review after returning to the team, the Mercedes team was quite helpless. Why did Mick, who was doing well, crash? There is no water anywhere in T3.

In fact, Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't understand either. If Mick rushed out at the T8 and T9 corners, then Hamilton and Qin Miao would be able to understand, because the terrain of those two corners is relatively low and there is water accumulation at the center of the bend.

For this reason, Qin Miao's car even slipped on the rear wheel when exiting the corner, losing about 0.1 seconds of speed there.

But now that things have happened, Qin Miao and Hamilton could only look at each other and smile bitterly, and then began to prepare for tomorrow's game.

On Sunday, Qin Miao arrived on the island early, met many fans, and took time to participate in the half-hour pre-match signing session.

After that comes the pre-race interviews and the driver parade before the race.

When Qin Miao returned to his lounge, there were only two hours left before the game started.

While there was still time, Qin Miao simply turned on his computer and started looking at the in-car images of other drivers in the qualifying stage.

At the same time, I went to watch the race videos on this track over the years.

Because Qin Miao joined F1 at a special time, many tracks were canceled due to the epidemic.

Gilles Villeneuve also stopped hosting the Grand Prix from 2019 for this reason, and will not host the Grand Prix again until 2022.

Therefore, Qin Miao is only familiar with the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in team simulators and games.

And Qin Miao doesn't know if it's because he won the world championship last year, and his enthusiasm for the new track is far less than last year.

I basically didn’t see any track last year. No matter which new track I went to, I would walk the track carefully, understand every shoulder and angle of the track, and simulate the corner in my mind. How should the line be routed when cutting and exiting the bend?

Thinking of this, Qin Miao couldn't help but sigh.

Of course, if other drivers knew that Qin Miao not only did not need to adjust his condition during the period before the start of the race, but also had time to watch the game video, and lamented his laziness, they would probably spit in Qin Miao's face.

Are you still shameless?

Don’t we all want to watch the tape before the race starts and get more familiar with the track? If we don’t adjust the state before the game starts, it will be impossible for us to have a good competitive state.

Soon, the time came and Qin Miao put on her racing suit and came to the track.

There is also good news for Qin Miao today. The biggest good news is that it did not rain today and the sun was very bright. The track temperature was 43°C, which was a very suitable weather for competition.

After taking a group photo on the track, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu walked towards the back together.

The two of them were still chatting more as they walked, and Qin Miao did not help Zhou Guanyu cram into the situation.

After all, Qin Miao knew that the Mercedes car could take slightly more aggressive turns, but Zhou Guanyu's Arrow car might not be able to do that.

So at this time it is better not to add nonsense to Zhou Guanyu.

After returning to their racing cars, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu separated.

On the other side, Hamilton had already put on his equipment and entered the car.

Qin Miao moved his body, did a few stretches and then put on his helmet and entered the car.

"Radio check." Frankie started to test the radio after seeing Qin Miao enter the car through the camera.

"Can't hear you? Please repeat." Qin Miao paused.

"Que?"

Franky was stunned for a moment, and then immediately wanted to contact the team's radio technician to check Qin Miao's car.

But Franky quickly realized that Qin Miao was joking.

Otherwise, how would Qin Miao know that he was talking on the radio?
"Haha, it's so funny." Frankie responded with a smile. It's a pity that I was so nervous just now.

The small talk ends here.

With Reyes and the others withdrawing, the game is about to begin.

After the tire warm-up lap was over, Qin Miao returned to his position.

After habitually taking a look at the cars on his front, back, left and right, Qin Miao began to wait for the red light to turn on.

The five red lights lit up one by one.

Then it went out instantly.

Game start!
After the game started, Qin Miao started even faster than Alonso.

He got behind Alonso immediately and finished side by side with Sainz in third.

Because T1 is a left turn, it is not very friendly to Qin Miao who is on the outside.

However, relying on the lead in the starting stage, Qin Miao was not thrown out of parallel status by Sainz just because of this corner.

After arriving at T2, it becomes a 180° right turn.

This time Qin Miao was inside.

It was at this corner that Qin Miao ran in front of Sainz when exiting the corner directly on the inside line.

However, because the track after exiting the corner was next to a protective wall, Qin Miao did not squeeze Sainz out.

But there wasn't much space left for him, and Sainz could only be forced to stay on the track.

After that, the two cars came to T3 side by side.

Qin Miao was not polite here. When he cut through T3 on the inside and came to T4, he did not leave any space for Sainz.

Therefore, Sainz cut through the apex of T4.

But after returning to the track, Sainz still did not slow down and followed Qin Miao's car side by side on the left side.

After exiting T4 and arriving at the false corner of T5, Sainz relied on Ferrari's powerful but not stable engine to follow Qin Miao, and further shortened the position gap between himself and Qin Miao. .

After arriving at T6, Qin Miao had no choice.

It was a left turn, and Sainz squeezed into Qin Miao's inside line.

After Sainz braked late and forced his way in, Qin Miao lost his temper at all.

After passing T6, it is followed by T7. Even if Qin Miao wants to take the crossover line, the length of the track is not enough for Qin Miao's racing engine to use.

In the end, Qin Miao chose to give in at the T6 position and did not force the squeeze.

Next, Qin Miao stabilized his position in third place.

Start waiting for DRS to be turned on.

Hamilton also kept his starting position and did not lose any position because of the start.
Although Hamilton has not been very competitive in the race in recent games, he has not been able to pull off much at the start.

Later, Zhou Guanyu had a very good start in this race. The team's gearbox did not continue to act weird. After the start, Zhou Guanyu went from seventh to sixth, surpassing Magruson in front of him and coming to the back of Hamilton.

Next, everyone's eyes were still focused on Leclerc and Perez. Compared to the mediocre performance in the front, these two rovers in the back row were really just cutting melons and vegetables all the way.

The DRS hadn't even been turned on, but the two of them had already started slamming Superman from behind.

However, when the race came to the fourth lap and DRS was turned on, Sainz easily surpassed Alonso in front of him in the DRS area.

In fact, there is nothing surprising about this. After all, with the performance of Alonso's car, it can only be said that Alonso is lucky to be in this position.

When the race came to the fourth lap, Qin Miao also surpassed Alonso in the DRS zone.

At that time, Alonso still wanted to resist, but my Mercedes car this year can't do anything to the cattle and horse teams. How can I not do anything to you, a little Renault?
Qin Miao directly relied on his speed and Alonso's wake to eat Alonso alive on the outside. After passing Alonso, he went inside, directly killing all Alonso's thoughts of regaining his position.

By the time six laps passed, Hamilton had also surpassed Alonso.

In fact, Alonso has quite a lot of experience in defending Hamilton.

But when Qin Miao passed Alonso, Hamilton was watching behind Qin Miao and naturally knew exactly how Qin Miao passed Alonso.

It is naturally not too difficult for Hamilton to surpass Alonso based on the previous one.

However, after Qin Miao and Hamilton completed their overtaking of Alonso, everyone at Mercedes knew that this game was almost over for Mercedes.

As long as the tire changer doesn't cause trouble when changing the tire.

However, on the 8th lap, Red Bull also gave the brothers a try. Perez's car lost power and stopped at the Matthew exit position of T8.

In the replay, you can hear the roar of the car engine when Perez was refueling, but no matter how loud the engine of Perez's car was, his car no longer provided any power to Perez.

Therefore, many knowledgeable people can tell at a glance that Perez has a problem with the gearbox of the car.

The power of the engine cannot be transmitted to the tires.

The yellow flag was immediately dispatched during the race.

And the yellow flag was quickly transformed into a virtual safety car.

In fact, Qin Miao wanted to take advantage of the situation to stop and change tires, but because when the virtual safety car just came out, Qin Miao had already passed the entrance to the pit area.

When he came back again, the car formation behind him had already compressed, so Qin Miao had no choice but to continue running on the track.

However, there is no guarantee of success, and on lap 20, Mick Schumacher's Haas car also stopped at the same position where Perez's car broke down.

This time Qin Miao had nothing to hesitate and directly chose to pit and put on hard tires.

Originally, Qin Miao had some grudge against Mick because of what happened yesterday. After all, his pole position was lost to Mick.

But now, Qin Miao just wants to say thank you to Mick!

You are such a good person! (End of chapter)