How did I become an F1 driver?

At the same time, because there is a stopped car behind, all cars need to run a warm-up lap again.

When I started again, there were not so many surprises on the track.

But Alonso didn't know why. He didn't come out after returning to the pit area. He should be ready to give up the game.

Zhou Guanyu started directly from the pit area. For a race that does not require pit stops and the total length of the race is only 100 kilometers, Zhou Guanyu's starting position tomorrow has been determined to be at the end of the team.

After all the cars are parked, the five red lights turn on and the race begins!
In fact, Qin Miao's race was over at this point because Qin Miao used medium tires in this race.

In addition, Toto said that in order to save more resources for the development of next year's car, Qin Miao and Hamilton's speed at the start and during the race is bound to be relatively conservative.

After all, in an F1 Grand Prix, the most likely place and time for an accident to occur is during the start.

However, the two Ferraris in front started a long-lost internal fight at Ferrari.

In the starting stage, although Leclerc was not as fast as Verstappen, his starting position was better, so after starting, the car moved directly to the inside of the track, preparing to brake late to see if he could grab the inside line against Weiss. Tappan completed the transcendence.

After all, there is no difference between the straight-line speed of the Ferrari car and the straight-line speed of the Red Bull car, and the inside line of T1 is also the inside line of T3. As long as I grab Verstappen's inside line and not be thrown away by him, I will be very good after reaching T3. It is possible to get first place directly.

But Pan Zi's defensive ability is not limited. After seeing Leclerc having thoughts that he shouldn't have, Verstappen directly stayed on the inside.

Leclerc's cornering angle is forced to a very small angle.

At this time, Leclerc's front nose and Verstappen were side by side. If Verstappen didn't go to the outside of the track to enter the corner, he would be directly trapped here by Verstappen.

It can be said that Leclerc is in a difficult situation at this time.

So when Leclerc came to T1, he could only brake in advance.

Because of this, Perez obviously didn't start as well as Leclerc, so he picked up a leak on the outside of T1, because Qin Miao started more conservatively and started at about the same speed as Sainz.

Coupled with the disadvantage of racing performance, when it came to T1, Sainz was half a body ahead of Qin Miao.

With an opportunity in front and no pressure from behind, Sainz simply relied on his faster cornering speed and angle to surpass his teammate Leclerc on the outside.

There were no other ranking changes among the four drivers in the front row except for the two Ferrari drivers swapping positions at the start.

However, when the race came to T4, Leclerc took advantage of Sainz's slow exit speed left by attacking Verstappen in T3 and regained his position.

Qin Miao, who was watching behind the two of them, was so excited that he wished he could directly encourage them to fight in their ears.

However, the two of them were still restrained, so after Leclerc passed Sainz, Sainz made no further moves.

And after getting his original position, Leclerc also quickly opened the time gap between himself and Sainz.

Qin Miao's next race was relatively dull. Because of the strength gap in the car itself and the team did not let Qin Miao change to soft tires to try to attack the driver in front, Qin Miao started 1.4 seconds behind Sainz. took a cruise.

Of course, the team said that it could not take risks, but Qin Miao definitely wanted to have a better starting position tomorrow, so when running with Sainz, Qin Miao directly gave Sainz a step. A negative buff.

[Scourge (gold): Lock on a driver in front of you and continue to put pressure on him. The pressure on the driver in front will not decrease, and will increase with the increase of lap speed and the number of tentative attacks until he reaches the front. Until the driver is overtaken or makes a mistake due to excessive pressure.

The pressure level is increased based on the opponent's mentality attributes, and the pressure value of the selected target driver is visualized. 】

[Senz’s current stress level: 34%]

There was pressure, but obviously not a lot.

After so many games, Qin Miao has attacked Sainz a lot. Humans are extremely adaptable creatures, so after so many games, Sainz has become somewhat accustomed to Qin Miao attacking him. The offensive rhythm is also reasonable.

But again, in front of Qin Miao's system, these things are all false.

As Qin Miao's skills improved, Sainz's pressure began to increase visibly.

But Sainz's stress level isn't growing too fast.

Qin Miao soon realized that the reason why this happened was probably because the distance between him and Sainz was not close enough, and the pressure on him was not that sufficient.

After thinking about it, Qin Miao began to use his own tires more, which increased his single lap speed by about 0.2 seconds. Anyway, the medium tires were enough for Qin Miao to finish the race and there was still a lot of margin left. The tires could be burned at will. That's it.

As a result, Qin Miao's speed increased a lot and he directly entered the DRS area behind Sainz.

Although this position will be affected by the turbulence of Sainz's car when cornering, on the third lap, the race meeting has turned on DRS, and the speed lost in the corner can be regained with DRS.

Sure enough, after Qin Miao came behind Sainz, Sainz's pressure increased immediately.

Basically, Sainz's stress level will increase by about 1% every lap.

But Qin Miao is not ready to pursue him any closer now.

Because if the pursuit is too close, you will have the conditions to take action.

Qin Miao may not be able to bear it when the time comes.

Furthermore, the point difference between third and fourth place is only one point.

Although Qin Miao's overtaking is very stable, it is a risky thing after all. There is no need to gamble on the competitiveness of the car next season just for an extra point.

Now Qin Miao is constantly putting pressure on Sainz, and if conditions permit, he will tap behind Sainz to put further pressure.

Qin Miao wanted to see if Sainz could stabilize his mentality in this game and take third place under the huge pressure he put on him.

Under the premise that Qin Miao continued to put pressure on Sainz, the person who felt most comfortable was Leclerc.

Because of Qin Miao's presence, Sainz behind him is no longer a threat to Leclerc. He can comfortably run long distances on the track by himself.

Even for this reason, when Leclerc waited for the tenth lap of the race, the track engineer in the team TR notified Leclerc: "Charles, your lap speed is now 0.09 seconds faster than Verstappen. This is A good sign, keep up the good work.”

……

When Qin Miao was teasing Sainz from the front, Perez, who was behind, had already reached fifth place on the 15th lap, and Qin Miao was in front.

However, there is still a three-second gap between Perez and Qin Miao in front of him at this time. There are still 8 laps to go before the end of the game. With the speed shown by Perez at this time, he cannot catch up in this game. Qin Miao's.

Unlike Perez's heroic performance, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton encountered a lot of trouble in this game.

The two Haas in front of Hamilton drove the DRS train openly and openly in front of Hamilton.

Although Hamilton had caught up to the DRS zone within 0.4 seconds behind Mick at this time, the overall speed of the car was 0.6 seconds faster than the two Haas by a single lap.

But just because of the DRS train, Hamilton was unable to get a sufficient position advantage in the DRS area, and was always beaten by the two Huskas.

It was not until the 22nd lap that Hamilton worked very hard to surpass Mick in front of him, entered the sprint race points area, and got one point.

The sprint race is not long and ends quickly.

Verstappen started from pole position and came home first.

And Qin Miao was a little surprised to see Sainz, whose pressure value in front of him reached 74%, still steadily complete his task and bring the car across the finish line.

When did this kid have such a good attitude? Under such great pressure, I haven’t made any mistakes on the track.

Although it is a pity that Sainz did not make a mistake on the track, Qin Miao is still satisfied with the result. At least the car did not have any problems on this track, right?

The rankings and scores after this game are also tomorrow’s starting order are as follows:

P1: Verstappen +8
P2: Leclerc +7
P3: Sainz +6
P4: Qin Miao +5
P5: Perez +4
P6: O'Connell +3
P7: Magnussen +2
P8: Hamilton +1
It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao originally thought that Zhou Guanyu would not get a good ranking in the sprint stage after starting from the bottom of the team.

Unexpectedly, when the rankings were finally calculated, Zhou Guanyu directly caught up to the 13th place, which means that Zhou Guanyu will start from the 13th position tomorrow.

Anyway, it is impossible for Zhou Guanyu to get points in this game, so being able to go from 19th to 13th is already a very good result.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Guanyu single-handedly made up for the disadvantages brought to him by the car in this game.

The post-race process of the sprint race is actually roughly the same as the main race.

The top three drivers after the race can also receive their own awards, but unlike the trophy for the race winner, the sprint race winner receives medals.

And the fastest lap in the sprint stage does not count as points.

After completing the car inspection, Qin Miao returned to the team home. During the post-race meeting, Toto patted Qin Miao on the shoulder with great satisfaction.

At least in this irrelevant sprint race, Qin Miao brought his car back safely and scored 5 points.

Toto is still satisfied here.

As for Hamilton…

He collided with Gasly on his right at the start of the race, and Gasly's left rear wheel hit Hamilton's right front wheel.

The left rear hit the right front, and as you can imagine, Gasly's car flew straight away.

From Hamilton's perspective, Hamilton was not responsible for the accident. After all, from Hamilton's first perspective at the time, Albon was on his left and Gasly was on his right. When Gasly came over, he had no place to go. Dodge, and he has also slowed down in advance.

But in fact, from the long view from the rear, you can see that there is still a distance between Hamilton and Albon on his left.

Of course I say that, but Hamilton's responsibility is actually not that big. The main responsibility lies with Gasly on Hamilton's right.

After this collision, the right front suspension of the Mercedes car showed the usual characteristics of the Mercedes car. Vibranium suspension.

After jacking up a Toro Rosso, there was no damage to the right suspension of Hamilton's car. Even after returning from the race, the team's inspection found that the right front suspension of Hamilton's car did not even need to be re-aligned.

What stands out is the rigidity!
But Hamilton's car was still somewhat damaged.

A piece of the bottom plate of Hamilton's car was scraped off, and at the same time, the wheel blade of the right front wheel of Hamilton's car also had some scratches.

In short, no matter what, this Mercedes car will definitely be taken for repair.

It doesn’t matter if the wheel cutter on the tire is replaced, the team has spare parts.

But the damaged floor of Hamilton's car is indeed a bit difficult to repair. Although the team also has spare parts, the cost of a floor is not cheap.

The team is also distressed, so Hamilton's team technicians on site are evaluating whether Hamilton's floor can be repaired.

Some people may want to say that there is no way to repair carbon fiber after it is damaged.

It is true that carbon fiber materials cannot be repaired after they are damaged and broken.

At least there is no way to restore this damaged position to its original strength and characteristics.

However, Hamilton's blade is only missing a piece of carbon fiber fragment on the edge. The missing position is not too big, just the length of the middle finger and ring finger together.

After a short meeting at the team factory, it was decided to re-produce a piece of carbon fiber about the same size as the damaged location, then use super glue and putty to connect it flat and then scrape it flat.

After this repair, the aerodynamic effect of the car's floor is similar to that of a normal carbon fiber floor. The disadvantage may be that the overall weight of the car may be about 10 grams in the damaged position.

Of course, the biggest advantage of this kind of repair is that it is cheap.

It’s hard to imagine that someone as wealthy as Mercedes would now worry about saving money.

Of course, the team also obtained Hamilton's consent when doing this.

All in all, although this sprint qualifying race also made Toto who was watching the race experience shock, brows beating wildly, and heartbeats, but at least he was satisfied with the result.

There is a loss, but it is still within an acceptable range.

Regarding the repair of his own racing problem, Hamilton actually wanted to replace it with a new floor. After all, there was still a spare part for the floor, which he didn't need in vain.

However, considering the car development issues for next season, I had no choice but to agree.

Moreover, after the floor was repaired, it had almost no impact on the speed of the car, so Hamilton finally agreed.

After the meeting, Qin Miao naturally returned to the hotel to rest debt-free.

The next day, after the pre-race interviews, preparations, and pre-race driver parade were completed, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room.

At this time, Frankie and the others were still conducting final inspections on Qin Miao's car, and the inspection content was not complicated. After all, after yesterday's sprint qualifying, it was no longer possible to make any modifications to the tuning of Qin Miao's car.

The car tuning used by Qin Miao in today's race is the same set of tuning used in yesterday's sprint qualifying session.

Therefore, their inspection of the car at this time was more about checking the parts of the car that may have malfunctioned during the race. In particular, the location where the oil pipeline of Qin Miao's racing engine had problems last time was emphatically inspected.

After everything was ready, and with the announcement of the race, the car was pushed onto the track.

The weather in Austria is good today, and the scenery in the mountainous areas around the track is also very good. Although there are clouds and fog from time to time, no rain clouds have moved towards the track so far.

Of course, the possibility of rain during today’s race cannot be ruled out.

After all, the Red Bull Ring is located in the mountains of Austria, and the weather conditions in the mountains really change at any time.

The sky was cloudless 10 minutes ago, but after 10 minutes it became cloudy and started to rain.

At the same time, Bottas has a new internal combustion engine for this race, so he will start in the pit area during the race.

Although the change of Bottas' starting position has no direct relationship with Qin Miao's starting position, this news can give the Mercedes team a reference, that is, the engines of the Ferrari series have begun to have wear problems.

And Bottas is the first driver this season to retreat to the pit lane due to an engine change at the start.

It can also be seen from this that Ferrari's engine should have the worst durability among all drivers' engines this season.

When the time comes, the Mercedes team will have a great chance to take advantage of this to keep the team's second place from Ferrari.

As for Red Bull…

To be honest, Red Bull Racing did encounter a lot of stability problems at the beginning of the season, but as the game gradually progressed, it was obvious that Honda also invested more resources in engine stability.

Therefore, Honda's engine has no stability problems in recent games.

At most, there will be some minor problems on the track, but there will no longer be major problems that cause the car to retire directly.

The overall speed of the Red Bull racing car is also good. In addition, Red Bull inherently has more advantages and accumulation in aerodynamic design. Therefore, in the later part of this season, Mercedes will challenge Red Bull and the possibility of winning is very low.

In addition, Zhou Guanyu also benefited from his teammates' starting position moving back.

Originally starting from 13th place on the grid, he went directly to th.

Zhou Guanyu, who has been running in the F1 paddock for nearly half a season, has become mature in both mentality and technology.

The starting position of this race is not too bad, and in front of him is McLaren, which has not been competitive in the past few seasons due to a shortage of funds at the team headquarters.

As long as the team does not give Zhou Guanyu more strength, there is a great possibility that Zhou Guanyu can bring back points for the team again in this game.

Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, McLaren's skinny camel is bigger than its horse. Zhou Guanyu could not get past the barrier of McLaren drivers during the race.

Aren't there two Haas ahead?

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu can at least finish tenth and get one point in this game.

By the time the camera was shown on the track, the team had already begun to lower the car from the jack.

The tire heating blanket was also removed.

This time Alpine did not forget to take off the tire heating blanket on Alonso's car.

Qin Miao's tire choice for this race was still soft tires.

Because Qin Miao saved an extra set of soft tires in yesterday's sprint race, so for today's race, Qin Miao has two sets of soft tires, one set of medium tires and one set of hard tires in his tire reserve.

So in today's game, the pit stop strategy that the Mercedes team's strategy team wanted to develop for Qin Miao was two stops.

The tire strategy is red, yellow and red.

If something unexpected happens on the track in the mid-term, hard tires are not an option.

The Red Bull Ring is a high-speed track with many curves. The wear of tires under many high-speed corners is naturally greater than that on a normal track. Therefore, in today's game, the mainstream pit stop strategy is still the two-stop strategy. .

Soon, amid the orange smoke ignited by the spectators, all drivers started their warm-up laps under the leadership of Verstappen.

It is worth mentioning that Alonso, an old comrade, made some small moves before the start of the race.

Normally, before the start of the race, the drivers will come to their starting positions and park, waiting for the drivers behind them to get into position.

Alonso did not run in yesterday's sprint qualifying session, so this race started directly from the last position at the end of the team.

But he ran slowly and leisurely, and the latter section took a long time.

Even Verstappen stopped at his spot for almost a minute before Alonso slowly came to where he should park and parked.

At the end of this minute, the temperature of Verstappen's tires, which were already not too high, dropped by at least 20°.

Of course, it's not just Verstappen, basically all the drivers starting in the front have their tire temperatures reduced to varying degrees.

But Alonso finally parked the car at his own spot.

The five red lights on the scene also lit up one by one, and the game was about to begin.

Soon, the five red lights went out and the race began.

This time, Qin Miao's start was no longer as submissive as sprint qualifying.

Qin Miao started very quickly, and was obviously faster than Sainz who started on the left front of him.

This is partly due to Qin Miao's quick reaction, and also due to the soft tires.

Therefore, before reaching the braking point, Qin Miao came to the inside line of Sainz and lined up with Sainz.

Qin Miao was in extreme control of the car. The wheel arch on the left side of the car was close to Sainz next to him. If Sainz went to the left, Qin Miao would go to the left. If Sainz went to the right, Qin Miao would go to the right. .

But that's not all. Sainz, who had already reached the limit he felt before braking, looked at Qin Miao with some shock and surprise as he stepped on the brakes about 5 meters later than himself.

After Sainz saw this, the first thought that flashed through his mind was that Qin Miao made a big mistake this time. He missed the braking point and probably had to rush out. (End of chapter)