How did I become an F1 driver?

Of course, this is not the most unfortunate thing that Qin Miao encountered in today's game.

After Hamilton pitted, the tire change time was 3.1 seconds.

It was a bit slow, but acceptable, but after Qin Miao came into the pit, the tire changer took 5.2 seconds to change Qin Miao's tire.

Qin Miao, who was sitting in the racing car, was stunned when he saw this scene.

But he held back, after all, even if he wanted to scold the tire changer, he couldn't hear it now.

The two tire changes made the tire changer of the Mercedes-Benz team somewhat confused. Therefore, when changing Qin Miao's tire, the team member responsible for changing Qin Miao's right rear tire did not insert Qin Miao's tire securely. It was not locked the first time.

Take it out for the second time and insert it again before tightening the bolt.

This caused Qin Miao, who was originally in a bad position, to be overcut by Perez in the pit area.

Seeing Perez who had changed to hard tires and left early, Qin Miao finally couldn't help but spit out the fragrance in his helmet.

It would be difficult for anyone to remain calm when faced with such a situation, and Qin Miao just cursed a few words in his helmet to vent, and did not turn on the team's TR.

Moreover, there are always some risks when two cars enter the station, and Qin Miao can only helplessly understand this.

And that's not all Qin Miao had today. After finally changing the tires and putting Qin Miao down, both Qin Miao and the staff responsible for putting the car down definitely wanted Qin Miao to leave the maintenance area as soon as possible.

So when he let the car out, he didn't pay attention to the car coming from behind. When Qin Miao was let out, he directly forced Zhou Guanyu to stop behind him, who was about to stop for a tire change.

Zhou Guanyu was happily entering the station, but when he ran to the door of the P room of the Mercedes fleet, suddenly a Mercedes appeared in front of him and blocked his road.

Zhou Guanyu immediately subconsciously stepped on the brakes, and then waited for Qin Miao to drive into the pit channel before crossing the line and accelerating.

But during this process, Zhou Guanyu was about to curse, but when he realized that the person in front of him was Qin Miao, he suppressed it.

I just complained a little unhappily to the team TR: "How did Mercedes let people go in this game?"

Qin Miao has already involved a dangerous release. If Arrow appeals, Qin Miao will be subject to at least a five-second penalty.

Of course, the FIA ​​has not yet issued a final penalty notice.

When Qin Miao came out of the pit area, he was back to his familiar fifth place.

Not only did Perez overcut Qin Miao in the pit area, but Alonso behind him also moved up one position.

It is undeniable that Qin Miao was indeed unlucky in this race, but compared with his good friend Leclerc, Qin Miao's unlucky situation was actually not bad. At least he did not retire directly because of that mysterious luck.

After all the drivers from other teams pitted to change tires, the on-site director gave a replay of Leclerc's accident.

The place where Leclerc's accident occurred was T11, a 180° turnaround.

During the replay, Leclerc's car showed obvious head pushing symptoms when entering T11.

And before entering T12, the right turn was too large, and the rear wheel grip of the car was lost. First, the rear of the car lost control, and then it affected the entire car. Then the car spun on the track, and finally plunged into Matthew's entrance. tire wall.

The Ferrari and Mercedes fans in the stands showed two completely different states.

One was beaming with joy and could barely control his expression, while the other was helpless. He took off his Ferrari hat and then hit the wall in front of him hard.

Not long after, the race also gave the team's TR after Leclerc's crash.

"Are you ok?"

Originally, the first thing after a car accident was to report his physical condition to the team so that the other party could start handling the racing accident with peace of mind. However, Leclerc at the scene responded in a very angry tone: "I've encountered this again. Such a problem in Austria!”

In the last few laps of the Austrian Grand Prix, Leclerc's car couldn't turn back the throttle. Even if he released the accelerator pedal, the car would still have about 20% of the throttle output and maintain it.

It is not difficult to hear from Leclerc's words that Leclerc encountered the same problem in this game as in the previous game.

The difference is that the Red Bull Ring is a high-speed track. There are no heavy braking areas except T1 and T3. Most of the corners are medium-to-high-speed corners. Even if there is always accelerator output, Leclerc only needs to go a little further. If it's bigger, it won't be a big problem and you can run the entire race.

But Paul Ricard is different. This track has too many low-speed corners, and under such circumstances, Leclerc cannot persist on the track despite problems with the car like he did in the last game.

And with Leclerc's explanation, all of this makes sense.

After all, Leclerc is an experienced F1 driver no matter what, and there were no other drivers behind him to put pressure on him during this process. Under such circumstances, Leclerc had no reason to make such a low-level mistake.

And it turns out that the car's failure had nothing to do with Leclerc himself.

Then the sound of Leclerc's heavy breathing echoed in Ferrari's team TR.

It is not known whether Leclerc was a little out of breath due to the long and high-intensity race, or whether Leclerc was angry about the unresolved problems of Ferrari's broken car, or both.

However, the team TR was not over at this time. Soon the voice of Leclerc's engineer sounded again in the team TR: "There is no such problem now, the throttle output has returned to zero."

Leclerc: ...

The racing engine stalled! This problem definitely doesn’t exist anymore! If he keeps the fuel output, I will abandon the car! What's the use of you!
After hearing this, Leclerc's breathing became heavier and heavier, and finally he let out a heart-rending roar directly in the team TR: "NO!!!!!!"

……

Afterwards, Leclerc returned to the team's P room on Mathieu's scooter, while the race continued on the track.

During the yellow flag period, the results of the competition's punishment for Qin Miao also came out.

Qin Miao was penalized five seconds for an unsafe release in the pit area.

This made Qin Miao feel a little uncomfortable. The only good news was that this was only a time penalty, and Qin Miao was not allowed to enter the maintenance area to be punished.

It was directly added to Qin Miao's final score.

On the track, Verstappen was first, Hamilton second, Perez third, Alonso fourth, and Qin Miao fifth.

Finally, on the 20th lap, the race restarted.

At this time, there are still 33 laps to go before the end of the game. Most of the drivers are using hard tires, so Qin Miao now knows that it is impossible for him to compete for the championship in this game. Now it depends on whether he can kill the opponent in front of him. Alonso will then take out Perez or Hamilton to get a podium.

On the field, although Alonso was very serious about defending Qin Miao who came behind him.

However, the performance gap between the two drivers' cars was too big. On the first lap after the restart of the race, which was lap 21, Qin Miao absorbed Alonso's slipstream and overtook Alonso before T1. .

Alonso actually wanted to see the quality of this young man Qin Miao, but the gap between the cars directly ignored the role of the driver.

After overtaking Alonso, Qin Miao began to chase Perez in front of him.

In the first few laps, Qin Miao really had no chance of getting close to Perez in front of him.

There are even times when Perez is held back by about 0.1 seconds in a single lap.

So during this period, Qin Miao has been following Perez 2.7 seconds behind.

Strictly speaking, Qin Miao's average lap speed at this time was almost the same as Perez's.

And Perez is now unable to catch up with Hamilton in front of him. Instead, Verstappen has been steadily opening up the time gap with Hamilton behind him.

Finally, on the 30th lap, Qin Miao's speed began to increase significantly.

From basically the same lap speed as Perez, Qin Miao now starts a lap about 0.1 seconds faster than Perez, and is steadily 0.1 seconds faster.

On the 35th lap, Qin Miao entered the DRS area behind Perez.

Perez knew that the temperature today was very high and the track temperature was extremely high, so he knew that in this game he only had to defend Qin Miao for 3 laps and not be overtaken by Qin Miao. The high temperature could directly destroy Qin Miao's tires.

At that time, you can directly hand over Qin Miao behind you to Sainz, who has reached fifth place, and get a podium comfortably while doing lap times happily.

It's just that Perez's idea is very good, but in fact Qin Miao saved 100% of the battery power before launching this attack.

In addition, Qin Miao's hard tires are now in better condition than Perez, who has always been on tire protection, so Qin Miao didn't actually put much effort into overtaking Perez.

After T36 came out of the corner on the 6th lap, Qin Miao began to release the car's power at full power. Coupled with the wake and DRS provided by Perez, Qin Miao grabbed the inside line at T8 and finally completed the victory over Perez very easily. Rez's transcendence.

After overtaking Perez, Qin Miao still needed to cool down his car.

But Qin Miao was not only ready to cool down his car, because he still had a 5-second penalty on him at this time.

Qin Miao knows that he is faster than Perez now, but what if Perez's speed increases again later?
So in order to avoid having a podium stolen by Perez behind him, Qin Miao used some tricks.

Qin Miao always controlled his position about 0.3 seconds ahead of Perez when his lap speed was 0.7 seconds faster than Perez.

And he kept blowing the high-temperature airflow from his car's tailpipe onto Sainz's tires and side box air inlets.

Qin Miao's idea was similar to Perez's, using the high temperature of the track to consume Perez's tires. After all, on this track, it is very difficult to lower the tire temperature of the car after it rises.

When Perez's tires were troubled by the high temperature, he could easily get rid of Perez's 5-second time gap.

However, it is also because of the 5-second penalty that Qin Miao carries on his body. Although Qin Miao's single lap speed is now faster than Hamilton, and the time gap between him and Hamilton is only 3 seconds, Qin Miao's position against Hamilton is not A little thought, now he just wants to kill Perez behind him.

On lap 39, Perez was overtaken by Sainz behind him.

As for the reason...the tires overheated and failed.

At the same time, Qin Miao also started to accelerate again after Perez was overtaken by Sainz.

Moreover, Qin Miao was not worried at all at this time that Sainz behind him would threaten his position.

The main reason is that Sainz is using medium tires at this time. He is not Qin Miao. Although it is not impossible for Sainz to continue to finish the next race with this set of medium tires, but in the later stages of the game, Sainz Si's speed will definitely drop significantly.

The only way to avoid this situation is to stop and change tires.

No matter what the situation is, Sainz poses no threat to Qin Miao's position at this time.

Sure enough, on lap 43, Sainz pitted and put on another set of medium tires. After coming out of the pit area, Sainz fell behind Ocon.

Sainz's only advantage now is his new set of medium tires.

Ferrari is probably expecting Sainz to have Qin Miao's terrifying offensive ability, and then let the opponent rely on this ability to move up the rankings.

Of course, no matter how much you chase Alonso at this time, there is still a 25-second time gap between Perez and Perez, and there are only 10 laps left before the end of the race. No matter how strong Ferrari's racing performance is, Sainz No matter how good the grip of his medium tires is, he can't catch up with the driver in front of him for 2.5 seconds in one lap, not to mention that there are other drivers in front of him blocking him.

So since Ferrari pitted Sainz, his position was destined to be fifth.

In fact, given the current rate of exhaustion of Sainz's tires, he could only finish fifth if he did not pit.

Before the end of the race, there was an episode on the track. Zhou Guanyu, who was ranked tenth, encountered a mechanical problem with his car on lap 49.

With 4 laps left before the end of the race, he had no choice but to retire at the Matthew entrance.

Zhou Guanyu could actually score points steadily in this game, but in the end he got a result that surprised his fans.

Of course, Zhou Guanyu in the car said he was emotionally stable.

After all, he has encountered such a thing not once or twice this season.

Of course, there is something that comforts Zhou Guanyu, that is, he is not the only one who is unlucky in today's game.

Except for him, both Leclerc and Qin Miao were unlucky.

Because Qin Miao had taken a 5-second penalty, he might have finished second. In order to prevent Perez behind him from getting closer within 5 seconds, he used high-temperature exhaust directly in front of Perez to hit him. The tires were ruined.

As a result, Qin Miao missed the best time to attack his teammate Hamilton.

When Qin Miao freed up his hand, even if he surpassed his teammate Hamilton, Hamilton was confident that he would keep the time gap between himself and Qin Miao within 5 seconds and finish the race.

So after realizing this, Qin Miao simply did not attack his teammates, but honestly finished the game behind Hamilton.

Leclerc was much worse than Zhou Guanyu. He retired from the race while directly leading. Compared with Zhou Guanyu's loss of a few points, it was nothing.

In the end, Verstappen led the field after Leclerc retired and finally won the championship, while the two Mercedes drivers took home second and third.

The scores and rankings of other drivers are as follows:

P1: Verstappen +25
P2: Hamilton +18
P3: Qin Miao +14
P4: Perez +12
P5: Sainz +11 (fastest lap)
P6: Alonso +8
P7: Norris +6
P8: O'Connell +4
P9: Ricardo +2
P10: Stroll +1
Sainz's fastest lap of the race is nothing to go into details. After all, no one except him pitted for new tires late in the race.

Using a new set of medium tires to get the fastest lap late in the race is basically a matter of course.

At the same time, Stroll really needs to give a thumbs up to Arrow Racing's mechanics in this game. Without the assistance of Arrow Racing's broken car, he would probably have to be the points goalkeeper in this game.

At the same time, after this race, the overall driver standings is as follows:
1: Qin Miao.199
2: Verstappen.181
3: Leclerc.156
4: Perez.150
5: Sainz.105
6: Hamilton.95
7: Norris.58
8: O'Connell.54
9: Bottas.38
10: Alonso.23
11: Magnussen.19
12: Zhou Guanyu.19
13: Gasly.15
14: Vettel.14
15: Ricardo.14
16: Tsunoda.9
17: Mick.6
18: Stroll.2
19: Albon.1
The team standings are as follows:
1: Red Bull: 351
2: Mercedes: 337
3: Ferrari: 284
4: Alpine: 89
5: McLaren: 72
6: Alfa Romeo: 64
7: Haas: 25
8: Little Red Bull: 24
9: Aston Martin: 17
10: Williams: 1
After this game, the points gap between Mercedes and Red Bull widened. After all, the 25 points of a championship are quite high, plus the 12 points that Perez brought back with his victory in this game.

It is inevitable that the points gap will be widened.

After the game, Qin Miao was still a little frustrated. After all, his performance in today's game was strictly speaking good. Although his teammates were outnumbered in qualifying, he was not as good as Hamilton in the starting order, but in the later stages of the game, Qin Miao Miao has a chance to take the second position back from Hamilton.

But Qin Miao's luck was relatively bad in this game.

It didn’t matter that the team forced themselves to control the car for 3 seconds when changing tires. When releasing the car, they were also fined for an unsafe release of 5 seconds. Without those 5 seconds, Qin Miao might have snatched the second place from Hamilton.

But now that the matter has come to this, there is no point in complaining anymore, and no matter what, Qin Miao has now won a podium seat.

At least the performance of the car now is much better than it was at the beginning of the season.

After parking the car, Qin Miao was ready to participate in the post-race interview. Then Qin Miao saw a smiling Hamilton in the post-race interview area.

Hamilton is really happy today, even happier than Verstappen who won the race.

Because this is the first time this season that Hamilton has defeated his own Qin Miao in the race.

That's right, he has run 12 grands prix in a season, and this is Hamilton's first victory over Qin Miao...

Although there is a lot of luck involved, strength is also a part of luck.

After saying hello to Hamilton, Qin Miao, Verstappen and Hamilton began the post-race process.

It is worth mentioning that after the post-race interview ended, when Qin Miao and Hamilton returned to the waiting area behind the podium, Hamilton picked up the water glass and took a sip, then lay down directly on the ground.

Qin Miao looked at it with some surprise, and then remembered that the average temperature of the track in today's race was more than 60 degrees, and the cockpit of the car was almost the same temperature as the track outside.

I just sweated a little, and it was normal for Hamilton to be a little unable to bear it...

All subsequent processes are carried out normally, so I won’t go into details here.

Although the Mercedes team took home second and third place in this game, which was considered a good result, after Qin Miao walked into the team's P room, the originally harmonious atmosphere in the team's P room was stagnant.

Everyone subconsciously looked at Qin Miao's face, worried that he would get angry when he came back because of what happened on the field. After all, the team did create a lot of obstacles for Qin Miao in today's game.

No one would think it strange that Qin Miao lost his temper when he came back at this time.

But what the team staff didn't expect was that Qin Miao had a calm expression and nodded to the team staff with a smile, and then went into his lounge to change clothes.

And then Qin Miao happily took a photo of the P2 and P3 winning trophies with everyone.

Qin Miao was indeed quite angry, but now that the matter was over, Qin Miao knew that it would be useless no matter how much he lost his temper.

Just look at it a little bit.

At this point, the French Grand Prix has come to an end, and the next week will be the Hungarian Grand Prix.

After the Hungarian Grand Prix, it is the summer break that all F1 team staff and drivers are looking forward to.

In fact, during this summer break, the team and Qiu Meng arranged a lot of commercial activities for Qinniao, which accounted for about half of Qin Miao's rest time.

In fact, strictly speaking, this kind of time allocation is already very loose for an F1 driver. Drivers like Hamilton with relatively high commercial value may not have time to rest during the entire summer break.

But Qin Miao refused directly. I would rather stay at home and play games these two weeks.

Qiu Meng didn't care about this, since their family didn't rely on Qin Miao's agency to make money.

However, the publicity department of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team has a huge headache.

They did arrange enough work for Qin Miao, but Qin Miao signed a contract with the team that is now very painful for the Mercedes-Benz team's publicity department.

So now they can only accept this fact helplessly.

After the game, Qin Miao did not return to the UK this week.

Although after this week's race is over, the team headquarters should have plans to upgrade the car, and there may even be new upgrades in the process of design and development.

But next week's Hungarian Grand Prix, the team's upgrades will not be able to keep up in any case.

And compared to Qin Miao, Hamilton is obviously more concerned about this new W13B.

Yes, the floor and cockpit have been upgraded and adjusted. Because many things are different from the W13, the team gave the new car the code name W13B.

It can be regarded as another kind of reform. (End of chapter)