How did I become an F1 driver?

Qin Miao went back to Monaco directly after the game.

After all, Monaco is right next to France, and it would only take less than an hour for Qin Miao to fly home after the French Grand Prix.

Moreover, there is not much work that Qin Miao needs to handle at the team factory. Hamilton will definitely stay with the team this week, so if there is anything the team can ask Hamilton to help handle.

On the way home, Qin Miao took out his mobile phone and chatted with Zhou Guanyu and others in the group, and finally found out the specific reason why Leclerc's car retired from the race.

After all, there were only four people in the group, so Leclerc did not hide it and directly stated that the Ferrari car had a throttle control failure problem again. However, during the post-race interview, the heads of certain departments of the team, considering their own reputation and position, asked Leclerc to say in the interview that it was his own operational error.

After all, Leclerc's position at Ferrari is stable enough now, and Leclerc is still a Ferrari youth training driver with a proven track record.

Therefore, he has a high status in the hearts of Ferrari fans. If he admits his mistake, some fans may complain, but no one will criticize Leclerc, and no one will ask Ferrari to replace the driver.

They would only say "Bhi", "Wofa ethane" and the like.

Naturally, I will not guess who the initiator of this incident is.

The most important thing is that Leclerc owes the other party a favor, and this can be regarded as returning the favor.

But to be honest, if Qin Miao's position was switched with Leclerc's, Qin Miao really couldn't bear to take the blame even though it was clearly not his own problem.

Maybe they would just explode with each other and everyone would die together!

Of course, Qin Miao is not Leclerc after all.

But now Qin Miao really feels that it is really difficult for Binotto to be the team leader of Ferrari.

Mr. Renbi has a background in engine design. Unlike most other team leaders, he has stayed in various departments of the F1 team for a period of time, thoroughly understands the workflow and operation logic of these departments, and then manages the entire team. After you understand all the operating procedures, you can take over the position of team leader.

Mr. Bi worked as an engine design engineer for more than 20 years, and then directly became the team leader.

Although more than 20 years of experience in the industry have allowed him to understand the operating procedures of other departments of a team, as the saying goes, if you don't have diamonds, don't take this porcelain job. Binotto has only seen it, he has not gone there. These departments have done it.

So the current Ferrari is a visible mess.

Whether it is the guarantee of the car or the formulation of tactics by the strategy team, as well as logistics, tire changing, and personnel management, they all have the beauty of wild growth.

This season's Ferrari, apart from its engine, which gives people a bright feeling, other aspects can only be said to make people feel that the people in this department are just doing nothing.

And he often made outrageous actions that made the people of Tiefo Temple look black.

In short, Ferrari has suppressed the external influence after Leclerc retired from the race.

While chatting in the group, Qin Miao also discovered that Leclerc's position has been in Monaco. Qin Miao originally wanted to ask Leclerc to go fishing on Monday afternoon, which could be regarded as relaxing the other party's mood.

But Leclerc refused.

Qin Miao didn't think much about it, simply thinking that Leclerc might just have other things to deal with.

But there was no one to accompany him, and it was too troublesome to go out to sea alone, so Qin Miao did not go out by herself, but stayed at home to recuperate and prepare for the last grand prix before the summer break.

In the past, Qin Miao only thought that becoming an F1 driver would be awesome, as he could both make money and gain fame.

In the first season, Qin Miao still had no change in this feeling.

At that time, Qin Miao's main focus was on getting familiar with the car and track, and getting good results on the track.

Qin Miao really didn't feel anything else at that time, but now Qin Miao only feels that it is really tiring after running so many games.

This may also be the disadvantage of winning the world championship in the first year of your career, because in the first year of your career you stand at the top that other professional players may not be able to reach in their lifetime.

After seeing the highest scenery and tasting the most delicious fruit, there is nothing worth looking forward to in the entire paddock.

Therefore, Qin Miao's enthusiasm for the competition inevitably declined.

But this is just a decline in enthusiasm. Qin Miao still loves racing and has no plans to change his job in a short time.

In addition, what made Qin Miao feel extremely stressed was that Qiu Meng came back on Tuesday.

Then from Tuesday until Qin Miao went to Hungary, Qin Miao had to pay the public food at least once a day.

Once is familiar, second is familiar. Now Qin Miao basically has no resistance to this matter. He is tired, destroy it, and hurry up.

Moreover, this frequency is acceptable to Qin Miao and basically does not put a big burden on his body.

On Thursday, Qin Miao's morning flight flew to Hungary.

After all, he is already familiar with the Hungaroring, so Qin Miao did not go to the track early this week.

The track of the Hungarian Grand Prix can be regarded as an old friend of Qin Miao, and countless famous scenes have occurred on this track.

The most important thing is that the Hungaroring is the most difficult track to overtake this season except Monaco.

Therefore, with Qin Miao's defensive ability in this game, he has every chance to get a good ranking. The only thing to worry about now is that Mercedes's game did not bring any upgrades to the two drivers of his team.

Qin Miao's familiarity with this track actually started with F1. Last year's Hungarian Grand Prix was Qin Miao's first real race on this track.

In fact, according to the normal racing calendar, the Hungaroring also has F2 and F3 races.

But unfortunately, Qin Miao entered F2 during the epidemic, and many tracks were closed at that time. Therefore, Qin Miao only had the opportunity to access many tracks after entering F1.

Different from Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu, who entered F2019 in 2, ran this track in 19. However, Zhou Guanyu, who entered F2 in the first year, is obviously not as evil as Qin Miao, so his results can only be regarded as Excellent for newcomers.

After the plane landed, Qin Miao first went to the hotel arranged by the team, put away his things, and then went to the paddock.

On the following Thursday and Friday, Qin Miao focused on his work.

Time quickly came to Saturday afternoon, when qualifying was about to begin.

Qin Miao's bad luck seems to have been inherited from the previous race. In this week's Hungarian Grand Prix, in addition to the good weather on the track throughout Friday, it started to rain on the track on Saturday. Although the rain was not heavy and stopped after a while, it rained intermittently from the sky.

The temperature of the track also dropped very quickly.

Even when qualifying practice started, very obvious water stains could be seen on the track.

Fortunately, when qualifying started, there was no rain on the track except for the low temperature, so during this period the drivers still used soft tires to do lap times on the track.

Qin Miao and Hamilton were both very stable in the qualifying stage. The results of the first flying lap were enough for them to enter Q2. Qin Miao even had free time to return to the team's P room and get off the car to use the toilet.

In the end, the drivers eliminated in Q1 were: Stroll, Tsunoda, Albon, Vettel, and Gasly.

Zhou Guanyu and Bottas both advanced to Q2 easily.

In Q2, the biggest feature of Qin Miao and Hamilton this season is their stability, so they entered Q3 easily.

At the same time, Perez's fastest lap in this game was canceled because it exceeded the track limit, and his first flying lap encountered a slow car on the track. The result of this flying lap Not ideal either, so Perez was eliminated in 12th place.

In the end, the drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Bottas, Perez, Russell, Magnussen, and Mick.

That's right, in today's game, Zhou Guanyu advanced to Q3.

But strictly speaking, in this game, Perez gave Zhou Guanyu the opportunity to enter Q3.

Without Perez, Zhou Guanyu will become the Q3 goalkeeper he is familiar with.

Just when everyone thought that Q3 in today's qualifying match would be a Red Bull dueling Ferrari and fighting against Mercedes.

At the beginning of Q3, Verstappen's car came out and did not complete a lap. The team's telemetry department discovered that the engine temperature was abnormal and urgently called back to the pit area.

After the inspection found that there was no problem, although Red Bull released Verstappen again, Verstappen's speed began to stagnate and he was unable to run a competitive lap.

Because of this, Verstappen was in last place at the end of Q3.

Therefore, the entire Q3 is the stage for Mercedes and Ferrari.

On the last flying lap of Q3, while Qin Miao was still doing the tire warm-up lap, French told Qin Miao the news: "When Hamilton ran the last flying lap, the car's DRS system failed and could not be turned on. …”

Qin Miao:......

"What about my car?"

"We just checked and there is nothing wrong with your car. You can complete your last flight lap with peace of mind."

……

Hamilton's car failure did not affect Qin Miao's performance.

In the last flying lap on the track, even without the help of Hamilton's wake, Qin Miao set his fastest lap in all three flying laps, and even went purple in the third time period, and the final score came to 1 :17.287.

Qin Miao's result was a full 0.2 seconds faster than Sainz, who was ranked second.

The final qualifying results for the Hungarian Grand Prix are as follows:
1: Qin Miao

2: Sainz
3: Leclerc 4: Norris
5: O'Connell

6: Alonso
7: Hamilton

8: Zhou Guanyu
9: Ricardo
10: Verstappen

Qin Miao was happy for a while after getting this result, but to be honest, this result is nothing worth celebrating for Qin Miao. After all, this is not the first time that he has achieved such a result. He is already proud of this honor. got used to.

After thanking the team's staff in the team TR, Qin Miao's main work today was almost completed.

The rest of the day is about post-match interviews, receiving awards, and attending post-match press conferences.

Qin Miao handles these tasks with ease.

Sunday, the day the main race begins.

The weather on Sunday was about the same as Saturday. On Friday it was hot even if you wore long pants on the track, but today you have to wear a jacket.

Although today's weather conditions were not good news for the car's tires, the drivers were happy.

Because of the cool weather, it means that the temperature inside the racing monocoque will definitely be more comfortable.

Today's driver's parade before the race somewhat lacked the sense of boundary. The drivers in the driver's parade were based on the team, and two drivers from the same team sat in the same car for the driver's parade after the race.

Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't say hello to the audience much when they were in the car. They chatted about whether there would be any difficulties in choosing tires today in today's weather.

In this race, Hamilton is planning to run the entire race directly from yellow to white. If today's weather has an impact on the durability of the tires and lap speed, Hamilton will definitely have to make other plans.

So although Hamilton had a smile on his face throughout the driver parade, he was actually a little absent-minded.

On the contrary, Qin Miao has been interacting enthusiastically with the audience.

After the driver parade ended, time quickly came to the point where the main race was about to start.

Qin Miao did not start on medium tires in today's race.

After all, Qin Miao got the pole position in yesterday's qualifying, and the two drivers starting behind Qin Miao were Ferrari drivers. The main strength of the Ferrari car is its terrifying engine performance.

Therefore, at the start of today's race, Qin Miao must focus on keeping his pole position.

After all, as we all know, the Hungaroring is an easy track to defend, and it is said that this track has two DRS areas, but in fact the effect of these two DRS areas is minimal.

Therefore, based on the speed and defensive ability that Qin Miao has shown this season, as long as he keeps his pole position in the starting stage, then if there are no surprises in today's game, Qin Miao can use the differentiated running style of his tires to win again. Coupled with the incredible defensive ability to defend a championship.

Soon, the camera came to the track, where Qin Miao was sitting in the monocoque of his racing car.

At this time, the environment on the track was not very quiet. The noise of the racing engine when idling, the sound of the staff speaking loudly during scheduling, the noise of the audience and the sound of the host through the live speakers were all entangled together, making the whole scene The paddocks looked messy.

But in such a messy environment, Qin Miao, who was sitting in the monocoque, took off the gloves on his hands and opened his palms to the sky as if no one else was around, as if he wanted to see the sky. Will it look like raindrops falling into his palms?

Coincidentally, not long after Qin Miao opened his hand, raindrops gradually began to fall from the sky.

Although the rain went away quickly, Qin Miao still accumulated a lot of rainwater in his hands.

Qin Miao looked at the raindrops in his hand and sighed helplessly. All he could do now was pray silently in his heart.

God, if it's going to rain, please rain more now. Don't let it rain after the race starts.

Soon, all staff on the track were evacuated and the warm-up lap began.

When Qin Miao was on the tire warm-up lap, he clearly felt that it was difficult for his soft tires to heat up. Qin Miao knew that before his speed increased, the temperature of his soft tires might only be maintained at the warm-up level. The temperature just taken out of the blanket.

But the temperature is enough, and it won't affect Qin Miao's starting rhythm too much.

With the medical vehicle at the rear in position, the green flag waved, and the race was about to begin.

In the starting stage, Qin Miao has never had a problem this season, not to mention that Qin Miao is now using a brand new set of soft tires.

Although it took a long time for Qin Miao's tire temperature to drop because he had to wait for the riders behind him to stop where they should, this did not affect Qin Miao's reaction speed.

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

After starting, Qin Miao basically didn't change his starting route. After all, if his starting route changed, the car would definitely not be able to use all the traction of the engine to accelerate the car.

This will put the Mercedes-Benz car, which is already not as fast as the two Ferraris behind, into a deeper dilemma.

But Ferrari is Ferrari after all. Even though Qin Miao had used the car's engine and tire grip to the limit, Sainz still sucked Qin Miao's wake behind Qin Miao and prepared to take the lead before T1. Insider.

Naturally, Qin Miao could not give the opponent such a chance. Qin Miao directly changed to the inside when Sainz wanted to tap his inside, closing the door for Sainz.

Sainz naturally had no choice but to return to the outside line.

But taking the outside line at this time is doomed to fail Sainz's attack.

Now that DRS is not turned on, even if you want to cross the line, the remaining distance is not enough for Sainz to accelerate.

Therefore, Qin Miao held his position in T1 and pushed Sainz off the track when exiting the corner in T1, destroying Sainz's exit rhythm.

In this way, Qin Miao kept his ranking.

And gained a time advantage of 0.7 seconds out of thin air. Now the time gap between Sainz and Qin Miao has reached 0.9 seconds.

From the perspective of aerial photography, Qin Miao's defensive operations are actually quite amazing. Every operation is just right, making Sainz's most uncomfortable point behind him stuck in the opponent's position, but he will not offend any FIA. Prohibited rules.

Even one word of elegance cannot describe Qin Miao's current state.

But for Qin Miao, this is just a normal defensive line.

In the starting stage, in order to defend Alonso behind him, who was faster than himself in both starting speed and lap speed on the track, Ocon made a self-defeating move and let Hamilton pass behind Alonso.

Although he did guard Alonso, his and Alonso's positions dropped one place, with Hamilton moving to fifth, and he and Alonso falling to sixth and seventh.

The few French car fans also had mixed feelings after seeing this scene.

Because Alonso's contract with Alpine will expire after this season, and so will Ocon on the other side.

So at this time, the team's interests can be put aside.

Only when O'Connell defeats his teammates on the field and negotiates contracts and wages with the team will he have more confidence to demand a higher salary from the team.

This is why Ocon clung to Alonso behind him on today's track.

Even if he puts Hamilton directly over, he must ensure that his teammates will not surpass him.

Everyone is driving, paying full attention when driving, and the adrenaline rush is the basic operation.

So after seeing Ocon's defensive actions, Alonso couldn't help but complain in the team TR: "I have never seen Ocon defend so seriously, never!"

But after so many years of ups and downs, the old comrades have seen many things very openly and thoroughly.

Although there was no preparation in advance, Alonso easily guessed the reason why Ocon did this.

But there was nothing Alonso could do at this time and he could only continue to look for opportunities behind Ocon.

On the second lap, a virtual safety car appeared on the track.

The virtual safety car was deployed in this race mainly because there was a collision between Albon and Vettel at the rear, leaving some debris on the track.

The race restarted on the third lap, and Qin Miao began to take advantage of his soft tires to gradually widen the time gap with Sainz behind him.

And during the virtual safety car, Sainz misjudged the time gap between himself and Qin Miao, so after the race restarted, the time gap between Sainz and Qin Miao was expanded to 2.3 seconds.

Next, Qin Miao gradually widened the time gap with Sainz behind him at a speed of 0.2 seconds per lap.

By the time the race came to lap 10, the time gap between Qin Miao and Sainz behind him had reached 4 seconds.

Sainz was somewhat helpless to find that the lap speed between himself and Qin Miao not only did not shorten as the game progressed, but instead grew wider and wider.

On the 14th lap, when all the drivers behind using the C4 formula soft tires began to show signs of failure to varying degrees, Qin Miao directly turned purple in one lap, taking away the fastest lap of the entire race from Sainz behind him. .

Qin Miao's fastest lap made the eyes of the two Ferraris behind him and everyone in the Ferrari P room jump.

On lap 16, Leclerc, who had been recuperating behind Sainz, had caught up to the DRS area behind Sainz.

In order not to block the faster Leclerc, and to avoid a repeat of the tragedy at the British Grand Prix, Ferrari called Sainz into the pits and put on medium tires.

Looking at the tire change options at this pit stop, Ferrari is obviously preparing for two stops.

After all, Sainz started using medium tires. (End of chapter)