How did I become an F1 driver?

Qin Miao temporarily maintained his leading position, but in fact on the 19th lap, Verstappen was actually first, and Qin Miao would fall behind him after pitting.

The set of soft tires used by Qin Miao lasted 22 laps on the track before pitting for tire changes, which was two laps longer than the team estimated.

The team's idea about Qin Miao's tire strategy is very simple. If Qin Miao's speed is always higher than the team's expected speed, then there is no need to consider pit stops and tire changes. Qin Miao will stay on the track until Qin Miao until the speed slows down.

Anyway, the later he pits, the higher the durability and speed of Qin Miao's medium tires will be, so he won't lose money anyway.

When Qin Miao pitted on the 22nd lap, the Mercedes team, which had not made any mistakes in changing tires for almost half a season, also gave Qin Miao a rare job today.

When the right front wheel and left front wheel tires were locked, the tires were not fixed at the first time. The tire replacement work was completed only after the second fixing.

By the time Qin Miao was put down, the tire change took 4.9 seconds.

This tire changing speed is absolutely unacceptable for Mercedes-Benz. However, although Qin Miao was a little angry about this incident, she also expressed understanding.

However, even the accidental tire changing speed of the Mercedes team is considered fast for a certain green team.

On the track, the most intuitive consequence of the five-second tire change time was that Qin Miao fell directly to fourth, behind Sainz.

If it were a normal pit stop within three seconds, Qin Miao's position would be stuck 1.9 seconds ahead of Sainz.

Although Qin Miao stayed for the team for so long, it was obviously not enough.

After returning to the track, Qin Miao stabilized his mentality and began to look for opportunities to surpass Sainz on the track.

However, Qin Miao did not wait long. On lap 26, Sainz and Leclerc both pitted.

The two Ferrari drivers pitted their cars together, opening their second-stop pit window.

After they come out of the pit area, they will not enter the pit area again in this game.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, was 17.5 seconds ahead of Ferrari with just one pit stop.

Next, the top three riders entered cruising mode.

Qin Miao no longer expects to catch up with Verstappen ahead.

Because he really beat Qin Miao by more than 1 second in every lap. The 17.5 seconds Qin Miao earned by pitting seemed to be a drop in the bucket in the face of such an exaggerated performance gap in the car.

But Qin Miao can still try to attack Perez in front of him.

Perez was not slow in this game, but compared to his teammates, Perez's speed was obviously not that incredible.

Perez's speed in this game was only 0.4 seconds faster than Qin Miao in a single lap.

Although Qin Miao cannot catch up with the opponent, if the opponent makes a second stop, Qin Miao still has the opportunity to get stuck in front of the opponent and use his defensive ability to grab a second comeback from Perez.

As for Perez learning his own tactics, he also didn’t pit, but just relied on the advantages accumulated in the early stages of the race to hold on on the track?
Although it was not a bad idea to do so as Perez's former miscarriage master, Qin Miao was even worried about this situation.

But this game was out of the question.

Because Perez had already pitted once to change tires, and at this time Perez was wearing the same tires as the tires he used when he pitted for the first time, which were medium tires.

So no matter what, Perez will have another pit stop in this race.

But sometimes, many things do not change due to human will.

Perez did come into the pits on lap 29, and he did fall behind Qin Miao after coming out.

But Qin Miao couldn't guard against the opponent.

The speed gap between Mercedes and Red Bull Racing is really too big.

Perez sucked in Qin Miao's wake for two laps behind Qin Miao to fully charge the car's ERS, and then directly used the speed of the car to eat Qin Miao alive in the DRS area of ​​the long straight between T4 and T5.

Qin Miao's abilities were of no use and he could only watch helplessly as Perez surpassed him on the straight line with absolute speed.

"There is really nothing we can do about it." After seeing this scene, the three commentators from Five-Star Sports also felt helpless: "Qin Miao can't do any better in today's game."

"Qin Miao really tried his best in this game. In terms of his lap speed, Qin Miao has been setting his fastest lap speed." Zhou Haoran also nodded.

Brother Bing was a little puzzled: "How on earth did Verstappen and Red Bull suddenly go so fast after the summer break, 1.8 seconds? This is really a bit exaggerated."

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On the track, in the later stages of the race, Qin Miao basically had to stay in his current position, unable to move.

He couldn't catch up with Verstappen and Perez in the front, and Sainz couldn't catch up with himself in the back.

Basically, if nothing goes wrong, this game may end like this.

However, just when everyone had the same idea as Qin Miao and felt that the race would end so mediocrely in the later stages, Ferrari was not willing to let such a classic track as Spa end so mediocrely.

Ferrari's strategy team asked Leclerc to pit on lap 42 and put on soft tires to perform the fastest lap, which would earn the Ferrari team one more point.

Leclerc was actually unwilling, but Leclerc, who was not very high in terms of racing IQ, still listened to the opinions of the Ferrari strategy team.

In fact, there is no problem with Leclerc's choice. As long as he is not in Ferrari or Arrow, then after the team's strategy calls him in, Leclerc really has a chance to get this extra point.

But the team he serves for is Ferrari.

So as expected, something happened while executing the tactics.

On lap 43, Leclerc appeared 1 second ahead of Alonso after coming out of the pit area.

Then Leclerc, whose tire temperature was not very high, was sucked into the wake of Alonso behind him after entering the El Roque corner. After reaching the DRS area between T4 and T5, he was naturally overtaken by Alonso. .

They were all overtaken by Alonso, and Leclerc in the late stages of the race naturally had no chance to score points for the fastest lap.

But Leclerc is still the genius, and although the Ferrari car has been severely beaten by the TD039, the Ferrari car itself is still stronger than the Alpine car.

So in the end Leclerc regained his position on the last lap of the race.

At least it seems that nothing has been lost because of this stupid tactic of the team. Then the fun begins.

When Leclerc was changing tires in the pit area, he exceeded the speed limit by 1km/h. The FIA ​​imposed a five-second penalty on Leclerc.

In fact, Leclerc is still behind Alonso. Even if Leclerc has the speed of a Red Bull car at this time, he also has a brand new set of soft tires and it is impossible to open the five-second gap between Alonso and Alonso in one lap. .

So in the end, Ferrari wasted no time. Leclerc, who could have scored ten points steadily, ended up losing two points because of the fastest lap, and finally only got eight points in sixth place.

The reason why Leclerc was speeding in the pit lane was not because he was in a hurry. After all, no matter how anxious you are, you are driving the speed limit in the pit lane and it is impossible to speed.

It was ultimately a post-match investigation that revealed the cause.

At the beginning of the race, didn't Leclerc's brake ventilation duct get stuck in the protective film of a goggle?
The goggle film directly burned the speed sensor of Leclerc's front wheel, eventually causing Leclerc to speed in the pit lane.

It can only be said that blessings never come in pairs and misfortunes never come singly. Leclerc is indeed a bit unlucky.

And Leclerc's misfortune in this game was not a one-time misfortune, but an old sow wearing a bra, one set after another.

It seems as if the team, the car, or anything else is deliberately targeting Leclerc.

Alonso, who finally benefited from Ferrari's fainting tactics, was naturally beaming during the post-race interview after the race. As a former victim of childish dreams and a beneficiary of Ferrari's daily cerebral palsy operations, Alonso is undoubtedly a great supporter of Ferrari. One of the best commentators on Ferrari's fainting strategy at the moment.

After the reporter asked this question, Alonso said with a smile: "Ferrari often has some strange strategies, and this is just one of them."

Ultimately, the race ended with a resounding victory for Red Bull Racing.

Although Qin Miao had tried his best in this game and ran an incredible long stun, even in the last lap before the end of the game, Qin Miao's lap speed was still his fastest lap.

But in the face of the absolute speed advantage, all Qin Miao's struggles and tire protection seemed a bit ridiculous.

After crossing the line, although Qin Miao also saw the staff of his team hanging on the wall cheering for him, Qin Miao just couldn't be happy.

If there is a performance gap in the car, or if he loses because he didn't perform well, Qin Miao won't say anything at all, and he won't have much negative emotions.

But with a single lap time gap of 1.8 seconds, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was a full 24 seconds at the end of the race.

If he runs normally and runs a few more laps, can Verstappen directly trap Qin Miao in second place?

Qin Miao, who has always had a smooth journey, is now somewhat autistic.

"We know this result is a bit unbelievable, but trust me we will find out as soon as possible.

And no matter what, your performance in today's game was great, don't feel guilty about it. "Toto's voice reached Qin Miao's ears.

"Yes, I know, I just didn't expect the gap to be so big."

"We are also surprised, but things have happened. All we can do is accept him and try to catch up." Toto's voice was full of helplessness.

Amid the orange smoke ignited by the audience, Qin Miao drove his car back to the maintenance area.

At this time, the two Red Bull racing cars were already parked in the first and second positions.

Verstappen also stood on his car and celebrated in front of the surrounding team staff and fans.

After getting out of the car and installing the steering wheel, Qin Miao shook hands and hugged Perez who came to greet him. Then he did not go to celebrate, but stood with hands on his hips next to Verstappen's car, watching this The RB18, there is only one doubt in my mind, how on earth can this B car run so fast?
On the other side, the director also fixed the camera on Qin Miao.

After the defending champion was exposed in a race, the picture of standing in front of the opponent's car and being puzzled was also full of a different artistic conception.

The five-star sports commentators naturally noticed Qin Miao standing next to the Red Bull racing car.

"Qin Miao was also very confused after the game." Brother Bing said with some distress.

Fei Ge shook his head and said: "There is nothing we can do about it. Before the summer break, everyone was still fighting back and forth. Who would have thought that after the summer break, Mercedes Benz would not even be able to see the taillights of your Red Bull car on the track. "

"This sudden gap is really not easy to accept." Zhou Haoran said: "Of course we are not worried about Qin Miao. His mentality should be the most stable among the players in his grade."

Qin Miao didn't look at it for long, Verstappen also came over.

Qin Miao reached out and shook hands with the other party.

"Congratulations, you ran a great race today." Qin Miao said.

Although Qin Miao did not get a good result in this game, he was full of negative emotions and was very confused as to why the Red Bull car could be so fast.

But when Verstappen came over, Qin Miao still smiled and said hello to him.

"At the beginning of the race, I thought I could overtake you very quickly, but your defensive ability is really terrifying, I admire you." Verstappen also sincerely praised Qin Miao.

This is indeed the case. As soon as the race started, Verstappen knew that he was going to be very fast in this race, almost unbelievably fast.

In fact, the Red Bull car's lap speed in this game was about 0.5 seconds faster than the second fastest Ferrari's lap, and 0.8 seconds faster than the Mercedes' lap.

With such a huge time advantage, Verstappen is mentally prepared to avenge his disgrace in this game and overtake Qin Miao on the track.

After all, after running all the races last season, Qin Miao has become the driver that Verstappen least wants to see in front of his car during the race.

Verstappen thought that today's game would break his nightmare.

Then he confidently caught up behind Qin Miao, who also started on soft tires like him... Verstappen was locked up by Qin Miao for three laps.

It's a familiar formula and a familiar taste, and these three laps directly destroyed the durability of Verstappen's set of soft tires. In the later stage, he could only rely on pit stops to change tires to undercut Qin Miao.

Although I felt a little nauseous after being fucked by Qin Miao again, it felt good to win the championship, so Verstappen didn't mind recognizing Qin Miao's racing skills at this time.

After all, the higher you praise Qin Miao, the more awesome you will be if you defeat Qin Miao?
"In the face of the absolute speed gap of the car, my defensive ability is honestly not worth mentioning." Qin Miao shook his head and smiled bitterly, but in the end he reached out and shook hands with Verstappen and said: "But congratulations anyway. , enjoy your victory.”

The two of them had talked enough after the game, and Qin Miao also saw French and Reyes waiting for him.

"Thank you." Verstappen thanked him politely. (End of chapter)