How did I become an F1 driver?

第437章 440：教你三句话激怒勒克莱尔（6K，加更9/17）

On lap 12, Sainz surpassed Norris in front of him and reached fifth place, with Gasly in front of him.

At the same time, Vettel had no choice but to retire on the side of the track due to an ERS failure in his car, and a virtual safety car was deployed.

This was actually not a suitable pit stop window, so no driver chose to pit at this time to change tires.

On the 20th lap, the pit stop window for most drivers was also around the 20th lap, so the drivers began to pit for tire changes one after another, and the three DRS trains on the track also disbanded at this time.

Qin Miao's pit stop window for this set of medium tires is on the 35th lap, so Qin Miao can still run comfortably on the track for a period of time.

After the driver in front of Qin Miao stopped to change tires, there was no other car blocking him. With more than 6 seconds of clean air, Qin Miao could run his own lap speed on the track.

On lap 30, Sainz, who was using medium tires like Qin Miao, finally couldn't hold on on the track. In order to prevent being overcut by Qin Miao behind him, Sainz pitted and put on soft tires.

After Sainz pitted and put on soft tires, he fell 1.4 seconds behind Perez when he came out. At this time, Perez was still using the hard tires.

Obviously, Perez completed the under cut for Sainz.

I still remember that when Perez pitted, there was a time gap of almost 4 seconds between Perez and Sainz. This shows that Perez's tire protection ability and speed are indeed terrifying.

A long sprint gave me a time advantage of 5.4 seconds.

However, Ferrari didn't feel much pressure or nervousness, because Perez was using the old hard tires at this time, while Sainz was using the new soft tires.

On lap 31, Perez was beaten by Sainz, who was using new soft tires.

Even the overtaking position is not in T1, but in T2.

This has nothing to do with the engine output of the car, it is purely a reflection of tire grip.

Finally, on lap 36, Qin Miao, who had run one more lap on the track, chose to pit and change tires.

Although Qin Miao ran 36 laps on the track using a set of medium tires, Qin Miao still achieved three green grades in the last unreserved lap before pitting.

This scene made Zhou Haoran, the commentator of Five-Star Sports, look stunned.

After all, he is the only one among the three commentators who spends most of his time staring at these data.

"Qin Miao actually brushed three levels of green just now."

Brother Bing, who was watching Qin Miao enter the pits, said subconsciously: "With Qin Miao's ability and speed, isn't it normal for him to increase the third-stage rate on the track?"

Zhou Haoran added: "He did it with the medium tires that had already run 36 laps on the track..."

Brother Bing:......

Fei Ge:......

“Although we know that Qin Miao’s tire protection ability is excellent, and Qin Miao’s title of tire protection master is widely circulated among domestic car fans, sometimes I can’t help but wonder whether Pirelli is really what the rumors say. , the tire formulas given to Qin Miao have been specially adjusted.”

……

Qin Miao's set of medium tires that had run for 36 laps were finally removed and replaced with a new set of soft tires.

There were 17 laps left before the end of the race. With Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, it would be very easy for him to run the entire race at a very respectable speed using this set of soft tires.

The tire change time this time was 2.4 seconds. During this time, the team was not only busy developing the car, but also spent most of its time on training the crew members. The tire change aspect has also been significantly strengthened.

After coming out of the pit area, Qin Miao happened to be stuck between Sainz and Perez.

In the DRS area behind Perez is Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton.

At this time, the ranking of the drivers in front is as follows:
1: Verstappen

2: Leclerc

3: Sainz
4: Qin Miao

5: Perez
6: Hamilton

7: Ricardo
8: Norris
9: Gasly
10: De Vries

Of course, although it seems that Qin Miao still has a chance to chase Verstappen and Leclerc in this game, the premise is that Qin Miao surpasses Sainz.

But in fact, Qin Miao only has the possibility of competing with Sainz for the podium in this game.

Because at this time the time gap between Verstappen and Leclerc was close to 20 seconds.

The time gap between Sainz and Leclerc is also 20 seconds at this time.

Therefore, in this race, Qin Miao could only get on the podium at most. Unless the engines of the two powerful racing cars in front blew out on the spot, Qin Miao would have no chance of going further.

But if you say it is a Ferrari engine, there is a real possibility of a cylinder explosion on the spot. However, in the second half of the 2022 season, Honda has significantly improved the performance of the engine in terms of stability. Starting from the second half of the season, Honda's engine There were no stability issues during the main race.

On lap 46, there are still 7 laps to go before the end of the race.

Qin Miao chased into the DRS area behind Sainz.

Before this, Qin Miao also tried to attack Sainz in front of him, but in today's game, Ferrari's car is indeed faster than Mercedes.

Moreover, Sainz used the same pit stop strategy as Qin Miao, which indeed weakened Qin Miao's ability to protect tires a lot.

Therefore, Qin Miao could only reluctantly follow Sainz at this time.

Of course, this situation will gradually improve as the game progresses.

Because as the race goes on, Sainz's soft tires will inevitably show more wear.

Qin Miao can try to use his advantage in tire protection to attack Sainz later in the game.

At this time, it is the time for Qin Miao to take action against Sainz.

The live broadcast cameras did not look at Verstappen in front, but stared at Sainz and Qin Miao.

After all, everyone knew that the two of them were going to fight soon.

However, the battle between Qin Miao and Sainz failed to start in the end.

Because on lap 47, there was an accident on the track, and the accident quickly turned into a yellow flag, and then into a safety car.

On lap 47, Ricciardo, who was ranked seventh, retired from the race on the lawn in the second period due to an oil leak in his car.

Because there was no Matthew entrance where Ricciardo retired, and in order to avoid the flames causing secondary damage to the car, Ricciardo simply turned off the car, and it was impossible to move the car to the Matthew entrance and then retire.

So after a brief consideration, the race committee dispatched the safety car.

In the event of a safety car on track, pit stop time was reduced from 25 seconds to 12 seconds.

Therefore, a large number of drivers choose to stop and change tires at this time.

During this period, the time loss caused by pitting for tire changes is very small, and when the car is very light, changing to new soft tires or soft tires that have only been used for one or two laps in qualifying can greatly improve the single lap speed. improvement.

But Qin Miao was not among the riders who were about to change tires.

Although Qin Miao still had a brand new soft tire reserve at this time, Qin Miao felt that there were still 6 laps to go before the end of the game anyway, and the 12 seconds lost in the pit stop did not seem so good in the face of 6 laps.

As for the race being compressed together under the safety car? What to do after restarting?
Qin Miao looked at Zhou Guanyu, who was trapped by him, in his rearview mirror in silence.

And after the safety car came out, it did not get stuck in front of Verstappen, but in front of Sainz.

In Qin Miao's judgment, if the safety car wants to restart, it must untie the slow car and straighten out the starting positions of all subsequent drivers.

This process requires at least 5 laps on the track.

At that time, there were only 2 laps left before the end of the race.

Although Qin Miao's speed in today's race was not as fast as the team imagined, and he looked a little pitiful, weak and helpless under the terrifying engine of Ferrari.

But Qin Miao still had the confidence to use his soft tires, which were in good condition, to defend the car behind him for two laps.

Moreover, in this game, Qin Miao started from the 19th place at the end of the team and caught up to the current fourth place. Qin Miao's performance in today's game has been impeccable.

If the bet is right, then Qin Miao's position may be two places, directly knocking off the two Ferrari drivers in front of him, moving from fourth to second, and earning eight more points.

If you lose the bet, you will lose the fourth to fifth points.

It's even possible that the teammates behind you haven't been able to break through your defense, and you might not have to lose a single point.

Although Qin Miao doesn't like gambling, Qin Miao has no reason to refuse this low-risk, high-yield option.

Qin Miao's secret crossing of Chen Cang was mainly aimed at the two Ferrari drivers. At this time, Leclerc was 10 seconds behind Qin Miao, and Sainz was 1.4 seconds in front of Qin Miao's face.

After the two of them entered the maintenance area, they would fall behind Qin Miao when they came out.

Although the safety car will clear the time gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc during this period, Qin Miao gained two position advantages.

As for Verstappen….

Although the time gap between Verstappen and Leclerc at this time is not as big as it was in the middle of the race, there is still a 16-second time gap.

With such a big time gap, Verstappen would not lose any position even if he was given a 4-second pit stop by the team after pitting.

On the other side, as soon as the safety car was issued, French told Qin Miao in the team's TR: "The safety car is out. Now there is a 7-second gap between you and Hamilton. We will choose two cars." Pit, repeat, double pit."

Qin Miao replied: "Received." Although Qin Miao did not intend to stop and change tires, he still replied to the team in the TR.

The main reason is that Qin Miao considered that if he told the team at this time that he was not going to pit and wanted to undercut the two Ferrari drivers in front, they might be on guard.

He even learned his own tactics and stopped pitting.

In order to avoid this situation from happening, it is better to let the team staff be confused for a while.

Finally, after the car formation came back to the entrance of the pit area, Qin Miao saw Leclerc pitting, and Sainz in front of him was about to pit too.

Qin Miao also followed Sainz when he pitted. It seemed that Qin Miao also wanted to pit with Sainz.

In the maintenance area, the staff of the Mercedes-Benz team were even more ready to go. They took out the tires of Qin Miao and Hamilton and placed them in the most convenient position for them to take at any time.

It looked like the Mercedes team was going to make a two-car pit stop.

However, Qin Miao, who was still following Sainz well, suddenly turned left in front of the white line at the entrance to the pit area and continued to stay on the track, leaving Sainz alone towards the pit. Drive inside the area.

This scene not only stunned the staff of the Ferrari team who had been staring at Qin Miao's car, but also made the staff of the Mercedes team who were already ready to start a little at a loss. They looked at Qin Miao's tires in their hands and then looked at them. I looked at Hamilton's tires next to me, and my head was filled with questions for a while.

But as the head of the tire changer gave the order, everyone put aside the messy emotions in their minds, put down Qin Miao's tire and picked up Hamilton's tire.

Now it is an established fact that Qin Miao did not stop to change tires. If you still hold Qin Miao's tires at this time, it may happen that after Hamilton comes in, the team staff accidentally installs Qin Miao's tires on Hamilton's car. .

Although Qin Miao's set of soft tires are brand new soft tires, Hamilton's soft tires are soft tires that ran a flying lap in the qualifying stage.

However, the internal configuration of the wheel hub and the position of the dynamic balance iron plate of the two tires are different. If they are installed incorrectly, the car will be extremely prone to safety accidents on the track.

After Frankie noticed something was wrong, he immediately asked about Qin Miao's situation in the team's TR: "Qin Miao, what's wrong? Did you miss the maintenance entrance?"

Qin Miao was not driving at high speed at this time, but was following the safety car in front of him, checking from time to time to see if the other party's dome lights were out and whether he could pass by to untie himself.

So Qin Miao was also free to answer Franky's questions.

"I feel that the condition of my tires is pretty good, so I want to try to finish the race on the track without pitting. The team should have a plan for this, right?"

Frankie was obviously stunned after hearing Qin Miao's words. After a while, he said: "The team does have a plan in this regard... It can even be said that this is the plan that the team thinks is most suitable for the current situation. After all, we Everyone knows your ability to protect your baby.

It's just that we considered that if we told you in advance, the two Ferrari drivers would have the possibility of not pitting, especially since Sainz is so close to you.

So after weighing it, I finally chose to let you pit, but I didn’t expect that you actually thought of this tactic...

But no matter what, the matter is now over and nothing can be changed. "

At this point, Franky paused for a while, and then said: "By the way, the guys from the team's strategy team want me to tell you: awesome."

The last two words Frankie were said in Chinese.

As for why the people at Mercedes-Benz are becoming more and more proficient in using Chinese, I won’t go into details on this point.

Mercedes was naturally happy after Qin Miao stole the chicken, but Ferrari on the other side was dumbfounded.

Ferrari:? ? ?

what?
No, man.

Can you still play like this?

Ferrari's strategy team looked at Leclerc, who had fallen to third place, and Sainz, who was fourth, with tears in his eyes.

Moreover, there were many slow cars that were lapped between the two drivers.

It seems that the location is even more backward.

But now that the matter has come to this, Ferrari can only tell the two drivers of its team through team TR: try not to have any infighting after the restart of the game, and first find a way to regain Qin Miao's sixth position. Let's talk about it back to the team.

After all, Monza is Ferrari's home ground, leading the entire race, let alone finishing second. After all, Verstappen was indeed fast in this race, but in this way he only finished third. Ferrari fans will certainly be dissatisfied.

Although there was no overly expressive expression on Binotto's face when the camera cut away, Binotto was already in a mess inside.

On the field, Leclerc, who had just come out of the pit area, was speechless when he saw Qin Miao appearing in front of him in the rankings. What a real six!
This will allow you to catch the leak!

But just wait for me. After the game restarts, you will be finished if you see if I play or not.

Although there are still 5 laps to go before the end of the race, which does not seem to be much, Leclerc is confident that he can regain the position from Qin Miao in the remaining 5 laps.

Ferrari has the same plan. Even Binotto has been mentally prepared. Once the race restarts, he will directly tell Sainz in the team TR and ask him not to put pressure on Leclerc, so that Leclerc can concentrate on his work. Attack Qin Miao.

However, what surprised all the drivers, spectators and team staff was that the Italian Grand Prix did not restart after the safety car. Instead, it was directly led by the safety car for the remaining 6 laps.

As for the reason, it is very simple, as mentioned before.

That is, the safety car got stuck in front of Qin Miao.

Therefore, to untie the slow car, the safety car not only needs to untie the slow car, but also needs to untie Qin Miao, the driver in second place, and all the cars behind him.

In other words, Zhou Guanyu, who was lapped by Qin Miao, even needed to be unhooked twice on the track before he could return to his original position, let alone the drivers behind Zhou Guanyu.

On the field, 5 laps are not enough time for all drivers to complete this series of operations.

So in the end all drivers ended the race under the safety car.

Qin Miao also won the second place in this game because of his whimsical pit stop strategy.

Starting from 18th and finishing second, Qin Miao directly rose places in this game.

Not surprisingly, although today's race was a bit anticlimactic and disappointed many viewers, after the race, Qin Miao still won the honor of the best driver voted by the audience.

In second place is the reserve driver of Williams and Mercedes, De Vries.

Despite today's race, De Vries' performance was very impressive. In his first F1 race, he finished tenth and brought back a point for the Williams team.

But compared with De Vries, Qin Miao's pursuit from 19th to second does have more visual impact.

"Qin Miao, although the game was a little flat at the end, I still want to congratulate you for getting P2 and Hamilton P4." As usual, Frankie congratulated Qin Miao through the team's TR after each game.

"Let's go'!" Qin Miao also happily said in the team TR: "I thought there would be a fierce battle later in the game. To be honest, I was looking forward to an offensive and defensive battle with Charles, but it's a pity."

"There will be a chance."

After finishing speaking, Qin Miao suddenly reacted: "Why is Lewis in P4? Where is Carlos?"

"Well... Ferrari, you know, there are always some surprises when two cars pit."

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief: "Understood."

On the other side, after Franky finished speaking, Toto was also in the team TR congratulating Qin Miao: "Congratulations, Qin Miao.

It's a personal victory, and the decisions are beautiful, but some of them are not very good for our hearts. "

Toto also made a rare joke.

"Hahaha, this is the price of victory, and I guess you must like this little excitement very much."

"Of course!"

……

After the race, although many Ferrari fans on site booed the FIA ​​officials, the staff of the Red Bull Racing Team, which won the race, were quite satisfied with the result.

Everyone screamed in celebration, and then rushed to the guardrail at the entrance to the pit area, waiting for Verstappen's return after victory.

After Qin Miao parked his car in the second position, Leclerc, who returned to the pit area before Qin Miao, came over angrily.

Qin Miao installed the steering wheel of his racing car and jumped out of the racing car, watching Leclerc spread his hands with an innocent face.

Leclerc was just a little puzzled. He didn't really think that Qin Miao was a thief who stole a runner-up from his hands.

After all, no one expected that the safety car would be used at the end of the race.

"What were you thinking at that time?" Leclerc asked curiously after coming over and hugging Qin Miao.

After Qin Miao let go of Leclerc, he took off his gloves and said: "You may not believe it, but I actually wanted to come in front of you and have a good fight with you, so that you can feel the strength of my defense in reality. It’s a pity that the FIA ​​and Melander didn’t give me this opportunity.”

"Well... I hope it's best never to have such an opportunity." Leclerc couldn't help but recall the dozen or so fights he and Qin Miao had on the racing simulator where their mentality almost exploded when they were guarded.

Qin Miao also nodded with the same feeling: "Indeed, only the Ferrari that appears in the rearview mirror is a good Ferrari."

Leclerc: "*&%&..."

After joking for a while, Qin Miao did not avoid the question and said straightforwardly: "During the safety car period, I found that the time gap between you and me was 12 seconds. At the same time, my set of soft tires was in good condition, so I wanted to try it. .

Taking a step back, there were only 5 laps left before the end of the race. Even if I didn't guard you two on the track, at most I would just return to my original position. "

Leclerc nodded thoughtfully, and then couldn't help but sigh and said: "I really don't understand how you guys have such brains. You actually have the time to think about this in such an extreme environment. "

"Is it possible that you are just too stupid?"

"F**k you!"

(End of this chapter)