How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 442 Chapter 445: All my friends are here

It stands to reason that since Qin Miao made such a big mistake, Verstappen should seize this opportunity.

However, Verstappen, Qin Miao's biggest competitor this season, did not catch this rare mistake made by Qin Miao.

Because in Verstappen's last flying lap, the first two sections were painted purple, there was an obvious possibility of taking the pole.

However, in the last timing period, the Red Bull Racing Team told Verstappen that the car did not have enough fuel. In order not to have the entire qualifying session canceled by the FIA ​​during the car inspection, the team could only ask Verstappen to slow down and return. Go to the pit area.

In fact, the Red Bull Racing Team generally does not make such low-level mistakes, mainly because the team only refueled Verstappen for five laps during the qualifying stage.

The temperature of today's qualifying track was lower than expected, so even if the soft tires in today's race ran one flying lap on the track, the loss in single-lap speed during the second flying lap might be only Only 2 seconds.

Therefore, all drivers in Q3 only used one set of soft tires.

And because of this, Verstappen ran an extra cooling lap on the track.

In fact, before the FIA ​​added fuel regulations, many teams would add extreme weight fuel to their cars.

The FIA ​​ultimately restricted the minimum fuel weight inside the car's fuel tank after qualifying and the race for safety reasons.

In short, Verstappen only finished ninth due to the team's negligence in qualifying where he could obviously have taken the pole position.

However, Qin Miao once rode in teammate Hamilton's car in 21 due to a car failure.

But the W13 designed by Mercedes is indeed not in line with Hamilton's wishes. Now with W13B, Hamilton's speed has immediately improved, returning to Hamilton's competitiveness at the beginning of the 2021 season.

After countless Hamilton fans saw this scene, they immediately criticized the Mercedes team online.

10: Magnussen

At such a critical moment of competing for points, the team made such mistakes for me!

Mercedes' recovery is now just a matter of time.

That is to say, the fuel in the car is just enough for the driver to exit the pit area and run a tire warm-up lap, and finally run a flying lap. After crossing the finish line, there is no fuel immediately.

Focus back on the track.

3: Qin Miao

Big brother is one of his own!

However, after this game, Hamilton's performance improved immediately, which shows that it was not Hamilton's explosive state of mind that plummeted after missing his eighth championship.

4: Perez
5: Sainz
6: Alonso
7: Norris
8: Gasly
9: Verstappen

During the post-race interview, Verstappen was still a little unconvinced and naturally criticized the Red Bull Racing Team again.

This prevents this situation from happening.

It is said that after the race, Verstappen did not even return to the team meeting room to review today's race. He went back to the hotel directly after the post-race interview.

The public relations officer of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team was dumbfounded when he saw the overwhelming criticism on the Internet.

Although the Mercedes team has indeed provided Hamilton with a competitive enough car, but... why did he go there so early?

Now that he was starting behind Qin Miao again, it would be strange if he wasn't angry.

Qin Miao's hitchhiking was also the last one in the history of F1. It may be the last time he hitchhiked on the field. After all, when the car is equipped with flip-flops, it is really difficult to hitch a ride with other drivers.

1: Leclerc

Those drivers usually ride on the rides of other colleagues with whom they have a good relationship and return to the team's P room.

When this happened, Verstappen naturally cursed in the team TR.

The most important thing is that the difficulty of overtaking on this track in Singapore is similar to that in Monaco. The most frustrating race for Verstappen this season was the Monaco Grand Prix.

The reason why Qin Miao was able to catch up with his teammates was because the original W11 had a stool-like flank.

Leclerc, Hamilton, and Qin Miao parked their cars on the track to participate in post-race interviews.

Hamilton told the team more than once that there was a problem with the car. There was a problem with the car. If he didn't listen, he would just ignore you and push Qin Miao. What about the world championship? Don’t want the honor of eight crowns? The emperor has not abdicated yet!

It is hard to imagine that this is the seven-time champion who was still competing for the world championship with Qin Miao and Verstappen last season.

2: Hamilton

However, put aside the collapse of Verstappen, the person involved.

The audience also rarely discovered the mistakes made by Red Bull Racing on the track. At least Red Bull Racing's mistake this time proved to the audience that Red Bull Racing is not a team composed of robots, and they will also make mistakes.

After this game, Hamilton defeated his teammate in the qualifying stage for the first time this season. This was also the first time this season that he entered the top three in the qualifying stage.

And the Marina Bay Circuit is such a difficult track to overtake!
To be honest, Verstappen's mentality was a bit broken after being messed with by the car.

Finally, qualifying is over, and the starting order and ranking of the drivers for tomorrow’s race are as follows:

No place to sit.

And even if he just cursed in the team TR, it would be difficult to eliminate Verstappen's hatred.

Now Qin Miao's car has improved again, and Hamilton's speed has also increased.

After all, this kind of mistake is completely avoidable, and it is indeed a bit low-level.

After all, even if Qin Miao is slow this season, he can still beat himself in the team standings with his incredible tire protection ability.

So much so that after qualifying or the race, the cars of drivers of that era would often break down on the track due to lack of fuel.

Leclerc, who got the pole position, was glowing.

Although the points gap between him, Verstappen and Qin Miao has reached more than 60 points at this time, all possibilities of competing for the world championship have been lost this season.

But this did not prevent Leclerc from being happy after taking the pole position.

After the interview with Qin Miao after the race, after getting off the car, Leclerc and Qin Miao seemed to have no intention of doing so, but in fact he showed off how hard he went in those corners and where there were scratches on the car due to his own operations. mark.

He even pulled Qin Miao to his racing car and pointed it out to him.

Qin Miao rolled her eyes wildly, but there was nothing good she could do to this bastard. He did run well in today's race.

There was indeed no way to avoid his mistake, and who the hell would look back in the rearview mirror while running a qualifying lap?

After the post-race interview ended, Qin Miao held a brief review meeting in the team's P room. The main thing is to see how Hamilton ran this flying lap. Although Qin Miao doesn't need Hamilton's running method on the track now, and it may not have much effect in the race, at least Qin Miao will return to Binhai next season. Bay circuit, there is a basis for reference.

After the review, Qin Miao's work is all over today.

Hamilton went back to the hotel to rest happily.

Qin Miao stayed in the paddock for more than an hour, mainly to entertain Lin JJ.

Yes, JJ came to the scene during the qualifying stage, but during the qualifying stage he was watching the game in Zhou Guanyu’s P room, and with him was Zhou Guanyu’s mother, Jiang Xiaoying.

Zhou Guanyu's mother is quite important to Zhou Guanyu. Basically, when Zhou Guanyu started to get involved in racing, his mother has always been by Zhou Guanyu's side to accompany him, encourage him, and do all kinds of logistical work for him.

He also accompanied Zhou Guanyu all the way to his current position.

The reason why the other party appeared here is also very simple, that is, Singapore is very close to the country, there are no communication problems, transportation is convenient, and there is no language barrier.

He came to watch his son play.

Qin Miao didn't feel any psychological pressure because she was going to meet a celebrity.

If it were in the past, Qin Miao might have been very excited when he saw JJ, and could even be said to be incoherent. After all, he used to like listening to his songs, such as "Mermaid", "Unfortunately No If", etc. In Qin Miao's collection.

But over the past year, Qin Miao has met too many celebrities, and many of them even said that they are their fans.

Qin Miao has long been desensitized to this.

At the door of the team home, I saw JJ and his manager who was recording the video behind him.

Qin Miao naturally went up to greet everyone on the other side enthusiastically.

The two parties exchanged gifts, and Qin Miao took JJ to visit the Mercedes team home and its own lounge.

Then when visiting Qin Miao's own lounge, JJ saw Qin Miao's laptop that had not been shut down.

And CSGO on the computer.

In fact, JJ is also an Internet addicted teenager.

But the games he likes to play are different from Qin Miao's.

Qin Miao mainly likes to play FPS, such as CSGO, COD, OW, etc., but JJ prefers MOBA games, DOTA2 and the like.

So after seeing Qin Miao's computer screen, JJ gave great affirmation and approval to Qin Miao's ability and mentality to play the game before the game started.

After all, he was also a player who was still playing DOTA before the Spring Festival Gala started, which was equivalent to finding a soulmate.

Then I started trying to persuade Qin Miao to try DOTA2. I can take Qin Miao to play, and I can definitely bring Qin Miao into the game!

Qin Miao's mouth twitched: "I tried LOL, but after playing for a while, I found that my talent in MOBA games can only support me to reach silver, and then I can't survive.

After this, I knew that I was not suitable for playing MOBA games. "

JJ also felt a little pity, but he didn't force anything.

After visiting the racing car in the P room of the team, Qin Miao sent the other person away.

Of course, Qin Miao did not forget to invite JJ to come to the P room of the Mercedes-Benz team to watch the race tomorrow during the race, but the other party refused.

Because he had previously promised Zhou Guanyu to watch the race in the P room of Alfa Romeo Team during the race.

At this point, all Qin Miao's work on Saturday was completed.

We went back to the hotel to rest for a night, and the next day was the main game on Sunday.

Unlike qualifying, in Sunday’s race, almost every seat on the track was full.

There were also many fans who bought VIP tickets in the passage behind the team's P room. When Qin Miao swiped his card through the turnstile and entered the paddock, a bunch of people gathered around him and took photos with him with their mobile phones.

Moreover, the VIP area above the team’s P room was also crowded with people.

After seeing Qin Miao come in from the entrance, the audience who had been waiting here for a long time began to shout Qin Miao's name.

For a moment, Qin Miao even felt that this was not the Singapore Grand Prix at all, but his home stadium, the Chinese Grand Prix held in Singapore.

While waving to the audience, he arrived at the lounge of the Mercedes team.

After that it’s naturally preparation time.

When Qin Miao changed his clothes, put on a vest and racing suit to cool his body, and came to the team's P room, Qin Miao saw many familiar faces besides the team staff.

"Director Guo?! Brother Jing??"

Qin Miao was indeed a little surprised when he saw these two people.

Qin Miao did send invitation letters to these two people, but one of them had to be responsible for the post-production of the movie, and the other also had scheduling problems. When Qin Miao didn't see these two people on Friday and Saturday, he defaulted to these two people. The Grand Prix won't be coming this week.

But Qin Miao never expected to meet these two people in the VIP area of ​​the motorcade.

"Here you come? Come on for today's game!" Wu Jing patted Qin Miao's shoulder familiarly.

"Looking at you, I don't think you are very nervous. You should be able to get a good result in today's competition, right?" Guo Fan also said with a smile: "If you do well today, I will give you more in the film." Leave some shots."

Wu Jing on the side looked at Guo Fan with some surprise when he heard this. With Qin Miao's current influence in the country, it should be the crew who took advantage of having more scenes with him in the movie. Why is it in Director Guo's mouth? It was as if Qin Miao had taken a huge advantage.

The key thing that Wu Jing didn't expect was that Qin Miao looked very happy, smiled and said confidently: "Okay, you guys.

I won’t brag to you, but my strongest tracks are actually narrower street races like Monaco and Marina Bay. "

After chatting with the two for a few more words, and nodding to his mother and daughter-in-law, Qin Miao went to make final preparations after the game.

Before the driver parade, Qin Miao also took a photo with Alonso with all the drivers.

Because today's race is the 350th Grand Prix of Alonso's career, all the drivers sent their blessings and encouragement to this outstanding veteran.

This naturally includes Qin Miao.

After the group photo was over, it was time for the drivers to parade.

After the driver parade and the national anthem of the local country hosting the grand prix were completed, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room and waited for nightfall.

During the race on Sunday, the temperature at the Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore was 29 degrees, the air humidity was 80%, and the probability of rain was 70%. The tires provided by the race meeting were the softest C5-C3.

(End of this chapter)