How did I become an F1 driver?

At the same time, because Zhou Guanyu's car was parked on the track, even though Zhou Guanyu deliberately parked his car at the Matthew exit of the track, the position where Zhou Guanyu parked happened to be the driving line of T5 when it entered the corner, directly facing it. The kind that wears.

Bianchi's accident was happening in the front, and it happened to be raining on the track, so the race meeting basically didn't think much about it and directly dispatched the safety car.

Singapore has once again continued its record of having a safety car every time it competes since the race was held.

After the safety car passed this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc narrowed from 2 seconds to 1 second.

Although it has not been shortened a lot, it is still good news. The gap between the two has been smoothed out again.

The safety car lasted from lap 8 to lap 11, and then the race restarted.

Qin Miao didn't get anything out of Leclerc's hands at the start this time. Leclerc was a bit unlucky, but he did have two skills in terms of defensive ability.

Qin Miao didn't hesitate, flicked his skill on Leclerc's head, and began to constantly put pressure on Leclerc to find opportunities.

Leclerc pressure value: [11%]

When Qin Miao was behind Leclerc and was shortening the time gap between himself and Leclerc, Qin Miao knew that he was faster than Leclerc in today's game, although not by much.

He has a chance to surpass Leclerc.

On the other side, after the race restarted, Verstappen immediately used the performance of his car to surpass Vettel in front of him.

There is nothing to say about this overtaking. Hamilton's starting position happened to be a favorable exit position for Verstappen. At the same time, the performance of the Red Bull car was obviously stronger than that of the Aston Martin car.

On the other hand, the straight after the corner also gave Verstappen enough time to accelerate.

Although no one has said it, basically all teams know that the drag coefficient of Red Bull Racing on the straights this season is the lowest among all racing cars.

In the end, Verstappen overtook Vettel and reached ninth place.

On lap 11, Gasly, the driver of Toro Rosso, passed Verstappen behind him, and Verstappen's ranking rose to 8th.

After all, it is also a Red Bull Racing car, and there is absolutely no need to block Verstappen behind him at this time.

Even if Gasly wants to block, Toro Rosso will definitely give him an order to get off and let him give way.

After that, Alonso, who had written an introduction to Hamilton's defense, appeared in front of Verstappen.

Despite Qin Miao's defensive skills, Alonso's defensive ability is also recognized as strong.

In addition, the defensive difficulty of the Marina Bay Circuit is no less difficult than that of Hendrol, and the Renault team and Red Bull have no close relationship.

So you don't have to think about it to know that in the next period of time, Alonso will definitely give Verstappen some strength.

After all, there is an old saying in China: spanking a child on a rainy day is idle time.

Anyway, now Alonso can't catch up with Sainz in front of him, but is being pulled away by Sainz.

So at this time, Alonso has no psychological burden of finishing the ranking. What Alonso wants to do now is to keep his current position and get more shots in the broadcast so that he can leave Renault. Then find a good home.

Speaking of the first brother's seat, this year's Alpine itself is weird. The self-developed engine has constant problems, and the position of Ocon and Alonso is very obvious.

After all, it is a French team. In the intra-team competition between Ocon and Alonso, although Alpine management did not say it clearly, they clearly stood by Ocon's side during the intra-team competition between the two.

Alonso just can't stand it now, and he doesn't want to stay in Alpine next season.

Now Alonso naturally needs to prove his value and status.

Then on the track, Alonso started to catch up to Alonso within one second of Verstappen on the 12th lap, and defended until the 21st lap.

Alonso leisurely defended Verstappen for nine laps on the track, delaying Verstappen for at least more than seven seconds.

And defending Verstappen behind him for 9 laps is not Alonso's limit, but the limit of Renault's broken car.

The reason why Alonso only defended Verstappen for 9 laps was because Alonso's car was in the T21 position on lap 10. The self-developed engine of the Alpine car failed, and Alonso had no choice but to pull aside and retire.

When the race director plays back the TR communication between Alonso and the team, you can clearly hear Alonso: "engine."

It's just that this time Alonso's communication with the team was missing a familiar adjective.

But one thing is that the F1 engine developed by Renault may only be slightly better than the original Honda.

In short, Verstappen, who had been unlucky for almost the whole race, also got lucky once in a while. When he was locked up by Alonso in front of him and was helpless, Alonso's car encountered a malfunction.

Now Verstappen's ranking has reached seventh, and the time gap between him and Norris is 3 seconds. In front of Norris is Sainz, and behind him is his teammate Perez.

And when Alonso retired from the race, the safety car was dispatched as expected, but it was a virtual safety car.

"Virtual safety car, what are the track conditions like?" Qin Miao asked the team TR immediately after seeing the virtual safety car appear on the track.

Frankie knew very well what Qin Miao was thinking now, so he immediately replied: "To be honest, we feel that the current track conditions are not suitable for changing to dry tires. Let's stay outside. The track conditions We will notify you as soon as there are improvements.”

Although Qin Miao felt a little pity, she still said: "Copy that."

In fact, the team also feels that the current track conditions are indeed suitable for using dry tires, and the driving lanes in many corners have already been cleared.

After all, Qin Miao is currently ranked third. It is impossible for the team to gamble with Qin Miao's third place points, let alone the first place is still the driver Hamilton of his own team.

Regardless of whether Qin Miao gained an advantage from this gamble, in the end it was nothing more than getting an extra second place.

In short, there is a high possibility of losing when you bet, and you won't lose if you don't bet. At least a third-place finish can be guaranteed. Coupled with the DRS that will be launched in the subsequent races after the track conditions gradually improve, Qin Miao may not be able to hit the second place in a stable state.

On lap 26, when Qin Miao raised the pressure level of Leclerc in front of him to [32%], a yellow flag suddenly appeared on the track.

The driver who had the problem was Albon. He failed to brake during T8 and crashed into the track wall.

Although there was nothing wrong with the four wheels of the car, the front nose of the car was knocked off and was left on the track.

After the accident, Albon reversed the car and drove it out again. He returned to the pit area and put on a new front wing. His race could continue.

However, after returning to the team's P room, Williams replaced Albon with a new front wing, but did not let him continue to run on the track.

Because Albon had already been lapped by Stroll at this time, even if he finished the whole race, Williams would not gain anything except increased engine consumption, and would still have to bear the burden of Albon's car. Risk of being damaged again.

Therefore, due to economic considerations and to avoid risks, the Williams team finally chose to let Albon retire from the race.

At this point, both drivers of the Williams team have retired from the race, and the Williams team packed up their things and clocked out early.

At the front of the track, Qin Miao, who was ranked third, looked at the [32%] pressure level value on Leclerc's head and felt a little puzzled.

Logically speaking, I have been putting pressure on Leclerc. After so many laps, Leclerc's pressure level cannot increase so slowly. How come he suddenly has such a strong ability to withstand pressure?

Did you practice secretly behind my back?
No matter what, Qin Miao has to ask him after this game is over, we are friends, you can't develop new abilities to deal with me!
On lap 28, Alpine may not want to do it anymore. It felt that no matter how hard it ran in this race, it would not get a good result, so at the exit of T23, the engine of the Ocon car also had problems and stopped in the race with smoke. On the road.

The virtual safety car was deployed once again.

Qin Miao was also a little anxious now, because the race had already run 28 laps. Without DRS, he could only catch up with Leclerc. He couldn't find any chance to attack Leclerc. The game is too fast.

The only good news is that Sainz was in poor condition in this race. After 28 laps, Perez had already opened up a 10-second gap.

In front of Sainz and behind Qin Miao, Perez was very fast in today's race, but he encountered the same problem as Qin Miao. No matter how fast his car was, it was not easy to overtake at the Marina Bay Circuit. On the track, he could only follow Qin Miao, but could not find any chance to attack Qin Miao.

Even if Qin Miao only concentrates on defending Perez, it will be fine if all the rest of his attention is focused on lap speed.

Judging from his many years of racing experience, Perez has not put any substantial pressure on Qin Miao until today's game.

On lap 32, all drivers in the field were still using semi-wet tires.

The difference is that after 30 laps of the race, the tread patterns of all drivers' semi-wet tires have been basically worn away. Now the contact area between the semi-wet tires and the ground is basically the same as that of normal dry slick tires.

But at this time, the ground of the track had begun to dry out visibly.

All drivers and the team's strategy team knew that now was the time to pit for dry tires, but no one dared to gamble.

Because if you lose the bet, you will lose points.

However, there are always some teams that are barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. Finally, on the 32nd lap, Alfa Romeo Team, which had only one sapling left on the field, chose to take a gamble.

Anyway, Bottas is now ranked 14th, and it seems that he is only four places away from the points area. It is not impossible to get this point with Bottas's speed.

But in fact, halfway through the race, Bottas was 19 seconds behind Stroll in the points area. If nothing unexpected happened in this race and the race continued normally, this race would have been a huge win. Tassi has completely missed the points area.

So Arrow Racing took a gamble and called Bottas to pit on this lap and put on medium tires.

Because the tire formula given by Pirelli this week is the softest C5-C3, the working temperature of these three tires is actually almost higher than the working temperature of C2, so there is not much difference between using hard tires at this time.

"Aro! Start asking for a change!" However, after seeing this scene, the three commentators from Five Star Sports, who had begun to feel that the game was a bit boring, suddenly became energetic and their tone was much higher.

"The tire changing time is 3.4 seconds, which is a bit slow, but it is normal for Arrow Racing!"

After leaving the station, Bottas unexpectedly fell to the last place, which is 15th. At this time, he was 20 seconds behind Magnussen in front of him. The good news is that Bottas was at this time. Si has an absolutely clean window and can run flying circles to his heart's content.

The current Arrow team has no other idea. It just wants to undercut Tsunoda who is 1 second ahead of Bottas. If possible, it is not impossible to overtake Mick who is ahead of Tsunoda.

Bottas' pit stop not only attracted the attention of the audience and commentators, but also the attention of all team strategy groups on site.

It can be said that except for Williams and Alpine, which have completely retired from get off work, all teams are looking at Bottas.

Bottas hasn't received this much attention in two years.

Because as long as Bottas's lap speed after coming out of the pit area is faster than the lap speed using semi-wet tires, then it goes without saying that all teams will call their team drivers to pit as soon as possible and change to dry tires. .

Unfortunately, the Arrow team lost the bet. After Bottas came out of the pit area, his lap speed was even 1 second slower than before he changed tires.

Then naturally, Bottas became the guinea pig for all teams, and his results on the track became the reference standard for all teams.

This state did not last long. On the 33rd lap, Bottas began to paint purple in the second timing section with the least rain on the track, although Bottas' speed in the other two timing sections was still not as good as using semi-wet tires. of other cars, but at least the purple color in this section proves that track conditions are getting better.

So on lap 34, Toro Rosso asked Gasly, who was in the points area, to stop and change tires.

As time goes by, it is almost inevitable that the conditions of the track will get better and better.

Therefore, Toro Rosso can only be regarded as an early investment, not a gamble like Arrow Racing.

On lap 35, Leclerc and all the drivers in front chose to pit.

This time period is indeed a suitable time period for pit stop.

However, there will always be one or two outliers on the track. Qin Miao, who has never liked wearing wet tires, did not choose to pit at this time. Apart from Qin Miao, the two McLaren drivers during this time period There was no option to stop and change tires. (End of chapter)