How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 446 Chapter 449: Pan Zi: I’m so torn apart

For the next period of time, the race had nothing to do with the three drivers in front.

Because Qin Miao's defensive ability has always been strong, the director did not give them much footage in the later stages of the game, but instead placed the camera more behind them.

After all, even if you look at Qin Miao, at that time it was Qin Miao who was cruising alone with a racing car directly in front, followed by several racing cars behind him, trying to overtake but unable to do so.

And today's other protagonist, Verstappen, who has always worried fans who support Qin Miao, has somewhat disappointed Red Bull fans with his performance this week.

Perhaps it was because of the Red Bull Racing team's overhaul this week, coupled with Qin Miao's under cut late in the game that was like a child of luck.

Verstappen's always stable mentality was inevitably affected in today's game.

On the first lap after the safety car withdrew, he wanted to attack Norris in front of him, but Norris was very resolute in Verstappen's defense. When Verstappen wanted to tap inside, Norris directly It squeezed to the center line, pushing Verstappen to the water outside the track.

The most direct consequence was that Verstappen was unable to brake on the spot, and his four tires pulled out a huge line of white smoke on the track.

In an F1 race, the consequence of missing the braking point may be just a loss of time, but Verstappen's losses this time were more than that.

He directly locked his tires, and all four tires were locked.

For Verstappen and Red Bull, the consequences of Verstappen's mistake were almost devastating.

Verstappen's mistake not only completely destroyed Verstappen's tires, but also caused Verstappen to rush into the escape channel on the outside of the track.

And as mentioned earlier, if you make a mistake at the beginning of this kind of competition, your original ranking will drop significantly.

Verstappen's mistake occurred when the safety car was withdrawn. There was always a gap of more than 1 second among the drivers behind, so Verstappen did not lose too much position.

But Verstappen still fell directly out of the points area from seventh to 11th.

And this time the tire lockup completely destroyed Verstappen's set of medium tires. There is no doubt that if Verstappen didn't want the tires of his car to provide him with no grip, and he would also be in corners. It became extremely unstable, so Verstappen had to pit and change tires.

Otherwise, Verstappen's speed will become ugly for at least the next four laps.

And now the race has just restarted. If Verstappen enters the pit area at this time, there is no need to think about the result. He will definitely fall to last place.

Now we are waiting for Red Bull to make a choice on this matter, whether to let Verstappen pit for tire changes or let him stay on the track and wait until Verstappen's set of damaged medium tires Return to normal state.

After discussion, the Red Bull Racing Team still wants Verstappen to continue on the track. After all, with the performance of the Red Bull racing car and the difficulty of overtaking at the Marina Bay Circuit, Verstappen has the conditions to re-engage the surface of his tires. After smoothing out, he continued to pursue the driver in front.

But Verstappen himself took the initiative to ask to pit for a set of soft tires.

The team naturally had no reason to object to this, so they called Verstappen into the pits and put on a set of soft tires.

As expected, Verstappen fell to last place after coming out of the pit lane. The only good news is that six drivers have retired from the race today. Even if Verstappen falls to the bottom of the team, he is still tenth. Position four, you can start chasing the driver in front directly from this position.

There is a loss, but it’s really not too big.

The game entered a quiet period in the last half hour.

Qin Miao took the lead, with his teammate Hamilton 0.7 seconds behind him, followed by Leclerc, and then Perez.

The time difference between the four drivers was less than 1 second.

He was controlled to death by Qin Miao.

So in the following time, the director's camera focused on Verstappen, who was at the end. Qin Miao's cruise here was really not interesting.

On the contrary, Verstappen had already caught up to 12th place with 10 minutes left before the end of the game.

And Verstappen's speed has not slowed down at all, and he is quickly shortening the time gap between himself and Vettel.

However, later in the race, Verstappen was also locked by Vettel.

Because Vettel has Stroll in front of him.

The young master also knew the threat Verstappen posed to him, so he did not take the opportunity to widen the time gap between the two when Vettel was attacked by Verstappen.

Coupled with the fact that this track is difficult to overtake, as soon as the small train starts to move, even the powerful Verstappen is trapped here.

Finally, the countdown of the race reached zero, and after Qin Miao ran another lap on the track, a checkered flag appeared at the finish line of the track.

The four drivers Qin Miao, Hamilton, Leclerc and Verstappen crossed the line one after another.

Qin Miao started the race in third place today and crossed the line first.

“The checkered flag waves and the game ends.”

"Let us congratulate Qin Miao for winning the Singapore Grand Prix!"

After Qin Miao crossed the line, the three commentators from Five Star Sports happily congratulated Qin Miao on today's victory in the studio.

It's embarrassing to say it. I still remember that last season, in the first F1 Grand Prix of Qin Miao's career, he started second and came home third. His finishing result was not even as good as his qualifying result. Instead of showing any disappointment, the Five Star Sports commentators were so excited that they couldn't extricate themselves in the studio.

But today, more than a year later, facing Qin Miao's hard-won championship, the commentators are more happy than the uncontrollable excitement before.

It can only be said that everyone is used to Qin Miao's performance on the court.

"Let us also congratulate the Mercedes team for rediscovering its competitiveness on the track after experiencing confusion at the beginning of the season and turmoil in the middle of the season."

"The major upgrades brought about by the Singapore Grand Prix have changed the overall driving characteristics of the car. Such major changes not only did not affect the performance of the car, but actually improved it to a certain extent."

"In this game, we saw from the Mercedes team that their understanding of the current ground effects era has reached a new level."

"Finally, after this race, the Mercedes team finally surpassed Red Bull in the constructors' championship. Now Mercedes leads both the constructors' and drivers' championships."

At the same time, Qin Miao crossed the finish line on the track, and a burst of warm cheers erupted from the audience. Then the cheers slowly gathered together, and everyone's cheers gradually converged into two A name that is extremely familiar to all Chinese fans who have just entered F1: "Qin Miao!"

"Qin Miao!" "Qin Miao!"

……

After all, Singapore is half of Qin Miao’s home court.

Among the 6 fans who came to watch the race today, at least 3 are Chinese.

Naturally, after the main match, the Chinese audience at the scene sent their blessings and cheers to Qin Miao.

At least Qin Miao's performance on the field in today's game did not make them feel that this game was in vain. Qin Miao's victory in this sub-station also made them feel that it was worth the ticket price, which can be regarded as a disguised reciprocation.

"Qin Miao! Congratulations, P1, a clean race, well done." Franky's voice sounded when Qin Miao stretched out his hand outside the car to greet the audience.

Qin Miao also knew that he and the team's TR would definitely be released at this time. Considering that there were so many domestic fans supporting him at the scene today, Qin Miao replied among the team's TR: "They are all my cars. The fans gave me strength. Without them, I wouldn’t have been able to run so well in this race. To be honest, I’m starting to like this place a little bit now.”

After hearing Qin Miao's words, Fei Ge said with a smile: "Indeed, many domestic fans from our country went to cheer for Qin Miao in this week's Singapore Grand Prix. This can be regarded as making up for Qin Miao's failure in the past two years. It’s a pity that I can’t play at my home court.”

After the game, after all, this was only half of Qin Miao's home court. Strictly speaking, it was not really Qin Miao's home court. So although he was very grateful to the audience, Qin Miao still only ran one return lap before returning. We arrived at the podium position that had been arranged in the pit channel.

However, in order to thank the domestic audience who came from afar, Qin Miao's return lap was still a bit slow, so when Qin Miao came back, Leclerc and Hamilton's cars had already parked, and even now Hamilton had gotten out of the car and was putting his steering wheel back on.

After Qin Miao parked the car, he was pushed onto a platform where the championship car was parked by the staff at the scene.

There are screens on the sides and bottom of this stand. What is playing on the bottom is the logo of the Mercedes-Benz team, and what is playing on the side is a very handsome promotional video that was recorded at the beginning of this season. In short, it is Qin Miao's.

After parking the car, taking off the steering wheel and getting up, almost all the cameras at the scene were focused on Qin Miao.

Qin Miao lived up to her expectations. After climbing out of the monocoque, she stood on her racing car and patted her chest hard.

It can be regarded as the celebration of the championship after each race.

But what Qin Miao didn't know was that Hamilton had just gotten out of the car and was resting on his car. After seeing Qin Miao get out of the car, he immediately stood on his car to celebrate, with all the excitement in his eyes. The high-spirited look of myself when I was in my twenties.

It’s great to be young. It’s not tiring to run in such a hot Grand Prix.

Hamilton thought with emotion until he saw Leclerc on the left who was as tired as he was like a dead dog.

Hamilton:…

Okay, I don’t know what Qin Miao, a B, grew up on, and his physical fitness is staggering.

After celebrating, Qin Miao didn't even have time to clean up his steering wheel. He jumped out of the car and rushed into the crowd of Mercedes team staff.

In the celebrations after several recent games, Qin Miao did not let himself go.

On the one hand, after running a Grand Prix, I was really tired after getting off the car. On the other hand, Qin Miao kicked an innocent Ferrari team member last time.

But these are all digressions. After Qin Miao rushed into the crowd, he naturally received a burst of pats and encouraging praises from the Mercedes-Benz team staff.

After all, Qin Miao's performance today also proved that the week's hard work of all the Mercedes-Benz team staff was not in vain, and the upgrades brought by the team factory were not in vain, and the results were even surprisingly good.

Then there are people like Toto and Elliot.

After the hug, Qin Miao came to the edge of the crowd of Mercedes team members and hugged his mother and daughter-in-law.

"My son is awesome!" The mother smiled and stretched out the tissue in her hand to wipe the sweat around Qin Miao's eyes. She was probably worried that Qin Miao's sweat would stay in Qin Miao's eyes.

Qiu Meng gave Qin Miao a thumbs up: "Awesome!"

Smiling and patting the girl on the back, Qin Miao was ready to clean up for the post-match interview.

But after Qin Miao turned around, Hamilton came over: "It was a wonderful race. Congratulations to you Qin Miao, but did you guess that the safety car would appear again when you didn't pit?"

Obviously, Hamilton is still a little aggrieved that Qin Miao took the championship from him. After all, Hamilton's performance throughout the season cannot be said to be very good, and the team improved this week. After understanding the driving experience and cornering characteristics of the car, Hamilton clearly felt that his omnipotent self was back.

It's just that he never expected that the championship that was easily accessible to him would be taken away by Qin Miao.

It is impossible to say that Hamilton does not have a little bit of negative emotions in his heart.

Qin Miao did not hide it, and said straightforwardly: "It was just an accident."

But now is definitely not the time to talk about this kind of thing. Qin Miao explained and then gestured to the staff who were ready for the interview.

Hamilton glanced back and nodded, and finally hugged Qin Miao: "Anyway, congratulations to you Qin Miao."

"Thank you, and congratulations to you too, Lewis. I'm looking forward to the rest of the season and our fight." Qin Miao responded.

After Hamilton heard Qin Miao's words, the corner of his mouth twitched, because in his career, there is one person whose figure will never go away.

After that, Qin Miao and Leclerc stopped making so many twists and turns: "Hahahaha, Charles, you didn't expect it!"

Walking up to Leclerc who was celebrating the end with Ferrari staff, Qin Miao asked with a smile.

Leclerc looked at Qin Miao in front of him helplessly.

When he returned to the lap, he asked the team why Qin Miao ran in front of him, and naturally he got an explanation from the team.

So now Leclerc really feels that Qin Miao is really unlucky in this race. If it hadn't been for the safety car triggered by Yuki Tsunoda, he would have definitely been able to stabilize Qin Miao in this race.

Although based on Qin Miao's current number of points, it is impossible for him to get involved in the driver's championship this season, but at least beating Qin Miao once in a race is also good news for Leclerc.

But now that the matter has come to this, there is no point thinking about it. Leclerc, who is watching Qin Miao walking happily, can only nod helplessly: "Congratulations, lucky bastard." (End of this chapter)

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