How did I become an F1 driver?

Zhou Guanyu enthusiastically extended the international friendly exchange gesture to Qin Miao. Qin Miao opened Zhou Guanyu's hand and found a seat in the car to sit down.

"Good morning JJ. Today I can have a big star like you take Quan Zi and I for a stroll in Singapore. We, father and son, are really flattered!" After sitting down, Qin Miao said to JJ next to him with a smile.

Although Zhou Guanyu didn't realize what Quanzi meant for a while, he had been abroad for too long after all, and even the Chinese module had turned into an inverted sentence because it had not been used for too long.

But Zhou Guanyu heard the words "we are father and son" very clearly, so he directly locked Qin Miao's throat.

JJ on the side was at a loss as he watched these two drivers who were all-powerful in the F1 paddock, but they started fucking in private without treating themselves as outsiders at all.

The corner of JJ's mouth twitched, and just when JJ was about to persuade him, Qin Miao reached out and patted Zhou Guanyu's arm to signal defeat.

Then Zhou Guanyu let go of Qin Miao.

Qin Miao smiled sheepishly at JJ, and then said, "Sorry to trouble you, big star."

After hearing what Qin Miao said, JJ quickly waved his hands: "Qin Miao, you are wrong to say that. Compared to you, I only have the advantage of debuting earlier. As for influence, I am just a younger brother in front of you. How can I be considered a big star?"

Qin Miao didn't refute anything on this matter. After all, he still has some influence in the country. Although it is no longer like last season, as long as he wins a grand prix, he can be broadcast on CCTV's news network. Show your face inside.

But basically Qin Miao's name can be heard in the news of every Grand Prix on the news channel, and even the next day there will be a briefing on Qin Miao's game on Channel 5.

It can barely be regarded as reaching the level of influence that Liu Xiang and Yao Ming had back then. Even because Qin Miao won the F1 world championship, this influence is slightly exceeded.

The reason why Qin Miao doesn't have a deep understanding of it now is that on the one hand, Qin Miao always takes his own private jet when he goes home. It is impossible for you to get Qin Miao's flight information no matter what you have.

On the other hand, Qin Miao is relatively lazy and has basically never participated in any large-scale activities in China, so his experience is not very deep.

And you must know that the time when Qin Miao gained this kind of influence was not the time when Chinese people were extremely lacking in self-confidence and wanted to be recognized by foreign countries.

Qin Miao was at a time when China was so powerful that 055 dared to chase the US fleet with its radar for more than days.

Today's Chinese people no longer lack national self-confidence. Qin Miao's ability to gain such high attention and popularity is indeed due to Qin Miao's own superior strength and some mysterious luck.

Without saying too much about this matter, and after some polite exchanges with JJ, the car started and the three of them started touring Singapore.

Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu are both F1 drivers, and they are considered one of the top athletes in the world. What's more, Qin Miao is also the top among these top athletes.

Therefore, Qin Miao is not a person who has never seen the world. The projects and places JJ took Qin Miao to play today are more for Qin Miao to gain experience.

But after all, it was a tourist attraction recommended by locals, so Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu had a good time eating, drinking and having fun today.

But after all, this week is the competition week of the Japanese Grand Prix, so Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu did not stay in Singapore for long. After giving JJ a gift prepared by them, they took a photo together and sent it to their respective accounts. After going on the social platform, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu got on Qin Miao's plane to Japan after dinner.

Qin Miao has no family members accompanying him this week.

My mother has returned to China, and she is planning to renovate the old house at home.

What I’m talking about here is not Qin Miao’s home, but Qin Miao’s entire community. My mother is planning to redecorate the appearance.

Qin Miao had no reason to object to this, and Qiu Meng also went back with her. Her main purpose of going was relatively simple, that is, to give money.

After all, strictly speaking, the richest person in the family now is not Qin Miao, but Qiu Meng.

In addition to the money Qin Miao gave her, this girl also made a lot of money through investments.

For example, Qiu Meng currently holds approximately US$2000 million in Nvidia shares.

And the money is all her own, but Qin Miao didn't ask how she earned it. Now he really has no idea about money.

After Qin Miao landed in Japan, he took a special car sent by the Mercedes-Benz team and went to the hotel.

Qin Miao started running simulator training in the hotel the next day.

Like last week's Singapore Grand Prix, the 2021 Japanese Grand Prix has been canceled due to the epidemic. Therefore, the Suzuka Circuit of the Japanese Grand Prix is ​​also an unfamiliar track for Qin Miao, and he has never raced it in reality. .

Therefore, Qin Miao needs to spend more time practicing on this track.

Qin Miao did indeed do this.

And for Qin Miao, there is another not-so-good news this competition week.

Because the weather in Japan has not been very good in the past week, and it rains from time to time.

This news will have an impact on other drivers, but not too much, but for Qin Miao, this is undoubtedly bad news.

At the same time, Qin Miao, who has been using the white blue and white porcelain helmet design throughout this year, was finally willing to take out his first special helmet of the year in Japan.

Many fans who like to collect Qin Miao's small helmets looked at other drivers and saw four, five, or seven or eight models of helmets in a year. Qin Miao's career lasted for more than a year, and before the start of the Japanese Grand Prix, Qin Miao had only used four. different helmets.

After so long, they naturally only collected four helmets, and the helmet display cabinet belonging to Qin Miao naturally seemed empty.

Now that they knew Qin Miao was going to issue a new helmet, they were all happy and running around to tell each other, as if it was a Chinese New Year.

The special edition helmet brought by Qin Miao this week uses a lot of elements from the Tang Dynasty. The helmet is overall dark yellow, with pavilions, pavilions, Tang Sancai, and many portraits of characters with Tang Dynasty characteristics.

It is obviously not an appropriate element to appear on a helmet, but Qin Miao's helmet appears particularly coordinated after a certain amount of artistic processing and layout by domestic artists. It is actually on a racing safety helmet full of modern technology. It has a bit of an antique flavor.

After Qin Miao announced that a new helmet would be used in the Japanese Grand Prix, he was naturally asked by many Japanese reporters at the pre-race press conference whether wearing this helmet meant anything.

Qin Miao directly slapped the reporter in the face with three consecutive denials.

But everyone knows that Qin Miao always uses standard diplomatic rhetoric at press conferences and rarely behaves like this, so the hidden meaning of Qin Miao's actions is already obvious.

That's right. I mean something, but you can't find any evidence.

Many of the more extreme Japanese car fans were really filled with hatred after seeing this.

But there is no shortage of traitors in any country, let alone Japan, a country that fears power but not morality.

In the world of F1, Qin Miao is currently the representative of absolute authority and strength.

So many Japanese fans just ignore this and are happy to see Qin Miao. After all, in addition to being the world champion in 2021, Qin Miao is also the only world champion from Asia in F1 history.

As for Qin Miao’s helmet?
Isn't this ancient Japanese style?
What? Tang Dynasty?

I don’t care, this is ancient Japanese style!

In short, Qin Miao still caused quite a stir in Japan during the past few days after arriving in Japan. However, Qin Miao himself knew very little about these things. He mainly spent his energy training in hotels, getting familiar with the track, and from time to time Then there is a remote video conference with people from the team's factory department.

The time soon came to Thursday.

Qin Miao originally thought that after the press conference, the Japanese fans at the scene would not hold their hands in anger when they saw him, but it would definitely be similar to his experience at the Dutch Grand Prix this season.

Thousands of people point it out.

It's just that Qin Miao underestimated the servility in the bones of this nation.

When Qin Miao drove the Maybach into the roundabout at the entrance of the paddock, the roundabout was surrounded by Japanese car fans waiting here.

After seeing Qin Miao coming, they were all very excited. Qin Miao was still thinking about raising the glass of his car to prevent others from throwing rotten eggs, but soon, Qin Miao heard that The Japanese fans who arrived at the scene shouted enthusiastically: "Qin Miao! Qin Miao! Qin Miao!"

Then there are also words in Japanese: "Ganba Daddy" and other words to cheer for Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was really surprised now, but Qin Miao still had the basic skills of a professional driver. With a warm smile on his face, he waved hello to the Japanese fans at the scene.

Instantly, these people became even more excited.

After entering the paddock and staying away from the local Japanese fans, Qin Miao couldn't help but laugh. A Japanese Grand Prix that was just fine turned out to be another home stadium for him.

Back in the paddock, Qin Miao signed in and clocked in, and returned to the P room of the Mercedes team surrounded by the crowd.

After saying hello to Reyes, Qin Miao put on the team uniform that Barber had brought for him and asked, "Is there any upgrade to the car this week?"

Reyes held a tablet to confirm the work of the team's staff so far.

Nowadays, technology has developed, and various sensors have been stabilized and miniaturized one after another. The same is naturally true for F1, a high-precision competition event.

Many inspection tasks in the fleet can be completed using electronic equipment, and there have been no problems with this inspection method.

After hearing Qin Miao's question, Reyes confirmed the changes to this week's car, and then shrugged to Qin Miao and said: "This week's car has not been upgraded in any way. The overall condition of the car is the same as last week's car. It’s a high downforce setting.”

Qin Miao nodded regretfully. Since he had the skills to improve the team's research and development capabilities, Qin Miao has now begun to regularly look forward to the team's upgrades.

It's just a pity that with the budget cap, the team is really stretched in terms of upgrades.

"Let's go to the track. You have never run at the Suzuka Circuit Qin Miao. This is the time when you need to seize the time to get familiar with the track. And I just checked the weather conditions. The probability of rain in the next three hours is very low. ." Reyes also put away the tablet in his hand after seeing Qin Miao change his clothes.

Qin Miao nodded, called Barber French, and a few technicians, and the group entered the track through the gap between the maintenance area and the track.

This time Qin Miao didn't laugh and joke on the track. After all, he didn't know much about this track. Even with the blessing of skills, Qin Miao practiced on the simulator and improved his proficiency on this track to a very high level. But before actually going to the track and walking around, Qin Miao couldn't fully integrate what he learned in the simulator practice.

It took more than two hours to walk around.

This was when Qin Miao and other team members were all riding scooters on the track.

The most time-consuming part is mainly recording the smoothness of the track, the grip of the asphalt, the angle of the road shoulder, the slope, the height, the height of the outside of the road shoulder, the smoothness of the grass, and the fineness of the gravel in the buffer zone.

In short, this process is extremely boring and tedious, but it is essential.

At least Qin Miao knew that the buffer effect of some corners was very poor. Even the grass beside the track had a better deceleration effect than the gravel buffer zone.

On the other hand, although it did not rain on the track when Qin Miao and his crew walked on the track, there was still water in many places.

And the weather forecast says there will be rain this week.

So when walking on the track, Qin Miao and the others had to estimate on the track that if it rained during the race, the probability of water accumulation in a corner would be higher, and the grip at that place would be worse because of the water. You can't walk when it rains.

Although for many veteran F1 drivers, this knowledge is basically information that can be learned by walking around the track before the start of the Grand Prix, but Qin Miao has never run on this track after all.

After walking around the track and returning to the team's P room, Qin Miao naturally began to write about the driving skills on this track and the cornering methods.

This week's Japanese Grand Prix is ​​a normal race weekend. There are practice sessions on Friday and Saturday mornings. If the track conditions are suitable, Qin Miao will help the team test the car's tires and fuel consumption on this track. You can also try the wiring methods you have recorded now.

But when the time came to Friday, Qin Miao got up in the morning and opened the hotel curtains with anxiety. Looking at the heavy rain in Sanchong County outside the window, Qin Miao fell into deep thought.

Unwilling to give up, Qin Miao took out her cell phone and wanted to see if there was any room to change parks due to the weather. What Qin Miao saw after turning on her cell phone was not the weather forecast, but the weather report sent by the team's meteorological department overnight.

Friday:

Practice 1: It’s raining.

Second practice: It’s raining heavily.

Qin Miao:...(End of chapter)