How did I become an F1 driver?

Although Qin Miao is not a decision-maker of the Mercedes team, this kind of thing does not involve the interests of the Mercedes team. It can even be said that this kind of thing is closely related to the life safety of all drivers.

Therefore, in the face of Qin Miao's request, the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team had no reason to refuse. After knowing this and seeing Qin Miao's persistence, the Mercedes-Benz Racing Team never thought of refusing.

Originally, only Gasly's Toro Rosso team was the only one that put pressure on the FIA ​​to file a complaint over this incident.

The FIA ​​was originally prepared to deal with it directly. After all, who has never done something wrong and made a mistake?

However, the addition of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team made the FIA ​​feel a little numb for a while.

The FIA ​​has never figured it out. This matter has nothing to do with your Mercedes. Why are you meddling in it?
Originally, if only Toro Rosso had complained about this matter, the FIA ​​might have suppressed the matter directly, and everyone would have just pretended that nothing happened, singing and dancing, pretending not to know anything. .

However, after the Mercedes-Benz team strongly intervened in this matter, the FIA ​​knew that it had to come up with an attitude and explanation for this matter. Otherwise, with the influence of the Mercedes-Benz team in Asia at this time, the FIA ​​would soon have to He was criticized by car fans both verbally and in writing.

The FIA ​​knows that it must deal with this matter, but they cannot announce the penalty results immediately in a short period of time. After all, the game is not over yet.

The staff responsible for feedback from the Mercedes-Benz team found Qin Miao after receiving the FIA's reply.

"Qin Miao, the FIA ​​said that a result will be given after the game."

After receiving the news, Qin Miao nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, I understand, thank you."

"You're welcome, this is just my job." The other party nodded with a smile and left.

After the other party left, Barber asked Qin Miao curiously: "Why are you suddenly so concerned about Gasly's experience? The relationship between you two is not as good as this, right?"

Qin Miao looked at Barber with a smile: "Do you believe it if I say it's because I'm too idle?"

Barber shook his head and said: "Impossible. You were obviously into the game you just played."

Qin Miao shrugged. After such a long time, he didn't always pay attention to his own behavior within the team. Even if there were some outrageous behaviors, the team staff would tolerate them. This is the privilege of genius.

But because of this, Barber basically understood what kind of person he was, so Qin Miao was not surprised.

But Qin Miao still said harshly: "Actually, I really have nothing to do. In addition, I also have a little personal emotion. After all, Gasly can be regarded as a game partner who has played games with me." , if something happens to him, wouldn’t there be one less person to play games with me?

And this is also the fault of the Suzuka Circuit officials and the FIA ​​itself. Although I have not personally experienced Bianchi's track accident, I do not want such an accident to happen again on the track.

Judging from the incident just now, these Japanese people have not learned the lesson Bianchi sacrificed at all. "

"Okay, okay, calm down, but you did convince me." Barber shrugged.

……

After this episode, the interior of Mercedes-Benz Racing Team's P room also returned to calm.

Because the rain on the track still showed no sign of getting lighter at this time, and the duration of the rain was far from the one and a half hours expected by the team. The rain lasted for a whole day, but after two hours The situation on the track has obviously improved.

An F1 race has a maximum time limit.

If the race is interrupted due to the safety car or other reasons, and the race pause reaches a certain time limit, then the remaining laps of the final race will not be run directly, and will become a countdown to the end of the race.

After Qin Miao waited under the red flag for almost an hour, the countdown to the end of the game appeared on the big screen at the scene.

This means that if the countdown ends and the game is not restarted, then today's game will be canceled directly.

Qin Miao just watched the countdown on the scene go from one and a half hours to one hour.

One hour later, the FIA ​​finally canceled the red flag, indicating that the race would start in ten minutes.

And this restart of the competition will not adopt a static start, but a dynamic start.

The main reason is that the condition of the track is not optimistic at this time, and the FIA ​​made this choice in order to avoid any accidents in the initial stage.

Other teams have no problem with this either.

Now that the race is about to restart, all team staff on site will naturally turn their attention back to the track.

Qin Miao also handed the Steam Deck in his hand to Barber, and hurriedly put on his racing suit, and then jogged all the way to his car.

When Qin Miao put on his helmet and got into the car, Franky walked all the way from the Mercedes team podium to Qin Miao's car in the rain.

Qin Miao was putting on gloves when he suddenly noticed a figure appeared on his left. After taking a look, he realized that this person was actually Franky.

Logically speaking, the place where Franky should stay now is the team's podium. After all, he has to be responsible for observing and processing a lot of Qin Miao's racing telemetry data.

But before Qin Miao could ask anything, Frankie said beside Qin Miao: "Qin Miao, according to the estimation of the team strategy team, the rain on the track should still have a lot of residue when the race restarts. Even the rain will not stop. Now that the FIA ​​has restarted the race during this period, we expect that other teams will use full wet tires at that stage.”

“But the current air temperature and track temperature are similar to Friday’s first practice, which means that our team is currently the only one among the ten teams in the paddock that has full wet tire test data under the current track conditions. "

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, then asked: "That is to say..."

"Only we know that full-weather tires are not fast under such conditions." Frankie said this with a bit of excitement in his tone.

Because he knows the correct answer, Qin Miao has to enter the pit area less than the drivers of other teams.

"But if we put on semi-wet tires in advance, it is very likely that Red Bull and Ferrari will notice it, so don't talk about it in the team TR now. We will first put you on full wet tires like other teams. We will put you and Hamilton on semi-wet tires before the FIA ​​asks the team to evacuate.”

"So, be patient and trust the team's strategy team." Looking at Franky, Qin Miao could only give a thumbs up: "You guys are still dirty!"

French Tactics coughed and said: "One more thing, although you collected the data on the full wet tires, we are a team after all, and I can't stop Hamilton's track engineer from accessing these data. so……"

"Franky." Qin Miao interrupted Franky's words and said seriously: "It doesn't matter. Let's not mention that I still have a chance to surpass Hamilton on the track. Even if I didn't surpass Hamilton on the track due to the weather, In the end, I only got second place in this game.

But in the driver standings, I also firmly occupy the first place, don’t I? Even if Hamilton wins all the remaining grands prix this season, his current number of points will not threaten my way to defend the title. "

"I'm very happy that you think so. I'm just a little worried that you will feel that Hamilton will hinder you from widening the points gap between yourself and Verstappen because of Hamilton's presence."

"After all, although you have an advantage in the standings now, the point gap between you and Verstappen is not too big. One mistake or one retirement will make all your efforts in vain, but will Hamilton win?" The championship will not have much impact on his driver ranking and championship situation this season..."

Qin Miao waved her hand to interrupt Franky and said, "You know, I'm not such a person at all."

"Okay." Franky shrugged, then stretched out his hand to hold Qin Miao's hand and said seriously: "Today is a rare opportunity. The team will try not to hold you back. I hope you can achieve a good result. Come on."

Qin Miao reached out and patted the back of Franky's hand: "Don't worry, when have I ever let the team down?"

After French nodded, he went to Reyes to explain something, and then went to Hamilton's crew in front of Qin Miao to explain a few words, and then returned directly to the Mercedes-Benz team's podium.

Next, a series of preparations for all teams were carried out step by step.

And just when everyone was making final preparations before the start of the race in an orderly manner, there was only half a minute before tire changes in the prohibited pit area.

Like all team members, the Mercedes team staff who were squatting next to the four wheels of the Mercedes racing car and pressing the tire warming blanket suddenly picked up the low-power portable wind cannon placed on the ground.

Then the eight people began to quickly remove the eight tires of the two Mercedes racing cars, and quickly put the tires back on, except that they were put back on semi-wet tires.

It was only after the tires of the Mercedes-Benz team had been changed that the staff of other teams also reacted. Even if they had reacted, there was not enough time left for them to learn the tactics of the Mercedes-Benz team and turn Quan Yu into the car. The tires were replaced with semi-wet tires.

And in addition to these people, the strategy team of the Red Bull Racing Team is the quickest to respond among all team staff. However, when they want to follow Mercedes-Benz's example and put on semi-wet tires, the trolley where they install the tires has already been Evacuated early.

Therefore, the staff of the strategy teams of Red Bull and Ferrari could only watch as the Mercedes team replaced Qin Miao with a set of semi-wet tires.

However, the people in the F1 team can be said to be crouching tigers, hidden dragons. Soon someone realized that the Mercedes team was the only team that used full rain tires to conduct effective test laps in heavy rain this week. Therefore, the Mercedes team The Mercedes-Benz team will naturally know whether full wet tires or semi-wet tires are faster in such a track environment.

At this time, many team strategy team members who realized this slapped themselves on the forehead, wondering why they didn't think of it in the first place.

Why didn’t I remember such an important thing during the first practice of this game week?
If they remember this, they will definitely stare at the two Mercedes cars during the restart stage of the game. As soon as they make any change, they will immediately imitate Mercedes' actions and change the tires together.

The strategy team staff of Red Bull and Ferrari only noticed after thinking about it for a moment: When thinking about Q1 this race weekend, the only thing left in their minds was Qin Miao's almost impossible drift made with an F1 car.

What the hell! Hello Qin Miao! How could it be hidden so deeply? Is this also in your calculations?

In fact, Qin Miao really just made a mistake at that time.

……

After this tactic was successful, the audience at the scene, the audience in front of the TV, or the commentators may not understand what happened, but when all the cars used full wet tires, only the Mercedes team used semi-wet tires. The on-site director immediately showed footage of Toto in the P room of the Mercedes team.

At this time, Toto crossed his arms and looked confident.

Many teams that have realized that lap times on semi-wet tires are actually faster than those on full-wet tires were really filled with hatred when they saw Toto's expression.

I can't wait to rush directly to the P room of the Mercedes-Benz team and give this guy a kick.

But they just couldn't do anything.

It is not difficult to guess why Toto is happy, because at this time Hamilton and Qin Miao are already the first and second in actual positions.

The only thing that gave the Red Bull Racing Team some comfort was that Qin Miao was only ranked second at this time. At least Verstappen was ranked third after coming out of the pits after pitting. The points gap would not be affected by this game. Pulled too far.

What? Attack Qin Miao?

……

It's raining, there is no DRS, and the person to surpass is Qin Miao...

To be honest, in this situation, even if Schumacher stood up from his dying illness and returned to his previous competitive state, there would probably be nothing he could do against Qin Miao sitting in Verstappen's position.

Soon, all the drivers were on the track, and the race finally restarted after being suspended for more than two hours due to a red flag.

However, when they just came out of the pit area, the two drivers Qin Miao and Hamilton still clearly felt that the semi-wet tires were slipperier than the full-wet tires.

However, after the safety car was used for two laps and the track environment improved significantly, the stability of Qin Miao and Hamilton's cars was obviously better.

When the safety car entered the third lap, Qin Miao and Hamilton clearly felt strong enough grip.

It's very comfortable to drive.

In the end, with 40 minutes left before the end of the race, the safety car had already been on the track for six laps. However, at the end of the sixth lap, the safety car's top light went out, indicating that the race was about to begin.

The game is finally restarting. (End of chapter)