How did I become an F1 driver?

Zhou Guanyu, who was ranked tenth, had nothing to say. Zhou Guanyu once again defeated his teammates in the race and brought back a point for the Arrow Racing Team.

However, at this time, Arrow Racing has basically locked in the fourth place in the team of the year for the 2022 season. This point is recorded at this time. Apart from making Vasseur and Zhou Guanyu's year-end reports look better, it does not play any critical role. role.

On the one hand, there is a 35-point points gap between Aston Martin behind Arrow Racing and Arrow. With the current strength of Aston Martin racing, it is basically impossible to win in the remaining races of this season. Overtaken Arrow in points.

On the other hand, McLaren has completely woken up by the end of the season. Although Ricciardo will not have a driver's seat next season, he can just drive around in McLaren's car and race happily.

But Norris still continued to score points on the court.

The points gap between the two teams is also getting wider and wider.

After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, so McLaren didn't slip further.

Therefore, in the remaining games of this season, it will be more difficult for Arrow Racing to advance or lag behind.

At least the scoring of this point has completely stabilized Zhou Guanyu's status as a mid-tier F1 driver in his rookie season.

Judging from the Chinese market developed by Qin Miao in the paddock in 2021, as long as Zhou Guanyu does not regress in strength and maintains his current ability, he will not need to worry about his seat in this life. There will always be a team that wants him.

But Qin Miao's current situation has both advantages and disadvantages for Zhou Guanyu.

The benefits have been mentioned before, but the biggest drawback is that because of Qin Miao's existence, Zhou Guanyu's current achievements in F1 are basically not noticed by the domestic audience.

The threshold of domestic car fans was set too high by Qin Miao.

But Zhou Guanyu took this quite openly. At least he wouldn't be criticized too harshly by domestic fans if he didn't go well in the race.

I can run the game without too much burden on the field.

And because of his status, there are many domestic sponsors who are willing to give him advertisements, and his income is also very considerable.

And compared to drivers from other teams, Zhou Guanyu's biggest advantage is actually his stability. Zhou Guanyu rarely makes mistakes and crashes because he pushes too aggressively.

Among the future driver candidates of many teams, Zhou Guanyu is also among the candidates for the No. 1 driver or the first choice for the No. 2 driver.

Stop gossiping.

After this race, the changes in the overall driver standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao.352
2: Verstappen.300
3: Leclerc.241
4: Perez.226
5: Hamilton.197
6: Sainz.167
7: Norris.89
8: O'Connell.72
9: Alonso.43
10: Bottas.38
11: Vettel.28
12: Zhou Guanyu.26
13: Gasly.21
14: Ricardo.20
15: Magnussen.19
16: Tsunoda.9
17: Stroll.7
18: Mick.6
19: Albon.1
20: Russell.1
21: De Vries.1
After this game, there were no changes in the driver standings, but the points gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen widened to 52 points.

There are still three games left before the end of the 2022 season.

If Qin Miao wins the next Mexican Grand Prix, he doesn’t even need to get the fastest lap in the Mexican Grand Prix. As long as he wins the Mexican Grand Prix, Qin Miao can lock in two races in advance. The ownership of the 2022 world champion.

Therefore, Perez's home court becomes particularly important to Red Bull.

At the same time, the overall team standings after this game are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 592
2: Red Bull: 546
3: Ferrari: 428
4: Alpine: 133
5: McLaren: 113
6: Alfa Romeo: 71
7: Aston Martin: 36
8: Little Red Bull: 30
9: Haas: 25
10: Williams: 3
Although Hamilton's form has obviously recovered recently, the team standings at this time are not as clear as the driver standings. After all, the next race is Perez's home court. If Perez's performance at home is good enough, then Red Bull Racing can still launch an attack on the team championship.

After the game, Qin Miao completed all post-game activities calmly.

After that, of course, we returned to the P room of the Mercedes-Benz team.

At this time, Frankie and the others had brought Qin Miao's car back and began to check Qin Miao's steering wheel and the ERS system inside the car.

After confirming that all these tasks were carried out in an orderly manner, Qin Miao did not stay in the P room of the team for a long time and returned to the team home.

After Qin Miao came back, he did not go back to his lounge to rest and wait for the post-match meeting to start as usual. Instead, he sat directly in the conference room of the team home and waited for the meeting to start.

Qin Miao's attitude is very obvious.

The failure of the car was considered a family scandal and should not be publicized, so I saved some face for the team outside and did not start spraying directly.

But after returning to the team, you have to give me an explanation.

One thing to say, Qin Miao's current dominance on the track and his performance of carrying a heavy burden this season can indeed make Qin Miao so crazy in the team.

Toto was stunned for a moment when he saw Qin Miao appearing at his place so early, and then thought of this.

Anyway, there was nothing else to do now, so Toto sat next to Qin Miao, where Franky usually sat in the office, and chatted with Qin Miao.

"Qin Miao, do you have any thoughts after this season is over?"

Qin Miao:? ? ?
Seeing Qin Miao's doubts, Toto explained: "You just have some plans. You must want to go out and have fun during the holidays, right?"

Qin Miao actually held his breath at this time, but the owner of the team sat in front of you to chat with you, and he was a noble person who helped you when you were a little confused. Naturally, Qin Miao couldn't remain indifferent at this time. , so Qin Miao thought for a while and said: "During the winter break, after work is over, I should go back to China to spend time with my family. The main reason is that I am too busy on the court during this period, and Qiu Meng is pregnant again. I have been I don’t have time to spend time with her at home, so this should be the plan after this season ends.”

Now it's Toto's turn. Why didn't you tell anyone about such a big thing like being pregnant?
Although this kind of thing is indeed not a particularly important thing, it is fun for other teams in the paddock.

"Qin Miao, this is your fault. Since we work together in the team, we are a family. Why didn't you tell us such an important thing?" Toto looked at Qin Miao and said, "Well, I Let Susie bring some gifts to see Qiu Meng recently, I am indeed a little busy during this time. "

"That's no need. Qiu Meng is in China now. It's quite troublesome for Su Xi to go there. Besides, he's also very busy. I accept your offer." Qin Miao quickly refused. During this period, Qin Miao Although she has never met her daughter-in-law, this girl now complains to herself on her mobile phone that she is bored every day.

Because of her pregnancy, Qiu Meng's parents immediately interrupted her travel plans, and Qin Miao's mother also put down all the work she was doing.

The three old men began to circle around Qiu Meng.

Not to mention playing on the computer or watching TV on mobile phones, even reading has a very strict time limit. Qiu Meng complained to Qin Miao on the phone more than once that she felt like she was pregnant and then she started going to jail.

Qiu Meng is probably very irritable now.

Qin Miao was already so tired. Naturally, Qin Miao didn't want Qiu Meng to be polite to a foreigner she wasn't familiar with because of her own affairs.

Seeing Qin Miao's refusal, Toto didn't force it.

So we switched to another topic, but Toto's main purpose of coming to Qin Miao this time was also achieved.

Just chat with Qin Miao, divert Qin Miao's attention, and at least let the anger in Qin Miao's heart dissipate a little.

Although Qin Miao and Toto avoided Toto in their next chat, the main topic they talked about still stayed on the education of future generations.

Mainly, Toto was passing on his experience in educating children to Qin Miao.

Although Toto has to manage the team all year round and travels around the world with the team's staff, although he also has time off, it is not too much in general.

But after all, Toto has three children. He has never eaten pork or seen a pig running?

So I also told Qin Miao useful information on raising children, and also recommended some relatively good schools near the UK to Qin Miao.

But in Qin Miao's own mind, he still prefers to send his children back to China to study.

On the one hand, foreign countries are notoriously xenophobic. It is difficult for a yellow child to avoid being bullied in a foreign school.

On the other hand, the environment in which they grow up is very important. Qin Miao does not want her children to speak like Zhou Guanyu in the future, habitually using inverted sentences.

But Qin Miao still listened to Toto's suggestion.

The two chatted for nearly half an hour, and during this time Franky and the others also inspected Qin Miao's car.

There is no need to elaborate too much on the test results. Qin Miao's car did encounter an ERS failure. It was not a mechanical failure, but a program failure in the car's ERS.

in short.

During the race, Qin Miao's racing car's ERS control system got stuck.

It can also be understood that when Qin Miao was playing, the microcomputer got stuck.

Not long after, the post-match meeting was held.

After chatting with Toto for half an hour about the topic of children, Qin Miao's inner emotions did dissipate a lot, but Qin Miao's purpose has not changed. He still wants the team to give him a specific answer on this matter. reply.

Soon, Hamilton, who had completed various business activities, also returned to the P room of the Mercedes team.

This time he was not late for a long time, only 10 minutes.

Then the post-race meeting that follows every Grand Prix weekend began.

The first step is to summarize and summarize the problems encountered during this Grand Prix weekend, and propose improvement plans, and then vote on which plan to adopt.

Then there is the funding situation for this Grand Prix weekend and the usage of racing resources.

Finally, it was time for the drivers and other team staff to reflect on the problems everyone encountered on the track during the weekend at the meeting.

After reaching this stage, Qin Miao stood up immediately and said that he encountered an ERS failure on the car on the track.

This has nothing to do with the technician team. The design team is responsible for procedural issues. The ERS failure Qin Miao encountered was a failure of the steering wheel's built-in system.

So after getting feedback from Qin Miao, Elliott adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and stood up and said: "According to our post-race inspection, Qin Miao's car did encounter an ERS system failure, but according to what we just said, According to the inspection, Qin Miao's system failure was most likely due to the overheating of the car at the time. The steering wheel CPU encountered a temperature wall and was down-clocked, reducing the computing speed and causing the program to freeze.

We just tried to restart Qin Miao's steering wheel system, and the function of the ERS system has been restored. "

"Another possibility is that there are some bugs in the steering wheel program that we have not discovered. After the meeting, Qin Miao's steering wheel will be flown directly back to Brackley's headquarters for disassembly and research, and all data will also be exported for judgment. , If it is really a program problem, the program R&D department at the headquarters will fix the vulnerability."

"Based on the principle that there will be a second time if there is a first time, in the next racing development and upgrade plan, we will add cooling fins for the steering wheel CPU to increase the heat dissipation efficiency, and optimize the ERS startup logic. With this At the same time, replacing the next-generation high-performance steering wheel CPU is expected to fundamentally prevent the recurrence of these problems. "

"However, these upgrade plans cannot be implemented one by one in a short period of time, and our upgrade budget has bottomed out this season, so most of the improvement plans will not be implemented until next season. At present, the next Mexican Grand Prix can add more There are only heat dissipation fins on the surface of the CPU to ensure that the CPU will not encounter a temperature wall when running in a high-temperature environment, but this may increase the weight of the car by 10-30 grams.”

After Elliot finished speaking, he looked at Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was the real owner of his report.

Qin Miao was quite satisfied with Elliott's answer. After all, the track temperature was indeed a bit high today, and he was indeed a bit hot in the car at that time, with a body temperature of about 55°.

So after listening to Elliot's solution, Qin Miao agreed with the inspection results and agreed to the next processing procedure.

This is basically the meeting process of the Mercedes-Benz team. If a problem is raised and a solution is not found within a short period of time, the staff responsible for this aspect will record the problem and find a solution later.

If there is a way to solve this problem and you have already started to solve it, tell everyone your solution and clearly give the time when the problem will be solved.

Next, it is natural to raise other questions and provide corresponding solutions.

This matter has come to an end.

But after the meeting, Qin Miao completed all his work and received some good news. (End of chapter)