How did I become an F1 driver?

Of course, this is also the end of the season, and Zhou Guanyu has already proved his ability on the track. A loss in the qualifying round will not affect Zhou Guanyu's position in the Arrow team.

Besides, the Mexican Grand Prix is ​​not the Monaco Grand Prix. As long as Zhou Guanyu maintains his speed, it will not be too difficult for him to score points in the main race.

After a short rest, it was time for Q3 of qualifying.

In the first flying circle, Qin Miao and Hamilton both came out relatively late.

This is also a traditional custom of Mercedes-Benz.

However, the first flying lap of the two Mercedes drivers on the track was not very good.

Qin Miao pushed too hard and encountered a crosswind on the track, causing his car to lose control and rush out.

Fortunately, no further damage was caused. Qin Miao controlled the car outside the track and returned to the track.

Having violated the track restrictions, Qin Miao knew that his lap time would definitely be cancelled.

Qin Miao simply let go of the first flying circle and stopped running.

However, Qin Miao took into account that if he ran the last flying lap without a base lap, the psychological pressure would be a bit too much.

Therefore, Qin Miao used the latter part of this flying circle as a cooling circle.

After crossing the finish line, I ran another flying lap.

This flying lap went very smoothly, but the tires Qin Miao used were not brand new soft tires after all, so the result of this flying lap only allowed Qin Miao to temporarily come to third place, and he was soon squeezed to seventh place.

Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton made a mistake in T2, lost his single lap rhythm, and exceeded the track limit in T3.

However, Hamilton's mistake was not as obvious as Qin Miao's, so Hamilton did not know he had made a mistake at the time and directly finished that flying lap. Only after finishing it did he realize that his lap time had been cancelled.

However, the unsuccessful start of qualifying did not affect the mentality and race rhythm of the two Mercedes drivers.

In the last flying lap of Q3, Hamilton performed strongly after coming out, and he took the purple laps in the first and third timing segments, and directly landed in first place, 0.1 faster than Verstappen, who was in second place at the time.

Qin Miao, who was following Verstappen, also had a good performance in the flying lap after coming out of the maintenance area, and also got purple in the first and third timing segments. However, in the three combination corners of T7T8T9 that clearly imitated the Silverstone circuit, he encountered a slow car and failed to stop the car in time. In order to avoid a collision, Qin Miao eased off the accelerator, resulting in a yellow in the second timing segment.

When the final results came out, Qin Miao's lap was only 0.01 second faster than Hamilton.

Although his results obviously still have a lot of room for improvement, Qin Miao has no regrets as he was able to beat his teammate Hamilton in his prime in the qualifying round.

Of course, this is definitely also due to the new engine power system that Qin Miao just replaced.

But the two Mercedes drivers did not feel happy for too long, as Verstappen scored purple in all three time slots and took first place in the qualifying round of the Grand Prix.

It is 0.14 seconds faster than Qin Miao who came in second.

After seeing such a huge gap, Qin Miao and Hamilton were both helpless. Who did Red Bull learn this bad habit from? Why is it still hiding it until now?

The final qualifying session ended and the drivers' rankings are as follows:
1: Verstappen

2: Qin Miao

3: Hamilton

4: Perez
5: Sainz
6: Bottas
7: Leclerc

8: Norris
9: Alonso
10: O'Connell

Because Qin Miao replaced the illegal number of engine electrical components, he will be penalized 10 positions backwards at the start of tomorrow's race.

That is to say, Qin Miao will start from 12th place tomorrow, which is behind Ricardo.

Therefore, in tomorrow's race, home driver Perez will start on the second row, and Zhou Guanyu will enter the top ten again.

Although Qin Miao's starting position tomorrow will be twelfth, on the right side of the track.

But today he is the second in the qualifying round after all, so Qin Miao will not miss any post-match activities.

However, Qin Miao is already very familiar with the processes of these activities, so I will not go into details here.

On the contrary, compared with Qin Miao's calmness and composure, Hamilton, whose performance this season has not been very good and whose condition only improved at the end of the season, was very interested in the post-match interview and seemed very happy.

After the qualifying race, Qin Miao returned to the team’s home, held a brief meeting, and then went back to the hotel to rest.

Mexico is not really a safe place for the two Mercedes drivers, so after the race, they did not have any activities to meet with fans, and they went straight back to the hotel to rest.

After returning to the hotel, Qin Miao habitually picked up his phone to see if there were any heroes in the groups he had joined in his early years to share some good stuff that would make his younger brother nod involuntarily after reading it.

After all, Qiu Meng is in her hometown, and Qin Miao is a young man in his twenties, so it is sometimes quite uncomfortable for him to hold back his anger.

At this moment, Qin Miao noticed the message Qiu Meng sent him.

When you click on it, there is a picture.

Qin Miao could tell at a glance that this was Qiu Meng's belly.

After all, Qin Miao nibbled and touched her a lot.

However, unlike before when her belly was white and flat with clear abs, now although Qiu Meng's abs are still clearly visible, her lower abdomen has bulged.

When seeing this picture, Qin Miao finally felt it was real that he was really going to be a father.

Scratching his hair, Qin Miao couldn't help but begin to doubt whether he could really be a responsible father?
Although he really wanted to say something to Qiu Meng, it was already early morning in China at this time, and Qin Miao couldn't send a message to disturb Qiu Meng, so Qin Miao suppressed the desire to reply.

But not long after, Qin Miao's cell phone rang.

When he clicked on it, Qin Miao found that it was a message from Leclerc.

After opening it, Qin Miao saw the question mark sent by Leclerc.

Ciel: [???]

[Qin Miao, you are not a good friend! ]

[Qiu Meng is pregnant, why didn't you tell me? 】

[Damn it, now I have to think about what gift I should give to my godson]

【Just wait for me! 】

Qin Miao felt a little numb when he saw the series of messages sent by Leclerc.

Now the only people in the paddock who know that their wives are pregnant are probably Toto and Hamilton. These two are at most nodding acquaintances of Leclerc. There is no reason for them to tell Leclerc this news.

Now that their suspicions have been ruled out, how did Leclerc know the news?

Qin Miao was very confused.

But at the same time, he also realized that as time went on, more and more people would know the news, and more and more people would find him.

Thinking of this, and thinking that he needed to reply to each one one by one, Qin Miao simply took a look at the picture that Qiu Meng had just sent him. After making sure that there was nothing inappropriate, he saved the picture and then sent it to the person in charge of his agency.

Let the other party check it and make sure there is no problem with the picture before sending it out through your own social account, which is considered as an official announcement that you have become a father.

After doing this, Qin Miao reopened the chat box with Leclerc.

[How big is your face? Are you a world champion? You just want to be the godfather of my child]

Leclerc responded immediately: [I’m telling you, just have a good chat, don’t curse! ]

[I don’t care, I am the one! ]

Qin Miao sighed. This Le Lao Si didn't recognize his own identity at all!

But Qin Miao didn't care. It was not the first time that Leclerc had been shameless in private, and Qin Miao was used to it.

But Qin Miao was still a little curious and asked: [How did you know Qiu Meng was pregnant? I remember that I didn't tell anyone about this. ]

Leclerc: [I have Qiu Meng as a WeChat friend, she sent a picture]

(WeChat is the overseas version of WeChat, but if you have domestic friends, you can see their Moments)

Qin Miao: [……]

So here lies the problem...

Shaking his head helplessly, Qin Miao stopped worrying about it.

After chatting with Leclerc for a while, Qin Miao's cell phone started ringing.

And this time it wasn't just one or two times, but it kept ringing.

Seeing the situation on his phone, Qin Miao roughly guessed the reason. It should be that his agency had already sent the picture out, and many people knew that he was about to have a child, so they sent messages to ask about or congratulate him.

But there is a game tomorrow, and Qin Miao can't reply to each message one by one now, so he muted his phone and left it alone. After getting up tomorrow, he will give the phone to Barber and ask him to reply to the messages when he is free.

Nothing happened that night. The next day, the Mexico race began.

Qin Miao came to the paddock as usual.

I won't go into too much detail about the preparations before the race. After all, it was Perez's home race. Basically, except for Perez, all the drivers of other teams were neglected to varying degrees. Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't even have any broadcast footage during the period before the race.

The view goes straight to the track. The driver parade and pre-race interviews, and the national anthem segment is also skipped.

Directly before the race, all the drivers came to the track and waited for the race to start.

At this time, Qin Miao was already sitting in the racing car, and Reyes was holding a small fan in his hand and blowing air at Qin Miao.

The temperature in today's race was quite hot, and coupled with the engine standby temperature inside the car, a small fan was really needed to keep the driver comfortable.

On the other hand, Qin Miao’s starting position was not very good, so he chose neutral tires at the start.

As for why not use hard tires...

The main consideration is the difficulty of overtaking.

Qin Miao’s speed is not slow, and he has a clear speed advantage over the drivers behind him.

However, if hard tires are used for long distance running, even if Qin Miao is faster than the driver in front of him using the hard tires, he will still lose a lot of time in acceleration because the acceleration ability of the hard tires is not as good as that of the car in front.

In addition, the Circuit Hermanos Rodriguez is not a track that easily triggers a safety car, so after comprehensive consideration, the team arranged a relatively conventional pit stop strategy for Qin Miao.

When the time was almost up, Reyes put away the small fan used to blow air for Qin Miao, came to the front of Qin Miao's racing car, and after receiving the signal, he opened his hands that were originally clasped on his chest, and asked everyone in Qin Miao's crew to remove Qin Miao's racing tire warming blanket.

The warm-up lap of the race is about to begin.

For the Mexican fans at the scene, the thing that made them happiest about today's race was naturally Perez, who was playing at home.

When the drivers were parading, Qin Miao can still recall the scene where all the Mexican fans shouted "Checo" together while sitting in the car.

For domestic car fans, Qin Miao has always been the person they care about most during the Grand Prix weekend, and besides Qin Miao, there is Zhou Guanyu.

However, today, Qin Miao is the most important person in the eyes of domestic car fans, because Qin Miao announced the news of his wife's pregnancy on his official social platform.

This news is undoubtedly good news for domestic car fans.

In the eyes of some domestic car fans, although racing is very cool and a very promising job, it is inevitable that you will encounter danger during the racing process.

Now that Qin Miao has a child, some older car fans in China feel relieved and happy after seeing this.

After all, when these car fans introduced Qin Miao, they treated Qin Miao as their own child.

Five Star Sports also announced the good news to all the fans who didn’t know the news yet:

"Before today's race, we also received good news. Our Chinese driver, the defending world champion: Qin Miao and his lover Qiu Meng finally had a child. Qin Miao himself also announced the fact about his child through his official account."

"Of course, while we congratulate Qin Miao and welcome little Qin Miao, we also hope that this good news can motivate Qin Miao on the field and help him perform better in today's game."

……

While the commentators of Five Star Sports were chatting, the warm-up lap on the track began.

After completing the warm-up lap, all drivers parked their cars in their respective positions.

Qin Miao started from the twelfth place today, with Ricardo in front of him on the left and Zhou Guanyu directly in front of him.

Although Qin Miao had started at the end of the team before, this was the first time in his career that he started behind Zhou Guanyu.

Before the game started, Zhou Guanyu just came over to say hello to Qin Miao and congratulated Qin Miao on the upcoming baby, but he didn't talk to Qin Miao for too long.

Today's game is also very stressful for Zhou Guanyu.

But this pressure was not imposed on him by the outside world. Zhou Guanyu's performance in this rookie season could not be better.

In fact, all of Zhou Guanyu’s pressure comes from himself.

If Zhou Guanyu was the only F1 driver in the history of Chinese F1 racing, he might feel a sense of urgency and pressure, but he would not have a very clear goal. Even if he did, he would not have much motivation to pursue it.

Because he has created history, he himself is history.

But because of Qin Miao's presence, even though Qin Miao's position seemed far away and out of reach, Zhou Guanyu still wanted to try to catch up.

After all, there is an old Chinese saying: If the enemy can go, so can I.

Even if he can't catch up with Qin Miao, at least Zhou Guanyu feels that he will not regret it when he is old.

Qin Miao didn't know that Zhou Guanyu had put so much pressure on him. After he arrived at his position, he began the final check before the game.

After finding that there was no problem, Qin Miao adjusted all the systems of the car to the starting mode.

Qin Miao didn't have any big ambitions at the start this time. He just wanted to surpass Zhou Guanyu in front of him. As for Ricardo who was ranked eleventh next to him?

What kind of rotten fish is he?
After starting, my buddy defeated him in seconds. Do you believe it?

After the joke, the game continued.

The last F1 car on the track is in place, the medical car is in place, the green flag is waving at the rear, and the race is about to begin.

"Okay, we see, five red lights are on...race on!"

After the race started, Qin Miao released the clutch immediately, and the power of the car began to be released suddenly.

The starting straight of the Rodriguez Hermanos Circuit is an extremely long straight road that is 1.2 kilometers long. In addition, the air density of this track is relatively low. Qin Miao also has Zhou Guanyu's wake to eat up. This season, the main upgrade goal of Mercedes-Benz cars is to reduce drag.

So Qin Miao knew that his current starting position at the starting stage was like a shark entering a fish pond, where he could enjoy the fish to his heart's content and kill everyone.

At this time, moving up a few positions means that it will be easier to chase the driver in front in the next race.

So after starting, Qin Miao caught up with the tail flow of Zhou Guanyu in front of him.

Qin Miao's starting reaction speed is obviously faster than Zhou Guanyu's.

So after running halfway down the straight road after the start, Qin Miao pulled out from the inside and prepared to attack Zhou Guanyu.

Zhou Guanyu naturally noticed Qin Miao behind him first, but he did not resist.

He even pushed Ricardo toward the outside line to make room for Qin Miao.

To be honest, Qin Miao was a little confused when he saw the trajectory of Zhou Guanyu's car.

If I'm not your big brother, then you really don't want to be on guard against me?
Zhou Guanyu's idea is actually very simple. It is an indisputable fact that Arrow's racing performance is not as strong as Mercedes'. It is only a matter of time for Zhou Guanyu to be surpassed by Qin Miao.

So at this time, no matter how you resist, it will be futile.

However, his inner stubbornness did not make Zhou Guanyu surrender at the starting stage. After he started, he focused his attention on Qin Miao behind him.

However, after discovering that Qin Miao's starting speed was much faster than his, Zhou Guanyu knew that he would not be able to stop Qin Miao on the starting straight of this track no matter what.

This is really too fast.

Since he could no longer keep his current position, he might as well do Qin Miao a favor and let him go, as a gift to his future godson.

As for whether it is appropriate to give the godson's gift to his biological father...that is not important. All he knows is that Qin Miao owes him a favor on the track.

Other drivers who started from the back or in the middle of the track more or less stepped on the brakes or released the accelerator at the start because of the obstruction of the car in front.

However, due to Zhou Guanyu's connivance, Qin Miao did not brake at all from the start of today's race until the braking point of T1.

And you have to know that T1 is a right turn, and Qin Miao, who is on the inside, has a natural advantage in such a turn.

However, Qin Miao did not use late braking in T1 to force a position.

On the one hand, when entering the corner, Alonso and Ocon were entering the corner side by side with him.

When three cars are parked side by side, braking late can still be dangerous.

Moreover, the French are quite experienced and talented in palace fighting. Qin Miao was afraid that if he tried to brake late at this time, he would easily get involved in the internal fighting between the two drivers.

Another point is that the starting straight of the Rodriguez Circuit is particularly long. During this process, Qin Miao does not have enough turns to warm up his tires. Therefore, except for the rear wheels that provide power, Qin Miao's two front wheels do not have much temperature and grip.

Also, because the race had just begun, the brake pads on Qin Miao's four tires had not reached the optimal operating temperature.

If Qin Miao didn't want to run off the track, he had to brake at the most appropriate position.

Therefore, during the entire starting stage, Qin Miao only moved up two positions because of Zhou Guanyu's help.

Just like what Qin Miao thought when the race started: Ricardo?
What kind of scumbag is he?
After the start, Zhou Guanyu was relatively stable when he saw Qin Miao appear in front of him, but Ricardo on the other side... he almost broke through his defense.

Da Ya, who was always bright and sunny, couldn't smile at this time. He even complained in the team TR: "Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu are too suitable to be "teammates". They have such a tacit understanding."

Apart from Ricciardo and the Australian spectators, domestic car fans were very happy after seeing this scene.

"Qin Miao, a great start. Zhou Guanyu even gave Qin Miao some space. Although this kind of behavior is not encouraged in the arena, it made Qin Miao successful! Qin Miao started from twelfth place and then came to tenth place. After this game, Qin Miao must treat Zhou Guanyu to a meal no matter what!"

"To be honest, before the game started, I really wanted to see Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu's offense and defense on the track." Zhou Haoran said with some regret.

Brother Bing smiled and said, "Even if Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu were fighting on the track, with the speed of Qin Miao's car, it is really just a matter of time for him to overtake Zhou Guanyu. Letting Qin Miao pass will reduce the wear of his own tires on the one hand, and on the other hand it will help Qin Miao. There is nothing wrong with Zhou Guanyu's choice."

Apart from Qin Miao, among the drivers competing for the championship, Verstappen did not make any mistakes at the start. Although Hamilton's start was the same as Verstappen, Verstappen did not give Hamilton any chance to attack him and firmly defended his position.

After Hamilton saw that his attack after the start was fruitless, his main attention was focused on Perez behind him, so there was no change in the positions of the top three at the start.

The next few laps were relatively calm, and this calmness lasted until DRS was turned on. (End of this chapter)