How did I become an F1 driver?

After finishing the short team TR, Qin Miao was still a little excited, and for a moment he didn't know what he should say.

Is this what it feels like to be at home?

I can only thank you silently in my heart.

After that, this game obviously had little to do with Qin Miao.

After Qin Miao came to the first place, Verstappen knew that he could not catch up with Qin Miao, so he focused his attention on defending Hamilton and tried his best to ensure that he did not fall further behind.

But the soft tires have too great an advantage over the neutral tires, and Hamilton finally overtook Verstappen on the 10th lap.

But also because of Verstappen's defense, after Hamilton surpassed Verstappen, there was a time gap of 3 seconds between him and Qin Miao, who was in first place.

Before that, a very interesting scene occurred on the track.

When Stroll was defending against his teammate Vettel's attack, he forced Vettel directly onto the grass.

This obviously dangerous driving style did protect his teammate Vettel, but he also inevitably received a 10-second penalty.

Vettel remained calm and said directly to the team TR: "OK..."

After all, there is still one race left before Vettel retires, and at this time Vettel is still enjoying the race more.

To put it bluntly, Vettel has now lost his original competitive spirit, and can to a certain extent be indifferent to his teammate's driving style.

There weren’t so many mood swings.

Strictly speaking, Stroll now has a different mentality from other drivers in the paddock.

Other drivers will compete for their place in the paddock to some extent, but Stroll has the money.

As long as he wants, he will always have a place in the F1 paddock.

In the F1 paddock, everyone has a sense of crisis, just more or less problems, except Stroll.

After all, the entire Aston Martin team belongs to him.

So the young master's mentality is different from other drivers. He is very relaxed and he is enjoying F1.

But at the same time, the young master is also very arrogant.

When dealing with drivers from other teams, the young master just thought that it didn’t matter if he couldn’t win, because the performance of the Aston Martin cars this season was not good anyway.

But when facing his teammate, the four-time champion who will retire after the end of this season, the young master's inherent arrogance was revealed.

You are just a wage earner and you are going to retire anyway, why are you attacking me at this time?

Lao Deng, can't you just follow me quietly?
Of course, this is just speculation, and no one knows what the young master was thinking at the time.

The game then returned to normal.

Qin Miao was cruising in the front, and Hamilton behind him naturally surpassed Verstappen in front of him and began to try to attack his teammate Qin Miao.

At the beginning, Hamilton was indeed able to significantly shorten the time gap between himself and Qin Miao, but as time went on, Qin Miao's advantage in protecting the tire became apparent, and Hamilton's speed gradually failed to match that of his teammate.

So in the later stages of the race, Qin Miao gradually widened the time gap with Hamilton.

The final sprint is over.

Qin Miao won the sprint championship and got eight points.

Verstappen only finished third in this race and earned only six points.

After the race, the points gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen widened to 42 points.

After the race, when Qin Miao parked his car at the entrance of the maintenance area and celebrated with the team staff, Zhou Haoran held the data in his hand and explained to the audience in the live broadcast room: "After Qin Miao got these eight points, as long as Qin Miao finishes fifth or higher in tomorrow's race, Qin Miao can be crowned his second world champion title in advance, once again breaking the record of the whole of China, and even the whole of Asia!"

"Although Qin Miao has created countless historical records on the track since entering F1, looking back at the achievements and results Qin Miao has obtained along the way is still very moving, especially when we know how bad the domestic racing training system is." Looking at Qin Miao and the Mercedes-Benz team staff who celebrated rather calmly after winning a sprint race, Brother Bing said with emotion.

Of course, after the race, a lot of interesting things happened on the track.

First of all, Alonso killed his teammate Ocon in the last lap.

Even though Alonso wouldn't get any points in this game even if he scored the winning goal against Ocon, at least he got some revenge on his teammate Ocon.

And after the race, when all the cars returned to the maintenance area and were waiting for inspection, Ocon's car caught fire.

Vettel told his old friend the good news during the post-race interview.

After receiving this good news, Alonso showed a satisfied smile on his face.

Qin Miao and his team's post-sprint podium presentation was greatly simplified compared to the normal post-race award ceremony.

The three winning drivers did not go on stage to receive the awards, but came to the side of the track, completed the post-race interviews, walked onto a carpet marked with 123, and received a medal on the carpet.

Although a medal is obviously not as impressive as a trophy, it will not look like a trophy when placed at home and can be used to show off in front of guests.

But this medal is just a souvenir after all, and it feels quite heavy in my hand. Maybe this championship medal for the first place in the sprint race is really gold-plated.

However, after the sprint race, all drivers have obtained their starting positions for tomorrow's race.

Qin Miao started from pole position during the race.

I just don't know if if I don't get first place in qualifying, but get first place in the sprint race, will it be counted as a Pole to win if I bring home first place in the race.

……

The award ceremony after the game ended quickly.

After the race, the director also gave the rankings and scores of the drivers in today's race.

1: Qin Miao +8
2: Hamilton +7
3: Verstappen +6
4: Sainz +5
5: Perez +4
6: Leclerc +3
7: Norris +2
8: Magnussen +1
Starting from pole position still has a considerable advantage. Although Magnussen's data on the overtaken list has increased significantly again, he still managed to score a point after the sprint race.

This is the advantage accumulated from the pole position. To use a Chinese saying, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. But no matter what, the sprint race is finally over.

After completing all the post-race work, Qin Miao returned to the hotel happily. After this race, his lead over Verstappen was even greater, and the pressure would naturally be much less than a normal Grand Prix weekend. With less pressure, he naturally relaxed.

However, after returning to the hotel, Qin Miao did not relax just because he had a better starting position in tomorrow's race.

After all, Verstappen is right behind him, and Qin Miao never gives his opponent the opportunity to challenge him. If possible, Qin Miao doesn't mind directly killing his opponent.

Therefore, Qin Miao still did not give up watching the race videos and studying the cornering methods.

Nothing happened that night, and the next day, Qin Miao came to the paddock as usual.

However, what worries Qin Miao is that, although he has a great chance of defending the world championship one race in advance, Verstappen has not lost all possibilities of winning the championship so far.

But even under such circumstances, when I arrived at the team's home, I saw a lot of clothes and supplies such as champagne prepared to celebrate my second world championship.

For Qin Miao, who grew up in China and watched countless domestic film and television dramas, opening champagne in advance is not something worth promoting. It can even be said that it is not a very auspicious thing.

It’s just that there may be no such taboo in foreign countries, and these consumables are just displayed openly in the warehouse of the fleet’s home.

Scratching his head helplessly, Qin Miao calmed himself down and prepared to shift all his attention to the upcoming competition.

However, when Qin Miao returned to his lounge, preparing to take advantage of the time before the pre-match fan meeting to play two rounds of civilized games to his heart's content, he opened the door of his lounge and was stunned by the person who appeared in front of him.

My mother, wife, father-in-law and mother-in-law are all here.

Seeing his family members appear in his lounge, Qin Miao's brain froze for a moment, and then he said without thinking, "Why are you here?"

After hearing what Qin Miao said, the mother rolled her eyes in annoyance and said, "Today is your chance to win the world championship again. Xiao Meng has stayed at home for too long these days, so we brought her over to watch the game."

Qin Miao looked at his wife with a bit of a smile, then said, "You should have told me in advance if you were coming over. When I opened the door to my lounge and saw you guys sitting here, I was really shocked. I wasn't prepared at all."

……

After meeting Qin Miao, Qiu Meng and the others left. After all, this was Qin Miao's lounge, and the place was not big. It was spacious if Qin Miao was alone, but with so many people sitting here, it was obviously a bit crowded.

Moreover, their presence here will indeed affect Qin Miao's preparations before the competition to a certain extent.

If it were normal, Qiu Meng and the others would definitely go to the team's P room to watch today's race. After all, that place is closest to the core of the team and can better observe the drivers' conditions.

But Qiu Meng was pregnant after all, and such a noisy environment with a large flow of people was not very friendly for a pregnant woman.

And the engine noise of F1 cars is notoriously loud.

Even if these noises have no effect on the baby in her belly, Qin Miao's father-in-law, mother-in-law and mother would not allow Qiu Meng to watch the race in the team's P room out of concern.

It is not difficult to guess where they watch the game, it is in the VIP viewing area above the team’s P room.

Away from the sun and the noise of F1 racing engines, you can still enjoy food and air conditioning. It's so comfortable.

When Qin Miao found out that Qiu Meng, his father-in-law, mother-in-law and his own mother were all there, he felt inexplicably nervous.

The bad woman disturbed my mind!
……

I won’t go into details about the driver parade and the national anthem before the race. For all F1 drivers, whether you are a novice entering F1 in your first year or not, at this point in the season, all of this must have become a piece of cake for the drivers.

Soon, Qin Miao appeared on the track and stood next to his car waiting for the race to begin.

At this time, the track in front of Qin Miao's car had been cleared, leaving only the road surface.

After a short rest, he worked with Reyes and others to complete the final inspection of the car, and all preparations for the race were completed.

Qin Miao also got into his car and waited for the race to begin.

At the same time, it is already two o'clock in the morning in China, which is not a very friendly time for middle-aged and elderly audiences.

But today's game will determine whether Qin Miao can defend the second world championship of his career one game in advance, so the three commentators from China's Five Star Sports are all present today.

At the same time, as Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu's influence in the country grows day by day, they are also blessed with the title of the previous world champion.

For this Grand Prix, the domestic ratings alone increased by more than 130% compared to this time last year.

You have to know that it is 2 a.m. in China and I have to go to work tomorrow.

Although many fans asked for a day off from work before the race started, there were still some fans who forced themselves to stay up late to watch the race.

The growth rate of domestic ratings has directly attracted the attention of FOM and FIA. Many teams that previously paid no attention to domestic fans have also opened their own social accounts on domestic social media.

There were even a few people at the FIA ​​who were secretly discussing whether the suspense of Qin Miao's title defense could be shifted to the next Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

It may be a bit unfair to say this, but as mentioned earlier, F1 is ultimately a commercial league, and it is only a competitive sport during the period after the race starts.

Sometimes, even the sporting side of F1 needs to give way to its commercial side.

Therefore, it is common for F1 to manipulate races for its own benefit, but there is no definite evidence.

With the traffic of this week's Brazilian Grand Prix final as a foundation, I believe that if the suspense of the championship of the race is really extended to the future Abu Dhabi, many sponsors will definitely want to make a temporary sponsorship.

By then, F1 will not only be able to expand its influence in Asia, but also make extra money.

The most important thing is that the president of the FIA ​​will definitely be very happy, after all, Ben Sulayem is from the Middle East.

This wave directly brought a large amount of traffic and attention to the Middle Eastern countries.

However, given the current state and strength shown by Qin Miao, he is difficult to be manipulated and controlled when he is in the leading state.

Even Mercedes probably can't do it.

Therefore, after evaluating the situation, some people decided that it was impossible and stopped the project. (End of this chapter)