How did I become an F1 driver?

As time went by, Qin Miao gave Perez little shocks of genius time and time again.

Now facing Qin Miao again, Perez had no extra emotions except that he realized more clearly the gap between geniuses and ordinary people.

However, Perez is an experienced professional driver after all, and he has strong faith, even though he knows that he may have to hand over his position to Qin Miao in the next DRS zone.

But Perez did not give up defense until he was really overtaken by Qin Miao.

And in the five corners from T4 to T9, Perez fully activated his ERS.

The original 0.2 second time gap between himself and Qin Miao was expanded to 0.5 seconds.

At this time, Perez can only hope that the DRS zone between T10 and T11 is not enough for Mercedes' W14 to exert its full performance.

But obviously, the result was not what Perez had hoped for.

After arriving at T10, Qin Miao exited the corner very steadily without any counter-correction. After the car was straightened, he started accelerating at full throttle.

At this time, you can see that W14 is rapidly shortening the distance between itself and RB19. As the two cars pass through the DRS zone one after another, the distance between W14 and RB19 is shortened at a faster speed than before.

At this time, the director was also very tactful and fixed the camera on Qin Miao and Perez.

"Qin Miao has caught up with Perez. DRS is on. Qin Miao is very fast. Is there a chance? Perez is on the inside and Qin Miao is on the outside!"

"Oh, it was just a little bit off. Qin Miao made an outside pass... Qin Miao directly surpassed Perez on the outside!"

"Well done Qin Miao, you're on the podium!"

On the track, Qin Miao did overtake Perez on the outside.

The main reason is that the T11 curve is a high-speed uphill curve, and the angle of T11 is not very large.

If the angle of this turn was a little bigger, Qin Miao on the outside would not be able to gain any advantage.

Qin Miao's operation was also very simple. He braked late, and then relied on his better brake control than Perez to brake his car to the most suitable cornering speed in the shortest distance under extreme conditions.

Therefore, Qin Miao could straighten the car body earlier than Perez.

Then Qin Miao started to accelerate while giving a little direction.

Perez, who was on the inside, originally had a bad angle to enter the corner, and now he was blocked by Qin Miao on the outside, so naturally he could only brake early, and he also needed more time to straighten the car and accelerate.

Therefore, Qin Miao can take Perez's place in the future by relying on the terrifying acceleration ability of the car.

You know what, if W14's acceleration ability was a little worse this season, Qin Miao would not have been able to get this position so easily.

Of course, given the strength gap between Perez and Qin Miao, it may only be a matter of time before Qin Miao overtakes Perez in the DRS zone on the subsequent starting straight.

In the fifth lap, after overtaking Perez, Qin Miao began to slowly shorten the time gap between himself and Hamilton, and gradually left Perez behind.

At the same time, Alonso and Stroll behind them also took their positions back from Ocon and Hulkenberg, and the two Aston Martin drivers returned to their starting positions.

Mistakes aside, the performance of Martin's car this season is indeed quite good.

On the tenth lap, Gasly, who had just joined Alpine, was the first to pit and change to hard tires.

In F1, tire changing is actually one of the most popular parts for the audience to watch.

Because in this link, the teams generally like to do two extremes.

One is the extreme of speed, and the other is the extreme of doing things in a hurry.

On the twelfth lap, the race stewards were checking the start video and found that Ocon's right front wheel was one centimeter beyond the starting grid when he started.

It's not that they exceeded the starting grid in front. F1 drivers have all been trained. Before parking, they will find reference points on the side of the track with the help of team staff, so they will not park in the wrong position.

Ocon was one centimeter beyond the white line on the right starting grid.

Well, the FIA ​​has explained it all, so Alpine can only call Ocon back to accept the punishment.

We have already completed 12 laps. Although it is still two laps away from the pit stop time expected by the Alpine strategy team, there is no other choice at this time.

Then Ocon came into the pit.

After Ocon drove the car in and parked it at the tire-changing position, the Alpine staff were all ready. As soon as Ocon's five-second penalty time was over, they started changing Ocon's tires.

Because according to FIA rules, other team members are not allowed to touch the car when the driver returns to the maintenance area to accept the penalty.

Zhou Guanyu had a very clear understanding of this point, because he had a game in which he could have scored points, but the team took away all the points.

In short, Alpine felt that Ocon's parking time had reached five seconds, so it immediately ordered the team technicians to change Ocon's tires.

After the new hard tires were installed, Ocon stepped on the accelerator and ran out.

The 5-second penalty is barely acceptable to him. At least in today's race, if the drivers in front of him have a few more accidents, he still has the possibility of competing for points.

Then, just when O'Connell thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief,
The timing staff of the FIA ​​reported another message that the tire changer of Alpine touched Ocon's car 0.4 seconds in advance.

Alpine's operation was clearly in violation of regulations.

Then the original five-second penalty was increased to ten seconds.

At the same time, when Ocon was changing tires and leaving the maintenance area, he was penalized another five seconds for speeding by 1 kilometer per hour in the maintenance area.

The penalty was a full 20 seconds, almost half a minute.

This 5-second penalty is an acceptable penalty for endurance races such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

After all, no matter what, there will always be one or two safety cars or other accidents on the track in 24 hours, and there is always hope for a comeback.

However, Ocon needs to stop in the maintenance area to serve the half-minute penalty.

After two pit stops and a 20-second penalty, all in all, Ocon received a total penalty of nearly one and a half minutes in today's race.

In other words, before the race was even halfway done, Ocon had been outclassed by all the drivers on the track.

What the hell is this?

The F1 season is still long. Instead of wasting time on the track, wasting the engine's life and suffering, it is better to retire directly.

So in the end Ocon chose to retire.

Of course, this news is naturally welcome to the commentators and the audience. After all, Ocon is not very popular in the eyes of neutral fans.

Many people will applaud his withdrawal from the competition.

But if you want to say who is the happiest person after Ocon retired, then there is no doubt that person is Alonso who is sitting in the Aston Martin car.

Although Alonso's track engineer had no way to tell Alonso all the bad luck that Ocon had encountered in today's race in a very short time.

But just one sentence: "Ocon voluntarily chose to retire because the total penalty time exceeded 20 seconds." was enough to make Alonso happy for the entire race.

This really proves the saying that when a three-wheeled motorcycle flips over, the old man is overjoyed.

Not to mention that Aston Martin's car performance this season was so strong that Alonso was a little unprepared. After all, no one would have thought that the team, which was still hovering in the lower ranks last season, would now be directly ranked among the top of the standings.

The current Aston Martin is somewhat similar to Arrow last season.

An old world champion with outstanding achievements was sacrificed at the beginning of the season, and the direct performance of the car has increased significantly in the new season.

It's as if these teams made a deal with the FIA, where they eliminate an old driver and the FIA ​​allows them to unleash a little more performance of the car.

Starting from the 13th lap, the pit window opened and drivers entered the pit one after another to change tires.

After Qin Miao caught up to the position 1.4 seconds behind Hamilton, he started cruising mode.

As for why Qin Miao didn't overtake Hamilton...

In fact, there is no need to do so. After all, Verstappen was 4 seconds ahead of Hamilton at this time and more than 5 seconds away from Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't think he could catch up with Verstappen in front of him after overtaking Hamilton.

It would be better to run on the track for a longer time and save some tires so that your next hard tires can last longer on the track.

The old man also chose to pit and change tires on the 14th lap.

Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and came in second place.

In fact, Hamilton's tires could still last for a while, but the team saw Qin Miao's telemetry data and found that Qin Miao would slightly lift the accelerator at the end of the straight and brake earlier than when chasing Hamilton.

Therefore, the team knew that Qin Miao was not prepared to attack Hamilton.

Although the team didn't say it, what's the matter with you, Hamilton, blocking the two-time champion in front?
Don’t you have any idea in your mind?
So the team called Hamilton directly into the maintenance area, also intending to ask Hamilton not to block Qin Miao.

After Hamilton entered the pit, Qin Miao had more than 5 seconds of clean air in front of him, so he could naturally run at his own pace comfortably.

On the fourteenth lap, Piastri entered the pit to change tires and replaced the incorrectly set steering wheel.

Although this scene does not appear often, there have been such scenes in the history of F1.

Even the one who appeared in this picture was McLaren.

"McLaren performed the same operation on Hamilton in the 13 Indian Grand Prix. The difference was that Hamilton drove away directly after changing the steering wheel, with almost no impact."

These are the original words of Zhou Haoran, the commentator of Five Star Sports.

As a rookie driver of McLaren, Piastri did not achieve good results by changing the steering wheel this time.

After the steering wheel was installed, it wasn't turned on for a long time, but the McLaren logo was lit up for a long time.

Although the advertising effect was achieved, Piastri's debut was ruined because there was still a problem after the steering wheel was started.

I can only say that the young man was indeed unlucky.

But strictly speaking, the only pity about Piastri's retirement this time was that it was the first game of his career and he failed to finish the race with victory.

After all, the performance of the McLaren car was not very good at the beginning of this season. Even if Piastri did not retire in his debut, it would be unlikely for him to score points in the first race of his career.

This thing depends more on luck.

In the seventeenth lap, all eyes were on Qin Miao.

The director also gave the lap time difference between Qin Miao, who was in first place, and Verstappen, who was in second place.

At this time, Verstappen will shorten the time gap between himself and Qin Miao by 0.6 seconds per lap.

However, the 17-second time gap between the two cannot be caught up so quickly.

The reason why Qin Miao attracted so much attention at this time was that on the sixteenth lap, all drivers except Qin Miao completed a stop, while Qin Miao was still persisting on the track using a set of soft tires.

It would be fine if you said that Qin Miao was just trying to hold on on the track, but the key point is that Qin Miao's lap time was only 0.2 seconds slower than his teammate Hamilton who was using hard tires.

This is incredible for a set of soft tires that were used for 17 laps in Sakhir.

After seeing Qin Miao's average lap speed, the people from Pirelli gave up struggling.

Although the tires used in F1 cars are made less durable as required by the FIA, Qin Miao's existence makes the efforts and hard work of Pirelli and the FIA ​​in tires a joke.

He can always improve or even double the durability of the soft tires, which have the worst durability, through some incredible driving methods.

Pirelli even shipped all the tires Qin Miao had used in 22 years back to its headquarters, and directly broke up Qin Miao's tires for component analysis.

In addition, they also invited professional analysts to analyze Qin Miao’s telemetry data and driving habits on the track for a whole year in 22 years.

The final result is that Qin Miao's driving style is indeed very tire-saving, which is why the tires that have always been jokingly called Pirelli have become true Pirelli on Qin Miao's car.

In the 23rd season, Pirelli simply laid flat, no one investigated it, it didn’t matter, just destroy it.

The durability of Qin Miao’s tires has nothing to do with us. The tires we give to Mercedes-Benz are randomly selected anyway, so we don’t care!

If you want to have a headache, let the FIA ​​do it.

……

On the 19th lap, Norris pitted for the fifth time due to engine pressure problems. The three types of tires, white, yellow and red, were replaced, and the only thing left was to replace them with full rain tires and semi-rain tires.

But at this time, no one cared much about the unlucky Norris, because Qin Miao's performance on the track was truly shocking.

When he reached the 0.4nd lap, Qin Miao's single lap speed was still considerable, and his speed was only seconds slower than Hamilton.

The same speed as Alonso on the new hard tyres.

Although it may seem to new fans that Qin Miao is now being quickly overtaken by Verstappen and Hamilton behind him and is in a very embarrassing situation.

But in reality? In the eyes of old car fans, Qin Miao's ability to save the tire is not something that a human can do.

It's a track where you have to stop twice no matter what, but Qin Miao can only stop once, and not only that, but the speed is also super fast.

The average pit stop time at the Sakhir circuit is 22.5 seconds.

Qin Miao made one less pit stop than all the other drivers, which means that Qin Miao had a 22.5-second time advantage over the other drivers for no reason.

Even if the safety car appeared in the later stages of the race, Qin Miao's strategy of making fewer pit stops would not cause him to suffer much loss. After all, Qin Miao always had an extra set of new tires in his tire reserves.

For today's race, Qin Miao did not keep the neutral tires because he knew that the cost-effectiveness of the neutral tires was not high. Instead, he had an extra set of hard tires in reserve.

So at this time Qin Miao still has a set of soft tires and two sets of hard tires in stock.

It allows Qin Miao to perfectly implement his tire strategy while also providing him with enough suitable tires to deal with all emergencies that may occur on the track.

PS. Dads, I have to take another day off. This picture is a draft. I haven’t washed my pillow for a long time when I took a nap, and my eyes are infected. I can hardly open my eyes all day. I’m taking medicine now.

I finished this chapter while crying. (End of this chapter)