How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 513 517: Qin Miao is dirty!
After leaving T1, we arrived at T2.

There is only one line to go in this position.

And you have to start accelerating before reaching the center of the T2 bend.

Therefore, this curve has only one lane and there is no possibility of overtaking.

But just when he should have accelerated, Qin Miao let go of the accelerator.

Although Qin Miao's car was still moving forward due to inertia, its acceleration suddenly slowed down.

Verstappen, who was behind Qin Miao, originally wanted to maintain the gap between himself and Qin Miao, so he stuck very closely to Qin Miao, and the time difference between the two was only 0.3 seconds.

Verstappen was instantly scared and broke into a cold sweat when he suddenly found Qin Miao's car suddenly enlarged in his field of vision.

At the same time, Verstappen's mind was filled with the processes of stepping on the brakes and determining whether Qin Miao's car had a problem, and they were completed almost simultaneously.

After Verstappen stepped on the brakes, Qin Miao accelerated sharply and the car sped away.

The original 0.3 second gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was directly widened to 1.2 seconds.

That's right.

This is F1, a mistake in braking will directly cause you to lose 1 second.

Qin Miao's actions directly proved to Verstappen that there was no malfunction of Qin Miao's car during the process, and he did it completely on purpose.

Qin Miao's behavior has a unique name on the racing field: brake test.

"F*ck! Qin Miao fucking brake tested me!"

Verstappen started cursing in the team TR on the spot.

Because this operation is indeed a bit dirty to a certain extent.

In addition, Verstappen and Qin Miao are now competing for the championship of today's race. After being disgusted by Qin Miao, Verstappen naturally couldn't control his emotions.

In fact, if a normal driver encounters a car in front of him doing this, at most he would just curse in his heart.

But Verstappen was a little anxious at this time. After all, there were only two laps left before the end of the race, so he naturally couldn't resist his inner impulse.

For all F1 drivers, the brake test of the car in front is indeed a bit hard to guard against.

Because when you are chasing the car in front of you, you don't know when the other party will suddenly brake and disrupt your rhythm.

When seeing the car in front suddenly zooming in, all drivers will make a judgment in the shortest time possible based on their own position relative to the car in front at that time.

Either brake suddenly or turn to get out of the wake of the car in front to avoid collision without slowing down your own car.

This is why Qin Miao dared to do this when facing Verstappen. If the driver behind him was an F2 driver, or an F1 driver with less skills, Qin Miao would never dare to do this.

It is possible that if Qin Miao tested them ten times, they would only fail to react once.

But who knows when Qin Miao will encounter this one in ten probability.

As for Verstappen, Qin Miao has enough confidence. With his fast reaction speed, he can brake to test him and he will definitely not hit him.

As for causing a car accident due to your own brake test?

If this really happened, Qin Miao would accept the punishment.

Qin Miao was punished with ten seconds and he wouldn't say a word.

But after that, Qin Miao had reason to doubt and ridicule Verstappen's driving skills.

If a car accident can occur during a brake test, it is either due to some shady manipulation or the person is not worthy of the position.

At least I don't deserve the position of Red Bull's number one driver.

In short, in Qin Miao's opinion, anyone could have problems due to brake testing, but it is impossible for Verstappen now.

And the facts also proved that Qin Miao's judgment was correct.

Verstappen did react and gave Qin Miao a huge time advantage of 1 second.

Although Qin Miao knew that he would definitely not be able to avoid being scolded by Verstappen in the TR team.

But Qin Miao got time and opportunity to catch his breath and adjust, Verstappen got Qin Miao's recognition and proved his strength, and the audience had fun.

It’s a win-win situation!
Verstappen: #￥……￥!! %#@￥

Of course, there were consequences for Qin Miao’s actions. The next lap, the fifty-sixth lap.

After Verstappen caught up with Qin Miao, his aggressiveness increased significantly.

There is no need to even listen to Verstappen's team TR at this time. Just from his actions of attacking Qin Miao, it is obvious that Verstappen is obviously anxious at this moment.

By the third DRS zone on the 0.4th lap, which was the starting straight, Verstappen re-entered the DRS zone seconds behind Qin Miao.

This time gap, coupled with the incredible effect of Verstappen's car's DRS, actually means that Verstappen already has the possibility of surpassing Qin Miao.

But don't forget that the biggest advantage of Mercedes this season is its extremely fast final speed and acceleration.

In addition, Qin Miao still had some ERS power left over.

So although Verstappen's attack this time pulled ahead of Qin Miao on the outside at T1, and even Verstappen surpassed Qin Miao a little, Verstappen also controlled his car very carefully and let Qin Miao pass the DRS monitoring point of T1 before surpassing Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao was always stuck in the inside and didn't give Verstappen a chance to get inside.

Then after Verstappen braked on the outside line, Qin Miao braked late on the inside line, just blocking Verstappen's best exit line before T1. Then when Verstappen was ready to take a wider line, Qin Miao had already straightened his car body and started to accelerate out of the corner.

It was just a routine small combination of skills. To the audience, it might seem like a brilliant attack and defense, but to Qin Miao, it was just an operation that couldn't be more routine.

Because of Qin Miao's small combination of skills, all the advantages Verstappen had gained from the outside were destroyed.

Although Verstappen was full of anger at this time, he forced himself to calm down.

Racing is a bit like math.

When you are angry, you can do anything except math. If you don’t know math, you just can’t do it.

The same is true for racing. No matter how angry you are, you cannot convert your anger into speed to surpass your opponent.

Of course, if you want to torpedo your opponent, just ignore what I said.

Verstappen read so much information and practiced so much at home during the winter break, and now they played their due role. Verstappen controlled his mentality that was about to explode, relying on the better cornering performance of RB19 than W14 to control the time difference between himself and Qin Miao in the corners within the range of 0.3-0.2.

Verstappen just doesn't believe that even if he saves 30% of the power and adds DRS, he can't kill you, Qin Miao, directly in the second DRS zone!
Then the two of them came to T8, which is a slow-speed corner, one after the other.

After exiting this corner, you will arrive at T9, which is the second DRS detection point of the Sakhir Circuit.

Then Qin Miao braked a little late at the braking point of T8.

However, in order to prevent Verstappen's attack, Qin Miao took a route closer to the inside line.

The consequence of Qin Miao's actions was that in order to control his car before the braking point, Qin Miao's left front wheel was directly locked.

After all, T8 is a large-angle right turn. During the entire turning process, most of the car's center of gravity is on the left front wheel.

So in such an extreme working environment, it was normal that Qin Miao stepped on the brakes a little too much and the left front wheel locked on the spot.

Also because the left front wheel of Qin Miao's car was locked, the car, which originally had grip when entering the corner, suddenly had a very brief push forward.

A space almost the width of two cars suddenly became available inside the racing line that Qin Miao was originally taking.

After seeing such a big gap, Verstappen's brows couldn't help but twitch.

Although Qin Miao is a world champion, his ability to control the car is superb.

In addition, Qin Miao has his own system, which allows him to achieve a state of unity between man and car.

So the moment the car lost control, Qin Miao released the accelerator and turned back, then waited for the front wheels to regain grip and got back on the normal road.

At the same time, Qin Miao also turned on the ERS of his car and began to release it with all his strength. Qin Miao wanted to maintain his current position.

Qin Miao's big mistake naturally shocked everyone.

"Qin Miao, the left front wheel is locked. Why are you so careless?" Brother Fei was so excited after seeing this scene that he jumped up from his seat.

Brother Bing and Zhou Haoran both had different expressions at this time, but their performance was not very good.

Their faces were all filled with worry.

At this time on the track, when Qin Miao completed this series of movements in the curve, his main attention was not actually on the track in front of him. Because of his familiarity with the Sakhir track, Qin Miao could basically complete this series of movements blindly.

Qin Miao's main attention at this time was actually on Verstappen behind him.

He wanted to see if Verstappen, who had been following him 0.2 seconds behind, could resist taking action after he had made such a big and obvious mistake.

On Verstappen's side, after seeing such a large gap in front of him, he clearly guessed that this was a trap set by Qin Miao for him. However, no matter how he looked at it, this trap set for him was an excellent opportunity, so Verstappen couldn't resist the consciousness and instinct he had developed on the track over the years, and chose to penetrate Qin Miao's inside line.

After seeing that the Red Bull behind him had taken the bait, Qin Miao couldn't help but reveal an extremely sunny smile on his face, and even laughed out loud.

It was just that because Qin Miao was wearing a helmet at the time, and the environment in the racing car was very noisy, and Qin Miao did not turn on the team TR, no one could hear Qin Miao's cheerful laughter.

Although there was a complicated expression on his face, Qin Miao's hands did not slow down.

After straightening the car body, start accelerating at full speed.

Verstappen's action caused his car to deviate from the original optimal exit line, and he spent more time adjusting the front of his car to point upwards.

Therefore, Qin Miao relied on the excellent acceleration ability of W14 and the release of ERS to block Verstappen on the outside of T8 before Verstappen completely surpassed him.

Then, relying on the acceleration ability of the W14, he even began to gradually shorten the distance between himself and Verstappen on the outside line.

The two cars started wheel to wheel.

Qin Miao's position is actually very particular.

In T8, he was an outside player, but when he reached T9 and T10, Qin Miao became an inside player.

Next, the two of them accelerated and drove towards T9.

Verstappen also knew that the next DRS monitoring point at T9 was the key to this attack and defense.

If he wanted to surpass Qin Miao, he must not let him get DRS.

So ten meters before the DRS monitoring point of T9, Verstappen actually took the initiative to step on the brakes.

This time was very short, only about 0.5 seconds, and then Verstappen started accelerating again.

After all, Verstappen just wanted Qin Miao to pass the DRS monitoring point first, not to give up the attack, so he just needed to slow down the speed of his car a little and not give Qin Miao an advantage of more than one second.

However, just as Verstappen started to accelerate again and wanted to let Qin Miao pass, he looked to the front left of his car, and his pupils shrank.

Because at this time, there was no black Mercedes racing car appearing in front of Verstappen's left as he expected.

The Mercedes car is still in Verstappen's rearview mirror.

In fact, Qin Miao also stepped on the brakes before the DRS monitoring point.

Even he and Verstappen braked at the same position, both of them braked 10 meters away from the DRS detection point.

Even from the perspective of the audience and commentators, the two of them were like driving a mecha in Pacific Rim, and they stepped on the brakes at the same time.

Therefore, Qin Miao naturally got the DRS between the DRS areas between T10 and T11.

"After Qin Miao made a mistake, he went wheel to wheel with Verstappen!"

"But fortunately Qin Miao is in the interior, so there is still a chance in T10. Qin Miao accelerates very quickly, and whether he can gain an advantage in the interior..."

"What? Why did both of them brake?!"

"DRS checkpoint, Qin Miao and Verstappen braked before the DRS checkpoint!"

"It reminded me of the collision between Hamilton and Verstappen in Saudi Arabia in 2021, when neither wanted to get through the DRS checkpoint first."

“Although there was not as much tension as before, the attack and defense of Qin Miao and Verstappen were more meticulous and full of the beauty of racing technology!”

"This is Qin Miao's prediction of Verstappen!" Zhou Haoran screamed, "If Qin Miao hadn't predicted Verstappen's move, his braking would have completely handed over his position to someone else, and he might even have become a joke. But Qin Miao! He made the right bet!"

"What a stroke of genius, what a stroke of genius!" The soldiers who reacted also shook their heads and clapped their hands in admiration.

"How did Qin Miao judge that Verstappen was going to brake? And what really surprised me was that Qin Miao actually dared to compete with Verstappen in braking. The key is that Qin Miao made the right bet!" Brother Fei held his head in his hands, his face full of surprise and joy.

(End of this chapter)