How did I become an F1 driver?

第532章 536：一波三折（6K，加更11/14）

Of course, the reason is easy to guess. It is the reason I just mentioned. The FIA ​​does not want to see the safety car finish the race directly.

Because it was already the 55th lap, if Matthew had delayed a little while clearing the debris on the track, the safety car would most likely have finished the race.

So the race had no choice but to raise the red flag.

You race organizers only consider the regulations, but the red flag was almost a bolt from the blue for Qin Miao and Mercedes.

Because the appearance of a red flag at this time means that all drivers can enter the pit to change tires.

Therefore, Qin Miao's huge tire advantage over Verstappen was directly wiped out by this red flag.

On the contrary, the Red Bull strategy team, which had been busy and calculating the situation on the track at the moment, was really overjoyed after seeing the red flag.

At the same time, the smiles on the faces of Mercedes' strategy team, which had been relaxed because they had calculated that Qin Miao was basically invincible at this time, could no longer be suppressed.

Qin Miao even started cursing in the team TR: "WTF? What is the FIA ​​for? Why is it a red flag? Is it necessary to issue a red flag for an ordinary track accident? Just clean up the track and restart the race!"

Franky was also very angry. After all, he and Qin Miao had a relationship in which they shared the same fate.

But as the driver's track engineer, he cannot transfer his emotions to the driver when the driver is racing. Anyone can be uncalm at this time, but he cannot be uncalm.

So Franky said: "We still have two new sets of soft tires to use. Now that things have come to this, we can't change anything even if we appeal. Let's bring the car back now."

"FK!!" But Qin Miao still cursed before cutting off the TR between himself and the team.

There is no way. Raising this red flag is indeed a bit unreasonable.

Moreover, this red flag has indirectly destroyed Qin Miao's all possibilities of competing for the championship in today's race.

There was no other way. The red flag had already come out, so Qin Miao could only drive his car and follow the safety car back to the maintenance area.

Compared to Qin Miao, who vented his dissatisfaction in the team TR after seeing the red flag, Verstappen breathed a sigh of relief. There has never been a moment when Verstappen was so sincerely grateful for the race stewards for showing the red flag as he was now.

The drivers then parked their cars in the maintenance area again.

After Qin Miao parked the car, he looked at the rear of the Red Bull racing car in front of him and really had the urge to jump out of the car and smash the rear suspension of the Red Bull racing car with his foot.

But Qin Miao did nothing in the end. He just took off his racing steering wheel and got out of the car angrily. He found Frankie who was coming to explain something to him and said, "We must ask the FIA ​​for an explanation for this matter. The timing of the red flag is very unreasonable."

"Qin Miao, although I also want to do what you said, but you know, even if we apply, it may not be resolved. And even if our appeal is successful, it will be after the Australian Grand Prix. The FIA ​​can only issue an apology, which will not change the final result of today's race, nor will it cancel the red flag.

What’s more, given the character of those people, they might not even approve our appeal.”

After comforting Qin Miao, Franky handed Qin Miao his drink and said, "Now, take a sip of water to calm your surging adrenaline. Think about it, today's race is not over yet, we still have a chance to catch up with Verstappen, right? Your starts have always been very stable, and the starting position of the Albert Park Circuit is favorable to the second place. As long as you seize the opportunity at the start, we may still win the championship."

Qin Miao was not a person who would not listen. His emotions just fluctuated because he had tried his best throughout the entire race and was about to successfully overtake Verstappen, but suddenly a red flag came up at the race. All his previous efforts were in vain. Anyone in his place would find it unbearable.

After taking a deep breath and drinking two sips of water, although Qin Miao was still a little indignant, he began to think about what Franky had just said.

"Let me think about it. I hope there won't be any accidents after we start this time." Qin Miao rubbed his face.

After saying that, Qin Miao ran to the second starting grid and looked at the guardrail. Qin Miao wanted to see if there was anything obvious here so that he could use it as a reference when starting and stopping the car.

However, Qin Miao did not find any suitable reference in the end.

I simply gave up and decided to use the normal parking lines on the track as a reference.

Faced with the red flag this time, it was not just Qin Miao and the Mercedes team who were indignant. The commentators of Five Star Sports were just about to watch Qin Miao butchering the carcass on the track, but suddenly they saw the red flag on the track. They also couldn't accept it.

However, due to their identities as commentators, it is not convenient for them to start cursing directly at this time. But I believe that if they were watching this game without work, the three commentators would have probably already started cursing.

At this time, they just expressed their doubts about the FIA's decision to use the red flag.

But car fans on the Internet don’t have so many concerns.

【qnmdFIA！】

[FIA! Aminus, did you hear me? Aminus!]

【A De Grami FIA】

[When will you die, FIA of the groove! 】

[Ben Sulayem, if you can do it, do it. If you can’t, get out! ]

……

Of course, no matter how angry the domestic public opinion is at this time, the fact that the FIA ​​has deployed the red flag is an established fact and cannot be changed.

So at this time Qin Miao had no choice but to accept this result. He took out a folding chair that was very familiar to all WWE viewers from the supply box that his crew brought to the side of the track and placed it next to his car. After Qin Miao sat down, he drank water while waiting for the red flag to end.

During this process, there was always a photographer taking pictures of Qin Miao from a distance.

Qin Miao naturally also got a lot of shots.

Looking at Qin Miao sitting contentedly beside the track, Bingge and the others felt somewhat relieved.

"At least judging from Qin Miao's current state, this red flag has not had much impact on Qin Miao's mentality."

"Um...Brother Bing, what you said is not quite right." Zhou Haoran, who had been paying attention to Qin Miao's team, said, "When the red flag appeared just now, Qin Miao started cursing in the team. Now he may just be sulking, or he may have just calmed down."

Brother Bing:......

After all, the main purpose of the FIA's red flag was to prevent the safety car from leading the race directly. This accident was not that difficult to clean up. It only took Matthew 5 minutes to clear the debris on the track.

The race stewards would notify Qin Miao ten minutes in advance before the red flag was restarted, so Qin Miao only sat on the sidelines for 5 minutes before he had to put on his equipment again and get back in the car.

For Qin Miao, the bad news was that compared with Verstappen, the huge tire advantage he had accumulated in the early stages of the race had disappeared. The good news was that Verstappen was using a set of soft tires that had been used for three laps, and one of these three laps was a qualifying race.

The durability of the C4 tires at the Albert Park Circuit is not as strong as it was at the Saudi Arabia Marina Bay Circuit two weeks ago. The soft tires will begin to fail after 8 laps at the Albert Park Circuit, and will officially reach the cliff point at the 10th lap under heavy oil conditions.

Few people want to use this kind of durable tire in a race.

Verstappen and his teammates do not have the same strong tire-protecting ability and consistent tire-protecting habit as Qin Miao.

So they decided not to use soft tires in the race and used up all their soft tires in practice and qualifying.

Even most drivers' tires ran out during this time.

The consequence is that now, apart from Qin Miao, there are only a few drivers who have the new soft tires to use.

Qin Miao was different. He saved two sets of new soft tires.

In other words, after Qin Miao used this set of soft tires, he still had a new set of soft tires in his inventory to use.

This is also one of Qin Miao's few advantages.

Verstappen also knew the importance of this start, so during the time he was following the safety car, he had been warming up his tires, even over-heating them.

During the time Qin Miao was behind Verstappen, he was also constantly increasing the surface temperature of his tires.

Even Qin Miao had been behind Verstappen, absorbing the hot air exhaust from Verstappen's car.

The purpose is also to warm up the tires of your racing car.

Soon the drivers were back in T13.

Here, Qin Miao seemed to be following Verstappen normally, and he didn't even scrub the tires left and right. However, during the entire warm-up lap, Qin Miao not only scrubbed the tires left and right, but also continuously accelerated the brakes and repeated this process, with the purpose of increasing the brake disc temperature of his car.

In this way, due to heat radiation, the temperature of his racing car's tires will definitely drop slower than that of Verstappen's tires.

And when he stopped the car for the last time, Qin Miao used the sudden acceleration and deceleration to warm up the tires and stepped hard on the brakes, creating a long distance between him and Verstappen.

After seeing what Qin Miao did, Verstappen really had an urge to curse, but at this time he was already very close to the starting grid, and it was impossible for him to really stop the car on the track.

So Verstappen could only stop the car on the starting grid as slowly as possible.

Therefore, Verstappen stopped his car, and even after Hamilton had parked his car in the third starting position, Qin Miao's car slowly stopped in the second position.

The parking spot Qin Miao chose this time was not so extreme, because he did not look for any reference objects at this location, he just parked his car normally.

Pan Zi also knew the characteristics of the Albert Park Circuit, so after parking in the first position, the front of Pan Zi's car was slightly biased towards the inside line.

The purpose was to get in front of Qin Miao's car without any loss of tire traction after starting, reducing the threat Qin Miao brought to him. As soon as Qin Miao stopped, the tires of the car began to smoke because the brake pads were too hot.

After seeing this scene, Verstappen and Hamilton instantly had some unrealistic thoughts in their hearts.

Although high brake temperature can heat up the car's tires, high brake temperature means that the car's braking efficiency is reduced.

Therefore, at T1, even if Qin Miao inserted into the inside line, the braking point would definitely be chosen very early.

It is even possible that the brake temperature is too high and the braking effect is poor, causing the car to run off the track.

Qin Miao also saw that the tires of his car began to smoke, and after learning from the team TR that it was the brake pads of his car that began to smoke, he couldn't help but become a little nervous, for the reason just mentioned.

Of course, while Qin Miao was nervous inside, he did not forget to observe Hamilton behind him.

The old man didn't show off his skills in today's game, but his starting ability shouldn't be underestimated.

Do you really think that the seven world championships that a person has won were obtained through secret manipulation by the FIA?
If you don't have some strength, you won't have the room to operate even if you want to do something behind the scenes.

As the last driver parks his car and the pursuit car gets into position, the race is about to restart.

Five red lights light up and go out one by one, and the race begins!
The temperature of Qin Miao's brake disc is indeed a bit high, but this is a double-edged sword with both advantages and disadvantages.

The most direct consequence is that during the 20 seconds Qin Miao stopped on the starting grid, his tire temperature was 15 degrees higher than that of Verstappen and Hamilton on average.

In addition, Qin Miao did not make any mistakes at the start.

After starting, Qin Miao began to quickly shorten the distance between himself and Verstappen.

Before Verstappen finished closing the door on Qin Miao, the front nose of Qin Miao's car was stuck on Verstappen's right rear wheel.

Seeing this, Verstappen frowned, puzzled. How could Qin Miao be so fast after a forced start?
Qin Miao was also a little surprised. My tire is now over 70 degrees, and my starting speed is only this fast than Verstappen? This time, Pan Zi's start is a bit better!

But Qin Miao didn't care, because his tire traction and car's horsepower were much stronger than Verstappen's.

So Qin Miao felt that he could still catch up and finish side by side with Verstappen before the braking point.

Although Verstappen was surprised, he did not show any mercy when squeezing Qin Miao to the inside.

Faced with Verstappen pressing towards him, Qin Miao naturally chose to give in.

Verstappen was in front at this time. If an accident occurred with Verstappen, even if Verstappen was knocked out, his racing would be fine, but there was a high possibility that he would be penalized five seconds and would have to accept the pressure of public opinion.

If it was a normal start, Qin Miao might not have cared so much, but there were only two laps left to the end of the race. If he was penalized five seconds at this time, he would basically say goodbye to the podium.

So Qin Miao's choice was the same as at the beginning of the game, and Qin Miao was pushed onto the grass again.

A large piece of grass leaf was rolled up on the outer rim of the tire, but it only scraped the outer wall of the tire and had no effect on the acceleration ability of Qin Miao's car.

During this process, Qin Miao and Verstappen kept staring at each other's cars, while scanning their own braking point reference objects with their peripheral vision.

Now is the time to test the courage of the two of you.

See who brakes first.

Then after passing the 150-meter sign, the two people who were originally on the inside of the track changed lanes to the outside of the track almost at the same time.

Then, just as Qin Miao was staring at Verstappen's car, he suddenly discovered that Verstappen's car, which he was gradually overtaking, suddenly moved backwards, and soon he could not see Verstappen's car at all in his peripheral vision.

In an instant, Qin Miao realized that Verstappen had braked in advance.

Originally, Qin Miao was planning to see when Verstappen would brake, and then he would brake a little later than Verstappen, just using the body of his car to block all of Verstappen's entry lines into the corners.

But if Verstappen had braked earlier, he might have wanted to take the intersecting line.

Given his braking condition at that moment, Verstappen might actually be able to use the crossover line to get back into the lead.

Qin Miao's reaction speed was very fast. He stepped on the brakes 0.1 second after Verstappen's car disappeared from his sight.

Then Qin Miao saw Verstappen's car suddenly appear in the front left of his vision.

Although Qin Miao released the brakes and prepared to step on the accelerator the moment he noticed Verstappen's car, any mistake can be fatal on a high-speed car.

Because of this braking, Verstappen completely surpassed Qin Miao and arrived at the T1 cornering position earlier than Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao lost a little rhythm after being shaken by Verstappen, he did not make any bigger mistakes in the process.

Although Hamilton overtook him to the outside by half a car body, after Qin Miao cut towards the center of T2, Hamilton had no choice but to return the position to Qin Miao.

Otherwise, he knew that he would really be squeezed off the track by his teammate Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao had an excellent start this time, it ultimately did not translate into a higher ranking.

Qin Miao is still in second place at this time.

Of course, for ordinary people, the most direct consequence of Verstappen's behavior is that the other party will simply ignore you and run at his own pace.

Verstappen may very well end up making things worse and hand over his first place to someone else, who may not even feel any pressure.

But Qin Miao is different. Verstappen admits that Qin Miao is indeed one of the few geniuses in the history of F1. In time, it is not impossible for him to be on par with Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton. Even with Qin Miao's extraordinary talent, it is not difficult for him to surpass these two legends.

But only such a genius could be fooled by Verstappen's method. After all, ordinary people simply cannot react.

After being tricked by Verstappen, Qin Miao was not as angry as he was when he saw the red flag on the track.

After all, when the red flag came out, Qin Miao was already mentally prepared that he might not win the race today.

It was both unexpected and reasonable that he completely lost hope after being shaken by Verstappen at the start.

After all, no matter what, for top drivers, defense is always easier than offense, especially since this season's ground effect cars are big and heavy.

At the same time, Qin Miao quickly came to his senses. Verstappen's car disappeared from his sight not because he braked in advance, but probably because he just released the accelerator.

But at that time, he had to keep his eyes on the brake point sign and use his peripheral vision to observe the status of Verstappen's car, so he didn't have any extra eyes to look at his left rearview mirror. So I have to say that Verstappen's vision was really good this time.

Just as Qin Miao was sighing behind Verstappen, a yellow flag appeared on the track again.

And this yellow flag was not converted into a safety car, but was directly converted into a red flag.

Qin Miao:……???
After being stunned, Qin Miao, who had no idea about the Australian Grand Prix championship, suddenly realized that there was another red flag! The race would restart again, and he had another chance to start and attack Verstappen! Damn, I still have a new set of soft tires to use!
This is really a mountain with no way to resolve doubts, but there is another village with dark flowers and bright flowers!

And at this moment, not only Qin Miao, but even the Five Star Sports commentators who were still regretting that they would miss the championship of the sub-station in today's match with Qin Miao suddenly reacted.

At this moment, they didn’t care about the series of car accidents that had just appeared on the track and caused the red flag on the track. They shouted directly: "Another red flag! Qin Miao! Qin Miao still has one chance to attack Verstappen!"

On the other side, Verstappen, who had just been silently admiring Qin Miao in his heart, couldn't hold it anymore.

Damn, why is it so difficult to win a race this season?
Is it over yet?
Verstappen felt a little overwhelmed when he thought that he would have to face Qin Miao's attack again. Damn, I finally managed to defend this position!

……

After the surprise, Qin Miao finally had time to ask Frankie: "What happened just now? Why is there a red flag again?"

Franky simply helped Qin Miao explain what happened on the track.

After the start, Qin Miao and Verstappen fought fiercely, but both of them maintained due restraint, even though they both wanted to kill each other directly, kicking the other's axle and forcing the other to kick out of the race.

But both of them also knew that if they both retired, Hamilton would be the one who benefited, which was something neither of them wanted to see.

But the drivers behind don't have so many concerns when fighting.

After the start, Alonso changed lanes to the outside, and Gasly behind Alonso saw this and prepared to cut into Alonso's inside lane and do something with late braking.

However, Gasly made a mistake in prediction, because Alonso entered the corner much earlier than Gasly expected. Therefore, in order to avoid a collision with Alonso, Gasly had to brake in advance. The car brought up a cloud of dust and narrowly passed by the rear of Alonso's car.

But this is not the end.

Because all F1 drivers know that the most efficient way to brake is to straighten the steering wheel and use all the traction of the four tires to slow down.

So Gasly did the same thing when he was avoiding Alonso.

But the key is that, at the same time, Perez inserted himself on the outside of Gasly.

(End of this chapter)