How did I become an F1 driver?

After getting off the car, Qin Miao hugged Hamilton, who had parked the car earlier than him.

During this process, Hamilton also saw the damaged front nose of Qin Miao's car.

To be honest, the old man was a little surprised after seeing the damaged front nose of Qin Miao's racing car. He thought Qin Miao was hit by someone on the track.

Pointing to Qin Miao's broken nose, Hamilton asked curiously, "What happened?"

Qin Miao shrugged: "I didn't make any mistakes when the rain was heaviest, but I made mistakes when the rain became lighter. I accidentally hit the wall when I turned out of the swimming pool. Fortunately, only the front nose was damaged, but it was not a big deal. In the end, I still finished the whole race."

Hamilton was shocked. It was not because Qin Miao's car was not damaged and he retired after being hit, but because in Hamilton's impression, Qin Miao was a driver who was so stable that he did not look like a driver of his age at all.

Coupled with the stereotype that has always existed in the past two years, Hamilton never thought that Qin Miao would make a mistake on his own and drive the car into the wall.

But after a sigh, Hamilton still said: "Then you are really lucky."

Qin Miao nodded: "Who said it wasn't? Fortunately, there was water on the track at that time. If there was no water on the track, the inertia of my car might have been concentrated on the front nose and front suspension, and the front suspension might have been broken directly at that time."

"But if there was no water on the track, you wouldn't have gone up the wall, would you?" Hamilton suddenly interrupted.

Qin Miao touched his chin and thought for a while: "What you said really makes sense. I don't know how to refute it for a moment."

After chatting with the old man for a few words, Qin Miao squatted down to take a look at the damage to his front nose wing. The entire front nose wing end plate was missing, and one-fifth of the wing on the right side of the nose was broken, leaving only the sharp black carbon fiber edge.

After looking at it for a while and making sure that his car would not lose too much weight, Qin Miao went to the crowd of the Mercedes team and briefly celebrated with his crew members.

At this time, in addition to showing the footage of Qin Miao celebrating with the Mercedes team staff, the director meaningfully cut the camera to the Ferrari team's P room.

At this time, in the Ferrari P room, Vasseur and Ferrari's chairman John Elkann were chatting together.

The smiles on their faces were particularly happy.

To be honest, the two Ferrari drivers in today's race, one took fourth and the other took seventh, which is not a good result in any way. The only consolation is that Leclerc, who has a home curse, has finished the race at home for two consecutive years, which is also good news for Ferrari fans at home.

But no matter what, the performance of the two Ferrari drivers should not be enough to make the two senior executives of the team show such expressions.

However, considering that the scene just being played was of Qin Miao, the smiles of these two people at this time seemed to have some deeper meaning in the eyes of car fans.

When they noticed that the live broadcast camera was focusing on them, the happy expressions on their faces faded a little.

After completing the post-race weigh-in, Qin Miao took off his helmet and looked at Verstappen who was being interviewed after the race, panting.

At this time, Hamilton also stood next to Qin Miao, and the two of them were now in the position where they would be interviewed later.

While drinking water, Hamilton asked Qin Miao: "How do you feel about today's game?"

Qin Miao originally wanted to blurt out that today's game was a piece of shit.

But when I think about the fact that I still have a lot of fans in Monaco and that I have a good relationship with the local royal family of Monaco, I think I should be more careful with my words.

So after carefully considering his words, Qin Miao said, "It's very helpful for my growth."

After hearing Qin Miao's words, Hamilton looked at Qin Miao with Nick Young's emoticon, but did not continue the topic.

Soon Verstappen's interview ended and it was the old man's turn.

Two minutes later, Hamilton's interview ended and it was Qin Miao's turn.

The person in charge of the interview today is Coulthard.

"Qin Miao, we noticed that you had some accidents on the track during the 60th lap. Can you tell us what happened at that time?"

Qin Miao looked at Coulthard speechlessly. Why are you talking about things that are not relevant to the topic?

But after recalling the situation at that time, Qin Miao still said frankly: "The track was too slippery at that time. I hit the guardrail when I turned into the swimming pool. The car was temporarily out of control. Although I tried to save the car, in the end, as you can see, I hit the wall.

But the good news is that the car wasn’t seriously damaged and I was able to finish my race.”

"This rain must have a great impact on you, right?"

Qin Miao nodded: "Indeed, the early stage of today's race was relatively stable, but after the rain, the track conditions took a sharp turn for the worse. In the later stages of the race, there was basically no lap where I could step on the accelerator without hesitation. I had to be cautious and tread carefully with every step.

I was also surprised that under such track conditions, there was no safety car or red flag, and everyone performed very well. "

"Okay, thank you for the interview and I wish you all the best in your competition in Spain next week."

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After completing the post-race interviews, Qin Miao was the last one to go to the bottom of the podium in Monaco to make final preparations.

After picking up his Pirelli hat under the podium, Qin Miao went upstairs.

Then, Qin Miao came on stage amid the introduction by the host.

It is worth mentioning that last year Qin Miao won the championship in Monaco. At this point, he just shook hands politely with the officials of Monaco, Albert II, and Princess Charlene.

But in today's game, when Qin Miao was about to repeat his old trick, Albert II and Princess Charlene took the initiative to hug Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't mind, and everyone who followed changed to hugging each other.

It is worth mentioning that when hugging Albert II, Qin Miao asked curiously: "Didn't Jacques and the others come today?"

Albert II also replied in a low voice: "Doing homework at home..."

Qin Miao:......

Qin Miao originally thought that children from powerful families like the Monaco royal family should receive elite education, and should not have much in common with homework. Unexpectedly...

After simply greeting his two acquaintances and shaking hands with Ben Sulayem, Qin Miao returned to his third position on the podium.

Next up were Hamilton and Verstappen.

After the three of them stood on the podium, Verstappen's track engineer also came to the Red Bull team. Then the main person in charge of the Monaco royal family began to present the trophies to the drivers.

After receiving their trophies and medals, the next step was the national anthem segment that all drivers were familiar with.

Then there was champagne spraying and group photos.

After all this was done, the Monaco Grand Prix came to an end.

At the same time, the director also gave the situation of the driver's standings and the team's standings after the race.

The overall drivers standings are as follows:
1: Max Verstappen: 138
2: Qin Miao: 106
3: Hamilton: 100
4: Perez: 71
5: Alonso: 66
6: Leclerc: 47
7: Sainz: 39
8: Stroll: 23
9: Ocon: 14
10: Gasly: ​​12
11: Norris: 12
12: Zhou Guanyu: 4
13: Bottas: 4
14: Hulkenberg: 4
15: Piastrid: 4
16: Kakuda: 2
17: Magnussen: 1
After this race, Verstappen continued to expand his lead over Qin Miao.

Mercedes-Benz doesn't have any good solution for this, as the venues of recent races are not the comfort zone of the W14.

It happened that the Imola Grand Prix, which was the comfort zone of W14 and allowed Qin Miao to catch up with points, was cancelled due to the continuous heavy rains in Italy. Therefore, at this time in the driver's overall standings, the points gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was widened to 32 points.

Meanwhile the overall team standings are as follows:

1. Red Bull: 209
2. Mercedes: 206
3. Aston Martin: 89
4. Ferrari: 86
5.Alpine: 26
6. McLaren: 16
7. Alfa Romeo: 8
8. Haas: 5
9. Lynk & Co: 2
10. Williams: 0
If the Red Bull drivers win this race, then Mercedes will dominate the team standings.

After this game, Mercedes narrowed the points gap between itself and Red Bull from 12 points to the current 3 points.

In the next race, if Perez still cannot bring enough points for the Red Bull team on the track, then the Mercedes team will overtake Red Bull.

And given Red Bull's character, if Perez's performance in several consecutive races is not satisfactory, then he will most likely be moved by Red Bull.

And this is indeed the case. After the Monaco Grand Prix ended, because the Spanish Grand Prix was the next week, Qin Miao finished all his work that day and boarded the plane to Spain directly.

Then Qin Miao saw the news on the plane.

Horner and Marko hinted in an interview with Sky Sports after the race that if Perez continues to perform as well as he has in recent races, the team will have to make other considerations.

Although it is not stated explicitly, the meaning is very clear:
Lao Pei, the team doesn't want to replace you, but your performance at the beginning of this season is indeed not good. If you continue like this, the team will have to consider changing people.

At the same time, Qin Miao also saw another fun thing.

That's Martin.

After the race, Aston Martin team leader Mike Clark made it clear that letting Alonso pit for a tire change in the rain was not a wrong decision by the team's strategy group.

Instead, the team discovered based on radar data that the rain would stop soon and would only last for two or three laps at most, so although it was risky to change Alonso to dry tires, it was indeed a good choice.

At least at that time, the Martin team judged based on the weather conditions that it was a good choice under the premise that the rain would stop soon.

However, it turned out that the rain did not pass as quickly as Martin had imagined.

And as time went by, the rain got heavier.

That's why Martin let Alonso give up his podium position to the two Mercedes drivers.

To be honest, when Qin Miao saw this message, he realized that this was just an excuse Martin came up with.

Martin is not short of money, and their weather radar cannot be so bad. It's just that putting the blame on the radar seems more credible in the eyes of ordinary car fans.

It is highly likely that there was some problem with Martin's internal process, which led to the stupid operation of changing Alonso to dry tires on rainy days.

But if Martin doesn't publicly tell the fans what happened, no one will be able to get the inside scoop.

Even F1 practitioners like Qin Miao are the same.

However, Martin's explanation obviously cannot satisfy all car fans. After all, there are still smart people among car fans.

So even after Martin gave his explanation, Alonso's fans continued to criticize him on Martin's social media, and the criticism was quite harsh.

In addition, Qin Miao also received the car damage analysis data sent by the team on the plane.

The instantaneous G-force received by Qin Miao's car in this collision was not high. After all, the overall inertia was divided into three impacts with decreasing impact force. The highest was only 8G and the lowest was 5G, which may not be as high as the G-force of some high-speed corners.

Under such circumstances, it was a blessing in disguise that the front suspension of Qin Miao's car was not broken.

Subsequent inspections did not reveal any cracks on the front and rear suspension of the car. The team's technicians even assessed that Qin Miao's suspension could still be used in the Spanish Grand Prix.

However, as a precaution, the team replaced the front and rear suspension on the right side of Qin Miao's car with new ones.

As a result, the repair costs of Qin Miao's accident have increased to a certain extent.

The damage to the front nose and the replacement of the front and rear suspension caused Qin Miao to suffer $60 in car damage in this accident.

Maybe to ordinary people, 60 US dollars is 300 million RMB. Qin Miao directly crashed an AMG GT in an accident.

But in the eyes of the F1 team, this was just an ordinary minor accident, and the money spent on the crash was not even a fraction of the team's vehicle damage budget.

After reading all this fun and information, Qin Miao successfully landed in Catalonia, Spain.

The Circuit de Catalunya is actually a very balanced track.

Before the Saudi tycoons entered the field, F1's annual pre-season and post-season tests were conducted on this track.

There is no other reason, it's just because this track is particularly balanced. Basically, you can test all the usage scenarios that the car will encounter in a whole season on this track.

High, medium and low speed turns, long straights, heavy braking areas, height differences, all of these are included.

Qin Miao used to like this track very much. After all, who doesn’t like a track that can help him get good results?

But this season, Qin Miao looked at his W14 and just couldn't like this track.

Balance means that this track does not favor any one type of car, which is not good news for the W14, which is seriously biased. (End of this chapter)