How did I become an F1 driver?

"Yes. Not only does he have a godfather, but he also has a sugar daddy."

"Who is it?" the old man asked curiously.

"Leclerc and Zhou Guanyu."

Hearing this, the old man was stunned for a moment, and then said helplessly: "It seems that I am still late, and these two bastards got there first."

Qin Miao shrugged.

Qin Miao could indeed see that the old man liked little Muchu very much.

After all, if you were Hamilton, you hadn't been married or had no children for so many years, and then you had a colleague with whom you had a pretty good relationship. The little baby girl at home was very happy when she saw you, smiled at you, didn't cry or make a fuss when you let her hold her, and didn't resist when you interacted with her, but was very happy.

It's hard not to follow this child's every move.

But today is the competition day after all, and the competition will start soon, so the old man cannot stay with Qin Miao for too long. He still has to prepare many things before the competition begins.

But before leaving, the old man returned the child to Qin Miao and said to Qin Miao: "If I had such a lovely daughter, no matter what, I would try my best to get the best results I can in the competition with her."

Qin Miao smiled, took the little Muchu that the old man handed to him and said, "I think so too."

"Then good luck in today's game."

"I will. I just hope you can put less pressure on me on the court."

"Then I have to overtake Sainz in front of me first."

After briefly joking with Qin Miao, the old man left.

Qin Miao also handed his daughter over to Qiu Meng. Hamilton left, which also indirectly meant that it was time for Qin Miao to work.

Therefore, Qin Miao also went to his team's P room to prepare before the start of today's race.

As time passed, it was soon the preparation stage before the main competition.

At this time, Toto had also arrived at the Mercedes team's P room and was sitting in his exclusive command desk position watching the data.

After Qin Miao passed by, Toto stopped Qin Miao and asked, "I heard your daughter is here?"

Qin Miao nodded: "Yes, Toto, he is in my lounge. There is still time now. If you want, you can go and have a look. The little guy is very cute."

"I won't go. I still have a lot of work to do. And it is indeed the right decision to leave the child in the lounge. She is too young, and it is too noisy here. It is not appropriate to let a baby come to the entire area before the team race." Toto nodded, then took out a gift box from his pocket and handed it to Qin Miao, saying: "I know that in your country, elders have the habit of giving gifts when they see the younger generation. This is the gift that Susie and I prepared for your daughter."

Looking at the gift box that Toto handed over, Qin Miao was really a little surprised.

But he did not reject Toto's kindness. Although Qin Miao was wearing a racing suit and had no place to put the gift, he still took the gift from Toto with a smile and said, "Thank you very much. Your gift even makes me a little nervous, but since it is for my daughter, I will not refuse it. I believe she will like it very much."

"I hope so. If you have time, bring Qiu Meng and your daughter to my house. Susie and my children would love to meet you." Toto replied with a smile.

To be honest, Qin Miao couldn't remember how many times Toto had invited him to his home.

But Qin Miao's previous invitations were either for training, to play games, or because of schedule conflicts, so he really had no time to visit Toto's home.

Because at that time Qin Miao felt that since he would stay in the Mercedes-Benz team for such a long time, there would always be opportunities.

But things change unpredictably. Qin Miao himself did not expect that after this season, he would join Ferrari next season.

It is very likely that I will never have the chance to visit Toto's house again.

Unless one day in the future, he becomes disillusioned with Ferrari, or helps Ferrari get the glory they have always dreamed of, it is possible for him to return to Mercedes-Benz to retire.

Therefore, facing Toto's sincere invitation again, Qin Miao did not refuse, and nodded and said directly: "Okay, it is an honor for me to be a guest at your home.

After the Spanish Grand Prix, there is a two-week break, so how about next Friday? "

"Of course, I will tell Susie to prepare in advance." After answering, Toto looked at Qin Miao with an ambiguous look.

As for why he had that look, it was all thanks to what Qin Miao had just said.

A pleasure?
If it's an honor, why did you wait until now to agree?

After chatting with Toto for a while, Qin Miao also began the final preparations before today's game.

Soon, the pre-race driver parade, the pre-race national anthem and other preparations were completed, and Qin Miao got into his car parked in the second starting position.

While making the final checks and adjustments in his car before the race, Qin Miao also saw the back of Verstappen in front of his left before he entered the car.

Verstappen entered the cockpit, and before sitting down, Qin Miao saw Verstappen looking back at him out of the corner of his eye.

The Circuit de Catalunya is a clockwise track, and T1 after the start is a right turn.

The drivers' starting positions are: the pole position driver on the outside line, and the second starting driver on the inside line.

The length of the Catalan Circuit from the starting point to T1 is the longest on the F1 calendar, and Qin Miao started on the inside. In addition, the straight-line acceleration of Qin Miao's W14 car is recognized as fast, which made Verstappen particularly wary of Qin Miao at this time. He even deliberately looked back to observe Qin Miao's specific position before entering the car.

When Qin Miao turned his head to look over, Verstappen had also retracted his gaze. He hooked his hands on the crossbar of the flip-flops and squeezed himself into the racing car.

Qin Miao pursed his lips, then turned his head to look in the direction of the Mercedes team's home. Qin Miao knew that his wife and daughter were still there watching his race.

Speaking of the mother and daughter, Qin Miao originally wanted to let them go back to the hotel directly after getting to know each other. After all, in Qin Miao's impression, the noise on the F1 track is still very loud, which is not very friendly to children.

But it turned out that Qin Miao was a little ignorant. After last season, the Mercedes team upgraded the sound insulation system of the team's home.

You don't even have to stay in the drivers' lounge. As long as you stay in the team house, you won't be able to hear the sound of F1 cars whizzing past outside.

Of course you can still hear Hamilton's singing next door.

The reason why Qin Miao didn't think of this was, on the one hand, because when he was in the team's house, he was either playing games or working, and his attention was not on the noise in the room.

On the other hand, Qin Miao's work is indeed very busy. When there are no business activities, Qin Miao spends most of his time either looking at data or watching his technicians in the team's P room maintaining and tuning his racing cars.

In short, no matter what, although Qin Miao was not sure whether he could win the championship in today's race, with the two most important people acting as backup for him, Qin Miao knew that he had to bring something back today.

Whether it is the champion or runner-up trophy, I have to give one to my precious daughter as a gift. And I have to strive for a better result.

Toto can give a gift to his daughter, so it should be okay for him to get a Spanish Grand Prix championship trophy for his daughter to drink, right?
It's a cup anyway.

“T1 is your best chance to attack. Our car has an acceleration advantage over the RB19, and you are still on the inside. As long as we don’t get shut out by Verstappen at the start, we have a great chance of getting first place at the start.

This is not a difficult thing for you, so after overtaking Verstappen, what you need to do is to defend Verstappen for as long as possible, consume his tire reserves, and prevent him from pulling you too far. In today's race, we still follow the differentiated tire pit stop strategy. "

Before the other members of the team left, Franky was flipping through his notebook while communicating with Qin Miao via the radio.

Qin Miao also kept nodding to show that he heard it.

As time went on, most of the team staff withdrew from the track.

Only the jack technician and the technician responsible for the tire warming blanket remained on the track.

And they didn't stay on the track for too long, and soon they all left.

Because of the characteristics of the Catalan circuit, although Pirelli officially provides the three hardest tires C1~C3, the tire consumption on this track is still very high.

So basically all drivers adopted the two-stop pit stop strategy in today's race.

Of course there is an exception, and that is Qin Miao.

However, Qin Miao was not prepared to adopt the red and yellow stop, or yellow and white stop as everyone expected.

Instead, use the red and white ones.

Starting with soft tires was also due to the reason Franky and Qin Miao just mentioned. They planned to let Qin Miao take the first place at the start.

If Qin Miao wants to gain an advantage at the starting stage, the neutral tires obviously cannot meet Qin Miao's needs.

However, even Qin Miao would feel that the remaining tire time was a bit stretched with the pit stop strategy of stopping once after the red and yellow phases, so he could only use this special pit stop strategy.

Of course, if any accidents occur on the track, the team's strategy group can also modify Qin Miao's pit strategy at any time.

As all the team staff on the track retreated to both sides of the track, the warm-up lap began.

Qin Miao had just started his warm-up lap when his skills surpassed Verstappen's.

Qin Miao's idea at this time was very simple. If he failed to restrict Verstappen at the starting stage, then in the following race, Verstappen would most likely use the comprehensive speed advantage of RB19 to widen the time gap between him and him. The possibility of him catching up with the opponent on this track by relying on differentiated pit stop strategies in the later stage of the race would be very low.

Unless something unexpected happens to Sainz and Hamilton behind me during the race, it will be difficult for me to put pressure on myself.

So in this situation, it is useless to keep your skills, it is better to use them now.

Every bit of interference caused to Verstappen would give Qin Miao an extra advantage.

While thinking this, Qin Miao looked above Verstappen's head.

Stress level: 10%

With a sigh, Qin Miao followed Verstappen and swayed left and right to warm up his soft tires, while complaining in his heart: "Where does Pan Zi get such great composure? You are really not nervous before the race starts?"

Of course, during this process, Qin Miao also made a sudden emergency brake to warm up his brake disc.

This is done to wait for the heavy braking after T1.

The brakes of an F1 car are actually the same as its engine. They can only perform at their best when they reach a specific temperature range.

Qin Miao doesn't need to do this in a normal race. After running the normal warm-up lap, the temperature of the brake disc will reach an optimal working temperature, and then he can run the race normally.

But Catalunya is different, the distance from the starting point to the T1 braking point is too far.

In addition, the air temperature in Catalonia, Spain today is not very high, only around 20℃.

So when rushing from the start to the braking point of T1, Qin Miao was a little worried that the temperature of his racing tires would not reach the optimal operating temperature.

Soon, as Verstappen slowly approached his starting position, Qin Miao also parked his car at the starting grid behind Verstappen's right.

After Verstappen and himself parked the car, Qin Miao switched to the telemetry data panel on his steering wheel and looked at the current status of his car.

The overall temperature of the power unit is within the controllable range, and the oil pressure and water temperature of the car are also normal.

The brake temperature was a little high at 329℃, but this was within Qin Miao's expectations. When the race started and reached the T1 braking point, Qin Miao felt that the temperature of his car's brakes would probably drop to 100℃ under the action of air.

This temperature is almost the optimal working temperature of your brake disc.

After making sure that there were no problems with any parts of the car, Qin Miao glanced at Verstappen in front of his left.

At this time, Verstappen was under a lot of pressure [stress level: 15%].

Although it was somewhat unexpected that a formation lap increased the pressure on Verstappen by 5%, this pressure level was still not high enough to cause Verstappen to make mistakes.

But Qin Miao is not in a hurry. Although the W14 does not have many advantages over the RB19 on this track, it does not mean that there are none. The starting straight is the comfort zone of Qin Miao's W14.

Soon, as the last driver parked his car on the starting grid, Leclerc, who started from the pit lane, was ready and the race was about to begin.

That's right, Ferrari did not let Leclerc start last in the end.

The main reason is that Leclerc is not very satisfied with the tuning of his car. It would be a miracle if he could be satisfied with such a result.

So Ferrari changed the tuning of Leclerc's car, and as expected, Leclerc was penalized to start in the pit lane.

In this case, Ferrari simply replaced all the parts on Leclerc's car that would be penalized if replaced.

Anyway, we have already started from the maintenance area, so even if these illegal parts are replaced, there will not be more positions to be penalized.

Anyway, we are already at the bottom, no matter how low we go, it is still the bottom.

Two big words appeared on Leclerc's forehead: Start. (End of this chapter)