How did I become an F1 driver?

The five red lights lit up one by one.

The three commentators from Five Star Sports are also gearing up to enjoy the wonderful show of this Grand Prix weekend.

"Okay, we see, five red lights are on, the race begins!"

"Let's see how Qin Miao starts today's game."

"Qin Miao is off to a great start!"

"Verstappen also noticed Qin Miao's excellent start and changed lanes to the inside, trying to block Qin Miao's acceleration route."

"Verstappen stood directly in front of Qin Miao, and Qin Miao moved to the outside line."

"Verstappen wanted to defend Qin Miao firmly and also moved to the outside, but...what? There was a collision! Qin Miao and Verstappen collided!"

On the track, as the commentators of Five Star Sports said, Qin Miao and Verstappen collided after the start, but it was not serious.

The left end plate of Qin Miao's front nose was scraped off by Verstappen's rear wheel, and the car lost balance briefly, but was controlled by Qin Miao.

The speed loss caused by this damage to Qin Miao was not great, probably around 0.1 seconds per lap.

In Monaco, such damage would not be a big deal, as in Monte Carlo there is really no room for the aerodynamics of the car to function.

But on the highly comprehensive Catalonia track, Qin Miao's 0.1 second speed loss was fatal.

At least if Qin Miao wants to defend against the driver behind him, the difficulty will increase a lot.

As for Verstappen, at least for now, there seems to be no major problem with his car.

Although the front nose fragments of Qin Miao were crushed, the tires of the racing car did not burst and it could still run normally.

Verstappen's dragon-drawing defense on the track did have the desired effect.

Verstappen not only defended Qin Miao's attack between T1, but also got the inside of T1.

It can be said that all Qin Miao's offensive possibilities were cut off at T1.

Qin Miao naturally knew about this as well.

However, Verstappen's defensive actions were indeed a bit excessive in the eyes of Qin Miao, the commentators and the audience.

That was really chasing Qin Miao and drawing a dragon to defend.

Qin Miao couldn't figure it out. The Catalan track was famous for being easy to overtake. Even if his defensive ability was a little better, what would it matter? Verstappen's RB19 was so powerful, he would always find an opportunity to follow him, right?

But Verstappen is not like that. He will forcibly defend Qin Miao on the track.

Qin Miao was not lenient with Verstappen. After being hit, Qin Miao started to curse in the team TR: "If Verstappen can't drive, he doesn't have to. If he wants to drive a bumper car, he can go to an amusement park instead of the F1 arena! I really wonder if his father has trained him since he was a child how to drive dangerously on the track and destroy other people's cars without damaging his own car. He is too skilled!"

Franky naturally also saw Verstappen's actions on the track. At this moment, he was even more angry than Qin Miao, the person involved. However, as Qin Miao's track engineer, Franky knew clearly that the most important thing at this time was not to share the same hatred with Qin Miao, but to let Qin Miao calm down.

But before that, Frankie also felt that Qin Miao's words were indeed a bit dirty, although except for the beginning, there were no dirty words in the rest of the speech...

But your words, Qin Miao, without using any dirty words, will be released!
Franky collected his scattered thoughts and said to Qin Miao: "We saw Verstappen's defensive action. His defensive action was indeed illegal. Don't worry now. We will appeal to the FIA ​​for Verstappen's illegal operation. Now stabilize your position and don't let Verstappen pull too far behind. We still have a chance."

"Damn, with the Red Bull racing car's incredible speed, we don't have a single chance." Although he was still cursing, Qin Miao did not pass on his negative emotions to his colleagues. Qin Miao said this with TR turned off.

"Ok."

At the same time, the old man who started behind Qin Miao witnessed the entire process of Qin Miao being attacked by Verstappen after he started.

So the old man said directly to the team TR: "Verstappen is penalized five seconds."

The old man's words came true. Five minutes later, the FIA ​​issued a penalty for the collision between Verstappen and Qin Miao, and indeed added a 5-second penalty to Verstappen.

But this is all for later.

On the track, after the collision, Qin Miao naturally eased off the accelerator subconsciously because of the damage to his car, thus putting some distance between himself and Verstappen.

As a result, Qin Miao's car lost speed and was squeezed to the outside by Verstappen, and the threat to Verstappen disappeared completely.

Fortunately, Qin Miao had good acceleration, and the old man, the only threat to Qin Miao's position, did not start that fast in today's game.

So before the braking point of T1, although Hamilton came to Qin Miao's inner line, his front nose only reached the position of Qin Miao's rear wheel and could not bring any actual threat to Qin Miao.

The T1 and T2 of the Catalunya Circuit are a combination of left and right turns.

Although Hamilton's front nose came to the position of Qin Miao's side box after passing T1, after arriving at T2, Qin Miao relied on his inside line advantage to slightly squeeze Hamilton's exit line. Although it left enough space for the old man to exit the corner, it seriously interfered with Hamilton's rhythm and line entering the long corner of T3.

Qin Miao is familiar with W14, so Qin Miao knows that although W14 can exit corners at full throttle in T3, you must take the correct entry and exit lines in this process.

This route is now firmly occupied by Qin Miao. If Hamilton doesn't want to run off the track, he must slow down.

Of course, this is under the qualifying mode. Even if Qin Miao has the best driving line now, he still has to release the accelerator to hold the center of the corner and then exit the corner when the car is full of fuel.

But overall, Qin Miao still defended his position.

The game then proceeded as normal.

Qin Miao also breathed a sigh of relief after starting.

During this process, Qin Miao discovered a fact that made him a little upset, that is, after only one lap, the time gap between Verstappen and himself had been widened to 0.7 seconds.

There was no need to wait for DRS to be turned on, Verstappen would be able to throw himself out of the DRS zone behind him in the next lap.

With a sigh, although Verstappen's defensive action just now was indeed problematic, facing such a situation, the FIA ​​will most likely give Verstappen a 5-second penalty, and there is a possibility that three points will be deducted from his super license later.

Even if the maximum penalty is imposed, it will only be ten seconds at most.

Apart from this, there is no more benefit for me.

But given the current terrifying speed of RB19, it is not an impossible task for Verstappen to pull ten seconds ahead of Qin Miao on the track.

At the same time, the director also showed the replay of the collision between Qin Miao and Verstappen at the start. "We can see that Qin Miao's reaction speed at the start is faster than Verstappen. After Verstappen discovered this, he changed lanes and squeezed towards Qin Miao on the inside."

"There's actually no problem at this point. It's just normal lane change defense."

"Yes."

"Qin Miao reacted quickly and fought back to the outside of the track before Verstappen could completely close the door on him."

"Then Verstappen pressed towards Qin Miao from the outside, and the attack and defense ended only after Verstappen's left rear wheel swept away the front nose end plate of Qin Miao."

After watching the replay, Zhou Haoran directly asserted: "This collision is absolutely all Verstappen's fault. Not to mention Hualong's defense, he almost pushed Qin Miao off the track. He didn't leave Qin Miao any space at all."

Bingge and Feige also nodded in agreement with Zhou Haoran's opinion: "This is indeed Verstappen's responsibility, there is no way around it."

"The penalty time is at least ten seconds!"

At this time, the director also gave Qin Miao’s “complaint” in the team TR after the collision.

Although the curse words at the beginning were muted, the sarcastic tone at the end was still included.

After all, there are no dirty words.

Sometimes you have to admire Qin Miao's big heart. He was hit just after starting on the track, and he still has the mind to be sarcastic here.

Maybe this is the innate advantage of the Chinese.

Even Qin Miao's sarcasm is obviously better than the drivers' normal cursing, which makes the audience smile knowingly and watch the show crazily.

After all, most of the drivers’ cursing was simply silenced by the FIA.

Although Qin Miao did not use any swear words in this passage, everyone could tell that he was scolding Verstappen for being uneducated.

But before saying the last sentence, Qin Miao said, "I really doubt it."

Therefore, Qin Miao didn't get into any arguments.

Several commentators from Five Star Sports were originally quite angry, but they were stunned when they heard Qin Miao's team TR. Following Zhou Haoran's translation, the other two commentators also laughed.

On the track, after DRS was turned on, Qin Miao began to bear the pressure from Hamilton behind him.

What? Shouldn't the driver behind Qin Miao be Sainz?
It's very simple. Qin Miao was able to threaten Verstappen's position after the start. The car was not damaged, and without Verstappen's interference, Hamilton naturally overtook Sainz next to him in T1 after the start.

Although Sainz's reaction speed at the start is faster than the old man, my W14 has no advantage over Red Bull's RB19, but doesn't it have an advantage over your Ferrari's SF23?

Originally, the speed difference between Qin Miao and Hamilton was very close. The old man was faster in a single lap, while Qin Miao was faster in long distance.

But now that Qin Miao's car is damaged, Hamilton's speed will naturally be faster than Qin Miao's, and Hamilton also has Qin Miao's wake flow to use.

So a scene that many people liked to see appeared on the track, and the two Mercedes drivers started their long-awaited infighting.

In fact, before this, after knowing that the nose wing of his car was damaged, Qin Miao roughly guessed that he would most likely have no chance of winning the championship in today's race. If his luck was a little worse, he might not even get the runner-up.

But Qin Miao still wanted to fight for it.

The competition on the track will mainly focus on the midstream group. In addition to being gradually left behind by Verstappen, Qin Miao is also doing more to defend against the pressure brought by Hamilton's attack behind him.

Although it was difficult for Qin Miao to get rid of Hamilton in a short time on the track because of the same performance of the two cars, the opponent was like a dog-skin plaster after being hit by his DRS, sticking to his back and he couldn't get rid of him no matter how hard he tried.

But there is also good news. That is, on the curves, Hamilton also does not have the ability to overtake Qin Miao in one fell swoop. On the straights, the horsepower and acceleration of the two cars are the same. Hamilton's advantages over Qin Miao are only the advantages of wake flow and DRS.

The DRS area between the T8 and T9 turns was okay.

After all, this DRS zone is not too long, and what the old man does here is more to shorten the time gap between himself and Qin Miao.

There were one or two times when Hamilton had enough energy to take action, but as soon as Qin Miao walked in the middle, the old man had to go to the outside, and Qin Miao could easily block Hamilton's attack route.

Moreover, T9 behind T10 is not a long straight road, so even if the old man wants to take a cross line, the track conditions are not there.

The only troublesome part is the modified third timing section.

This place is really uncomfortable.

Because the car does not need to brake much after exiting the corner from T12 onwards, you can accelerate all the way to the DRS area on the starting straight.

In order to defend against Hamilton's attack here, Qin Miao often slows down the pace a little bit when exiting the T12 corner, and then slows down again at T13.

At this time, Hamilton's absolute speed would be faster than his own, but because of the DRS zone in the second period, the old man shortened the distance between himself and Qin Miao, so the old man and Qin Miao were very close.

As a result, Qin Miao blocked Hamilton's best exit route.

Hamilton now has two options.

Either slow down or continue to turn at the original rhythm, but there is a high probability that you will hit the back of Qin Miao's car.

The old man chose to restrain himself in the first two laps and did not take the risk of attacking.

Hamilton's thought was very clear at the time. Qin Miao's car was damaged. Although it was only the end plate of the front nose wing, it was an indisputable fact that the car was damaged.

With the car damaged, Qin Miao's single lap speed was definitely not as fast as before. It was not particularly difficult for him to find an opportunity to attack Qin Miao from behind.

And there was still a lot of time left in the race, so Hamilton knew he didn't need to rush.

But as time went by and when it came to the 7th lap, Hamilton gradually realized that something was wrong.

Because he found that Qin Miao had basically blocked his attacks with great difficulty every time before, giving him the illusion that as long as he tried harder, he could surpass him.

Tempting myself to try to attack again and again.

But this state no longer exists from the 7th round. (End of this chapter)