How did I become an F1 driver?

After receiving the awards after the race, Qin Miao returned to the team's home, took a shower, changed his clothes, and then opened the door of his lounge holding his championship trophy.

Actually, calling it a trophy is not quite accurate, because the reward for drivers who finished on the podium at this year's Spanish Grand Prix was a plate.

The silver disc, about the same width as Qin Miao's shoulders, had a simple diagram of the track and some brief instructions on it.

When Qiu Meng saw Qin Miao coming in, she smiled and gave Qin Miao a hug and praised Qin Miao, saying, "My husband is awesome!"

Qin Miao smiled and placed his award plate on Qin Muchu's stroller, then hugged Qiu Meng and gave her a big kiss on the face.

However, Qin Miao at this moment was not like the Qin Miao before who would brag about himself or something, and the old couple did not have that much romance anymore.

After Qin Miao let go of his wife, he said directly: "To be honest, I never thought I could win this race today. In the last lap, I just thought about whether I could steal a championship from Verstappen."

"Did Verstappen's car still have some tires left?" Qiu Meng was a little surprised. Although because of Qin Miao, Qiu Meng understood the rules of F1 and some details on the track, she certainly didn't understand it as deeply as Qin Miao.

She just thought that Verstappen's soft tires failed in the later stages, which gave Qin Miao the opportunity to defeat Verstappen in the last lap.

Qin Miao shook his head and said, "How is that possible? Although Verstappen's soft tires are called soft tires, they are actually C3 tires. They can be used as hard tires in Monte Carlo in Monaco. Their durability is not that bad."

Touching his chin, Qin Miao thought for a while before answering: "I think Verstappen was a little careless in the later stage, because after he surpassed me, I was always showing weakness, and the lap time was steadily decreasing."

"So, Verstappen was played by you, right?" Qiu Meng's face was full of curiosity.

Qin Miao glanced at his wife unhappily: "What are you talking about? How can you call it acting? This is called a strategy, you know!
I felt that his tires should still have some room to spare. If he had gone faster in the last lap, I probably wouldn’t have been able to catch him.”

Qiu Meng asked curiously: "Isn't Verstappen very angry now?"

Qin Miao put himself in Verstappen's shoes and said with a smile, "He must be so angry that he will die."

"Hey hey! Hmm!" At this time, Xiao Muchu also started to make some noise.

When Qin Miao and Qiu Meng looked over, they saw that the girl was curiously patting Qin Miao's prize plate with her hands, leaving a lot of the little girl's fingerprints on the originally smooth surface.

After looking at his daughter, Qin Miao said to Qiu Meng, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Let's go back to England together tonight after I'm done with my work. Toto invited me to visit his home next Friday. You and Xiao Muchu can go together then."

Qiu Meng thought for a moment and said, "I've brought enough diapers and stuff. My daughter's next checkup is on the 15th of next month, so there's enough time. No problem!"

"I'm leaving."

"Give me a kiss before you go~"

“Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~boo!”

Qin Muchu seemed to understand what his parents were doing and turned his head away with some disgust.

Next, Qin Miao took a group photo with all the team staff in the team’s P room after the race.

At the same time, he attended the post-match press conference.

With this, Qin Miao’s 2023 Spanish Grand Prix has come to an end.

The final ranking and scores of the drivers in this race are as follows:
P1: Qin Miao +25
P2: Verstappen +19 (fastest lap)
P3: Hamilton +15
P4: Perez +12
P5: Sainz +10
P6: Stroll +8
P7: Alonso +6
P8: O'Connell +4
P9: Zhou Guanyu +2
P10: Gasly +1
There is not much to say about the results of the top three drivers in today's race. Except for Qin Miao's remarkable performance before the end of the race, the performances of the others in today's race were basically nothing special and could only be described as stable.

Hamilton's entire game can be completely summarized by these two words. From the beginning to the end of the game, Hamilton did not face any decent challenges throughout the whole process.

It’s a bit like the situation Qin Miao encountered on the track last season, where the drivers in front couldn’t catch up, and the drivers behind couldn’t catch up either.

And given Verstappen's car performance and the soft tires he changed to in the last lap, it was natural for his opponent to take the fastest lap.

There is not much to say about the drivers behind except Zhou Guanyu. After all, except Zhou Guanyu, their performances in today's race were normal. Although the strategy groups of their respective teams did not come up with any eye-catching offensive strategies to help the drivers significantly improve their rankings, they did not make any mistakes either.

Zhou Guanyu was able to get the ninth point in today's game. Although most of the reason was Zhou Guanyu's own efforts, another reason was that Zhou Guanyu was lucky.

In fact, with the speed of Arrow's car, Zhou Guanyu would not be able to get any points in today's race.

At best, you can only linger at the entrance of the points area.

But in the later stages of the race, Zhou Guanyu and Kakuta had a fight in the last few laps on the track.

At that time, one of them was ranked 9th and the other 10th.

As mentioned before, Arrow has an advantage on the Catalunya circuit, so Arrow, which has always had trouble accelerating, performed unusually well on this track.

Can frequently attack opponents in front of him who are not as fast as him.

In a fight with Kadota, Zhou Guanyu was squeezed out of the track by Kadota in T1.

At that time, Zhou Guanyu was behind Kakuta. Before entering the corner, Zhou Guanyu had the speed to overtake Kakuta, but Kakuta occupied the inside line, so Zhou Guanyu took the outside line and tried to overtake from the outside line.

Zhou Guanyu did it, but at the T1 corner, Kakuta did not leave any room for Zhou Guanyu when he exited the corner, and pushed Zhou Guanyu to the dirty side of the track.

You have to know that the dirty side of the track is all rubber and dust. When an F1 car presses on it, it may slip at best or turn into a gyroscope on the spot.

So in order not to lose more position, Zhou Guanyu went straight to the buffer zone outside the T1 track.

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu's attempt to attack Kakuta was considered a failure.

Although there was no collision like the one between Qin Miao and Verstappen, it is an indisputable fact that Kakuta did not leave Zhou Guanyu enough space to exit the corner when he had the right of the track line, and squeezed Zhou Guanyu off the track.

So after this incident, the race stewards directly imposed the same five-second penalty on Tsunoda as Verstappen.

Even after this block, Kakuta's fate was similar to Verstappen's. One of them lost a race championship because of a five-second penalty, and Kakuta missed the points zone because of a five-second penalty, and handed over the two points he had originally obtained to Zhou Guanyu.

To be honest, if Kadota was defeated after a fight with Zhou Guanyu and finally had no choice but to let Zhou Guanyu go, then Kadota would at least get a point.

But after the fight with Zhou Guanyu, Kakuta was directly penalized to 11th place, without any points. On the contrary, Gasly did nothing in such a situation and directly picked up a big advantage.

Otherwise, why do people say that Tsunoda and Gasly have a good relationship? Not only do they have a good relationship in private, but they are also loyal to each other on the track. They give points to each other without any hesitation, without any excuses.

After this race, the overall driver standings are as follows:

1: Max Verstappen: 157
2: Qin Miao: 131
3: Hamilton: 115
4: Perez: 83
5: Alonso: 72
6: Leclerc: 47
7: Sainz: 49
8: Stroll: 31
9: Ocon: 18
10: Gasly: ​​13
11: Norris: 12
12: Zhou Guanyu: 6
13: Bottas: 4
14: Hulkenberg: 4
15: Piastrid: 4
16: Kakuda: 2
17: Magnussen: 1
After this race, there was no change in the drivers' rankings in the overall standings.

However, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen, which had been widening, was significantly narrowed after this race.

Defending champion Qin Miao is still a strong contender for the world championship this season.

Even besides Verstappen, Hamilton also has the possibility of winning the world championship this season.

At the same time, the situation in the team standings has changed significantly compared to the driver standings.

1. Mercedes: 246
2. Red Bull: 240
3. Aston Martin: 103
4. Ferrari: 96
5.Alpine: 31
6. McLaren: 16
7. Alfa Romeo: 10
8. Haas: 5
9. Lynk & Co: 2
10. Williams: 0
It is obvious that after today's race, the team rankings between Mercedes and Red Bull have been reversed. After this race, Mercedes has 4 points more than Red Bull in the team standings.

On the one hand, this was thanks to Qin Miao winning the championship at the last minute of today's race, and on the other hand, it was also the old man's efforts that secured the team's other podium and allowed Mercedes to take home the first and third place.

Also because the Mercedes team returned to the top of the team standings, after the Spanish Grand Prix, the team engineers returned to Brakeley to report on their work and received rewards from the team.

Each person has a three thousand euro progress award.

Qin Miao is no exception.

Of course, in addition to this, there were also some rumors about Qin Miao and Verstappen inside and outside the paddock.

The cause was Qin Miao's weird behavior in the TR team after being hit by Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao also mentioned Verstappen's father while being sarcastic, so in the post-race interview after the Spanish Grand Prix, Sky Sports reporters interviewed Verstappen and his father Jos Verstappen.

Although Pan Zi knew that it was his main responsibility, Verstappen became angry when Qin Miao scolded his father in such a roundabout way, and directly criticized Qin Miao for being uneducated.

Verstappen's father also had some complaints about Qin Miao's TR.

But Qin Miao ignored him directly. It was not that Qin Miao was targeting him. The main reason was that Qin Miao basically did not read any comments about himself on the Internet.

And no matter what, you can bump into me on the track and I'm not even allowed to say a few words of criticism?

I have made it clear that it is just speculation. I think there are no swear words, and even if there are, they have been muted and blocked by the FIA.

Why are you in such a hurry?
Of course, Qin Miao did not respond in this way, but the Mercedes team still said a few words for Qin Miao on social media.

After all, F1 is a field of public opinion, and the public opinion within the paddock actually has an impact on the team and the drivers.

Even though Qin Miao generally doesn't pay much attention to other people's comments about him online, the F1 arena is also a place where the winner is king. This kind of public opinion is an even heavier blow to the morale of the team, which has already been shaken by Qin Miao's upcoming departure next season.

As for the explanation from the Mercedes team, it is actually very versatile.

[Qin Miao was in a competition at the time. During this process, everyone was in a state of adrenaline rush, and many times they said things without thinking.]

[Qin Miao was in this state at the time, so I hope everyone will be lenient with their words.]

Although Mercedes' explanation was a joke in the eyes of F1 professional staff and even the drivers themselves.

But for those fans and spectators who don’t know much about F1 races, this statement is enough.

At least if they put themselves in the perspective of F1 drivers, they would also feel that they cannot calm down and think so much during the race, and the words they say are likely to be spoken without thinking at all.

As for the ups and downs in the paddock, Qin Miao, the instigator, was not very clear about it, and he basically never cared about it.

After the competition, Qin Miao returned to the UK and took care of the children at home for a few days.

Because of these few days of getting along, Xiao Muchu and Qin Miao's relationship has become harmonious. Basically, she treats Qin Miao the same way she treats her mother.

Sometimes she would take the initiative to climb onto Qin Miao and let him hold her.

In fact, Qin Miao was anxious for some time before giving birth.

After all, Qin Miao lives in an era of information explosion, and many people receive overly complex information on the Internet at a young age.

When Qiu Meng just got pregnant, Qin Miao was pushed a lot of videos of children who were disgusting to people and dogs because of big data.

So Qin Miao subconsciously thought that his child would also have such a period of time when everyone hated him, and Qin Miao had even prepared himself mentally in advance.

However, after Qin Miao lived with Xiao Muchu for a while, Qin Miao discovered that his precious daughter was particularly obedient.

Although the little guy often cries because he can't speak.

But the little one's crying usually has a purpose, either she is hungry, she has poop, she is cold or hot, or she wants her parents to play with her.

It is easy to appease this little guy after going through all the steps using the process of elimination.

And what made Qin Miao particularly happy was that from the third day on, Xiao Muchu became particularly close to him.

She would follow Qin Miao in everything he did, especially when Qin Miao was practicing on a simulator at home, the little girl would lie beside Qin Miao and stare at the monitor screen.

At this time, little Muchu's emotions were the most stable. Even if his trouser pocket was pulled, he would not cry or make a fuss. He would not make any movement until Qin Miao finished a practice race or made a mistake and fell into the wall.

Either she would hit her father on the head twice to attract his attention and then start crying, or she would just start crying.

Of course, most of the time she was waiting for Qin Miao to continue practicing while she continued to watch. (End of this chapter)