How did I become an F1 driver?

Some are happy while others are sad.

Verstappen was dumbfounded at this time.

Damn, Qin Miao, why are you so fast?
How did you hold on?
Why are you still in my line?

Damn, with my fast speed, how can you still get stuck inside me?

It doesn’t make sense!

After the two finished their attack and defense, the director on the scene marked the final speeds of the two before the braking point. Qin Miao ran at a final speed of 342 kilometers per hour, while Verstappen directly reached 347 kilometers per hour.

Verstappen is almost reaching 350.

Under normal circumstances, it is indeed impossible to run such a terrifying final speed, but Verstappen fully released the ERS, coupled with the terrifying DRS efficiency of the Red Bull RB19, and assisted by Qin Miao's tail flow, so he was able to achieve such a terrifying final speed.

"Great defense!" After seeing Qin Miao complete his defense against Verstappen, Bing Ge cheered in the Five Star Sports studio: "Before the game started, I was worried that Qin Miao wouldn't be able to withstand Verstappen's attack. After all, Verstappen has surpassed Qin Miao more often in recent games. It is very likely that Verstappen has mastered a way to effectively surpass Qin Miao on the track."

“Now that I see it, it’s nothing special, haha!”

Zhou Haoran also nodded in agreement and said, "Before the race started, I deliberately watched the in-car video of Verstappen when Qin Miao was overtaken by Verstappen in recent races. At that time, Verstappen basically gave his all to complete the overtaking."

"When I watched Verstappen's first-person perspective today, the overtaking method he used was basically the same as the one he used to overtake Qin Miao in the past. However, Qin Miao held on today. It should be that Qin Miao found a solution."

Brother Fei said: "In any case, it's a good thing that we held on. Qin Miao has a high probability of winning the game today."

"That's right. With Qin Miao's defensive ability, it won't be difficult for him to keep his position on the track after he has found the trick to defend Verstappen."

At this time, after hearing the explanations of the three commentators, barrages of comments appeared one after another in some of Xiaohei Workshop's live broadcast rooms.

【Mouth balls are spicy! 】

【Qin Miao is in danger】

[The five-star poisonous milk has taken effect]

[I feel like Qin Miao is on the ropes in today’s game]

[Elder Qin Miao: Brother Fei, Brother Bing, I don’t want this race championship anymore, please stop supporting me, stop supporting me~~]

……

After defending against Verstappen, Qin Miao continued to lead.

After crossing the finish line, the race came to the 61st lap.

Verstappen still has nine laps to attack.

So even though he was a little surprised that Qin Miao withstood the attack he brought, Verstappen remained calm. He didn't think Qin Miao could snatch the championship from him today.

At the same time, while recharging his racing battery, Verstappen also thought carefully about why Qin Miao could run such a high speed on the track.

F1 racing is indeed complicated, but it is also simple.

There are basically only one or two sources of extra speed for a car, either DRS or ERS.

The reason why Qin Miao was able to run at such a terrifying speed on the track was probably because he used ERS in extreme output mode.

After getting the result and reasoning in reverse, you can clearly judge why after you catch up with Qin Miao, the team told you that Qin Miao's lap time was 0.3 seconds slower than the normal lap time, because Qin Miao was charging his racing battery at that time.

Combined with the evidence that after he came behind Qin Miao, the indicator light on the rear of Qin Miao's racing car flashed more frequently.

Verstappen suddenly realized.

After Qin Miao caught up with the other person, he was also charging his batteries.

As expected, he is a stupid guy!

But after thinking it through, Verstappen became a little conflicted for a moment.

If Qin Miao was also charging during the time he was charging behind him, then wouldn't his original tactics be useless?
But when attacking when Qin Miao was slow, Verstappen, who had experienced Qin Miao's far-sighted arrangements, knew that it would not be difficult for him to break through Qin Miao's defense under normal circumstances, but it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Verstappen scratched his head, licked his teeth, pressed the button to talk to the team, and asked in the team TR: "What should I do now?"

Pan Zi was really helpless at this time. He clearly had a racing car with better performance than the car in front, but he just couldn't think of a way to overtake the other car.

Red Bull's strategy team was also a little confused for a while.

If you ask them to arrange a suitable pit stop strategy for Verstappen, they can do it in no time. This is their job and they can handle it easily.

But you, Verstappen, asked them to find a way to help you overtake Qin Miao on the track, and there were still 8 laps left in the race, but they couldn't do it no matter how hard they tried.

It's impossible to hire a killer to snipe Qin Miao directly on the track like in the killer game, right?

Ultimately, if a driver cannot overtake the driver in front of him on the track, it is the driver's own problem.

So after thinking about it for a while, Red Bull's strategy team came up with a solution that was not a solution.

They let Horner cut directly into Verstappen's team TR and said to Verstappen: "Max, the strategy team really doesn't have a good solution. Everything depends on you from now on. We believe you can do it!"

After hearing what the team said, Verstappen immediately gave up his unrealistic fantasy.

Looking at the familiar Mercedes racing car in front of him, Verstappen gritted his teeth.

Damn you Qin Miao, I’m going to kill you!
Verstappen simply abandoned the tactics he had just figured out this season and began a conventional attack.

Qin Miao was delighted when he saw it.

It's been a long time!
What I'm waiting for is your conventional offensive means!

The package will block you!
After the offensive and defensive rhythm returned to Qin Miao's comfort zone, Verstappen felt the same sourness as Alben, Ocon and Stroll.

Overtaking? Not even a little bit.

In the multi-turn area of ​​the first timing period, Verstappen was closest to Qin Miao's car, 1 seconds behind it.

If Verstappen wanted to, he could even crash directly into the back of Qin Miao's car.

But once you enter the DRS zone on the straight where you can overtake.

After Verstappen turned on DRS, he could only barely pull past Qin Miao on the outside line, or slightly overtake Qin Miao at most. However, Qin Miao would always use precise late braking to regain his position on the track before the center of the bend, giving Verstappen three choices: either you are squeezed out of the track, or you return to your original position, or you collide with me, and you will be penalized and have your super license points deducted.

What else can Verstappen do? He can only choose option 2. There is no place on the Villeneuve Circuit where Verstappen can cross the line.

what?
T10 looks like it can go cross-line?
That's a fucking long 108° U-turn, and there's no way you can cross the line.

For other tracks, you can take the end of the DRS zone on the cross line, which is usually a large-angle curve followed by a long straight.

The Villeneuve Circuit is very abstract, and the end of the DRS zone where you can take cross-lines is accompanied by zigzag turns.

This is the case behind the braking points in all three DRS zones.

Therefore, after thinking about the possibility of taking the cross line, Verstappen thought of the layout of the Villeneuve Circuit, and then Verstappen has never hated a track as much as he does now.

No, now it’s not dislike anymore, it’s hatred.

But Verstappen is Verstappen after all. After a brief confusion, he thought about it and actually came up with a method with a high probability of being feasible.

I can see the indicator light on the back of Qin Miao’s racing car and know when he is charging his battery, but he can’t see mine!

Sometimes you have to admire these top drivers who can get big contracts in F1.

A normal driver runs more than 60 laps in the high-temperature monocoque of the racing car. Various lateral G-forces and positive G-forces are constantly pressuring your body. At the same time, you have to control your steering wheel with force and pay attention to the track conditions to drive the car.

In such a harsh environment, Verstappen's brain can still efficiently analyze the environment on the track and think of solutions to the current dilemma.

We generally call this kind of person a superman.

Verstappen's idea at this time was very simple, that is, to continue charging his car normally, and use the hard power of his car to try to attack the flaws revealed by Qin Miao.

This not only puts enough pressure on me, but also gives me an advantage in ERS.

It may be that the tire consumption is a little higher, but for Verstappen who wants to overtake Qin Miao on the straight road, the tire consumption is acceptable.

Verstappen didn't believe that Qin Miao didn't use ERS when he was defending himself normally.

Qin Miao certainly didn't think of this.

It’s not that Qin Miao doesn’t have the brains. Like Verstappen, he also has a sharp mind during the race.

It's mainly because of Verstappen. The pressure he put on the car was really strong. Plus, the RB19 was fast. If Qin Miao wanted to keep his position on the track, he had to concentrate all his attention on defense.

As for the sudden reduction in Verstappen's offensive pressure, Qin Miao just thought that Verstappen's car ERS was low on power or the tires were excessively worn.

I didn't think much about it.

Finally, on the 67th lap, Verstappen recharged his car, and the time gap between him and Qin Miao remained at 0.3 seconds.

Verstappen had a feeling that his tires were approaching the cliff point. Even if he did not have the advantage in car performance, his lap time should have been the same as Qin Miao's.

This attack should be his only offensive opportunity in this game.

If I surpass Qin Miao, I will be the champion of the race. If not, I will be second.

Whether Verstappen likes it or not, he has no choice.

So Verstappen finally took action after exiting the T10 corner.

Qin Miao didn't know at this time that Verstappen had fully charged his car's battery again. Qin Miao's car's battery was only 47% at this time.

This is the margin that Qin Miao deliberately left in order to deal with emergencies and withstand the pressure from Verstappen.

And with Verstappen's deception, Qin Miao had no idea that danger was about to come.

On the track, Verstappen did not turn on his ERS immediately after exiting the corner. Instead, he waited until the car sucked Qin Miao's tail flow out of the false corner T11 and entered the DRS area before turning on ERS.

The acceleration of RB19 suddenly increased. Qin Miao, who had been staring at Verstappen's movements in the rearview mirror, noticed something was wrong the moment Verstappen's car started to accelerate.

Verstappen's closing rate was a bit too quick.

Although he didn't know what happened to Verstappen's car, Qin Miao still felt that he needed to use all his strength to deal with Verstappen, so he quickly adjusted the ERS mode button on his steering wheel. After adjusting it to full power release, Qin Miao also activated ERS.

Although Qin Miao took less than 1 second to complete this set of operations.

But in the F1 arena, sometimes 0.1 seconds can determine the outcome of a race, let alone 1 second.

But you can't say that Qin Miao's ERS mode starts slowly. After all, to start the full-power release mode of ERS, Qin Miao not only needs to use his thumb to twist the ratchet of the ERS mode, but also needs to press the ERS mode button. After twisting the ratchet, Qin Miao's racing car's ERS will be turned off and needs to be restarted manually.

This speed is already very fast.

Also because of Verstappen's shameless sneak attack on the track (Ma Baoguo's voice), Qin Miao found that Verstappen's closing rate on the outside was a bit too fast, and he was side by side with him in the middle of DRS.

Although Qin Miao turned on ERS, Verstappen's speed of overtaking him slowed down.

Even in the middle of the race, the relative speed between Qin Miao and Verstappen paused for a moment.

But Qin Miao's ERS power level is only 47% after all.

This amount of electricity can't withstand the fire at all.

As a result, 13 meters before the T600 braking point, Qin Miao's car ran out of power and Verstappen suddenly rushed out.

And Verstappen completely surpassed Qin Miao before the braking point of T13.

At the moment when Verstappen completely surpassed Qin Miao, Verstappen changed lanes to the inside of the track, blocking Qin Miao's route to brake late and overtake him.

Eliminate the last bit of Qin Miao's resistance.

Qin Miao was also quick-eyed and quick-handed. The moment Verstappen came to the inside to block his own path, Qin Miao went to the outside.

Both of them braked at very extreme positions.

After all, it is a competition for the championship of the race, and no one wants to be careless.

Both of them even braked to the point that their tires locked.

However, Qin Miao's disadvantage on the outside was too great, and Verstappen's car's mechanical grip was obviously much better than Qin Miao's. In the zigzag turns T13 and T14, he directly left Qin Miao behind by half a car body.

And because Verstappen was behind Qin Miao before the DRS checkpoint, after arriving at the DRS area on the starting straight, Verstappen ran away quickly.

Looking at the flashing charging indicator light on the rear of the RB19 as it drove away, Qin Miao sighed helplessly and asked a question among the TRs in the team: "Has the FIA ​​ever considered putting a charging indicator light on the front of the car?" (End of this chapter)