How did I become an F1 driver?

Moreover, Verstappen's dragon drawing at this time was not against the rules, after all, Verstappen was not drawing the dragon at the braking point.

When asked by reporters, Verstappen directly stated: At that time, he found that the temperature of his tires was too low, and he could only rely on the dragon drawing method to warm up his tires.

Is there any problem with Pan Zi's answer? No problem at all.

Originally, if Verstappen did not draw a dragon when defending Qin Miao on the track.

It is possible for Qin Miao to use Verstappen's slipstream and DRS to overtake Verstappen before the braking point of T4.
But now, although Qin Miao tried his best to follow Verstappen's car and draw with him when he was drawing a dragon, Qin Miao's move could only allow him to slightly surpass Verstappen before the braking point of T4.
It was about two-thirds of Verstappen's body that was overtaken on the outside line, and the right rear wheel of the W14 was overtaken on the outside line to the left front wheel position of the RB19.

Generally speaking, Qin Miao's position still has advantages.

But Qin Miao was clearly in an advantageous position at this moment, but for some reason, he always felt a little flustered. This feeling was a bit like he was handing a knife into his opponent's hand.

And ask the other party if he is interested in killing him.

The only thing Qin Miao could do at this time was to pray in his heart that Verstappen would behave like a human being and try his best to control his car to go faster when exiting the outside corner.

Also trying to avoid collision with Verstappen on the track.

However, sometimes, there are things that you can't avoid just because you want to.

Just like Zhuge Liang, the Seven-Star Lamp was lit just fine, how could he have expected that Wei Yan, a traitor, would suddenly break in?

So, Qin Miao overtook Verstappen on the outside line and was about to overtake Verstappen on the outside line using a wider exit line. Suddenly, Qin Miao, who was on the outermost line of the track, felt a vibration on the right rear wheel of his car, and then the steering wheel of the car became lighter.

In an instant, Qin Miao's thoughts shifted along with the scene he saw.

Qin Miao immediately realized that his car was torpedoed by Verstappen.
After all, if there was a mistake, there would most likely not be the shock later on. It might just be that the steering wheel of the car suddenly became lighter.

At the same time, Qin Miao controlled the steering wheel of his car, trying his best to steer back in the direction where the car was out of control, wanting to correct the direction of the car before it lost control and rushed into the sandy buffer zone on the left side of the track.

After being torpedoed by Verstappen, it was inevitable that he would rush into the gravel buffer zone on the left side of the track.

What Qin Miao needs to do now is to try his best to avoid his car from rushing diagonally into the sand and gravel buffer zone, because if he goes in diagonally, he will most likely not be able to get out.

However, if you go in straight ahead and step on the accelerator, it is still possible to get back to the track from the gravel buffer zone.

Although Qin Miao was very angry at this time, he did not vent it. Instead, he controlled his car with a clear mind and tried to get out of the next predicament.

Fortunately, T4 is a U-turn, and Qin Miao and Verstappen had just come out of the T4 turn, so their speed was not very fast at this time.

After Qin Miao was pushed into the gravel buffer zone, he just drifted on the sand. After traveling for a distance, Qin Miao regained control of the car. Qin Miao also did not forget to downshift and step on the accelerator so that the rear wheels of the car would always provide a forward force to the car to prevent it from getting stuck in the gravel.

After completing all these standard car rescue operations, Qin Miao returned to the track.

But when Qin Miao returned to the track, he had already come to second place, and the time gap between him and Verstappen had been widened to 5 seconds by Verstappen.

Qin Miao breathed a sigh of relief after returning to the track. If he had made a mistake in operation just now, he would have been forced to retire from the race.

After being scared for a while, Qin Miao did not forget the culprit who caused all this to happen to him, and directly started the output mode in the TR of the convoy over there:

"If this is how Verstappen's family taught him to drive since he was a child, then I know why the elder Verstappen has achieved nothing in F1 and needs his son to achieve results."

"He was like a madman and he just knocked me off the track. If he couldn't drive properly on the track, he could have gone home to take care of the kids."

"If he drives like this, I think the bumper cars in the amusement park would be more suitable for him."

"**********! ***!"

This speech was very long, but Qin Miao did not delay his driving while cursing.

After Qin Miao finished scolding him, he even drove his own car through T7.

You should know that T7 is a high-speed corner. When drivers are running these high-speed corners, the lateral G-force they bear on their bodies can often reach 3G.

But even in this state, Qin Miao finished speaking the above sentence in a clear and melodious voice without any deviation or cracking of the voice.

At the end, he uttered a few curse words which were muted by the broadcaster.

Judging from the fact that everything was beeped from beginning to end, Qin Miao’s last line of curse words must have been quite dirty.

Franky was also a little frightened when he wanted to comfort Qin Miao.

Brother, you are talking so much when passing a curve on the highway. Are you really not afraid of getting a stitch in the side?

"Calm down Qin Miao, the game isn't over yet." Although Franky was very angry at this time, he still tried his best to suppress his emotions and comfort Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't care about that and continued to chatter: "I am very calm now. I am calm as long as I am calm. He *stinks*!"

"Verstappen's driving style is so inhumane! A normal driver should leave some space for his opponent on the track! Instead of directly knocking his main competitor off the track."

"If this is the kind of racing that the FIA ​​is advocating, I suggest giving each F1 driver a bumper car modified from an F1 car. Instead of competing for lap times, they should compete to see who can kill their main competitor first on the track!"

Franky clicked his tongue. He really didn't expect that Qin Miao, who was usually very gentle, would utter so many offensive words after being driven off the track by Verstappen.

The key point is that he has never seen Qin Miao like this before.

You know, Qin Miao is a relatively gentle person in daily life. Who would have thought that Qin Miao would be so irritable after being irritated.

But you can't blame Qin Miao for being uncivilized at this time. If anyone else were in such a situation and was beaten out by his main competitor while running well, he would definitely be furious.

"We will appeal to the race committee as soon as possible. You don't have to worry about being treated unfairly. Verstappen will also receive the punishment he deserves."

"The most important thing now is whether you feel the changes in the characteristics of the car? Is the chassis of the car damaged by crashing into the sandy and gravel ground? We see that the telemetry data of the car is all normal." Franky comforted Qin Miao without forgetting his job.

Now it is a foregone conclusion that Qin Miao will lose the championship, and no one can change it. The only thing Mercedes can hope for at this time is that Qin Miao's car will not be damaged.

If the car is damaged and retired due to running off the track, Qin Miao will lose his 2 points in second place.

This was unacceptable to Qin Miao and the team.

Qin Miao was almost at the starting straight at this time. If there was anything wrong with the car, he would have noticed it long ago. So after hearing Frankie's question, Qin Miao replied: "I didn't find any problems. I will notify you as soon as there is any abnormality."

“But Verstappen…”

"Qin Miao, Qin Miao, listen to me. Our top priority right now is to finish the race and keep your 18 points. Leave the rest to us. I believe we will give you a satisfactory answer."

Qin Miao wanted to complain a few more words, but at this time Toto also interrupted the team TR to comfort Qin Miao and gave Qin Miao a shot of cardiac stimulant.

Although Qin Miao will leave Mercedes-Benz in the next season, at least Qin Miao is still a Mercedes-Benz employee now.

Qin Miao was bullied on the track, and Mercedes-Benz must stand up to support Qin Miao.

"Okay." Qin Miao retracted his desire to complain and replied.

After returning to the track, Qin Miao found his familiar racing rhythm, and the time gap between him and Verstappen has now reached 6 seconds.

At this time, there were still 18 laps left to the end of the race, and Qin Miao really could not find any possibility of catching up with and overtaking Verstappen in the remaining laps.

Unless the race organizers go crazy and increase the 18-lap race to 28 laps, Qin Miao still has a chance to catch up.

only……

On the other side, in the Five Star Sports studio, three commentators were paying attention to Qin Miao's perspective on the track.

The director also followed the fight between Qin Miao and Verstappen throughout the whole process.

There are even helicopter aerial cameras that follow the entire process.

Naturally, Qin Miao's collision with Verstappen on the track was captured in its entirety and spread to all car fans at the first opportunity.

The three commentators from Five Star Sports naturally also watched the entire process.

When the three commentators first saw Qin Miao make a mistake in T1 and run off the track, they were a little surprised.

Like Verstappen, they did not expect that such a stable driver like Qin Miao would make such a relatively low-level mistake as missing the braking point.

But this is not a big deal. The horsepower advantage of W14 means that the consequences of Qin Miao's mistake are not as serious as imagined.

But what made the two commentators a little nervous was that after the first period, Verstappen pushed Qin Miao directly off the track in T4.

"Ah? Qin Miao was knocked out by Verstappen! (Sad)"

"Verstappen! He didn't leave any space for Qin Miao to exit the corner and directly pushed Qin Miao off the track!"

"It's over, it's over. Qin Miao has lost the championship."

"No, why can Verstappen crash into Qin Miao? And Qin Miao left almost the entire track for Verstappen on the inside. How can Verstappen crash into Qin Miao with so much space?"

"There is no doubt that Verstappen is primarily responsible for this accident. Even the term 'main responsibility' is not appropriate. It is all Verstappen's fault!" Zhou Haoran said indignantly.

……

The commentators of Five Star Sports were naturally very confused and angry at this time.

Few fans can sit still when their favorite driver gets torpedoed.

But the Dutch audience at the scene had a lukewarm reaction this time. Many people even stood up and cheered, and began to set off their orange smoke bombs, as if they had opened champagne in advance.

After seeing this scene in the broadcast, Zhou Haoran suddenly said: "The scene where Qin Miao was hit is a bit like the collision between Albon and Hamilton 20 years ago. In fact, both collisions were at the Austrian Grand Prix and even at the same corner."

After Zhou Haoran's reminder, Brother Bing and Brother Fei also reacted.

"It seems to be true."

"It seemed like they were all hit in exactly the same way, with the left front wheel hitting the right rear wheel."

"The difference may be that Qin Miao talks a little more..."

On the track, after being hit by Verstappen, Qin Miao directly lost one minute in the team TR.

The director in charge of this broadcast was also ruthless. Except for silencing all of Qin Miao's swear words, all the words Qin Miao said were played out by them.

[It means that the old man is doing evil, so let Qin Miao come]

[Isn’t this bullying an honest person? 】

[Dirty, too dirty] [This is Ugly Pan]

【Ugly Pan is like this】

[Qin Miao is still too clean, he needs to be more aggressive on the track! ]

[Qin Miao is still clean? He must have braked to test other people a lot]

[You failed the brake test, that's your fault, but Qin Miao never hit anyone on the track! ]

[Qin Miao's driving is indeed clean]

[Pan Zi is a bit of a beast]

[How will the FIA ​​punish this? Will they just cancel the results?]

[Impossible, the maximum penalty is 5 seconds]

[Ah? A 5-second penalty for such bad behavior? ]

[Because when the old man kicked Albon out 20 years ago, he only gave him a 5-second penalty]

……

When the Internet was in an uproar, the race on the track reached the 62nd lap.

After a long discussion, the FIA ​​gave the penalty result for the collision between Verstappen and Qin Miao.

After all, on the one hand, Mercedes is putting crazy pressure on the team, while on the other hand, Red Bull is begging for mercy.

FIA is really difficult to deal with.

Although the FIA ​​gave Hamilton a 20-second penalty in the collision between Hamilton and Albon in 5.

But when Qin Miao returned to the track from the buffer zone, Verstappen had already left him 6 seconds behind.

If the previous penalties were taken into account, the FIA ​​would be the same as not punishing Verstappen at all.

By then, fans of Mercedes and Qin Miao will definitely be dissatisfied.

You don't understand what speed Verstappen was at, right? He only gave him a five-second penalty?

At the same time, the FIA ​​took into account the huge market behind Qin Miao, so after comprehensive consideration, the final penalty given to Verstappen was a 10-second penalty.

But after all, Verstappen will not pit again at this time, so the 10-second penalty on Verstappen's side will eventually be counted in his total score.

At this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was 9.2 seconds...

Although it seemed that Qin Miao still had a chance, in fact, Qin Miao himself felt that he had already lost the championship the moment he was confronted.

Because he has no suppression of his own, Verstappen can be 0.5 seconds faster than himself in a single lap. It is not too difficult for Verstappen to create a gap of 10 seconds.

After all, I was using a set of old hard tires. Even if my hard tires were very durable, there would inevitably be a loss of speed.

In addition, Verstappen was playing at home, and given his familiarity with the Red Bull Ring, to be honest, even if Verstappen had a 10-second penalty, Qin Miao didn't know how he could win.

And this is indeed the case.

Finally, on the 71st lap, Verstappen drove the RB19 across the finish line under the checkered flag amid the overwhelming cheers of Red Bull fans on the scene.

As Verstappen crossed the finish line, there were fireworks on both sides of the track and burning orange smoke canisters in the hands of Red Bull fans.

12 seconds after Verstappen crossed the finish line, Qin Miao also crossed the finish line and took second place.

Compared to the flowers on both sides of the track after Verstappen crossed the finish line, Qin Miao's side was much quieter.

Along with Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu crossed the finish line.

Although the race was over after crossing the finish line, Qin Miao was still very angry at this time.

At this time, Franky and Toto also knew that Qin Miao's heart must not be very calm, so he comforted Qin Miao in the team TR as soon as Qin Miao crossed the finish line.

To prevent Qin Miao from making any extreme actions on the track in the following process.

"Qin Miao, you ran very well in today's race. We will discuss other things on the track later. Now enjoy your victory on the track. We will wait for you on the podium."

"You couldn't have done any better in this race today, we are all proud of you, now bring the car back."

After hearing what Toto said, Qin Miao felt a little better, but he still didn't want to talk.

But Qin Miao, who knew that his car's TR would be released after the race, still forced himself to control his vocal cords and said, "Okay."

Qin Miao drove his car back to the maintenance area after circling the field amidst the orange smoke bombs.

At this time, Verstappen had just parked his car.

Qin Miao was so angry when he saw the rear of the Red Bull racing car that at a certain moment, Qin Miao really had the urge to turn the front of the car and crash it into the rear of Verstappen's car.

However, during the time he was running back to the track, the adrenaline level in Qin Miao's body dropped a little, and Qin Miao's mind was clearer than when he was driving at high speed on the track.

So Qin Miao did not do such irrational behavior.

After parking his car in the second position, Qin Miao did not weigh it immediately after getting out of the car. Instead, he went to the right rear wheel of his car to take a look.

After looking at it, Qin Miao didn't see any damage. After all, when Verstappen collided with him, it was the tread of the left front wheel that hit the tread of his right rear wheel.

It didn't touch the wheel arches of the car or anything like that.

After finishing the inspection and standing up, Qin Miao saw Leclerc coming towards him.

The champion of today's race is Verstappen, the runner-up is Qin Miao, but in fact the third place should have gone to the old man.

But the old man was penalized a 5-second overtime on the track, and was directly placed behind Sainz.

Although the old man surpassed Sainz later, he wasted a lot of time on the track, and then he had to face Perez and Leclerc.

Then at the last stop, when the old man entered the pit to change tires, he was backstabbed by the tire changer of the team, and the team gave him a tire change in 4.1 seconds.

As a result, Hamilton, who originally had a chance to catch up, ended up finishing fifth.

Hamilton made too many unnecessary mistakes in this game.

Therefore, Leclerc got a podium for free.

"I heard that you had a collision with Verstappen on the track?" Leclerc asked curiously after coming in front of Qin Miao.

After all, there were so many people watching at this time, so Qin Miao couldn't complain to Leclerc about Verstappen, so he just said: "He knocked me off the track."

Leclerc was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then said helplessly: "Relax, brother, think about the good side, at least you are back on the track, and you are still second now, right?"

Qin Miao glanced at Leclerc speechlessly: "You are second, your whole family is second."

Leclerc shrugged: "Thank you for your words."

Qin Miao:......

"NND, what you said seems to make sense."

After joking with Leclerc for a while, Qin Miao's mood improved a little.

Ignoring Verstappen who came up to him and prepared to shake hands with him after the celebration, Qin Miao walked up to his team staff wearing a helmet and celebrated briefly with them.

Verstappen was left standing there awkwardly.

Under normal circumstances, Toto would not appear in such an environment. After all, Qin Miao only got second place in today's game and did not win the championship.

But in order to comfort Qin Miao, Toto came to the side of the track for the first time when Qin Miao came in second.

After Qin Miao came over, Toto also gave Qin Miao a hug, patted Qin Miao's shoulder and said a few words of comfort.

The photographer on the scene faithfully recorded these two scenes.

After seeing this, no car fan would blame Qin Miao for being impolite, and no one would even think that there was anything wrong with Qin Miao's behavior.

If someone knocks you out of a race championship and you can still be nice to him... then you are awesome.

Qin Miao can't do it anyway.

After a brief celebration with his colleagues in the team, Qin Miao went back and took the initiative to shake hands with Verstappen amid their consolation and encouragement.

The opponent can be rude, but Qin Miao cannot be impolite.

After the weigh-in, it was time for the post-match interview.

The first driver to be interviewed was Leclerc, who completed his post-race preparations relatively quickly.

After all, Verstappen celebrated for a long time and Qin Miao was comforted for a while, only Leclerc was celebrating simply.

After Leclerc's interview was over, it was Qin Miao's turn, and finally Verstappen's.

After coming in front of the host, Qin Miao no longer had the professional smile he had in previous interviews. Now there was only calmness on Qin Miao's face.

After Qin Miao stood in front of the host, the host said, "Qin Miao, today's game must be very difficult for you."

But for some reason, Qin Miao laughed after hearing the host's question.

Sometimes when people are speechless, they will really laugh for no apparent reason.

Qin Miao is in this state right now.

He was really speechless.

Can't you tell whether this game is difficult for me or not? (End of this chapter)