How did I become an F1 driver?

Qin Miao rushed out first.

But Qin Miao didn't drive too fast. The sooner he stopped the car on the starting grid, the lower the temperature of his tires would be when he started.

So Qin Miao still delayed for a while before parking the car.

Once the last driver parks his car, the race will begin.

This time, Qin Miao didn't even look at his rearview mirror when he started. Although T1 was a right turn, Qin Miao started from the outside of the track.

But Qin Miao is confident in his reaction ability.

Although the old man has been training his reaction ability over the years, he is 38 years old after all. How can the reaction of a 38-year-old be the same as that of a 22-year-old young man?

Five red lights lit up one by one and then went out, and the 2023 British Grand Prix officially began.

Qin Miao released the clutch the moment the five red lights went out, and the car took off. In an instant, the forward acceleration of the car reached 1.4G.

Qin Miao was pressed into the racing seat.

But Qin Miao and a group of F1 drivers are pursuing this exciting feeling.

After starting, Qin Miao took a look at his right rearview mirror.

What surprised Qin Miao was that, perhaps because of the home court, Hamilton had a very good start today.

Qin Miao did not widen the gap with him quickly, but only slowly.

You should know that Qin Miao's starting speed in today's game can be said to be the fastest in the whole game.

Under such circumstances, not only was Hamilton not left behind by Qin Miao, he was able to insist on following Qin Miao.

Seeing this, Qin Miao estimated the distance between himself and Hamilton, as well as the distance from now to the T1 braking point.

Qin Miao judged almost instantly that there was a possibility that Hamilton would brake late at T1 and force his way into the inside to attack him.

So Qin Miao started, and after the gearbox of the racing car reached 4th gear, he began to change lanes to the inside.

Although the possibility of Hamilton braking late and inserting into his inside line is very small, Qin Miao also has a bottom line. No matter what, Qin Miao will not let his inside line go.

When the old man saw Qin Miao squeezing towards him, he suddenly understood something.

The old man's starting speed was actually very good today, but it was obvious that Qin Miao's starting speed was faster than Hamilton's.

The reaction speed of the young people is indeed incomparable to those old players like us. Even in his best home start, he was not as good as the opponent.

Hamilton saw Qin Miao squeezing to the outside, so he gave up the idea of ​​braking late to attack Qin Miao in the inside.

"Although the young man is young, he has a lot of ideas." After silently complaining in his heart, the old man drove his car back to the outside of the track.

Seeing this, Qin Miao did not dare to release his inside line, and when entering T1, he walked along the center line of the track.

Although entering the curve in this way will inevitably affect the speed of the car entering and exiting the curve, Qin Miao does have the advantage brought by the starting stage.

Moreover, there were no suitable overtaking points on the Silverstone circuit from the start until the braking point of T6.

In other words, as long as Qin Miao maintains his position in T1, he doesn't have to worry about anyone overtaking him on the track until T6.

It would naturally be easier to take the defensive line at that time.

There was no change in the position between the top two at the start.

But the fact that there is no position change between the top two does not mean that there is no position change among the drivers behind them.

Verstappen made a mistake at the start.

He released the clutch too early while waiting for the red light to go out.

It can be seen that Qin Miao is ahead of him, and Pan Zi also feels a little pressured.

But releasing the clutch too early caused Verstappen to have a momentary hiccup during acceleration.

And because of this lag, Verstappen's starting speed was not good.

He was directly caught by Norris behind him, and Norris also made a breakthrough on the inside of Verstappen.

In addition, Norris started from the inside, so before T1, Norris surpassed Verstappen.

Even Piastri, behind Norris, was tapping on the inside of Verstappen, trying to overtake him.

However, the distance on the track was no longer enough for Piastri to do anything. Verstappen forced his way into the inside line and blocked Piastri's exit route.

In the end, Verstappen's mistake at the start resulted in a loss of position.

Overall, although there was a loss, the extent of the loss was still acceptable.

Fortunately, Qin Miao was leading the race at this time. I don’t know what happened behind him. If Qin Miao knew that there was a Norris in front of Verstappen, he would be so happy.

Because that would make it easier for him to defend against Verstappen.

Qin Miao had no idea what other people were thinking, but he was prepared to drive the DRS train from start to finish in today's race.

Originally, Qin Miao felt that driving with two carriages was somewhat difficult, but now with three carriages, Qin Miao felt that he had no pressure at all when driving.

As for whether the competition is exciting or not, it is not important to Qin Miao. What is important to Qin Miao is the 25 points for the championship of the race.

So I can only let the drivers behind me suffer first.

Soon the start-up phase was over.

Qin Miao began to slow down to protect the tire.

Although Qin Miao is not used to the formula of the tires he is using now, he basically cannot use any of the skills in his system.

But that is based on the premise that Qin Miao does not reduce his lap time. If Qin Miao reduces speed during the race, advances the braking point, only brakes half of the way, and reasonably controls the temperature of his tires, Qin Miao can still protect his tires well and extend the service life of his tires. The only difference is that Qin Miao's speed will inevitably decline.

In fact, Qin Miao should not do this normally. After all, Verstappen is chasing after Qin Miao. If Qin Miao dares to do this, Verstappen will kill Qin Miao on the track.

But Verstappen's fault was that he didn't live up to expectations. Not only did he fail to beat Hamilton in qualifying, but he was even overtaken by Norris at the start of the race.

Therefore, Qin Miao now dares to brazenly have a flat tire on the track.

After all, the person behind him is Hamilton, and the performance of the car driven by the old man is exactly the same as his.

Therefore, what I need to do is to reduce the speed of my car as much as possible to protect the tires in the sections where I cannot overtake, use up all the ERS power I have saved in the places where I can overtake, and find a way to interfere with the old man when exiting the corner.

This may be a little difficult for normal F1 drivers, and even for experienced veteran drivers like Hamilton and Alonso, it is a big challenge.

But for Qin Miao, although it is not as simple as eating and drinking, it is not much more difficult than an adult building a box of Lego. Qin Miao can even enjoy it while building Lego.

After all, you can fully grasp the movements of the driver behind you. If you want him to brake, he has to brake. If you want him to speed up, he has to speed up.

When you think about the seven-time world champion that the driver you control is, it's hard for most people to imagine the feeling of controlling others.

While Qin Miao was defending well in the front, the three drivers behind him started cursing.

Because the driver behind can clearly feel that the guy in front is deliberately slowing down on the curve to annoy you.

But if DRS is not turned on, there is nothing you can do with this muscle car, the W14.

The old man could only wait patiently for the race to turn on DRS. As for Norris behind him, he was completely caught in a sandwich.

Although Norris's MCL60 has an advantage over the W14 in corners, it cannot overtake in corners.

The old man blocked the lane and Norris was completely helpless.

Once entering the straight road, Qin Miao and Hamilton can always exit the corner quickly.

After the suspension of the W14 was upgraded for the Grand Prix, the traction was greatly improved, especially in terms of cornering speed, which Norris is really far behind.

Norris even found himself a little desperate. Without DRS, after entering the straight, even if Qin Miao had no wake to absorb, he could still widen the time gap between himself and him on the track.

Even if I had Hamilton's tailwind, I couldn't stop this from happening.

In such a shitty environment, the only thing that can bring some comfort to Norris may be that there is Verstappen behind him.

Pan Zi, who is currently ranked first in the driver's points list, was firmly sealed in the DRS train by Qin Miao in this race and could not move.

If the race could be finished directly with the current ranking, Norris could at least get a podium.

In a season where it is basically impossible to compete for the Grand Prix title and the world championship, it is a blessing to be able to get a podium.

Verstappen: %……&*@#￥%!

The race then came to the third lap.

The race turned on DRS.

After the DRS was turned on, the old man couldn't help but want to kill Qin Miao.

There was no DRS at the beginning of the race. Although my rhythm out of the corners was very good, your rhythm out of the corners, Qin Miao, was also very good. I won’t say anything about this. There was really no way I could overtake you.

But now that DRS is turned on, if I don't use you, Qin Miao, to show my offensive ability, you might think that my seven world championship titles were won in vain. However, after Qin Miao turned on DRS at the tournament, he knew that the old man would attack him.

The DRS efficiency of W14 is still terrifying. After DRS is turned on, it can at least provide the car with a top speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

So Qin Miao stopped trying to protect the tire in front of the old man, and focused on defending Hamilton on the track, instead of paying attention to the car behind him.

On the third lap, Qin Miao exited the T7 turn a little slower at this position. This way, the old man had an advantage in the exit speed and the wake of his car.

However, these were all calculated by Qin Miao in advance. After exiting the corner, he kept staring at the old man's car. When the old man was about to change lanes to the inside, Qin Miao also changed lanes to the inside.

Qin Miao's meaning was very clear. I won't stop you from trying to overtake my car, but you have to try on the outside line. There is no way I will give up my inside line. What's more, the next one is the famous 51G turn. I don't want to be sent out from the inside line by you like Verstappen.

Although the old man didn't think as much as 51G, he did go to the outside after seeing Qin Miao's defensive action.

After seeing the old man pull out on his outside line, Qin Miao also pulled his car back to the outside line, and then drove forward all the way along Hamilton's car.

Qin Miao was finished when exiting the corner. Although the old man's car had a certain advantage in cornering speed compared to his own, when it came to the 51G corner, the old man's car speed was not enough to directly overtake him. After all, after his outside pull-off, Hamilton's car no longer had its own wake, and there was no DRS for the old man to use on this corner. At the same time, there was turbulent flow quietly discharged from the side of his own car's tires.

Therefore, when arriving at the 51G turn, Qin Miao was not completely overtaken by Hamilton. He was still on the inside of Hamilton to create pressure on him.

Although the old man did not give an inch, Qin Miao did not leave much room for him when he turned.

Although it seems that Qin Miao's cornering line is worse than Hamilton's, after all, Qin Miao did not enter the corner at the leftmost side of the track. There was Hamilton's car between him and the left edge of the track.

But Qin Miao reached the center of T9 and had a better exit angle, while the old man should have had a better exit angle than Qin Miao, but was blocked by Qin Miao's car on the inside.

So when he came out of the three consecutive turns, Qin Miao had already regained his position.

"Qin Miao's defense has always been like this. It looks ordinary, but none of his defensive moves are redundant, and every defense is very effective." Brother Fei said with a smile after seeing Qin Miao resolve Hamilton's attack without any expression.

"I remember one time when I was having dinner with Qin Miao, I asked him why he was always like this when defending, without any big ups and downs, and without any particularly dangerous moments." At this time, Brother Bing recalled: "I remember Qin Miao said something like: When I defend, I usually plan ahead of time, thinking about where to expose a flaw so that my target can enter the game I set up. After he gets into the game I set up, I can do whatever I want."

"It's hard to imagine that a young man would have the extra time to think and plan in such a fierce competition like F1. The key is that he has done it all."

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On the field, after withstanding an attack from Hamilton, Qin Miao widened the time gap between him and Hamilton to 0.5 seconds.

There is an explanation for this time difference. After Qin Miao passed T11 and turned T14, he arrived at the DRS area before T15.

This 0.5 second time difference is just enough for Hamilton to catch up to the outside line and be side by side with Qin Miao in the DRS zone.

Then Qin Miao repeated the same trick in T15 to block Hamilton's route.

Because Qin Miao blocked his exit route at T15, Hamilton inevitably let off the accelerator.

It was because of this accelerator that the straight road between T15 and T16 was not enough for Hamilton to accelerate and catch up with Qin Miao.

After reaching T16, Qin Miao on the inside line braked late into the turn, and the old man couldn't take the intersecting line.

Even after being blocked by Qin Miao for three consecutive turns, the old man's cornering speed and rhythm were greatly affected, and he was caught up by Norris behind him. The time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton was also widened to 0.9 seconds because of Qin Miao's operation.

The old man couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Qin Miao patting his butt and leaving in a leisurely manner after giving him a series of punches.

In the past, Hamilton actually had no concrete idea of ​​how terrifying Qin Miao's defensive ability was. After all, Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus was indeed too amazing, and the old man had no chance to experience it.

In this game, Hamilton truly experienced Qin Miao's defensive ability head-on.

However, looking at the 0.9 second gap between himself and Qin Miao, Hamilton felt that Qin Miao would probably continue driving the train for a while.

After all, in Hamilton's opinion, the points gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao in the driver's standings is a bit too big. If Qin Miao wants to win the world championship again, he must limit Verstappen's scoring on the track.

The best way to do this is to drive the DRS train on the track.

But Qin Miao's next move surprised Hamilton a little.

After Qin Miao defended Hamilton's attack, he began to accelerate and no longer protected the tire.

The old man was naturally delighted when he saw this. Finally, he didn't have to be trapped in the DRS train and be disgusted by others.

Then, before the old man could be happy for a while, he saw a bright orange color appear in the rearview mirror of his racing car out of the corner of his eye.

At this time, Norris had already caught up with Hamilton and was just 0.4 seconds behind Hamilton.

You should know that after the starting straight there is a series of combination bends, where the McLaren car has a certain advantage.

After exiting this bend and arriving at T5, there is a DRS area between T5 and T6.

Hamilton and Norris inevitably fought in this DRS area.

While the two were scheming against each other, Qin Miao had already run away.

Qin Miao's original idea was actually the same as Hamilton's, which was to drive the DRS train on the track as much as possible, to cause more trouble for Verstappen, to disgust him more, and to make him get fewer points in this race.

But the old man's attack made Qin Miao feel a lot of pressure.

It's not just the pressure when the old man attacks, but also the pressure of tyre consumption.

Fighting with the old man was a bit too taxing on the tires. Qin Miao could barely tolerate it once or twice, but with this set of neutral tires, he would probably have to leave work early.

Qin Miao is indeed confident that he can defend against Hamilton for a long time on the track, and he is also confident that Hamilton's tires can break before his own tires break first.

But this is not a one-on-one bullfight.

The biggest threat behind Qin Miao is actually Verstappen.

Although he was locked, he might have found out that both he and Hamilton's tyres were failing and decided to pit early to try to undercut himself.

So in order to avoid this situation and to avoid excessive consumption of the tires, Qin Miao designed a trap for the old man and threw him behind him, Norris, who seemed to be extremely fast in today's race.

Let Norris deal with the old man, and during the time when Hamilton and Norris were fighting, he tried to keep as much distance between himself and the drivers behind as possible.

So at this moment, the only thing Qin Miao hoped for was that Norris and Hamilton would give more effort and play longer on the track.

And if possible, try to block Verstappen behind them.

Tenth lap.

At this time, the time difference between Qin Miao and the old man behind him was 2.9 seconds.

The two people's single lap speeds were actually the same at this time, but Qin Miao was still gradually widening the time gap with the old man.

The reason is that Qin Miao no longer drives the train, and the old man started driving the train.

Because of Qin Miao's miscalculation, McLaren's MCL60, despite being upgraded, could not pose a threat to Mercedes' W14 on the track.

With the speed of the W14 driven by Hamilton, it was not too difficult for him to get rid of Norris, after all, there are many straight roads on the Silverstone Circuit.

If you can't get out of the DRS zone, a 51G turn can be easily completed.

But there is Verstappen behind Norris.

If Norris is left too far behind at this time, it will only be a matter of time before Verstappen surpasses Norris.

After surpassing Norris, it is not difficult to guess what Verstappen will do.

So at this moment, the old man is a bit like the Emperor of the Human Empire in Warhammer 40K.

The only difference is that the emperor sat on the golden toilet on his own initiative, while the old man was thrown there by Qin Miao.

At this time, the old man didn't even have time to blame Qin Miao in his heart. He could only try his best to resist the invasion of the Chaos Army (Norris) behind him.

It was also during this lap that Ocon retired from the race due to a hydraulic oil leak in his car.

In simple terms, there was a problem with the racing car's braking system.

The subsequent race was a bit dull. The situation on the track looked a bit like the old man took the overall situation into consideration and stepped into the game to help Qin Miao block Norris and Verstappen behind him, creating more time for his teammate Qin Miao on the track.

But in fact, Hamilton wanted to curse after he realized what was going on.

TNND, Qin Miao! You are so mean!
On the 19th lap, the time between Qin Miao and Hamilton was fixed at 4 seconds.

After Qin Miao had widened the time gap between himself and the old man to a relatively safe distance, he also began to protect the fetus.

After all, Qin Miao now finds that his single lap speed is not bad. If he can use this set of neutral tires to hold on until the late stage of the race, it would be safer to change directly to soft tires. He can also wait for the safety car and he won't lose anything, so why not do it?

It was also on this lap that Ferrari asked Leclerc to pit for a tire change.

Leclerc was behind Piastri before entering the pits and was also trapped in the DRS train behind the old man.

There is actually nothing wrong with Ferrari's idea. After all, with all the drivers in front of them using DRS, it is understandable that they could pit to change tires and seek undercut.

But the problem is that after Leclerc changed to hard tires and came out of the pit area, his single lap speed was even slower than Hamilton and the others.

I don't know whether to say that Pirelli's tire formula is too abstract, or that Ferrari's strategy group is performing stably.

The game continued to be dull.

Although Hamilton was still driving the train, the time gap between him and Norris had remained at 0.7 seconds for a long time. (End of this chapter)