How did I become an F1 driver?

Of course, the audience couldn't possibly know that the car in front of them was driven by Leclerc.

I will be going to Ferrari next season anyway. I am about to leave Mercedes, but I haven't gone to Ferrari yet.

I am stuck in a quantum superposition state, so I have no problem driving a Koenigsegg during my break.

Even if the contract was violated, Mercedes would not say anything considering what Qin Miao had done for the team over the years.

However, Le Laosi's contract still has a long time to go, and at this time he is still the top driver of the Ferrari team. If he is allowed to appear on camera, it would be because his two friends, Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, are causing trouble for him.

After being happy for a while, Qin Miao's daily life returned to the normal track it should have been.

It is worth mentioning that after Qin Miao completed the maintenance of his and Leclerc’s cars, he took a look at the maintenance list.

After seeing the specific prices on the list, even Qin Miao couldn't help but be shocked. The total cost of this maintenance was 5 US dollars, and the total cost for two cars was 10.

Of course, this is a full service, including tire replacement, engine oil, and engine cleaning.

But I have to say that this cost is still a bit outrageous.

Even Qin Miao, who spent 400 million US dollars to buy a car without any jealousy, couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

It seems that the saying is right, buying a car is not a skill, being able to afford a car and maintain it is the real skill.

But no matter what, maintenance still needs to be done.

After the maintenance is completed, Koenigsegg even provides transportation service. After all, if rich people want to go to the track, it is impossible for them to drive their own cars to the track, so this additional service of Koenigsegg came into being.

Qin Miao was too lazy to call a taxi, so he asked Koenigsegg to send Leclerc's car to Monaco.

Qin Miao used this Josko as a means of transportation for two days.

Although Josko has the common problem of all super sports cars, that is, the chassis is too stiff and the suspension tuning is extremely biased towards the track.

Although there is a comfort mode to choose from, the comfort of this mode is actually just so-so, and is much worse than that of a normal car.

But... you can't resist this car, it's so handsome!

Besides, after buying a new car, don’t you want to show off in front of your colleagues?

Qin Miao was in almost the same state of mind at the moment.

But after all, Qin Miao has driven a lot of good cars, and even the fastest cars in the world. It can even be said that he encountered them every day during the period when the racing schedule was more intensive, so Qin Miao soon got a little tired of Josko, mainly because the chassis of a super sports car is really not suitable for commuting.

So for the rest of the time, Qin Miao changed back to his small scooter as his means of commuting to and from get off work.

Nothing special: convenient, fast, and easy parking.

If you arrive at the team factory late and there is no place to park, you can carry the pedal directly to the office upstairs.

Soon, it was a week later.

Qin Miao went to Hungary on Wednesday.

This week is the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The Hungaroring circuit is quite famous, after all, Bottas performed a classic one-shot clear here.

This unique track, where overtaking is extremely difficult, is actually quite challenging for Mercedes' W14 this season, especially in the second period.

Of course, except for the second timing period, the other two timing periods are advantageous areas for W14.

Because these places are more about the mechanical grip, acceleration and braking performance of the car.

After finishing work on Thursday, Qin Miao completed the team's recording activities and attended the pre-race press conference. The day's work was over and it was Friday.

One or two days of practice.

It is worth mentioning that the qualifying rules at the Hungaroring this week were changed. It cannot be said to be a change, it can only be said to be a test of a new qualifying format.

After all, the current qualifying rounds are somewhat too monotonous, and after watching them for a long time, the audience will feel a little bored.

The revised rules have placed strict restrictions on the soft tires that were originally available for use in all three qualifying stages.

The qualifying tire usage rules for today's race have been changed so that Q1 must use hard tires, Q2 uses neutral tires, and Q3 can use soft tires.

Also because there are two fewer qualifying stages, the organizers reduced the number of soft tires to only 4.

Also because of the insufficient number of soft tires, at the team's routine meeting on Friday morning, Mercedes had to change the team's testing order in the practice phase, conducting long-distance tests on neutral tires and hard tires in Friday's first and second practices, and reserving single-lap simulations of soft tires for the third practice on Saturday morning.

It is worth mentioning that a lot of interesting things happened during the practice session on Friday morning.

Red Bull brought a lot of upgrades to this Grand Prix weekend. The Red Bull team announced that the upgrades brought a 0.3 second per lap speed increase to the Red Bull team's car.

Although I don’t know whether it’s true or not, at least the deterrent effect is maximized.

But sometimes accidents always happen unexpectedly.

The Hungaroring Grand Prix had not even started, during the first practice session, when Perez made a mistake on the track. When braking into a turn, the right rear wheel went over the track and pressed onto the dirt at the side of the track, causing the right rear wheel to lose grip. The car lost control and rushed out of the track and crashed into the guardrail at the end, breaking the left front suspension of the RB19 and damaging the entire front nose of the car.

The suspension of the car had been broken and it was stuck on the guardrail at the side of the track, so it was impossible for Perez to drive the car away by himself.

So when the race organisers put out the red flag, they asked Matthew on the side of the track to use a crane to lift Perez's car off the track.

Since the crane was deployed, Perez's car could not continue to stick to the ground, so Perez's car inevitably left the ground.

Well, the photographers who had been waiting for an opportunity at the side of the track were like sharks that smelled blood. They rushed to Perez's car from the side of the track, raised their cameras and took a lot of photos of the bottom of Perez's car. They also sent the photos to the email addresses of the team leaders of each team as soon as they checked them.

In fact, before the ground effect era, such situations did not occur on the track. Even if a car was lifted up due to a car accident, everyone would be able to see the bottom of the car and at most one or two photographers would hold up a camera to take a picture, and most of them just wanted to see something new.

Generally speaking, the photos they take are mostly of the miserable appearance of the racing car after it has been smashed to pieces, rather than the aerodynamic layout under the car.

But after entering the ground effect era, everything changed.

In the era of ground effect, the floor of a car plays a very important role. The floor alone provides 60% to 70% of the car's overall downforce. And Red Bull is the team with the best aerodynamic design this season, so its chassis structure is naturally of interest to all team leaders.

It is worth mentioning that this season, there have been two incidents in which Red Bull racing drivers were hung up and their skirts were exposed after car accidents.

And both times it was Perez who caused it, once in Monaco and once now in Hungary.

Perez still has a bit of NTR in him.

After seeing Perez crash on the track and the newly upgraded RB19 being lifted up, Horner and Marko were also very shocked.

After the shock, Horner supported his chin with one hand and looked surprised. TNND, how could such a low-level mistake happen to Perez?

Marco, on the other hand, had a gloomy face and said nothing.

I guess he is thinking of a suitable reason to kill Perez, and this reason will prevent him from being killed by local Mexican fans when he goes to Mexico to participate in the Mexican Grand Prix in the next few years.

Of course, it is not ruled out that he does not want to go to Mexico at all. What he is considering now is who to replace him after killing Perez.

Of course, Red Bull Racing has no shortage of talented drivers, so this problem is the easiest to solve.
After Perez crashed and his car was towed away, it started to drizzle on the track, but there were not many accidents on the track during the rainy period, and most of the drivers completed their first practice session smoothly on the track.

Although Qin Miao completed the first training session, the entire training session was still quite uncomfortable for him.

Although he did not encounter any accidents like Perez on the track, Qin Miao did not find a tuning setting that was comfortable for him during the entire practice session.

Although the tires have been replaced back to the original ones, and the grip and durability have returned to the dimensions that Qin Miao is most familiar with, for some reason Qin Miao felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.

This state continued until the second training session. Although Qin Miao found a set of training settings that were barely usable, they were not very comfortable to use, and Qin Miao's speed this week was not very fast.

But no matter what, after the second training session, Friday's work has come to an end.

After the training, Qin Miao returned to the hotel at night and referred to Hamilton's training. During the third training session on Saturday morning, Qin Miao optimized his training settings according to the old man's training ideas, and finally achieved a training that was barely acceptable to Qin Miao himself.

Also because Qin Miao's work in finding a car tuning setup for this Grand Prix weekend was not so smooth, Qin Miao's lap time during the practice session was not as fast as the old man's.

After the third practice session, time quickly came to the qualifying round.

It is worth mentioning that in this Grand Prix weekend, basically most of the teams brought upgrades to varying degrees. Red Bull had the largest upgrade, and today Mercedes also installed the upgrades that were missed in the last British Grand Prix.

The Arrow team, where Qin Miao and Leclerc's friend Zhou Guanyu is located, did not bring any upgrades to this Grand Prix weekend.

In fact, before this, Arrow had already half given up on today's race, and they did not expect their team to get good results in this Grand Prix weekend.

It is a blessing to be able to get the points, thank God.

But it’s the Q1 stage of qualifying.

While everyone was using a set of hard tyres to do long laps on the track, the two drivers of Arrow were incredibly fast.

Q1结束的最后一圈，周冠宇更是直接以1:18.143的成绩，力压19位F1车手荣登第一晋级Q2。

After Q1, Qin Miao ran back to the circle. When he saw that Zhou Guanyu was in first place, Qin Miao was stunned. He clearly remembered that A Luo did not bring any upgrades this week. Why could he get first place without any improvement?

Open something?
Or are the upgrades of other teams, except Arrow, reverse upgrades?
Arrow, who used neutral tires in Q2, also performed well on the track, and both drivers advanced to Q3.

After Q3, Zhou Guanyu's first flying lap was directly cancelled because it exceeded the track limit. Then Zhou Guanyu's last flying lap directly achieved a score of 1:1.

Although this result did not allow him to directly rank first, it also put Zhou Guanyu in fifth place.

Zhou Guanyu's result not only broke his career record for the highest qualifying result, but also created Alfa Romeo's best qualifying result since the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix, which has been 3941 days in the past.

The pole position driver for this race is an old man.

In the last flying lap, the old man defeated Verstappen, who was in second place, by 0.14 seconds.

Qin Miao's performance in the first two stages of qualifying was mediocre, mainly because he was not used to the current car's tuning.

When it came to the Q3 stage of qualifying, Qin Miao still felt that his car was weird, but with two stages of practice in qualifying and Qin Miao's own amazing adaptability, by the time it came to Q3, although Qin Miao still felt that the car was difficult to drive, he was able to bring out the full strength of the car in its current state of tuning.

However, it was not the most comfortable driving condition for him, so Qin Miao only got fourth place after crossing the finish line in the last flying lap of the qualifying race.

The third is Norris.

Because Piastri's last flying lap was cancelled, only the result of his first flying lap was taken, and he finally ranked seventh behind Leclerc.

The results of the final qualifying stage are as follows:
1: Hamilton 1:16.609
2: Verstappen

3: Norris
4: Qin Miao

5: Zhou Guanyu
6: Leclerc

7: Piastri
8: Bottas
9: Alonso
10: Perez
After the race, because of the old man's decisive victory in the last lap, the limelight in the qualifying round that should have belonged to Zhou Guanyu was stolen by Hamilton.

After all, this was Hamilton's first pole position of the season, and he also defeated Verstappen and his teammate Qin Miao.

Of course, Zhou Guanyu also received a lot of attention.

After all, the domestic audience base of F1 is very large at this time, basically equal to the number of audiences in Europe.

After all, the domestic population base is there, and Qin Miao has won two F1 world championships, and his influence in the country is unprecedented.

Therefore, many people still gave Zhou Guanyu applause. Chinese audiences who came from afar to watch the game and local Chinese students in Hungary also cheered for Zhou Guanyu.

In the post-match interview after the game, the reporter also asked Qin Miao about Zhou Guanyu's performance in today's game.

"As you know, Zhou Guanyu has always been an extremely talented driver. He just didn't get his chance. Today he got his chance and showed his full potential."

“I am looking forward to his performance in the race tomorrow. I am even a little worried that he will overtake me at the start tomorrow.”

After making a joke, Qin Miao's work for the rest of Saturday came to an end (End of this chapter)