How did I become an F1 driver?

From the perspective of ordinary audiences and commentators, Qin Miao and the old man were just engaging in a normal offense and defense on the track. The old man failed in his attack and continued to accumulate strength behind Qin Miao.

However, when the race reached the 15th lap, Qin Miao's advantage in tire preservation was fully revealed.

Hamilton has been thrown out of the DRS zone by Qin Miao.

What surprised both the old man and Mercedes was that the 9th lap was the first stint of the race and the only opportunity for the old man to attack Qin Miao.

Before entering the pit on the 18th lap, Hamilton had figured it out. If he wanted to overtake Qin Miao on the track while driving a car with the same performance as Qin Miao, he could not wait for Qin Miao to make a mistake or wait for an opportunity.

You have to take the initiative and create opportunities to attack Qin Miao yourself.

The old man also realized that with Qin Miao's defensive ability, every opportunity to attack Qin Miao on the track was precious.

Missing an opportunity to attack Qin Miao may result in completely missing the possibility of defeating Qin Miao and winning the championship in this game.

Hamilton and Qin Miao, one in front of the other, opened their own pit windows on the 18th and 19th laps.

In fact, Qin Miao's tire grip is still very impressive.

The reason for choosing such a normal pit stop window is that the durability of the soft tires in Monza is a bit too poor. Even a strong driver like Qin Miao can only run 12 laps in Monza with soft tires.

Qin Miao's set of neutral tires could not last 39 laps on the track, and could only run 35 laps at most. Therefore, there would be a four-lap window between the neutral tires and the soft tires.

During this period, Qin Miao's lap speed will drop significantly.

There is a high possibility that you will lose your current position.

But if you choose hard tires, it would be unnecessary to change to hard tires after running 30 laps on the track.

Because in Qin Miao's hands, the lap time difference between the 32-lap hard tire and the 21-lap hard tire is very small, maybe only about 0.2 per lap.

So the team just wanted to make things easier and had the two drivers pit one after the other, saving the team's technicians the trouble of running back and forth on the track.

The two Mercedes drivers changed their tires in the maintenance area, and Qin Miao even enjoyed a 4.4-second tire change.

However, Qin Miao's advantage in tire preservation was too great. Before entering the pit, the time gap between him and Hamilton was 5.7 seconds. Even if the team gave him a 4.4-second tire change, and Hamilton came out before him and ran a lap on the track with new hard tires, when Qin Miao returned to the track, the distance between him and Hamilton was still 1.7 seconds.

To be honest, Qin Miao actually wondered if letting the old man enter the pit first was some deliberate arrangement on the team's part?

After all, the technician who made the mistake in changing the tire was also from Hamilton's crew.

However, this was just Qin Miao's suspicion during the time he came out of the maintenance area. Qin Miao was still willing to believe that all this was just a coincidence.

Besides, my position hasn't dropped much, right?

The old man looked at Qin Miao, who was 1.7 seconds ahead of him, and inevitably felt murderous.

The old man knew that if he wanted to win the race, he might only have one or two chances.

There was no essential difference between his car and Qin Miao's, so it was too difficult to accumulate enough electricity for an attack. And when he was charging his car, he couldn't get too close to Qin Miao's car, because doing so would inevitably cause his car to inhale the exhaust gas emitted by Qin Miao's car.

Although the exhaust gas will not affect the speed of your car in the short term, if you inhale too much, the car engine will easily overheat.

When the horsepower decreases, your absolute speed will also become slower and slower.

So the old man stayed 0.6 seconds behind Qin Miao.

Here you can take advantage of the DRS and relatively limited wake of Qin Miao's racing car, while also minimizing the impact of the hot air exhausted by Qin Miao's racing car on your own racing engine.

After seeing the old man's actions, Qin Miao roughly guessed what the old man was thinking at the moment, but Qin Miao was not in a hurry. He drove normally while charging his racing car.

This kind of scene of defending the car behind is not too familiar to Qin Miao.

When the race reached the 24th lap, the old man's car was ready to go and the battery power reached 94%.

Making sure all systems were ready, the old man launched another attack.

In the DRS zone between T7 and T8, the old man turned on ERS for a limited time, shortening the time gap between himself and Qin Miao from the original 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

The next three corners, T8, T9 and T10, are continuous combination corners. What is more important here is the mechanical grip of the car. The aerodynamic efficiency and downforce of the car are not very useful here. So in this position, Hamilton was not affected by the turbulence of Qin Miao's car in front of him in the corner. After exiting the corner, the old man was still 0.5 seconds behind Qin Miao.

After exiting the turn, there is a long straight road without DRS, followed by the long U-turn T11.

At this position, although the old man would also be affected by the turbulence created by Qin Miao's car, the braking point he chose this time was very extreme, and he also stepped on the accelerator relatively early when entering and exiting the corner. After starting to step on the accelerator when exiting the corner, the old man turned on the ERS of his car at maximum power.

After Qin Miao came out of the corner and didn't need to do much on his own, his attention turned to Hamilton behind him.

After all, during the first stint, Qin Miao knew that the old man had some improper thoughts about him in this game.

The two W14s started accelerating immediately.

Qin Miao saw the old man in the rearview mirror pause for a moment, then he immediately absorbed his own tailwind and began to attack him.

Qin Miao drew the dragon twice and found that the old man was still biting him steadily.

In fact, Qin Miao was already thinking about how to defend the old man at this time, whether to bet on the inside or continue to feint a shot to block the old man's escape route.

But after thinking about it again, Qin Miao did not really defend the old man seriously. He just defended normally and blocked the inside line.

When the old man was shooting from the outside at Qin Miao, he was a little surprised to find that Qin Miao didn't do anything weird during the whole process.

After all, in Hamilton's vision, with the closeness between him and Qin Miao at this time, he has an advantage at the braking point of T1.

You can enter the turn before Qin Miao and have the right of way.

If Qin Miao really pushed himself off the track, the race organizers would not judge and return the position to Qin Miao.

Qin Miao actually knew this, and he could actually protect the old man at this time.

Qin Miao didn't even need to use the trick he used in the first stint. All Qin Miao needed to do was to put pressure on the old man and push him to the edge of the track.

With just this one move, the old man had to take advantage of the turbulent flow emitted from the side of his car, plus the old man's lane change and the lack of wake flow.

When I reach the braking point of T1, if I brake later I can enter the center of T1 before the old man.

At that time, whether it is blocking the old man's exit route or squeezing him out of the track and making him eat the sausage shoulder, it is just a matter of Qin Miao's thought.

But Qin Miao didn't defend like that this time. He just guarded the inside line to the braking point of T1.

To be honest, Hamilton himself couldn't understand why Qin Miao didn't defend him.

As for sticking to the inside line and sticking closely to Hamilton before the braking point of T1?

What kind of defense is this?
Although this defensive method is still difficult for some beginners or amateur drivers.

But for drivers of Qin Miao's level, this is just a very common defensive method.

This is also the reason why the old man was surprised. Next, the two Mercedes cars entered the braking point of T1 one after the other.

The old man's car was half larger than Qin Miao's.

If Verstappen was in Qin Miao's position, he would definitely have braked late in a suicidal manner at this time, forcing the choice to Hamilton.

Either we pretend to be nice, or you take the initiative to step back and give me the track.

But Qin Miao is not Pan Zi after all, so Qin Miao left some space for his teammates to enter the corner.

The old man and Qin Miao took turns one after another.

Qin Miao on the inside line still gained a certain advantage when entering the corner, and even in the middle of the corner, he returned to the state of being side by side with the old man.

But Monza's T1 is a Z-turn, with a right turn followed by a left turn.

After T2, Qin Miao's position changed from inside to outside.

The old man who was originally side by side with Qin Miao reached T2 and was ahead of Qin Miao when he came out of the corner.

Qin Miao took a cross-line exit.

Although the possibility of regaining the position here was very low, Qin Miao still tried it.

However, the old man was trying his best in one go and would definitely not leave such a big flaw. In the end, although Qin Miao was a little faster than the old man when he came out of the corner, it was still not much and he still failed to regain his position before T4.

"It's okay, we still have a chance to get our position back." After Qin Miao was overtaken, Franky comforted Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao seemed quite calm. He didn't say much, just replied: "Got it."

In fact, Qin Miao gave up this position to the old man reluctantly.

Qin Miao's idea at that time was very simple. If you, Hamilton, overtake me, then you are awesome and I will give you the position.

But if you can't surpass me under my limited defense, I can only say that you are too bad. Just consider yourself unlucky and stay behind me honestly.

It's not that Qin Miao took money from the old man privately. The reason why Qin Miao gave up his seat to Hamilton at this time was mainly because Qin Miao knew that the old man had made great progress in tire management.

His set of hard tires will probably last for a long time.

If I can hold on this time, I believe that after a few rounds the old man will definitely gather up enough energy to start attacking me.

Originally, in today's race, Hamilton and I were faster than Verstappen, which was a rare race, but in reality, we were not much faster than Verstappen.

If he and Hamilton wasted too much time in the fight, Verstappen, who was behind them, would probably catch up secretly when they were too engrossed in the fight to take care of other things.

By that time, his and Hamilton's tires will be badly damaged due to the fight, and Verstappen's tires will be slightly worn, so it will not be easy for him to overtake himself and Hamilton here.

So for the sake of the overall situation, Qin Miao chose to reluctantly give up his position to Hamilton. After all, the old man's speed was about the same as his.

All I need to do is learn from Hamilton at the beginning of the race, follow the driver in front, use his DRS, and wait for the opportunity to act.

Qin Miao is not worried about losing the championship in today's race, because the durability of his tires will definitely be higher than Hamilton's.

By the last few laps of the race, my lap time should be about 0.2 or 0.3 faster than the old man's.

The old man doesn't have the same incredible defensive ability as me. If I catch up with him, wouldn't it be easy for me to surpass him?

However, the other fans who were watching Qin Miao's performance in today's race knew nothing about this.

So after seeing Qin Miao being surpassed by the old man, Brother Bing, Brother Fei and others sighed with regret.

"What a pity, Qin Miao couldn't withstand Hamilton's attack."

"After the W14 had the slipstream and DRS, the tail speed was indeed a bit too high." Zhou Haoran looked at the data on the laptop in front of him and said, "Just now, Hamilton ran a tail speed of 357 kilometers per hour before overtaking Qin Miao, while Qin Miao only ran a tail speed of 345 kilometers per hour."

"The final speed is more than 20 kilometers faster. Even someone as strong in defense as Qin Miao really doesn't have any good solution." The soldier also shook his head and sighed.

After Qin Miao was overtaken on the track, the broadcast camera of the race was no longer focused on the two Mercedes drivers, but instead paid attention to the home drivers of today's race, Sainz and Leclerc.

Although their positions were a bit behind, ranking fifth and sixth.

But internal fighting at Ferrari has become a tradition, and the two drivers have similar speeds and are in just the right positions, one in front and one behind.

Naturally, some minor frictions are inevitable.

However, unlike Qin Miao in front, Qin Miao took the initiative to let Hamilton take his position in order to prevent Verstappen behind him from having any inappropriate thoughts.

The two Ferrari drivers were not as skilled and courageous as Qin Miao. In order to prove themselves at home, the two fought extremely fiercely.

Therefore, the Ferrari fans at home, who had just watched the internal fighting of Mercedes with great joy, now watched the internal fighting between the two drivers of their own team with mixed feelings.

However, before the two Ferrari drivers officially decided the winner on the track, on the 46th lap, with 5 laps left to the end of the race, Qin Miao shortened the time gap between himself and Hamilton to 2 seconds at the junction of the 3nd and 0.4rd timing sections.

On the next straight, Qin Miao shortened the time gap between himself and the old man to 0.2 seconds.
After exiting the corner, the time gap was widened to 0.3 seconds.

After exiting the turn, I came to the DRS area on the starting straight. I turned on DRS, took the outside line, braked late, and forced my way into the old man's outside line, preparing to enter the turn, but the old man did not leave enough space, so I had no choice but to be squeezed off the track by the old man from the outside line.

Moreover, there are many high sausage-shaped curbs at the center of the Monza T2 corners. If a ground-effect era car drives over them, it will 100% cause damage to the car's floor.

If the floor of a racing car in the ground effect era is damaged, the loss of downforce will be extremely large.

If it was a 21-year racing car, Qin Miao would probably run directly over these curbs. After all, the bottom plate of the 21-year racing car is a flat plate. The first thing to touch the curb would not be the carbon fiber bottom plate of the racing car, but the piece of wood at the bottom of the racing car.

It is worth mentioning that it is not actually wood, but fiberglass, but the color looks like wood.

Moreover, the sparks produced by the racing car when it bumps around are not produced by the fiberglass board, but by the titanium alloy detection holes behind the fiberglass board.

Back to topic.

Qin Miao naturally had to return to the track from the buffer zone.

The good news is that because Qin Miao made the judgment early, he did not lose too much time due to being squeezed out of the track. After returning to the track, he was only 0.7 seconds behind Hamilton.

After being forced off the track by the old man, Qin Miao must have complained to the team.

When he defended Hamilton for the first time, it was still necessary to discuss and review whether his actions were illegal. After all, the FIA ​​rules only stipulate that only one lane change defense is allowed before braking, and Qin Miao's position was still some distance away from the braking point.

However, the FIA ​​rules clearly stipulate that whoever reaches the center of the corner first has the right of line, and when entering a corner wheel-to-wheel, a certain amount of space must be left for other drivers to enter or exit the corner if it can be avoided.

In your eyes, Hamilton, are your teammates not considered other drivers?

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