How did I become an F1 driver?

Qin Miao was very busy during the first practice session. It felt a bit like going back to the time when he had just joined the F1 family and knew nothing, and was participating in practice sessions on the track.

However, there were still many unexpected things happening during the practice.

For example, during the first practice, Godzilla appeared on the track.

After all, Singapore is a tropical country, and the local biodiversity is still very rich.

In order to drain water, the track is not completely physically closed and connected to the surrounding retaining walls.

So Godzilla ran onto the track.

Then the Godzilla that had made it onto the track was crushed to death by the leader who was doing a qualifying simulation, without any hesitation or mercy.

When Qin Miao passed the bend, he also saw Godzilla's corpse. It looked so miserable, as if it had been crushed into two dimensions, just like being hit by a two-dimensional foil.

This was the only fun in the two practice sessions on Friday. The rest of the time was spent on communication and debugging over and over again. After the practice sessions, there were meetings and post-match interviews.

Friday was spent in a busy manner.

But at least in the two practice sessions, Mercedes got a good result, and the speed of the two drivers satisfied the team and themselves.

I won’t go into too much detail about the third practice session on Saturday. Both Mercedes drivers completed their test tasks almost perfectly, and there were no accidents worth mentioning on the track.

Soon, after a series of preparations, it was time for the qualifying round.

Qin Miao, who had changed into his racing suit, walked out of the team's home and came to the team's P room.

At this time, Qin Miao's car was ready and he was waiting for the pre-race inspection.

"Qin Miao!"

When passing by the VIP area of ​​the motorcade's P room, Qin Miao heard a familiar voice calling him. He turned around and saw Guo Donglin... Oh no, it was JJ Lin.

"JJ, long time no see. I'm sorry I didn't take good care of you. I have a game now. Let's talk after the game." After Qin Miao greeted JJ Lin, he went to his racing car.

JJ Lin was not surprised by this. He has come into contact with many F1 drivers. During the Singapore Grand Prix, he also visited other teams' P rooms to watch the races. He was also very familiar with the drivers' work processes during the Grand Prix weekend.

"Okay, don't forget the party after the weekend game!"

"it is good!"

After a brief greeting with JJ, Qin Miao came to his racing car. After completing a series of pre-race inspections, Qin Miao got into the car and let it self-check while waiting for the qualifying session to begin.

As time passed, qualifying officially began. However, the Singapore Grand Prix is ​​a street race after all, so Qin Miao was not in a hurry to go out.

If you go out now, you will probably experience a huge traffic jam.

After waiting for a while, Mercedes released the two drivers from the team's P room.

In the first flying lap, the two Mercedes drivers performed well, with the old man in third and Qin Miao in fourth.

Although the ranking is not too impressive, if nothing unexpected happens, this result will be enough for both drivers to enter Q2.

After a short rest, we started the last flying circle of Q1.

As mentioned before, if there were no accidents, we would be able to advance to Q2, but the problem is that an accident has occurred now.

Because there was a light rain on the track before today's qualifying session started.

Although the rain on the track had almost dried up in the Q1 stage of qualifying, the tire rubber left on the track by the F1 cars and the backup cars during the three practice sessions was also washed away by the rain, so the track grip in the Q1 stage of qualifying was very poor.

After the first flying lap of Q1, the tire rubber left on the track by other drivers can significantly increase the lap time of other drivers during the second flying lap of Q1.

So Qin Miao had to come out and run again.

In the last flying circle, Qin Miao naturally advanced to Q2 easily. As for the ranking, don't worry about it.

The last flying lap of Q1 was also quite fun. After Kakuda finished his last flying lap, he advanced to Q1 in first place with a time of 31.991:2.

Lynk & Co’s big upgrade this Grand Prix weekend was obviously very useful, because in addition to Kakuta advancing to first place, Ye Yifei also advanced to Q2 in third place.

In addition, Stroll, who was running the last flying lap on the track, encountered an accident. He made a mistake in the last corner and hit the wall, smashing his car to pieces.

However, the young master's first flying lap result of 1:33.397 was not enough for him to advance to Q2.

The damage to the young master's car was so severe that he couldn't even participate in tomorrow's race.

Because time was too tight, Aston Martin did not have enough spare parts.

After all, Singapore is an Asian competition, not a European competition.

If the young master had the accident at Silverstone, even if this car was hit and only a monocoque was left, Aston Martin could still build a new car for him.

But this is in Asia after all, and the high transportation costs did not allow the Aston Martin team to prepare too many spare parts.

After this accident, the young master will withdraw from the race tomorrow.

Alonso had no choice but to lead the team alone.

Stroll is indeed bad at driving, bad at driving and likes to play, but there is nothing we can do about it, his family is too rich, and the team is all his...

Like Stroll, the drivers who were eliminated in Q1 were: Bottas, Piastri, Russell, Zhou Guanyu, and Stroll.

These two Aro...

That's simply because the car is broken.

Originally, the engine of Arron's crappy car was pretty good, after all, it was a Ferrari engine, but the grooved Sauber self-developed gearbox became the C43's shortest shortcoming in this kind of street race that requires frequent acceleration and deceleration.

Although Arrow's car has maintained a good top speed thanks to the Ferrari engine, its acceleration performance is far behind other teams.

I won’t mention the others here.

Soon it was Q2.

Originally, both drivers and fans felt that the real highlight of this qualifying race was Q3.

But no one expected that there would be fun on the track in Q2.

In the last flying circle of Q2, Qin Miao and the old man both flew low. After all, they were both using old tires, and it was enough for them to advance to Q3. We couldn't ask too much of them.

But there was a lot of fun on the Red Bull side.

First, Perez spun in T2 on the last lap of Q2, and the result of the last lap was directly invalid. Also, because of his poor result in the first lap of Q2, Perez was eventually eliminated in 1th position.

Verstappen also had a poor performance in the last lap of Q2 and ended up in tenth place.

The main reason why Verstappen and Perez struggled this weekend was due to Red Bull's upgrade.

Originally, Red Bull brought a new floor upgrade to this Grand Prix weekend.

But once the chassis is actually installed on the car, the performance on the track is completely different from the track performance obtained by Red Bull in the simulator department.

After three practice games, there was still no obvious improvement.

So in order to remedy the situation, before the qualifying race began, Red Bull urgently lowered the chassis height and replaced the floor with the style before the upgrade.

It is obvious that Red Bull's upgrade has failed. Therefore, all the work on the floor during the three practice sessions of this Grand Prix weekend can be said to have been in vain.

Naturally, we couldn’t get any very good results in the qualifying stage.

After Verstappen finished his last flying lap in Q2, he was stuck in the extremely dangerous position of th. Fortunately, the drivers in the front row had already crossed the line at this time, and most of the drivers behind Verstappen were from the weakest teams.

Just when Red Bull was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Ye Yifei, who crossed the line behind Verstappen, helped Verstappen cover the coffin lid and nailed a few nails on it.

The result of Ye Yifei's last flying lap allowed him to advance to Q8 in 3th place. While entering Q1 for the first time in his career, he also pushed Verstappen into the elimination zone.

You should know that most of the fans at today's Singapore Grand Prix are Chinese fans who came from China.

When they saw Verstappen was about to pass low in tenth place, they felt a little regretful that Verstappen was not eliminated.

However, as Ye Yifei drove the Lynk & Co racing car into the top 10 and squeezed Verstappen out of the top 10, the scene suddenly erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

The scene felt like a goal scored in the World Cup.

In fact, there are more fans at the F1 Grand Prix than at a football stadium, but because these fans are scattered on the track, even though there are almost 15 people cheering together at a moment, the sound is not that scary.

"Ye Yifei! He squeezed out Verstappen! Hahahaha!" On the Five Star Sports side, Brother Bing couldn't help laughing after seeing Ye Yifei's performance on the track.

"Good job!"

“Nice!”

"You've helped Qin Miao a lot, Ye Yifei."

The other two commentators were also very happy at this time, but due to their identities as commentators, they could not shout and scream like those young people at this time. They still needed to pay attention to some public impact.

"This is the F1 arena. Any mistakes you make will be quickly magnified and then seized by the enemy."

On the track, after Ye Yifei crossed the line, the director showed the camera to the domestic fans who were celebrating with national flags, and then quickly turned the camera to the Red Bull team's control desk.

At this time, Marco was staring at the monitor in front of him with his hands crossed in front of his mouth, while Horner was lowering his head and saying something into the microphone next to his ear.

It's probably to comfort Verstappen or something like that.

The others also said nothing and had a stern face.

Everyone can see the low pressure inside the Red Bull team through this picture.

Qin Miao, who was about to return to the team's P room, also learned the good news through the team's TR.

Qin Miao couldn't help but smile: "Ye Yifei is awesome! I'm going to treat him to a meal after the game!"

……

Q3 is not as much fun as Q2.

In the two flying laps of Q3, Qin Miao used two sets of new soft tires.

The final result was second.

It’s not that Qin Miao didn’t work hard, it’s just that there were perverts on the track.

Leclerc ran a perfect last lap, and even ran a time of 1:30.809 on the last lap.

Although Qin Miao also broke 1:30, his final result was only 899, 0.09 seconds slower than Leclerc.

This was the result Qin Miao achieved after he had to rub against the wall at several turns on the track, and the wall was even scraped off in two or three patches.

Leclerc is incredibly fast thanks to his Ferrari's powerful engine and recent upgrades.

Qin Miao had no way to deal with this.

Qin Miao was happy for a while when he saw Verstappen being eliminated in Q2. However, when he was doing the post-race interview after the qualifying race, he felt unlucky when he looked at the red Ferrari in front of him.

The final rankings of the Q3 qualifying round are as follows:
1: Charles Leclerc (1:30.809)

2: Qin Miao

3: Hamilton

4: Sainz
5: Norris
6: Magnussen

7: Alonso
8: O'Connell

9: Hulkenberg

10: Ye Yifei

In fact, if you look at the ranking of the qualifying matches, you will find out.

Most of the teams at the front were using Ferrari engines.

Haas has always been at the bottom of the rankings, but today both drivers got good results.

Although all teams used Ferrari engines, some teams beat Red Bull and entered Q3, while others stopped directly in Q1.

All I can say is that Sauber's leadership could really use some time to die.

Groove Sauber.

After the qualifying race was over, Qin Miao got out of the car.

After getting off the car, Qin Miao saw Leclerc flying directly into the cheering crowd of Ferrari drivers.

Today's pole position is Leclerc's first pole position this season and also Ferrari's first pole position this season.

Naturally, everyone at Ferrari was very happy.

Qin Miao even saw Leclerc's girlfriend.

After Leclerc celebrated with the team staff, the two hugged each other.

Qin Miao smiled and shook his head as he watched this scene. He did not disturb the couple's celebration, but just had a simple celebration with his colleagues.

After the celebration, Qin Miao went to weigh himself. Leclerc also came over at this time. Qin Miao did not hug the fourth brother or anything. They had just finished the qualifying race and both of them were covered in sweat.

So the two of them just clapped their hands perfunctorily.

"How come you run so fast?" Qin Miao turned and asked Leclerc while standing on the scale.

Leclerc shrugged: "I don't know. In the last race, the SF23 was still difficult to control, but in today's race, I felt that the SF23 was very predictable and easier to control in many cases. Maybe it's because there are not many medium- and high-speed corners on this track."

Qin Miao stepped down from the scale, patted Leclerc on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "You also know that Verstappen and I are competing for the world championship this season, so let go of yourself appropriately during the race, otherwise I will let you fly directly."

The FIA ​​staff member who was recording the drivers' weights twitched his mouth involuntarily after hearing the conversation between Qin Miao and Leclerc.

No, you two really dare to say that.

Leclerc thought about it and said firmly: "It is impossible to let the water go, unless..."

"Unless what?" Qin Miao asked curiously.

"Let me take care of little Muchu for a few days." Leclerc said with a smile.

"Die." Qin Miao gave Leclerc the middle finger right in front of the camera. (End of this chapter)