How did I become an F1 driver?

However, this is not the final tire formula. Pirelli will still adjust the tire formula before the 24th season, so the real 24th tire will have to wait for testing after the end of the 23rd season.

Now it’s just a matter of giving the drivers time to adapt.

Friday just passed like that.

On Saturday morning, Lynk & Co finally announced the signing of a contract between Lynk & Co and Yuki Tsunoda amid the anticipation of all Japanese car fans.

However, this time Lynk & Co and Kakuta only signed a one-year contract.

It's normal to think about it. After all, Lynk & Co is a domestic racing team. Unless Kakuta is as strong as Qin Miao, Lynk & Co has no reason to keep him for a long time.

The reason why we signed Lynk & Co. with Kakuda now is after considering many aspects.

Apart from the fact that the contract that Tsunoda wanted was very short, only one year, Honda also gave Lynk & Co a discount on its engine, and there was also intercession from Red Bull.

All in all, this is a collaboration based on compromises among multiple parties, and Lynk & Co will not be able to find a suitable driver in the paddock in a short period of time, so Tsunoda will still be Ricciardo next year.

In the qualifying session on Saturday, Mercedes' W14 showed signs of not acclimatizing to the local climate from the very beginning.

It cannot be said that the W14 is not adapted to the local conditions, but that the W14 is not adapted to the track characteristics of the Suzuka Circuit, so the two Mercedes cars stumbled during the qualifying stage of the Suzuka Circuit.

At the end of the final qualifying session, the two drivers only got 5th and 6th qualifying results.

The final qualifying rankings are as follows:
1: Max Verstappen (1:28.877)

2: Piastri
3: Norris
4: Leclerc

5: Qin Miao

6: Hamilton

7: Perez
8: Sainz
9: Tsunoda

10: Alonso
There is not much to say about this qualifying race. There were no accidents with the two Mercedes drivers on the track. Both of them tried very hard, but the characteristics of the car meant that the W14 could not go fast on the Suzuka Circuit.

After the qualifying race, Qin Miao and Leclerc still did not attend the post-race interview.

After finishing the interview at the door of the team’s P room, the two left the paddock directly. As for what they were going to do... naturally, it was a community activity.

FOM and FIA originally thought that the matter was over, but who could have imagined that Qin Miao and Leclerc would insist on asking the FIA ​​to apologize.

Although the two did not say it explicitly, the current FIA has basically done everything they can. The only thing they have not done is to apologize to Qin Miao and Leclerc.

After eliminating all possibilities, it is not difficult to guess what Qin Miao and Leclerc are asking for.

But our FIA is an international organization. Why should we apologize to you two?
So the two sides continued to be deadlocked.

Qin Miao didn't even attend the activities on Sunday. After arriving at the paddock on Sunday, he stayed in the lounge of the team's home.

Of course, protests aside, Qin Miao couldn't possibly disappoint the fans who came to watch his race.

Although he did not attend any commercial activities, Qin Miao still participated in the driver parade before the race and the national anthem of the host country.

However, when the process reached the playing of the Japanese national anthem, all the drivers took off their hats, except Qin Miao, who was still wearing a red hat, and showed no intention of taking it off.

If this was Qin Miao's first season in F1, he would definitely be criticized for doing this.

But this is already Qin Miao's third season in F1. At every season's Japanese Grand Prix, Qin Miao has shown some disrespect to the driver.

Japanese car fans have even become accustomed to this.

Even in their eyes, Qin Miao is the youngest two-time world champion in the world.
As the youngest world champion in the world, Qin Miao disdained their qualifications.

These little Japanese are like this, they fear power but not virtue. The more unkind you are to them, the more respectful and happier they will be.

On the contrary, many people in China would bark non-stop at Qin Miao's behavior every time the Japanese Grand Prix was held.

After completing all the pre-race preparations, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room.

At this time, Toto was sitting in his seat looking at the data. When he saw Qin Miao coming back, he just nodded at Qin Miao, gave him an encouraging look, and then continued to lower his head to work on the things in front of him.

If it was two years ago, when Qin Miao had just entered his first season in F1, he would have encountered what he is experiencing now on the track.

After Qin Miao returned to the team's P room, Toto must have needed to talk to Qin Miao and give him some advice.

But now Toto has full confidence in Qin Miao's ability to adjust his mentality. After all, a young man who won two world championships not only did not get carried away, but was able to calm down and live the same life every day.

It's hard to believe that he is a man who would act on impulse.

As for the current conflict between Qin Miao and the FIA, the cause actually has little to do with Qin Miao. Everyone knows that the FIA's punishment of one week of community service is indeed a bit too severe.

As for the middle finger...how much more calm can you ask of a young man who is only 22 years old?

Besides, things outside the track are outside the track. Qin Miao's performance on the track is still worthy of Toto's trust.

Qin Miao also nodded to Toto and began the final preparations before the game.

During the race, Qin Miao and his teammate the old man next to him both started with neutral tires. The old man was prepared to make two stops, and if there was a safety car, the possibility of a three-stop was not ruled out.

Qin Miao was prepared to finish the race with one stop on the yellow and white tyres. If a safety car or something like that appeared on the track, a second stop was possible, because Qin Miao habitually left himself two sets of new soft tyres.

In fact, today's game has little to do with Qin Miao.

Although today's game seemed particularly exciting to the audience...

Qin Miao gained the advantage in position at the beginning.

This finally ended Qin Miao's curse of having several perfect starts but being unable to improve his position at the starting stage.

Qin Miao surpassed Leclerc.

At that time, Qin Miao took the start and directly overtook Leclerc on the outside with his excellent reaction speed and the W14's faster acceleration ability than the SF23.

We were in fourth place at the start.

At the same time, the old man made a slight mistake at the start and had a slight collision with Perez behind him on the outside line of the track.

Both drivers' cars were damaged to varying degrees.

However, both drivers maintained relative restraint. Although a collision occurred, the accident was not serious and not much debris was scraped off. The damage to both cars was within controllable range. However, the driver in front was able to maintain restraint, while the driver behind was not so particular.

After all, the old man and Perez are in the points zone no matter what, so even if they lose their position, they can still bring back some points.

But the drivers at the back do not have any guaranteed points to get. If they do not perform well in the race, they will get nothing. Although there is a difference of nine drivers between the eleventh and the twentieth place, their scores are the same after the race, which is zero.

Therefore, the drivers at the back will race more or less aggressively at the start, and the more aggressive they are, the more likely accidents will occur.

After the start, Albon kept accelerating on the outside of the track, while Bottas pulled over from his right side, and to the right of Bottas was Ocon.

Although it is not common to see three cars parked side by side, it has happened before. So far, everything is normal.

The change occurred in O'Connell.

In order to get a better grip on the track, Ocon moved closer to the driving line of the track, which is his left hand.

At the start, Ocon and his team were not like the pole position drivers or Qin Miao and his team. They knew who the drivers in front and behind were, and had a general understanding of their driving habits. The space around them was also quite spacious, so they knew what actions they could make safely within this range.

There were drivers all around Ocon, so he couldn't keep track of them all. Naturally, he didn't notice that Bottas had come to his left rear.

As Ocon continued to change lanes to the left, Bottas, who realized that Ocon was pressing towards him, naturally chose to dodge to the left.

But Bottas' left hand was Albon, and he had nowhere to hide.

Originally, Bottas, as one of the top drivers, was in an extreme position and did not continue to squeeze towards Albon on the left, but Ocon continued to squeeze on the right.

Albon was hit by Ocon's cross-court shot.

The collision directly caused Albon's car to jump up.

But no one who can become an F1 driver is mediocre, let alone Albon who was a Red Bull driver before.

So after taking off and landing, Albon quickly corrected himself and stabilized his car again.

There was no secondary accident caused by the car losing control.

However, this chain accident involving the three people still brought out a lot of carbon fiber fragments from the racing cars. Even the unlucky Zhou Guanyu behind Bottas had his car hit by the carbon fiber fragments, causing damage to the front nose of the car.

Although when watching the live broadcast of the game, the F1 racing car, which is made entirely of carbon fiber, will splash all over the ground when it crashes.

It feels like the F1 cars are not particularly sturdy, but rather break into pieces like a shark at the slightest touch.

But in fact, carbon fiber is the most suitable material for racing cars in the world, as it has top-notch hardness, toughness, tensile strength and ductility while being lightweight.

Carbon fiber is actually very hard. Just like the front nose of an F1 car, there will be no problem at all if five or six people stand on the front nose of the car. The front nose of the car will not even be deformed.

The reason why the F1 car looks like a shark in the broadcast is that under the huge kinetic energy of the F1 car itself, even carbon fiber cannot withstand such a great impact.

At this time, I don’t know whether to say that Zhou Guanyu is lucky or unlucky.

You say he was lucky, but his car hit some carbon fiber fragments. According to the current extent of damage to Zhou Guanyu's car, he must find an opportunity to pit and replace the front nose wing.

But you say he was unlucky, at least the carbon fiber fragments did not go to his head. At the speed at that time, if the carbon fiber fragments hit Zhou Guanyu's head, although Zhou Guanyu's helmet could block the impact damage caused by the carbon fiber fragments, a concussion or mild concussion would definitely be inevitable.

There is a high probability of withdrawal.

Because of this collision, a large amount of debris was brought out and a safety car appeared on the track.

Drivers who had accidents chose to pit and change tires during this period.

When Bottas entered the pit to change tires, Arrow showed the traditional skills of the Ferrari team.

Because Bottas' front nose wing was damaged, the team needed to replace Bottas with a new one. However, during this process, the tire changer of the Arrow team forgot to lift Bottas' car with a jack first, but directly removed Bottas' front nose wing on the spot.

As a result, the work of replacing the front nose wing and the two front wheels, which could originally be carried out simultaneously, became replacing the front nose wing first, and then using a jack to lift up the front nose wing before replacing the two front wheels.

The total time for a set of operations is more than 30 seconds.

After Bottas came out of the maintenance area, he fell directly to the end of the team.

But now we are under the safety car, so even if he falls to the back of the team, it is only a matter of time before Bottas catches up.

But as if it weren't raining, Bottas had just come out for a short time and was at the end of the team when he was torpedoed by Stroll, whom he had overtaken, after the race restarted.

Bottas' car spun in circles and then ran off the track again.

Although Bottas brought the car back from outside the track, this time the car was scraped to the bottom after running off the track.

The car was seriously damaged and Bottas eventually returned to the team's P room and retired.

At the same time, something happened during the safety car period, which set the stage for the abstract scenes that followed.

Perez collided with Hamilton at the start of the race. At that time, the FIA ​​did not give any penalties to the two drivers, believing that it was just an ordinary track accident.

During the safety car period, Red Bull called Perez into the pit, wanting to repair Perez's car and replace the front wing and the like.

Perez also knew that under the guidance of the safety car, he would most likely fall to the back of the team after coming out of the pit.

But he had to pit, because with the current level of damage to the car, if Perez stayed on the track until the first stint, he would fall to the back of the team.

So it’s better to be a little more discrete and skip the middle steps directly.

However, Perez, who was still attached to his current position, became a little anxious during the pit stop.

You should know that the FIA ​​has now introduced penalty rules. During the starting phase, you cannot overtake the rear wheels of the car in front of you. If you exceed the rear wheels, you will be penalized for 5 seconds.

Perez was pitting at the time and he didn't think too much about it, so when he came to the entrance of the maintenance area, he accelerated directly, trying to give himself a little more time advantage in this pit stop phase.

But because of this accelerator, Perez overtook Alonso in front of him by half a car body before entering the maintenance area.

The race stewards did not notice Perez's violation at the first time, and did not give a penalty notice until the safety car was withdrawn and the race resumed.

The penalty was not given until after the safety car was withdrawn on the second lap.

Perez didn't even have time to pit to accept the penalty.

He torpedoed Magnussen right there on the track. (End of chapter)