How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 651 635: Qin Miao: It’s even more uncomfortable

This time, neither Red Bull nor Mercedes considered the issue of the pit window. After all, it doesn't matter whether there is someone in front of you after coming out of the maintenance area, or who this person is.

Given the current speed of Qin Miao and Verstappen's cars, it would not be too difficult for them to overtake each other.

It is worth mentioning that both of them used neutral tires after coming out of the maintenance area.

It’s not that Qin Miao didn’t have hard tires to use, or was preparing to stop.

After all, Verstappen was right behind him, and it would be too risky to choose to make a double stop at this time.

But if he chose the same tires and pit stop strategy as Verstappen, Qin Miao could have always been ahead of Verstappen.

Anyway, for the remaining races of this season, Mercedes and Qin Miao both know that their main goal is not to win any race championship.

But to ensure that after the end of the season, Qin Miao's points are higher than Verstappen.

Lap 41.

Because of the objective lap time gap between the drivers in front and behind on the track, Hamilton had already pulled away from Norris by nearly 5 seconds, and Norris had also pulled away from Alonso behind him by 14 seconds. Only Stroll and Sainz were relatively close to Perez.

Qin Miao, who had caught up with Sainz, felt a little numb at this time.

Because now he is in seventh place, he has encountered his lifelong enemy, the DRS train.

Even though he knew that if he was trapped in this train, Verstappen behind him would be unable to do anything to him, he still felt aggrieved for some reason when his famous skills were used on him by others.

The key is not this time. In today's game, Qin Miao used two sets of his own skills.

The first was at Piastri's, the second here.

To be honest, Qin Miao now feels as disgusting as if he had eaten a fly.

Moreover, there are certain solutions to the problem of long-term defensive layout.

But when it comes to the DRS train, there is no way you can crack it unless there is an absolute difference in racing performance.

F1 is not like basketball. If you encounter any difficulties on the field, you can rely on honing your skills to force your way through them. However, the DRS train in the F1 field is the DRS train. If the driver in front does not make mistakes or is left further and further behind, you may be trapped in it for the rest of your life.

Of course, if Qin Miao was just feeling a little aggrieved for being trapped in the DRS train, then Verstappen, who was behind Qin Miao, was desperate when he finally caught up to the DRS area behind Qin Miao and found that Alonso was leading in front, followed by Perez, Stroll, Sainz and Qin Miao.

The reason is the same as above.

Unable to overtake, even Verstappen didn't even have the desire to overtake after seeing this little DRS train.

Even after this, Verstappen had already started calculating how many points he would lose if he finished with his current ranking.

After careful calculation, Qin Miao is now ranked seventh and I am ranked eighth.

If you finish with the current ranking, you will get 6 points and 4 points respectively after the game.

The two-point gap in points was not so unacceptable, plus Qin Miao had one more point than himself as the sprint champion.

If the race ends with the current situation, the points gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao will be widened to 4 points if nothing unexpected happens.

This is still a points gap that can be made up by winning a single race.

So Verstappen only felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

In Verstappen's impression, if nothing unexpected happens, Qin Miao will most likely give up the opportunity to continue to score points in this race and choose to stay quietly in the DRS train.

Qin Miao was a very rational driver from beginning to end when he was on the track.

In fact, Qin Miao really thought so.

If nothing unexpected happens, he would like to finish the race with the current ranking. Even if he doesn't make it to the podium, he doesn't have to attend the post-race press conference.

Just when the situation on the track was a little dull, Zhou Haoran said in the studio of Five Star Sports: "It is worth mentioning that in today's game, Qin Miao encountered two defensive methods that he was particularly familiar with on the track."

The soldier asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

"The first time was when he was behind Piastri and about to overtake him. Piastri defended Qin Miao with Qin Miao's signature long-line defense. However, Piastri did not block Qin Miao for too long on the track and was overtaken by Qin Miao in the next DRS zone."

"And the second time is now. Qin Miao is trapped in the DRS train."

After hearing what Zhou Haoran said, Brother Bing and Brother Fei realized belatedly that the situation Qin Miao encountered on the track today was indeed as Zhou Haoran said.

However, Zhou Haoran quickly changed the focus of his conversation: "But what really surprised me here is that although Qin Miao's defensive method seems difficult to use, it is actually very difficult to use.

Because you need to know what level of mistakes will make the driver behind you want to attack you, but the flaws you expose won’t really let the other driver overtake you. And then, you have to defend your position in the next corner and disrupt the rhythm of the driver behind you. "

"There are too many restrictions on using this defensive method on the track. So far, I have only seen Hamilton try it, and he failed. Piastri's defense against Qin Miao today is the only driver besides Qin Miao who has successfully used this defensive method on the track."

"It was Qin Miao who was on guard."

After hearing what Zhou Haoran said, the other two commentators also suddenly realized.

After watching the somewhat dull scene on the court, the topic among the three people naturally continued with the topic raised by Zhou Haoran, discussing how difficult it was for Qin Miao to use this defensive method.

During this time, Qin Miao has been charging the battery of his racing car.

Even though I knew I didn't have to do anything for the rest of the race, I could just follow the DRS train and finish the race, and my mission would be accomplished.

But Qin Miao didn't want to end it like this, even though he knew that his chances of competing for a podium in this competition were slim.

Although there were still 30 laps left to the end of the race, the drivers in front were already far ahead.

If I work a little harder, I may be able to reach the third position.

At this time, the driving force behind Qin Miao's idea was not even that he wanted to widen the points gap with Verstappen in the driver's standings. It was purely his inner competitive spirit that was at work.

On the other hand, it is very frustrating for fast drivers like Qin Miao to follow a driver who is slower than himself.

How could the double champion endure such humiliation?
Naturally, we have to find a way out of the current predicament.

On the 43rd lap, Qin Miao was ready to take action against the tractors in front.

In fact, during the time when Qin Miao came behind him, Sainz was paying close attention to the Mercedes-Benz car behind him in the DRS zone in almost every lap, in order to prevent the Mercedes-Benz car from suddenly overtaking him.

But after observing for two laps, Sainz found that the Mercedes car behind him was unexpectedly obedient and showed no signs of attacking him, so Sainz relaxed his vigilance a little.

And just in the next lap when Sainz relaxed his vigilance, Qin Miao attacked Sainz.

The starting point is naturally the long straight after T12 on the Interlagos circuit, where overtaking is easiest.

After exiting the corner, Qin Miao began to release the power in his energy storage unit with all his strength. The new power unit that W14 had just replaced also gave Qin Miao the response he hoped for at the critical moment.

After Sainz came out of the corner, he subconsciously glanced at his rearview mirror, wanting to observe the position of Qin Miao's car.

Then Sainz was somewhat horrified to find that he had just left T14 and had not even entered the DRS zone on the starting straight, but the black W14 with red accents behind him had already absorbed the tail flow to the limit and was sticking to the back of his car.

Sainz has never felt such a strong sense of oppression from the black Mercedes behind him.

Next, Qin Miao and Sainz passed T14 together. Then Qin Miao pulled to the inside line at a critical time when he was about to hit Sainz, and quickly surpassed the Ferrari.

As mentioned before, with the current speed of Qin Miao's W14, overtaking a Ferrari is as easy as kicking a stray dog to death on the side of the road.

Yes, after Ferrari's SF-23 has DRS, the W14 is indeed troublesome to deal with, but if it overtakes you before you completely turn on DRS, wouldn't it be so troublesome?

Sainz, who was overtaken by Qin Miao, looked at the W14 going away, and he didn't even have too many negative emotions in his heart. He didn't even know why, but he wanted to laugh.

After Qin Miao surpassed Sainz, his momentum continued and he was rapidly approaching Stroll in front of him with a speed difference of 15 kilometers per hour.

The young master's car speed is actually quite good. After all, Martin uses a Mercedes engine. But the problem is that the young master's engine is not new, and now Qin Miao is approaching the young master with the huge speed advantage of having just absorbed Sainz's tail flow.

At the same time, you also need to consider the objective strength gap of the young master. His rhythm out of the corner is definitely not as good as Qin Miao's.

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So Qin Miao could easily approach the young master after kicking Sainz to death, and have the intention to kill him.

So the three commentators of Five Star Sports were so excited watching the W14 on the field, which was speeding up as if it had a Long March carrier rocket at its butt.

As soon as I entered DRS, I was 0.5 seconds behind the young master.

Stroll was much less alert than Sainz. He never expected that a Mercedes that should be behind the Ferrari would appear behind him.

Then before the braking point of T1, Qin Miao had already made a breakthrough on the inside line of Stroll.

Stroll didn't react at all during the whole process.

But compared to when he overtook Sainz, Qin Miao was much more cautious when overtaking Stroll.

After all, the young master...how to put it.

In terms of personal ability, I may be slightly lacking compared to other drivers.

Frankie emphasized this point to Qin Miao when Qin Miao entered F1 in his first year.

If Qin Miao meets Stroll on the track and wants to overtake him, he should leave more room.

After all, you never know what outrageous things a noob will do when driving a good car on the track.

Alonso, who was still at Renault, had a deep understanding of this.

So when Qin Miao overtook Stroll, he first stuck to the left side of Stroll's car. After seeing him trying to dodge to the right, Qin Miao braked and entered the corner sticking to his car, and then overtook Stroll after occupying the inside line.

Of course, Qin Miao's sudden action naturally scared Stroll.

There must be some birdsong and flowers blooming in the TR team.

However, it is better to be scolded than to have the other party fail to react and directly torpedo you when you overtake.

Besides, no matter how much the young master cursed at this time, it would not reach Qin Miao’s ears.

If Stroll had not subconsciously dodged to the left, Qin Miao would not have dared to enter the turn so close to him.

After surpassing the opponent and seeing that the opponent did not show any obvious intention to resist, Qin Miao breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Miao overtook two people on the starting straight and moved up from seventh to fifth.

I give you all more!

After completely surpassing Stroll, a feeling of relief and excitement emerged from Qin Miao's heart.

Qin Miao couldn't help but cheer:

“Let’s fucking go!”

Although the maneuver of overtaking two people by pulling away from the starting straight is relatively rare on the track, it does exist. However, it is indeed rare to overtake two people by relying on the speed of the car on the starting straight.

Before the braking point of T1 on the Interlagos circuit, Qin Miao relied on the wake of the two cars, DRS, and various other supports to achieve an incredible final speed of 358 kilometers per hour.

You have to know that the Interlagos circuit is a medium-to-high-speed circuit, and the downforce adjusted by the team for the driver's aerodynamic kit is still relatively large.

Being able to run at such a speed can only be attributed to the fact that Mercedes' new engine is really awesome, and Qin Miao's ability to absorb the tail flow is indeed extreme.

"Nice overtaking, keep it up, we have a chance to get on the podium!" Although Franky wanted to cheer at this time, he knew that in the current situation, he and Qin Miao always needed one of them to stay calm and analyze the situation on the field.

……

But the commentators of Five Star Sports can’t care so much.

After seeing Qin Miao break the DRS train on the track, the three commentators' mouths almost split to the back of their ears.

Compliments poured out of their mouths as if they were free.

The audience in the live broadcast room also opened champagne.

【Sanshui is awesome! 】

【Three Waters? Three Crowns! 】

[One through two is awesome]

[The mist exhaled after smoking passes through the lungs, lung mist]

[Qin Miao kicked him to death with just two kicks]

[So fierce]

[Can you handle my 358 kph punch? ]