How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 80 79: Zhou Guanyu
Qin Miao was very happy to see Bi Hei in reality, and what followed was an accident.

Because he didn't expect Binotto to be so tall.

After Binotto came to Room P, he took the work reports handed over by the staff, and then took these work reports to the command area opposite Room P, where there were already Ferrari staff working.

Not long after, Leclerc also came to the P room wearing a racing suit. After all, the practice was about to start, and the drivers had to get out of the busy interview activities one after another.

At the same time, there were two people behind Leclerc, one was his physical trainer, and the other was a staff member wearing an official FIA staff vest and carrying a camera.

When Leclerc came in, he went straight to his car, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the VIP where Qin Miao was.

After all, he is an F1 driver, so his eyesight is naturally the best.

Leclerc was just a little puzzled at first, why a VIP came to watch the game in the first practice stage, and when he turned his head to look over, he realized, hey, isn't this the guy who fought with me on the simulator?
After the confusion, both Qin Miao and Leclerc became paralyzed.

Qin Miao was surprised that Leclerc came, but he was even more surprised that Qin Miao was not standing in the VIP viewing area behind Leclerc's car. Qin Miao and Qiu Meng stood behind Vettel's car.

The meaning of this is self-evident.

Leclerc had a complicated expression, while Qin Miao was a little embarrassed.

He didn't deliberately stand behind Vettel's car. After all, this was his first visit to the P room of the F1 team. Qin Miao was fascinated by the huge amount of data and equipment in the P room, but he didn't pay attention to the rear of the car. No. Naturally, he didn't know that he was standing behind Vettel's car at this time.

But at this moment, Qin Miao was embarrassed to go directly to the VIP area behind Leclerc's racing car in front of Leclerc, so he still wanted to show some face.

The two looked at each other awkwardly, and then nodded at each other.

When Leclerc got busy and was preparing for the practice race, Qin Miao took Qiumeng to the VIP area behind Leclerc's car calmly.

Now that Leclerc didn't find out, it wouldn't be shameful for Qin Miao to transfer here...

And Qin Miao did this mainly because Vettel hadn't come yet, and he wanted to observe what preparations an F1 driver needs to make before the race.

However, in Qin Miao's opinion, there was nothing special about this step.

Leclerc just put on the sweat-absorbing white headgear, and then buckled the helmet. After adjusting the position of the helmet, he dangled a transparent water pipe and sat in the Ferrari SF90 that had started the engine.

In the next period of time, Qin Miao finally understood why the driver who brought him and Qiumeng said that the practice session was boring.

Because Leclerc has been communicating with the team's staff after he got into the car, and after confirming the settings he was going to use, he directly asked the staff to lift the tire insulation blanket and drive the car into the track.

After running a few laps on the track, the car got the desired test data and returned to the P room, where it was debugged, communicated, and then went out to run again with a different setting.

During the whole practice session, what Qin Miao could see was that the whole team was repeating the same process constantly.

After a long time, the novelty gradually faded, and both Qin Miao and Qiu Meng who stayed in room P felt bored.

Even in the drinks that the Ferrari staff handed over to Qin Miao, Qin Miao somehow felt that he tasted a smell of motor oil.

Turning around to ask Qiumeng's opinion, Qin Miao took Qiumeng away after seeing that the other party also felt that Ferrari's P room was a bit boring.

After the two came out, they did nothing else. They ran to the viewing area above the P room, ordered two ice creams and some food, and just ate while watching the practice match.

The two remained in this state and watched the first and second practice sessions of the British Grand Prix.

The paddock was not closed after the first and second practice sessions. Many drivers went to the post-race interview booth for interviews. After the interviews, there were still many activities for them to participate in, such as shaking hands with fans, signing autographs, interviewing, and conducting some competitions. Later mini-games and the like.

Qin Miao was secretly speechless after seeing this scene.

Although F1 is currently the fastest motorsport in the world, it is also the most prestigious car event in the world.

But Qin Miao is not too eager to get a seat as an F1 driver.

Because F1 drivers are too busy.

The other driver Qin Miao was not very clear, but he noticed a Leclerc timetable when he was watching the practice race in the VIP area behind Leclerc.

It can be said that throughout the weekend, Leclerc's schedule was fully scheduled, completely like a spinning top, turning from here to there, and from there to here again, without any respite.

If you say you can let Qin Miao drive an F1 car, then Qin Miao will definitely agree without hesitation, and increase his training crazily so that he can be worthy of an F1 car.

But if you join so many business activities like Leclerc on the premise of driving an F1 car, then Qin Miao will probably refuse after weighing it.

Driving an F1 car is very exciting, almost every racing driver's dream, but Qin Miao felt that he might not be able to bear such a great pressure.

You must know that the pressure is so great that there is not only one weekend that is almost continuous, but there are 22 such weekends in a year.

Qin Miao really didn't think she could bear it after being in such a high-pressure state for a long time.

After watching the practice race on the first day, and briefly appreciating the daily work intensity of F1 drivers, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng did not participate in the following paddock activities.

Because Qin Miao was still holding a helmet worth [-] pounds, and the weather in Silverstone was not stable these days, if it rained, Leclerc's signature on Qin Miao's helmet would be invalidated.

So for the sake of safety, Qin Miao decided to go back to the hotel with Qiu Meng first, and Qin Miao could feel at ease after putting the helmet away.

After returning to the hotel, Qin Miao was dragged by Qiu Meng to the gym.

Although I came out to play today, Qiu Meng didn't want Qin Miao to slack off in training.

Qin Miao also didn't want the various attributes that she had finally improved after she had put in countless sweats to fall back again.

So Qin Miao has no resistance to training. Although Kong Youming is not with Qin Miao at this time, after nearly half a month of training, what training items should Qin Miao have for himself, and what are the standard movements for the training items? Already have a general understanding.

It is no problem for Qin Miao to complete a set of basic training independently.

Today's day passed like this, and there was nothing to say all night.

The next day, the two still got up early and went to Silverstone.

What will be carried out today is the third practice and qualifying of F1.

With yesterday's lesson, Qin Miao knew that there was nothing interesting about the third practice, so today he didn't plan to go to the P room to wait boredly.

However, Qin Miao was still a little curious during the qualifying stage. He wanted to see what the team usually does during qualifying.

Entering the paddock from the old place, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng came directly to the rest area behind the P room of the team through the sightseeing car, and went to the viewing area above the P room with ease.

Just like yesterday, I randomly ordered some food and started to pass the time waiting for the start of the third F1 practice.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao saw the Asian man he had seen yesterday in the stands again.

Qin Miao is not very clear about the exact name of the team he is in, but judging from the man's clothes, the other party should belong to Renault's youth training.

Soon the F2 qualifying session will begin.

Compared with F2, the ranking of F1 is much simpler, and the time is not long, only half an hour.

There is also no subdivision of Q1Q2Q3. All F2 teams completed the qualifying laps within half an hour.

Since the speed of F2 cars is not as fast as that of F1, the most important thing is that there is no performance gap between F2 cars, so there are no serious traffic problems like F1 when qualifying.

Qin Miao, who was watching all this from the stands, looked forward to being able to sit in the F2 cockpit one day, because F2 drivers are different from F1 drivers.

Although both parties can drive formula cars, F2 drivers do not need to participate in as many activities as F1 drivers. F2 basically accepts a post-race interview after the daily race, and then can directly return to the team station To analyze your own problems, there is no need to waste so much time on interacting with fans.

When the F2 drivers drove their cars out for tire warm-up laps, Qin Miao paid special attention to the Asian man's name.

After all, the habit of addressing people in foreign countries and China is completely different, so the only Asian name that Qin Miao can see is ZHOU.

As a Chinese, Qin Miao could tell at a glance that this was a Chinese surname. If nothing else, this Asian should be surnamed Zhou.

However, at this time, Qin Miao was not sure whether the other party was her compatriot, because there are still many people around our country who use Chinese surnames, so Qin Miao took out her mobile phone to check the driver's name of the UNI-Virtuosi Racin team. Nationality and name.

Qin Miao quickly confirmed the identity of the other party, he was indeed a Chinese, and his name was Zhou Guanyu.

After confirming the other party's identity, Qin Miao's sense of recognition and intimacy with him immediately came up. Naturally, Qin Miao also began to pay more attention to Zhou Guanyu.

In the qualifying stage, Zhou Guanyu was obviously in good shape today, and temporarily won the first place with a score of 1.38.498 in the first flying lap.

At that time, Qin Miao was really excited: Fuck, is this guy so fierce?
Apart from excitement, Qin Miao also had surprises, because Qin Miao, who often watched F1 races, did not know that there was a Chinese driver in F2, so Qin Miao subconsciously felt that Zhou Guanyu's strength might be below average.

But now after running the first round of flying laps in the qualifying round, he directly won the first place in the whole field, how is this not surprising.

During the intermission of qualifying, many drivers returned to their respective P room areas to rest and prepare for the final stage.

Originally, Qin Miao thought that what he would see next was that many F2 drivers successively set the fastest qualifying lap created by Zhou Guanyu, and the ranking of the qualifying would be changed frequently.

Unexpectedly, until the end of qualifying, no one could break the fastest lap created by Zhou Guanyu in the first stage.

Instead, Zhou Guanyu set his own fastest lap with 22 minutes and 2 seconds before the end of the race, creating the fastest lap record for F[-] at Silverstone.

And the score of this record is: 1.38.182.

In the final F2 qualifying stage, Zhou Guanyu won the pole position. As for the second and third places, Qin Miao didn't know him, so he simply ignored it.

After seeing Zhou Guanyu's pole position, Qin Miao also became interested in F2.

Qin Miao's interest in F2 is not its race. Qin Miao's interest comes from whether he has the opportunity to drive an F2 car like Zhou Guanyu.

Although the GT3 racing car is very handsome, after all, the foundation is there, and with the addition of those officially designed aerodynamic kits on the racing car, the appearance of the GT3 racing car is absolutely top-notch.

But the GT3 racing car is essentially a civilian super sports car modified for racing. It is handsome, but compared with the car that came out of the mother's womb to gallop on the track like formula, the speed is still a little bit worse.

If it is Qin Miao who has not obtained the system before, has never driven an F4, and has never participated in an AMG GT race, Qin Miao will most likely not have much interest in formula racing.

Because he knows that it is impossible for him to become an F1 driver without cultivating his racing intuition since he was a child, and without the support of a financial backer.

And F2?For such a low-profile event, Qin Miao at the time might have scoffed at it and thought that F2 was not as good as GT3.

But now it is different, Qin Miao has a real experience of driving a racing car, and felt the speed of F2 on the spot.

He knows that F2 is actually much faster than GT3.

And human nature will prompt Qin Miao to tirelessly pursue a better car, so he subconsciously wants to experience faster speed and drive a faster car.

To put it bluntly, Qin Miao wanted to try out what it was like to drive F2.

Since my compatriots can get the pole position in the F2 qualifying race, then I may not be able to shine in the F2 field with the system.

And Qin Miao felt that being an F2 driver was much more comfortable than being an F1 driver.

After having this idea, Qin Miao suddenly had an idea, and pulled Qiu Meng downstairs.

At this time, the F2 qualifying session has just ended, and all the cars are still on the track and have not returned.

Unlike F1, after the F2 race is over, there will be no interviews for the first, second and third qualifying races. After the qualifying race, the drivers will drive their cars back to the door of the P room. After that, the staff of the F2 team will He would pack up his things and leave.

After all, there are still three F1 practice sessions and qualifying rounds, so we can't keep occupying other people's places.

However, Qin Miao did not go downstairs to watch them pack their things. Qin Miao remembered that when he and Qiumeng were walking around in the paddock yesterday, he saw the area where the F2 team parked and adjusted their settings.

Qin Miao was ready to take Qiumeng there at this moment.

His thoughts were relatively simple, Qin Miao just wanted to go over and ask how to become an F2 driver, and if he could meet Zhou Guanyu, he could take a photo with him or something.

Qin Miao's idea...ordinary people really can't think of it.

At first glance, you may think that Qin Miao's approach is a little brainless, but after careful consideration, you will be surprised to find that there is nothing wrong with Qin Miao's approach. There is no way to become an F2 driver?Then you can directly ask the team leader of the F2 team or other leading staff...

(End of this chapter)