How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 9 9: Simulators and Reality

Listening to the students' questions, Qin Miao didn't know how to answer them.

How do you say this?
Qin Miao knew what games her classmates usually played.

Most people play mobile games, and a small number of people play games on computers, and they also play online games, such as LOL or CF, which are relatively entertaining games.

Qin Miao couldn't explain to them the difference between the racing "game" of "ACC" and the racing game of Need for Speed.

Because Qin Miao tried it, after Qin Miao explained for a long time, the other person would be very puzzled: Aren't they all driving?

At that time, Qin Miao knew that this thing was destined to be just a very small hobby.

From then on, Qin Miao stopped wasting words on it, and naturally she didn't bother to talk about it with her classmates.

However, facing the curious and inquiring eyes of the students, Qin Miao hesitated for a while and finally answered their questions patiently one by one.

After all, the students didn't have any malice towards Qin Miao, they were just purely curious.

"Yes, there is still a big difference between driving in reality and driving in a game. The only similarities may be the choice of braking points and the control of the timing of turning."

"I'm not very clear about this. I haven't driven that kind of professional racing car in reality. I'm not bragging. This is my first time driving in reality. I feel that it's easier to drive a kart in reality than in games. .After all, a go-kart only has a brake, accelerator and steering wheel, so you don’t need to change gears frequently.”

"Yes, but the only emulators on the market I know are the "Ascension Corsa" series that do a better job, but the barrier to entry for this game is too high, and the keyboard is basically impossible to play. If you want to play, you have to buy professional equipment. "

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In the final analysis, "ACC" is a realistic racing simulator, but it is only called a "game".

Although the difficulty can be reduced, Qin Miao and the organizers require all the aids to be turned off when running the race, so Qin Miao and his race are the same as running a real car except for the difference in physical feel, and the real race.

"ACC" can be called a professional racing simulator, and can even be used as a substitute for training.

Of course, "ACC" is not the pinnacle of emulators.

The pinnacle of racing simulators are the simulators developed by major F1 teams.

ACC cars are all adjusted by the official and car companies, and everything is based on reality.

But you have no way to make more modifications on the basis of the car, which means that the car has been locked, and you can only make limited adjustments.

The F1 team's simulator for driver training needs to perform simulated training based on the team's real-time upgrades to the car.

For example, after a certain sub-station is over, the team engineering department comes up with a new upgrade plan.

They upgraded the rear wing of the car, which reduces drag while increasing the rear end downforce of the car.

The team's simulator can simulate the actual performance of the upgraded car based on the data obtained from the test.

And when the driver enters the simulator to practice, he can also feel the specific changes brought about by these upgrades through the simulator.

In this way, drivers can also learn more about their cars.

Of course, this is also conditional, not all team simulators can do this.

Big teams like Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull have good simulators because they spend a lot of money and have backup drivers who can upgrade and improve the simulators on the team simulators while the real drivers are training.

And the simulators of teams like Williams and Haas can basically achieve 70% of the simulation, which is already very good.

The simulator is really important, after all, the three practice sessions before the start of the main race are really not enough for drivers to adapt to their cars and tracks.

Therefore, there is still a gap between "ACC" and the simulator used by the F1 team.

Of course, there is not such a big gap between "Goat Simulator" and "DCS World".

After chatting for a while, Zhu Hong called the students who were going to participate in the competition to the tandem kart with a grim expression.

He also came to Qin Miao in a strange manner and said, "You have to work hard too."

Qin Miao was a little baffled by Zhu Hong's words.

But other than that, Qin Miao didn't have any extra feelings, because he didn't know how to read people's faces at all, and he couldn't hear the yin and yang in Zhu Hong's tone.

Originally, Qin Miao was not a very observant person. When he found that other people's expressions were not good-looking, he would at most think that the other person was in a bad mood or not feeling well.

Now he was a little melancholy and autistic because of Fan Yue's affairs, so he didn't bother to care about other people. He just wanted to go home and lie down.

So Qin Miao was very calm at the moment, and was not affected by Zhu Hong's yin and yang strange energy at all.

Seeing Qin Miao's unmoved look, Zhu Hong's eyes twitched and his brows frowned even deeper.

I hope this guy won't interfere with his plans.

Thinking so, Zhu Hong got into the tandem kart with Fan Yue.

The game will start soon.

I moved my body on the ground, because of the delay just now, Qin Miao didn't have a chance to let Qiumeng try the feel of this go-kart.

Under the call of the coach, the two pushed their cars to the grid on the starting grid.

A total of 18 people and 9 vehicles participated in this competition today.

Since there is no qualifying match, the ordering of positions is based on a first-come, first-served basis.

Qin Miao and Qiu Meng are relatively average, ranking fifth.

And Zhu Hong pushed his kart out of the parking area early, so his position was ranked first.

After all, it was all his money that came here to play this time, so there was no objection to the students in his position.

"Come on for the first shot, I'll be in charge of the latter part." After arriving in front of the kart, Qin Miao said to Qiumeng: "When you race later, you can be calm, it doesn't matter if you slow down, and finish the race safely. Just 5 laps. You don’t have to worry about anything after that. Leave it to me.”

Qiu Meng asked worriedly: "What if I drive too slowly and fall too much?"

Qin Miao gave Qiumeng a strange look: "I'm just here to waste time. I'll leave after the competition. If I fall, I will fall."

"Yes." Qiu Meng nodded knowingly.

Then when Qin Miao was about to sit in the back seat of the go-kart, Qiu Meng came to Qin Miao and carefully checked whether the helmet on his head was properly worn.

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, and then asked curiously, "Are you so unconfident in your driving skills? Afraid of killing me?"

Qiu Meng: ...

Trying her best to control her urge to hit someone, Qiu Meng clenched her back molars and tightened the nylon belt around Qin Miao's neck, then sat in the driver's seat of the tandem kart without saying a word.

Qin Miao didn't notice that Qiumeng was in a bad state, so she got into the back seat after Qiumeng sat down.

The karts were set on fire by the coach when they came to the grid, and now nine karts are waiting on the grid.

(End of this chapter)