How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 93: Chapter 91: A small shock of strength
After testing the radio, Qin Miao felt the grip of the steering wheel with both hands after confirming that there was no problem.

The steering wheel was a little too big, but it was someone else's car after all, and Qin Miao, a guest, couldn't be picky about it.

I calmed down my excited mood. Although it feels great to sit in the formula car again, it is easy to make some irrational actions while driving in this state of excitement.

After the mood gradually calmed down, Qin Miao took one last deep breath, then pressed the clutch and put it in gear, and drove the car out of the parking space very gently.

The whole process is extremely smooth, and I don't have less contact with racing cars at ordinary times.

And all of this was seen by Feeney not far away.

Under the guidance of the team staff, Qin Miao drove the car into a P room on the Silverstone Circuit.

Qin Miao vaguely remembered that this seemed to be the parking space of Haas during the British Grand Prix, but after the F1 Grand Prix, all the black and gold paint inside the P room that originally belonged to Haas was removed.

Instead, it was just an ordinary rough room, but the rough here refers to the ordinary P room without any decoration inside, just painted a layer of white walls and ceilings, and left some lighting equipment and wire connections That's all.

After crossing here, there is the pit lane of Silverstone Circuit in front of you.

Qin Miao couldn't wait to drive the car into the pit lane. Today is not an open day. There are only some teams near the Silverstone circuit practicing on the track, and there are naturally not many cars in the pit lane.

Most of the team's vehicles are parked in their own P rooms to inspect and debug the cars, and some will review the performance of their own drivers on the track during the recent period, and put forward some suggestions for improvement.

While driving in the maintenance area, Qin Miao also saw Zhou Guanyu's team and his car.

However, Zhou Guanyu was not in the garage at this time, and Qin Miao did not intend to say hello. Sitting in the car, he could not wait to feel the adrenaline rush provided by the F3 racing engine, so Qin Miao directly Just drove the car out.

On this familiar yet unfamiliar track, Qin Miao didn't talk about doing warm-up laps. He didn't even dare to do flying laps at this time since he had never been on the track.

In this state, if Qin Miao dared to do the flying circle, then the racing car under him would dare to let him take off.

So in the first few laps, he mainly wanted to get familiar with the car under him and the track he was about to drive.

The first thing is to find out whether the braking point of this track in reality is the same as the braking point commonly used by Qin Miao in the game.

For example, in the game, when Qin Miao is on some curves without too many suitable reference objects, he likes to find some special asphalt blocks on the ground as his braking points. Will the usual braking points used in the game disappear due to track repairs?

Of course, the final result was mixed. The asphalt blocks in some corners had indeed disappeared, but Qin Miao could still find the familiar braking points on one or two corners.

Because of the lack of a few braking points, Qin Miao had to spend a few laps to find a more comfortable braking reference.

But to be honest, even if he found the braking point, Qin Miao didn't dare to brake at those braking points that he was used to before he was thoroughly familiar with the car and the track.

After all, when he usually plays the simulator, he drives either F1 or GT3, and he has never played F3 in the simulator.

And without using the human-vehicle integration skill card after getting on the car, Qin Miao not only needs to gradually become familiar with the real Silverstone circuit, but also has to constantly explore the performance limit of the F3 car beneath him.

Although after adding buffs to this car, he is not worried about the mechanical failure of this car, but Qin Miao is really not sure about the performance of this car itself.

But no matter how many difficulties Qin Miao has to face at this time, he is already very satisfied to be able to drive an F3 car, so even though he needs to collect a lot of data, he can still enjoy it.

……

The morning passed quickly, and Qin Miao, who had already run many laps on the track, was called back under the notice of the team.

This is the second time he has returned to the maintenance area. The first time he returned to the maintenance area was because the tires were almost worn out by Qin Miao, and he was called back to refuel by the way.

This time Qin Miao was called back mainly because it was already the time for the team staff to get off work at noon.

After turning off the car and getting out of the car, the staff handed over a tablet computer.

After taking off the helmet and wiping off his sweat, Qin Miao took the tablet computer handed over by the other party.

It clearly recorded the data that Qin Miao ran down all morning.

To be honest, the most conspicuous thing here is Qin Miao's lap time.

From the first lap of Qin Miao's contact with the F3 car to the last lap in the morning, there was a huge gap of five seconds.

The whole table showed an obvious downward trend. Although the later stage, the lower the rate of decline, but basically every lap Qin Miao's speed can be improved.

Because of this, the team staff praised Qin Miao without hesitation: "Qin! Your grades are great and your progress is obvious."

"To be honest, you are almost catching up with the qualifying speed of our team's official F3 driver. With your current ability, many F3 teams will be interested in you."

Hearing the compliment from the other party, Qin Miao just smiled politely and didn't pay much attention.

Because Qin Miao feels that he still has a lot of room for improvement, and he is not very familiar with this car. When cornering, he is not too confident, so many corners are not pushed too far.

If he is thoroughly familiar with the car and the track, and finds a tuning setting that suits him, Qin Miao feels that his lap time can be increased by about 0.7 seconds.

And the other party also said that he was just catching up with the qualifying speed of the official F3 drivers of their team, which shows that there is still a big gap between himself and the other party.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that this F3 team was actually the F3 division of the Prema Racing team.

Although the team's F2 performance has been ups and downs, and they won the F16 world championship in 17 and 2, but in 18 they didn't even enter the top three teams, let alone this year. Championship posture.

But the results of their F3 team have always been very good, and they will always be the favorites to win the championship in the F3 series. The F3 drivers of their team are also the best among the F3 players.

And you must know that Qin Miao used hard tires to run this kind of result. Although his fuel tank was almost empty when the final result was done, and the car was much lighter, its tires were also worn a lot. Compared with the beginning of the moment.

After counting these preconditions, let's look at the staff's evaluation of Qin Miao. This is obviously a great compliment to Qin Miao.

At noon, Zhou Guanyu found Qin Miao and took him to have lunch, but after the meal, Qin Miao paid the bill silently.

When Zhou Guanyu found out, he naturally complained to Qin Miao.

After a period of rest, Qin Miao went back to training in the afternoon.

After a morning of familiarization, Qin Miao already had a certain understanding of this F3, and in the afternoon Qin Miao began to try to do lap times in a real sense.

After buffing his car again, Qin Miao drove the car onto the track.

At the beginning, Qin Miao just tried repeatedly on the edge of the limit, and did not push to the limit at every turn.

第1圈测试T3和T4，第2圈要测试T6和T7，一直不断地用这种方法熟悉这台车在这条赛道上的极限。

This state lasted for about an hour.

An hour later, Qin Miao stopped for a new set of soft tires.

……

The roar of the engine sounded in the distance, and a red F3 racing car roared past the fence of the paddock with huge noise and wind.

The turbulent wind blows the dust on the side of the track and the lighter tire rubber to swirl, and then falls to the ground.

At this time, Qin Miao has completed the first warm-up lap for his red tires.

After the flying lap, when the T18 exited the corner, this set of red tires gave Qin Miao a strong cornering confidence.

Feeling the various scenery flying past on both sides of his field of vision, Qin Miao had a feeling that his lap was in good condition, and maybe he could really get a good result.

Because of the premonition, and the fact that he spent nearly a morning getting used to it, coupled with the confidence given by this set of red tires, Qin Miao pushed this round without reservation, and it can be said that he poured everything into himself.

When he crossed the finish line, Qin Miao suddenly had a feeling of losing all energy after putting all his energy into this flying circle.

And after having this feeling, Qin Miao knew that it was enough to get here today, and if he continued running, there would be no more gains besides increasing the risk.

So after the flying circle was completed, Qin Miao said in the voice: "I'm going back to the maintenance area."

After the engineer heard about it, he immediately arranged for the engineer to prepare to receive Qin Miao's racing car.

"How are my grades?" However, Qin Miao asked curiously during the enclosing circle.

It was quiet for a while, and then there was a voice from the TR: "1:42:601... To be honest, brother, this result is already faster than the qualifying results of our team's official drivers, how did you do it? "

Qin Miao said frankly: "I don't know, everything will happen naturally."

This is the truth. When doing this lap, Qin Miao knew that he was in a particularly good state, and maybe his grades would be very good.

But he never thought that the results he made would be as good as what TR said. He felt that he just tried his best to do his best, and the results were really good, everything was natural.

Drive the car back to the garage again.

At this time, staff members were already waiting at the entrance of the garage. Qin Miao even saw Zhou Guanyu, who was leaning against the side of the Prema garage and chatting with the team staff.

Qin Miao didn't care either. After parking the car, Qin Miao jumped down from her seat.

After taking off the helmet, he nodded to Zhou Guanyu as a greeting, and then Qin Miao hurried to the team's data testing engineer.

With him, Qin Miao was able to find the operation test map of his last flight circle.

Now that Qin Miao's ability has improved, Qin Miao can also understand the form that was like a book from heaven.

Zhou Guanyu also followed curiously.

Although he and the prince had some unpleasant quarrels with the senior management of Ferrari's youth training due to internal fighting, Zhou Guanyu was still quite familiar with his crew during his F3 days in Prema.

Coincidentally, the F3 team currently serving Qin Miao was serving Zhou Guanyu back then, so after he entered the P room of the Prema team, the staff of the Prema team not only did not treat him because of his status as a driver of the UNI-Virtuosi Racing team Instead of resisting emotions, they shook hands with him enthusiastically and chatted with each other.

After getting close to Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu realized that Qin Miao was looking at his own telemetry data in a hurry.

Relying on familiarity, Zhou Guanyu also went to the data testing engineer to take a copy of the backup data to look at, but after seeing Qin Miao's results, Zhou Guanyu fell silent.

It is undeniable that Zhou Guanyu feels that he and Qin Miao are getting along happily, and he also recognizes him as a friend, otherwise it would be impossible to invite him to live in his home.

But Zhou Guanyu only thinks that Qin Miao is a very talented player in simulation racing, and the competition between him and Qin Miao in simulation racing at his home can also prove this well.

But seeing the piece of paper in front of him and looking at the data displayed on the paper, Zhou Guanyu fell silent.

Is this the fucking result that an e-sports driver can run?

虽然这个成绩还停留在1分40秒之外和F2动辄1分34、35的成绩没法比，但这是秦淼用F3跑出来的成绩。

Zhou Guanyu remembered that when he was in F3, his grades seemed to be not as good as Qin Miao's.

Although Qin Miao's result can be explained and prevaricated by many reasons, for example, Qin Miao's condition is relatively good, the temperature of the track today is very suitable, and the tuning settings of the car are in line with Qin Miao's usual driving habits, etc.

But no matter how you say it, Qin Miao's achievements are real.

So after being silent for a while, Zhou Guanyu reassessed his impression of Qin Miao in his heart.

You can't look at Qin Miao as an e-sports driver, maybe it's really like what Lawson said, Qin Miao is a real genius.

After thinking of this, Zhou Guanyu subconsciously began to worry. Since Qin Miao is so strong, will he have another strong opponent in the arena next year?

But after thinking of this, Zhou Guanyu quickly realized that in the Ferrari youth training full of second-generation cars, no matter how strong Qin Miao was, he had to honestly run F3 for a season before he could enter F2.

After thinking of this for some reason, Zhou Guanyu breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Feeney in his office was holding all the data of Qin Miao's lap times today, and was sending these data to Lawson one by one by fax.

(End of this chapter)