How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 124 Chapter 122: Sprint Race (6000 words, plus 39 more)

But this so-called greeting is just shaking hands with the other party, and patting the other party's shoulder to indicate that they are doing well today.

After exchanging pleasantries with the other two drivers who also belonged to the Ferrari youth training, Qin Miao returned to her racing car, wiped off her sweat with a white towel on the table, put the helmet gloves on the table, and put on her belongings. After the champion's Pirelli hat, Qin Miao went to the interview position.

"Congratulations, Qin, your performance today is really amazing. You conquered the audience with incomparable strength, and with all these miraculous performances, you even participated in the F1 race for the first time. Easy to say? How does it feel to be a champion?"

Qin Miao took the microphone, thought for a while before answering: "Actually, it's not easy. I'm not very used to the weight of the steering wheel of an F2 car. I have to use all my strength to control the direction of the car on the track. .

But I am really happy after winning the race. I never thought that my first F2 race would be like this. I still feel like I am falling into a dream.The car gave me good feedback and gave me enough speed in the middle and high speed corners, which is the key to my success today. "

"We also noticed that you used a set of soft tires for a total of 29 laps during the race. How did you use a set of tires for so long?"

Qin Miao scratched his head. How could he explain this? At that time, he seemed to be running in a normal way, and then relied on the system skills to force himself to last for so long.

To be honest, someone will definitely be caught and studied.

After thinking for a while, Qin Miao braced herself up and replied: "The technician of my car team helped me find the most comfortable way to adjust the tires on this track, so I can last so long with a set of tires."

Qin Miao's answer, Sui Wentao, Steve, and Alvin, who were lying on the track guardrail and watching the excitement, were all stunned. When will we help you with such a hard training?

Isn't this a very conventional set of low-to-medium downpressure tuning?

But at this time, they couldn't rush to the track to grab the host's microphone to explain, so they could only let Qin Miao make rumors about them on the track.

After the two questions were asked, the interview with Qin Miao was over. After the host congratulated Qin Miao, it was the turn of Ilot and Armstrong who were behind Qin Miao to be interviewed.

During the interview period, the staff of each F2 team also began to pack up their own things.

For well-known reasons, the Austrian Grand Prix was held extremely simply.

So the podium is not the normal podium at the Red Bull Ring, but just three round blocks with 1st, 2st, and 3st written on the edge of the track.

The corresponding ranking trophies and champagne are placed on the round pier.

Then, amidst the F1 awards music that everyone is familiar with, the three drivers stepped onto the podium one by one.

After Qin Miao stood on the podium representing the champion, Qin Miao's track engineer trotted over at some point, and he was a little out of breath when he was a little fat.

Qin Miao nodded to him, and Frankie responded with a smile, and then took the position of the champion racing engineer.

After all four people stood still, the national anthem was played.

It was only at this time that the expression on Qin Miao's face became solemn, and he looked back with some regret, but there was no national flag flying behind him.

The hasty award ceremony on the track naturally made it impossible to prepare the national flag.

But even so, Qin Miao still followed the melody of the national anthem with a solemn face and finished singing the song.

After the national anthem in the bones of all Chinese sons and daughters ended at that moment, Qin Miao let out a sigh of relief, then lowered his head and picked up his first F2 championship trophy and looked at it carefully for a while.

How does this little thing look more pleasing to the eye?

Then it was time to celebrate with the champagne.

Qin Miao became the unluckiest one without hesitation. Ilotte, who was ranked second, and Armstrong, who was ranked third, opened the champagne and sprayed wildly at Qin Miao.

This is not revenge, but their respect for the strong.

After all, Qin Miao really threw the two of them so far that they couldn't even see the taillights on the field.

And Qin Miao smiled and sprayed the two of them for a while, and then sprinkled most of the champagne foam on Franky.

Frankie didn't hide either, and laughed while spraying champagne against Qin Miao.

After arguing for a while, Franky clinked glasses of champagne with Qin Miao, but Qin Miao never drank a drop of alcohol, so he didn't take a sip.

However, this bottle of champagne, which was of great significance to Qin Miao, was still brought back by Qin Miao.

Qin Miao has already figured out where to put this bottle of champagne at home after taking it home.

And isn't his big brother Zhou Guanyu's podium gone?These things have to be used to anger him.

At this time, Zhou Guanyu, who was helping to pack things in his motorcade, felt a chill for no reason, and sneezed uncontrollably.

At the same time, after the celebration of the three young drivers, the director switched the camera to the highlights of the race just now, including a slow-motion close-up of Qin Miao's car crossing the line.

After these shots were played, the director gave the completion time and the driver's points.

Qin Miao is first, with two points for the fastest lap plus 2 points for the F25 race champion, Qin Miao has a total of 27 points at this time.

The second-ranked Ilot has 18 points.

Third Armstrong scored 15 points.

4ts: Longard 12 points.

5ts: Tiktum 10 points.

6ts: Alessi 8 points.

7ts: 6 for Dere Terraz.

8ts: Drugovic 4 points.

9ts: 2 points for Panasonic.

10ts: Nice 1 point.

The total points of this season are also the same, but because Zhou Guanyu won the pole position in the qualifying race, he also has two points. Although the main race did not finish the previous 10, his total points ranked tenth. Location.

When she returned to the temporary parking space of her team in the maintenance area with her things, Qin Miao saw Qiu Meng who had been looking forward to her for a long time.

The girl was waiting for her in Prema's team uniform, and when she found herself, there was a gentle smile on her face that Qin Miao would never tire of seeing.

The most important thing is the girl's eyes. When she looked at Qin Miao, her eyes were full of tenderness and admiration.

No boy can refuse the girl he loves to look at you adoringly, no one else!
Walking over, she threw the things in her hand on the ground, and moved all the trophies and champagne to the side. Qin Miao hugged her girl with both hands.

"I knew you could do it~"

Listening to Qiu Meng's words that were close to whispering, Qin Miao nodded reassuringly: "Well..."

But before Qin Miao could fully feel the wonderful touch from her girl's body, Qiu Meng leaned into Qin Miao's ear and said with a sigh of relief: "I bought two sets of COS suits and wigs online a while ago. , it's in my suitcase now, at night...hehe."

Hearing this, Qin Miao's body froze, and then a huge surprise came to her heart.

There is one thing to say, at this time Qin Miao is three points happier than when he won the championship just now.

Qin Miao mentioned this matter when Qin Miao and Qiu Meng were trapped in Maranello. At that time, they had nothing else to do, except for training and playing games, there were no more ways of entertainment. In addition, Qin Miao's physical fitness is not bad, so the two of them kept unlocking various poses when they had nothing to do at night, usually three or four in one night.

Over time, basically all the poses that can be seen on the Internet have been tried by the two of them.

So Qin Miao put forward a constructive idea, try cosplaying while doing something...

At that time, Qiu Meng, who heard Qin Miao's suggestion, refused with a serious face, and Qin Miao still had some regrets.

But she didn't expect that she agreed now, and she even bought the COS suit on her own initiative.

The surprise came so suddenly that Qin Miao became incoherent with excitement for a while.

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After completing various preparations, Qin Miao changed into his casual clothes. The F2 race was over, and he could leave work early.

As for the meeting?Considering Qin Miao's grades today and Qin Miao's lazy temperament, Luo Xin directly gave him half a day off.

We have won the competition, so why not have a meeting, let's have fun!
Really, don't you have a good relationship with Binotto?Go directly to Ferrari's P room to watch their qualifying.

Qin Miao is not that concerned about the ranking of Wofa. After all, he has not thought about driving F1 at this time. It is his elder brother who really cares about him.

Holding the F2 championship trophy in his left hand and champagne in his right, followed by a helpless Qiu Meng, Qin Miao came to the temporary P room of Zhou Guanyu's team with a rippling smile on his face.

This time Qin Miao mainly came to Zhou Guanyu's place to pretend to be aggressive, and secondly invited Zhou Guanyu to dinner after his work was over.

At this time, Zhou Guanyu's technicians were busy around Zhou Guanyu's car. After all, there was a sprint race to be run tomorrow, and they had to hurry up to solve the problem of Zhou Guanyu's car.

Fortunately, Zhou Guanyu hadn't run away at this time, and Qin Miao successfully blocked Zhou Guanyu at the door of the dressing room in room P.

Seeing the gloating smile on Qin Miao's face, Zhou Guanyu was really helpless.

I lost the podium due to a mechanical failure of the car, and the guy in front of me not only didn't say a word of comfort, but also brought a trophy and champagne to make trouble.

For a moment, Zhou Guanyu was like an author who regretted setting up a book friend group and was urged to change it every day by the group friends, regretting knowing such a friend as Qin Miao.

However, Zhou Guanyu still reluctantly accepted the champagne handed over by Qin Miao, and asked with some disgust: "Have you drank it for me?"

Qin Miao put on Qiumeng's shoulder with a battered appearance: "Hey, you are careless in making friends. After all these years, you don't know that I don't drink at all."

Zhou Guanyu pouted, but still took a sip of Qin Miao's champagne. To be honest, Zhou Guanyu felt that this stuff was bitter.

The kind of bitter wine that hurts the throat and hurts the heart.

After all, Qin Miao won the F2 race, so Qin Miao had to pay for the meal tonight.

I didn't bring my own crew members, because it's not the time to celebrate with them yet, and there are only Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu and Qiu Meng for dinner today.

But when he was going to eat, Qin Miao's cell phone with Qiu Meng started to ring. Relatives and friends who might not be able to see each other in five or six years suddenly called to greet Qin Miao.

There are also Qin Miao's junior high school and high school classmates who traveled across the ocean to contact Qin Miao by making long-distance calls.

It is not difficult to judge that the news that Qin Miao won the championship in F2 for the first time has spread in his social circle, and it may also be spread in the entire domestic racing circle.

But Qin Miao didn't know why these people called him and wanted to contact him after he became famous. What could the other party say after the call was connected?

But Qin Miao just passed this idea in his mind, because Qiu Meng was helping him with these calls.

So on the way to eat, Qiu Meng didn't bother to observe the roadside scenery carefully.

And Qin Miao looked at his phone that kept ringing and suddenly thought of his mother, so after ordering food at the dining place, Qin Miao called his mother.

During the phone call, for the first time, Qin Miao heard a relatively violent tone fluctuation in her mother's words.

The two mother and son chatted on the phone for a while, but most of the time it was Qin Miao's mother who was talking and Qin Miao was listening.

The two chatted for about 20 minutes, which happened to be the time when the kitchen brought the dinner for the three of them.

When returning to the dinner table, Qin Miao did not sit next to Qiu Meng, but sat next to Zhou Guanyu, and put her hand on Zhou Guanyu's shoulder.

"Think about the good, I will be ahead of you in the sprint race tomorrow..." Qin Miao originally wanted to comfort Zhou Guanyu, but in the middle of speaking, he suddenly recalled that Zhou Guanyu seemed to finish the race 17th... Although he was The top eight started in reverse order, but they also ranked eighth...nine places ahead of Zhou Guanyu...

Zhou Guanyu rolled his eyes after hearing Qin Miao's words: "If you can't comfort others, you don't have to."

Seeing Qin Miao's embarrassing appearance, Qiu Meng suddenly worried whether Qin Miao's emotional intelligence would be isolated in the paddock in the future.

Fortunately, Zhou Guanyu was unlucky not once or twice, and knowing that Qin Miao really wanted to comfort him, it was just because of the arrears of EQ, the angle of comfort was tricky.

So Zhou Guanyu patted Qin Miao on the shoulder and said, "I'm actually fine, but if you play games in the past few days, you can pull the gun for me a few rounds... I feel that my mentality will recover faster."

Qin Miao, who was still a little embarrassed and guilty, immediately jumped up from the seat next to Zhou Guanyu after hearing Zhou Guanyu's words.

"Mom, I'm trying to comfort you with good intentions, but you want me to be a human bait for you. Let me tell you that there is no need to talk about it."

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After dinner, after telling Zhou Guanyu that he would not play games tonight, Qin Miao hurried back to the hotel with Qiumeng.

Zhou Guanyu looked at Qin Miao leaving in a hurry and was full of doubts in his heart. Why is Qin Miao so abnormal today? Before, he couldn't sleep without playing a few rounds of CSGO every night.

But Zhou Guanyu didn't think much about it, he just thought that Qin Miao was going to celebrate with his girlfriend after winning the championship.

But the fact is that Qin Miao is indeed planning to celebrate with his girlfriend...

Back at the hotel, as soon as the Do Not Disturb sign was hung, the door was locked, and the curtains were drawn, Qin Miao quickly approached Qiu Meng: "Where's the thing? Take it out and have a look!"

Then Qiumeng took out a set of COS costumes, wigs and ears from "Fate/Grand Order" under the gaze of Qin Miao who was full of anticipation.

Stopping the impatient Qin Miao, Qiu Meng took these things into the toilet to change, while Qin Miao waited outside with some urgency.

After waiting for almost half an hour, when Qin Miao was about to open the toilet door to see what was going on inside, Qiu Meng, who had already put on her makeup and put on her cosplay costume, came out of the toilet.

The two have been together for more than a year, and they have done everything they should and shouldn't do. At this time, Qiumeng is no longer as shy as before, and stands openly in front of Qin Miao who has been dumbfounded, showing Looking at her beautiful figure and attractive whiteness.

After that...it's inconvenient to describe.

In short, the big monster "Yuzaoqian" was severely punished by Qin Miao for an unfounded crime. The stockings were torn to shreds, and the clothes were messed up. Afterwards, the whole monster was in a daze.

So much so that Qiumeng couldn't even walk to the paddock as usual the next day.

Clutching her tingling belly, Qiu Meng secretly swore that she would never try this kind of equipment that would increase Qin Miao's attack speed and attack power lightly in the future.

As for the COS suit that Qiu Meng spent more than 1000 yuan to customize according to her figure and then shipped it from China... Let's put it this way, this suit is currently in a state of returning to basics.

The next day, Qin Miao went to the paddock as usual. Today is Sunday, the main race of the F1 Grand Prix.

It is also the day when the F2 sprint race is held.

Today's Qin Miao's process is the same as yesterday's competition.

I won't go into too much detail here.

Carrying his own equipment, he entered the track. This time, Qin Miao's racing car started at the exit, so he didn't have to go any further.

In fact, the FIA ​​set up a F2 sprint race and reverse start rules mainly to prevent people like Qin Miao, and to give other potential young drivers a chance to express themselves and build self-confidence on the field.

Because if according to the rules and procedures of F1 races, each grand prix will only run one race, then all F2 drivers will be beaten by Qin Miao in the qualifying stage.

Then during the main race, I gradually watched Qin Miao's taillights go away, and I tried my best to keep up with Qin Miao who was in a state of tire protection.

This is the truest portrayal of geniuses and ordinary people.

Qin Miao will easily monopolize all the championships of the F2 race under the rules of this competition.

So the sprint race with reverse starting came into being.

After coming to the track this time, Qin Miao still didn't have the chance to talk to Zhou Guanyu about the past.

The last time I couldn’t find it was because Zhou Guanyu was delayed due to something. This time, the distance between the two cars was too far. The race was about to start. If Qin Miao ran over to chat with Zhou Guanyu, he might be punished by the FIA ​​for not being able to catch up with the start. .

With Sui Wentao's signal, Qin Miao got into his racing car again.

It is said that the first time is raw and the second time is familiar, Qin Miao, who got into the racing car again, was not as nervous as the first time yesterday.

There are still no spectators at the scene today, only the team staff, FIA staff and Matthew, and all the spectators watched today's game through the TV broadcast.

At the same time, in the studio of Shanghai Five Star Sports, the three hosts who had witnessed Qin Miao winning the championship in the first F1 race of his career yesterday were even more excited today.

To them, F2 was just an incubator for F1 drivers, and the only thing worthy of attention was Zhou Guanyu.

But it's different now. In the current F2, there is Zhou Guanyu, who is very competitive, and Qin Miao, who has absolute dominance.

For them, the current F2 is a meal replacement before the start of the F1 race. They can have a good taste, and there are often some things that make them feel bright.

After the regular opening remarks, Zhou Haoran briefly explained the rules of the F2 sprint race to those audiences who did not know much about the F2 race.

Sprint races are typically 140 kilometers or 45 minutes long.Drivers can choose not to pit.The starting order of the sprint race is determined by the finishing order of the main race.The first eight drivers who finished the race will start in reverse order.The top 8 finishers of the sprint race can get points, followed by 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1.The driver who makes the fastest lap of the sprint race and finishes in the top ten will get an extra 2 points.

After explaining the rules, the three commentators began to chat about Qin Miao.

Because Qin Miao had already chosen a new set of tires at this time, Zhou Haoran said: "Today, Qin Miao is using a brand new set of soft tires. He really wants to use a set of soft tires to run completely. game!"

Brother Fei slapped his hands: "Let me tell you during qualifying, Prema deliberately reserved a set of soft tires to let Qin Miao complete the sprint race with a set of soft tires."

Brother Bing retorted: "When you said this, you used interrogative sentences. I remember it very clearly. At that time, you were also suspicious of Xiao Qin!"

Brother Fei: "At that time, I really didn't know much about Qin Miao, but now he did it according to the method I guessed at that time."

Qin Miao's idea was decided a long time ago, and she used a set of soft tires to run the entire 28 laps of the sprint race.

Qin Miao lasted for 42 laps with a set of soft tires yesterday with 29 laps of oil.

Today, Qin Miao brought a little more fuel in order to overtake, but compared with yesterday, he had 10 laps less fuel, and only 32 laps, which is at least 50 kg lighter than yesterday.

The lighter the car, the less wear and tear on the tires.

After some calculations, the team set Qin Miao's final goal today as finishing fourth.

Although Qin Miao is really good with soft tires, but at this time Qin Miao is not in the leading position. If he overtakes, Qin Miao's tires will inevitably wear out.

Therefore, after combining the data and simulating it through Ferrari's simulator, the team came up with the highest ranking that Qin Miao can get with this set of running methods, which is fourth.

Qin Miao had no idea about this, because at the time when he changed to this set of tires, Qin Miao just wanted to start a few more chases from the back row, and when the tires began to fail, he would use his defensive ability to guard the cars behind.

However, regardless of the choice, the five red lights above the grid also went out one by one under the impetus of time, so the team's staff withdrew from the track, and the warm rims of the sprint race officially started.

(End of this chapter)