How did I become an F1 driver?

After hearing Qin Miao's answer, Brother Tou said a slang in their hometown, which Qin Miao couldn't understand, but according to Brother Tou's explanation, the meaning of this sentence was roughly the same as that in China: "There are talented people from generation to generation. Each has been leading the way for hundreds of years" almost.

Then the two chatted with each other about some defensive skills.

Qin Miao has a lot of skills in defense. Listening to Qin Miao's analysis of some situations and the solutions proposed, Brother Tou couldn't hide the surprise on his face.

You must know that defense is an experience skill. The more games you experience, the more times you participate in offense and defense, the more experience you can have, and the ability will naturally increase.

But Brother Tou never imagined that the young driver in front of him, who was less than 20 years old, had such profound attainments in defense.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that Brother Tou felt that if he drove the Mercedes in Bahrain last week like Qin Miao, he would not be able to defend against Verstappen's attack.

An experienced driver and a young man full of defensive talent, there are still quite a lot of topics in this area, and the chat topics between the two have gradually become more and more heated.

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The FIA ​​pre-competition meeting started in a meeting room. The layout is a bit like a classroom where everyone attends classes when they are studying. There are not many tables and chairs, only [-] sets, which happens to be allocated to each driver.

As more and more drivers came, Qin Miao and Brother Tou stopped their conversation and instead turned their attention to the drivers who had just arrived.

About 1 drivers were all present for [-] minute before the FIA ​​chairman Jean Todd appeared at the door of the conference room.

The Frenchman bowed slightly to apologize to the drivers, and walked quickly to the podium in the classroom to preside over the driver meeting.

Barber told Qin Miao before coming here that if he is really not interested in paddock politics, it is best to pretend to be deaf and dumb during the driver meeting, not to express any opinions, and not to have any untimely actions. Just plug your ears up and look like a wooden man.

When voting, it is best to abstain from voting throughout the process, and put on the bright side the attitude that you are not going to get involved.

Qin Miao naturally followed suit, and even Qin Miao and Brother Tou chose a position near the edge, so after the meeting started, Qin Miao plugged in his earphones, pulled out a novel that he had recently read happily, and began to listen to it. .

When Brother Tou saw Qin Miao's operation, he shook his head helplessly and clicked his tongue.

Qin Miao is a young man who is really talented, but no matter from the rumors in the paddock or from the brief contact with Qin Miao just now, Brother Tou can feel the kind of laziness and easygoing in Qin Miao's bones.

This terrifying talent paired with Qin Miao's character is really ruined.

Although foreign countries do not have as extensive and profound culture as domestic ones, Brother Tou also knows that it is a big taboo to talk lightly, so he just sighed regretfully.

And Qin Miao, who deliberately lowered the brim of the hat to reduce her sense of presence, naturally didn't notice the look in Brother Tou's eyes when he looked at him.

However, when Qin Miao was fishing, he also found another guy in the crowd who was fishing like himself.

If it is said that Qin Miao is still restrained when fishing, the earphones he is wearing are a pair of relatively small in-ear earphones, and Qin Miao only wears one ear.

Then this guy is blatantly fishing. He is directly wearing an obvious over-the-ear Sony wireless headset and playing with his mobile phone with his head down.

The ruthless person Qin Miao admired was the Iceman, Kimi·Raikkonen.

And at this time, Kimi seemed to feel the gaze of his peers, and withdrew his gaze from his mobile phone, and looked towards Qin Miao.

Then the two fish men exchanged glances with each other, and then continued to fish.

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The driver's meeting ended in Qin Miao and Kimi's confidante, and then Qin Miao and Hamilton returned to the home of the Mercedes team.

Imola's caravan home was assembled long before Qin Miao came to Italy, and now even the smell has almost dissipated, so there is no problem at all to settle in.

Put your belongings in the rest room, and after the staff members of the respective crew members arrived, Qin Miao started another task with them today: walking the track.

Originally, Qin Miao would not mind bringing Zhou Guanyu with him when he was on the track. After all, Zhou Guanyu is still in F2 at this time. Qin Miao definitely hopes that his friend can have stronger strength. Zhou Guanyu's strength is stronger, and the possibility of him entering F1 Also big.

It's a pity that there is no San Marino Imola circuit in the F2 schedule.

And Zhou Guanyu also has his own work to complete, so Qin Miao is alone on the track this time, plus his crew members, Boss Zhou and his wife Qiu Meng.

The number of people is not too many, just ten people.

Although Qin Miao is about to brush up the proficiency of this track to 1500 on the team's simulator, after all, this track has never really appeared on the F2 schedule, and it is also the first time for Qin Miao to come here , so Qin Miao spent an extra hour walking around. Qin Miao almost filled the notebook with seven or eight pages, and there were a lot of photos in the phone.

These things are the materials that Qin Miao studied and debugged after returning to the garage.

The Imola circuit is located in Northern Italy, within the territory of Italy.

Because F1 does not hold two races in one country within a year in principle, the F1 race uses the name of a very small principality not far from the track, namely San Marino.

Unfortunately, this track took the life of a three-time world champion and an old racing driver who is about to retire in 1994. He is the Brazilian car god Ayrton Senna who is admired by later generations.

And that veteran named Larsen Borg.

But F1 is a dangerous sport. Although no one said it clearly, all racers have already made psychological preparations after sitting in the cockpit of their racing car, and Qin Miao is also one of them. one of the.

The Imola track is an anti-clockwise track. The tire formula of this Grand Prix is ​​the softest C2-C4. The track is 4.909 kilometers long. It needs to run 63 laps in the main race. The whole race is 309.049 kilometers, and the track has a maximum speed of 334 kilometers per hour, the height difference of the track is 34.4 meters, including 19 corners, 9 right curves, 10 left curves, and a section of DRS area. The current fastest lap in the race is 1 minute and 15 seconds created by Hamilton last year 484.

After looking at the asphalt condition of the track, Qin Miao even touched it with his own hands to confirm that the track is made of old asphalt. The more angular asphalt on the driving line has long been driven by countless racing tires. After that, it was smoothed out, so this track is relatively friendly to tires. According to Qin Miao's attainments in tire protection, the red and yellow races can run the entire distance directly after stopping in the red and yellow races, and even have a certain surplus.

Qin Miao didn't do anything else after returning to the waiting room, and ran outside to communicate with Franky, her track engineer.

Learn about the upgrade situation of the Mercedes-Benz car in the second race, the test data of the new front wing and rear wing, and what work you need to complete in the next three practice sessions.

In short, as Qin Miao gradually got used to the rhythm of the F1 Grand Prix, Qin Miao began to become more comfortable with her work, and also knew what she should do during this time, and had a clear goal.

At around 04:30 in the afternoon, Qin Miao went to the media center for an interview.

At 05:30 in the afternoon, clock out on time.

In the evening, I had a meal with Toto and Hamilton. This meal was a bit like a private gathering of several friends. They didn't even talk about work. During the meal, they just talked about their families, lives, and prospects for the future.

However, this kind of private gathering is really easy to bring people closer.

Friday, today is the day when the first and second practice starts.

After getting up from the bed in the morning, a system notification sounded in Qin Miao's mind.

The system mission is coming as scheduled, so I won’t go into too much detail about the mission content. The main requirement is to finish the competition in the top three places. The reward is a random blue skill. The higher the position, the higher the skill level. If you win the championship, you can directly Just give a golden skill.

But to be honest, Qin Miao really didn't have the confidence to cut melons and vegetables in the race like he did in F2 at the moment, and the champion was soft-handed.

The F1 drivers are really strong. It is really not easy for Qin Miao to defeat them, not to mention that there is Hamilton on his head.

After knowing that this task was relatively difficult, Qin Miao didn't pay attention to it deliberately.

Get up early and come to the paddock. There are basically no tourists in the paddock on Friday, and the staff you can see are basically the same as in Bahrain.

However, when Qin Miao clocked in from the staff's entrance gate and entered the team staff area behind the maintenance area, many people holding cameras and wearing FIA official photographer vests surrounded Qin Miao, holding The camera kept clicking on Qin Miao.

And this is just the basic treatment after a star driver enters the paddock.

Now Qin Miao has proved his strength in Bahrain last week, worthy of Toto's attention, and the paddock has also given Qin Miao the treatment that a driver of his level should have.

After all, the photos taken by these people don't know where they will appear in the future, so facing the staff who are taking photos of themselves, Qin Miao puts on a slight smile on his expressionless face.

This smile will make Qin Miao's face look much softer overall, and Qin Miao's Asian face looks immature to Europeans, so Qin Miao's overall appearance will be very low.

This was actually taught to Qin Miao by the image management department of the Mercedes-Benz team.

After all, Qin Miao is one of the 20 most capable drivers of F1 cars in the world, and he ranks relatively high among these 20 people. Regarding his external image and the first impression he gave to the audience, Mercedes-Benz I still care about it.

Keeping the expression on his face, he came to the door of the P room of the convoy amidst the click of the camera, and nodded to the photographers who followed him all the way, and then Qin Miao entered the P room of the convoy.

After the annoying shutter sound finally stopped, Qin Miao went straight to the preparation area of ​​the vehicle.

At this time, Qin Miao's racing car was almost ready, and the technicians also imported the tuning settings Qin Miao used on the simulator into the racing car.

There are several minor upgrades to the Mercedes car in this race. The first thing you can see is that the front and rear wings have been replaced with mid-high downforce rear wings. These can be seen.

The upgrades that cannot be seen include that the interior of the front and rear suspensions has been strengthened to a certain extent, and the internal radiator has been enlarged to enhance the cooling effect of the racing engine, so the engine stability has been improved again.

After checking and accepting my own racing car, after all, Qin Miao participated in the whole process of the research and development of these parts. Qin Miao is very familiar with the shape of the parts, and there is no need to check them carefully. The team meeting went.

The team meeting is still a set of procedures, so I won’t repeat it here.

After the meeting, Qin Miao closed her eyes and meditated for a while in her lounge until the first practice was about to start.

After changing into their racing suits in the lounge, wearing helmets and Hans system, Qin Miao and Hamilton came out of the Mercedes car home one after the other.

The two entered Mercedes' P room amidst a bunch of cameras and video cameras and the sound of shutters.

After inspecting his racing car, Qin Miao got into his racing car.

After adjusting the tension of the seat belt in the car and confirming the condition of the racing car, Qin Miao received his first set of hard tires.

The task is simple: long-distance testing.

Run ten laps in the most comfortable way for Qin Miao to run with heavy fuel. During this time, the team will collect data on Qin Miao's tire failure and fuel usage. Of course, Qin Miao's speed will also be evaluated.

And use these data to finally formulate the tactics used by Qin Miao in the main match stage.

During this period of time, Qin Miao also needs to find a tuning that is relatively comfortable for him to use, but this matter requires Qin Miao to communicate with the team's engineers and Franky himself.

After confirming his task, he officially started the watch after practicing.

After getting ready, Qin Miao naturally drove her car out after starting her watch.

The old man encountered a problem with a system, and the technicians continued to overhaul the car.

After a tire warm-up lap, Qin Miao began to run his own long-distance test.

Although I encountered many traffic problems on the road and was blocked by a slow car once or twice, Qin Miao's running results on this track were within the team's requirements, and the data was also very stable. Even if there were fluctuations, there was a reason .

After ten laps, the data that the team wanted was obtained, and Qin Miao drove the car back to test the tire usage, which was as good as ever. At the same time, Qin Miao also adjusted the rigidity of the front suspension and increased the front wheel suspension. Camber.

Although the tuning used by Qin Miao is biased towards understeer, this is because Qin Miao likes to push the car to the limit when driving, and also likes to rely on more sliding to corner.

But this set of tuning settings moved from the simulator is a bit too understeer, and it needs to be made up for in tuning.

PS. Warmly congratulate Xiao Zhou for finishing qualifying with the best result of P5 in his career on the Budapest circuit.

The author of the dog decided to add two updates under the encouragement of the group of friends, but he has no ability to repay in a short time, so write it down.

At present, I have changed from Chapter 27 to Chapter 29... (End of this chapter)