How did I become an F1 driver?

Qin Miao didn't refuse either. Anyway, it's only a few thousand dollars, so since Norris wants to play, he can lend it to him.

Even if it is really lost, Qin Miao can't afford it.

Moreover, after Hamilton gave this thing to Qin Miao, he didn't plan to get it back. Even if we talked about it, Hamilton would smile at most. To him, this thing was just a more interesting toy.

Briefly taught Norris how to drive a scooter.

There is no barrier to getting started with this thing. After trying it twice by himself, Norris can control the scooter with ease.

After running, Norris waved to Qin Miao excitedly, and then drove the scooter onto the track like the wind.

It's just that after riding the bicycle, Norris obviously didn't consider his team staff. Of course, this is not within the scope of Qin Miao's consideration. He walked the track this time with Hamilton and himself. When he left, he didn't take the rest of the Mercedes team with him.

However, Qin Miao frowned slightly watching Norris's leaving back. He felt that Norris seemed to have a certain kind of kindness towards him inexplicably, but Qin Miao was not sure where Norris's kindness came from. .

There is nothing difficult in the world as long as you are willing to give up. Qin Miao couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and walked back to the car home.

Back at the car home and in the lounge, Qin Miao imported the data he had collected on the track into his work computer, and watched the game video from last season.

However, these things can only be used as a reference for Qin Miao. If you really want to know which things are useful, you can only know after running on the field.

After reading it, Qin Miao had nothing to do.

Anyway, I have nothing else to do when I go back to the hotel at this time, and I just play computer games when I go back.

But to be honest, although the configuration of Qin Miao’s laptop is already the best laptop computer that can be bought on the market, the inherent disadvantages of the laptop are there. The size of the display naturally limits the gaming experience, so Qin Miao didn't really want to go back to the hotel either.

Speaking of the monitor screen, Qin Miao's eyes inadvertently saw the 120-inch wall-mounted TV used for meetings on the second floor of the team home.

This thing is used to show the staff to see the data or to show the PPT to the meeting staff during the meeting.

It happened that Qin Miao knew a little bit of computer knowledge, so I saw Qin Miao researched a little bit, and then split his work computer into a dual screen, and then played a movie on this TV.

Qin Miao has a certain collection of these things.

That is, if Qin Miao finds a movie he likes very much, then he will find a way to download the resources of this movie to his computer's hard drive. It doesn't matter if he doesn't watch it, the main thing is that he must have it.

Call Barber up from downstairs. After watching his movie for more than an hour, he will be bored waiting below, so he simply calls him up, and the two of them watch the movie together.

Seeing Qin Miao's great interest, Barber ran to the first floor of the motorcade home to get Qin Miao something to eat.

Then the two of them stayed here until six o'clock in the afternoon before leaving.

It's not that the two of them don't want to watch it. If possible, Qin Miao doesn't mind sleeping in the caravan house today.

The two left were mainly caught by the head of Mercedes' logistics department.

Originally, he thought that the two of them had unfinished work here, but after a closer look, he realized that Qin Miao had brought his physical trainer and nutritionist to watch movies here, so he immediately drove them away.

The Teme Fleet House uses an independent power supply system, especially the conference room on the second floor. After all, the files in the computer and equipment here are very important. The power of the generator is still quite high.

Then Qin Miao finished watching the movie and finished watching the half tank of fuel for the main generator.

For the Mercedes team, this half tank of fuel is not worth much, but it just increases the workload of the logistics department.

To be honest, Qin Miao felt a little embarrassed when he found out about this. He is just a driver and doesn't know much about the logistics operation of the Mercedes team. Naturally, he didn't know that the power supply system of the team home is independent.

After apologizing to the staff of Mei Ben's logistics department, Qin Miao took Barber back to the hotel.

After all, Norris did not return Hamilton's scooter, because it was not his own, and Qin Miao forgot to ask Norris for it after he was addicted to the movie.

After getting up the next day, Qin Miao simply forgot about this matter.

And this thing is just a bigger toy for Hamilton, after giving it to Qin Miao, he has no plans to get it back.

So the scooter disappeared into the paddock inexplicably...

Friday.

Today is the day to start the first and second practice.

At the entrance today, Qin Miao didn't see any fans sneaking in and entered the paddock smoothly.

Then I went to the media area before the game for interviews, answered some curious questions from the media, and naturally returned to the team home for breakfast.

Then, while waiting for the start of the race, Qin Miao and the staff of the Mercedes team had been watching the live broadcast of sky sports, because sky sports took pictures of the newly upgraded side grille fins of the Red Bull racing car today.

The time of waiting is naturally to study and discuss these things, how to improve the performance of Red Bull Racing, and to find countermeasures.

Before the game started, Barber would knock on the door to remind Qin Miao that it was time and he had to start preparing.

Qin Miao in the room naturally made all the preparations before the start of the game.

Came to Room P, greeted the staff, chatted with Hamilton for a while, and it was time to start the practice.

Entering the racing car, starting the engine, Qin Miao drove out of the P room after the system self-inspection was completed.

Qin Miao's proficiency in the Portimao track is really not high, so the first training team put Qin Miao on a set of hard tires to let him get familiar with the track.

This period of time was mainly used to find Qin Miao's car tuning settings, because he was not familiar with the track, so the data team he ran during this period was useless.

But Qin Miao's ability to learn and adapt is really terrifying.

In the first 10 minutes of practice, Qin Miao was obviously rusty when driving the car, and couldn't even enter the top ten when doing long-distance laps.

But after 10 minutes, Qin Miao's lap time has undergone a qualitative change, all the way to the fifth position.

After arriving here, Qin Miao's lap time can be used as the data of the main race for simulation. At the same time, Qin Miao is also testing the effect of the new upgrade on the racing floor.

In the end, the practice ended in a mediocre manner. The data that Qin Miao ran met the team's expectations. It was a pity that Qin Miao felt that the car settings were still uncomfortable to drive, but Qin Miao could not find the specific reason. .

After two hours of rest, the second practice began.

Qin Miao's task during the second practice is still to get familiar with the track and find his own tuning settings.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Qin Miao ran 25 laps with a set of soft tires in the second practice.

Running with a set of soft tires, the cruising range of the medium tires seems quite outrageous to other teams. The most important thing is that the average speed of Qin Miao in these 25 laps is quite impressive.

This made many teams who were concerned about the Mercedes team murmur in their hearts.

But helplessly, except for Mei Ben himself, no one knows the specific wear data of Qin Miao's set of tires, and whether the subsequent failure is controllable.

On Meiben's side, after getting the exact data, he naturally smiled slightly, and the strategy team's eyelids twitched.

After the second practice session, Qin Miao used up two sets of soft tires during this period.

After that, the team naturally analyzed and summarized the data of the two drivers running on the track, and then went to the strategy team to roughly formulate a general direction for the tactics of qualifying and Sunday's race.

During this period, Qin Miao and Hamilton could rest for a while, but they obviously didn't have this idea. Instead, they got together and started to study and discuss the changes and some discoveries they felt on this track.

Although strictly speaking, the two are in a competitive relationship, they don't care much about this relationship. On the one hand, it's because they have a good relationship in private, and on the other hand, it's because Hamilton knows Qin Miao's strength. Not as good as myself, but Qin Miao is a person who values ​​affection. If he needs it, Qin Miao will definitely help him, so on the premise that there is no clear conflict of interest, he doesn't mind sharing with Qin Miao what he is on the track acquired knowledge.

As for Qin Miao, although he already has the idea of ​​not being the No. 2 driver anymore, Qin Miao knows that he is still fledgling and does not have enough influence at this time, so he is not qualified to challenge Hamilton's position, so Qin Miao will Keep this idea deep in my heart, and at this stage I am still honestly being my No. 2 driver.

On the track, he will help his teammates as much as he can, and the relationship between the two is really good in private, and Qin Miao is a person who values ​​relationships, so he didn't care about these benefits in a short time.

Besides, to a certain extent, Hamilton has no reservations about Qin Miao. When Qin Miao wants Hamilton's telemetry data, Hamilton gives it without saying a word.

The big brother has done a good job, but the younger brother can't just want to seek the court and usurp the throne, can he?
Friday's work came to an end quickly.

Unlike the overtime work of the strategy group, most of the Mercedes staff went back to the hotel to rest after a busy day's work, and only the strategy group worked overtime at the factory or the team home.

And at this time, Hamilton would always send refreshing coffee and supper to his colleagues, which was extremely considerate.

On Saturday, today is the third practice and qualifying.

Before officially starting work, Qin Miao went to accept interviews from media reporters as usual. At this time, most of the questions asked were questions from yesterday's first and second practice sessions. Qin Miao has some experience in answering reporters' questions. When you get up, you are familiar with the road, and you don't leak any water.

During the third practice, both Qin Miao and Hamilton worked in qualifying simulations, so there is nothing to say about that.

During the third practice, the team also discovered a feature on the track, that is, the failure speed of the medium tire is not much different from that of the hard tire, but the speed is actually faster than the hard tire by more than 0.4 seconds.

Even though he knew the news, the team asked Qin Miao to test how the two tires performed on his car.

The results obtained are gratifying. Under Qin Miao’s normal driving conditions, the failure rate of the medium tire and the hard tire is the same. Driving, the durability of Qin Miao's medium tires is even higher than that of hard tires, and the average speed of Qin Miao's set of medium tires is 0.5 seconds faster than that of hard tires.

As soon as this data comes out, it is doomed. Basically, all the cars in this race will not use hard tires in the race.

And the data from hard tires can't be used anymore.

After getting the news, everyone in Mercedes was quite calm, except for James Vincent, the strategy director of Mercedes, and his strategy team staff.

With this variable, it will take a lot of time to adjust their tactics, and the overtime hours will have to be extended.

But they are used to it.

After the episode, Qin Miao used a set of old soft tires to simulate qualifying on the track during the third practice.

Because it is a qualifying simulation, Qin Miao pushes to the limit almost every lap. In addition, he is not familiar with the track and the level difference of this track is too big. track.

Fortunately, these two times were under control. One time, Qin Miao pulled him back onto the track before rushing into the buffer zone. The other time he rushed into the buffer zone, but the speed had dropped at that time. Qin Miao Miao didn't let the race show the yellow flag, and relied on the control of the car to drive the car out of the buffer zone.

When I returned to the team, I found that there were only some scratches on the carbon fiber at the bottom of the car, which basically did not affect the aerodynamic performance of the car, and there was no damage to the car.

When the third practice was about to end, Qin Miao put on a new set of soft tires, and finally ran a flying lap and won the No.1 of the third practice.

However, the results of the practice race can only be used as a reference. Except for Qin Miao's fans who were happy for a while, the others didn't care much about the results.

The preparation time between the third practice and the qualifying round is not long, only two hours.

During this period, the team replaced the two drivers with a qualifying-specific engine and gearbox, and also replaced them with a new exhaust system.

In fact, Qin Miao's old exhaust system can still be used, and the degree of wear is only 30%, which basically has no effect on the lap time.

But this thing will give a lot of shares in the competition, a total of eight sets. Mei Ben doesn't care about this money at all. The rhythm of changing a set of exhausts in three games is just enough for Qin Miao to run a whole season.

In addition to the exhaust, Hamilton also opened his second set of MGU-H.

In fact, the MGU-H wear degree of Hamilton's special engine for the race is only 50%, and it is not impossible to insist on finishing the qualifying and race of this race.

But there are always risks in doing so, and this season, Mercedes' speed advantage is already very small. Mercedes wants to create an eight-time champion, and wants to win the team's championship again. Opted to have Hamilton get new parts. (end of this chapter)