How did I become an F1 driver?

Chapter 186 Chapter 184: Brothers Racing (6000 words, 22 debts)

When I came to the paddock, there were many more people in the paddock today, but I still couldn't see any spectators, and all I could see were the team or FIA staff.

Qin Miao was no stranger to this.

Arriving at the interview area with ease, Qin Miao happened to see that Leclerc, who had come earlier than himself, was already being interviewed before the race.

Anyway, there is still plenty of time at the moment, and Qin Miao is not in a hurry to go to the driving meeting, so Qin Miao is not in a hurry to accept the interview, and walks quietly behind Leclerc.

And Leclerc was concentrating on answering the questions right now, in case the reporter dug holes in the questions he asked himself, so naturally he didn't notice that there was a person sneaking up behind him.

The reporters who were filming Leclerc naturally saw Qin Miao behind him, and the photographer moved the camera in his hands imperceptibly, and it happened that Leclerc and Qin Miao were both in his shot.

When Qin Miao came about one meter behind Leclerc, Qin Miao patted Leclerc's shoulder heavily, and at the same time made a strange cry.

"drink!"

Leclerc was taken aback by the sudden movement and sound, and his body visibly shook, obviously frightened by Qin Miao's sudden attack.

The photographer in front of him dutifully recorded all this scene in the camera.

When Leclerc turned around and found that Qin Miao was behind him, he immediately became angry. While instructing the photographer to cut off this paragraph, he turned around and was about to kick Qin Miao.

It's a pity that Qin Miao had already made preparations. Seeing that Leclerc was about to violently hurt people, he slipped away.

Only Leclerc was left cursing in place.

After returning to the camera, Leclerc just shrugged and said: "I will find a chance to clean him up."

Regarding Leclerc's words about getting back the field, the host laughed and said nothing.

Although these pictures are not live broadcast pictures, this picture of the fight between friends will be released if there is no accident. After all, such pictures are rare in the paddock.

Even if such a picture is not shown in the preview program before the start of the main game, it will appear in some interesting videos after the game.

After Qin Miao and Leclerc made a joke, they randomly found an empty reporter's seat to accept the pre-match interview.

Reporters who come to conduct interviews generally have a unified script, which records the questions they want to ask.

Of course, if the reporters don’t want to ask questions according to the script, they can also prepare some questions to ask the drivers themselves, but if they don’t follow the script, the drivers may not necessarily answer the questions you ask.

It took half an hour to finish my work in the interview area.

During the period, Leclerc did not come here to deliberately revenge Qin Miao. After the interview, he went back to the team for a meeting. He should be quite busy.

When Qin Miao left the interview area, he saw Hamilton in a big pink loose coat walking towards the interview area from the entrance of the paddock.

To be honest, Qin Miao really didn't appreciate the outfit that Hamilton was wearing, nor did she think how pretty or fashionable it was.

Compared with these, Qin Miao thinks Hanfu looks better.

But Qin Miao respects Hamilton's choice.

Waving with Hamilton was regarded as a greeting, and after getting a response from the other party, Qin Miao turned around and went to the motorcade home.

Hamilton was unsurprisingly late for the pre-match meeting, but the Mercedes staff are used to it, even considering that Hamilton may be late, so the Mercedes team meeting started about 10 minutes earlier than other teams.

The team meeting mainly talks about the tactics of the two drivers during the race, as well as reports on other track conditions, which is a bit like a pre-war meeting.

The two drivers also have their own default tactics. Considering the tire wear on the track, Qin Miao needs to block Verstappen's attack on the track, and Qin Miao's starting ability is not particularly good, so Qin Miao The medium tires were used for the start, and the subsequent tires were selected as hard tires by default. According to the calculations of the team's strategy team, Qin Miao can finish running on this track with a single stop with his tire protection ability. There is a certain tire allowance.

Subsequent variables need to be modified according to the situation on the field after the game starts.

On a track with two stops per person, it is really scary that Qin Miao can finish the run in one stop, which is one of the reasons why Toto signed Qin Miao.

When Qin Miao was in the F2 sprint race, when everyone was using hard tires, Qin Miao could run the entire sprint race with medium tires or even soft tires. Even after running the entire sprint race, Qin Miao's tires still had enough grip. fertility.

At that time, Qin Miao's ability shocked Toto a lot.

There are such masters in the world?

And Qin Miao's defensive ability also surprised Toto, but unlike Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus, when Toto signed Qin Miao, he really didn't know that Qin Miao still had this skill. Qin Miao's basic salary and bonus are definitely more than that.

The most important thing is that Qin Miao didn't take this point to go to Toto to ask for treatment. This feeling is a bit like a person opening a blind box in a game to raise a baby. After raising and raising the baby, he finds that the baby has a top-quality entry Same.

After Toto discovered that Qin Miao's defensive ability was also outstanding in Bahrain, he returned to the hotel after the celebration banquet and happily drank two more glasses.

Of course, Toto did not forget to put Qin Miao's new contract on the agenda, and the treatment was definitely worthy of Qin Miao's current strength and status.

Hamilton's tactics today are yellow, yellow and white.

With Qin Miao behind him to help him resist Verstappen's pressure, Hamilton will be more comfortable in this game, so the tactics are relatively simple.

At the same time, in addition to the tire strategy, there is also a detailed explanation of the weather conditions on the track at this time, such as which direction the wind is blowing now, and which corners need to pay attention to the influence of crosswinds.

Qin Miao listened to this very seriously. After all, he suffered a loss because of the wind measurement during the qualifying stage, otherwise he might win the qualifying match.

After more than 20 minutes, the meeting ended. Qin Miao and Hamilton returned to their lounges to wait for the track to open. During this time, they changed their clothes.

It was very easy for Qin Miao to change clothes. She was wearing a team jersey, and the trousers were bought by Qiumeng of an unknown brand.

After taking it off, I put on a sweat-absorbing and fire-resistant inner jacket. To be honest, the one-piece racing suit has a strong sense of restraint, so Qin Miao just put the sleeves of the pants on his waist and tied them. Knot.

After the preparations, Qin Miao played with her mobile phone for a while in her lounge, and the time was almost up.

After tidying up her equipment and taking a sip from her thermos, Qin Miao took Barber to Room P.

After arriving at Room P, Qin Miao got into the racing car that had been prepared long ago and started the ignition.

After the ignition, with the permission of the race, Qin Miao put on a set of old soft tires and ran a lap on the track to make sure that the car could run normally.

Afterwards, he returned to the maintenance area to check the sensors on the racing car. After confirming that there was no problem, Qin Miao went out and ran to his grid position, where he replaced Qin Miao with his new intermediate tires, and then covered the insulation blanket. Start waiting for the official start of the game.

While in the car, Qin Miao didn't forget to add a buff to her car.

Qin Miao didn't go down for a stroll after buffing the car, and just sat in the cockpit of the racing car and listened to music.

At the beginning, it was really uncomfortable to stay in the monocoque for a long time. After all, the whole body was locked by the seat belt, and the movement space of the two legs was also very limited. After a long time, I felt that my joints seemed to be rusted. Just as uncomfortable.

But after gradually getting used to the feeling of being squeezed into a little bit of a big monocoque, Qin Miao felt a sense of security and could stay in it.

Half an hour later, when the time was up, all the staff on the track were withdrawn, and all the cars were ignited.

The warm-up lap begins.

There is nothing to repeat about the process of warming up the tires.

After finishing, everyone parked the car obediently at their respective locations.

Because Qin Miao starts from the dirty side on the right, when parking, Qin Miao's car is pointing slightly to the left, that is, in the direction of the traffic lane.

In this way, after the official start, Qin Miao can lean to the left without turning and losing traction, and drive faster on the lane with stronger grip on the track.

It's all about the details.

Soon, the track and maintenance area gradually quieted down. Qin Miao took a sip of water to moisten his lips, looked at Hamilton on his left, and looked at Vesta behind him through the rearview mirror. Pan, and Leclerc Qin Miao behind him also glanced at him.

Qin Miao does not deny Leclerc's talent, but the Ferrari car is really... not up to expectations, so Qin Miao just glanced at it, feeling a little glad that he didn't go to Ferrari at the beginning, after thinking wildly for a while, Qin Miao Withdrawing his thoughts, he focused his gaze on the five red lights above him.

With the sound of "beep".

Among the five dark lights directly above Qin Miao, a red light lit up.

"Toot" the second lamp.

……

"beep!"

"Click." 0.1 second after the red light came on, Qin Miao pressed the clutch button.

The engine, which had been maintained at 8000 revolutions per minute, suddenly burst out with powerful power, and Qin Miao and the eighteen cars behind him ejected and started together in an instant.

Because she had a clear understanding of the goal of the race, Qin Miao didn't have any idea of ​​attacking Hamilton after the start, and went directly behind Hamilton.

Although Qin Miao started a little slower than Verstappen, but not much slower, not enough for Verstappen to surpass Qin Miao before T1.

Entering T1 smoothly, Verstappen tried to surpass Qin Miao, but he still couldn't find a chance to surpass Qin Miao, who started only slightly better than Qin Miao.

Although unwilling to face it, Verstappen knew that if he wanted to compete for the championship in the subsequent races, he had to climb over the mountain of Qin Miao before chasing Hamilton.

To be honest, after experiencing Qin Miao's defense in Bahrain and Imola, Verstappen got a headache when he saw Qin Miao's taillights on the track.

Therefore, in order to be able to avoid it at the initial stage, Verstappen started with soft tires, in order to be able to overtake Qin Miao in the shortest time and create a sufficient distance.

Qin Miao's defense is too strong. If he uses the yellow-yellow-white two-stop tactic like Mei Ben, Verstappen will definitely be locked by Qin Miao.

So Red Bull can only use this more risky and aggressive tactic.

It is a pity that the final effect of this tactic is not very good, and Verstappen's start can only be said to be mediocre.

After the offense and defense of the two games, Verstappen also knew that it would be difficult for him to surpass Qin Miao under normal conditions, so he found that he could not surpass Qin Miao at the start, so he simply gave up attacking in the next game. Instead, he fell behind Qin Miao's car, charging his own car's battery while waiting for the DRS to start.

But accidents always come unexpectedly.

On the starting straight of the second lap, Hamilton and Qin Miao had a time gap of 1 second after one lap, crossed the finish line one after the other, and then crossed T1.

Followed by Verstappen, Leclerc, these cars in the back.

And when the camera came to Norris, several fragments of the racing car in the rear car array shot up into the sky, and when the camera lens cut over, one part of the front nose of Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa Romeo car had disappeared, and the other part It rolled under the chassis of the racing car and rubbed against the track to create intense sparks.

The staff of the Arrow team who saw this scene were already preparing tires and a new front wing. After all, after such an accident, it must be pitted for maintenance.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the fragments of the front nose did not fall off after being rolled into the Kimi chassis, but hung there all the time, constantly rubbing against the ground and sparking, so Kimi's car had insufficient front wheel grip Condition.

Because the grip of the front wheels is insufficient, the steering ability is naturally infinitely close to zero, so Kimi can only drive this Alfa Romeo car straight into the sand and gravel buffer zone of T1.

Alright, now Arrow's pit crew doesn't need to prepare, just retire from the race.

Because Kimi's car was parked in the buffer zone of T1, in order to prevent secondary accidents, a safety car was deployed.

The little gap that Hamilton had just pushed forward with all his strength just disappeared.

The good news is that there is no need to worry about fuel. Next, you need to run at least two laps under the leadership of the safety car. After these two laps, Qin Miao can save fuel without deliberately.

The safety car finally led a total of three laps, and the dome lights went out on the fifth lap, and the race was about to restart.

Qin Miao has gradually gotten used to starting again in the second position. For the start at this stage, he needs to observe which places he is familiar with.

At T11, Hamilton started to slow down to keep the safety car away, and Qin Miao also imitated Hamilton's movements, drawing dragons left and right to warm up his tires, while staring at Hamilton's racing movements.

The not too long straight between T14 and T15, Qin Miao stuck tightly behind Hamilton's car and got out of T15. Qin Miao saw Hamilton in front of him keep going straight for half a second, and then quickly swung left and right twice. down, and then continued straight for a second.

Before the car in front of him was significantly farther away, Qin Miao stepped on the accelerator all the way, because the starting straight was just ahead, and the temperature of his tires was sufficient, so Qin Miao didn't have to worry about the rear wheels of the car being caught after the accelerator was pressed to death. Not enough ground.

But after Qin Miao's operation, which was obviously a jump-start, the Hamilton in front of him did not get closer, but gradually moved away from Qin Miao.

Instead, there was a very obvious pause at the start of the Red Bull behind the two Mercedes.

The car behind Verstappen was even slower.

That's right, after the relationship between Qin Miao and Hamilton got better, they made some flirtatious things. Before the start of the game, the two quietly set a small secret signal after the game dynamic restart.

Whoever does this kind of operation at the right place when preparing to start, starts immediately after the operation is completed.

When they first decided on this tactic, the two of them might just be talking for fun. After all, without deliberate practice, this timing is quite difficult to grasp.

It's just that when it was actually used on the field, the effect of this little routine was surprisingly good, and the two drivers did not make any obvious mistakes.

And despite this, Hamilton stepped on the accelerator first and then Qin Miao on the track. Even if Red Bull Racing protested the behavior of these two drivers, the FIA ​​will only find that Qin Miao reacted quickly at the start this time, and did not There is no possibility of Qin Miao running away.

So after the start, all the way to T1, the positions of the top three drivers have not changed.

And Qin Miao has opened the gap of more than 1.1 seconds to Verstappen.

After a relatively stable period of time, Hamilton maintained a speed of 0.4 seconds per lap to widen the distance from Qin Miao.

The 1.1-second gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen took Verstappen three and a half laps to recover.

And Qin Miao's defense was impenetrable, and Verstappen, who had chased after Qin Miao, couldn't find Qin Miao's flaws.

As expected before the race, Qin Miao could lock Verstappen directly when there was no absolute speed gap between the cars.

Of course, Verstappen is also confident. As long as he chases into the DRS area behind Qin Miao, he can rely on the DRS and the ERS battery that has been charged to 90% to surpass Qin Miao.

On the 10th lap, Verstappen had caught up to 0.5 seconds behind Qin Miao, and Hamilton in front had opened the distance between the two behind for more than 2 seconds, so the director did not pay attention to Hamilton, and set the camera on Qin Miao and Wei Wei. Stepan here.

After T15, Verstappen was pulled away a little bit, and Qin Miao found that Vesta was biting about 0.6 seconds behind him. This distance was just enough for Verstappen to use DRS and The ERS and the wake gain enough relative speed to themselves.

The two came to the starting straight one after the other. After passing the DRS restricted area, Verstappen turned on the DRS.

Qin Miao in front is also fully fueled, and the ERS is fully discharged.

But even so, Verstappen behind him was still chasing Qin Miao at an extremely terrifying approach speed.

The moment Qin Miao discovered this, he began to draw dragons left and right, but despite this, Red Bull's DRS advantage is too great, and even Qin Miao's dragon-drawing Verstappen can easily keep up with Qin Miao's dragon-drawing rhythm .

So just after crossing the finish line, Verstappen came to the place 0.1 seconds behind Qin Miao and tapped the outside line.

Seeing Qin Miao, who had no choice but to stick to the inside line and try to brake late with him, the corners of Verstappen's mouth covered by the sweat-absorbing hood couldn't help but curl up a proud arc.

No matter how strong your Qin Miao's defensive ability is, in the face of my absolute strength, you must honestly accept the fate of being overtaken by me.

However, as he was side by side with Qin Miao, Verstappen found that his speed had dropped significantly. It was only at this time that he realized that today's starting straight was on the windward side. No wonder the effect of his DRS today so good.

But although the effect of DRS has been significantly weakened, Verstappen's speed is still faster than Qin Miao.

After running two-thirds of the distance from the starting straight, Verstappen lined up with Qin Miao on the outside, and when he entered the braking point, three-quarters of his RB16B was in front of Qin Miao. In the front, this time basically completed the transcendence completely.

And at this moment, Verstappen suddenly felt that the Mercedes behind him was particularly eye-catching, always able to attract his attention inadvertently, and subconsciously wanted to focus more on on the racing car behind.

That's right, the moment Verstappen surpassed him, Qin Miao used skills on Verstappen.

It's just that Verstappen's current pressure level is still 1%, and the effect on him is not very obvious.

But this 1% is not without any impact.

On this corner, Qin Miao brakes late and Verstappen will cross the line. Qin Miao enters the corner normally and Verstappen enters the corner early to block Qin Miao's turn-in line.

In Verstappen's view, Qin Miao seemed to be dying before being overtaken. He chose to brake late, and when braking, he adjusted the center of gravity of the brake to the rear. During the braking process, he turned left to stick to Verstappen. racing car.

The two cars just turned wheel-to-wheel.

Qin Miao had no other idea in doing this, but wanted to rely on her front wheel in front of Verstappen's rear wheel, get a relatively wide turn-in line, and squeeze the apex of the bend.

When T1 exits the corner, the apex is actually not satisfied, and Verstappen will not take the apex under normal routing conditions, so Qin Miao is stuck behind Verstappen and entering the corner this time can only be regarded as the round of both sides. When the opposite wheel entered the turn, no one violated the rules.

After exiting the corner, Qin Miao obviously squeezed Verstappen's cornering space, but he also left a certain track width for Verstappen on the outside line, so that Verstappen would not rush out of the race. road.

If Red Bull complained, they would not be able to find anything wrong with Qin Miao's squeeze on Verstappen this time after watching the video.

But Verstappen unexpectedly chose to brake to avoid Qin Miao's squeeze, because he was faster than Qin Miao when he exited the corner, and if he still maintained his speed when exiting the corner, the rear wheel might lose grip fertility.

So Verstappen's attack was a failure.

As for how much of Verstappen's choice was due to Qin Miao's skills, it is unknown.

In short, after Qin Miao defended Verstappen's attack, the skill lock on Verstappen was also released, because the skill limit can only lock the driver in front of him, and after the skill is unlocked, he enters the long-term Up to 20 minutes cooldown.

(End of this chapter)