How did I become an F1 driver?

After Hamilton in front of him lost his target, Qin Miao was 20 seconds behind Perez in front, and Magnussen in the rear was also 12 seconds behind Qin Miao.

What stands out about Qin Miao, who is stuck in the middle position, is that he has no place to go before and no store behind him.

Because there was no pressure anymore, he could not catch up, and his position was not threatening, Qin Miao simply started cruising.

On lap 31, Verstappen opened their second-stop window earlier than Ferrari and Mercedes expected.

Mercedes' strategy team immediately began to judge whether the two were preparing for a three-stop.

After all, it was too early to stop for tire changes on lap 31, as there were still 26 laps left before the end of the race.

Judging from the window when the soft tire stops, the soft tire can only last about 14-15 laps, while the life of the medium tire is only 20-22 laps.

In the last few laps the tires will hit the cliff point and grip will drop rapidly.

Therefore, the possibility of Red Bull choosing three stops is very high. After all, not everyone has Qin Miao's incredible ability to protect the tire.

The most important thing is that if they choose to stop three times, Qin Miao might actually have a chance to grab a podium from Red Bull and Ferrari after one stop.

Of course, Mercedes-Benz has only discovered this possibility now and is not sure of Red Bull's thoughts.

The specific details will depend on what kind of tires they put on. If they put on hard tires like Qin Miao, Red Bull's strategy will still be two stops.

Then, everyone saw Verstappen put on the medium tires and ran out of the pit area.

After seeing this, almost everyone who paid attention to Red Bull and Ferrari realized that Verstappen was still not so satisfied with the second place.

He wants to open the pit stop window early and seek opportunities to undercut Leclerc.

But what everyone doesn’t know is that Red Bull is still thinking of two stops, so after Verstappen came out, the team told Verstappen in the team TR that if possible, the speed on the exit lap would be Slow down a little.

Verstappen naturally followed suit and didn't push too fast on the exit lap.

Ferrari's biggest competitor in this game is Red Bull, so after Verstappen pitted, Ferrari also copied Red Bull's tactics and called Leclerc into the pits on lap 32. Like Verstappen, he changed into a car. Wear medium tires.

After Leclerc came out of the pit area, he happened to be stuck in front of Verstappen for 1.1 seconds.

This time Verstappen quits.

Because if there is no order from the team, I will definitely push forward with all my strength after coming out. Maybe because of my full push, I can just undercut Leclerc.

But now? I didn't push hard, and the original 4-second gap between myself and Leclerc became 1.1 seconds.

Now Verstappen suddenly felt like he was stabbed in the back by his teammate.

At this moment, Verstappen even recalled the last race last year. Standing on the podium, he could not feel any joy. He only felt sour and lost.

Looking at Qin Miao standing on the highest podium celebrating next to him, this feeling is even stronger.

So Verstappen began to complain among the TR within the team, and his tone was not very good.

And behind them, Qin Miao happened to be.

However, Qin Miao only saw the two people's car taillights from a distance, and then they were gradually pulled away by them.

Originally, the time gap between Qin Miao and fourth-placed Perez was 20 seconds. The time gap between Qin Miao and first-placed Leclerc was directly 32 seconds, and 28 seconds with Verstappen.

With such a huge time gap, Verstappen, who was the first to pit, was still 7 seconds ahead of Qin Miao after coming out of the pit area, not to mention Verstappen.

But at this time, the words coming from the team TR gave Qin Miao hope.

"Qin Miao, please pay attention. We judge that Red Bull and Ferrari may make Verstappen and Leclerc stop three times. We still have a chance to protect the tires and see what we can expect."

Qin Miao, who had already entered the instinctive driving mode and started racing, was immediately brought back to his senses by this reminder.

"Copy that, my tires are in pretty good shape. It's indeed possible. It just depends on whether they are willing to give me a chance."

The race team first released the team TR after Verstappen came out of the pit area. The general meaning was to complain to the team. After all, he missed a great opportunity to surpass Leclerc.

Then the tournament took advantage of the situation and released Qin Miao and Franky's team TR.

"Oh? Mei Ben thinks Qin Miao has a chance?"

After listening to this TR, domestic fans and commentators who were a little disappointed because of Mercedes' poor performance in this game suddenly received a small surprise.

Brother Bing adjusted his sitting posture expectantly and said: "Mercedes feels that Qin Miao has something to say in this game. We can also look forward to whether Qin Miao can use his well-known tire protection ability in the paddock to We have some surprises.”

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On the 34th lap after that, the two drivers Sainz and Perez also chose to pit on the same lap.

After coming out of the maintenance area, the same two people fell in front of Qin Miao.

It's just that they don't have as big a time advantage as Leclerc and Verstappen. One is 5 seconds ahead of Qin Miao, and the other is 1.3 seconds ahead of Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao had an advantage in terms of tire temperature, Qin Miao still had nothing to do with Perez, who put on the same hard tire as himself in front of him. After all, the gap in racing performance was here, and Qin Miao couldn't do anything about it. Can't catch up.

In fact, this is normal. After all, everyone in the paddock knows that Qin Miao, in addition to his unparalleled ability to protect tires, is also top-notch in defensive ability. Last season, Qin Miao directly locked up Weiss on the track more than once. Tappan is the best proof of that.

So whether it is Red Bull or Ferrari, they will not let their drivers pit when they will fall behind Qin Miao after coming out of the pits.

However, Qin Miao did not have any psychological fluctuations because the four people in front gradually widened the time gap with him after they came out of the maintenance area. Instead, he became more and more excited.

Because at least judging from the current performance, if they choose to stop three times, it is really possible for them to get a position among this group of people.

What follows is still Qin Miao's familiar rhythm.

Run at your own pace and overtake slower cars from time to time.

Maybe at this time, someone who doesn't know enough about the F1 game will say, why did Qin Miao stop? This stop seemed quite impressive, but it seemed that after the four people in front came into the pit, Qin Miao's position did not change at all, and he did not gain any advantage.

But you can't just focus on the front, sometimes you also have to look behind you.

At this time, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton was 17 seconds behind Qin Miao.

The original time gap between Qin Miao and the group of drivers in front was more than 20 seconds, but now he was chased down to only seven or eight seconds.

While Hamilton was chasing Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu completed a pit stop of 3.5 seconds. After coming out, Zhou Guanyu easily surpassed Stroll and came behind Bottas, ranking 13th.

Although the performance of the Mercedes team in today's game disappointed all domestic fans.

But whether it was Qin Miao's resilience in driving a Mercedes car that was not that competitive, or Zhou Guanyu's overtaking show and long-distance pursuit ability in his debut, they all impressed domestic car fans. They got a shot in the arm.

If the competitiveness is gone, it will be gone, but at least both Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu performed brilliantly on the track.

And as the game gradually progressed, the audience also accepted the fact that the Mercedes-Benz team had lost its competitiveness, and even began to get used to this scene.

……

On lap 44, Verstappen, who had been trying to chase Leclerc, finally chose to enter the pit area for the third time due to tire life issues.

Before entering the pit area, the time gap between Verstappen and Leclerc in front of him was 5 seconds.

After Verstappen came out of the pit area, he fell two seconds ahead of Qin Miao.

Looking at Verstappen coming out of the pit area, Qin Miao suddenly regretted his choice to stop and finish the race.

This picture looks really disturbing.

Last season, I was still leading the group, or at least one of the more competitive ones, but what about now?

In one race, Verstappen appeared in front of him three times! Three times!

They all happened to get stuck in front of him after running out of the maintenance area.

Then it went away quickly in exactly the same way.

However, when the race came to the 45th lap, Qin Miao discovered that Perez did not choose to pit.

It seemed that Perez was preparing to finish the race with two stops.

Red Bull has to admit that Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus is indeed incredible, but Perez's ability to protect the fetus was the strongest before Qin Miao came.

So Red Bull simply didn't let Perez into the pits. After all, they didn't want to risk Perez appearing behind Qin Miao.

Who knows if Qin Miao's defensive ability will directly lock Perez on the track.

Qin Miao clicked his tongue when he saw this, and then he could only accept his fate. After all, the gap in car performance was too big.

However, what is surprising is that Ferrari did not continue to copy Red Bull's tactics, but chose to let Leclerc, who was using the medium tire, continue to stay outside, while Sainz also continued to stay outside.

Leclerc has nothing to say. At this time, Leclerc's tire consumption is very small and he can finish the race at a relatively fast cruising speed.

But Sainz didn't stop to change tires because of Qin Miao, because if he had stopped to change tires, he would also fall behind Qin Miao.

Another reason is that Ferrari wants to protect Leclerc's first race championship in the 2022 season, so it continues to keep Sainz outside to help Leclerc block Verstappen who will catch up.

So this time it was just Verstappen who was dissatisfied with his second position and wanted to try pitting on soft tires. But then a scene that surprised everyone appeared.

On lap 46, the engine of Gasly's car caught fire and stopped at the position where Grosjean's car caught fire.

Needless to say, history is always surprisingly similar, or perhaps the Matthew's entrance to the Bahrain Grand Prix is ​​inherently related to fire.

It can only be said that Red Bull was a little too anxious to change tires this time.

As expected, the safety car was deployed.

Not only did Verstappen lose two positions, the two Red Bull drivers also had the opportunity to go back and put on new tires.

At the same time, another unlucky person was Qin Miao.

Although the safety car also gave Qin Miao a free pit stop.

But there was still the same problem, the performance of the car could not keep up, and this time the safety car allowed all drivers to even out the tire gap.

Of course, the advantage of this safety car cannot be ignored. After all, everyone used this safety car to replace new tires, and if you, Qin Miao, don't replace them, wouldn't it mean that you lost a set of tires in vain?

So Qin Miao also pitted and put on a new set of soft tires. After all, there were only 10 laps left in the race, and a new set of soft tires was definitely enough.

Fans of Qin Miao who knew a little bit about racing were a little frustrated and annoyed after seeing this safety car. Why did they lose so much despite everything going well?

At this time, the only good news for Qin Miao's fans is that because of Qin Miao's character, except for Qin Miao, all the drivers on the track use tires that have been raced in qualifying.

Qin Miao is using brand new soft tires.

It's just that this advantage is not too big.

After that, the safety car started cruising with all the drivers, the car formation was compressed again, and the slow car was released.

Qin Miao looked at Hamilton who appeared behind him and felt a little pained.

The advantage is gone...

The old man will probably start attacking him later.

On lap 50, the safety car roof light went out and the race was about to restart. At this time, there were 7 laps left before the end of the race.

Qin Miao also quickly calmed down his inner depression, began to observe Hamilton behind him, and planned his defensive actions later. Next, Qin Miao was ready to start defending Hamilton.

After exiting the corner in T14, Leclerc accelerated suddenly, while Sainz behind Leclerc followed well, and Verstappen also made some mistakes.

Behind Sainz, Perez and Verstappen basically had no chance to compete for Sainz's position due to their position.

So after the start, all the way to T1, the positions of the previous riders did not change much.

As for Qin Miao, after noticing that the car in front was picking up speed, he focused on Hamilton and didn't care about the person in front of him.

However, after running a few corners, Qin Miao discovered that Hamilton behind him had no obvious offensive intention. In other words, Hamilton simply could not attack Qin Miao at this time.

Can't keep up with the speed.

After all, Qin Miao used brand new soft tires, and Hamilton ran a qualifying flying lap on this set of soft tires. The difference in grip between the two is a bit big.

After lap 52, the time gap between Qin Miao and Perez in front widened to 1.5 seconds.

Hamilton behind him didn't put any pressure on Qin Miao, and Qin Miao started cruising again.

What? Isn't it Verstappen in front of Qin Miao? How did it become Perez?

Perez gave his position to Verstappen on the starting straight on lap 51, and the status of the second driver was clearly visible.

On lap 53, Verstappen began to attack Sainz in front of him.

It is undeniable that the performance of Ferrari's car this season is indeed stronger than that of Red Bull's car, but it is obvious that Sainz does not have the strength of Leclerc at this time and cannot open up with Vesta at a slow but stable speed. The time gap between Pan.

It's just that Sainz is indeed slower than Verstappen, but not much slower due to the advantage of the car. If Verstappen wants to surpass Sainz, he will probably have to find an opportunity in the DRS area.

But what is surprising is that by the 54th lap, Sainz, who was not very fast at first, gradually widened the time gap between himself and Verstappen.

It was as if something was wrong with Verstappen's car.

Then on lap 55, Verstappen's car slowed down significantly and was overtaken by Perez and Qin Miao Hamilton behind him.

Now it is even more obvious that there is something wrong with Verstappen's car!

"What happened? What can I do to make up for it?" Verstappen asked in the TR of the team in a desperate struggle.

"Sorry Max, we didn't find any major problems in our telemetry data. I'm afraid we have to withdraw from the race." The team's reply to Verstappen seemed so cold and heartless.

The only good news is that Verstappen just arrived at the entrance of the pit area at this time, and he can drive the car directly back to the pit area without stopping on the track.

Red Bull fans naturally screamed after seeing this scene.

On the other side, the Mercedes and Ferrari fans, especially the Ferrari fans, were very happy, and the scene was filled with joy.

Qin Miao also found a fourth position inexplicably.

And on the same lap, Qin Miao also found that Perez in front of him had slowed down.

It should be that the Red Bull Racing team discovered that the two cars using Honda racing engines had engine problems, and instructed Perez to reduce the power of the car to protect the engine.

Because of this, Qin Miao followed Perez 55 seconds behind him on lap 0.9.

Lap 57, the last lap.

Qin Miao caught up to 0.5 seconds behind Perez after exiting the corner on the straightaway.

Perez immediately started to draw a dragon to defend, while Qin Miao also drew a dragon to absorb Perez's wake. The trajectories of the two dragons were exactly the same.

"Qin Miao! Is there any chance? Can you absorb Perez's wake?" Brother Bing's palms became sweaty after seeing this scene.

"Close rate! Qin Miao's close rate is very high! There is a chance!" Brother Xia exclaimed.

In the middle of the straightaway, Qin Miao, who turned on DRS, was already on the outside of Perez, but when he reached the exit of the pit area, Qin Miao, who was full of confidence in his eyes, suddenly felt a pain in his back.

Then the car started bouncing uncontrollably, and the pain was caused by the impact of the car behind it bouncing.

And along with it, the acceleration of the car began to decrease, and it began to be unable to keep up with Perez's speed.

Seeing that Qin Miao's car's closing rate dropped after the tap, Brother Bing and Brother Xia both sighed "Ah~" at the same time.

After commentating on the F1 game for so long, they immediately knew that Qin Miao's attack might fail this time when they saw the sudden drop in Qin Miao's originally considerable closing rate.

In the end, Qin Miao may have to be ranked fourth and miss the podium.

As a fan of Qin Miao, I could still see Qin Miao shining brightly on the track last season, but after just one winter break, Qin Miao could only linger outside the podium. This made everyone There is a strong sense of gap between the commentary and domestic car fans.

The cheers on the scene after seeing Qin Miao about to overtake Perez, but after seeing Qin Miao suddenly slow down, they all also said an annoyed "Oh~"

There were originally many Chinese fans who came to watch this race. After all, the Chinese are famous street runners around the world. They can be seen everywhere, let alone Bahrain.

Moreover, people in the Middle East actually have a certain fondness for the Chinese, so most neutral local car fans still support Qin Miao.

Of course, although T1 lost the opportunity to overtake Perez, Qin Miao did not forget to continue to put pressure on Perez. Before the braking point of T1, Qin Miao even changed lanes to the inside and shook Perez.

At this time, the pressure display on Perez's head had changed to [62%].

That's right, Qin Miao came behind Perez on the 51st lap and gave Perez his own skills. After 6 laps, he had already accumulated [62%] of the pressure.

This is because Perez knows that the Mercedes car is not strong this season, so the pressure accumulates slowly. If it was last season, the pressure would have gone 100% by now.

But despite this, Qin Miao still felt that he had a chance in this game.

There are two more DRS areas next. As long as he puts enough pressure on himself, Perez will always make mistakes.

Just when Qin Miao was thinking this, and Qin Miao's fans also felt that Qin Miao still had a chance in this race.

Perez actually made a mistake when exiting the T1 corner, and the entire car suddenly skidded across the track.

Moreover, his head was still lying across the track in the direction of the exit of the pit area. Perez, who stopped the car at this position, could not move until all the cars behind him had passed. If he moved, he would easily cause a collision.

After seeing Perez parked on the track, Qin Miao turned sharply to the left to avoid a collision with Perez.

While being frightened into a cold sweat, a sense of excitement was born in Qin Miao's heart.

Because Perez stopped on the track on the last lap, it meant that Perez was no longer competitive in this race and his ranking had been lost.

And his ranking went up one place, to third place, and he actually got the podium... even though he didn't rely on his ability to protect his tire.

But luck is also part of strength, isn’t it?

Then Qin Miao unexpectedly asked in the TR team: "What happened?"

After a while, French said in the team TR: "We don't know the specific cause at the moment. There is a high probability that it is an engine problem, just like Verstappen Gasly." (End of Chapter)