How did I become an F1 driver?

The moment Perez's car stopped, the cheers that had subsided began again, and the sound was even louder than when Qin Miao attacked Perez just now.

Hamilton's rhythm was also disrupted by Perez who suddenly stopped on the track. By the time he bypassed Perez and returned to the track, the time gap between him and Qin Miao had reached 3 seconds.

At this time, there is only one lap left before the end of the race. It can be said that as long as Qin Miao finishes the race safely, he will get a podium for nothing.

In this race, Qin Miao was not bright in the east but bright in the west. The tactics he originally prepared did not work, but inexplicably by chance, he achieved good results that neither Qin Miao nor the team expected before the start of this race. .

In fact, it was not Perez's personal mistake that the car suddenly stopped on the track.

Perez, who has been racing in F1 for nearly 10 years, would not have made such a low-level mistake due to excessive pressure.

Because this kind of mistake is a shame for every F1 driver.

It's as unbelievable as a five-star chef accidentally cutting his own hand while chopping vegetables.

In fact, Perez did encounter the same problem as Verstappen and Gasly. The engine's power suddenly disappeared when exiting the corner.

Because the power of the engine disappeared, but the gearbox was not disconnected, the engine helped brake the rear wheels, locking the rear wheels on the spot, and the car skidded on the spot.

It all seemed so logical.

Since the car lost power, Perez naturally had no choice but to park his car on the track.

Because of this, the tournament deployed a virtual safety car.

There is no need to use the safety car at this time, because it is already the last lap, and it will be useless after the safety car comes out.

So this virtual safety car was on from the last lap to the end of the race.

In other words, even if Hamilton is not blocked by Perez, he will have no chance to attack Qin Miao next.

Finally, amid the cheers and smiles of all Ferrari fans, Leclerc crossed the finish line first, followed by Sainz, and finally Qin Miao and Hamilton.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Guanyu, who was originally ranked tenth, ended up in eighth place because two Red Bull drivers retired. Not only did he get a lot of points in the first grand prix of his career, he also got a lot of points. 4 points.

All those in Tiefo Temple who were not able to come to watch the game were even more ecstatic after learning the news and rushed to tell each other.

After a year of settling down, Ferrari finally regained its competitiveness on the track and returned to the championship ranks. Judging from the momentum shown by Ferrari at this time, Ferrari does hope to regain the title this year. That location that all Iron Buddha Temples have long missed.

Qin Miao fans on the other side, although they are a little regretful that Mercedes has lost its competitiveness this season, all Qin Miao fans are also happy that Qin Miao got the podium position despite such poor racing conditions. .

The most important thing is that Zhou Guanyu's performance was not bad. His mistakes at the start did not affect Zhou Guanyu's state at all, and he finally came home in eighth place.

All in all, the performance of the two Chinese drivers in this game can be regarded as flawless. For domestic fans, this is still an exciting game.

Only the Red Bull team and fans were injured.

Only one of the four Honda-engined cars finished the race successfully and drove back to the pit area.

……

"Well done Qin Miao, your performance in today's race was great. I'm just sorry that we couldn't give you a competitive car."

After the game, while running back to the ring, Franky's voice rang out from the team's TR. It was not difficult to hear their guilt for Qin Miao from the opponent's voice.

"Copy that, actually you don't have to blame yourself for this. I believe the team can collect enough useful data in the next race, and we will be fine."

"I think so."

On the other side, Ferrari was in full jubilation: "Come on! Let's go!!!"

Leclerc even cheered wildly in the TR team to celebrate. He had been waiting for this moment for too long.

……

When running back to the lap, the two Ferrari drivers naturally began their driver parade.

Qin Miao, who was behind, drove normally.

But while driving, I suddenly found a white and red Alfa Romeo racing car next to me.

Qin Miao looked over curiously and saw Zhou Guanyu looking towards him over there.

Qin Miao was a little confused at first as to why Zhou Guanyu was here.

Then he quickly ignored the question. Before seeing Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao had not thought about it that much. After seeing Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao wanted to ask him where he ranked in this game.

After all, the display on Qin Miao's racing steering wheel can only show the top two and the bottom two, a total of 5 rankings. I don't know Zhou Guanyu's specific ranking in this game.

But Qin Miao couldn't speak directly to Zhou Guanyu while sitting in the car, and his gestures couldn't convey his meaning well.

However, when Zhou Guanyu ran next to Qin Miao, he was obviously not here to see how Qin Miao was doing after he failed to win the championship. He was just here to show off.

So before Qin Miao could think of a way to ask, Zhou Guanyu stretched out his hand from the cockpit of his racing car and made an eight sign to Qin Miao.

Qin Miao also understood what Zhou Guanyu meant after seeing it, and then smiled and gave Zhou Guanyu a thumbs up.

"Brilliant!"

Soon, the drivers all returned to the pit area. Leclerc took the lead and parked in the championship position, while Sainz and Qin Miao parked a little behind.

After parking the car, Qin Miao did not get out of the car in a hurry, but sat in the car and sighed.

Although he has accepted the fact that Mercedes has lost its competitiveness this season, Qin Miao still can't help but feel a little envious when looking at Leclerc celebrating in the distance.

But soon Qin Miao laughed to himself.

People are not enough to swallow elephants.

Human beings are like this, and we are not exempt from vulgarity.

However, Qin Miao quickly adjusted his mentality. When he was about to stand up, a pair of Ferrari gloves was stretched out in front of Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Sainz's hand, then stretched out his hand and patted the back of Sainz's hand.

It was as if all the conflicts and doubts the two had about Ferrari's position were resolved at this moment.

Just because of this game - Sainz finally defeated Qin Miao and defeated his own inner demons.

Although winning may not be so glorious, just say whether you win or not.

Qin Miao didn't say anything because the other party couldn't hear what he said at this time.

After saying hello to Qin Miao, Sainz walked towards Leclerc, and he was going to enjoy his victory.

Qin Miao unfastened the seat belt of the car, removed the steering wheel, and got out of the car.

However, Qin Miao did not go to the interview area immediately, but went to the parking area behind other drivers.

Soon Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu.

Zhou Guanyu, who was chatting with Alonso, saw Qin Miao coming over. After talking to Alonso, he rushed to Qin Miao with a smile, picked up Qin Miao and spun him around twice: "Hahahaha, Qin Miao, do you think I am awesome? Eighth! I finished the race in eighth!"

"Awesome! Awesome!" Qin Miao was also sincerely happy for Zhou Guanyu.

After all, strictly speaking, I had a share in Zhou Guanyu's achievements. It was not in vain that I sacrificed so much of my personal rest and entertainment time to teach Zhou Guanyu many things.

When Qin Miao looks at Zhou Guanyu now, he feels as happy and accomplished as an old father seeing his child succeed in learning.

"My father's teachings to you for so long have not been in vain." Qin Miao sighed with a smile.

"NMD, get lost!" Zhou Guanyu cursed with a smile, and then punched Qin Miao again. Looking at Qin Miao's expression, he didn't see much dissatisfaction because of the results of this game. After losing his ideal, Zhou Guanyu felt relieved a lot.

After smiling and chatting with Zhou Guanyu, and saying hello to Alonso and his teammate Hamilton, Qin Miao returned to the post-game interview area.

At this time, Leclerc had just escaped from the embrace of Ferrari team staff and senior management.

Qin Miao was not in a hurry to go to Leclerc to celebrate. Instead, he hugged the staff of his team first.

It is worth mentioning that Toto did not attend the celebration after the game.

In fact, this is normal. No one would have thought that Mercedes, which dominated the paddock last season, would be like this this season.

If Qin Miao was the team leader, he wouldn't want to appear in the camera at this time.

So the objects of Qin Miao's embrace changed to his track engineer Franky and other senior executives of the Mercedes team.

Elliott patted Qin Miao on the back and said: "You have been great today and have done a good job. Don't be discouraged. The season is still long and we will catch up."

Qin Miao smiled and nodded: "I believe in the team!"

In fact, Qin Miao also noticed this. Although everyone was laughing and applauding when they saw Qin Miao coming over, everyone at the Mercedes team looked less relaxed than the Ferrari staff on the other side.

It can only be said that the gap between the champion and the third place is still a bit big. Not everyone is big-hearted and can accept this result immediately.

After hugging the technicians of her own team, Qin Miao came to Qiu Meng. The girl stood on tiptoes and patted Qin Miao's helmet: "That's great!"

"I know, but I really don't feel very good." Qin Miao said in Chinese in Qiu Meng's ear.

"It's normal. Don't worry. The team will be upgraded in the future. I believe that with your ability, after the performance gap of the car is not so big in the later period, you can definitely use the gap in hard power to make up for the lack of performance of the car." This girl seems to always be like this, full of confidence in Qin Miao's talent in racing. Sometimes Qin Miao even feels that this girl believes in her own abilities more than she does.

After smiling and touching Qiu Meng's smiling face, Qin Miao turned around and prepared to be interviewed.

By this time Leclerc had taken off his helmet.

Seeing Qin Miao coming over, this guy ignored his somewhat crazy hairstyle and opened his arms with a smile on his face. The smile on his face was full of confidence and strength.

Coupled with that damn handsome face, he actually has the coolness and calmness of an anime protagonist.

"Congratulations, Charles, it seems I can see your taillights more often this season."

"It seems to be the case, but I still hope to have the opportunity to have a real attack and defense with you on the track."

While speaking, Leclerc and Qin Miao had already shaken hands with each other and then hugged each other.

Qin Miao patted Leclerc's back hard: "Then you'd better be the one I attack, or else wait to be locked up by me."

Leclerc let go of Qin Miao and said, "Really? Then I hope you won't cry if you are overtaken by me on the field."

After hearing this, Qin Miao smiled and said: "If you really surpass me and bring my reputation into disrepute, I will set up a telephoto camera on the balcony and take pictures of your home every day."

Leclerc was stunned for a moment, then helplessly spread his hands and said, "Okay, you did threaten me."

After saying that, they both laughed together.

The main reason why the two of them laughed was because they thought of the telescope on the balcony of Qin Miao's home that could see Leclerc's home.

In fact, in Monaco, in addition to not using cameras to take pictures of passers-by on the streets, you are also not allowed to take random pictures with your mobile phone at home.

Monaco is one of the best in the world when it comes to protecting privacy.

They didn't chat for too long. After packing their things, Qin Miao and Leclerc went through the post-race process together.

It is worth mentioning that although Qin Miao was the last person to arrive, Qin Miao was the first to go through the post-match process and come to the camera for an interview.

There are not so many rules in the post-race interviews of the F1 Grand Prix. Basically, whoever comes to the host first will be asked questions first.

So after Qin Miao came to the host, the post-match interview began.

“Qin Miao, it is easy to see from the performance of the Mercedes-Benz team this week that you have encountered quite a few problems this season and the whole race was very difficult.

But despite this, you still got this podium. "

Qin Miao touched her nose, it was difficult...

In fact, to be honest, Qin Miao didn't find today's game very difficult. After all, Qin Miao's game, let alone offense and defense, had never seen a driver who could be threatened by him or threaten him.

If you really want to talk about it, Qin Miao's most profound feeling in this game was helplessness, a kind of helplessness that he had no brute force, but had nowhere to use it.

However, Qin Miao couldn't say that. If he said this in the post-race interview, it would easily make the drivers behind him feel uncomfortable.

“Yes, we encountered a lot of problems at the beginning of this race. The car struggled from the first practice session and we could never find a good tuning window.

However, I would also like to congratulate Ferrari and Leclerc for their achievements in this race. It is great to see such a long-established team returning to the ranks of competitive teams. "

"When do you think you can regain your competitiveness? I think there must be many fans in the far East who are looking forward to your return, right?"

Qin Miao nodded noncommittally: "I can't guarantee this, but we did get a lot of good data from this game. The next time is to return to the team and start to develop and upgrade the car. Although it may not be fast, but We will continue to persevere and strive to return to the leading group as soon as possible.”

Because he was in third place, the real protagonist of this game was still waiting on the sidelines, so Qin Miao's post-race interview only had two questions. So after finishing speaking, Qin Miao was greeted by the cheers of the audience and his own fans. Zhong waved to them, and then went upstairs to prepare for the final award ceremony.

After Qin Miao left the camera, Bing Ge and others from Five Star Sports patiently watched the post-match interviews between Leclerc and Sainz before they began to summarize Qin Miao's performance in this game.

"Even though we saw something we didn't want to see, Mercedes lost their competitiveness.

However, for now, the state of the two Mercedes drivers and the demeanor shown by Qin Miao during the interview just now show that Mercedes has plans to strengthen or upgrade the car. "

"That's right." Brother Xia said: "We are also willing to believe that with the Mercedes-Benz team's many years of heritage and its industrial capabilities, let alone half a year, but at least I still think that Mercedes-Benz can win the championship before the last five games of this year. Let the two drivers Qin Miao and Hamilton return to the competition for the championship."

……

【G brothers】

[Why did Mercedes pull it off? 】

[I thought Mercedes was holding back some big tricks for this Grand Prix weekend, but I didn’t expect it to be a big one. 】

[At least it seems that Qin Miao's condition has not been affected by this]

[Mercedes started to look forward to 22 in the opening game of the 2023 season, saying yes]

……

Afterwards, under the introduction of the on-site host, Qin Miao, wearing a black Mercedes team uniform, took the lead on the podium.

After that comes Sainz, and the last ones to appear are naturally Leclerc and Binotto.

As Ferrari's first game of the 2022 season, it seems so natural that Binotto, as the team leader of the Ferrari team, takes the stage at this time.

What is rare is that Qin Miao finally heard the fourth national anthem besides the national anthems of his own country, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the highest podium of F1.

Although Qin Miao lives in Monaco, this is the first time he has heard the national anthem of Monaco.

To be honest, it is also full of freshness.

And strictly speaking, these four people on the stage are inextricably linked to Ferrari.

Not to mention the three people who belong to Ferrari, Qin Miao also came from Ferrari.

So when the national anthem ended, and the Middle Eastern tycoons present presented trophies to Leclerc and others, and started spraying champagne, the four of them didn't see anyone else at all, and soon they made a fuss.

And it is worth mentioning that during the final photo session, Qin Miao was specially pulled to his side by Binotto to take a photo.

It is not difficult to see that Binotto still has feelings for Qin Miao.

After the group photo was over, Qin Miao left the stage while chatting with Binotto.

Next, the tournament will provide the driver rankings and scores of the World Formula One Grand Prix and the 2022 Paris Grand Prix:

P1: Leclerc +26 (fastest lap)

P2: Sainz +18

P3: Qin Miao +14

P4: Hamilton +12

P5: Magnussen +10

P6: Bottas +8

P7: O'Connell +6

P8: Zhou Guanyu +4

P9: Tsunoda +2

P10: Alonso +1

This race was a complete victory for Ferrari, with Leclerc taking pole position in qualifying, first in the race, and the fastest lap in the race, while Sainz also finished second. , the Ferrari two cars were brought back one or two.

A real grand slam.

The two Mercedes cars finished third and fourth after both Red Bull Racing players retired.

At least based on the current performance of Mercedes-Benz cars, this ranking is enough for them.

Magnussen, who was fifth, surprised everyone. He started in eighth place and eventually managed to catch up to fifth place. No one dared to think so before the race.

This can be regarded as the highlight moment of the Haas team this season.

At the same time, both drivers of the Arrow Racing Team achieved good results. Alfa Romeo, which was still struggling to enter Q2 last season, looks very likely to become a regular in the points area this season, provided that the Arrow Racing Team can Solve the problem of your own racing gearbox.

The driver standings are the same as the driver scores after finishing the race, so I won’t go into too much detail here.

The team standings are as follows.

1: Ferrari: 44

2: Mercedes: 26

3: Alfa Romeo: 12

4: Haas: 10

5: Alpine: 8

6: Little Red Bull: 2

7: Aston Martin: 0

8: Williams: 0

9: McLaren: 0

10: Red Bull: 0

The opening game of the 2022 season is destined to be a surprising game.

The rise of Ferrari, the fall of Mercedes-Benz, the retirement of both Red Bull cars in the opening race, even only one Red Bull car using a Honda engine finished the race, and even the rise of the two teams Arrow and Haas, all depend on Everyone was dazzled.

People can't help but sigh, this must be another season as exciting as the 2021 season.

At the same time, among Qin Miao's three system tasks, Qin Miao only completed the first two.

[Mission 1: Get on the podium of the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix (Completed)]

[Reward: Team free attribute point*1]

[Task 2: Not to be overtaken by any driver during the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix (completed)]

[Reward: Team free attribute point*1]

[Task 3: Overtake four cars in the main race of the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix (failed)]

[Reward: Attack ability rating +1]

After getting these two free attribute points for the team, Qin Miao had no hesitation. After all, the Mercedes-Benz racing car at the moment was already a little unable to do what it wanted on the track due to problems with car development.

So Qin Miao directly used the two free attribute points for the team he had just obtained and the one free attribute point saved from previous missions.

[Team:Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team

Overall team rating: 85.1→85.4 (+0.3)

Racing problem finding ability: 81

Simulator development capabilities: 82

Racing debugging ability: 89

Game strategy development ability: 87

Racing protection capability: 75

Tire changing capacity: 90

Power department R&D capabilities: 94

Aerodynamic department R&D capability: 86→88 (+2)

Chassis department R&D capability: 85→86 (+1)

Durability development capability: 83] (End of this chapter)