How did I become an F1 driver?

However, Qin Miao didn't go to Qiu Meng now, and just nodded to the two of them when passing by.

After all, the preparation process before the start of the game is quite cumbersome. Qin Miao also needs to check whether the parameters he set during the practice session and the preset racing mode have been tampered with.

Yes, although everyone in the Mercedes team is very satisfied with Qin Miao, Qin Miao still needs to prevent someone from plotting against him.

In fact, this is what Hamilton taught Qin Miao.

Although the relationship between Qin Miao and Hamilton has now become frozen, except for what appears in the camera, the two have basically not spoken much in private.

But Qin Miao still learned a lot from Hamilton.

For example, teammates are always your biggest competitors.

Because compared with other drivers on the field, you may have a gap in car performance, so even if you lose, you will have an excuse to excuse yourself.

But if you lose to your teammates, it can only be said that your personal strength is not as good as your teammates.

Because of this, you will be outnumbered by your teammates in terms of team resources, media exposure, and income.

After all, the F1 paddock is all about strength being king.

After such a situation occurs, no one can guarantee whether your teammate will be willing to be your No. 2 driver.

Never underestimate the dangers of human nature. Some people will do anything to defeat their teammates.

For example, he bribed the technician of his teammate's car and asked him to secretly change the mode settings that had been set in his teammate's car.

For example, change the engine output in this mode, but your teammates originally used this mode to run long distances to reduce fuel and tire losses.

But once this mode is turned on, your teammates will find something wrong while running. Why are my tires and fuel not enough?

This kind of thing cannot be found out until afterwards, and even if it is found out, it can be explained by not being careful at work and accidentally setting the wrong value.

These are the experiences Hamilton taught Qin Miao.

It has now become Qin Miao's instinct. Basically, he will check the settings in his car before every qualifying session and the race.

After the pre-race inspection process was completed, it was less than ten minutes before the start of qualifying. At this time, Qin Miao had no intention of getting out of the car, so he sat in his car and waited for the start of the race.

At 2022 a.m. on March 3, 21, Beijing time, qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix officially began.

Amid the commentary from Five Star Sports, many domestic fans watched today's qualifying race with mixed emotions.

In the Q1 stage, Qin Miao achieved a good result in his first flying lap, 1 minute 29 seconds 333.

This is a ranking that can directly enter Q2, and after this lap, Qin Miao's ranking came to fourth in the race.

The first three are Sainz Verstappen and Leclerc. Qin Miao's appearance here is due to the fact that Perez's results are not so ideal.

However, after Qin Miao completed this flying lap, he still ran another flying lap on the track.

The track characteristics of the Jeddah track with few high-speed corners allow the C4's soft tires to have sufficient durability on this track and can run two flying laps without significant loss of speed.

It's just that there will be no major losses, but the wear of soft tires is an objective fact, so Qin Miao's speed in this lap is still not as fast as his first flying lap.

And although Qin Miao ranked fourth, the time gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc in front of him reached 0.5 seconds.

This is basically an unbridgeable gap.

It is worth mentioning that Hamilton's performance in the first flying lap was not ideal. After the first flying lap, Hamilton's performance was not even comparable to that of Sainz in first place. He was slower than Qin Miao. 1 seconds.

Of course, at this time, neither the audience nor the commentators felt that Hamilton was in trouble. They all just felt that Hamilton might have made a mistake. With a little adjustment, it would be possible to regain competitiveness.

Although it is impossible to say that Hamilton can compete with Ferrari and Red Bull now, he can at least catch up with or surpass his teammates.

Then for the second flying lap, Qin Miao ran a flying lap using a set of soft tires that had been used for several laps in practice. His performance did not improve, but Qin Miao didn't care. After all, he was trying to protect his tire.

But what is surprising is that Hamilton's results were extremely unsatisfactory just like the first flying lap.

But fortunately, after Hamilton finished his second flying lap, there were more than two minutes left before Q2 stopped the clock, which was enough for him to run his last flying lap on the track with his current set of soft tires.

Although both the commentators and the audience had confidence in Hamilton at this time, thinking that this was just a simple track accident, Hamilton failed to fully utilize his strength.

But Hamilton had clearly told his track engineer in the team TR: "No, I can't go any faster."

And this is indeed the case. After Hamilton's last flying lap was completed, his results were still very unsatisfactory, and the gap between him and Sainz, who was in first place, reached a terrifying 1 seconds.

And our seven-time champion Hamilton was eliminated in Q1 at a speed that no one expected.

You should know that Hamilton's teammate Qin Miao advanced to Q2 after strictly speaking only one flying lap.

At this time, many domestic viewers had mixed feelings in their hearts when they saw Hamilton's performance.

Because of Qin Miao's relationship, domestic car fans will put their own perspective on Qin Miao most of the time.

Therefore, they knew that Hamilton taught Qin Miao a lot, and most of them regarded Hamilton as their big brother.

But everyone knows that young drivers in the same team always want to surpass their seniors.

Fortunately, Qin Miao did it.

He won the world championship in the first season of his career, snatching his eight crowns from his teammate Hamilton, a seven-time champion.

But now, looking at Hamilton, he was eliminated in Q1.

This feeling is a bit like watching the domestic people when the Soviet Union collapsed.

There were many who were gloating over the misfortune, some who were watching the excitement and not taking it too seriously, and some who were overwhelmed and regretful after seeing this scene. Various comments emerged on various social media platforms such as Tieba, Weibo and Hupu.

But putting Hamilton aside, domestic fans still enjoyed watching this race.

On the one hand, Qin Miao easily advanced to Q2 without any pressure, just like before.

Stable as a relentless track machine.

On the other hand, Zhou Guanyu defeated Norris and advanced to Q2 in ninth place. The time gap between him and his teammate Bottas was only 0.1 seconds.

For a first-year freshman, this result is satisfactory to Zhou Guanyu himself, the domestic fans who follow him, and the Arrow Racing Team.

After Qin Miao found out, he sighed with emotion: "You are indeed my eldest son!"

……

On the track, after completing the last flying lap, Qin Miao drove back to the pit area. On the way back, Qin Miao did not see Hamilton on the display screen of his steering wheel. In front of him was Hamilton, the driver of this season. Drivers from both families, so Qin Miao asked casually: "Where's Lewis?"

After hearing Qin Miao's question, Barber replied: "Well... Lewis was eliminated in Q1." "What?"

"Yes, Lewis' qualifying pace was not ideal."

After saying this, TR's conversation ended.

But on the way back, Qin Miao's mind was still full of questions.

Why was the old man eliminated in Q1? Not normal.

After returning to the garage and being pushed into the garage by Reyes and the others, Qin Miao turned on his goggles and could clearly feel that the air pressure in the P room on Hamilton's side was somewhat low.

Coincidentally, after Qin Miao's car was parked and the old soft tires were removed, Hamilton got out of the car and took Angela to weigh himself.

Hamilton just walked past Qin Miao and glanced at Qin Miao.

However, Qin Miao didn't see any negative emotions in Hamilton's eyes. Instead, he saw more helplessness and confusion.

I have been working hard for two days, but the car just can't be adjusted properly. But Qin Miao is like a normal person, and his speed is still so stable. How on earth did this guy do it?

Am I really old?

Such doubts came to Hamilton's mind.

But no matter what, Hamilton's game is over today, and Qin Miao's game...

In fact, it is over, because Qin Miao has already predicted his final ranking and results in this qualifying match...

After watching Hamilton leave, Qin Miao withdrew his thoughts and began to study the video of his two flying laps in his car.

Although Mercedes has had a bad start this season and is far behind the other two teams in terms of performance, just like last week in Bahrain, Qin Miao will always have a chance to make mistakes as long as he can maintain his stability.

And after all, the contract that Mercedes gave him is in the hands of his agency for review, and he should be able to sign it after this game is over.

I can't live up to the 2 million annual salary Mercedes gave me, right?

After a short break, Q2 also started.

At this time, the commentators did not pay much attention to Qin Miao. Because of Qin Miao's stability and speed last season, the commentators of Five Star Sports already have confidence in Qin Miao. They will wait until Q3 to watch Qin Miao. Anyway, There's no way he failed in Q2.

Now they are paying attention to Zhou Guanyu to see how Zhou Guanyu's Q2 results are, and whether it is possible to see the feat of two Chinese F1 drivers entering Q3 at the same time.

距离Q2停表还剩十分钟的时候，秦淼就用一套全新的软胎跑完了自己Q2的第一个飞行圈，成绩1分29秒299。

After completing this result, Qin Miao put on the old soft tires for the next flying lap.

There is no need to use new tires, this result can safely enter Q3.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that after seeing Qin Miao's results, Toto held his head and leaned on his seat, looking at Hamilton's car and sighing.

At the same time, there was an episode in Q2. Mick lost control of the car and hit the wall when exiting the corner in T10.

The entire car was smashed to pieces, with parts scattered all over the floor.

This is the characteristic of street racing. After a mistake occurs in a high-speed corner, the track with basically no buffer will make the car hit the wall extremely tragically.

Naturally, a red flag was raised for such a serious crash.

Because there was too much debris, the red flag lasted for almost an hour before the track was cleared.

Mick Schumacher was put into an ambulance on the spot and then taken to the hospital by helicopter for examination.

After Q2 resumed, Qin Miao returned to the track and ran a flying lap on the old medium tires.

This is all about collecting data, and the results are not important.

At the end of Q2, Qin Miao's score remained unchanged, still 1:29. However, despite this, he still advanced to Q299 in fifth place.

In the end, Zhou Guanyu still failed to advance to Q3. Unfortunately, Zhou Guanyu was eliminated in Q2 in the eleventh position.

As the Q2 goalkeeper, at least Zhou Guanyu is quite satisfied with his ranking.

In the end, the drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Zhou Guanyu, Norris, Ricciardo, Mick, and Stroll.

Soon, today’s highlight, Q3, begins.

Right off the bat, Leclerc, who has been on full fire this season, posted a time of 1:28.323 on his first flying lap to take first place.

Not long after, Qin Miao also completed his first flight lap of Q3 with a score of 1:28.816.

Qin Miao has a feeling that this is the fastest speed he can drive this W13 so far, but despite this, the time gap between him and Leclerc is still almost 0.6 seconds.

But this was not the end. Perez quickly taught Ferrari a lesson and took pole position for this race with a time of 1:28.200, even faster than his teammate Verstappen.

At the end of Q3, Qin Miao reached fifth place, which he may be very familiar with throughout the next season.

In the end, the qualifying results were as follows:

1: Perez

2: Leclerc

3: Sainz

4: Verstappen

5: Qin Miao

6: O'Connell

7: Alonso

8: Bottas

9: Gasly

10: Magnussen

11: Zhou Guanyu

12: Norris

13: Stroll

14: Hamilton

15: Ricardo

16: Albon

17: Hulkenberg

18: Russell

19: Tsunoda

Mick's car was smashed and there was no possibility of repairing it in one day, so he retired.

Magnussen was still the same as in the previous game, taking Haas to a level that was not his and ranked tenth.

Ricciardo was penalized three places from the starting position on Sunday because he blocked Gasly's flying circle in Q2. The reason why he was only moved back two places was because there was Mick behind him, even though Mick retired. The race was over, but Mick’s ranking was still there. He retired because he didn’t have a car to drive.

At this point, qualifying is over.

PS. Sorry, I have been very busy these days. Maybe the update is only 4K per day. I will remember the update from the day before yesterday and will make up for it later. I am really sorry. (End of chapter)