How did I become an F1 driver?

At the same time, Red Bull itself knows this.

This is also the reason why in the paddock, the Red Bull people are in a hurry and have sad faces, while Mercedes is in a happy and relaxed atmosphere.

Sunday, when the main competition will be held.

Today at the Monza circuit, there were real drums and gongs, firecrackers and huge crowds of people.

At the same time, a black wave appeared in Monza, Ferrari's home ground today.

Many fans wearing Mercedes No. 66 jerseys mingled among the crowd dominated by red, and as die-hard Ferrari fans in Tiefu Temple, they had no aversion to these people wearing No. 66 jerseys.

Not surprisingly, these people are all from the Iron Buddha Temple, and the reason they changed into Qin Miao's clothes is to prepare in advance for the next season.

Let Qin Miao feel in advance the enthusiasm of his fellow villagers and their love for his return.

While preparing on the track on Sunday, Qin Miao also met many old acquaintances, such as his colleagues when he worked at Prema.

After the pre-race press conference, Qin Miao met Prema team leader Rosing when he walked towards the team's P room.

After the old friends met, they naturally chatted for a long time, and also talked about Frankie, the track engineer Qin Miao poached from the Prema team.

Looking back on those years, they both felt a lot of emotion.

Qin Miao also felt the passage of time for the first time. When he first joined Prema, he had just reached adulthood, but now, in the blink of an eye, he has become a two-time world champion.

We have children.

When seeing each other again, Qin Miao did feel a very strong sense of closeness.

But today is the race day after all, and Qin Miao still has a lot of pre-race preparations to complete. As the team leader who has been in this field for a long time, Luo Xing is naturally aware of this.

Seeing that Barber beside Qin Miao obviously wanted to say something, he took the initiative to say: "It's getting late, I won't bother you anymore, I wish you all the best in today's game."

"Okay." Qin Miao also shook hands with the other party, then turned back to the Mercedes team to make final preparations before the start of the race.

The weather in Monza is very good today and the meteorological department has given a very clear response that there is no possibility of rain on the track during this Grand Prix weekend.

The weather will be stable throughout the day, with not many clouds.

Qin Miao also completed the pre-race inspection during the period before the race started. After going through the process that must be followed every Grand Prix weekend, Qin Miao got into his car.

The start at Monza actually has no advantage for the pole position driver, because the pole position driver's starting position is on the outside of the track, and the first corner of Monza is a 90° Z-bend.

In this place, if the reaction speed at the start is slow, the attack of the inside driver will become very easy, and Qin Miao has no confidence that he can keep his pole position.

So before the race officially started, and even before Qin Miao's car was started, Qin Miao was already imitating on the steering wheel what his operating procedures would be after the race began.

Soon, it was the final preparation time before the start of the race, and all the staff on both sides of the track began to evacuate the track.

Qin Miao moved his fingers in the car, tightened his gloves, and then began to wait quietly for the start of the game.

After the warm-up lap, Qin Miao parked the car in pole position.

At this moment, Qin Miao had a clear view in front of him.

After taking a look at his braking point from a distance, Qin Miao tilted his head to glance at the old man behind him on the right.

Qin Miao felt that the possibility of the old man posing a threat to him at the start of this race was not very high. As long as he didn't make any serious mistakes at the start, the rest of the race would be easy.

There was a small accident on the track before the race started.

During the warm-up lap, Tsunoda's car had an engine failure and stopped beside the track.

Therefore, the race procedure was restarted, and the drivers ran an extra warm-up lap before the race officially began.

……

“Okay, all 19 drivers are in position, let’s check the lights…”

"Five red lights came on and went out, and the 2023 Italian Grand Prix officially began. Let's take a look at Qin Miao's start."

“Qin Miao had a great start, as good as always, and maintained his position, followed closely by Hamilton. The two drivers came to T1 one after the other, and had no problems in and out of the corners!”

On the track, Qin Miao's start was as excellent as ever.

Successfully maintained his starting position.

Naturally, the old man could not pose any threat to Qin Miao.

Sainz and Pan Zilaosi behind also started normally, and after passing T1, no one's ranking changed.

Next, Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't even think about the internal fight. What they were thinking about was when Verstappen would catch up and how they should defend against him after Verstappen caught up.

However, as time went on, when the race reached the third lap and the organizers turned on DRS, Qin Miao and the old man gradually discovered that something was wrong.

Why is Sainz still behind? And he is getting further and further behind.

"What is the difference in lap speed between Verstappen and me?" The old man asked as he looked at the flashing charging light at the rear of Qin Miao's car in front of him while charging his own racing car.

The purpose of doing this is easy to guess, which is to resist Verstappen's attack later.

"0.1 second." The old man's track engineer replied.

"Why is the closing rate so low? Is Sainz's defensive intensity so high?" The old man was very confused.

But when he thought about it, today's race was Ferrari's home race after all. During the pre-race activities, Hamilton discovered that Qin Miao's popularity at Ferrari's home court was even higher than that of Sainz, the Ferrari driver.

So Sainz wanted to prove himself on the track, so it is not impossible that he defended harder and more seriously. However, what Hamilton's track engineer said next caught Hamilton off guard.

"Although we cannot rule out the possibility that it was due to Sainz's strong defensive ability, it was not the case. In this race we were 0.1 seconds faster than Verstappen."

"what?"

……

This is indeed the case. The single lap speeds of these two Mercedes cars on the track are the fastest among the 20 cars in the field.

At the beginning, the two Mercedes drivers had not yet recovered from the pressure of being oppressed by Verstappen, although they had speculated in this regard before the start of the race that their cars were faster than the RB19 in Monza.

But after this really happened, both of them were a little unprepared for a while. But as the race came to the third lap, the old man found that Qin Miao had accelerated.

He threw himself directly out of the DRS zone.

The old man quickly realized that Verstappen had withdrawn from the race championship in today's race, and today was a great opportunity for him to win the championship.

So the old man gave up on protecting the fetus and started chasing Qin Miao.

By the 7th lap, Hamilton had already left Sainz behind him by 3.1 seconds.

And on the 9th lap, the old man finally saved up enough power and decided to kill Qin Miao.

Although the performance of the old man's and Qin Miao's cars are exactly the same at this time, Qin Miao's car performance may be slightly better than the old man's. After all, Qin Miao's car engine has less wear and tear than Hamilton's.

But the old man has a wake.

It has been tested during qualifying. The effect of the wake swirl on the following cars in Monza is no less than that of DRS. In fact, the effect of the wake swirl in Monza is better than that of DRS. Not to mention that the DRS on this track is not ineffective, it is simply lower than that on a normal track.

So in this attack, the old man's car encountered Qin Miao's slipstream and turned on his ERS and DRS.

With the help of three acceleration methods, Hamilton ran at a terrifying speed of 358 kilometers per hour in the main race.

Qin Miao was actually charging his batteries all the time, waiting for the attack from the driver behind him.

Qin Miao actually thought about using up all his power at once and throwing the old man out of the DRS zone behind him, but he couldn't do it.

The old man has rarely beaten me recently, whether in the race or qualifying, mainly because my ability to protect the tire gives me too much advantage in long distances.

In terms of single lap speed, the old man and I are actually evenly matched. Sometimes it depends more on who is in better condition.

So Qin Miao could only choose a more passive approach, charging his racing car and waiting for the old man to attack.

After discovering that Hamilton had started to attack, Qin Miao turned on ERS and slowly changed lanes to the inside. The meaning was obvious: Qin Miao did not want to give the inside to the old man.

The old man naturally saw what Qin Miao was thinking, but he was not in a hurry. He just followed behind Qin Miao and kept absorbing the tail flow. Until it was almost at the limit, the old man was ready to withdraw.

But at this moment, the old man discovered that Qin Miao's car moved before his own.

The old man's offensive idea at this time was: Since you, Qin Miao, are stuck inside, I will give you a favor and attack from the outside. I will try it once with my current absolute speed, and if it doesn't work, forget it.

Qin Miao, you can't really push me out of the track, right?
Qin Miao did not intend to squeeze Hamilton off the track, but he could not just let Hamilton pass.

Qin Miao's approach was to predict Hamilton's attack direction. He first made way for the outside line and predicted Hamilton's attack timing. About half a second before Hamilton's attack, Qin Miao changed lanes to the outside line in advance.

Catching timing is not easy for a player like Qin Miao who often plays CS.

Because the braking point has not been reached yet, Qin Miao will not trigger the FIA's lane change rules at this time.

Hamilton, who was originally preparing to change lanes to the outside, was blocked by Qin Miao and suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

But the hand movement had already been made, and the old man's car moved a short distance toward the outside line.

At this time, the old man also discovered that the space in the interior had been vacated by Qin Miao. After a brief discomfort, Hamilton immediately realized that this was an opportunity to take down Qin Miao in one fell swoop.

Then there was that familiar feeling of frustration again. Before Hamilton changed lanes to the inside, Qin Miao had already started changing lanes to the inside, blocking Hamilton's overtaking route again.

Qin Miao drew a dragon directly in front of Hamilton, and every swing just blocked Hamilton.

From the perspective of the broadcast at that time, Qin Miao's car had basically no major position changes on the track, and only made a very small lane change on the track.

But this seemingly insignificant lane change made Hamilton feel very disgusted.

Although Hamilton was disgusted when Qin Miao changed lanes for the first time, at least he still had some offensive ideas and opportunities. However, with Qin Miao's second change of lanes, Hamilton had missed the best time to tap the ball, and he was about to hit Qin Miao.

At this time, no matter what the old man did, it was too late. Whether he turned left or right, he would inevitably hit Qin Miao's car.

To put it bluntly, Qin Miao would like to see Hamilton act recklessly on the track and try to attack him from the other side.

Because in this way, after Hamilton's car turns corner, the front nose end plate will most likely scrape his left rear wheel.

Although two 1-pound fat men can stand on the front nose of an F200 car without any bending, people can also stand on the end plate.

But sometimes, the kinetic energy of a high-speed racing car is so great that a slight bump can directly scrape off your front nose end plate.

Therefore, if Hamilton really did what Qin Miao expected, Hamilton would most likely lose his front nose end plate.

So strictly speaking, there is only one appropriate option for Hamilton at this time, which is to step on the brakes to slow down.

The game had just begun, and Hamilton and Qin Miao had only fought for the first round. The old man's brain and experience told him that he should not get carried away at this time, so Hamilton calmly chose to release the accelerator and gave up the attack.

Of course, as teammates you have a good relationship, but Hamilton will definitely complain if you do this to him on the track.

"Qin Miao drew a dragon, he violated the rules!"

Toto: ...

After hearing Hamilton's voice in the team TR, Toto rubbed his brows with a headache.

Toto had never thought about these things before. After all, when Qin Miao just joined Mercedes-Benz, his speed really could not match the old man's speed.

But now Qin Miao's lap speed is already on par with the old man.

This gave rise to many problems.

Before the summer break, because of Verstappen's pressure and Qin Miao's outstanding ability to protect his tires, the two had few opportunities to compete on the track and no problems were revealed.

But in today's race, Red Bull and Ferrari both performed poorly. After the two Mercedes drivers were no longer under pressure from Red Bull and Ferrari on the track, they immediately turned their attention to their teammates.

Both of them knew that their teammates were the biggest obstacle in their fight for the championship at this moment.

So in the face of Hamilton's complaints, all Toto and Mercedes could do was try their best to calm Hamilton's emotions.

With both drivers being world champions, Toto cannot favor either one on the track.

In the eyes of professionals like Toto, Qin Miao's defense was a bit dirty in this attack, but it is undeniable that it was indeed an effective defense.

PS. Dads, it’s the end of the month, please give me some monthly tickets (end of this chapter)