How did I become an F1 driver?

The results of this qualifying match are actually not of much reference value.

On the one hand, before qualifying began, the drivers only had one practice session on the track. For drivers who have gradually become accustomed to three practice sessions in a Grand Prix weekend, one practice session was not enough for most drivers to complete the setup of their cars.

Not to mention that some drivers made mistakes during the practice session, which meant that time was even less than enough.

Qin Miao: Was that a mistake? Is it a mistake to press a nail on the racing car?

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On the other hand, all drivers in Q3 only ran one flying lap, and before the start of the last flying lap, the red flag was directly issued due to weather reasons, and the qualifying race ended early.

Therefore, in Saturday's sprint qualifying and sprint race, the drivers' rankings on the track will be quite different from those in this qualifying session.

But no matter what the process is, at least this is the starting order of the drivers in the race on Sunday.

I won’t go into details about the subsequent work flow on Friday. In short, Qin Miao participated in training and the old man participated in various activities.

Both have bright futures.

Soon it was Saturday.

Today we will have the sprint qualifying and sprint races.

I won’t go into details about the sprint qualifying process here.

It's just a qualifying race with everything being a little shorter.

The only thing worth mentioning is that during the sprint qualifying process, Alonso and his old teammate Ocon had a close contact at a negative distance on the track.

Of course, after the accident, the FIA ​​determined that this was just a normal track accident and did not impose any penalties on the two drivers.

But both Alonso and Ocon felt that the accident was the other party's responsibility.

After all, these two people had a feud before.

Ocon felt that Alonso deliberately closed his door to interfere with his performance in the sprint qualifying stage, which ultimately led to the accident.

Alonso said that the only person he needed to pay attention to in qualifying was Ocon, because you didn't know when he would hit you.

Although the two had a war of words during the interview after the race, as the FIA ​​said, this was just a normal track accident.

Apart from the war of words between fans of both sides in the paddock news media, there is nothing more worth mentioning.

Of course, the good news for both drivers is that the team's mechanics did a good job of their jobs over the Grand Prix weekend.

Both cars were repaired before Saturday's sprint race.

No one was delayed in the race. The only ones injured were the team technicians of the two teams. They didn't even have a break at noon and had to work hard to repair the cars.

In the sprint race, Qin Miao finally no longer started from second place, because the driver who started from second place became Hamilton, and Qin Miao was squeezed to third place by the old man.

This is not because Qin Miao made mistakes in the sprint qualifying stage. In fact, Qin Miao's single lap speed in the sprint qualifying stage was 0.2 seconds faster than his single lap speed in the qualifying stage yesterday.

Qin Miao appeared in this position purely because the old man ran well in this race. Compared with Verstappen, the old man's single lap speed was only 0.02 seconds slower.

It is true that if there was just a gust of wind towards Hamilton on the track, the old man would be able to get the pole position in this sprint qualifying race.

It’s a pity that this is F1 and there are no ifs on the track.

At the start of the sprint race, Qin Miao, the old man and Pan Zi all used soft tires.

In the starting stage, Qin Miao was so steady as if he had lost something. He had no offensive ideas and only made defensive moves.

Perez, who had an excellent start behind Qin Miao, was stunned.

Perez was puzzled. Damn, your start is usually not that stable?
With such a good starting reaction speed, you are going to use it to defend against me?

Go do Hamilton!

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The reason why Qin Miao was so stable at the start was mainly because this was a sprint race.

In the sprint race, all drivers only need to run 24 laps on the track.

This is the number of laps that most drivers can complete without having to make a pit stop after switching to soft tires.

Although the team did not tell Hamilton before the race that they should give up their position to Qin Miao if Qin Miao needed it.

But knowing that the old man is in a bad state this season, if he really needs it and applies to the team through the team TR, the old man will most likely give up his position.

In this way, Qin Miao can basically reach the second position without any effort.

Pan Zi used soft tires at the start, and I also happened to be using soft tires.

In this way, the later the race goes, the greater the tire advantage accumulated by protecting the tires.

When the sprint race is about to end, your tire advantage is the greatest.

By then it will be easy for me to control Verstappen however I want.

At the same time, Verstappen could naturally roughly guess what Qin Miao was thinking behind him.

After the start, he didn't actually push as hard as he could, but was trying to protect his tires, trying to use Hamilton to drive Qin Miao's DRS train.

But the problem was, just as Qin Miao expected, when the race came to the third lap, he found that Verstappen had not accelerated at all, but was stuck in front of him and used himself to block Qin Miao behind him.

The old man didn't even wait for the convoy to give instructions or for Qin Miao to say anything.

At the T1 position in the fourth lap, he took the initiative to brake in advance at the braking point, giving Qin Miao a chance to overtake on the outside.

Qin Miao noticed at the first moment that Hamilton's braking point was wrong, and then Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and started from the outside line that Hamilton had given up. He didn't even brake late, he just found a normal braking point on the outside and surpassed Hamilton.

It was obvious that Hamilton was letting his Qin Miao overtake the old man, and he even reached out and gave the old man a thumbs up.

It feels like the thumbs-up in Death Stranding.

Although Qin Miao's action of extending a finger instead of thumb while turning into a corner looks easy.

In fact, it was quite easy for Qin Miao to do it himself.

However, Franky, the track engineer sitting on the Mercedes team's podium, and Toto, who was sitting in the team's P room, saw this action through the first-person perspective of Qin Miao's car displayed in front of them.

The two of them made sharp explosions almost at the same time.

It's okay to do these movements when you are in a straight line, after all, your hands don't need to do anything at this time.

But at this time Qin Miao was entering a curve, and it was a very loaded curve. If Qin Miao let go of one hand, he would be playing with his life.

Normal drivers need to be very careful when turning with one hand. Damn, you turned with one hand while giving likes, are you really not afraid of losing control and crashing?
On the other hand, the old man was indeed shocked by Qin Miao's bold move.

The reason is the same as why Toto and Franky were frightened after seeing Qin Miao's bold move.

"Qin Miao, we are competing now, so please concentrate." After seeing Qin Miao's fancy operation, Franky couldn't help but said sternly to the team TR.

Qin Miao also realized belatedly that his previous action was somewhat rash.

He said that when he just entered the corner, it seemed that the power-assist system of the racing car's steering wheel malfunctioned and he almost failed to turn the corner.

Of course, we can only say that everything ended up being safe.

The two Mercedes drivers exchanged positions without any team instructions.

After seeing this scene, all I felt was a deep pain and powerlessness.

You said... You are a seven-time champion and a top talent on par with Michael Schumacher, so why did you give way to Qin Miao?

Where is your pride? Where is your backbone? Where is your dignity as a world champion?
Pan Zi really hopes that the two Mercedes drivers will have a conflict on the track because of different opinions on position exchange.

Then they started fighting.

It’s just a pity that the way these two Mercedes players get along is not like that of normal teammates in an F1 team.

After Qin Miao came in second, the situation in the next sprint race became clearer.

Pan Zi had no choice but to slow down and pass Hamilton to drive the train for Qin Miao.

There were no other drivers in front of Qin Miao to stop him from setting a new lap time on the track.

Although he still couldn't keep up with Pan Zi's pace, Pan Zi didn't continue to protect the tire on the track, which was what Qin Miao wanted to see.

The subsequent games were relatively calm.

After all, it is a sprint race, and no one wants the car to be damaged at this stage.

Soon the race came to the 18th lap.

At this time, the time difference between Pan Zi and Qin Miao reached 4 seconds.

In this lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen, which had been in a state of continuous expansion, finally stopped expanding. From the 19th lap, Qin Miao began to continuously narrow the time gap between himself and Verstappen, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

This shows that Verstappen's tires are no longer good.

By the 20th lap, Qin Miao had already caught up to Verstappen, 1.8 seconds behind him.

On the 21st lap, Qin Miao entered the DRS area behind Verstappen. On the 23rd lap, Qin Miao absorbed Verstappen's tailstream after exiting turn T12 and began to approach Verstappen quickly.

The W14's advantage in straight-line speed was fully revealed at this moment.

Verstappen was actually watching in his rearview mirror the time gap between himself and the W14 narrowing rapidly.

And there was nothing he could do about it.

Qin Miao's attack this time was a successful one. He easily controlled Verstappen on the track and overtook Verstappen on the outside.

There is not much to say about this overtaking. The absolute advantage in tires prevented Qin Miao from being thrown out of the DRS zone behind Verstappen before T12.

Afterwards, the car's acceleration ability allowed Qin Miao to quickly approach Verstappen on the track and overtake Verstappen before the braking point.

After overtaking Verstappen, Qin Miao led until the end of the sprint race.

At the end of the sprint race, Qin Miao could say that although it looked difficult, he actually completed the race very easily and won the sprint race championship.

The drivers' rankings and scores are as follows:

P1: Qin Miao +8
P2: Verstappen +7
P3: Hamilton +6
P4: Norris +5
P5: Perez +4
P6: Leclerc +3
P7: Yuki Tsunoda +2
P8: Sainz +1
I won’t go into detail about the post-match celebrations and interviews.

The only thing worth mentioning is that the audience was particularly respectful. When Qin Miao was the first to cross the finish line, the entire scene was cheering.

After all, it is half of Mercedes' home field. Both Mercedes drivers stepped onto the podium after the sprint race, which is something that local Brazilian fans are happy to see.

Although the two Mercedes drivers are welcomed in Brazil, they do not receive thunderous applause like Senna or Massa when they step onto the podium.

However, the two drivers still received warm applause and cheers from the fans at the scene after the race.

The two Mercedes drivers also followed the fine tradition of post-race interviews and first thanked the fans at the scene.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another round of enthusiastic cheers from the audience, and someone even confessed his love to Qin Miao directly in the stands.

Qin Miao even thought this was his home court.

After the sprint race, take a day off.

Sunday's race stage.

At almost every Grand Prix stage, there are many celebrities on the track.

When the pre-race warm-up broadcast footage was given to the drivers who were making pre-race preparations on the track, fans saw Qin Miao and Brazilian star Neymar chatting about something.

It seemed that the two of them were having a very happy chat.

In fact, this scene is normal. After all, they are all celebrities. If they want to increase their exposure during the Grand Prix, they naturally need to appear more often around the drivers on the track.

There is nothing wrong with Neymar's choice to talk to Qin Miao. After all, Qin Miao is competing with Verstappen for the world championship on the track this season, so he must have received more attention during the entire Grand Prix.

What the fans don’t know is that the two of them were not talking about football or racing at that time, and they didn’t even talk about the local customs and culture of Brazil.

It wasn't even a business meeting between the two of them, they actually had a lot of fun talking about CS.

After all, it is no secret in the CS circle that Qin Miao likes to play CS. Many people even think that with the talent Qin Miao has shown in the game of CS, it would be a pity if he did not become a professional player.

Of course this is also a joke. After all, with Qin Miao's current worth, it would not be a problem for him to buy all the CS professional clubs in Europe.

Playing CS is really just a hobby for Qin Miao.

As for Neymar, if he wants to do as just mentioned above, there is indeed no problem in directly buying all the CS professional clubs in Europe.

After all, football players are not short of money.

Both of them play CS because they enjoy it.

After chatting for more than ten minutes, Reyes came over to remind Qin Miao to prepare for the game. Neymar then reminded Qin Miao to remember to play two games together when he had time, and left the track reluctantly.

Qin Miao also returned to the car to make final preparations before the race. (End of this chapter)