How did I become an F1 driver?

Soon, all twenty drivers were ready, and a large number of team staff on the track evacuated.

Because for this Grand Prix weekend, Pirelli gave the drivers the three hardest tires, namely C3C2C1.

So at the start, all 20 drivers used soft tires.

Among the drivers starting in the front row, Qin Miao was the only one who had brand new soft tires, and he even had two sets.

So when Verstappen and other staff members had not yet withdrawn, he frequently observed Qin Miao behind him through the rearview mirror of his car.

Because he knew that the person who posed the greatest threat to him in the initial stage was Qin Miao.

It is a hurdle that Qin Miao cannot overcome if he wants to win the championship in this race.

Even keeping the pole position at the start is only the first step to winning the race, there is still a long way to go.

Verstappen got a splitting headache when he thought of this.

Soon, as time went by, the last group of team staff on the track also withdrew to both sides of the track, and the warm-up lap began.

Verstappen took the lead, followed closely by Qin Miao.

After the warm-up lap, Qin Miao parked the car in his own parking space.

"Okay, the last driver Gasly has also arrived at his position."

“Five red lights are on.”

"Five red lights go out, the race begins!"

The moment the five red lights went out, Qin Miao released the clutch paddle on his racing car's steering wheel, and the car took off.

After completing the entire starting process, Qin Miao immediately focused his attention on Verstappen's car.

Because Qin Miao knew that in today's race, his start had reached his average level, and among the 20 drivers, he was also among the best.

Therefore, this start is likely to translate into an improvement in ranking.

However, there is still a long distance from the starting position to T1 on the Bahrain track. Therefore, Qin Miao feels that he has a high probability of making achievements in the interior.

However, as the car continued to move forward, Verstappen, who had originally started from pole position, gradually squeezed towards Qin Miao on the inside.

In today's race, Verstappen's start was also very good. After the race, when Qin Miao watched the replay, he realized that Verstappen's starting reaction speed was basically the same as his own.

However, the SF24 driven by Qin Miao this season does not have an absolute advantage in terms of engine like Mercedes' W14.

Therefore, Qin Miao had no way to tap in on Verstappen's inside line before Verstappen closed his door from the outside.

So when Verstappen's car reached 2/3 of the starting straight, Verstappen's car was already completely blocking Qin Miao's car.

Despite the slipstream of Verstappen's car in front, Qin Miao caught the slipstream of Verstappen's car.

But at this time the distance on the track was not enough for Qin Miao to absorb Verstappen's tail flow, increase his own tail speed and then overtake Verstappen.

However, as a defensive master, Qin Miao naturally knew how to disgust Verstappen at this time.

So even though Verstappen had an open goal on the outside, which gave Qin Miao an advantage in final speed, Qin Miao did not go to the outside of the track to try to seize the hope that seemed promising, but in fact it was impossible to surpass Verstappen.

Qin Miao stayed inside.

If Verstappen dares to go to the outside to try to get a better angle into the corner, I will brake late on the inside to force my way in.

When Verstappen blocked Qin Miao in front of him, he was also keeping an eye on his rearview mirror.

Verstappen therefore found that things did not develop as he expected.

Damn it! It's almost time to brake, why don't you go to the outside line?
As a result of Qin Miao's actions, Verstappen became the one who was in a difficult situation.

Fortunately, Verstappen still saw the position of Leclerc's car behind him in his rearview mirror.

Although Leclerc's starting reaction speed is slightly slower than Verstappen and Qin Miao, Leclerc's starting speed is also outstanding. But because of this slight slowdown, Leclerc did not join the fight with the two perverts in front, so he is at least 5 meters away from the car in front.

Seeing these 5 meters, Verstappen judged that if he and Qin Miao entered the corner on the inside, Leclerc would not be able to threaten his position on the outside.

On the contrary, Leclerc can also threaten Qin Miao's position.

So Verstappen made up his mind and chose to brake directly into the turn on the inside line.

Qin Miao sighed helplessly when he saw that Verstappen actually did not go to the outside line to enter the corner, but instead stayed on the inside line.

After a winter break, why does it seem like Verstappen’s brain has become a lot sharper?
Of course, Verstappen didn't stick to the inside line when entering the corner. He moved a little bit to the outside, but still didn't leave any space for Qin Miao on the inside line.

When Leclerc saw the two people fighting to the death in the dirty side of the inside, he knew that he had a chance to attack, but Leclerc did not take action. Instead, he took a center defensive line and guarded against Russell behind him in advance.

After seeing this, Verstappen curled his lips helplessly: Damn, the triple crown champion still needs the No. 2 driver to cover for him, right? Shameless!
At the same time, Verstappen couldn't help but have some fantasies. If his teammate Perez appeared in Leclerc's position, would Qin Miao be cautious at this moment? He would not need to be so passive.

In short, although there was some intrigue among the drivers in the front row at Turn 1, there were no accidents on the track.

However, the drivers in the middle and back of the track are not so safe.

Hulkenberg, who started from tenth place, made a mistake at the start and fell behind Stroll, and was suppressed to the inside by the cars on the outside.

But he did not have the same soft and precise braking feel as Qin Miao and Verstappen, and therefore, he rear-ended Stroll's right rear wheel when braking on the inner line of T1.

The collision caused Stroll to spin in place.

Bottas behind him also rear-ended Hulkenberg's car because Hulkenberg suddenly braked after rear-ending Stroll, hitting the back of Hulkenberg's car.

Therefore, these three drivers, in order to adjust their positions and return to the field, fell directly to the end of the team.

The speed of these three cars was not very fast to begin with this season, and now with this collision, let alone making it to the points zone, they may not even be able to get to the entrance of the points zone.

However, the collision between the three people was just a minor scratch in the F1 arena, so no fragments of the drivers' cars fell onto the track.

Therefore, the race did not deploy yellow flags or safety cars.

The game continued as normal.

There have been some changes to the DRS rules this season.

Last season's DRS rules were not enabled until the third lap after the start of the race, but this season it was brought forward to the second lap.

On the second lap, Qin Miao was still 2 seconds behind Verstappen.

Therefore, with DRS turned on, Qin Miao began to put pressure on Verstappen.

Last season the W14 might not have been able to keep up with your RB19 in the corners, but things are different now.

The SF24 I am riding is capable of competing!
Verstappen was not too nervous at the pressure from Qin Miao at this time. You should know that during the winter break before the start of this season, Verstappen watched almost all of Qin Miao's wonderful offensive and defensive videos and car pictures over the past three years. Although it cannot be said that Verstappen has trained himself into a defensive genius this winter, but facing Qin Miao again, Verstappen's defensive skills are obviously stronger than before.

Of course, unlike Qin Miao, Verstappen is still the same Verstappen.

For example, in the attack and defense on the fourth lap, when Qin Miao came out of the T15 corner and onto the starting straight, he was 0.6 seconds behind Verstappen.

If it were a normal track with a shorter DRS zone, such as the Hungaroring, Qin Miao would not be able to threaten Verstappen with this time gap.

But this is Bahrain. Although Bahrain’s starting straight is not the longest on the calendar, it is still a relatively long starting straight.

In this place, Qin Miao has the opportunity to attack Verstappen.

Inhale the wake, turn on DRS, ERS.

With a series of smooth little moves, Qin Miao began to quickly shorten the time gap between himself and Verstappen on the track.

Verstappen was also single, and after noticing Qin Miao's closing rate that surprised him, he ran directly to the innermost side of the track.

He tried his best to prevent Qin Miao from being caught in the slipstream of his car.

Then Qin Miao ignored Verstappen. If there was no wake, then there was no wake. At least he was not on the dirty side.

Finally, relying on ERS and DRS, Qin Miao came to the outside line and was side by side with Verstappen before the braking point of T1.

Then before entering the braking point, Qin Miao moved towards the inner line by the distance of a car body.

In fact, if there was a normal straight road after T1 in Bahrain, Qin Miao would definitely take the cross line at this position to make Verstappen brake late.

However, after passing T1 in Bahrain, there is a large-angle zigzag. After exiting the corner, T2 will press Verstappen behind, so it is impossible to take intersecting lines here.

Although Verstappen was defending on the inside, he naturally wanted to find a wider line when entering the T1 corner. Then when he was about to move to the outside to brake, he found Qin Miao squeezing in.

To be honest, I squatted on the inside line at the start, and now I don't give myself a good angle to enter the turn.

Qin Miao's two operations made Verstappen feel very disgusted.

Verstappen really wanted to jump out of the car now, rush to Qin Miao's car, grab his collar and ask, "Are you sick?"

But even though the angle of entry into the turn became very limited due to Qin Miao's action, Verstappen still braked late to enter the turn according to his original plan.

Finally, he held off Qin Miao's car as it came out of the corner.

Because of this, Qin Miao, who had already overtaken a car in front, lost his best turning angle.

Therefore, the person who should have reached the APEX point at the center of the curve first changed from Qin Miao to Verstappen.

Next, Qin Miao was still on the outside, trying to catch up and pass T2 ahead of Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao, who took a wider line, had a faster speed out of the corner, so he still had the possibility of overtaking. After all, T2 was also a false corner, and there was a very long straight road after the corner, so Qin Miao could still perform well.

Then Pan Zi showed his standard defensive routine on the inside of T2's track: closing the door.

Now it was Qin Miao's turn to make a choice: brake or crash into Verstappen's car? Or there was another possibility: go outside the track and risk being punished by the FIA.

It seems that Qin Miao has many choices, but in fact he has no choice at all.

He could only ease off the accelerator slightly and let Verstappen pass helplessly.

Verstappen has made up for his shortcomings by taking advantage of his strengths.

When Qin Miao was about to recharge the battery of his car and began to consider whether he should continue to put pressure on Verstappen to consume his tires, and then take down Verstappen when his tires could no longer hold on.

Qin Miao subconsciously glanced at his rearview mirror.

Qin Miao:?
No. What about Leclerc?

Didn't this bastard say he wanted to be his wingman? Where is he?
What appeared in Qin Miao's rearview mirror at this time was not the Ferrari racing car that Qin Miao had begun to become familiar with, but the black Mercedes racing car that Qin Miao was even more familiar with.

"Where is Leclerc?" Qin Miao asked in the team TR with some confusion.

Franky looked at Vasser next to him.

Although Qin Miao's performance in just four laps put everyone in Ferrari at ease, Vasseur's face was not very good at this time, because not long after the race started, Leclerc's car encountered braking problems on the track.

Locking occurs frequently in many corners.

Therefore, just in the first lap of DRS, Russell overtook Leclerc from behind.

After getting the explanation from the team, Qin Miao laughed for unknown reasons.

To be honest, when people are speechless to a certain extent, they will really laugh.

He was not laughing at Leclerc's weakness. Qin Miao, who often practiced one-on-one with Leclerc, knew clearly that Leclerc was not weak.

He just felt that Leclerc was a little too unlucky.

Damn it, how can a person be so unlucky?

He really deserves the name of unlucky guy.

Therefore, Qin Miao knew that he could not rely on Leclerc in today's race.

The game continues.

However, as Qin Miao started charging, a problem that gave Qin Miao a headache arose.

Because Verstappen's lap time was a bit too fast.

While he was charging, Verstappen began to quickly widen the time gap between himself and himself, as if the two attacks and defenses just now were just Verstappen teasing him.

By the time the race reached the seventh lap, Verstappen had already pulled 4 seconds ahead of Qin Miao.

It's this familiar feeling again.

But Qin Miao is worthy of being Qin Miao, because while being left behind by Verstappen, Qin Miao also left Russell behind him by 3 seconds.

It can be said that except for the fight at the beginning of the game, Qin Miao directly entered the cruising state.

Ferrari people: ...

Is this what it feels like to watch your awesome driver slaying everyone on the track, but there's a pervert who just can't catch up with him?

This feeling is so weird...

There is a faint feeling of death... (End of this chapter)