How did I become an F1 driver?

"It's OK as long as you're okay." Leclerc also breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Qin Miao and complained, "If you don't know how to take care of a child, you can just let me take care of the child. My girlfriend is not as busy as Qiu Meng. She has plenty of time to accompany Xiao Muchu. She won't let the child get sick at any time like you two do."

Qin Miao narrowed his eyes and looked at Leclerc who was talking nonsense and said, "Let's not talk about other things first. Little Muqiu has only been sick once in his life. And this is not due to poor care. It is just a viral infection caused by environmental changes. No one can avoid it."

"Besides, you are totally like Ye Gong who loves dragons more than others."

"You think little girls are always cute and cuddly when they are out and about, but you have never experienced a time when your child suddenly starts crying at two or three in the morning while you are sleeping well, and you have to get up to feed her, change her diaper, and spend time coaxing her to sleep."

"Growing up involves all kinds of bumps and bruises, hygiene issues, and worries about this and that."

Seeing Leclerc's doubtful look after hearing what he said, Qin Miao said disdainfully: "Let's not talk about it for too long. Let you two take care of Xiao Mu Qiu for a month. You two won't have the urge to have a child within two years. Of course, the premise is that you don't hire a nanny to take care of the child."

"Is it that scary?" Leclerc was skeptical.

"Why don't you try taking care of her for a month? When little Muqiu recovers from her cold, I'll send you to Monaco."

"Forget it then." Leclerc thought for a while and shook his head to refuse.

"Look." Qin Miao Little Bear spread his hands: "I really gave it to you, but you're not happy."

After saying this, Qin Miao continued to look down at the computer screen in front of him, which showed the weather forecast for the Albert Park Circuit in the past few days.

After seeing Qin Miao busy working and getting the information he wanted, Leclerc knew that it was not appropriate to disturb Qin Miao now. He just told Qin Miao: "Remember to buff my car during the practice session tomorrow." Then he left.

Qin Miao didn't even look up, he just said, "Okay."

Thursday passed by and it was Friday, the day when the first and second practices began.

The workload during the Australian Grand Prix is ​​not as tough as it is during races in the Middle East.

Because the race and qualifying sessions are both held in the afternoon, the data from the first and second practice sessions of this Grand Prix weekend are all valid data.

Before the first practice session began, Qin Miao completed the routine pre-match interview and then returned to the team's P room wearing a Ferrari uniform.

Just then I saw Leclerc who had been waiting for a long time.

"coming?"

Qin Miao nodded and asked, "How long have you been waiting?"

"The practice session is about to begin, hurry up, let me see the results." Leclerc urged impatiently.

Qin Miao nodded and walked towards the direction of Leclerc's car. However, at the same time, Qin Miao once again gave Leclerc a shot of prevention: "Let's make it clear in advance. I don't know if this will work. It can only serve as a psychological comfort..."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and get on with it." Leclerc interrupted Qin Miao.

Shrugging his shoulders, Qin Miao knelt on one knee in front of Leclerc's car under the gaze of other Ferrari team members.

To be honest, given the conditions for using Qin Miao's skill, he only needs to maintain his inner piety when soothing the machine soul. It doesn't really matter what specific posture he uses when soothing the machine soul.

Not to mention kneeling on one knee, even if Qin Miao rode on Leclerc's neck he could give the car a BUFF.

However, as mentioned before, Qin Miao doesn't know whether his skills will also be effective on Leclerc's car, or whether it will be effective on Leclerc's car the first time, but after Qin Miao uses it on his own car again, the effect on Leclerc's car will be lifted.

Qin Miao had not tried these, so he had no way of guaranteeing Leclerc what the specific results would be.

Therefore, Qin Miao has always emphasized that this is just a pre-match ritual for psychological comfort.

However, in the final analysis, this was Qin Miao giving Leclerc psychological comfort, so Qin Miao still made it a bit ceremonial and not too casual.

Qin Miao knelt on one knee, then reached out and patted the side box of Leclerc's car three times.

After finishing all this, Qin Miao stood up and said to Leclerc beside him: "Okay, but I can't guarantee whether it will work."

Leclerc nodded to Qin Miao, then excitedly put on his equipment and climbed into his car.

Looking at the other person's appearance, Qin Miao shook his head helplessly, and then noticed that Vasser was standing next to him at some point.

Vasseur, who had been standing behind Qin Miao for a while, naturally saw the series of operations just now, so he asked Qin Miao curiously: "What's going on with Leclerc?

It is no secret that drivers have some unique pre-race preparation rituals before the race. Vasseur was not surprised by this. What surprised him was that Qin Miao's target this time was Leclerc's car.

Qin Miao put his hands on his hips and watched Leclerc tinkering with his car with great interest, and explained, "Leclerc felt that he was too unlucky, so he asked me to give his car a set of pre-race preparation rituals that I often use to see if it works."

Wasser looked at Qin Miao curiously: "Will it work?"

Qin Miao shrugged: "How would I know if it would work? Isn't this just a psychological comfort?"

"Since it only serves as a psychological comfort, then why do I see you have such a process before every game?" Vassell continued to ask in confusion.

Qin Miao said calmly: "I'm used to it..."

Wasser: ...

I won't go into too much detail about the subsequent practice sessions, as everyone was following the testing process of a regular Grand Prix weekend. The only thing that was a bit surprising was that because the track was too bumpy, most drivers had problems with their cars bottoming out when cornering, and Qin Miao was no exception.

Some unlucky guys even damaged the floorboards of their own cars when he was dragging the car.

This is also due to the characteristics of the track.

The curbs at the Albert Park Circuit are different from those at other circuits. The route of this circuit is not a high curb, but after a section of high curb, the outermost shoulder is a sinking shoulder. This also means that if you drive a little bit faster and the curb eats a little more, the bottom of the car may be hit.

However, after returning to the team's P room, Qin Miao asked his crew to adjust the suspension hardness of the car and the problem was solved.

Of course, apart from that, the car still has a lot of problems.

However, with Qin Miao's ability, he solved most of the problems he found during the first practice.

As for the results of the first practice session, don't ask. The answer is that the results of the practice session have no reference value. After the first practice session, Qin Miao had just gotten off the car and was about to review the data he had obtained in this practice session. Leclerc came over with an excited look on his face, took Qin Miao's arm and said, "Qin Miao, your method really works! My car has never had any problems on the track. I can feel it!"

Qin Miao sighed helplessly: "Is it possible that even without my "casting" this time, your car would not have any problems during this practice session?"

But Leclerc looked at Qin Miao with a sharp gaze and said, "It's possible, but not very likely, because I have a feeling that there might be problems with my car during the practice session, but the car was in normal condition during this practice session."

Qin Miao held his forehead helplessly: "What do you want to say?"

Leclerc smiled and said, "How about you pray for my car before every race? It's a handy thing."

After that, Leclerc added: "As your No. 2 driver, can't you agree to this insignificant little request?"

Good man, he brought this up to threaten Qin Miao.

Are you kidding? Is Qin Miao someone who would be threatened by Leclerc?
If he really agreed, wouldn't Qin Miao become an employee of Leclerc?

But Qin Miao couldn't refuse Leclerc. After all, the second driver had already offered a huge favor, so Qin Miao just said perfunctorily: "This really only plays a psychological role. There is really no way to explain it scientifically. So let's talk about it later. I still need to look at the data. Let's talk later."

After saying that, Qin Miao just slipped away.

……

Apart from the discussion between the two Ferrari drivers after the first practice session, other fans on the track were discussing something else.

In the middle of the first practice session, while simulating a qualifying session on the track, Albon's car lost control and went into a wall. The car was smashed to pieces, with many parts seriously damaged, including the engine and the gearbox which was directly broken in half. The worst part was that half of the car's chassis was scrapped.

Also because of the accident of this Williams car, a red flag appeared on the track.

Fortunately, Albon's car was cleaned up in the end and the last period of practice was not stopped because of this.

But for a small team like Williams, damage to the car is not a small problem.

After Williams pulled Albon's car back for inspection, they found that the car could indeed be repaired, but the problem was that they did not have enough spare parts for the car brought from Canada this time.

You can still use old base plates, but the chassis cannot be replaced.

In short, Williams has the ability to fix Albon's car before qualifying, but it is unlikely that Albon's car will be fixed before qualifying.

Actually, this is nothing. Albon just suffered the consequences of missing a race.

When this incident first started, no one even paid attention to it.

As time passed, we soon arrived at the second training session.

Leclerc found his comfort zone during the second practice session. Perhaps it was because Qin Miao gave his car a buff that Leclerc’s confidence was overflowing.

In the second practice, Leclerc's fastest lap time not only took first place, but was also 0.3 seconds faster than Qin Miao's fastest lap time.

When the timing segment data chart was pulled after the race, Leclerc was the fastest in all three timing segments, while Qin Miao only appeared at the end of the third timing segment.

At the end of the second practice session, Qin Miao had completed most of his work in the practice session ahead of schedule.

The remaining work is just to finish it up after three exercises.

But the fun of the practice session did not end after the second practice session.

Because during the second practice session, Sargent also made a big mistake on the track when doing the qualifying simulation.

It almost resulted in both Williams cars being wiped out in this Grand Prix weekend.

Sargent's mistake also made the Williams management determined. During the interview stage after the second practice session, Williams decided to let Albon drive Sargent's car on the track on Saturday and Sunday.

As soon as this news came out, the whole paddock was in an uproar.

From Williams' perspective, this was the most reasonable and rational choice they made.

After all, from the team's perspective, Albon is the strongest of their two drivers, and therefore Albon is also the one most likely to score points in this race.

So instead of letting the team bring in Sargent, who was brought in to increase the team's exposure and sponsorship, and also ruining the car, it would be better to let Albon take a chance, and maybe bring back one or two points for the team.

But if you look at it from Sargent's perspective it seems ridiculous.

Damn, I was racing well, I didn't crash and I didn't make any mistakes, why should I be the one to pay for Albon's crash?
It's not fair!

Even after the news came out, many drivers in the paddock spoke up for Sargent, calling on Williams to treat its two drivers fairly.

Many neutral fans also felt that Williams's actions were outrageous.

But there is no such thing as fairness in F1. Here everything is based on strength. If you are strong enough, you can even get shares in a racing team as a driver like Qin Miao.

In Williams' opinion, Sargent is inferior to Albon in strength. When choosing between the two of them, Williams naturally prefers Albon.

Saturday, three practices.

Qin Miao was planning to slack off during the third practice. After all, he had completed most of his work during the first and second practice stages, so he just had to come back and finish it.

However, Ferrari discovered this characteristic of Qin Miao, so it prepared to increase the strength of its own shareholders.

During the third practice session, Ferrari prepared to let Qin Miao test some new parts.

Qin Miao actually had some complaints about this. No one would be happy if he was forced to work overtime when he could have been happy to slack off.

But Qin Miao's dissatisfaction was quickly suppressed, because Ferrari's R&D department only said one sentence: "This is a small upgrade as part of the big upgrade last race. Let you test the effect in advance to see if there is room for improvement."

After hearing these words, Qin Miao instantly became alert. (End of this chapter)