How did I become an F1 driver?

Although Qin Miao didn't know what Norris was thinking at the moment, he did find that Norris's resistance to his attack was not as intense as Verstappen's.

Qin Miao simply moved towards Norris on the outside before the turning point of T1. At the closest point, the distance between their tires was only about one centimeter.

And Qin Miao did control his car when he was one centimeter away from Norris's tire, and did not continue to move to the outside line, because if he got any closer to Qin Miao, he could not guarantee that he would not make a mistake and collide with Norris. But Norris obviously did not expect Qin Miao to play like this. When he saw Qin Miao approaching, Norris subconsciously leaned a little to the left, trying to avoid Qin Miao's suppression. He was also afraid of a collision.

But this movement directly caused part of Norris's two left tires, which were already on the outside of the track, to be suspended in the air.

Although some people may think that it is nothing to have the tires hanging in the air, the car is still on the track and the tires have grip.

But now, even though they are approaching the T1 corner, the two are still accelerating. F1 drivers have to push their cars to the limit in order to compete for the world championship.

So they will not give up even if the distance is one meter.

Because Norris dodged Qin Miao's move, the grip of his left rear wheel was significantly affected, so that he had no good turning angle before T1 and was completely blocked by Qin Miao on the inside.

At this time, Qin Miao had already driven half of the car in front of Norris.

In fact, until now, Norris still has a way to maintain his current position, that is to brake late, and then force into the corner after overtaking Qin Miao. Although there is a risk of being torpedoed by Qin Miao and turned into a gyroscope, even after the race, the FIA ​​will believe that the accident is the main responsibility of Norris.

But this is indeed the only solution under the current circumstances, and if Verstappen were to be replaced by Norris, he would most likely do so.

And we have to take into account that Qin Miao is now ahead of Verstappen in the driver's standings. As a championship contender, Qin Miao certainly does not want to retire. Faced with Norris's forced squeeze, Qin Miao will most likely give way and then look for an opportunity to overtake Norris.

But Norris is not Verstappen after all. After Norris discovered that Qin Miao had surpassed him so much, he decisively chose to give up defense and gave up his position to Qin Miao.

"Qin Miao, get into the inner lane. He's too fast. There's no need to try any late braking at this time. Just enter the corner normally."

"Norris also knew that he couldn't hold on, so he took the initiative to give up his position."

"Qin Miao's start was very clean this time, and he was precise and elegant when overtaking."

The three commentators from Five Star Sports all smiled when they saw the situation on the track.

As for this overtaking, Qin Miao could only say that Norris was indeed a little worse than Verstappen.

For Qin Miao himself, when he passed Norris, it was just a set of basic offensive moves. After blocking the inside line, the position was obtained. He basically did not feel any pressure from Norris.

Compared with the time when he attacked Verstappen, Qin Miao felt like he had suddenly fallen from the King's League to the Diamond League.

However, when Qin Miao entered the T1 corner, he was on the inside of the track, and he also had to guard against Norris on the outside, so Qin Miao's cornering angle was not good.

When Qin Miao finally overtook Norris and got out of T2, the distance between him and Perez, who was in second place, was reduced to 0.7 seconds.

Of course, Qin Miao was not in a hurry about this. His long-distance speed was still good anyway. He would stay behind Perez for a while, use DRS to avoid being left behind by the opponent, and then consider attacking.

But just as Qin Miao had this thought, a red flag appeared on the track.

The short straight before T3.

After exiting the T2 corner, Ricciardo moved to the left side of the track, blocking all overtaking space for Stroll who was eager to move behind him.

After defending against Stroll, Ricciardo naturally had to go to the outside of the track and find a good angle to enter T3.

After all, there is a high-speed combination of turns next, and a good cornering angle is beneficial to the performance of the car on the track.

But Ricciardo may have focused all his attention on Stroll, and did not notice at all that during the time he was defending Stroll, a pure muscle Williams car came up from the right.

As Ricciardo continued to close the door, Albon could only dodge to the outside of the track. As for braking to make room?

The moment you have this thought, you can't become a top F1 driver.

But poor Albon didn't realize that Ricciardo didn't even notice him. He thought that Ricciardo was moving towards the outside just to put pressure on him.

When Albon found that Ricciardo had forced him to the edge of the track and was still moving towards the outside line, Albon realized that the bastard Ricciardo had not noticed him at all.

At this time, Albon could only give in again and again, and his car even pressed onto the grass on the outside of the track.

When he realized this, Albon knew he had to slow down, but by the time he realized it, it was too late.

Ricciardo's right rear wheel hit Albon's left front wheel, the Lynk & Co's right rear tire burst on the spot and the car lost control.

Because of the interaction force of the collision, Albon's car was completely knocked into the grass on the right side of the track by Ricciardo.

In fact, if Albon had completely entered the grass, he might still have been able to save his car.

After all, for F1 drivers, as long as the grip of the four wheels of the car is consistent, they can barely control the car even on grass. But the shitty thing is that now Albon's three tires have run onto the grass, and only the left front wheel is still on the track.

This resulted in inconsistent grip on the four tires of Albon's car. Even though Albon had steered in the opposite direction to save the car, he still couldn't avoid the fate of losing control.

Finally, the car rushed straight towards the guardrail outside T3.

The two cars rushed into the tire wall together.

It goes without saying that this race has nothing to do with these two drivers.

After the accident, the race organizers immediately showed the red flag and all drivers were forced to slow down and return to the maintenance area to wait for the track to be cleared.

At least the situation that Qin Miao described to Leclerc before the race started did not occur.

The most dangerous thing about the Suzuka Circuit is not the red flag or the virtual safety car, but the yellow flag and the safety car.

At this time, Lynk didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but at least everyone on Williams' side looked unhappy.

In the 24th season, Williams seemed to have offended the lucky star. Everything went wrong for them. The most important thing was that the two drivers of Williams were already at the top of the car damage list, far ahead of the drivers behind them. The cost of Albon's crash alone exceeded the total repair costs of all drivers except Sargent.

Repairing the car alone almost took up a quarter of Williams' upgrade budget.

As for Lynk & Co, although they will have to pay a hefty amount of money to repair the car after Ricciardo's crash, it is certain that they will replace the Chinese driver in the next Chinese Grand Prix.

Ye Yifei: “I come back!”

After returning to the maintenance area, Qin Miao did not care about Leclerc's situation, but asked the team to change the attack angle of the front nose of his car as soon as possible.

Toned it down a bit.

Qin Miao found that the grip of his neutral tires in today's race was quite good, and it could even be said that it was far beyond Qin Miao's expectations. It might also be because the temperature on the track was higher than normal during the race. Adjusting it would help increase the durability of his tires and lap time.

What follows is a boring wait.

After all, the race had only been completed for one lap, and the team had not obtained any useful data, so it was impossible to develop team tactics or anything else.

So Qin Miao and the others just waited boredly in the maintenance area for half an hour.

Half an hour later, Qin Miao drove the car out of the maintenance area. The tires were still the same set of neutral tires.

Leclerc replaced the set of neutral tires that had only run one lap with a new set of neutral tires.

Leclerc does not have the incredible ability to protect his tires like Qin Miao. If he wants to stop in this race and still be competitive, he has to do his best to maximize the durability of his tires on every lap.

After the red flag comes the static start.

But this time Qin Miao's starting position became second.

After all, Qin Miao's overtaking of Norris was completed before T1, and there was no red flag on the track at that time, so it was a valid overtaking both emotionally and logically.

The rest of the process was the same as a normal Grand Prix weekend.

Soon, five red lights came on and the race began.

Qin Miao's reaction speed was still excellent this time.

Not long after the start, Qin Miao stuck to the back of Perez's car, suppressing all the improper thoughts of Norris behind him.

In fact, at the start of this race, Qin Miao's reaction speed was even faster than Perez in front of him.

But the starting position limited Qin Miao's performance. Although Qin Miao inhaled Perez's tail flow at the start, before Perez's Red Bull car came to T1, Perez still occupied the leading position on the inside, and Qin Miao could not find a good attacking angle.

Therefore, Qin Miao did not gain any benefits in this start, but at least compared to the first start, he entered the podium area.

However, for Qin Miao, who wanted to defend his title this season, finishing third did not meet his expectations before the start of the competition.

On the track, the race continues.

Qin Miao bit behind Perez's car.

Although Qin Miao's No. 66 Ferrari was not left behind by Perez after the DRS was turned on in the second lap, Qin Miao had no good way to deal with Perez for a while.

However, when the race reached the fifth lap, Frankie's voice came from Qin Miao's team TR: "Qin Miao, the strategy team has determined that Red Bull will prepare for a double stop this weekend. You need to protect your tires as much as possible."

After hearing this, Qin Miao, who had been putting pressure on Perez, could only start to consider the problem of his own tire wear.

But he still asked: "Don't I have a spare set of neutral tires?"

The implication of Qin Miao's words was whether he could also do the second stop.

"Yes, but we do not recommend that you change your game strategy. Plan C is still our best tactic under the current circumstances." Franky replied.

"Ok."

……

On the Five Star Sports side, after hearing the communication between Qin Miao and the team, the three commentators all laughed. Plan ABCDEFG is a Ferrari tradition, and Qin Miao, the triple champion, had to try it after joining Ferrari.

Qin Miao’s Plan C is to stop.

What? You ask what are Plan A and Plan B?
The Ferrari team's abstraction lies here. The two tactics, Plan A and Plan B, do not exist at all. When Qin Miao's crew formulated tactics, they started directly from Plan C.

Turning his attention back to the race, since the team had already stated the long-term goal of this race, Qin Miao naturally began to slow down the pace to protect the tire.

When the race reached the 7th lap, Qin Miao fell out of the DRS zone behind Perez.

However, when the race reached the 12th lap, Qin Miao, who had been hovering 1.5-1.7 seconds behind Perez, inexplicably found that he had unknowingly caught up with the DRS zone behind Perez.

The key point is that during the whole process, Qin Miao has been in a state of preserving the fetus.

It can only be said that Perez's tires had begun to deteriorate at this time.

Qin Miao naturally knew that he needed to overtake Perez in front of him as soon as possible.

If Qin Miao follows Perez for too long, it will be bad for her pregnancy.

After all, Qin Miao's engine is prone to overheating due to being exposed to the exhaust gas from the car in front for a long time, and the turbulence emitted by the car in front will also interfere with the working efficiency of the aerodynamic parts of Qin Miao's car.

As a result, the tires need to bear a greater load when turning, and the tire consumption will naturally be greater.

So Qin Miao prepared to find an opportunity to take down Perez in one fell swoop.

But to be honest, Qin Miao also knew that Suzuka was not a particularly easy track for overtaking. Considering Perez's identity as the No. 2 driver of the Red Bull Racing team, Perez's resistance in defending himself would definitely be greater than Qin Miao imagined.

So during the time when Perez's car was charging behind him, Qin Miao couldn't help but start thinking whether he was putting pressure on Perez and then overtaking him after Perez made a mistake or was it a normal overtaking.

After all, there is only one DRS zone on the Suzuka track, and the SF24 is not as extremely biased as the W14. It does not have a decisive speed advantage on a track like Suzuka with many high-speed turns.

After thinking about this, Qin Miao finally chose the second offensive strategy.

Just throw away your head and do it!
On the 13th lap, Qin Miao finished charging and was already 0.4 seconds behind Perez.

Originally, Qin Miao thought that he would have to wait until the DRS zone on the starting straight to have a chance to attack Perez. After all, there were really no good overtaking points in Suzuka. However, what Qin Miao did not expect was that Perez himself made a mistake in T13 on the 11th lap.

Although this was just a small mistake, Qin Miao still caught it very keenly.

When entering the T11 U-turn, Perez slowed down and a puff of white smoke appeared when the right front wheel braked.

Although the white smoke was very light, it probably lasted less than half a second.

But Qin Miao, who was following behind Perez, knew that he was not mistaken.

That was the smoke from Perez's brake error. (End of this chapter)