How did I become an F1 driver?

Because of this discovery, Qin Miao directly turned on his ERS after braking into a corner.

Although locking of tires when braking is considered a trivial matter, in fact, after Perez's tires locked, they would rub against the track and cause flat marks.

No matter how small a flat scar is, it is still a flat scar.

The flat scar on the car's tire means that Perez's right front wheel's grip will definitely be affected, not to mention that T11 is a left turn. Therefore, during the process of entering the corner, Perez's grip will be much worse than normal.

Because when turning left, all the weight of the car will lean towards the two tires on the right, most of the pressure is concentrated on these two tires, and flat spots will affect the grip of the car's tires in the corners.

If Perez wants to keep his car from losing control, he must slow down accordingly, and this is Qin Miao's opportunity.

Although Qin Miao didn't know how Perez made this mistake, and even before Qin Miao started to really put pressure on Perez, Perez made such a low-level mistake as his tires locked.

But no matter what, Qin Miao will definitely not miss this opportunity.

At the APEX point of T11, Qin Miao took advantage of better tires and Perez's weakness and directly tapped Perez on the outside.

Relying on the stronger tire grip, Qin Miao held on to Perez as he leaned toward the outside to find the best angle for the exit line.

Perez also knew that his position was in jeopardy, but he did not dare to force a position on the outside.

After all, when exiting the turn, Qin Miao had already reached the position of his car.

Now Qin Miao's left front wheel is stuck between Perez's right front wheel and rear wheel.

This is equivalent to putting a knife directly on Perez's neck. If Perez dares to move forward, Qin Miao will definitely brake and slow down.

When the right rear wheel hits the left front wheel, Perez will definitely take off.

If you're lucky, Perez will bounce a few times after taking off and continue running without any problems.

Even if the FIA ​​does not show leniency, it will certainly not help either side. This is just a normal track accident. No one will be punished, or both will be given 20 slaps and they can have a talk in a small black room after the race, and the matter will be over.

But if you are unlucky, the RB20's suspension may break after landing, the chassis may be damaged, the gearbox may be damaged, and even the engine may be damaged, not to mention the fragile brake hydraulic lines of the car.

So Perez didn't dare to take the risk at this time and could only accelerate after the car body was completely straightened.

Due to this delay, Qin Miao was already in a wheel-to-wheel race with Perez.

Perez started accelerating later than Qin Miao on the outside. This time, T12 is still a very long right turn. The key is that Qin Miao is still on the inside.

There was nothing to say now. Qin Miao easily surpassed Perez in front of him and came to second place before the braking point of T13.

In this regard, Perez could only sigh helplessly. What kind of monster is Qin Miao?
When defending Qin Miao, you cannot be careless or make any mistakes, because if you make the slightest mistake and give the opponent a chance, he will be able to seize it and throw you behind him.

To be honest, Perez had done a good job when defending Qin Miao just now, and there were basically no obvious defensive loopholes. But Qin Miao was too evil. He knew everything Perez would do after this mistake, and directly blocked all possibilities of Perez's resistance.

What? Learn from Verstappen and throw the choice of whether to crash or not to Qin Miao? ?

Damn, Qin Miao's left front wheel was stuck in front of Perez's right rear wheel. Even if Verstappen came, he wouldn't dare to make any extreme moves in such a situation!
Isn't driver number two a driver?
"Beautiful, another perfect overtaking! Qin Miao's overtaking ability is now perfect." Brother Fei said with a smile after seeing this scene.

Zhou Haoran nodded: "Qin Miao is really good at seizing opportunities, especially when attacking. He can seize any mistakes you make. As for Qin Miao's defense... there's actually nothing much to say. Sometimes I can't understand some of Qin Miao's defensive moves, but he can block the drivers behind him."

Brother Bing also interrupted at this time and said: "I heard that some F2 teams now use Qin Miao's race videos when training young drivers."

"Can they understand it?" Zhou Haoran asked curiously.

"I don't know either." Bing Ge said helplessly: "A person's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Maybe these practitioners in the F1-related industry hope that young drivers can learn something from Qin Miao's defensive video."

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Turning his attention back to the track, after overtaking Perez, Qin Miao's time gap with Verstappen was 5.5 seconds.

Originally, Verstappen's single lap speed was much faster than Perez. When Qin Miao caught up with Perez, Perez began to frequently use the defensive line. Qin Miao caught up with Perez on the starting straight on the 13th lap. It can be said that Qin Miao was delayed by Perez for a timing period, and overtaking also wasted some time, so the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was so large at this time.

However, Qin Miao is not in a hurry about this. After all, he still has a 26-point advantage over Verstappen in the driver's standings. Even if Verstappen gets first place in this race, Qin Miao only needs to ensure second place. After the race, Qin Miao will still maintain a points advantage of about 19 points.

With this kind of points advantage, even if Qin Miao does not retire from the home race, even if Qin Miao does not win the championship at home, Qin Miao can still comfort his home fans in the driver's standings. Even if he does not win the home race, I am still leading in the driver's standings!

It is hard to imagine that Qin Miao was already thinking about the next game while he was still competing.

In short, after overtaking Perez, Qin Miao also began to steadily shorten the time gap between himself and Verstappen on the track.

To be honest, considering the speed of a driver who makes one stop versus a driver who makes two stops, there is no reason for Qin Miao to be faster than Verstappen at this time. If he is really faster than Verstappen, he would have to make a two-stop.

But neither Red Bull nor Ferrari were surprised after seeing Qin Miao's lap time, because that was Qin Miao.

If he didn't run so fast, Ferrari and Red Bull would wonder if something went wrong.

Lap 15.

At the end of this lap, Qin Miao had already caught up to 3.9 seconds behind Verstappen. After four more laps, Qin Miao would be able to take on Verstappen.

But perhaps it was the pit stop window that Verstappen had already set, or perhaps Red Bull was afraid of Qin Miao's lap time. In short, on the 16th lap, Verstappen chose to pit and change tires.

In fact, Verstappen's pit stop window was relatively late. Drivers who planned to make a second stop entered the pit to change tires as early as the 11th lap.

After coming out of the maintenance area, Verstappen dropped from first to third, and Perez, who was originally behind Qin Miao, dropped to fourth. He had also completed his first stop.

As for the driver behind Qin Miao, it is naturally Leclerc.

Before the race started, Leclerc had decided to finish the race with one stop.

Although he started from eighth, as Leclerc himself said, after using his own training set in the simulator after the qualifying, he did find his speed again. In the race, he directly chased from eighth to fifth. Now is a good time to maintain fifth and hope for fourth. Therefore, after Verstappen entered the pit, Leclerc had the opportunity to move up to second.

What was even better for Qin Miao was that after Verstappen came out of the maintenance area, he was exactly 4.6 seconds behind Leclerc.

Leclerc and Qin Miao's pit stop windows were on laps 26 and 30, and there were still 9 laps to reach Leclerc's pit stop window.

This means that before Leclerc enters the pit, Verstappen will definitely catch up with Leclerc.

According to the agreement between Leclerc and Qin Miao, after Verstappen comes up, Leclerc will definitely help Qin Miao block Verstappen's attack on the track.

In this way, Qin Miao's winning rate in this game is much higher.

Logically speaking, Red Bull should have thought of this, but Ferrari didn't know why they let Verstappen stop even though they knew the disadvantage.

On lap 20, Verstappen caught up to the DRS area behind Leclerc.

At this time, the time gap between Leclerc and Qin Miao was 7.1 seconds, and Qin Miao was 0.5 seconds faster than Leclerc in a single lap.

If Leclerc can drag Verstappen for one more lap on the track, Qin Miao can gain an extra 0.5 second time advantage.

Leclerc, who knew this well, had already fully charged the ERS of his car and was waiting leisurely for Verstappen's attack.

After all, the Suzuka Circuit is relatively easier to defend, and you only need to defend a few overtaking points.

But although Verstappen and Leclerc both used neutral tires, Verstappen's tires were 16 laps newer than Leclerc's.

So Leclerc only helped Qin Miao defend Verstappen for one lap. When the race came to the 21st lap, Leclerc was overtaken by Verstappen who was driving DRS on the starting straight because of insufficient tire remaining and insufficient ERS power.

At this time, the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao had been widened to 8.2 seconds.

After all, whether it is an attempt to attack or Leclerc's defensive actions, it will slow down Verstappen's race pace to a certain extent.

As a result, Leclerc bought Qin Miao an extra 0.6 seconds in one lap. Combined with the 0.5-second advantage Qin Miao had created himself, Leclerc helped Qin Miao block Verstappen by a total of 1.1 seconds in one lap.

Until Leclerc stopped, Verstappen had not caught up with Qin Miao on the track.

In the end, Verstappen caught up with Qin Miao on the 28th lap.

At this time, Qin Miao's tires were a bit worn out, so facing Verstappen's attack, Qin Miao just deliberately slowed down in a few corners where he couldn't overtake to disrupt Verstappen's race rhythm. But after reaching the DRS area, Qin Miao didn't defend against Verstappen and let him pass.

On lap 28, Qin Miao entered the pit.

After entering the maintenance area, the Ferrari tire changer can change tires in 2.4 seconds.

This is definitely an excellent result for Ferrari, and Qin Miao changed to hard tires when he entered the maintenance area.

In fact, Ferrari also considered replacing Qin Miao with a set of soft tires, but this decision was quickly rejected by themselves because Pirelli provided the three softest tires for this Grand Prix weekend. The softest tire would not last long in Qin Miao's hands. At most, the tire would quickly fail after running 13 laps.

That's why the team replaced Qin Miao's tires with hard tires. Looking at it in a positive way, at least Qin Miao doesn't have to worry about tire wear in the remaining period of time.

After Qin Miao came out of the maintenance area, he started to push forward with all his strength.

After all, Qin Miao is now racing against time with Verstappen. If he wins, Verstappen will fall behind Qin Miao after the second stop. Qin Miao can use his defensive advantage to fight against Verstappen.

Red Bull also knew this, so as soon as Qin Miao entered the pit, Verstappen received instructions from the team, asking Verstappen to try his best and enter the pit on the next lap.

Finally, on the 29th lap, Verstappen entered the pit to change tires, abandoning the neutral tires that had only been run on the track for 16 laps.

At this point someone will ask, didn't Verstappen only run 16 laps when he stopped? Why was it called giving up? Wasn't this a normal pit stop window?
In fact, you have to take into account that the weight of the car has an extremely important role and influence on the consumption of racing tires.

The heavier the car, the faster your tires will wear out.

From the start of the race to now, Verstappen's car has consumed at least half of its fuel, so the load on the tires is naturally smaller, and they are naturally more durable.

At this time, everyone's attention was focused on Verstappen's pit stop.

Because everyone knows that after Verstappen comes out of the maintenance area, whoever is in front will have a greater chance of winning the race.

As for not pitting and continuing with Verstappen's own race pace...

Red Bull knows that Verstappen's lap time is still faster than Qin Miao's, and in the second timing period he was even 0.1 faster than Qin Miao, but Red Bull does not dare to take the risk.

After all, entering the pit earlier would only mean that Verstappen and Qin Miao were on the same starting line, but if Qin Miao was faster, it would be really difficult for Verstappen, who fell behind Qin Miao, to overtake Qin Miao.

There was no mistake in Red Bull's pit stop for tire change, which is normal for Red Bull. The tire change time of 2.2 seconds was 0.02 seconds faster than Qin Miao.

After Verstappen came out of the maintenance area, he was just 0.4 seconds ahead of Qin Miao.

Looking at the Red Bull racing car coming out of the maintenance area, Qin Miao was still not in a hurry.

But at the same time, Qin Miao was also a little confused. Judging from the fact that Verstappen was 0.4 seconds faster than himself, Verstappen's neutral tires still had speed, but why did Red Bull let him pit so quickly?

However, there is definitely no one who can help Qin Miao answer this question in a short time.

The reason why Qin Miao is not in a hurry and even has the mind to think about other things is mainly because Qin Miao is confident in his ability to protect the fetus, and his ability to protect the fetus will definitely be brought into play in the later stages of the game.

It's just a matter of overtaking one more car.

As the race continued, Qin Miao began to be gradually left behind by Verstappen, but on the 44th lap, when Verstappen widened the time gap between himself and Qin Miao to 3.5 seconds, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen no longer widened.

For Qin Miao's fans, this is a classic scene. (End of this chapter)