How did I become an F1 driver?

【Awesome! 】

【Sanshui, my most proud belief! 】

[The undefeated year of WoFa! 】

[The first driver to win the sprint race at home is born! 】

【The strong will always be strong!!】

[This is Qin Miao! This is Qin Miao! ]

[A new era has arrived in the F1 paddock. Qin Miao is definitely a man who has the opportunity to break through the eight-time champion feat! ]

The fans at the scene were celebrating wildly, and Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car, was also extremely excited.

"Let's fucking go!!!!' Let's go! Let's go!"

After crossing the finish line, Qin Miao yelled loudly in his racing seat.

He stretched out his right hand high from the cockpit of his racing car and punched the sky again and again, trying to vent all the excitement in his heart.

The cheers at the scene seemed to be cast under a spell, growing louder and louder, as if they were going to overturn the entire sky.

At this time, neither Franky nor anyone in Ferrari thought about saying anything in the TR team. This was a purely personal heroic victory for Qin Miao. After all, before the race started, Ferrari never thought that they could get the sprint race pole position and the sprint race championship at the same time. This sprint race championship was completely won by Qin Miao alone...

Well, Leclerc also deserves credit.

At least his presence saved Qin Miao from having to fight with Verstappen once.

So after Qin Miao crossed the finish line, they immediately told the news to Leclerc, who is currently ranked fourth.

"Qin Miao owes me a meal from now on." Leclerc said with a smile after knowing the news.

As for why Leclerc, who was ranked fourth, didn’t know that Qin Miao finished first?

When Qin Miao finished the race, the time gap between him and Leclerc was 12 seconds.

How can you see this?
All in all, basically all the people in Ferrari did not want to disturb Qin Miao from enjoying the fruits of victory that belonged to him at the moment.

When Qin Miao was returning to the track, he slowly drove past every grandstand area. He had already lifted up his helmet visor while sitting in the racing car, and stretched out his hand to wave and greet the fans above the stands.

Therefore, the champion of the Shanghai sprint race was the last one to return to the maintenance area among all the drivers. Even Zhou Guanyu and Ye Yifei, who were also greeting the fans at the scene, arrived earlier than him. From this, it is not difficult to see how much Qin Miao spoiled the fans on the way back.

Of course, the fans at the scene also gave Qin Miao enough response. Wherever his car went, the louder the fans cheered.

It's like the volume control on a DJ booth.

After wandering around the track for half a day, Qin Miao finally returned to the maintenance area with a feeling of unfulfilled desire.

Qin Miao naturally stopped at the championship position.

When getting out of the car, Qin Miao didn't even take out the steering wheel, but directly pulled his body out of the racing cockpit.

After getting out of the car, Qin Miao stood directly on his racing flip-flops, facing the fans in the main stands who had been cheering since entering the maintenance area, then opened his hands and bowed slightly.

Qin Miao's action was like lighting a powder keg, and the cheers from the scene were deafening.

To be honest, Qin Miao felt that he could never get enough of the overwhelming cheers from the fans at the scene.

But everything has an end. Although Qin Miao felt that if he continued to stand here, the cheers from the fans would continue, many people were waiting for him now. So after standing there for more than 30 seconds, Qin Miao reluctantly jumped off his car.

Behind Qin Miao, who was wearing a helmet, was the overwhelming cheers of nearly 10 fans at the scene. He was like a victorious general, walking quickly towards the already extremely excited Ferrari and the crowd, and then with a classic high jump, Qin Miao threw himself directly into the crowd.

Everyone on the Ferrari side was very happy and slapped Qin Miao's body hard.

Then Qin Miao came to his wife, said nothing, just hugged her, feeling the warmth from her body.

As for little Muchu, Qiu Meng originally planned to bring him over, but the noise at the scene was too loud, and Qiu Meng was worried that the little guy wouldn't be able to bear it, so she asked Jay Chou to help look after him.

After celebrating vigorously and expressing his gratitude to all the staff of the team, Qin Miao came to the post-race weigh-in area.

At this time, Verstappen, who came in second, and Hamilton, who came in third, had already finished celebrating and were packing themselves up.

After seeing Qin Miao coming over, Hamilton took the initiative to come up and shake hands with Qin Miao and hug him: "Congratulations, Qin Miao, it was a wonderful game. How does it feel to win the championship at home?"

Qin Miao briefly recalled in his mind all the scenes he saw, all the sounds he heard, and all the vibrations he felt from the time he won the sprint race to the time he came back. He smacked his lips with some satisfaction, and then he slowly said, "If I have to use one word to describe my feelings during this period, it would only be wonderful."

"I wish I could do this a dozen or twenty more times, so that every Grand Prix weekend in the coming season would be like this."

After hearing Qin Miao's words, Hamilton smiled helplessly, then the 39-year-old veteran patted Qin Miao on the shoulder and said, "The feeling of winning at home is indeed unforgettable, but believe me, it's better not to have this kind of thing too often. Once a year is already a very good frequency. If there are more, the home Grand Prix that is very special for all drivers will become no different from those normal Grand Prix that annoy you."

Qin Miao smiled confidently and said, "No!"

The old man didn't say anything more. He picked up his towel and prepared to find a place where the camera and the audience couldn't see him to clean up his image.

Qin Miao greeted Verstappen politely, then began to weigh himself and tidy himself up.

Qin Miao then put on his hat and came to the post-match interview location.

If it were any other Grand Prix weekend, Qin Miao wouldn't care much about his image after the race, but today was different. After all, it was a home race, so Qin Miao still had to save some face.

Qin Miao came to the interview seat with a smile. After he stood up, he subconsciously looked at the broadcast screen not far away from the scene. After finding nothing wrong, he started the interview after the sprint race.

The host in charge of the interview today is still yesterday's host.

"Qin Miao, congratulations on winning the sprint race of the Shanghai Grand Prix. You completed the pole to win in the sprint stage and won the championship in your home stadium. And when you won the championship, you were accompanied by all the cheers of the audience. How do you feel?"

Qin Miao suddenly recalled the question Hamilton had asked him just now, so he smiled and said, "Why not have this kind of cheers again?"

After hearing Qin Miao's words, the fans who had originally quieted down and wanted to listen to Qin Miao's post-race interview suddenly cheered as if they had been injected with a shot of chicken blood.

No one thought that there was anything wrong with what Qin Miao said at this time. As the first driver to win the championship at home, he deserved it!

The cheers from the fans at the scene were not as loud as when Qin Miao just crossed the finish line. After all, they no longer had the same passion at that time. But Qin Miao was wearing noise-canceling headphones and a helmet at the time, so the sound was loud in his perception, but not shocking enough.

Now hearing the cheers from the audience again, the expression Qin Miao had been trying hard to keep tense could no longer be maintained, and a bright smile bloomed on Qin Miao's face.

After Qin Miao clasped his hands together and thanked the fans at the scene, the cheers gradually faded away.

The host then asked the second question: "Ferrari's car performed extremely well in the race yesterday and today. Qin Miao, you have fulfilled your promise before the race. What are your goals for this afternoon's qualifying and tomorrow's race?"

Qin Miao smiled and said, "Just like what I said at the end of the sprint qualifying yesterday, I will also have the pole to win in the race!"

There was another round of warm applause at the scene.

"Okay, congratulations again, Qin Miao, on winning the sprint championship. You have become the first Chinese driver to win the F22 championship in the 1 years since the establishment of the Shanghai Grand Prix. I and all the spectators here sincerely hope that you can achieve good results in the qualifying and race this afternoon!"

"Thank you."

……

After the post-race interviews, it is time for the awards ceremony. The awards ceremony for the sprint race is different from that for the main race.

There was no trophy or podium, but the organizers gave a rectangular medal after the game.

When Qin Miao was waiting for the award presenter to come out, he was stunned for a moment, because the award presenter today was an acquaintance of Qin Miao, JJ Lin. Didn't Qin Miao remember that he was in the Ferrari team's P room just now?
Why are you here now?

Although Qin Miao was confused at this time, since the cameras in the paddock were watching, Qin Miao did not ask his doubts out loud.

They just went through the post-race award ceremony normally. After taking the photos, Qin Miao asked in confusion, "JJ, what happened? Weren't you in the team's P room just now?"

JJ smiled and shrugged, "Actually, the organizer originally wanted me to attend the awards ceremony after the sprint race. I didn't tell you because I just wanted to leave it as a surprise for you."

Qin Miao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's really a surprise..."

……

After the sprint race, the drivers' rankings and scores are as follows:

P1: Qin Miao +8
P2: Verstappen +7
P3: Hamilton +6
P4: Leclerc +5
P5: Perez +4
P6: Norris +3
P7: Piastri +2
P8: Russell +1
After the race on Saturday morning, although Qin Miao had a lot of ideas about how to modify the car tuning, he had no choice but to participate in another post-race interview with other media after the race.

By the time the interview was over, more than an hour had passed.

Therefore, after the interview, Qin Miao only had one and a half hours to modify the tuning of his car.

Although the team will also help Qin Miao optimize the car tuning, after receiving a tuning, Qin Miao always wants to verify whether the tuning is useful on the simulator himself, and make some optimization and fine-tuning to the tuning based on the feedback from the simulator.

After completing a set of procedures, Qin Miao will take this training set to the track for the competition.

Therefore, when Qin Miao rushed to the team's home, his only expectation was that the team had already come up with a set of qualified tuning settings based on the data of the sprint qualifying and sprint races.

The result was gratifying. After returning to the team’s home, Qin Miao knew that he had obtained a set of optimized adjustments. Qin Miao also hurriedly tested it on the simulator, and the effect was quite good.

At least on the same track, when Qin Miao was running in the qualifying simulator, the new tuning allowed Qin Miao to achieve a lap time 0.1 second higher than the previous set of tuning settings.

Although 0.1 is not much, when the race is expanded to 56 laps, it is an improvement of 5.6 seconds.

A terrifying speed at which the cars behind you can't even see your taillights.

Not to mention the qualifying stage, there have been games where a decisive kill in 0.001 seconds has happened before.

This shows that on a relatively unfamiliar track, those teams with deep foundation do have their own merits.

After confirming the tuning settings, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room to make final preparations before the qualifying race.

Soon, the qualifying round began.

Qin Miao's performance was as stable as ever. Although the weather forecast said it could rain at any time, just like yesterday's sprint qualifying, the actual track conditions were much better than yesterday.

Even the wind died down.

Although the situation where the wind moved at will as in yesterday's sprint qualifying did not occur again, Qin Miao did not feel the impact of the wind on his car during the entire qualifying process.

In Q1, Qin Miao advanced to Q2 with fourth place.

Although Qin Miao remained stable, there were many unexpected drivers who were eliminated in Q1.

With the last flying lap, Leclerc moved up from 18th to 2nd place, and Perez was defeated by Zhou Guanyu with a 0.1 second advantage.

In addition to Perez, the old man also crashed in the last race.

Ye Yifei also successfully entered Q2, and his ranking was even higher than Zhou Guanyu.

The drivers who were eliminated in Q1 were: Perez, Magnussen, Hamilton, Tsunoda, and Sargent.

Ye Yifei achieved better results than Ricardo, not to mention the sprint qualifying and sprint race, but at least in the qualifying stage, he directly defeated his teammate Kakuta.

After seeing this situation, everyone at Lynk & Co couldn't help but clench their fists silently.

The three Chinese drivers entered Q2 together, which naturally aroused cheers and applause from a large number of fans at the scene.

New Year!
However, Zhou Guanyu and Ye Yifei's racing cars have limited performance after all.

In the end, they both fell in Q2.

The drivers who were eliminated in Q2 were: Zhou Guanyu, Ocon, Ye Yifei, Albon, and Gasly.

Of course, the fans at the scene could accept this. After all, they came to the track today to see Qin Miao.

Of course they were happy that Zhou Guanyu and Ye Yifei had good results, after all, they were compatriots, but the one who really enjoyed watching had to be Qin Miao.

PS. Happy New Year's Eve everyone! (End of this chapter)