Qin Miao had a plan in mind before leaving the pit area. He would drive more steadily on the first lap, and then gradually increase his lap speed after getting familiar with the state of the car and its performance in the previous race.
After you are almost familiar with it, you will stop for a new set of tires to do lap times.
There is nothing to say about stepping on the accelerator on the straightaway. Just wait for the engine speed to reach a suitable range and then change gears.
But after reaching the iconic Turn 1 in the last race, Qin Miao really felt the difference between a formula car and an ordinary car.
The first thing I noticed was that the brakes on this thing were too heavy.
With Qin Miao's strength, it took a lot of force to apply the brakes to the end, and the G force coming from behind when applying the brakes also made Qin Miao feel that it was difficult to let go of the brakes.
Qin Miao's first feeling was the brake: it couldn't be stepped on or released.
After entering Turn 1, Qin Miao felt that the steering direction of this car was particularly good. What stood out was two words: flexibility.
It is incredibly flexible. It turns exactly in which direction Qin Miao wants it to turn. It is very easy to drive.
However, due to the use of hot-melt tires, Qin Miao's tire temperature had not reached the optimal working condition on the first lap, so his speed naturally did not increase. He did not have much sense of grip, which was better than the Focus. point.
Qin Miao's deepest feeling in the first lap was the sense of speed.
If you drive the Ford Focus to 80 kilometers per hour and your sense of speed is 1, then when you drive the F4 formula car to 30 kilometers per hour, your sense of speed has already reached 1.
Sitting in the F4 formula, there is no protection on your helmet. You can clearly feel your helmet hitting the wind. The wind pours into your cockpit and into your neck through the gaps in your helmet. , shock your skin.
The scenery on both sides of the field of vision flies back, and combined with your extremely low viewing angle, a terrifying sense of speed hits you.
People who come into contact with an F4 car for the first time may be so frightened by the speed that they dare not step on the accelerator.
But Qin Miao became more and more happy, and even enjoyed it very much.
But this was just the feeling of the first lap. Qin Miao's car was not in the best condition during the first lap. The only thing that made him feel excited was the sense of speed. The G-force and other things were not as good as the one he rode yesterday. GT3.
But after the second lap, when the temperature of Qin Miao's tires came up, Qin Miao understood why it was said that the formula was only born for the track.
This F4 formula car costs about 700,000 yuan, and after its tires reach the working temperature, the speed can reach 85 kilometers per hour in the slowest section of Turn 1. This is because Qin Miao is not familiar with herself. The car I got off was driven at its slowest speed when driven more conservatively.
The AMG GT3 he was sitting in yesterday, which is worth at least 3 million yuan, had the slowest speed in this corner of 75 kilometers per hour.
This is the gap.
Of course, the weight of this F4 and Qin Miao did not exceed 700 kilograms, so the car was naturally fast when cornering.
When it comes to the tail speed on the straight, the F4, which has limited power, cannot do it. The tail speed of the GT3 is several blocks ahead of the F4. On the starting straight before turning one, the tail speed of the GT3 is around 250 kilometers per hour, while the tail speed of the GT3 is around 250 kilometers per hour. The top speed of the F4, which exceeds the engine performance, only reaches 170 kilometers per hour.
And the faster cornering speed than yesterday's GT3 means stronger G force when cornering.
Since the monocoque inside this F4 is not designed according to Qin Miao's body, in addition to the fixed shoulders and body position when cornering, as long as the G force of the bending center is larger in other places, it will It will be thrown and hit against the monocoque.
Of course, this small setback cannot dispel Qin Miao's enthusiasm for racing.
At the same time, the biggest difference between the F4 and the GT3 and Ford Focus when cornering is that the F4 has almost no roll when cornering. There is no need to worry about sideslip caused by the shift of the center of gravity, and the natural grip is stronger.
At the same time, because it is a sequential transmission, there is no need to press the clutch after starting the engine and driving the car out of the parking area.
Moreover, the driving feel of the formula is very good, very directional, and very sensitive. This feeling of using fingers like an arm made Qin Miao addicted on the second lap.
This comfortable driving feel and his irresistible sense of speed simultaneously stimulated the secretion of adrenaline and dopamine in Qin Miao, making him unable to put it down.
Of course, there are some things about this car that make Qin Miao uncomfortable, that is, even if this car has a power steering system, the steering wheel is still very heavy, especially in high-speed corners.
Qin Miao felt that when going through high-speed corners, the force required to turn the steering wheel was about five times that of his own 5 Nm direct-drive steering wheel.
Moreover, the brakes are very heavy, and every time you hit the brakes after a big straight, you have to apply the brakes hard to fully apply the brake stroke.
After finishing the three quarters today, Qin Miao felt that it was necessary to go to the gym again and ask the coach to relax her arm muscles.
But regardless of the future, Qin Miao's brain gradually began to empty out, and he immersed himself in his own world and started doing lap times.
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[Proficiency: +1]
"The last lap time was 2:12.267, third level green, which refreshed your fastest time. Keep it up."
Qiu Meng's voice will ring on the radio after Qin Miao completes a lap.
This is mainly because apart from a speedometer and gear display, Qin Miao's racing car does not have any more advanced car-machine systems.
After all, the vehicle monitoring system for racing cars is too expensive, so expensive that people who don’t understand racing can’t understand it.
After something happened, you asked them to pay for the damaged computer. The other person asked you why a car computer costs 50,000?
Is your crappy car computer equipped with 4080TI or H800?
how do you say? Is this the price of this thing? Will the other party believe it?
People who don't understand the market will definitely have a big fight with the team staff, thinking that this is how you make their money.
So instead of having to argue all the time and end up going to court, it would be better to just dismantle the car and reinstall it when it's time to compete.
After Qin Miao almost reached the seventh lap, he felt that he now had a certain understanding of the limits of this car.
So Qin Miao said on the radio: "Mengmeng, I'm going to pit at the end of this lap to change tires. Ask the team to prepare my new tires."
Qiu Meng: "Roger, BOX.BOX."
Qin Miao smiled, then ran around again and drove the car into the parking area.
When he entered the parking area, he did see a staff member running out of the door of the P room of the fleet where he rented a car, and four tires were placed on the ground.
Qin Miao drove over and parked steadily in the parking area.
Compared to F1 and F2, there are only four people changing tires in F4.
Two people jacked up the car, and the other two were responsible for changing the front and rear wheels.
Don't think about the speed of tire changing. Qin Miao doesn't know if tire changing is also so slow during the F4 race. Anyway, he has experienced the feeling of changing tires: This is too slow, half of four tires have been changed. minute.
After changing the tires, Qin Miao felt the car slump. Then Qin Miao followed the way he played in the game and subconsciously stepped on the accelerator...
Then the car stalled again...
"Hold……"
After cursing, Qin Miao restarted the engine and drove the car quickly under the strange looks of the four tire changing staff.
Putting the embarrassment and unhappiness behind, Qin Miao's first lap after changing to new tires was still a tire warm-up lap. After the second lap, Qin Miao clearly felt that the grip was stronger when cornering.
He could also bring more speed into the corners, and by the time the second lap was over, his lap time had improved by a full half-second.
"The last lap time was 2:11.657, third level purple, well done!"
While Qiu Meng was sitting at the team's console observing Qin Miao's data, a young man who looked to be in his early thirties walked into the team's P room.
Every staff member who sees him will greet him.
"Brother Li!"
"Mr. Li!"
"Hello, Captain."
"Hi boss!"
He responded with a smile and a nod.
