They went downstairs and found the sightseeing car, and the two of them took the sightseeing car all the way to the F2 team's location at the British Grand Prix.
We all know that F1 racing cars rely on large trailers to transport their cars, but the F2 team is not so arrogant. The equipment they use to transport vehicles is just containers.
The parking place for the F1 team is the P room on the track, while the parking place for the F2 team depends on the track.
There are at least 20 P rooms in the parking area of some tracks, so the F2 team can be assigned a P room during the competition.
When there are not enough P rooms at some tracks, the F2 team can only go to the open space planned for them by the organizer and simply build a temporary parking area with the tents they brought.
Silverstone is the latter. It is an old track after all, and there are not so many P rooms in the pit area for F2 teams to use.
In front of Qin Miao was a group of tents. The tents of the convoy and the convoy were separated by detachable boards, so privacy could be guaranteed.
At this time, there are no F2 cars under these tents. Those F2 cars are still walking back on the track, but F2 team staff have begun to push trolleys containing F2 racing tires back to their tents in these places. .
After arriving here, Qin Miao realized belatedly that he didn't seem to know the senior leaders of the F2 team, and he didn't know who to go to to ask about his doubts.
But Qin Miao soon felt relieved. After all, the idea just now was just a whim of Qin Miao. If it succeeds, Qin Miao will be very happy, and if it doesn't succeed, Qin Miao will not feel a pity.
In fact, all this is due to Qin Miao's system. Without the help of Qin Miao's system, Qin Miao would not have the capital and confidence to implement it after having an idea.
But now that he's here, Qin Miao also wants to get to know Zhou Guanyu, the British F2 pole sitter.
Therefore, Qin Miao did not leave in a hurry after hitting a wall. Instead, he took Qiu Meng to find the location of Zhou Guanyu's motorcade.
At this time, none of the drivers have returned, and the Ferrari hat Qin Miao is wearing is incompatible with the atmosphere of Zhou Guanyu's F2 team.
Because the sponsor behind this team is Renault, this team is also affiliated with the Renault Sports Academy.
So many people cast curious glances at this young couple.
Qin Miao was actually a little embarrassed. After all, young people have not yet developed a thick skin.
But it didn't matter. Before Qin Miao could stand it anymore, F2 cars started to be pushed back from the pit area one after another.
The F2 drivers also returned to their team rest areas together.
The sharp-eyed Qin Miao spotted Zhou Guanyu among the crowd of riders at a glance.
Qin Miao took off the Ferrari hat on his head, took the big pen handed over by Qiu Meng and came to Zhou Guanyu's side.
"Zhou Guanyu! Can you please sign your autograph for me?"
A familiar yet distant accent came to his ears. Zhou Guanyu, who was chatting with a familiar driver, turned around and saw Qin Miao.
Young, this was Zhou Guanyu's first impression of the boy in front of him. If nothing else, this man might be a few years younger than himself.
But I don't know why, but he naturally exudes a confident but not arrogant temperament that few people his age have.
However, Zhou Guanyu naturally had no reason to refuse the other party's request, and Zhou Guanyu was even a little happy.
Because this is the first fan of his that he has met in a foreign country, and they came after he set a new fastest lap time in F2 qualifying at the British Grand Prix, so it also has a certain commemorative significance for him.
But after seeing what Qin Miao handed over was a Ferrari hat, Zhou Guanyu hesitated.
Although Zhou Guanyu used to belong to the Ferrari Young Driver Academy, he has now transferred to the Renault Sportsman Academy. At this time, it is a bit inappropriate to sign a Ferrari hat.
But no matter what, the person in front of him is his compatriot, and now he is only an F2 driver. The team does not have too strict control in this regard, just sign it.
Zhou Guanyu then signed his name on Qin Miao's Ferrari hat.
At this time, Zhou Guanyu was also young and had no plans.
If Qin Miao takes this hat to promote it everywhere, although Zhou Guanyu will not be punished by then, Qin Miao's behavior is undoubtedly using this hat to give eye drops to Renault's youth training executives. By then Zhou Guanyu will be in the team There may be criticism internally, and you may be put on the wrong foot.
Of course, Qin Miao is not a person who likes to harm others without benefiting himself, and he asked Zhou Guanyu to sign his Ferrari hat simply because he couldn't find anything else to replace it. He didn't have such deep intentions at all.
"Thank you!" Seeing the opponent signing his hat in Chinese, Qin Miao said sincerely: "Your performance today is so awesome. Come on tomorrow for the race and try to bring back P1."
After hearing this, Zhou Guanyu just said in a very official tone: "Thank you for your support. I will work hard to strive for first place."
This is not because Zhou Guanyu is perfunctory with Qin Miao. The main reason is that he also knows that with his current strength, it is quite difficult to get the first place in the race with just one pole position.
But it's impossible for him to tell his fans that he most likely can't do it, so he can only use this statement.
Qin Miao didn't care. After taking the hat handed over by the other party, he shook hands with Zhou Guanyu and left.
As for how to become an official F2 driver, Qin Miao didn't ask any more.
Originally, this idea was just Qin Miao's whim. Now that the interest has passed, Qin Miao no longer has this idea.
Qin Miao's mentality really changed a lot after he got money. At this time, Qin Miao was like Wang Ziyou, taking advantage of the opportunity and returning home enjoying himself, regardless of the result.
Zhou Guanyu watched Qin Miao and the two leave, feeling a little excited. After all, although he used to be popular in China, F2 is still too niche in China. Some people will pay attention, but not many people, and it is even less likely that they will. Some domestic audiences came over to ask for autographs or something.
Back upstairs in Room P, Qin Miao didn't pay much attention during the third practice, and just chatted with Qiu Meng upstairs.
It was not until the qualifying stage that Qin and Miao came to Ferrari's P room again.
After all, it was qualifying, and there were many Ferrari VIP customers like Qin Miao and others in casual clothes in the P room.
Qin Miao briefly observed that most of the people present were foreigners, and only he and Qiu Meng had Asian faces.
It is worth mentioning that in order to avoid causing embarrassment, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng did not stand in the wrong position this time. They both stood in the VIP viewing area behind Leclerc's car.
The waiting time in Room P was not too difficult. Ferrari staff always brought some snacks and drinks to Qin Miao and other VIPs.
Before long, Vettel arrived inside the P room first.
After greeting and shaking hands with the VIPs on his side, Vettel put on his helmet and got into the car.
Not long after Vettel arrived, Leclerc also came to the P room.
I went through the same process as Vettel, shaking hands and greeting VIP customers.
After arriving at Qin Miao's place, Leclerc raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said as if joking: "Did you go to the wrong place?"
Qin Miao smiled and nodded: "Vettel's place is already overcrowded, and I came here because I couldn't squeeze in."
Hearing Qin Miao's words, Leclerc rolled his eyes in amusement.
But he still shook hands with Qin Miao.
When Qin Miao shook hands with Leclerc, he suddenly thought of the e-sports match he had with him yesterday.
My car and the opponent's car obviously have the same performance, so why is he faster than me in many turns, especially Turn 9?
It was obviously a high-speed corner, so why could the opponent directly chase me so far?
So when everyone was encouraging Leclerc to perform well in the qualifying stage, Qin Miao asked: "I can't figure out why you were able to win at Turn 9 during the race yesterday. Chase me for just two seconds?"
Qin Miao was once again stunned by Leclerc's unusual question.
After thinking about it carefully, I remembered that Qin Miao was asking about the small game in the simulator experience area yesterday.
After all, he is an F1 driver, so he must have extremely rich racing experience.
Naturally, we can analyze the reason for the opponent's speed loss from Qin Miao's performance yesterday.
What Leclerc originally wanted to answer was: You were afraid when you passed Turn 9, so you raised the accelerator at least half way.
But thinking back to Qin Miao's driving performance yesterday, this person is obviously good at driving. Although his skills are still immature, he does have some strength.
Thinking about what the other party just said, "I can't figure it out," Leclerc subconsciously felt that Qin Miao might not have given up yesterday. He just didn't understand the specific performance of the Ferrari SF90.
I thought the SF90 was like other cars that couldn't use full fuel when passing through Turn 9.
After quickly understanding the reason, Leclerc replied tentatively: "Silverstone's T9, Ferrari can run on full oil..."
Qin Miao was stunned for a moment when he heard the other party's answer, and then slapped his forehead in frustration.
Seeing the opponent's actions, Leclerc knew that Qin Miao was not afraid to step on the accelerator. He simply suffered the loss of not understanding the SF90 car. He smiled and patted Qin Miao on the shoulder, letting him feel annoyed before going. Went to shake hands and chat with other VIP guests.
Soon, Leclerc also completed the preparations before the start of qualifying and sat in the cockpit of Ferrari wearing a helmet.
Qualifying has officially begun.
Everyone put on noise-cancelling headphones. Given the environment in the F1 team’s P room, it’s really impossible to stay there for a long time without a pair of noise-cancelling headphones.
The staff were busy covering the tires of the car with insulation blankets to maintain tire temperature. A hair dryer was also inserted into the engine air inlet above the head of the car to maintain oxygen supply and cooling to the engine.
Two multi-functional panels were also placed between the flip-flops in front of Leclerc by engineers.
Qin Miao, who has played the F1 racing game, knows the specific role of this board in the game. He originally thought that the specific role in reality may be different from that in the game.
But looking from Qin Miao's position, the panel in front of the F1 driver is basically the same as that in "F1 2019". It may just be because the teams are different, so the interface and parameter display method they designed are different.
Not long after, the commander who had been standing in front of Leclerc's car received the order from the team leader, separated his hands and signaled the staff operating the thermal blanket to evacuate the thermal blanket.
These people also peeled off the insulation blanket from the tire in a timely manner, but did not take it away immediately. Instead, they folded it and placed it on top of the tire for final insulation.
The conductor took a few steps back to determine the traffic situation in the pit area. After finding that there were no cars coming from the left and right sides, he signaled Leclerc to drive out.
At the same time, four-wheeled staff also removed the thermal blanket.
With a sound of friction between tires and the ground, the Ferrari SF90 roared out of the pit area.
After that, you can see the drama of twenty drivers from ten teams competing for each other in the qualifying stage.
There is nothing to say in Q1 and Q2, and the final result of Q3 is no big surprise.
The extremely powerful Mercedes still came back with one or two wins in this race, but to the disappointment of the British audience, Hamilton did not get the pole position. Bottas got the pole position with a lead of six thousandths of a second of Hamilton. , and Hamilton could only settle for second place.
At the same time, Hamilton's record of four consecutive pole positions in the British Grand Prix was broken, and Bottas took the 10th pole position of his career.
The third was Leclerc who clocked 1:15:172 in the final stage, 0.079 seconds slower than the first place Bottas.
The top three times are all extremely close.
The fourth is Panzi and the fifth is Gasly.
Leclerc's teammate Vettel was only ranked sixth after qualifying.
Therefore, Qin Miao, who was staying in the Ferrari P room, could clearly find that the Ferrari staff on the left and right sides had completely different performances.
The staff at Leclerc's garage all had satisfied looks on their faces. They were hugging and high-fiving each other. They were encouraging and praising each other. Even the VIPs at Leclerc's side were beaming with joy. .
On the other side, Vettel's staff members didn't look very good on their faces, and they didn't show any signs of celebration. Even the VIPs behind them had expressionless faces.
After a brief celebration, several staff members from Ferrari's Leclerc side took some equipment and trotted out.
Just because the car stalls after the race does not mean that there is no need for logistical support. After all, it is such an expensive thing, and it will inevitably get bumped if no one is watching, so the staff need to go out and stuff dustproof things into the engine. Air inlets and air inlets on both sides of the sidepods.
At this time, VIPs like Qin Miao and others can go to the driver's area behind the P room to quietly watch the racers who have finished qualifying.
Qin Miao also ran outside like other VIPs of the Ferrari team. Qin Miao still wanted to join in the excitement.
But it was just a matter of watching. A small number of riders were surrounded by staff who were interviewing the riders as they walked.
Others just trotted along in a hurry. Basically, there was no one wandering around in the paddock for Qin Miao to observe carefully.
But there is one thing to say, Qin Miao feels that today's trip is worthwhile.
(End of chapter)
