Prema Racing competes in three levels of formula competition, namely F4, F3, and F2.
F4 is in charge of another person, F3 is in charge of Feeney, and F2 is in charge of Rosin himself.
The hidden meaning of Luo Xin's words was to let Qin Miao join his F2 team.
Since getting to know Qin Miao, Feeney has never hoped that Qin Miao would make a mistake. In today's game, Feeney sincerely hopes that Qin Miao can make some mistakes during the game and make Luo Xin beside him give up on Qin Miao. Miao's expectation, so that he can take advantage of it.
But he himself also knew that this idea was completely wishful thinking.
Because Qin Miao has always had extremely high stability, when driving, he is not as adventurous and aggressive as a child of his age should be, and more often than not, he looks like an experienced driver who has been in the racing field for many years.
Luo Xin ignored Feeney, who had a wonderful expression, and continued to stare at Qin Miao's results with great interest.
On the other side, Qin Miao did not return to the P room after completing his second flying lap, but continued on the track to complete his third flying lap.
Although he had already pushed to the limit in the second lap, Qin Miao himself knew that even if he ran the third flying lap, there would not be much improvement. If he forced the lap time, it might even cause the vehicle to lose control.
But you can't hide your love for driving racing cars. Qin Miao, who has been practicing with his 488 in recent months, rarely drives a formula car.
Moreover, Ferrari's Fiorano circuit is a circuit with many twists and turns. Qin Miao was deeply fascinated by the control feeling in the corners that was infinitely more sensitive than his own 488.
The last lap was even slower than Qin Miao's second lap, but fortunately it was only 0.1 seconds slower, which is not a big deal.
But even Qin Miao's result was more than 1 second faster than the second-place driver.
Returning to the game, after completing his three flying laps, Qin Miao drove the car back to the pit area.
Although this competition did not restrict the tuning for qualifying and race like the F1 competition, Qin Miao, who returned to the pit area, was not prepared to modify the tuning of his vehicle.
In his opinion, this set of medium and high downforce settings is quite suitable for running on the Fiorano circuit, so there is no need to modify it.
At the end of qualifying, Qin Miao's position did not change from the time he completed the first flying lap to the end of the entire qualifying session.
Qin Miao's dazzling performance naturally attracted the attention of most people present, including Binotto in addition to the two senior executives of Prema.
Seeing Qin Miao's almost crushing results, Binotto's eyes showed a hint of appreciation.
At the same time, Binotto's mind inevitably thought of Qin Miao's contribution to the F1 team's simulator and the lap times he achieved on the simulator.
Binotto wrote down Qin Miao's name in a notebook in his heart.
Although it is a pity that Qin Miao is not an Italian national, Qin Miao's talent, coupled with his background as a Ferrari driver student, are enough for Binotto to put Qin Miao above Vettel's replacement next season. If Qin Miao can enter F2 and perform well in F2, Binotto would not mind letting Qin Miao run in Alfa Romeo's car to accumulate the driving mileage of F1 cars with a super driver's license.
Binotto, who was originally planning to leave after watching the qualifying session, was already intrigued by Qin Miao. He decided to come over after lunch to watch Qin Miao's race.
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After qualifying, Qin Miao took Qiu Meng, Lubos and two other technicians who came to help Qin Miao debug the car to the restaurant for dinner.
However, before leaving Room P, Qiu Meng still maintained her age-inappropriate caution and locked the door of Room P with the key.
Qin Miao and Lubos were not surprised by this, but the other two technicians were shocked by it.
After arriving at the restaurant, Qin Miao was a little confused, because unlike normal restaurants, which arranged tables of different sizes according to the number of guests, the tables in this restaurant were long tables common in European palace banquets. One person can sit in the rear row, and many people can sit in the middle two rows.
After the five people randomly found a place to put their things and got up to get the food, a middle-aged man in a suit sat down next to Qin Miao with a plate filled with food.
Before Qin Miao could remind him that this seat was already occupied, the other party directly extended his hand to Qin Miao and said: "Hello Qin Miao, I am Rich, the team leader of the Trident team. Our team headquarters is here. Located in Milan, Italy, not far from Maranello, the main events we participate in are F2 and F3. If you are interested, you can visit our team headquarters at any time.”
Facing the other party's politely extended hand and warm words, Qin Miao could not say what someone had already done here for a while. He could only stand up and shake hands with the other party, and said: "Hello, Mr. Rich. , nice to meet you."
Not far away, Luo Xin and Feeney, who were carrying plates and preparing to come to Qin Miao to talk and get acquainted with each other, happened to see this scene, and they felt that their fists were hardened for a moment.
What a chicken!
After all, they were all working in F2. Luo Xin squinted slightly and saw clearly the appearance of the bastard who was talking to Qin Miao, and recognized the other party's identity.
Rosin felt her blood pressure rise after confirming who the other person was.
Don't talk about martial arts, just come and cheat! Come for a sneak attack!
However, they were just a little disdainful of Richie's taking advantage of others, and were not worried that Qin Miao would turn around and join Richie's Trident team just because of Richie's few words.
"I saw your qualifying session just now. I have to say that I haven't seen a driver as smart as you in many years. I think your future is limitless." Richie said with sincerity on his face, "And The F2 division of our Trident team just has a driver's seat vacant next year. I think a genius like you needs a good stage like our Trident team to show your talent to the world. Our team, together with Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari, also Haas has a good relationship, so you don’t have to worry about whether an F1 team will take an interest in you after you graduate from F2.”
After striking up a conversation, Richie began to introduce his team to Qin Miao non-stop. The meaning was obvious, we are good here! have a future! What are you waiting for, come and join us! A wonderful tomorrow is waiting for you.
But after hearing so much, Qin Miao just felt that the person in front of him was a little too impatient? There is still one race that F2 has not run this season, and doesn’t he still have one race that he has not run? You know that my talent is very good without even looking at it?
"Well, Mr. Ricci, how about this? Let's leave our contact information and I'll give you a reply after thinking about it for a while." Qin Miao did attend many gatherings held by senior executives at Ferrari. After a long time, it became more complicated. I still learned a lot from simple prevarication.
The meaning of Qin Miao's words was already obvious, which was an order to expel guests.
Moreover, Qiu Meng and the others also came back with plates at this time, so although Richie still had something to say and sincerely hoped that Qin Miao could join his team, at this moment, he knew that he could not leave anything bad for Qin Miao. Impression, so he exchanged contact information with Qin Miao with a smile, got up and left.
After Richie left, Qiu Meng placed the boiled chicken breast and sugar-free black tea specially prepared for Qin Miao in front of Qin Miao. At the same time, she asked curiously: "Who was that person just now?"
Qin Miao looked at the food in front of him with a frown, sighed, and then answered Qiu Meng's question: "The leader of an F2 team wants me to join their team."
"F2 team? Why are we looking for you now?" Qiu Meng was a little surprised.
Because he was in a pretty good mood today, after all, he won the pole position in the competition, so even though the food in front of him was always torturing Qin Miao's taste buds, he still joked: "Your husband, with my talent and skills, And with my good looks, are there still blind people who think I can only start driving in F3?"
Qiu Meng rolled her eyes: "Virtue..."
While the two were chatting, Rosin and Feeney also came to the long table.
Qin Miao did not notice these two people immediately because of their location, but Qiu Meng, who was sitting opposite Qin Miao, saw these two people, and because she had met Fini when she and Qin Miao were in the UK, she knew that he gave Qin Miao He provided training ground support for a period of time. To a certain extent, he was of great help to Qin Miao.
So after seeing him, Qiu Meng lightly kicked Qin Miao as a reminder.
Qin Miao naturally exchanged pleasantries for a while after seeing the two of them. After learning from Qin Miao that Qin Miao did not agree to Richie's invitation, the smiles on their faces became more natural.
Naturally, there was another chat while eating.
The two of them didn't get straight to the point like Richie did. Instead, they established a friendship and said that their Prema team happened to have a dinner party that evening and wanted to invite Qin Miao to attend.
However, Qin Miao refused because he had an appointment with someone in the evening. This was indeed the case. Qin Miao had an appointment with Zhou Guanyu to play games tonight.
The break after lunch was relatively long, and no one came to disturb Qin Miao during this time. Everyone knew that the game in the near future was extremely important for young people like them.
Two hours later, Qin Miao returned to the P room after taking a nap at home. At this time, there was already a competition going on on the track, and the roar of the engine resounded throughout the track.
It is worth mentioning that since the Fiorano track was originally designed to test vehicle performance and there was no intention to hold racing competitions here, the maintenance area of this track is not like those of official competitions. It's so reasonable.
If you wanted to stop at this track to change tires, you would save at least a third of the track.
Therefore, in these three competitions, pit stops are not allowed to change tires, and one set of tires must be used for the entire race.
Faced with this requirement, young drivers driving GT cars will not have too many objections. After all, their tires are quite resistant.
However, this is a bit uncomfortable for drivers driving F3 and F4, because their tires are all hot-melt tires, which consume very quickly on the track. This regulation limits them to using yellow tires and White tires are two relatively hard tires.
Qin Miao decisively used yellow tires when choosing tires. After all, Qin Miao has a passive skill to protect tires, and the tires prepared by Ferrari happened to be Pirelli.
Qin Miao judged from the data he got from yesterday's long-distance test that he could barely run the entire race if he used yellow tires, but if he used red tires, he would deliberately save tires and use all his skills. Endless run.
Moreover, the yellow tire is at least 0.4 seconds faster per lap than the white tire. This is Qin Miao's reliance on completing the system task. Therefore, in order to surpass other drivers as much as possible during the race, Qin Miao needs this set of yellow tires. fetal.
In Qin Miao's opinion, he could use his skills to increase Huang Ti's durability by 30%.
However, judging from the data obtained by Lubos and two other technicians through Qin Miao's long-distance test, Qin Miao's set of yellow tires will begin to fail 10 laps from the end of the race, although it is not a big deal to insist on running the entire distance. Problem, but in the next 10 laps the car will definitely struggle extremely and the grip will drop extremely seriously.
So they were still hesitant when they put on this set of yellow tires, and tried to dissuade Qin Miao from his behavior. However, Qin Miao was the driver, and this was his race. They just came to provide assistance. Faced with Qin Miao's insistence, they I can only agree and wish Qin Miao good luck from the bottom of my heart.
The F3 category of this race has a total of 37 laps, with no pit stops and no fastest lap.
After confirming the vehicle settings, filling up enough fuel for 39 laps, and preparing the tires, Qin Miao drove his F3 car that didn't even have a driver number and only had his name printed on the shark fin. The track.
After the tire warm-up lap, Qin Miao parked the car at the temporarily drawn grid position.
Soon the race started, and Qin Miao took the lead, and with just one start, he widened the gap with the second place at a speed visible to the naked eye.
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Qin Miao knew that he might be a little stronger than the riders who also participated in the competition with him, but he did not expect that his strength was so much stronger than them.
In just the ninth lap, Qin Miao saw an F3 car that was about to be lapped by him at the end of the curve in front.
Soon at the end of the ninth lap, Qin Miao passed the slow car with the blue flag waving on the sidelines.
To be honest, there is really no pressure. It feels the same as when I usually practice passing other people's cars in the simulator.
The subsequent race was more boring. Qin Miao ran and found that the slow car was close to the slow car. If the position was suitable, he would overtake it. If not, he would wait for the blue flag on the side of the field to wave, and then overtake.
After the 37 laps of this race were completed, Qin Miao had already passed four slower cars. You should know that there were only 10 cars participating in this F3 race. Qin Miao alone had passed nearly half of them.
Qiu Meng didn't know how she felt after Qin Miao surpassed so many people, but she knew that after Qin Miao surpassed so many people, many team leaders and bosses could no longer sit still.
Before the game was over, these usually aloof big shots jogged down from the stands, found the P room belonging to Qin Miao, and started talking to Lubos, Qin Miao's physical trainer, and Qiu Meng, Qin Miao's manager. got up.
There is no need to elaborate too much on why they are so enthusiastic about their plans.
(End of chapter)
