The racers lined up in the queue stepped on the accelerator slightly while in neutral.
Qin Miao didn't know how the others started, but he kept his engine speed at about 6,000 rpm, stared at the five red lights above, and waited for the five red lights to go out before pressing the clutch button.
Amidst the roar of the twenty-one F2 engines, the five red lights went out. Qin Miao also pressed the clutch button at the same time. The clutch gear was coupled with the engine, and the rear wheels of the red Prema racing car started instantly, driving the car forward. Departure grid.
Qin Miao started perfectly this time, much better than Zhou Guanyu, and his reaction was at least 0.2 seconds faster.
The actual feeling of 0.2 seconds may only be a moment, but this 0.2 seconds is definitely a great advantage in racing, a sport where milliseconds matter.
So before the traffic entered T1, Qin Miao had already surpassed Zhou Guanyu and reached the first position with his excellent starting ability.
After confirming that he had reached the first position and that Zhou Guanyu posed no threat to him, Qin Miao glanced at the vehicles behind him.
Because after he passed Zhou Guanyu, he didn't make too many moves. He just guarded his outside line, hoping to use a wider track width or a faster exit speed after exiting the corner.
Zhou Guanyu did not do this to attack Qin Miao, and based on his understanding of Qin Miao, it is really difficult to overtake Qin Miao after being overtaken by Qin Miao. Qin Miao's defensive ability is extremely terrifying, Zhou Guanyu is really I have no confidence that I can surpass Qin Miao.
So all these actions of his were to defend his teammate, another driver who started at the same pace as Qin Miao: Callum Ilott.
Although this car is red, it is actually a driver from the same team as Zhou Guanyu, but this man and Qin Miao are from the same youth training team, both from Ferrari.
Because the start was good enough, after Qin Miao passed Zhou Guanyu, Ilott also relied on his own speed to pass Zhou Guanyu on the inside.
So just a start, Zhou Guanyu dropped two positions, from first to third.
"Five red lights go out and the game begins!"
"Qin Miao had a good start and surpassed Zhou Guanyu directly before entering T1!"
"Zhou Guanyu's teammate Ilott had an equally impressive start. He started fourth and moved up two positions to second just by starting!"
"However, Zhou Guanyu stayed firmly on the outside. Even if Ilott surpassed Zhou Guanyu in the initial stage, he had to go inside when entering T1."
As Brother Bing said, although Zhou Guanyu lost two positions at the start, he held the outside line when exiting the corner in T1. Therefore, he had a higher exit speed when exiting the corner than Ilot who took the inside line. In the long straight between T1 and T3, Zhou Guanyu has a clear speed advantage.
So after entering the straight, Zhou Guanyu began to catch up with Ilotte at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before even reaching T2, where the presence was not high, Zhou Guanyu took the lead from the outside.
Also because Zhou Guanyu took the outside lane before entering T2, when passing through T2 turning right, Zhou Guanyu directly passed Ilot by half a car body.
But what follows is a low-speed right turn. Ilot, who is walking on the inside, can squeeze into the inside by braking late and overtake Zhou Guanyu.
Even when exiting the corner from T1, Ilott had this intention in guarding the inside line.
And at this critical moment, Zhou Guanyu's good brother, Qin Miao, took action.
He has always been in the lead. In fact, he can open at least two car body distances from the car behind him in just two turns, T1 and T2.
However, he noticed at the beginning that Zhou Guanyu was not getting up well, and he was still a little worried about his eldest son. Then at T2, he noticed that Zhou Guanyu started to fight with Ilot.
So when T3 entered the turn, he slowed down a little, and instead of taking a wider path when turning, he cut the shoulder.
Qin Miao was faster than the two of them, and when his car was aimed at the apex of the bend, Zhou Guanyu and Yilot came to the back of Qin Miao's car.
At this time, Qin Miao's car just blocked Ilot's route, and gave way to Zhou Guanyu, who was taking the outside route.
Although Qin Miao runs the risk of being slapped by Ilott in doing so, Qin Miao also knows that Ilott, a player who has the opportunity to get on the podium in the first game of 2020, cannot be so careless.
So I boldly blocked his route.
And the reality was just as Qin Miao thought.
Facing Qin Miao's car that was almost lying in front of him, Ilot reluctantly chose to slow down. Zhou Guanyu on the side just found the opportunity to get rid of the struggle with Ilot, passed T3 smoothly, and passed Qin Miao's car. With the help of others, he got the second position.
"Zhou Guanyu! Relying on T1's outer speed advantage, he successfully caught up with Ilott on the back straight!"
"Wheel to wheel! T2 taps on the outside! Is there any chance for T3 to overtake?"
Zhou Haoran said: "It's probably impossible. Ilot can block Zhou Guanyu's route as long as he brakes late."
And just as Zhou Haoran finished speaking, Qin Miao blocked Ilot due to a line problem and gave up Zhou Guanyu's position on the screen.
"Qin Miao?! Qin Miao blocked Ilot on the inside when he entered the corner!" Fei Ge exclaimed.
Brother Bing couldn't help but said: "Hahaha, Zhou Guanyu didn't lose too many positions in this way, and the top two are still Chinese drivers."
At this time, Zhou Haoran, whose face was also filled with happiness and relief, suddenly asked: "Is Qin Miao deliberately creating opportunities for Zhou Guanyu?"
Before the other two commentators could answer, Zhou Haoran explained the reason for his analysis: "I have watched the video of Qin Miao in qualifying. When he was in T3, he usually took the outside line. He didn't know how to do it. Take the inner route to cut the road shoulder like I did just now..."
The entire studio fell silent, and then the three commentators analyzed the possibility of this matter.
On the field, after helping Zhou Guanyu out and making sure that he would not be attacked by Ilot in a short period of time, Qin Miao began to run at his own pace.
However, Qin Miao still gave Zhou Guanyu a hand, because when running at his own pace, Qin Miao did not follow the team's arrangements and pushed forward with all his strength to open up a gap of at least 2 seconds from the car behind him.
After Qin Miao passed T3 and confirmed that Zhou Guanyu's position was saved, he began to maintain the tire at his own pace.
If Zhou Guanyu can catch up with his own rhythm, then Qin Miao doesn't mind letting Zhou Guanyu keep up with him. As for Zhou Guanyu's offense.
Just kidding, with his 100% defensive ability and the fact that he drives a standard car, if Zhou Guanyu can surpass Qin Miao in the game, Qin Miao will give him P250 in pistol rounds in the future.
However, after the race, Zhou Guanyu not only failed to surpass Qin Miao, but even if Qin Miao was running at a tire-preserving pace, Zhou Guanyu in the car behind had to push to the limit if he wanted to keep up with Qin Miao.
Zhou Guanyu could barely keep up with Qin Miao only when he could absorb Qin Miao's wake. Although Yilot, who lost his rhythm because of Qin Miao's dirty tricks, was still in third place, because of that braking, He was separated by at least 1.5 seconds by Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu.
And this gap is gradually widening at a speed visible to the naked eye. After the first lap is completed, the gap reaches 1.7 seconds, 2.1 seconds for the second lap, and 2.9 seconds for the third lap.
Basically Qin Miao was at least 0.6 seconds faster than Yiluo in every lap.
Zhou Guanyu was also thrown 1 second away by Qin Miao before DRS was turned on during the game.
It's not that Zhou Guanyu doesn't want to catch up anymore, it's mainly because he really can't catch up.
Even if he could barely absorb Qin Miao's wake, the gap between the two was still widened by Qin Miao.
From Zhou Guanyu's perspective, Qin Miao's routing is as if it is controlled by a machine. Whether it is braking, entering corners, cutting corners, or exiting corners, every step is done just right and wonderfully, keeping the car in the right position. Push the tires to their limits with as little wear as possible.
And Zhou Guanyu will have some flaws more or less when driving.
Compared with Qin Miao, it may just be that the brakes are one meter later or one meter earlier in a corner, and the angle of entry into the corner is smaller or larger, but basically it will not have a big impact on the speed.
But little things add up, and over time Zhou Guanyu cannot catch up with Qin Miao even if he pushes forward with all his strength.
So after the third lap, Zhou Guanyu became more honest and started running at his own pace.
Then……
Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu have no scenes.
On the seventh lap, Qin Miao was 2.5 seconds ahead of Zhou Guanyu, and even 3.6 seconds ahead of Ilot.
Because it is an F2 race, the director prefers to show the camera to more F2 drivers.
When those corners with relatively large angles appear in the broadcast screen, Qin Miao's car is basically invisible.
Because by the time the F2 army appeared in the camera, Qin Miao had already passed this corner and started to move towards the next corner.
On the eighth lap, Qin Miao set a new fastest lap speed: 1:17:667.
On the ninth lap, Qin Miao completed a lap on other racing drivers for the first time in the F2 arena. The unlucky guy who was lapped was elementary school student Yuki Tsunoda.
This guy seemed to have encountered a mechanical problem and entered the station once. When he came out, he was not far in front of Qin Miao. Qin Miao caught up with him in two laps, and then easily completed the lap against him with the blue flag.
On the eleventh lap, British driver Jack Aitken made his first pit stop and changed to hard tires.
There are still 29 laps to go before the end of the race.
At the same time, Qin Miao once again refreshed his fastest lap record: 1:17:555.
On the twelfth lap, the pit window opened and three cars came in to change tires.
On the thirteenth lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu came to 6.5 seconds, while the gap between Zhou Guanyu and his teammate Yilot widened slightly: 1.7 seconds.
Seeing the gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, Brother Bing commented sharply: "This is completely the F1 driver delegating F2 to fry fish..."
On the eighteenth lap, Zhou Guanyu came into the pits to change tires. The tire changer performed perfectly, with a total time of 6.2 seconds.
Zhou Guanyu fell into sixth position after exiting the pits, ahead of Russian driver Atem Makarov who did not pit.
On the twenty-second lap, almost all the drivers from the team pitted to change to hard tires. The reason why I say this is basically because Qin Miao was still running on the soft tires at this time, and refreshed it again in this lap. Own fastest lap: 1:17:332.
Seeing this, Brother Fei couldn't help but exclaimed: "Which rock crack did this Qin Miao jump out of? He has a strong starting ability, his defensive ability was just a glimpse, and now his ability to protect tires is so terrifying. He ran 22 laps. Tire can actually break his own fastest lap record?”
I almost said, this guy is so scary, he will become a great person in the future.
At this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, who had already entered the station, was 42.7 seconds.
But at this time, Qin Miao still had no intention of pitting. With the blessing of his skills and his deliberate tire protection driving style, the average wear of Qin Miao's set of soft tires was only 31%, and there was not even the cliff point of grip. arrive.
Cliff Point As the name suggests, there is a strong correlation between tire wear and tire grip.
As the tires wear, their grip will gradually decrease, and this grip decline trend is very gentle.
When the tire wear reaches a certain level, the grip will decrease rapidly, and this place is the cliff point of the tire.
On the twenty-sixth lap, Zhou Guanyu’s car found that the gearbox could not shift into gear after exiting the T1 corner. Although it did not stop directly on the track, the speed dropped significantly because it could not shift into a higher gear. serious.
On the twenty-seventh lap, Zhou Guanyu came into the pit for maintenance. When he came out again, he had fallen to the rear of the team and fell right in front of Qin Miao.
Seeing Zhou Guanyu in front of him, Qin Miao was stunned for a while.
I was thinking that I didn’t even stop to change tires. Why did Zhou Guanyu undercut me?
After asking in TR, I found out that there was something wrong with Zhou Guanyu's car.
Looking at the unlucky guy in front of him with some pity, Qin Miao replied to Franky that he knew.
On the Five Star Sports side, the three commentators all sighed after learning about Zhou Guanyu's car failure. After all, given the situation just now, it is a sure thing that Qin Miao takes home the second starting championship. And with Zhou Guanyu's performance, second place in this round is also a handicap. Get a grip.
But under such a good situation, Zhou Guanyu's car got stuck.
Why doesn't this make the domestic audience who are paying attention to this game feel sorry?
On the 29th lap, Qin Miao's persistence paid off. Force India's youth driver Atem Makarov's car had an engine failure on the straight between T1 and T2 where Zhou Guanyu's car broke down.
Unlike Zhou Guanyu, Zhou Guanyu could still drive the car back to get it repaired if he persisted, but his car had a direct engine and could not ignite after stalling.
Therefore, when the yellow flag was shown, the race committee converted the yellow flag into a safety car.
Qin Miao, who had not pitted for twenty-nine laps, had just entered the cliff point on the soft tire. Although his grip had begun to decline rapidly, he could still hold on for one or two more laps.
However, now that there is a free pit stop opportunity under the safety car, Qin Miao will not miss it, so he pits to change to white tires.
At the same time, after seeing Qin Miao entering the station, it was still the familiar conference room of Ferrari. Binotto put away his notebook and left here with Lesta.
Sui Wentao and the others had practiced tire changing in private, so this tire change went smoothly.
And he knew that Qin Miao had a huge speed advantage. Even if they changed each tire for 5 seconds, Qin Miao was still ranked first when he went out, so there was no psychological pressure when changing tires.
When leaving the station, Qin Miao still maintained his position, and behind him was Zhou Guanyu's teammate Ilott, and behind Ilott was Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher.
It’s not easy for this guy to catch up from sixth place on the grid all the way to third place.
The rise of the Prema team is already foreseeable at this time.
Qin Miao, who has been a success in F2 since his debut, and Michael Schumacher's son, who has chased from sixth to third all the way.
It would be unjust to say that Prema does not win the championship this year.
(Additional updates will be posted in the afternoon)
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