Although his rest time was gone, Qin Miao was indeed quite curious about the normal work and operation of the Ferrari F1 team during a grand prix.
So I stayed in accordance with Teacher Bi's arrangement.
Qin Miao spent Thursday inside the Ferrari team.
Because Qin Miao has worked in Ferrari's simulator department, many people in the F1 team also know Qin Miao. In addition, Qin Miao's outstanding performance in F2 last week and his status as a Ferrari youth training player, so there is no People were surprised when Qin Miao appeared in Ferrari's workspace.
Even after work, a Ferrari technician invited Qin Miao to go out for dinner together in the evening.
However, Qin Miao politely declined. After all, there will be an F2 practice session and qualifying session tomorrow.
On Friday, Qin Miao was driven by her biological clock to get up and wash up. After having breakfast, she rested for a while and then completed her daily basic physical training.
After completing all this, Qin Miao came to the paddock.
By the time he arrived, many F2 team staff were already busy in the F2 temporary P room.
Qin Miao was already used to this, and the contract signed the day before yesterday and the change in identity brought about by the contract did not change Qin Miao's mentality.
On the one hand, it is not yet time for this contract to take effect. On the other hand, although Qin Miao has the habit of showing off and showing off like young people, Qin Miao likes to rely on his own strength to show off, and Not identity.
So Qin Miao came to the temporary P room of the team and started working as usual.
Qin Miao's work content today is not much, because most of the work content has been completed last week. This week's work content mainly revolves around the maintenance and inspection of Qin Miao's racing car.
Do your best to ensure that Qin Miao's car does not have mechanical failures during the race.
As for the tuning and debugging of the car, it has not been changed. On the one hand, it is because Qin Miao’s tuning settings were already in an ideal state last week. In addition, there is no racing data to support it. Fine-tuning at will may cause damage. That training setting was very comfortable for Qin Miao to use.
So staying still is the best option at this time.
After everything is ready, it will still be quite some time before the F2 practice session starts.
Qin Miao can rest. Originally, Sui Wentao and the others, like Qin Miao, could rest for a while before the start of the F2 practice session.
But taking advantage of this break, Luo Xin directly dragged Sui Wentao and the others to practice tire changing.
I am idle and I am taking advantage of this time to practice tire changing and prepare for tomorrow's race and the sprint race the day after tomorrow.
So Qin Miao smiled and looked at the hard-working Sui Wentao and the others practicing changing tires covered with sweat under the scorching sun. After watching for a while, Qin Miao came up curiously and said that he wanted to try it too.
Anyway, the current tire changing practice was also added temporarily. Rosin mainly did not want the team members to be idle during normal working hours.
Therefore, they did not refuse Qin Miao's request.
Changing a tire is actually a technical job, because you not only have to be fast, but you also have to be accurate.
The tire changing of F2 is different from that of F1. There is only one person changing a tire in F2, and the tire changing process is much more complicated than that of F1.
First, wait for the car to stop in front of you, aim the tire change gun in your hand at the bolt of the tire, insert it, then pull the trigger to loosen the bolt, grab the edge of the rim, and use your arm strength to directly remove the tire from the car. Take it down.
Then use the muzzle of the tire changing gun to jam the nut on the new tire. At this time, the tire changing gun and the nut on the tire have become locked. You can directly lift the tire with the tire changing gun and point it towards the joint of the racing car. Insert the axle, and then use the tire changing gun to tighten the nut.
After playing it twice, Qin Miao lost interest, because after mastering the skills, Qin Miao found that the speed of changing tires depends on your proficiency in changing tires, which is not very interesting.
I played with my mobile phone in the team's P room for a while, and then upon being notified by the race meeting, many F2 teams who had been waiting for a long time poured out of their temporary P room, pushing cars or tires, or carrying cars. He rushed towards the maintenance area with the equipment.
The F2 practice session is about to begin...
After changing into his racing suit in the locker room, Qin Miao came to the maintenance area with ease and helped Sui Wentao and the others sort out the sundries and other things. After that, Qin Miao moved around his car and then started to put on the equipment.
After getting ready, Qin Miao took advantage of the situation and got into his racing car.
It is worth mentioning that due to Qin Miao's outstanding performance on the field last week, Qiu Meng has received many calls from sponsors interested in sponsoring Qin Miao in recent days, but most of them still want to sponsor Qin Miao. Company that lends driver loans
The so-called driver loan is also easy to understand. After all, racing is a sport that requires money to play well. Normal F2 drivers get their driver seats by sponsoring F2 teams. Sometimes the team’s car is bought by the team. , and some like Qin Miao bought them with their own money.
Since you have paid for this position, do you, the driver, have to pay for the loss of tire and fuel components of the vehicle?
Of course, the team cannot do nothing. The team will be responsible for the driver's logistical support and give the driver a number and quota to participate in the competition. It is also responsible for the logistics and transportation of the car.
After all, there are only a few drivers from teams like Qin Miao who are eager to provide him directly. Prema is also a relatively wealthy and large team. Naturally, they are willing to invest in Qin Miao in order to win the F2 driver championship.
A driver loan is when a company issues an interest-free loan to a driver they are optimistic about. You only need to pay them back the amount of the loan you borrowed.
But before the loan is repaid, you have to print the lender's logo on your helmet or racing car, and some contracts even stipulate that the driver must continue to print the logo on the car and racing suit within one year after the loan is repaid. The other party advertises.
However, this kind of contract is a sure-profit deal for both the driver and the lender.
After Qiu Meng chatted with Qin Miao, she did not choose a driver loan. Instead, she chose a few sponsorships that had basically no requirements and offered relatively small amounts of money. Nothing else, just to save trouble.
Therefore, Qin Miao's racing cars and racing suits finally had a few more advertisements at this time, but most of these advertisers were not very well-known. Compared with the Anglo-Dutch Shell and Ferrari on Qin Miao's clothes, they were completely different. Not enough.
After Qin Miao was ready, the practice session also started. The director was very sensible and immediately moved the camera to the maintenance area, focusing on Qin Miao's car.
In last week's battle, Qin Miao has completely become the focus of F2, and is the favorite to win F2 this season.
The director also paid enough respect and attention to this popular F2 star.
After buckling up his seat belt, Sui Wentao came over to help Qin Miao check the headrest, seat belt and helmet. After making sure there were no problems, he made a thumbs up in front of Qin Miao's helmet to indicate that the car was ready.
Qin Miao nodded, stretched out his hand to shake Sui Wentao's hand, and then Sui Wentao stepped back. Qin Miao started the car and drove the car out of the pit area after the countdown to the start of the practice session ended.
During the time when Qin Miao drove the car out of the maintenance area, both the cameras above the maintenance area and the photographers carrying cameras locked their lenses on Qin Miao's car.
Until Qin Miao drove his car out of the maintenance area.
There is nothing much to say about the practice session. Qin Miao had already found a suitable setting for this track last week, so the room for improvement in the practice session was very limited.
It may just be a more refined adjustment to Qin Miao's current settings, but the improvement it can bring is minimal, at most an improvement of 0.05~0.1 seconds.
Of course, this is only for Qin Miao. For other drivers, they do still have a lot of potential that can be explored on this track.
So Qin Miao just drove his car on soft tires for seven laps and came back, and never went out until the end of the practice session.
Qin Miao will now start to save tires. Because of the contract with Ferrari, he knows that he has to perform better in the F2 field, so Qin Miao still wants to get involved in the championship this week in the sprint race. .
As for the main race?
Without bragging, as long as his car has no problems during the race, Qin Miao is confident that he can easily win the championship in the race.
The practice match came to an end under Qin Miao's fishing, and it was another familiar process of moving things away...
In the afternoon, Qin Miao and the others came to the pit channel again after receiving the race notification. It was now the qualifying race.
The qualifying stage is different from the practice match, and Five Star Sports started live broadcast.
Because of Qin Miao's relationship, both the audience and the three anchors of Five Star Sports are looking forward to the performance of the two Chinese drivers Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu in the F2 field.
After the familiar opening scene, the TV broadcast came to the pit exit of the qualifying stage.
Although qualifying has not started yet, there are already more than ten F2 cars waiting to be released at the white line at the exit of the pit area.
Qin Miao's start was still not so aggressive. After all the cars lined up at the door had gone out, Qin Miao drove out from his parking spot.
At this time, those riders who were doing warm-up laps were already halfway through the race.
However, Qin Miao didn't care. On the one hand, he believed that even if his lap time was blocked, he could still enter the top five. On the other hand, he believed in the release time set by French for himself.
After all, Frankie is not Ferrari's strategy team.
There were 24 minutes and 31 seconds left before the end of qualifying. After running two warm-up laps, Qin Miao slowed down his speed in T7 under Franky's prompt, and then began to accelerate quickly to complete his first flight. lock up.
The time is 1:14:349, three sections of purple, temporarily ranked first.
Two minutes later, Zhou Guanyu also entered the 1 minute and 14 seconds mark, with a lap time of 1:14:933, coming behind Qin Miao with a gap of 0.6 seconds.
Five Star Sports viewers and commentators just love this scene, with two Chinese riders dominating the top two spots.
Naturally, he did not hesitate to praise the two of them.
However, Qin Miao knew that his lap speed was not the limit. During the first Austrian Grand Prix, all the lap times he achieved in the practice session were faster than this.
So Qin Miao returned to the pit area to adjust. When the countdown to the end of qualifying came to 14 minutes and most of the F2 cars returned to the pit area to adjust, Qin Miao drove the car out.
Qin Miao's exit time will not give his racing engine enough time to cool down. Although the racing engine in this state can still run normally, the power it explodes is less than that of an engine that has been fully cooled. Some.
But despite this, Qin Miao still used a car that was not in the best condition to achieve a time of 1:14:019.
It was only 0.2 seconds away from breaking the 13-second mark. Although it was a pity, Qin Miao's result still broke the F2 fastest lap record at the Red Bull Ring.
After completing this lap, Qin Miao felt pretty good. If he changed to a new set of soft tires, he would be confident of breaking into within 13 seconds, but there was no need. This result was enough for him to get the pole position in qualifying.
Moreover, Frankie in TR just praised Qin Miao excitedly: "Awesome! You..."
Frankie was silent for a while after speaking halfway, and then said helplessly to Qin Miao: "Please go back to the maintenance area again. There will be staff at the entrance to guide you."
Qin Miao was curious: "What's wrong?"
"...The FIA asked you to come back for the weigh-in. Your qualifying speed was too fast. The FIA should be suspecting that your car is too light."
This has nothing to do with discrimination, it is simply because after Qin Miao set the fastest F2 lap on this track, the FIA needed to prove to others that Qin Miao did not violate any rules.
Shrugging, Qin Miao won't run for the remaining ten minutes after finishing this lap anyway, so just weigh himself.
When we returned to the entrance of the maintenance area, there were several orange warning tubes placed on the open space at the entrance, and in the middle surrounded by the warning tubes was an iron thing that looked like a horsepower engine base. It's just that this thing is used for weighing.
In fact, the normal weighing process is for Qin Miao to park his car under a simple weighbridge, and FIA staff will push Qin Miao's car up. During this process, Qin Miao only needs to control the direction.
But Qin Miao didn't know that when the FIA called him back for weighing for the first time, he drove his car directly onto the weighbridge.
And because Qin Miao came in from the entrance of the maintenance area, he drove towards the weighbridge at the speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour specified in the maintenance area.
Seeing that Qin Miao was almost running forward without slowing down, the FIA staff who was preparing to help Qin Miao push the cart was startled.
But a player like Qin Miao, who has full control over the car, is naturally unlikely to make such a low-level mistake.
Qin Miao started to slow down about sixty meters before approaching the weighbridge. At this time, you have to admire the extreme lightweight of the F2 car and its terrifying deceleration ability.
The distance of sixty meters reduced the vehicle speed from 80 kilometers per hour to 20 kilometers per hour.
Because he had to walk uphill to get on the weighbridge, Qin Miao stuck to a speed limit and rushed up to use up all the potential energy of the car.
He parked his car on the weighbridge in a way that looked fierce but was actually very polite.
The FIA staff looked helpless when they saw Qin Miao getting out of the car after parking it.
You say he broke the rules, but he didn't do anything, that is, he drove the car onto the weighbridge. You say he didn't violate the rules, and he drove the car directly onto the weighbridge...
In the end, Qin Miao was not punished. For geniuses, whether it is F1 or F2, the competition will provide certain conveniences in some innocuous things.
The weighing process was very fast, and calling Qin Miao over was not just about weighing, but also a car inspection. The process was exactly the same as the car inspection after the game.
Qin Miao's car is naturally behaved and has no problems at all.
After completing the weighing, the FIA staff was preparing to signal Qin Miao to get back in the car and drive back to continue the qualifying match.
Then he watched in confusion as Qin Miao abandoned his racing car and walked away with his helmet...
He just left...
No... you don't want the car anymore? ? ?
Fortunately, before Qin Miao went to the weighbridge to weigh in, he told his team that with his current result, there was no need to continue running. There was basically no possibility of breaking his fastest lap record. If it really happened, then Qin Miao is willing to give up this pole position again.
So not long after Qin Miao left, Sui Wentao and the others came over with tools, and then pushed the car away under the confused eyes of the FIA staff.
Five Star Sports, the two commentators were slightly stunned when they looked at the situation on the field, and then quickly figured out the reason.
"Qin Miao must be very satisfied with his current results and is not planning to run anymore. He wants to save an extra set of soft tires and try again in the sprint race..."
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When walking back to the temporary P room of his motorcade, Qin Miao also passed by Zhou Guanyu's car.
Zhou Guanyu, who was holding a parasol in the car, looked at Qin Miao who was walking in front of him in confusion, and a big question mark popped up in his head, what is this person doing? Isn’t the qualifying match over yet...
Ask your racing engineer and he’ll tell you, my friend, the record for the fastest qualifying lap of Red Bull Ring F2 has just been broken in one lap.
Based on Zhou Guanyu's understanding of Qin Miao, this guy probably doesn't plan to run away again.
He looked at Qin Miao with some envy as he walked out of his field of vision. To be honest, Zhou Guanyu also wanted to experience the feeling of Qin Miao only doing two flying laps in a qualifying match and then getting off work directly at halftime.
Drivers with personality are naturally more likely to get the director's shots. First, the director showed the camera to Qin Miao's car. At this time, the car was not pushed back to Prema's pit area by Sui Wentao and the others, but went directly to the back of the pit area. , actually pushing directly towards the temporary P room where Prema was stationed.
Really get off work early.
Thanks to the fact that the inspection of Qin Miao's car was completed during the weighing session, they could directly push Qin Miao's car back. Otherwise, they would have to wait on the track until the end of qualifying and complete the unified inspection. , to push the car back and put it away.
As for Qin Miao, after walking back to the Prema team's station in the pit channel, he crossed the track and shook hands with Franky, and then said to Rosin: "Boss, I'm off work."
Luo Xin did not stop him and waved his hand: "Go ahead."
Like Qin Miao, Luo Xin doesn't think anyone can beat Qin Miao's lap time today. The pole position is already secured. Since the eldest brother of his team wants to leave early, let him leave early. Qin Miao drives the fastest. What’s wrong with going back early to take a rest after a hard lap?
Then the director watched Qin Miao cross the track again, took off his equipment, lowered his head and bent slightly, and got directly into the semi-draped rolling shutter door of the P room of the Ferrari team...
The director and everyone who saw this scene through the director's lens were stunned.
Oh~ that’s not right!
Why the hell did you, a F2 driver, directly enter Ferrari's P room? Even if you are a driver from Ferrari's youth training, it is not suitable.
No one cares? Wouldn't Ferrari have a problem?
It's just that no one can answer this question for them, but because of Qin Miao's action, new rumors began to spread in the paddock, that is, Qin Miao had already entered the Ferrari F1 team.
However, neither Qin Miao nor Ferrari paid attention to this rumor. Without the popularity, no one paid attention to this rumor over time.
At the competition site, Qin Miao usually goes back to the hotel to play games after completing his qualifying tasks.
But it didn't work now. He was forced by Binotto to go to the Ferrari P room after qualifying to wait for the start of F1's second practice.
Moreover, during the entire second training period of F2, Qin Miao had to stay in Ferrari's P room to familiarize himself with the workflow and working habits of Vettel's technicians.
Because these technicians are likely to become Qin Miao's technicians next season, Binotto wants Qin Miao to develop feelings and familiarity with these technicians early.
As a migrant worker, Qin Miao naturally had no objections to the requests made by his immediate boss, and strictly speaking, Qin Miao was still at work at this moment.
After arriving in the P room, he found several technicians looking at the equipment in the P room. After greeting them, Qin Miao found a place to sit down and started playing on his mobile phone, waiting for the start of F1's second practice. .
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Although Qin Miao alone became the biggest highlight of the entire F2 qualifying match, Qin Miao's departure will not affect the progress of the F2 qualifying match.
As the countdown ends, the F2 qualifying session ends.
Indeed, as Qin Miao thought, there was basically no possibility that Qin Miao's results could be beaten by anyone except Qin Miao himself.
In the end, Qin Miao won the championship with a time of 1:14:019, and Zhou Guanyu ranked second with a time of 1:14:549.
Qin Miao specially called Zhou Guanyu during the simulator practice in the past few days. When Zhou Guanyu drove the simulator, Qin Miao also taught Zhou Guanyu a lot of things and made no reservations about some of his settings on this track. He told Zhou Guanyu that although Zhou Guanyu would not directly apply Qin Miao's racing settings, some settings could also give Zhou Guanyu some inspiration, so in the end it was within Qin Miao's expectation that he could achieve such results.
Third was Yuki Tsunoda with a speed of 1:14:803.
Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher ranked ninth, more than one second slower than Qin Miao.
Qin Miao began to wonder what reasons this guy would use in the post-race meeting after the Grand Prix.
(End of chapter)
