Qin Miao didn't refuse. Anyway, it only cost a few thousand yuan, so since Norris wanted to play with it, just lend it to him.
Even if it was really lost, Qin Miao couldn't afford to pay for it.
Moreover, after Hamilton gave this thing to Qin Miao, he had no intention of getting it back. Even if they started talking, Hamilton would just smile at most. This thing was just an interesting toy to him.
Norris was briefly taught how to drive a scooter.
There is no barrier to getting started with this thing. After trying it twice, Norris was able to control the scooter easily.
After he started running, Norris waved to Qin Miao excitedly, and then drove the scooter onto the track like the wind.
It's just that Norris obviously didn't take his team staff into consideration after he got on the bicycle. Of course, this was not within the scope of Qin Miao's consideration. He walked the track this time with Hamilton and himself. He left without taking anyone else from the Mercedes team with him.
However, Qin Miao frowned slightly as he watched Norris leave. He felt that Norris seemed to have some goodwill towards him inexplicably, but Qin Miao was not sure where Norris's goodwill came from. .
Nothing is difficult in the world as long as you are willing to give up. Qin Miao couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and walked back to the car home.
Back at the car home and in the lounge, Qin Miao imported the data he collected on the track into his work computer, and then watched the game videos from last season.
However, these things can only be a reference for Qin Miao. If you really want to determine which things are useful, you have to run on the field to know clearly.
After reading it, Qin Miao had nothing to do.
Anyway, there is nothing else to do when I go back to the hotel at this time. I just play on the computer when I go back.
But to be honest, although the configuration of Qin Miao's laptop is already the best-performing laptop available on the market, the inherent disadvantages of laptops are that the size of the monitor naturally limits the gaming experience, so Qin Miao didn't really want to go back to the hotel.
Speaking of monitor screens, Qin Miao's eyes inadvertently spotted the 120-inch wall-mounted TV used for meetings on the second floor of the team home.
This thing is used to show data to staff during meetings or to show PPT to meeting staff.
It happened that Qin Miao knew a little bit about computers, so he saw Qin Miao do some research, then divided his work computer into a dual screen, and then played a movie on the TV.
Qin Miao has a certain hobby of collecting these things.
That is, if Qin Miao discovers a movie that he likes very much, then he will find a way to download the resources of the movie to the hard drive of his computer. It doesn't matter even if he doesn't watch it, the main thing is that he has to have it.
I called Barber up from downstairs. I watched the movie for more than an hour and it was gone. He might get bored waiting downstairs, so I simply called him up and they watched the movie together.
Seeing that Qin Miao was in such good spirits, Barber ran to the first floor of the team home to get some food for Qin Miao.
Then the two of them stayed here until six o'clock in the afternoon before leaving with unfinished business.
It's not that the two of them don't want to see it. If possible, Qin Miao wouldn't mind sleeping directly here at the team's home today.
The main reason why the two left was because they were caught by the head of Mercedes' logistics department.
At first, he thought that these two people had unfinished work here. After a closer look, he realized that Qin Miao was watching a movie here with his physical trainer and nutritionist, so he kicked them out directly.
The fleet home uses an independent power supply system, especially the conference room on the second floor. After all, the computers and files in the equipment here are very important. In order to avoid the tragedy of data loss due to unsaved data during a power outage, so The power of the generator is quite high.
Then Qin Miao finished watching a movie and gave half a tank of oil to the main generator to finish watching.
For the Mercedes team, this half tank of fuel is not worth much, but it only increases the workload of their logistics department.
To be honest, Qin Miao was a little embarrassed after learning about this incident. He was just a driver and didn't know much about the logistics operation of the Mercedes team. Naturally, he didn't know that the power supply system of the team home was independent.
After apologizing to the staff in Mercedes' logistics department, Qin Miao took Barber back to the hotel.
Norris did not return Hamilton's scooter after all, because it was not his own. Qin Miao forgot to ask Norris for it after being obsessed with the movie.
Qin Miao immediately forgot about this incident when he got up the next day.
To Hamilton, this thing was just a bigger toy. After giving it to Qin Miao, he had no intention of getting it back.
So this scooter mysteriously disappeared into the paddock...
Friday.
Today is the day when practice one and two begin.
Qin Miao didn't see any fans sneaking in at the entrance today and entered the paddock smoothly.
Then he went to the media area before the game to be interviewed, and after answering some curious questions from the media, he naturally returned to the team home for breakfast.
Later, while waiting for the start of the race, Qin Miao and the staff of the Mercedes-Benz team have been watching the live broadcast of Sky Sports, because Sky Sports took a photo of Red Bull Racing's newly upgraded racing side grille wings today.
The period of waiting is naturally spent studying and discussing these things, what specific improvements can be made to the performance of Red Bull Racing, and looking for countermeasures.
Before the game starts, Barber will knock on the door to remind Qin Miao that it is time and he must start preparations.
Qin Miao, who was in the room, was naturally the first to make all preparations before the game started.
After arriving in Room P, greeting the staff, and chatting with Hamilton for a while, it was time for the first practice to begin.
After entering the racing car, starting the engine, Qin Miao drove out of the P room after the system self-check was completed.
Qin Miao's proficiency with the Portimão track is really not high, so the first practice team put Qin Miao on a set of hard tires to let him get familiar with it on the track.
This period of time was mainly used to find Qin Miao's car tuning settings. Because he was not familiar with the track, the data he ran during this period could not be used by the team.
But Qin Miao's learning ability and adaptability are really terrifying.
In the first twenty minutes of practice, Qin Miao was obviously unfamiliar with driving the car. He couldn't even get into the top ten when doing long-distance laps.
But twenty minutes later, Qin Miao's lap time changed drastically, and he climbed all the way to fifth position.
After arriving here, Qin Miao's lap time can be used as race data for simulation. At the same time, Qin Miao is also testing the effect of the new upgrades on the racing floor.
The final practice session ended uneventfully. Qin Miao's running data met the team's expectations. It was a pity that Qin Miao felt that the car settings were still a little uncomfortable to drive, but Qin Miao could not find the specific reason. .
After resting for two hours, the second practice began.
During the second practice, Qin Miao's task was still to get familiar with the track and find his own training settings.
The only thing worth mentioning is that Qin Miao’s second practice ran 25 laps on a set of soft tires.
The cruising range of the medium tires when using a set of soft tires seems quite outrageous to other teams. The most important thing is that Qin Miao's average speed in these 25 laps is quite impressive.
This made many teams that were paying attention to the Mercedes team murmur in their hearts.
But unfortunately, except Mercedes itself, no one knows the specific wear data of Qin Miao's set of tires, and whether the subsequent failure is controllable.
As for Mercedes, after getting the exact data, they naturally smiled, and the strategy team's eyelids twitched.
At the end of the second practice, Qin Miao used a total of two sets of soft tires during this period.
Afterwards, the team naturally analyzed and summarized the data of the two drivers on the track, and then went to the strategy team to roughly formulate a general direction for the tactics for qualifying and Sunday's race.
During this period, Qin Miao and Hamilton could rest for a while, but they obviously did not have this idea. Instead, they got together and began to study and discuss the changes they felt on this track and some findings.
Although strictly speaking, the two of them compete with each other, but neither of them cares much about this relationship. On the one hand, it is because the two have a very good relationship in private, and on the other hand, because Hamilton knows Qin Miao's strength. Not as good as himself, but Qin Miao is a person who values friendship. If he is in need, Qin Miao will definitely help him. Therefore, as long as there is no clear conflict of interest, he does not mind sharing his experience on the track with Qin Miao. knowledge gained.
As for Qin Miao, although he now has the idea of no longer being the No. 2 driver, Qin Miao knows that he is still fledgling at this time and his influence is not enough, so he is not qualified to challenge Hamilton's status, so Qin Miao will I keep this idea deep in my heart, and at this stage I am still being my No. 2 driver.
On the track, he would do his best to help his teammates. In addition, the relationship between the two was really good in private. Qin Miao was a person who valued relationships, so he did not care about the gains and losses of these interests in a short period of time.
Furthermore, to a certain extent, Hamilton had no reservations about Qin Miao. When Qin Miao wanted Hamilton's telemetry data, Hamilton gave it to him without saying a word.
The big brother has done a good job, but the little brother can't just think about usurping the throne, right?
Friday's work came to an end quickly.
Unlike the overtime work of the strategy team, most Mercedes staff go back to the hotel to rest after a busy day of work. Only the people in the strategy team work overtime at the factory or the team home.
At this time, Hamilton would always thoughtfully send refreshing coffee and late-night snacks to his colleagues. He was extremely considerate.
On Saturday, today was the third practice session and qualifying session.
Before officially starting work, Qin Miao went to accept interviews from media reporters as usual. Most of the questions asked at this time were questions from yesterday's first and second practice. Qin Miao had some experience in answering reporters' questions. It's easy to get up and know the road well, and there is no leakage.
During the third practice, both Qin Miao and Hamilton worked on qualifying simulations. There is nothing much to say about this.
During the third practice, the team also discovered a characteristic on the track, that is, the failure speed of the medium tires is not much different from that of the hard tires, but the speed is actually more than 0.4 seconds faster than the hard tires.
Despite knowing the news, the team still asked Qin Miao to test how these two tires performed on his car.
The results obtained are gratifying. Under Qin Miao's normal driving conditions, the depletion speed of the medium tires and the hard tires is the same. If the tires are protected, Qin Miao's medium tires do wear out faster than the hard tires, but not by much, but if the tires are intense, When driving, Qin Miao's medium tires are even more durable than hard tires, and the average speed of Qin Miao's medium tires is 0.5 seconds faster than the hard tires.
As soon as this data came out, it was doomed that basically all the cars in this game would not use hard tires in the race.
And the data from the hard tire runs can no longer be used.
After receiving the news, everyone at Mercedes-Benz was relatively calm, except for Mercedes' strategy director James Vincent and his strategy group staff.
With this variable, they have to spend a lot of time adjusting their tactics, and their overtime hours have to be extended.
But they're all used to it.
After the episode, Qin Miao had been doing qualifying simulations on the track using an old set of soft tires during the third practice period.
Because it was a qualifying simulation, Qin Miao pushed to the limit in almost every lap. Coupled with his unfamiliarity with the track and the huge height difference on this track, Qin Miao even rushed out twice. track.
Fortunately, he was under control both times. Once, he was pulled back to the track by Qin Miao before he rushed into the buffer zone. The other time, he rushed into the buffer zone, but his speed had dropped by that time. Qin Miao Miao did not let the race meeting show the yellow flag, and relied on his control of the car to drive the car out of the buffer zone.
When I returned to the team for inspection, I found that there were only a few scratches on the carbon fiber at the bottom of the car, which basically did not affect the aerodynamic performance of the car and there was no damage to the car.
When the third practice was about to end, Qin Miao put on a new set of soft tires, ran a final flying lap, and won the first place in the third practice.
However, the results of the practice session can only be used as a reference. Except for Qin Miao's fans who were happy for a while, no one else cared much about this result.
The preparation time between the third practice and qualifying is not long, only two hours.
During this period, the team replaced the two drivers with qualifying-specific engines and gearboxes, as well as a new exhaust system.
In fact, Qin Miao's old exhaust system can still be used, with only 30% wear and tear, and basically has no impact on lap times.
But this thing gives a lot of shares in the competition, eight sets in total. Mercedes is so rich that it doesn't care about this money at all. The rhythm of changing one set of exhausts in three games is just enough for Qin Miao to run the entire season.
In addition to the exhaust, Hamilton also started his second set of MGU-H.
In fact, the MGU-H of Hamilton's engine dedicated to the race is only 50% worn, so it is not impossible to insist on finishing the qualifying and race of this race.
But doing so is always risky, and Mercedes' speed advantage this season is already very small. Mercedes wants to create an eight-time champion and win the constructor's championship again. For stability reasons, the team ultimately decided Hamilton was chosen to replace it with new parts. (End of chapter)
