79: Zhou Guanyu

Qin Miao was quite happy to see Bihi in reality, and what followed was an accident.

Because he didn't expect Binotto to be so tall.

Binotto arrived in Room P and took the work reports handed over by the staff, and then took them to the command area opposite Room P, where Ferrari staff were already working.

Not long after, Leclerc also arrived in the P room in a racing suit, after all, the practice was about to begin, and the drivers had to take a break from the busy interview activities one after another.

At the same time, Leclerc was followed by two people, one was his physical trainer, and the other was a staff member wearing an official FIA staff vest and carrying a camera.

When Leclerc came in, he went straight to his car, but the afterglow swept in the direction where Qin Miao was staying at the VIP.

After all, if you are an F1 driver, your eyesight is naturally the best.

Leclerc was just a little puzzled at first, why did VIPs come to watch the game during the first practice stage, but when he turned his head to look over, he realized, "Hey, isn't this the guy who fought with me on the simulator?"

After the doubts, Qin Miao and Leclerc both became numb.

Qin Miao was very surprised when Leclerc came, but what surprised him even more was that Qin Miao was not standing in the VIP viewing area behind Leclerc's car, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng stood behind Vettel's car.

The meaning of this is self-evident.

Leclerc's expression was full of complexity, while Qin Miao was a little embarrassed.

He didn't deliberately stand behind the Vettel car, after all, this was his first time in the P room of the F1 team, Qin Miao was dazzled by the large amount of data and equipment in the P room, but he didn't pay attention to the number of the rear of the car, and naturally he didn't know that he was standing behind the Vettel car at this time.

But at this time, in front of Leclerc, Qin Miao was embarrassed to run directly to the VIP area behind Leclerc's car, and he still had to nod his face.

The two looked at each other awkwardly, and then nodded to each other.

When Leclerc was busy and preparing for the practice match, Qin Miao pulled Qiu Meng to the VIP area behind Leclerc's car quietly.

Now that Leclerc hasn't found out, it's not a shame that Qin Miao has been transferred......

And Qin Miao did this mainly because Vettel had not yet arrived at this time, and he wanted to observe what specific preparations an F1 driver needed to make before the race.

However, this step was nothing special in Qin Miao's opinion.

Leclerc just put on a sweat-wicking white hood, then buckled up his helmet, adjusted the position of the helmet, and sat down in the Ferrari SF90 with the engine started.

After a while, Qin Miao finally knew why the driver who sent him and Qiu Meng over said that the practice stage was boring.

Because Leclerc has been communicating with the team staff since he got into the car, and after determining the settings he intends to use, he directly asked the staff to lift the tire blanket and drive the car onto the track.

After a few laps on the track, the car got the test data it wanted, returned to the P room, debugged, communicated, and then went out again with a different setup.

Throughout the practice session, all Qin Miao could see was that the entire team was repeating the same process over and over again.

After waiting for a long time, the novelty gradually faded, and Qin Miao and Qiu Meng, who stayed in the P room, both felt bored.

Even among the drinks handed to Qin Miao by the Ferrari staff, Qin Miao inexplicably felt that she had tasted a smell of engine oil.

Turning his head to ask Qiu Meng's opinion, and seeing that the other party also felt that Ferrari's P room was a little boring, Qin Miao left with Qiu Meng.

After the two came out, they didn't do anything else, ran to the viewing area above the P room, ordered two ice creams and some food, and watched the practice match while eating.

The two of them stayed in this state and watched the first and second practice sessions of the British Grand Prix.

After the first and second practice, the paddock was not closed, and many drivers went to the post-race interview booth for interviews, and there were many activities they needed to participate in after the interview, such as shaking hands with fans, signing autographs, interviewing, and doing some post-race games.

Qin Miao was also secretly stunned after seeing this scene.

Although F1 is currently the fastest motorsport in the world, it is also the most prestigious motor racing event in the world.

But Qin Miao is not too eager to get a seat as an F1 driver.

Because the F1 drivers are too busy.

The other drivers, Qin Miao, didn't know very well, but he paid attention to a Leclerc schedule while watching the practice session in the VIP area behind Leclerc.

It can be said that throughout the weekend, Leclerc's time was scheduled, completely like a spinning top, from here to there, and from that side to this side, without the slightest respite.

If you say that you can let Qin Miao drive an F1 car, then Qin Miao will definitely agree without hesitation, and increase his training volume frantically so that he can be worthy of an F1 car.

But if he joins so many commercial activities like Leclerc on the premise of driving an F1 car, then Qin Miao will most likely refuse after weighing it.

Driving an F1 car is very cool, almost every racer's dream, but Qin Miao feels that he may not be able to stand such a lot of pressure.

You know, there is not only one weekend that is almost continuous, but there are 22 such weekends a year.

Under such a high-pressure state for a long time, Qin Miao really didn't feel that he could stand it.

After watching the practice session on the first day and getting a rough taste of the daily work intensity of the F1 drivers, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng did not participate in the next paddock activities.

Because Qin Miao is still holding a helmet worth 10,000 pounds in his hand, the weather in Silverstone has not been very stable in recent days, and in case of rain, Leclerc's signature on Qin Miao's helmet will be invalid.

So for the sake of safety, Qin Miao still decided to go back to the hotel with Qiu Meng first, and Qin Miao could rest assured after putting the helmet away.

After returning to the hotel, Qin Miao was dragged to the gym by Qiu Meng again.

Although he came out to play today, Qiu Meng didn't want Qin Miao's training to slack off.

Qin Miao didn't want to let the attributes that he had finally improved fall back after paying countless sweats.

Therefore, Qin Miao has no resistance to training, although Kong Youming is not by Qin Miao's side at this time, but after nearly half a month of training, Qin Miao has a general understanding of what training items he should have, and what the standard movements of the training items are.

It was no problem for Qin Miao to complete a basic set of training on her own.

Today, the day has passed, and there is no word for the night.

The next day, the two of them still got up early and went to Silverstone.

Today will be the three practice sessions of F1 and qualifying.

With yesterday's lesson, Qin Miao knew that the third practice was actually nothing to look at, so he wasn't going to go to the P room today to wait boringly.

However, Qin Miao was still a little curious in the qualifying stage, and he wanted to see what work the team would generally do when the qualifying race was conducted.

Entering the paddock from the old place, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng came directly to the rest area behind the team's P room through the sightseeing car, and went to the viewing area above the P room with a familiar car.

Just like yesterday, I ordered some food at random to pass the time, waiting for the start of the third F1 practice.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao saw the Asian he had seen yesterday in the stands again.

The specific name of the team he is in Qin Miao is not very clear, but judging from the dress of this person, the other party should belong to Renault's youth training.

Soon qualifying for F2 began.

Ranking in F2 is much simpler than in F1, and it doesn't take long, just half an hour.

There was also no breakdown of Q1Q2Q3, with all F2 teams completing the qualifying flight lap in under half an hour.

Since the speed of F2 cars is not so fast compared to F1, the most important thing is that there is no performance gap between F2 cars, so there is no serious traffic problem in F1 when qualifying.

Qin Miao, who was watching all this from the stands, was quite looking forward to the day when she could sit in the F2 cockpit, because F2 drivers are different from F1 drivers.

Although both sides can drive a formula car, F2 drivers don't need to participate in as many activities as F1 drivers, F2 is basically a post-race interview after a daily race, and then you can go straight back to the team to analyze your own problems, and you don't need to waste so much time interacting with fans.

When the F2 drivers drove the car out to warm up the tires, Qin Miao still paid special attention to the Asian name.

AFTER ALL, THE HABITS OF CALLING PEOPLE ABROAD AND AT HOME ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, SO THERE IS ONLY ONE ZHOU AMONG THE ASIAN NAMES THAT QIN MIAO CAN SEE.

As a Chinese, Qin Miao could see at a glance that this was a Chinese surname, and it was not surprising that this Asian should have the surname Zhou.

However, at this time, Qin Miao was not sure if the other party was his compatriot, because there were still many countries around our country with Chinese surnames, so Qin Miao took out his mobile phone and checked the nationality and name of the driver of the UNI-Virtuosi Racin team.

Qin Miao quickly determined the identity of the other party, he was indeed a Chinese, and his name was Zhou Guanyu.

After confirming the identity of the other party, Qin Miao's sense of identity and intimacy with him instantly came up, and naturally, Qin Miao also began to pay more attention to Zhou Guanyu.

In the qualifying stage, Zhou Guanyu was obviously in good shape today, and temporarily won the first place with a score of 1.38.498 in the first flight lap.

At that time, Qin Miao was really a little excited:, is this guy so fierce?

In addition to being excited, Qin Miao also had an accident, because Qin Miao, a person who often watches F1 games, didn't know that there was a Chinese driver in F2, so Qin Miao subconsciously felt that Zhou Guanyu's strength might be below average.

But now after the first round of qualifying, he directly won the first place in the field, which is not surprising.

During the qualifying half-time break, many drivers returned to their respective P-room areas to recuperate and prepare for the final stage.

Originally, Qin Miao thought that the next picture she would see was that many F2 drivers had refreshed the fastest qualifying lap created by Zhou Guanyu one after another, and the ranking of the qualifying would change frequently.

Unexpectedly, until the end of qualifying, no one could refresh the fastest lap created by Zhou Guanyu in the first stage.

Instead, Zhou Guanyu set his own fastest lap with three minutes and 22 seconds left before the end of the race, setting the F2 record for the fastest lap at Silverstone.

The record was 1.38.182.

In the final F2 qualifying stage, Zhou Guanyu won the pole position, and as for the second or third place, Qin Miao didn't know it, so he simply ignored it.

And after seeing Zhou Guanyu's pole position, Qin Miao also became interested in F2.

Qin Miao's interest in F2 is not its competition, Qin Miao's interest comes from whether he has the opportunity to drive an F2 car like Zhou Guanyu.

Although the GT3 car is very handsome, after all, the foundation is there, plus the officially designed aerodynamic kit added to the car, the appearance of the GT3 car can definitely be beaten.

However, the GT3 car is essentially a civilian supercar for racing modification, handsome is handsome, but compared with the formula car that comes out of the womb to gallop on the track, the speed is still a little worse.

If it was Qin Miao, who had not obtained a system before, had never driven an F4, and had not participated in an AMG GT race, Qin Miao would most likely not have much interest in formula racing.

Because he knew that he couldn't have become an F1 driver without cultivating his racing instincts from a young age and without the support of his own owners.

And F2? For such a low-profile event, Qin Miao at that time might scoff at it and think that F2 was not as good as GT3.

But now it's different, Qin Miao has the actual experience of driving a car, and feels the speed of F2 on the spot.

He knew that F2 was actually much faster than GT3.

And human nature will prompt Qin Miao to tirelessly pursue better, so he subconsciously wants to experience faster speed and drive faster cars.

To put it bluntly, Qin Miao wanted to try what it was like to drive F2 at this time.

Since your compatriots can take pole position in F2 qualifying, you may not be unable to shine in F2 if you have a system.

And Qin Miao feels that being an F2 driver is much more comfortable than an F1 driver.

After having this idea, Qin Miao suddenly had an idea, and pulled Qiu Meng downstairs.

At this time, the qualifying session of F2 had just ended, and all the cars were still on the track and had not returned.

Unlike F1, there will be no interviews with the first, second and third places in the qualifying session after the F2 race, and the drivers will drive their cars back to the door of the P room after the qualifying race, after which the F2 team staff will pack up their things and leave.

After all, there are three practices and qualifying races in F1 next, and you can't always occupy other people's land.

However, after Qin Miao went downstairs, he didn't go to watch them pack up his things, Qin Miao remembered that when he and Qiu Meng were walking around the paddock yesterday, he saw the area where the F2 team parked and put things to adjust the settings.

Qin Miao was ready to take Qiu Meng over there at this time.

His thoughts are relatively simple, Qin Miao just wants to go over and ask how to become an F2 driver, and if he can meet Zhou Guanyu, he can also ask him to take a photo or something.

Qin Miao's idea...... The average person really can't think of it.

At first glance, you will think that Qin Miao's approach is a bit brainless, but after you think about it carefully, you will be surprised to find that Qin Miao's approach seems to be really fine, and there is no way to become an F2 driver? Then you just go and ask the F2 team leader or some other leading staff......

(End of chapter)