80: Young man
Downstairs to find the sightseeing car, the two of them took the sightseeing car all the way to the F2 team's home in the British Grand Prix.
We all know that F1 cars rely on large trailer units when transporting vehicles, while F2 teams are not so arrogant, and the equipment they transport vehicles is just containers.
The F1 team parks in the P room on the track, while the F2 team parks depending on the track.
Some tracks have at least 20 P-rooms in the parking area, so F2 teams will be allocated a P-room during the race.
In some cases, the F2 team can only go to the open space planned for them by the organizers and simply build a temporary parking area with the tents they have brought with them.
Silverstone is the latter, after all, it's an old track, and there aren't that many P-rooms in the pit lane for F2 teams.
In front of Qin Miao was a group of tents, and the middle of the convoy and the tents of the convoy were separated by detachable boards, and privacy could also be guaranteed.
At this time, there were no F2 cars under the tents, and the F2 cars were still walking back on the track, but the F2 team staff were already pushing carts with F2 tires back to their tents.
After coming here, Qin Miao realized that he didn't seem to know the senior leaders of the F2 team, and he didn't know who to ask about the doubts in his heart.
However, Qin Miao was quickly relieved, after all, the idea just now was just an idea born on a whim of Qin Miao, and Qin Miao would be very happy if she became it, and she wouldn't feel a pity if she didn't become Qin Miao.
In fact, all this is thanks to Qin Miao's system, without Qin Miao's system help, Qin Miao would not have the capital and confidence to want to practice it after having an idea.
But since she has come, Qin Miao also wants to get to know Zhou Guanyu, the pole position winner of F2 in the UK.
So Qin Miao didn't leave in a hurry after hitting the wall, but took Qiu Meng to find the location of Zhou Guanyu's team.
At this time, the drivers had not returned, and the Ferrari hat on Qin Miao's head was incompatible with the atmosphere of Zhou Guanyu's F2 team.
Because the sponsor behind this team is Renault, which is also part of the Renault Athletes' Academy.
So many people cast curious eyes on this young couple.
Qin Miao was actually still a little embarrassed, after all, he was a young man, and his face thickness had not yet been cultivated.
But it doesn't matter, before Qin Miao couldn't stand it, F2 cars began to be pushed back from the pit lane one after another.
The F2 drivers also returned to their team lounges.
The sharp-eyed Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu in the crowd of drivers at a glance.
Taking off the Ferrari hat on his head, Qin Miao took the big pen handed over by Qiu Meng and came to Zhou Guanyu's side.
"Zhou Guanyu! Could you please sign me? ”
There was a familiar and somewhat distant local voice in his ears, and Zhou Guanyu, who was chatting with familiar drivers, turned his head and saw Qin Miao.
Young, this is Zhou Guanyu's first impression of the boy in front of him, if nothing else, this person may be a few years younger than himself.
But for some reason, he naturally exudes a confident but not conceited temperament that few of his peers have.
However, for the other party's request, Zhou Guanyu naturally had no reason to refuse, and even Zhou Guanyu was a little happy.
Because this is the first fan he has met in a foreign country, and it is also a fan who appeared after he set a new fastest lap in the British Grand Prix F2 qualifying, and it is also a certain commemorative for him.
But after seeing that Qin Miao handed over a Ferrari hat, Zhou Guanyu hesitated.
Although Zhou Guanyu used to belong to the Ferrari Young Drivers Academy, now that he has transferred to the Renault Athletes' Academy, it is a bit inappropriate to sign a Ferrari hat at this time.
But whatever, he is in front of his compatriots, and now he is only an F2 driver, and the team is not too strict in this regard, and he signed it.
Then Zhou Guanyu signed his name on Qin Miao's Ferrari hat.
At this time, Zhou Guanyu was also young and had no scheming.
If Qin Miao takes this hat to promote it everywhere, although Zhou Guanyu will not be punished at that time, Qin Miao's practice is undoubtedly taking this hat to give Renault's youth training executives eye medicine, and Zhou Guanyu may be criticized within the team at that time, and he may also be wearing small shoes.
Of course, Qin Miao is not a character who likes to hurt others and himself, and he asked Zhou Guanyu to sign his Ferrari hat purely because he couldn't find anything else to replace it, and he didn't have such a deep scheming at all.
"Thank you!" Seeing that the other party signed his name on his hat in Chinese, Qin Miao said sincerely: "Your performance today is too good, come on tomorrow and strive for P1 to bring it back." ”
After hearing this, Zhou Guanyu just said in a very official tone: "Thank you for your support, I will work hard to be the first." ”
It's not that Zhou Guanyu is perfunctory to Qin Miao, the main thing is that he also knows that with his current strength, it is still very difficult to get the first place in the main race just by relying on one pole position.
But he can't tell his fans that he probably can't do it, so he can only use this statement.
Qin Miao didn't care either, after taking the hat handed over by the other party, she shook hands with Zhou Guanyu again, and then left.
As for how to become an official F2 driver, Qin Miao didn't ask again.
Originally, this idea was just a whim of Qin Miao, but now that the interest has passed, Qin Miao no longer has this idea.
Qin Miao's mentality has really changed a lot after she has money, and Qin Miao at this time is like Wang Ziyou, taking advantage of the excitement and returning happily, regardless of the result.
Zhou Guanyu watched Qin Miao and the two leave, and he was a little excited, after all, although he used to have a degree of attention in China, F2 is still too niche in China after all, and some people will pay attention, but there are not many people, and it is unlikely that there will be domestic audiences who will come to him to ask for an autograph or something.
Back upstairs in room P, Qin Miao didn't pay much attention during the three exercises, just chatted upstairs with Qiu Meng.
It wasn't until the qualifying stage that Qin Miao and the two came to Ferrari's P room again.
After all, it was a qualifying race, and there were a lot of Ferrari VIP customers in civilian clothes like Qin Miao in the P room.
Qin Miao briefly observed, most of the people at the scene were foreigners, and only he and Qiu Meng were Asian faces.
It is worth mentioning that in order not to cause embarrassment, Qin Miao and Qiu Meng did not stand in the wrong position this time, and both of them stood in the VIP viewing area behind Leclerc's car.
The waiting time in the P room was not too difficult, and the Ferrari staff would always bring Qin Miao and other VIPs some snacks and drinks.
It didn't take long for Vettel to come to the inside of Room P.
After greeting and shaking hands with the VIPs on his side, Vettel put on his helmet and sat in the car.
Not long after Vettel arrived, Leclerc also came to room P.
I went through the same process as Vettel, and I shook hands with VIP customers.
And after arriving at Qin Miao's place, Leclerc raised his eyebrows slightly, and then said as if he was joking: "Did you go to the wrong place?" ”
Qin Miao smiled and nodded: "Vettel's side is already overcrowded, and I can't squeeze in to come here." ”
Hearing Qin Miao's words, Leclerc rolled his eyes amusedly.
But he still shook hands with Qin Miao.
When Qin Miao shook hands with Leclerc, he suddenly thought of the e-sports match he had with him yesterday.
The performance of his own car and the other party's car is obviously the same, why can he be faster than him in many corners, especially in Turn 9.
That's obviously a high-speed corner, why can the other party directly chase him so much?
So when basically everyone was encouraging Leclerc to play well in the qualifying stage, Qin Miao asked: "I can't figure out why Ling was able to chase me for two seconds in Turn 9 during the race yesterday?" ”
Qin Miao's unusual question once again gave Leclerc a stunned question.
After thinking about it carefully, I remembered that Qin Miao was asking about the small game in the simulator experience area yesterday.
After all, as an F1 driver, racing experience must be extremely rich.
Naturally, it was also able to analyze the reason why the other party lost speed from Qin Miao's performance yesterday.
Leclerc would have wanted to answer: you were scared when you got through Turn 9, and you raised the throttle at least halfway.
But thinking of Qin Miao's performance when driving yesterday, this person is obviously also a person who can drive, although his skills are still immature, but his strength is indeed there.
Thinking of what the other party just said, "I can't figure it out", Leclerc subconsciously felt that Qin Miao might not have been cowardly yesterday, he just didn't understand the specific performance of the Ferrari SF90.
I thought that the SF90 couldn't go through Turn 9 like other cars.
After quickly figuring out why, Leclerc tentatively replied: "Silverstone's T9, Ferrari can be fully oiled......"
Qin Miao was stunned for a moment when she heard the other party's answer, and then patted her forehead with great annoyance.
Seeing the other party's movements, Leclerc knew that Qin Miao didn't dare to step on the accelerator, he simply suffered the loss of not knowing the SF90 car, smiled and patted Qin Miao's shoulder, and let him shake hands with the other VIP guests after being annoyed.
Soon, Leclerc had completed his preparations for the start of qualifying, and was seated in the cockpit of the Ferrari with his helmet on.
Qualifying has officially begun.
Everyone wore noise-cancelling headphones, and in the F1 team's room P, you can't stay long without a pair of noise-cancelling headphones.
The staff worked hard to cover the tires of the car with thermal blankets to keep them warm, and a hair dryer was tucked into the engine air intakes above the head of the car to keep the engine oxygenated and cool.
Two multi-purpose panels were also placed between the flip-flops in front of Leclerc.
Qin Miao, who has played F1 racing games, knows the specific role of this board in the game, and originally thought that the specific role in reality may be different from that in the game.
However, from Qin Miao's position, the panel in front of the F1 driver is basically the same as that in "F1 2019", which may just be because the teams are different, so the interface and parameter display methods they designed are different.
Not long after, the commander, who had been standing in front of the Leclerc car, received the order of the team leader and parted his hands to signal the staff operating the thermal blanket to evacuate the thermal blanket.
These people also peeled the thermal blanket from the tire in due time, but did not take it away immediately, but folded it and put it on top of the tire for final insulation.
The commander took a few steps back to determine the traffic conditions in the pit, and after noticing that there was no oncoming car on the left and right, he motioned for Leclerc to pull out.
At the same time, the four-wheeled crew also withdrew the thermal blanket.
With the sound of tires rubbing against the ground, the Ferrari SF90 roared out of the pits.
After that, you can see the 20 drivers from 10 teams competing for each other in the qualifying stage.
Q1 and Q2 have nothing to say, and the final result of Q3 is not a big surprise.
The strong Mercedes still came home in this race, but to the disappointment of the British crowd at the scene, Hamilton did not get the pole position, Bottas won the pole position with a time of six thousandths of a second ahead of Hamilton, and Hamilton could only settle for second.
Hamilton's British Grand Prix four-stroke record was broken at the same time, while Bottas took the 10th pole position of his career.
The third was Leclerc, who clocked 1:15:172 in the final stages, 0.079 seconds slower than Bottas, who was in first place.
The top three are all extremely close in time.
The fourth is Panzi, and the fifth is Gasly.
Leclerc's team-mate Sebastian Vettel finished sixth after qualifying.
Therefore, Qin Miao, who stayed in the Ferrari P room, could clearly find that the Ferrari staff on the left and right sides had completely different performances.
The staff members of Leclerc's garage were all satisfied with each other's faces, hugging and high-fiveing each other, encouraging and praising each other, and even the VIPs on Leclerc's side were overjoyed.
On the other side, the staff members of Vettel were not very good-looking, and there was no celebratory action, and even the VIPs behind them were expressionless.
After a brief celebration, a few of Ferrari's Leclerc staff trotted out with some equipment.
After the race, the car turned off does not mean that there is no need for logistical support, after all, it is such an expensive thing, and no one will inevitably bump and bump when no one looks at it, so the staff needs to be dispatched to stuff dust-proof things into the air intakes of the engine and the air intakes on both sides of the side box.
And Qin Miao, the VIPs, can go to the driver's internal area behind the P room at this time to quietly look at the racers who have finished the qualifying run.
Qin Miao also ran outside like other Ferrari team VIPs, and Qin Miao still wanted to make up for this excitement.
However, it is only necessary to see, and a small number of drivers are surrounded by staff members who are interviewing the drivers as they go.
There are also those who are directly trotting all the way in a hurry, and basically there is no one who is grinding and chirping in the paddock for Qin Miao to observe carefully.
But there is one thing to say, today Qin Miao feels that this trip is worthwhile.
(End of chapter)