Five red lights lit up one after another in the "beep" sound of the loudspeaker at the scene.

The five red lights went out instantly, and the F2 British Grand Prix began.

The engines of the 20 F2 cars on the field began to roar wildly, and almost in the blink of an eye, the F2 cars that were still sitting in rows began to pull their heads or defend, and for a while, even Qin Miao's eyes were a little dazzled.

However, soon a pink F2 car caught the attention of most of the crowd, because after the lights went out and all the cars were started, the drivers used their best to complete all the processes of the start, hoping to fight for a few more places in the starting stage.

Only the pink car stood still in the midst of the traffic.

Qin Miao's attention was naturally attracted by this pink racing car.

So much so that Zhou Guanyu fainted and started, and he ignored the fact that he was surpassed by his teammates just by T1.

But that's it, because after the first two cars passed Turn 1, the yellow flag was shown.

At the same time, Qin Miao, who was in the stands of the P room, clearly saw that the right front brake disc of the car, which should be the F2 team under the Race Point team, was directly on fire.

A few Matthews hurried onto the track against the backdrop of the yellow flag, and after a brief discussion, pushed the car back.

At the same time, a Matthew rushed over with a fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire.

Just behind the grid is an exit from the pit lane at Silverstone Track, where the teams pushed their cars out of the gap and parked on the grid in the run-up to the race.

So the Matthews took advantage of the situation and pushed the F2 car back into the pits from this exit.

In a minute or so, the yellow flag turns into a green piece and the game continues.

When Qin Miao came back to his senses from all this and looked at the big screen where the game was broadcasting, he was stunned to find that Zhou Guanyu, who had started from pole position, had fallen to the second position at this time.

And it was his teammates who snatched the first place from Zhou Guanyu.

However, Qin Miao didn't look long before the competition once again dispatched the yellow flag.

When the broadcast camera cut over, Qin Miao found that a blue F2 car was parked on a fork in the track, and it seemed that there should be something wrong with the car and he was forced to retire.

The camera was shown for about five or six seconds, and the live director gave the camera to the pink F2 car that had just started and failed.

After a brief overhaul, the car was ignited again and is now starting from the pits and heading out onto the track.

But if nothing else, this person's race today is over here, and the next race will be used as a practice car, as for the ranking and points or anything, don't think about it.

In just three laps, F2 gave Qin Miao, who watched it for the first time, three jobs.

The intensity of this life made Qin Miao dizzying, and he called him a good guy in his heart.

And Qin Miao also sighed in her heart about Zhou Guanyu's bad luck.

Because the weather in the UK during the race today was not particularly good, although there was no heavy rain, there were very small showers on the track.

As a result, drivers were not allowed to turn on the DRS for the first five laps.

In the first few laps, Zhou Guanyu could still follow his teammates within a second.

However, without the blessing of DRS, and the teammate is faster than Zhou Guanyu, the gap between the two cars is gradually widened.

And Latifi in the back was also rapidly approaching Zhou Guanyu at this time.

The race soon came to lap seven, the second after the pit window opened, with Zhou Guanyu pitting at the same time as Latifi behind him.

Qin Miao, who was above the P room, watched Zhou Guanyu's team engineer finish changing the tires, and the cars were all put down, but it was only after a while that he started driving out of the maintenance area.

However, Latifi, who was originally lined up behind him, changed his tires smoothly, and he did not hesitate to refuel after landing.

So Qin Miao watched Latifi complete the overtaking of Zhou Guanyu in the pit lane.

Seeing this scene, Qin Miao's blood pressure rose inexplicably.

Thinking about it from another perspective, if this incident happened to Qin Miao, he would probably start to greet the parents of the relevant responsible persons on the spot.

It's too embarrassing to just throw away the position.

Of course, the premise is that it is not Qin Miao's reason that caused this mistake.

And just a tire change, there was another job, a car directly turned off and retired in the pit lane.

It also made it easier for the team to take the car back to the garage without having to wait for Matthew to bring it back, just waiting for the next sprint race, which saved at least 20 laps of detours compared to the drivers of other teams.

The car was retired in the pit lane, so the yellow flag was not triggered on the track.

In addition, the showers on the track also stopped, and after a few laps, the track also dried up, and the race finally opened up DRS.

Although Zhou Guanyu was in the seventh position at this time, most of the drivers in front of him at this time were drivers who had not made a pit stop, and Zhou Guanyu was still in third place after they all made a pit stop.

In addition, there is good news for Zhou Guanyu, that is, Latifi has begun to attack his teammates in front of Zhou Guanyu after surpassing Zhou Guanyu.

If the two in front of them have maintained this mutual offensive and defensive posture, the next situation on the field will undoubtedly be beneficial to Zhou Guanyu.

In the T7 position on lap nine, Latifi completed the overtake of Zhou's teammates.

This was mainly due to the pressure given by Latifi, Zhou Guanyu's teammates locked up the left front wheel when braking before entering the corner, resulting in the timing and speed of entering the corner were not right, and then Latifi easily completed the overtake by relying on the crossing line.

And Zhou Guanyu has been following behind the two cars, I don't know why he didn't chase closer, he just watched from behind.

Should I say it or not, after seeing this, Qin Miao already clearly felt the difference between F2 and F1.

Since the performance of F2 cars is basically the same, there will be more battles between F2 drivers and more wheel-to-wheel opportunities than in F1.

In particular, the competition for the first and second places in F2 is much more fierce than that of F1.

After all, after the start of F1 now, the two cars of Mercedes take the lead and then throw the opponent out of the DRS zone in a short period of time, and start to run at their own pace, and when a Grand Prix is over, basically every Mercedes can get rid of the opponent for at least fifteen seconds.

On lap 12, Zhou's teammates relied on DRS to overtake Latifi on the straight, and gradually widened the distance between him and Latifi over the next two laps.

After seeing this, the anger in Qin Miao's heart for Zhou Guanyu directly dissipated, because judging from the situation on the field, Zhou Guanyu's teammates would no longer have any possibility of fighting with Latifi.

And Zhou Guanyu himself is slower than them, and now the two people in front of him have started to do lap times normally again, so Zhou Guanyu has no chance.

If nothing else, today's game, Zhou Guanyu is estimated to be P3 brought back.

And soon after, the unexpected appeared.

Zhou Guanyu was caught up by Latifi's teammate Sergio on lap 20, nine laps from the end of the race.

Immediately, Sergio launched an attack on Zhou Guanyu.

The breath of relief that had just been relieved in Qin Miao's heart involuntarily lifted up again.

fell from the P1 position to the third, Qin Miao already felt a loss for Zhou Guanyu, but if the podium could not be kept, it would be a loss.

However, Zhou Guanyu still held his position, and on lap 23, the distance between the two cars was stretched to a second away, making the opponent unable to use DRS.

With six laps to go, the final result of the race was set in stone, if nothing else.

The first Giotto, the second Latifi, the third Zhou Guanyu.

And the final result was just as Qin Miao predicted at this time, the gap between the top three had been widened, and the three of them at this time were all thinking about keeping their podium positions, and they didn't make any more offensive moves.

In the end, Zhou Guanyu started from pole position and brought home P3, and the fastest lap in the field was Sergio in fourth place.

Zhou Guanyu's team engineers also came to the podium like the F1 team staff and waved to the drivers on the field to celebrate.

It is worth mentioning that in the last lap of T16, Ma Zeping, who was lying in eighth, was pouted by the driver behind him, which also led to the fact that Ma Zeping, who was originally in eighth, was directly wiped out.

It's a bit miserable to be honest.

At the end of the race, the top three F2 drivers drove their cars to the pit entrance.

This place is today's podium.

Qin Miao, as a VIP, has the privilege of joining in the fun when the driver celebrates, and Qin Miao is not ready to give up this opportunity, and has already started to run under the P room at the end of the 28 laps, so to speak, he caught up before the three F2 cars drove back.

By the time Qin Miao came to the entrance of the maintenance area, the staff of FIA had already pulled up a fence at the entrance, and the three ranking signs of 1, 2, and 3 had been placed at the entrance.

There were also a lot of team members around, all of whom were waiting eagerly for their drivers to return.

Unlike the crowds after the F1 race, the F2 qualifying session was empty, with only a small number of VIP spectators with tags, team staff and staff wearing white FIA vests carrying cameras.

This is also something that cannot be helped, although F2 has more grappling than F1, and there are more jobs and accidents, but F2 is only F2 after all, and its attention can never be compared to F1.

But it doesn't matter, on the contrary, the few people here are still a good thing for Qin Miao, and he doesn't have to work so hard to squeeze into the crowd.

It was easy to get to the guardrail.

Soon the three drivers drove their cars back, parked their cars, and Giotto, who had finished first, stood on his car and celebrated happily for a while.

And Zhou Guanyu was not so excited, after all, he fell from pole position to P3, and he was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart.

However, when Zhou Guanyu got out of the car and celebrated with the staff of the team, he unexpectedly found Qin Miao.

Originally, when they met in the gym in the morning, Zhou Guanyu just thought that Qin Miao would watch from the stands, but he didn't expect him to come here.

It's only his first year in F2 and he doesn't know most of the drivers very well.

Even if it is with his teammates, Zhou Guanyu and the other party can only be regarded as nodding friends.

Coupled with Zhou Guanyu's nationality, he has not been discriminated against by others in this part of Europe.

Just like now, after Zhou Guanyu won the third, the only people who sincerely congratulated him were his team staff.

But he never thought that in such a state of being unaccompanied by relatives, someone would come over to congratulate him.

So Zhou Guanyu was very happy to see Qin Miao.

After shaking the other party's right hand, the two hugged each other, Qin Miao patted the other party's back and said, "I performed very well today, but it's a pity that I didn't keep my position,"

After hearing the other party's words, the smile on Zhou Guanyu's face suddenly froze.

"If you can't speak, you can actually stop talking." Zhou Guanyu's tone was full of resentment.

Qin Miao just made a haha and fooled it, and Zhou Guanyu didn't care.

Later, they had to be interviewed to receive the award, so the two just chatted briefly and then separated.

Qin Miao simply found a comfortable position under the podium, and was ready to go back after watching Zhou Guanyu and their award ceremony.

When listening to the national anthem, Qin Miao couldn't help but start imagining it in his mind......

Is it possible that one day our own country's national anthem will also sound on the podium in F2?

After the national anthem is played, it is the official Silverstone organisers and other leaders who begin to hand out trophies to F2 drivers.

This was followed by a champagne session, where the three drivers were soaked in their racing suits.

The first Giotto's face was full of youthful spirit, and the audience cast a faint smile on him, quite a sense that as long as you are successful in your field, then everyone you meet is a good person.

The other two almost gave Qin Miao the same feeling.

And after seeing the three people on the stage, to be honest, Qin Miao was a little envious.

After all, what driver doesn't aspire to be on the podium one day?

Qin Miao's heart also planted a seed at this moment.

"I don't know when I'll be able to drive F2......"

With a sigh of emotion, Qin Miao applauded the other party when Zhou Guanyu stood on the podium and looked at him, then waved at him and turned back.

Zhou Guanyu watched the friend who had only known each other for a short time leave, and then focused his attention on work.

Next, Zhou Guanyu and the others went back to change into a set of racing clothes and then had another race, that is, the F2 sprint race, but Qin Miao didn't have much interest in this race.

The rules of the sprint race are relatively simple, starting in the order of the ranking after the race, and there is a race where tyres can be changed without pits, but the top eight need to start in reverse order.

This meant that Giotto, who finished first in the race, started eighth in the sprint race, Latifi, who finished second, on the seventh grid, and Zhou Guanyu, who finished third, on the sixth grid.

The sprint race was bound to be a fierce battle round to round, but Qin Miao's interest in the competition was very low at this time, and he had an impulse in his heart at this time.

That is, if you don't save ten purple lotteries, you can directly use the remaining three purple lotteries at this time.

Since the purple draw can draw an FIA driver's license, it is also very likely that the purple draw will also have a trial spot for an F2 team, or more daringly, a driver contract for an F2 team.

However, Qin Miao didn't know the bottom in his heart, he only knew that the purple lottery was definitely a good thing, but he couldn't be sure what the purple lottery was for, and even Qin Miao was a little worried that the purple lottery would give him a supercar or something.

(End of chapter)