After testing the radio and making sure that there was no problem, Qin Miao felt the grip of the steering wheel with both hands.

The steering wheel is a little bigger, but this is someone else's car after all, and it is impossible for Qin Miao, a guest, to find fault in this regard.

I calmed down my excitement, and although it was nice to sit in a formula car again, it was easy to make some irrational moves while driving in this state of excitement.

After his mood gradually calmed down, Qin Miao took one last deep breath, then pressed the clutch gear, and drove the car out of the parking space very gently.

The whole process is extremely smooth, and I don't miss the usual contact with the car.

And all this was seen by Finney not far away.

Under the guidance of the team staff, Qin Miao drove the car into a P room on the Silverstone Track.

Qin Miao vaguely remembered that this seemed to be Haas's parking space during the British Grand Prix, but after the F1 Grand Prix, all the black and gold paints that originally belonged to Haas in the P room were removed.

Instead, it is just an ordinary rough room, but the rough here refers to the ordinary P room without any decoration inside, just a layer of white walls and ceilings, and some lighting equipment and wire connections.

Once you've passed through here, you'll find the pit lane at Silverstone.

Qin Miao couldn't wait to drive the car onto the pit lane, today is not an open day, there are only some teams near the Silverstone track practicing on the track, and there are naturally not many cars in the pit area.

Most of the team's cars are parked in their own rooms to inspect and adjust their cars, and some will also review the performance of their drivers on the track in recent times and suggest some improvements.

While driving in the maintenance area, Qin Miao also saw Zhou Guanyu's team and his car.

However, Zhou Guanyu was not in the garage at this time, and Qin Miao had no intention of saying hello, sitting in the car, he was already a little eager to feel the adrenaline provided to him by the F3 racing engine, so Qin Miao drove the car out directly.

On this track that is both familiar and unfamiliar, Qin Miao didn't say anything like a tire warming circle, and he didn't dare to do a flying lap at this time when he hadn't walked the track.

If Qin Miao in this state dares to do a flying circle, then the car under him will dare to let him take off.

So for the first few laps, he mainly wanted to get acquainted with the car under him and the track he was about to drive.

The first thing is to find out if the braking point of this track in reality is the same as the braking point commonly used by Qin Miao in the game.

For example, in the game, when Qin Miao was in some corners where there were not too many suitable references, he liked to find some special asphalt blocks on the ground as his braking points, and after coming to reality, he was a little worried about whether the braking points he was used to using in the game would disappear due to the repair of the track.

Of course, the final result was mixed, the asphalt blocks in some corners had indeed disappeared, but Qin Miao could still find the braking points he was familiar with in one or two corners.

Because of the lack of a few braking points, Qin Miao had to spend a few laps to find a braking reference that he felt more comfortable with.

But to be honest, even if he found the braking point, Qin Miao didn't dare to brake at those braking points that he was used to until he was thoroughly familiar with the car and the track.

After all, he usually drives F1 or GT3 when he plays simulators, and he really hasn't played F3 in simulators.

And without using the human-vehicle integration skill card after getting into the car, Qin Miao not only needs to gradually become familiar with the real Silverstone track, but also has to constantly explore the performance limits of the F3 car under him.

Although after giving buff to this car, he didn't worry about mechanical failures in this car, but what the performance of this car itself was, Qin Miao really didn't know what to do.

But no matter how many difficulties Qin Miao had to face at this time, he was already very satisfied with being able to drive an F3 car, so although he needed to collect a lot of data, he was still able to enjoy it.

……

The morning passed in a hurry, and under the notice of the team, Qin Miao, who didn't know how many laps had been running on the track, was called back.

This is the second time he has returned to the maintenance area, and the first time he has returned to the maintenance area is because the tires have been almost worn out by Qin Miao, and he was called back to refuel by the way.

The main reason for calling Qin Miao back this time was that it was already time for the team staff to get off work at noon.

After turning off the car and getting out of the car, the staff handed over a tablet.

After taking off the helmet and wiping the sweat, Qin Miao took the tablet handed over by the other party.

It clearly recorded the data that Qin Miao ran down in the morning.

To be honest, the most conspicuous thing here is Qin Miao's lap counter.

From the first lap of Qin Miao's contact with the F3 car to the last lap of the morning, there was a huge gap of five seconds.

The whole table showed an obvious downward trend, although the later it was, the lower the decline range, but basically the speed of Qin Miao could be improved every lap.

Because of this, the team staff did not hesitate to praise Qin Miao: "Qin! Your grades are great and your progress is noticeable. ”

"Seriously, you're almost up to the grid of our team's F3 drivers, and a lot of F3 teams will be interested in your current ability."

Hearing the other party's praise, Qin Miao just smiled politely and didn't care too much.

Because Qin Miao felt that he actually had a lot of room for improvement, he was not too familiar with this car, and when he cornered, he was not too confident, so many corners were not pushed too extreme.

If he is thoroughly familiar with the car and the track, and then finds a tuning setting that suits him, Qin Miao feels that his lap time can be increased by about 0.7 seconds.

And the other party also said that he is just about to catch up with the qualifying speed of their team's F3 official drivers, which shows that there is still a big gap between himself and the other party.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that this F3 team was actually the F3 division of the Prema Racing team.

Although the team's F2 results were up and down, winning the F2 world championship in '16 and '17, they didn't even finish in the top three of the team in '18, let alone this year, there is quite a kind of swooping all the way and winning the championship in reverse.

However, their F3 team has always had a good record and will always be the favourites to win the F3 series, and their F3 drivers are among the best among the F3 drivers.

And you must know that Qin Miao ran this kind of result with hard tires, although when he did the final results, his fuel tank was almost empty, and the car was much lighter, but its tires were also worn a lot, and the grip was higher than at the beginning.

After counting these prerequisites, I will look at the evaluation given to Qin Miao by the staff, which is obviously a great praise for Qin Miao.

At noon, Zhou Guanyu found Qin Miao and took him to lunch, but after eating, Qin Miao paid the bill quietly.

When Zhou Guanyu found out, he naturally complained about Qin Miao for a while.

After resting for a while, Qin Miao threw himself into training again in the afternoon.

After a morning of familiarity, Qin Miao already had a certain understanding of this F3, and in the afternoon, Qin Miao began to try to do lap times in the real sense.

Giving his car a buff again, Qin Miao drove the car onto the track.

At the beginning, Qin Miao was only repeatedly testing at the edge of the limit, and did not push to the limit at every corner.

T3 and T4 on the first lap and T6 and T7 on the second lap, and I have been using this method to familiarize myself with the limits of the car on this track.

This state lasted for about an hour.

An hour later, Qin Miao pitted for a new set of soft tires.

……

In the distance, the roar of engines sounded as a red F3 car whizzed past the paddock's guardrails with loud noises and winds.

The wind blew the dust on the side of the track and the lighter tire rubber swirled before falling to the ground.

At this time, Qin Miao had already completed the first warm-up lap of his red tire.

After the end of the flight lap, the T18 turned out, and this set of red tires gave Qin Miao a strong confidence in cornering.

Feeling the various scenery flying by from both sides of his vision, Qin Miao had a feeling that he was in a good state in this circle, and maybe he could really get a good result.

Because of the hunch, the familiarity of nearly a morning, and the confidence given by this set of red tires, Qin Miao pushed this lap without reservation, and it can be said that he poured everything into himself.

When he crossed the finish line, Qin Miao suddenly had a feeling that he had lost all his strength after putting all his energy into this flying circle.

And after having this feeling, Qin Miao knew that it was okay to be here today, and there would be no more gains in running any further than increasing the risk.

So after this flight circle was completed, Qin Miao said in his voice: "I'm going back to the maintenance area." ”

After the engineer heard this, he naturally arranged for the engineer to prepare to receive Qin Miao's car as soon as possible.

"How's my grade?" However, when doing the return circle, Qin Miao still asked with some curiosity.

There was silence for a moment, and then a voice came from among the TRs: "1:42:601...... Honestly, brother, this result is already faster than the qualifying results of our team's official drivers, how did you do it? ”

Qin Miao said frankly: "I don't know, everything is a matter of course." ”

This is a truth, when doing this lap, Qin Miao knew that he was in a very good state, and maybe the results would be very good.

But he didn't think that the results he made would be as good as TR said, he felt that he was just trying his best to do his best, and the results were really good, everything was natural.

Drive the car back to the garage again.

At this time, there were already staff waiting at the entrance of the garage, and even Qin Miao saw Zhou Guanyu, who was leaning on the edge of the Prema garage and chatting with the team staff.

Qin Miao didn't care, and after parking the car, Qin Miao jumped down from her position.

After taking off the helmet, he nodded to Zhou Guanyu and said hello, and then Qin Miao hurriedly ran to the data detection engineer of the team.

With him, Qin Miao was able to find the operation detection diagram of his last flying circle.

Now that Qin Miao's ability has come up, Qin Miao can also understand the form that used to look at the book of heaven.

Zhou Guanyu also followed curiously.

Although he had a bit of an unpleasant quarrel with the senior management of Ferrari's youth training because of infighting, Zhou Guanyu was still quite familiar with the staff of his car crew during the F3 period in Prema.

Coincidentally, the F3 team that now serves Qin Miao is the one who served Zhou Guanyu back then, so after he entered the P room of the Prema team, the staff of the Prema team did not have any resistance to him because of his identity as a driver of the UNI-Virtuosi Racing team, but warmly shook hands with him one by one.

After getting to Qin Miao's side, Zhou Guanyu found that Qin Miao hurriedly looked at his own telemetry data.

Relying on familiarity, Zhou Guanyu also asked the data testing engineer to take a backup data and looked at it, but after seeing Qin Miao's results, Zhou Guanyu was silent.

It is undeniable that Zhou Guanyu feels that he and Qin Miao get along well, and he also recognizes him as a friend, otherwise it would be impossible to invite him to live in his home.

But Zhou Guanyu only thinks that Qin Miao is a very talented player in simulated racing, and the competition between him and Qin Miao when he was at home can also prove this very well.

But seeing the piece of paper in front of him and looking at the data displayed on the paper, Zhou Guanyu was silent.

What the can an esports driver run?

Although this result is still outside 1 minute and 40 seconds, it cannot be compared with the results of 1 minute 34 and 35 in F2, but this is Qin Miao's performance with F3.

Zhou Guanyu remembered that when he was in F3, his results didn't seem to be as good as Qin Miao.

Although Qin Miao's result can be explained and prevaricated for many reasons, such as Qin Miao's state is relatively good, the temperature of the track today is very suitable, and the tuning settings of the car are very in line with Qin Miao's usual driving habits, etc.

But no matter what you say, Qin Miao's achievements are real.

So after being silent for a while, Zhou Guanyu reassessed his impression of Qin Miao in his heart.

You can't look at Qin Miao as an e-sports driver, maybe it's really like Lawson said, Qin Miao is a genius in the true sense.

After thinking of this, Zhou Guanyu subconsciously began to worry, since Qin Miao's strength is so strong, will he have another strong opponent in the arena next year?

However, after thinking of this, Zhou Guanyu quickly reacted, in the Ferrari youth training full of second-generation cars, no matter how strong Qin Miao's strength is, he has to honestly run F3 for a season before he can enter F2.

After thinking of this, he didn't know why, Zhou Guanyu breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Feeney, who was in his office, was holding the data of all Qin Miao's lap times today, and was faxing these materials to Lawson one by one.

(End of chapter)