106: Crushing Qualifying

The nature of Lawson's meeting is a bit similar to drawing a pie for his employees, but Ferrari's pie is not like those start-up small companies that can only be seen but not eaten, and as long as you put in the effort and make a difference, it is still possible to eat this pie in your mouth.

The content of Lawson's meeting mainly talked about the process of the game, as well as some precautions in the process of the game:

The morning session is a two-hour qualifying session with lunch and a meal break, followed by three races, namely F4, F3 and Touring Car races.

Qualifying determines the standings at the race, and there is no reverse grid like the official F2 races, where you start the grid with whatever position you get.

As for the reward, Lawson said that as long as you win the current class, you may get a reward, but Lawson did not specify what the reward is, but said: "I will know when one of you wins the championship." ”

After explaining the content of the meeting clearly, Lawson gave Qin Miao and the young drivers a certain amount of time to digest.

Taking advantage of this time, Qin Miao carefully observed these drivers who were going to compete with him, most of them were children, and many of them were minors who were less than ten years old.

However, it is not difficult to see their hesitation and nervousness in those immature faces.

There are also many riders who seem to be older than Qin Miao, but it is also possible that these people are just because of their race, and they seem to be in a hurry.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao did not see Mick Schumacher and several other official drivers affiliated with Ferrari's youth training in the crowd.

Qin Miao didn't care too much.

After a while, one after another, people got up and left.

Seeing this, Qin Miao also knew that it was time to prepare for the competition, so he also followed their steps and left the conference room.

At this time, there were already many people sitting in the stands of the track.

Among these people, there are photographers with cameras, but most of them are in suits and leather shoes, dressed as successful people, and there are also many viewers who dress casually and even hold juice drinks and beer in their hands.

It's just that everyone knows that it is absolutely impossible to be here at this time.

Among the crowd in the audience, the most conspicuous was a man wearing a Ferrari F1 team jersey, curly hair, black round-rimmed glasses, and a strange tall figure.

Just by seeing this outfit, his name immediately comes to the minds of anyone who knows the sport of F1: Mattia Binotto.

The current manager of the Ferrari F1 team, fans are "affectionately" calling him Bihi.

However, people who know him well usually call him by his first name or Bi Sensei.

Qin Miao privately called him Teacher Bi.

The two communicated a lot in private, thanks to the simulator test opportunity given to Qin Miao by Binotto, when Binotto came to accept the simulator upgrade results or the testing of new parts, he would always find Qin Miao to find out what Qin Miao thought about the changes in the new parts or the new version of the simulator.

After going back and forth, the two can be regarded as familiar with each other, but the level of understanding between the two sides is actually not high, because their communication topics are more about work.

At the same time, in addition to him, there were also many team leaders of customer teams who use Ferrari cars in GT events, after all, with such a relationship with Ferrari here, they will definitely have some priority for Ferrari's academy drivers.

In addition to them, the team leader of the formula team with which Ferrari has a good relationship was present, and there were also a number of professional driver agents.

The team needs good drivers to improve the overall strength of their team, and driver agents also need to find good customers to increase their income and popularity, and many young drivers generally do not have driver agents, and this competition is an opportunity to find potential young drivers and go to communicate and try to sign contracts.

For these talents at Ferrari, many people are salivating.

The morning qualifying session starts in the order of Touring Car Race, F4 and F3.

Due to the small number of players, the total time of the three qualifying sessions will not exceed two hours.

Qin Miao: It was exactly 10:30 in the morning when the F3 group played.

Qin Miao drove the car into the track under the radio reminder in her ear.

At the same time, four F3 cars also drove out of their P room, and they were not slow, obviously like Qin Miao, they all wanted to fight for a relatively empty flying lap position in the next qualifying race.

Qin Miao was not in a hurry, completed a warm-up lap in a decent manner, and then paused slightly before the penultimate corner, waiting for the F3 car in front of him to run a little farther before he was ready to step on the accelerator.

At this time, the track in front of Qin Miao was already relatively empty, and gradually refueled, Qin Miao began to increase his speed continuously, and after crossing the finish line, he officially started his first flight lap in qualifying.

The line of this track and all the corners have been thoroughly understood by Qin Miao, although it is not so good that you can drive a lap with your eyes closed, but basically all the braking points have been memorized by Qin Miao.

In addition, Qin Miao did two flying laps on this track during practice yesterday, and he is familiar with the limits of this F3 car, so it can be said that Qin Miao is full of confidence at this time.

The first lap was completed quickly, and Qin Miao made the fastest lap in the F3 class at 1:08:201.

When Qin Miao finished the first lap, Lu Bos's voice came from the TR: "1:08:201, now you are in first place, a full three seconds faster than the second-place driver!" ”

At the end, Rubos' voice trembled.

He was not sensible before, and Lu Bos didn't know what Qin Miao's talent was.

So for the matter of the Ferrari Driver Academy arranging itself to Qin Miao, Lu Bos just regarded it as an ordinary job.

But as the time spent with Qin Miao increased, Lu Bos found that Qin Miao was really working hard, and he was the kind of person who would pull others to take the initiative to practice.

Although this kind of person is rare to see, there are not a few such people in the world, so Lawson only admired Qin Miao a little at this time.

But when Qin Miao became a test driver of the Ferrari F1 Team Simulator, Lopos knew that Qin Miao's talent was as terrifying as his perseverance.

But at that time, Lu Bo only had a premonition that Qin Miao was really strong, he knew that Qin Miao was very strong, but he didn't know how strong Qin Miao was.

And the results of this ranking completely let Lu Bos know the depth of Qin Miao, and he was also excited that he hugged Qin Miao's thigh.

Although this speed is not the most extreme speed that F3 cars can run on this track, it is definitely not slow, and Qin Miao did not push towards the limit as he did in the second test yesterday in order to have an effective result, and the results were not as fast as in the practice session.

And after this lap was over, Qin Miao went directly back to the pit area to change the tires.

After finishing the lap just now, Qin Miao felt that he was in good shape today, and he was going to push to the limit in the next two laps.

Although at this time, the old red tires on Qin Miao's car will not have an obvious loss of speed if they run two more laps, but this is a qualifying race after all, and in Qin Miao's opinion, even a thousandth of a second is worth fighting for a new set of red tires.

During the time when Qin Miao changed tires, the drivers on the field also began to exert their strength.

It's just that the results made by Qin Miao in the lap just now were like a mountain pressing on everyone's heads, and none of the drivers in the field during this time could be faster than Qin Miao.

After finding a gap to come out of the pit area, Qin Miao did his second gallop lap non-stop.

In this speeding circle, Qin Miao pushed the car to the limit without reservation, jumping sideways repeatedly between losing control and almost losing control.

Qin Miao learned from TR that there was still a gap of more than a second between the results she made in the first flying lap and the second place so far.

After getting this news, Qin Miao knew that the results he made in the first flight lap might be able to get the pole position directly, and the worst was the first two rows.

After getting this news, Qin Miao can be regarded as having a bottom in his heart, and he doesn't have to worry about the future, he is ready to do his best to do the lap time from the second lap.

Then Qin Miao did her best in the second lap and ran out with a result of 1:07:701.

The brand-new tires and Qin Miao's efforts to the limit in every corner, Qin Miao did not make the slightest mistake in the process of flying the lap, so he had a terrifying speed that was a full 0.5 seconds faster than the first flying lap.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that his result had already set a new record for the fastest F3 car on this track.

At this time, Qin Miao's acquaintance, Finney, the head of the F3 division of the Prema Racing team, was also sitting in the stands watching his race.

Looking at the fastest lap displayed behind Qin Miao's name on the scoreboard, Finney was so happy that the corners of his mouth were about to grin behind his ears.

Originally, when Qin Miao was practicing in the Prema team in the UK, Finney knew that Qin Miao's talent was terrifying, but now after four months, Finney found that Qin Miao was not a flash in the pan, and when he saw Qin Miao again, Finney was even pleasantly surprised to find that Qin Miao's strength had increased significantly in just 4 months.

Not to mention anything else, Qin Miao's strength in F3 is a dimensionality reduction attack, he estimates that after he recruits Qin Miao into his command, Qin Miao can only start a season in F3 at most.

But no matter what, you Qin Miao have to open in F3 for a year before you go to F2, right?

So at this time, Finney couldn't wait to talk to Lawson after the qualifying session, and then use the friendship between himself and Qin Miao to invite the other party to have a meal together, talk about cooperation and joining the F3 division of the Prema team.

There is one more genius and F3 team champion under his command, although this genius experience card can only be used for one year, but it can be cool for one year, thinking of Qin Miao driving his team's car to kill all sides on the field after joining the team, Finney is already so excited just thinking about it.

Just as Finney fantasized about his bright future, a man sat down in an empty seat next to Finney.

As a part-time worker, Finney still has a deep understanding of his boss's figure and momentum, so after finding that there is someone sitting next to him, Feeney feels that the figure sitting next to him is very familiar after a glance.

Looking over his shoulder, Finney was first stunned, and then somewhat horrified to find that the person sitting next to him was his immediate boss, Rene Rosin, the leader of the Prema Racing team.

(Note: The English translation is Luo Xin, and the following text will be unified into Chinese and English.) )

"Hi Rosin, I didn't expect to meet you here." As a subordinate, Finney naturally stood up to greet his boss as soon as possible.

Luo Xin nodded and said with a smile: "It's really hard for you, you have to come over to inspect young people on a hot day." ”

Finney replied, "It's all my job, and I'm supposed to do it." ”

"Did you find any talented drivers?" Rosin asked, looking at the electronic screen erected not far from their stands, the standings and the names of the drivers.

In fact, Finney didn't want to let Luo Xin realize Qin Miao's terrifying talent too early, because after Luo Xin knew that there was such a genius as Qin Miao, it was very likely that he would directly take Qin Miao to F2.

If this really happens, then Qin Miao will have nothing to do with him.

But this is his top boss after all, even if he didn't explain Qin Miao's strength to him at this time, with Qin Miao's strength, Luo Xin could also see Qin Miao's talent when he came to the game.

And he is already determined to win Qin Miao, it is absolutely impossible to miss a driver of Qin Miao's level, and a top-level F3 driver contract will definitely be handed over to Qin Miao at that time.

With this level of contract, Rosing, the team manager, will definitely ask about it, and he will still have to explain it to him when the time comes.

So after a short and almost imperceptible trade-off, Finney honestly said: "I am very optimistic about a Chinese driver, you should have an impression of him, he borrowed our F3 car training some time ago, and the training results are very good, and the improvement in driving skills is very obvious." ”

"I have an impression of him." Rosin said with a look of sudden realization: "I looked at his stats at the time and wanted to sign him, but at that time he had already signed a contract with the Ferrari academy to come to Maranello for further training. At the same time, the two places in our F3 team were full, and the two children were doing well, so I put the idea of signing him on hold. ”

Feeney hurriedly said: "I actually had an idea about him at the time, thinking that after the season is over, I will let him come to the F3 team for a year first, and I promise that as long as he comes to me, we will definitely win a constructors' championship next season." ”

Seeing Finney's somewhat urgent look, Rosin smiled slightly and nodded: "I agree with you, if this Chinese driver comes to our F3 team, he will definitely be able to win another constructors' championship for our F3 team in a short period of time." ”

Finney hurriedly nodded in agreement with his leader's words, but before he could wipe the cold sweat on his head slightly, Rosin changed his words: "But I think with his current performance, it's not impossible to come directly to me." ”

Finney: ???

(End of chapter)