114: Final drive test
There are only these few logos on the whole car, compared with other F2 cars, Qin Miao's one is really spotless.
Reaching out and stroking the paint on his racing car with some excitement, feeling the smooth feel of the paint, Qin Miao's heart involuntarily began to get excited.
Although Qin Miao has also driven F2, the car is not his, no matter how good the relationship with Zhou Guanyu is, Qin Miao does not dare to drive Zhou Guanyu's car on the track to do whatever he wants.
This is one of the concerns that dare not step on the accelerator, but the source of this concern is not money, but people.
But now is different from the past, the car in front of him completely belongs to Qin Miao, and even Qin Miao bought it with his own money, and Qin Miao's savings are enough for him to buy another seven or eight such F2 cars, so Qin Miao on the track dares to push this car to the limit, and he is not afraid of crashing at all.
And as soon as Qin Miao's hand touched the car, Qin Miao took a picture of the purple man-car integration skill card and stuck it on the car in front of him.
Originally, in Qin Miao's eyes, this car was just a big toy full of unknowns and novelties for him.
But as soon as this skill card was used, Qin Miao instantly felt that the F2 car in front of him, which could be called simple, was full of intimacy.
And Qin Miao felt that after sitting in this car, this sense of intimacy and familiarity would be stronger than the current feeling.
After feeling this way, Qin Miao couldn't wait to turn her head and ask Luo Xin, who was looking at her with a smile on her face, "Sir, when can I try this car?" ”
Hearing Qin Miao's question, Luo Xin was stunned for a moment.
Although he was very satisfied with Qin Miao's love for racing, he was still a little embarrassed to pour cold water on Qin Miao: "I'm afraid it won't work in the short term." This car has only been in our hands for less than a week, and we have only done some basic inspections on it now, and completed the installation of the custom monocoque, as well as the painting spraying, the system adaptation of the steering wheel, etc., as for the engine and other components such as the car computer to be more detailed and in-depth inspection is done, I am afraid it will take at least a week to complete. ”
After using the purple skill card of the combination of man and car, Qin Miao's familiarity with this car has reached the limit, even if he doesn't have to check it, he knows that there is nothing wrong with this car.
But before he could say anything, Rosin spoke: "I know you're in a hurry, and we also know that the car that just came out of the manufacturer's factory can't have any problems."
But child, you must know that the safety of your life is more important than the excitement of the moment. ”
Qin Miao sighed with some pity, but he was not an unreasonable person.
Although it is a pity that he can't sit in the monocoque and drive this car on the track now, before leaving, Qin Miao still sat in the driver's seat that belonged to him, started the engine, and felt the rhythm of this car.
After getting out of the car, Qin Miao reminisced with his crew members.
After all, we haven't seen each other for half a year, and both parties need to get acquainted with it again to get back to that feeling they had before.
The first day was quite leisurely, and after seeing the racing car he had been thinking about, Qin Miao returned home satisfied, helped Qiu Meng complete the housework at home, and cleaned up most of the places.
It's a pity that Lu Bos was recruited, although there is no big problem now, but he is still lying in the hospital and can't get out, otherwise Qin Miao and Qiu Meng will be much easier if there is one more laborer.
The next day, Qin Miao exercised in the morning, and when she returned to the team in the afternoon, she used the simulator in the team to start adaptive training.
It is worth mentioning that the simulator Qin Miao used in Prema is much more realistic than the simulator of the Ferrari F1 team.
This is not Qin Miao's feeling, but Qin Miao's proficiency given by the training system on Prema's simulator is much higher than that given by training in Ferrari.
The reason is also very interesting, the simulator of the Prema team is the right to use the simulator of the Ferrari team bought, and in a sense, Qin Miao still uses the simulator of Ferrari.
However, the simulator of the Prema team removes the variables of vehicle upgrades, and only needs to calculate the data of the F2 car and the data of the track, the simulator load is smaller, and the data that needs to be simulated is less, the variables are naturally smaller, and the simulator is more accurate and realistic.
However, the Prema team's simulator still has a drawback, and that is the lack of hardware.
Ferrari simulators use the monocoque of a Formula 1 car as the cockpit, and you sit in it as if you were sitting in a real Formula 1 car.
And Qin Miao recently heard from the staff in charge of the simulator that they are preparing to introduce VR glasses to further increase the realism of the simulator.
Prema's simulator is the kind of simulator solution that can be bought on the market, although it is expensive and the simulation effect is also very good, but the sense of substitution is not as strong as that of the simulator of the Ferrari F1 team.
After starting her normal work, Qin Miao spent nearly a week practicing simulators with the assistance of Frankie and Sui Wentao, and tried to test various tunings and settings on various tracks, striving to find the most suitable tuning for Qin Miao's driving style.
To be honest, Qin Miao didn't like this step, and thought it was useless, because the car he drove in the simulator was not the F2 car he was really familiar with, so the simulated data might have a certain deviation, but the good news was that practicing on the simulator could indeed increase Qin Miao's proficiency on the track.
This is also the main reason why Qin Miao has been training patiently for so long.
And a week later, Prema's inspection of Qin Miao's car was over, and there was no problem, and there was not even a trace of rust on the car, which meant that Qin Miao could finally drive his own car on the track.
Of course, in addition to Qin Miao's car, Qin Miao's teammate, Mick Schumacher's car, has also completed the test today, and the two cars will be loaded tomorrow and go to their familiar Fiorano circuit for pre-race testing.
From now on, the comparison between the two drivers of the Prema team begins.
Although teammates are not the worst enemies in F2 like in F1, it is inevitable that two drivers on the same team will be compared to each other subconsciously.
However, Qin Miao didn't think about it so much, and the next day later, she took Qiu Meng back to Maranello in the big truck used by the team to transport the cars.
There was no time to go home to rest, and after arriving in Maranello, Qin Miao unloaded his F2 car with his team's technician, and then changed into a racing suit in the P room.
Qin Miao's racing suit is the same as his racing car, there is no sponsor's logo on the surface, and it is very clean.
As for the helmet, Qin Miao was wearing a helmet designed by Qiu Meng for Qin Miao, and I still remember that when this helmet was designed, it was when the two of them were trapped in Maranello.
At that time, Qin Miao pestered Qiu Meng and wanted her to design a helmet for herself, but Qiu Meng couldn't resist him, so she agreed.
Because he ate chopped pepper fish head that night, Qiu Meng, who had been thinking about what specific design elements to use to make a helmet for Qin Miao, drew inspiration from this dish, so Qiu Meng incorporated the elements of this dish when designing the helmet in front of the computer.
So today's Qin Miao has a cartoon version of the fish head on his head, the fish head is sprinkled with chili peppers, and there are white noodles in the red fish soup.
To be honest, when she received this helmet, Qin Miao regretted that she chose to let Qiu Meng help her customize the helmet.
Now after sitting in the car with this helmet...... I regret it even more.
I felt like I had a plate of dishes on my head, as if I was saying that I had a lot of dishes......
Because the car had already completed the self-inspection on the Prema side, after coming to the side of the track this time, Sui Wentao and the other engineers only conducted the most basic inspection of Qin Miao's car.
After making sure that there was no problem, under Frankie's prompting, Qin Miao knew that he could drive into the track.
However, Qin Miao was not in a hurry, but sat in the driver's seat and took several deep breaths.
Qin Miao did this to calm down his somewhat restless heart, and then he put the five fingers of his right hand together, 45 degrees upward, and gently patted the flip-flops of the racing car, giving his racing car a buff.
Although Qin Miao's system did not give him any hints of great joy, Qin Miao, who had already established a connection with his F2 car, clearly felt that after he took this set of rituals, the state of the car under him was obviously different, some imperceptible metal fatigue and parts burrs and errors automatically disappeared, and the whole car had come to the best state at this time.
At the same time, Qin Miao was also equipped with three passive skills: [Physically Fit (Blue)], [Guide of the Research Department (Purple)], and [Best Pirelli Tire User (Purple)].
This set of skill configurations is the configuration that Qin Miao is going to use during the competition, and when he tests it, he will naturally take out this set of configurations to see the effect.
After completing this ceremony, Qin Miao drove the car out of room P.
This is not only the first time Qin Miao is familiar with his F4 car on the track, but also the first time to officially cooperate with his car crew, not only to be familiar with Franky's command, but also to be familiar with the rhythm of the team's staff to change tires.
There are a lot of items that need to be tested today, but Qin Miao is not in a hurry to start work.
He ran two laps of the track before returning to the P room, driving back on the track with a little more downforce, and then doing his best to do a speeding lap around the track.
The final lap time was 1:03.661.
Qin Miao feels that he still has room to rise, but this space is not big, it can be increased by 0.2~0.5 seconds at most, due to the natural limitations of F2, Qin Miao knows that it is impossible for him to use this car to brush the lap time to less than one second on this track.
After driving an F2 car with all his might, feeling the huge downforce and the G-force of the side box provided by the formula car, as well as the roar of the engine, Qin Miao at this time couldn't wait to drive this car to the track to compete with other F2 drivers.
However, Qin Miao did not forget the business of coming over today, and after finishing the fun, he began to cooperate with Frankie's request and began to test on the track and collect all kinds of data.
After a busy morning, Qin Miao drove the car back to room P.
When Qin Miao unbuckled her seat belt, lifted her headrest, took off her helmet, and was about to ask where she was going to eat at noon and go home to get some chili sauce, Frankie came to Qin Miao's side with a paper form and frowned.
Sui Wentao, Alvin, and Steve began to inspect Qin Miao's car system.
Looking at Frankie's face and the movements of the other three, Qin Miao roughly guessed that there might be something wrong with the results of this competition.
"What's wrong?" Buckle the carbon fiber steering wheel, which fits well with his hand shape and is very comfortable to hold, back into the car, Qin Miao asked curiously.
"There's a problem." Saying that, Frankie handed the document in his hand to Qin Miao and explained: "However, it is also possible that there is a problem with the telemetry system." ”
Qin Miao took the document curiously.
During the time when Qin Miao was looking at the documents, Frankie said: "After the morning test, we exchanged test data with the Mick crew, and you know the necessary process. By comparing the data between the two of you, we found that the data of our car in the area of tire wear is a bit too abnormal, did you just deliberately protect the tires on the track? ”
Qin Miao was a little distracted by the data, so he didn't analyze the meaning of Frankie's words in detail, and replied directly after hearing the other party's question: "No." ”
After hearing Qin Miao's answer, Frankie nodded and said, "Then there should be a problem with the telemetry data." ”
And during this time, Qin Miao also read the data given by Franky, after all, he has been working in this industry for almost a year, and Qin Miao can also be said to be familiar with the data.
Frankie: The reason why they reacted so much was also found.
The data shows that Qin Miao's tire failure was at least 19% slower than Mick's during the test.
Don't look at this data, it doesn't reach the 30% reduction in tire wear described by Qin Miao's skills, but this 19% reduction in loss can still be called against the sky.
Because there are really too many.
It was also because this number was extremely outrageous, so Frankie and the others thought that there was something wrong with Qin Miao's vehicle telemetry system.
After all, Qin Miao's car and Mick's car are the same, but the tuning settings are different and the drivers are different.
There is no reason for these two differences to create such a large gap in tire wear.
Now tested down, Qin Miao's average lap time is faster than Mieke, fuel consumption is less than Mieke, and the most outrageous thing is that the tire wear is 19% less than Mieke.
With such outrageous data, anyone who reads it will subconsciously think that there is something wrong with the system's telemetry.
Unlike others, Qin Miao knew what the specific reason for all this was happening: his own system skills.
And Qin Miao also discovered the law of his system skills, that is, it depends on how he drives.
Because during today's test, Qin Miao maintained a more comfortable rhythm in the test most of the time, without protecting the tire and not advancing, so his tire loss was 19%.
Qin Miao believes that if he drives this car in the state of protecting the tires, the reduction in tire wear and tear will definitely come to 30% as the system says.
And if you force it, the tire wear should be reduced by about 10% compared with the normal wear.
The exact amount Qin Miao and his team have not tested, but it should not be much different from Qin Miao's conjecture.
(End of chapter)