Although his rest time was gone, Qin Miao was really curious about the normal work and operation of the Ferrari F1 team during a Grand Prix.

So I stayed according to Mr. Bi's arrangement.

Qin Miao spent the day on Thursday inside the Scuderia Ferrari.

Because Qin Miao worked in Ferrari's simulator department, there are many people in the F1 team who know Qin Miao, coupled with Qin Miao's outstanding performance in F2 last week, as well as his status as a Ferrari youth player, so no one is surprised that Qin Miao appeared in Ferrari's work area.

Even after the work was over, the Ferrari technician invited Qin Miao to go out for dinner in the evening.

However, Qin Miao politely declined, after all, there is still a F2 practice match and qualifying match tomorrow.

On Friday, Qin Miao got up and washed under the drive of her biological clock, rested for a while after breakfast, and then completed her daily basic physical training.

After completing all this, Qin Miao came to the paddock.

At this point where he came, quite a few F2 team staff were already busy in the temporary P-room of F2.

Qin Miao was already surprised by this, and the contract signed the day before yesterday and the change in identity brought about by the contract did not change Qin Miao's mentality.

On the one hand, it is not yet the time for this contract to take effect, on the other hand, although Qin Miao has the habit of loving and showing off like young people, Qin Miao likes to rely on his own strength to pretend to be forced, not identity.

So Qin Miao, as usual, came to the temporary P room of the team and started work.

There is not much work for Qin Miao today, because most of the work has been completed last week, and this week's work is mainly around the maintenance and inspection of Qin Miao's racing car.

Every effort was made to ensure that Qin Miao's car did not suffer from mechanical failures during the race.

As for the tuning and debugging of the car, it has not moved, on the one hand, because Qin Miao's tuning settings were already in a relatively ideal state last week, and there is no stadium data to support it now, and random fine-tuning may also destroy the tuning settings that Qin Miao is very comfortable to use.

So staying still is the best option at this point.

Once everything was ready, there was still a short time before the start of the F2 practice session.

Qin Miao can rest, originally Sui Wentao and the others are the same as Qin Miao, they can rest for a while before the F2 practice match starts.

But taking advantage of this break, Luo Xin directly pulled Sui Wentao and them to practice changing tires.

Idle is also idle, just take advantage of this time to practice and change tires, and prepare for tomorrow's race and the sprint race the day after tomorrow.

So Qin Miao smiled and looked at the bitter Sui Wentao, they were sweating under the scorching sun and practicing tire change, after watching it for a while, Qin Miao also came up with some curiosity and said that he would also try.

Anyway, the current tire change practice is also added temporarily, and Rosin mainly doesn't want the team to be idle during normal working hours.

So in the face of Qin Miao's request, they did not refuse.

Changing tires is actually a technical job, because not only do you have to be fast, but you also have to be accurate.

The tire change in F2 is different from that of F1, and there is only one tire changer in F2, and the tire change process is much more complicated than that of F1.

First wait for the car to stop in front of you, put the tire changer gun in your hand at the bolt of the tire and insert it, then pull the trigger to release the bolt, grab the edge of the rim with your hand, and take the tire directly off the car with the strength of your arm.

After that, use the muzzle of the tire changing gun to jam the nut on the new tire, at this time the tire changing gun and the nut on the tire have become locked, you can directly rely on the tire changing gun to lift the tire, insert it into the coupling of the racing car, and then use the tire changing gun to lock the nut.

After playing twice, Qin Miao lost interest, because after mastering the skills, Qin Miao found that the speed of changing tires depends on your proficiency in changing tires, which is not too interesting.

After playing with their mobile phones in the team's P room for a while, many F2 teams that had been waiting for a long time poured out of their temporary P room, pushing cars or tires, or carrying equipment to the pits.

The practice session for F2 is about to begin......

After changing into racing clothes in the locker room, Qin Miao came to the maintenance area with a familiar car, and after helping Sui Wentao and them sort out the sundries and other things, Qin Miao moved his body around his racing car, and then began to put on his equipment.

Qin Miao, who was ready, took advantage of the situation and entered his racing car.

It is worth mentioning that because of Qin Miao's excellent performance in the field last week, Qiu Meng has received many calls from sponsors who are interested in sponsoring Qin Miao in recent days, but more of them are companies that want to give Qin Miao driver loans

The so-called driver loan is also very easy to understand, racing is a sport that requires money to play, normal F2 drivers are through sponsorship of the F2 team to get the driver's seat, the team's car is sometimes bought by the team with money, and some like Qin Miao paid for it himself.

Now that you've paid for this position, do you have to pay for the loss of tire fuel parts in the vehicle?

Of course, the team can't do nothing, the team will take care of the logistics of the drivers, give the drivers a number and quota to participate in the race, and also take care of the logistics of the car.

There are only a few drivers like Qin Miao who can't wait to directly supply him, and Prema is also the kind of big team that is relatively rich, and they are naturally willing to invest in Qin Miao in order to win the F2 driver championship.

A driver's loan is an interest-free loan issued by a company to a driver they like, and you can just repay them as much as you lend out the loan.

But until the loan is repaid, you have to keep the lender's logo printed on your helmet or car, and some contracts even stipulate that the driver must continue to advertise the car and suit for a year after the loan is repaid.

However, this kind of contract is a surefire deal for both the driver and the lender.

After chatting with Qin Miao, Qiu Meng did not choose a driver loan, but picked a few sponsorships that basically had no requirements and gave relatively little money, nothing else, just to save trouble.

Therefore, at this time, there are finally a few more advertisements on Qin Miao's racing cars and racing suits, but most of these advertisers are not very well-known, and they are not enough compared to the Anglo-Dutch Shell and Ferrari on Qin Miao's clothes.

After Qin Miao was ready, the practice session also began, and the director was very sensible and gave the camera to the pit area as soon as possible, locking it on Qin Miao's car.

Last week, Qin Miao has completely become the focus of F2, and is the favorite to win the championship in F2 this season.

For this popular fried chicken of F2, the director also gave enough respect and attention.

Buckle up the seat belt, Sui Wentao came over to help Qin Miao check the headrest, seat belt and helmet, and after making sure that there was no problem, he gave a thumbs up in front of Qin Miao's helmet to indicate that the car was ready.

Qin Miao nodded, stretched out his hand and shook it with Sui Wentao, then Sui Wentao stepped back, Qin Miao started the car, and drove the car out of the pit after the countdown to the start of the practice session.

And during the time when Qin Miao drove the car out of the pit area, whether it was the camera above the pit or the photographers carrying the camera, they locked their lenses on Qin Miao's car.

Until Qin Miao drove his car out of the maintenance area.

There is nothing to say about the practice session, Qin Miao had already found a suitable setting for this track last week, and the room for improvement and improvement in the practice session is very limited.

It may just be a more refined adjustment of Qin Miao's current settings, but the improvement that can be brought is minimal, at most it is only 0.05~0.1 seconds.

Of course, this is just for Qin Miao, and for other drivers, they do have a lot of potential that can be explored on this track.

So Qin Miao just drove his own car and came back after seven laps on soft tires, and he didn't go out until the end of the practice session.

Qin Miao is now going to start saving tires, because of the contract with Ferrari, he knows that he has to perform better in F2, so Qin Miao still wants to win the championship in this week's sprint race.

As for the main race?

Don't brag, as long as there is no problem with his car in the main race stage, Qin Miao is confident that he can easily win the championship in the main race stage.

The practice match came to an end under Qin Miao's fishing, and it was another familiar process to move things away......

In the afternoon, Qin Miao, who received the notice of the competition, came to the pit lane again, and now it was the qualifying race.

The qualifying stage is different from the practice match, and Five Star Sports has started the live broadcast.

Because of Qin Miao's relationship, whether it is the audience or the three anchors of Five Star Sports, they are very much looking forward to the performance of Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu, two Chinese drivers, in F2.

After the familiar opening film, the TV broadcast went to the pit exit of the qualifying stage.

Although the qualifying session had not yet begun, more than a dozen F2 cars were already waiting to be released at the white line at the exit of the pits.

Qin Miao's departure was still not so positive, and Qin Miao drove out from where he parked after the cars lined up at the door had all gone out.

By this time, the drivers who were doing the warm-up laps were already halfway through the race.

However, Qin Miao didn't care, on the one hand, he believed that even if he was blocked from his lap time, he could enter the top five, and on the other hand, he believed in the release time set by Frankie.

After all, Frankie is not Ferrari's strategy team.

With 24 minutes and 31 seconds left before the end of qualifying, Qin Miao pressed his speed in T7 under the prompting of Frankie after running two warm-up laps, and then began to accelerate quickly to complete his first flight lap.

The time is 1:14:349, and the three sections are purple, temporarily ranking first.

Two minutes later, Zhou Guanyu also entered the 1 minute and 14 second mark, with a lap time of 1:14:933, and came behind Qin Miao with a gap of 0.6 seconds.

Five Star Sports spectators and commentators just love the current picture, with two Chinese drivers dominating the top two.

Naturally, he did not hesitate to praise the two of them.

However, Qin Miao knew that her lap time was not the limit, and in the first Austrian Grand Prix, the lap speed she made in the practice session was faster than this.

So Qin Miao returned to the pit lane to adjust, and when the countdown to the end of qualifying came to 14 minutes, and most of the F2 cars returned to the pit lane to adjust, Qin Miao drove the car out.

Qin Miao's exit time will not give his car's engine enough time to cool down, although the racing engine in this state can still operate normally, but compared to the fully cooled engine, the power that bursts out is less.

But despite this, Qin Miao still used a car that was not in the best condition to make a score of 1:14:019.

There is only 0.2 seconds left to break the 13-second mark, although it is a pity, but Qin Miao's result still refreshes the fastest F2 lap record of Red Bull Ring.

After completing this lap, Qin Miao felt pretty good, if he changed to a new set of soft tires, he was confident that he would be able to enter within 13 seconds, but there was no need, this result was enough to get the pole position in qualifying.

And in the TR, Frankie just excitedly praised Qin Miao: "Awesome!" You ......"

After halfway through the conversation, Frankie was silent for a while, and then said to Qin Miao helplessly: "Please go back to the maintenance area again, there will be staff to guide you at the entrance of the maintenance area." ”

Qin Miao was curious: "What's wrong?" ”

“…… The FIA told you to come back and weigh you, you were too fast in qualifying, and the FIA should be suspecting that your car was too light. ”

This has nothing to do with discrimination or anything, purely because after Qin Miao refreshed the fastest lap of F2 on this track, the FIA needs to prove to others that Qin Miao has nothing to do.

shrugged his shoulders, anyway, after running this lap, Qin Miao will not run for the remaining ten or so minutes, just weigh it.

By the time we returned to the pit entrance, there were already a few orange warning canisters in the open space at the entrance, and in the middle of the warning canisters was an iron thing like a horsepower machine base, but this thing was used for weighing.

In fact, the normal process of weighing is that Qin Miao parks the car under the simple weighbridge, and the staff of FIA will push Qin Miao's car up, and Qin Miao only needs to control the direction in this process.

But Qin Miao didn't know, the first time he was called back by the FIA to weigh him, he drove the car directly onto the weighbridge.

And because Qin Miao came in from the entrance of the maintenance area, he used the speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour stipulated in the maintenance area to drive towards the weighbridge.

Seeing that Qin Miao was about to run to the front and hadn't slowed down yet, the FIA staff who were about to help Qin Miao push the cart on the side were startled.

But Qin Miao, a player with full control over the car, naturally couldn't make such a low-level mistake.

Qin Miao began to slow down about sixty meters before approaching the weighbridge, and at this time you have to admire the extreme lightweight of the F2 car, as well as the terrifying deceleration ability.

The distance of 60 meters reduced the speed of the car from 80 km/h to 20 km/h.

Because if you go to the weighbridge, you have to go up a small slope with a certain slope, so Qin Miao is stuck in a speed limit, and after rushing up, all the potential energy of the car will be used up.

In a way that seemed to be very fierce but was actually very regular, he parked his car on the weighbridge.

The staff of FIA looked at the car and got out of the car after parking, and Qin Miao was also full of helplessness.

You said he violated the law, he didn't do anything, that is, he drove the car on the weighbridge, you said he didn't violate the law, he drove the car directly on the weighbridge......

In the end, Qin Miao was still not punished, and for geniuses, whether it is F1 or F2, they will give some convenience in some innocuous things.

The weighing process is very fast, and calling Qin Miao over is not only weighing, but also having to carry out a car inspection, and the process is exactly the same as the car inspection after the game.

Qin Miao's car is naturally well-behaved, and there is no problem at all.

After completing the weighing, the FIA staff was about to signal Qin Miao to sit back in the car and drive the car back to continue the qualifying race.

Then he watched in confusion as Qin Miao dropped his car and left with his helmet......

And so he went......

No...... You don't want your car???

Fortunately, Qin Miao told his team before weighing on the weighbridge that there is no need to continue to run with his current result, and there is basically no possibility of refreshing his fastest lap record.

So not long after Qin Miao left, Sui Wentao and the others came over with tools, and then pushed the car away in the confused eyes of the FIA staff.

Five-star sports, the two commentators looked at the situation on the field and were slightly stunned, and then quickly figured out the reason.

"Qin Miao should be very satisfied with his current results, he is not ready to run, he wants to keep an extra set of soft tires and then do it again in the sprint race......

……

When she walked back to the temporary P room of her team, Qin Miao also passed by Zhou Guanyu's car.

Zhou Guanyu, who was holding a parasol in the car, looked at Qin Miao who walked in front of him a little confused, and a big question mark appeared in his head, what is this person doing? Isn't the qualifying round over yet......

Ask your race engineer, good guys, the fastest lap record for qualifying for the Red Bull Ring F2 just set a new lap.

Based on Zhou Guanyu's understanding of Qin Miao, this guy probably doesn't plan to run anymore.

Watching Qin Miao walk out of his field of vision with some envy, to be honest, Zhou Guanyu also wanted to experience Qin Miao's feeling of only doing two flying circles in a qualifying race, and then leaving work directly at half time.

Drivers with personality are naturally more able to get the director's footage, first of all, the director first gave the camera to Qin Miao's car, at this time, this car was not pushed back to Prema's maintenance area by Sui Wentao, and went directly to the back of the pit area, it was directly pushed to the temporary P room where Prema was stationed.

Really leave work early.

It was also thanks to the weighing link just now that the car inspection of Qin Miao's car was completed by the way, so they could directly push Qin Miao's car back, otherwise they would have to wait until the end of the qualifying race on the track and complete the unified vehicle inspection before they could push the car back and put it away.

As for Qin Miao, after walking back to the Prema team's station on this side of the pit lane, she crossed the track and shook Frankie's hand, and then said to Rosing: "Boss, I'm off work." ”

Luo Xin didn't stop him, and waved his hand: "Go ahead." ”

Like Qin Miao, Luo Xin doesn't think that anyone can refresh the lap speed made by Qin Miao today, the pole position has been stabilized, since the eldest brother of his team wants to leave early, then let him retire early, Qin Miao drove the fastest lap so hard, what's wrong with going back to rest early?

Then the director watched Qin Miao cross the track again, took off his equipment, bowed his head and bent down slightly, and went directly into the half-draped rolling door of Scuderia Ferrari's P room......

The director and everyone who saw this scene through the director's lens were stunned.

Hey~ That's not right!

Why did you go straight to Ferrari's P room as an F2 driver? Even if you're a Ferrari academy driver, it's not suitable.

Nobody cares? Won't Ferrari have an opinion?

It's just that no one is destined to answer this question for them, but because of Qin Miao's action, new rumors began to circulate in the paddock, that is, Qin Miao had actually entered the Ferrari F1 team a long time ago.

It's just that neither Qin Miao nor Ferrari paid attention to this rumor, and without heat, no one cared about this rumor after a long time.

On the side of the competition site, under normal circumstances, Qin Miao went back to the hotel to play the game directly after completing the task of his qualifying competition.

But not anymore, he was forced by Binotto to go to the Ferrari P room after qualifying and wait for the second practice of F1 to begin.

Moreover, during the entire second practice of F2, Qin Miao had to stay in the P room of Ferrari to familiarize herself with the workflow and working habits of the Vettel technicians.

Because it is very likely that these technicians will become Qin Miao's technicians next season, Binotto wants Qin Miao to cultivate a relationship with these technicians as soon as possible, as well as to get acquainted with each other.

As a part-time worker, Qin Miao naturally has no objections to the requirements put forward by his top boss, and strictly speaking, Qin Miao is still at work at this time.

After coming to room P, he found that there were a few technicians in room P who were looking at the equipment, Qin Miao greeted them and found a place to sit down and began to play with his mobile phone, waiting for the second practice of F1 to begin.

……

Although Qin Miao alone has become the biggest highlight of the entire F2 qualifying race, Qin Miao's departure will not affect the process of the F2 qualifying race.

As the countdown ended, so did the F2 qualifying.

Indeed, as Qin Miao thought, Qin Miao's results were basically not broken by others except for Qin Miao himself.

In the end, Qin Miao won the championship with a time of 1:14:019, and Zhou Guanyu ranked second with a time of 1:14:549.

Qin Miao specially called Zhou Guanyu during the simulator practice in the past few days, when Zhou Guanyu opened the simulator, Qin Miao also taught Zhou Guanyu a lot of things, and told Zhou Guanyu some of his settings on this track without reservation, although Zhou Guanyu will not directly apply Qin Miao's racing settings, but some settings can also give Zhou Guanyu some inspiration, so in the end he was able to get such results is also Qin Miao's expectations.

The third is Yuki Tsunoda with a speed of 1:14:803.

And Qin Miao's teammate Mick Schumacher is in ninth place, more than a second slower than Qin Miao.

Qin Miao began to wonder what reason this guy would use at the post-race meeting after the end of this Grand Prix.

(End of chapter)