It is worth mentioning that because the driving simulator is not really driven in the F1 car, Qin Miao does not need too long to adapt to the driving of the car on the simulator.

So in the follow-up tests, Qin Miao was sometimes faster than Hamilton.

However, everyone in Mercedes also knows that although the simulator and the F1 car can achieve data exchange and the driving feeling is very similar, but in the end, the two cannot be equated.

Qin Miao's results on the simulator can do very well, but after really sitting in the F1 car, no one knows whether Qin Miao can really continue to maintain his precise control of the car under the pressure of more than 2G G.

Even if it can be maintained in a short period of time, what about the long-distance driving of more than 300 kilometers in the main race stage?

So for Qin Miao's data, the staff's mentality is very peaceful.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao was very busy during this time, but the old man was busier than Qin Miao, and Bottas was also very busy.

One of the main reasons is that the sponsors of Mercedes are not optimistic about Qin Miao's performance on the field, they think that Qin Miao will give up his position to Bottas after three games, so this year's sponsor advertisements are mainly shot by Hamilton and Bottas.

Qin Miao magically had a period of time to focus on training.

Time is spent in such a busy work.

Although the old man is busier than Qin Miao, Qin Miao's work content is actually similar to that of the old man.

Because Qin Miao lives close to the team factory, once there is any problem, Toto will call Qin Miao and go back to the team to work.

However, more often than not, the design department blew out some new aerodynamic kits with holes, and after importing the data of this part into the racing car in the simulator, Qin Miao needed to come over to test the effect of adding new upgrades.

Soon, it was March, and the winter test and the first Grand Prix of the year were held in this month.

On March 10, Qin Miao followed Toto to Bahrain to prepare for this year's winter test.

Although living relatively close to the team is easy to be pulled by the boss to work overtime temporarily, it is not without benefits.

The most obvious thing is that Qin Miao can rub the car to participate in the race at any time, although even if Qin Miao finds a way to go to Bahrain by himself, there is a team to help him reimburse the ticket or something, but there is one step missing to issue an invoice and then find the team's financial reimbursement, isn't it?

After arriving in Bahrain, Qin Miao was naturally arranged in the hotel.

After becoming an F1 driver, Qin Miao no longer needs to find a hotel by himself, and this hotel can't be too expensive.

Qin Miao's food and lodging are all in charge of Meiben, and the specifications are not low.

After the accommodation problem was solved, the team prepared a Meiben business car for Qin Miao for commuting.

These cars are owned by local dealers, and they are completely free for the team and the drivers, not only do they not have to pay for them, but they are even sent in a hurry.

March 12, morning.

Qin Miao drove to the paddock early, and after parking the car in the parking space prepared by the organizer for the drivers, Qin Miao took Qiu Meng and walked into the paddock with her backpack.

And Qin Miao found that from the moment he got out of the car, the lenses of several cameras were aimed at him.

It's not the start of the Grand Prix, it's just the winter test.

This is the first time that Qin Miao has appeared openly under the camera of the paddock with his girlfriend Qiu Meng, and if nothing else, someone will pick up his relationship with Qiu Meng at noon.

Qin Miao didn't care too much about this, he never hid the fact that he had a girlfriend, and it was normal for the riders in the paddock to have girlfriends.

didn't care about these undisguised shots, Qin Miao walked into the paddock with Qiu Meng.

Because Mercedes won the Constructors' Championship last year as usual, this year Mercedes is the closest team to the pit entrance, followed by Red Bull Racing and then McLaren, continuing the constructors' rankings.

After walking through the passage in the paddock, Qin Miao first entered the car home of the Meiben team.

The Autohome is one of those large rectangular boxes on the opposite side of the P room, with the entry and exit of the convoy staff.

The Autohome is assembled by transporting the building materials to the paddock by more than a dozen trucks and then assembled by the staff within a day.

That's right, although this thing is pulled over, it is not pulled directly, but assembled after being pulled.

Inside the team house there is a storage area for daily necessities, which can be self-sufficient in the paddock, from various parts of the car to garbage bags, stationery, water, food, clothing.

During the Grand Prix, all the team staff eat and drink here, and self-sufficiency is not just talk, it is literal self-sufficiency.

And all the food and diet of the crew of the convoy was brought in from Brackley, England.

This is the care that Captain Mark Webb of '07 gave to the younger drivers.

In addition, there is a work area in the car home, where you can carry out simple car maintenance and repairs, and circuit arrangement.

Then there's the tyre storage area, where the tyres of both F1 cars during Grand Prix are placed separately from the left and right to prevent confusion when picking.

After all, the tuning of the car is different from driver to driver, and if the wrong tyre is installed during the race, there will be serious problems on the track.

The entire car home has two floors, with mechanics on the lower floor and engineers on the upper floor.

On the one hand, the upstairs can be used for conference rooms, and on the other hand, it is used to monitor the data of the car during the race, after all, there are more than 300 sensors on the F1 car, which cannot be seen by a P room and a command platform.

Therefore, the P room and the command platform will only look at some important data, and some less important data will be handed over to the engineers here and the engineers in the Meiben factory to be responsible for remote monitoring.

If something goes wrong, it will be communicated to Toto through the team's internal TR.

And Qin Miao's current destination is the engineering department upstairs.

Qin Miao came relatively early today, so when Qin Miao pushed the door open and came in, there were still many people who were not in place.

Seeing Qin Miao push the door in, many people stretched out their hands to greet Qin Miao, Qin Miao did not forget to ask Toto for the list of team staff during the New Year, in addition to relaxing.

During this time, he flipped through them from time to time, remembering the names and looks of the two people a day, and now Qin Miao almost recognized these staff members.

So Qin Miao could also call their names, and after greeting them, Qin Miao took the opportunity to sit in his own place.

Mercedes holds a meeting here before the start of each Grand Prix, and the main participants at the meeting are the engineers and drivers.

The content of the meeting is recorded throughout the process, so that the drivers or engineers can extract the content of the meeting when they go back to review.

After waiting here for about half an hour, the other staff arrived one after another, and the old man was the last to arrive.

However, the rest of the team didn't say anything, it should be that they were used to being late for the old man's team meeting.

Once everyone had arrived, the first meeting of the new season began.

Technical Director Mike Elliott was the first to speak:

"First of all, I would like to welcome you all to the new season, and I hope you can continue to build on the new season and once again win the double championship of the team and drivers."

"That's all for irrelevant, now let's talk about the main goals of our team during the winter test."

"First and foremost, the most important thing is to verify that the data simulated by the simulator is consistent with reality and to test the aerodynamic data."

"On the first day, the test content was mainly aerodynamics, and the data from the rear end and front end had to be fed back in the morning."

"There was also the engine, which we made special efforts to improve during the winter break, but it remains to be seen whether it will actually work on the track, and this test project will be tested by Hamilton's crew."

"The second is the tire wear test, this year's Pirelli tire formula has not been modified, Qin Miao, your car team tested the W12 using this set of tire formula degradation limit, as well as the grip degradation, I need enough data."

"There are also new cars that have been upgraded at the front brake ducts, and the simulator shows that the inverted brake ventilator can draw in more cold air, but we don't know how efficient it is in reality, and this task can be easily tested by the two of you when you two car groups test other items......"

The meeting basically kicked off with Elliott taking a notebook and listing the data that the team needed today, and then asking the drivers to go to the track and run out the data.

Of course, during this time, the driver can also find his own tuning.

After he had spent more than 6 minutes assigning all these tasks, it was time for the heads of various departments and drivers to come up with their ideas and concerns.

Qin Miao took the lead in expressing her opinion:

"I don't think I'm well suited to the job of testing tire wear, and I don't think my tire deterioration rate is indicative."

After all, Qin Miao has two passive skills hanging on his body, and the 38% reduction in average tire wear is not a joke.

Others can't hold up after running 50 laps of hard tires, but Qin Miao still has an average grip level after running 50 laps on a set of hard tires, and he uses strength to run for 70 laps.

The track where other teams had to stop twice, Qin Miao stopped and ran in yellow and white, and his speed did not slow down at all.

The other riders stopped at the yellow and white, and Qin Miao stopped at the red and yellow.

Pirelli has been tuned to be.

But Elliott said:

"No, you've been given this task because of your excellent tyre protection in F2, so we want you to try the limits of W12 tyres."

Faced with Elliott's statement, Qin Miao could only nod helplessly.

What else could he say? Tell him that he has a system, and that the tires can be so economical because he has a system skill bonus?

Moreover, after Elliott finished speaking, others had already stood up to raise their own questions, and Qin Miao had no choice but to give up in the end.

But the degradation data of your own tires really doesn't have any reference......

A meeting lasted about 30 minutes, and most of the people who asked their questions got an answer or solution that they were happy with.

After the meeting, Qin Miao and Hamilton had about an hour to make the final preparations before the game, and the four-hour countdown to the East Test would begin after 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Both rose from their positions.

After moving his body and picking up the tablet that the team had prepared for him, Qin Miao turned around and entered the room with his name and national flag printed on the door.

This is Qin Miao's lounge, not far away, just behind Qin Miao's chair, turn around and open the door to enter.

After entering, Qin Miao closed the door and adjusted the pattern of the glass in his lounge from frosted to translucent, because there would be no audience in the enclosure during the winter break, and Qin Miao was not worried about his privacy.

Qin Miao's room is not big, only about ten square meters.

Someone is going to say at this time, my toilet is more than ten square meters, and your Meiben driver's lounge worth tens of millions is only ten square meters? That's a bit unreasonable, right?

You must know that Qin Miao's lounge is built in a car home that is strictly limited in size by FOM, and it is already luxurious to have a 10-square-meter lounge in this place that is more expensive than the BJ school district room.

The room is not big, but there are a lot of things.

A sofa that can allow Qin Miao to lie down completely, a TV that can see the SKY TV broadcast at this time, a wardrobe where clothes can be placed, and a toilet.

Basically, everything Qin Miao needed to use during the preparation period could be found here.

is also because of the special attributes of the driver's lounge, so Qin Miao's next door is the old man's lounge, and there is a layer of not very soundproof board between the two.

In addition, the old man likes to sing during the time he waits, so Qin Miao sat in his lounge and prepared to look at the minutes of the meeting just now, and was ready to plan himself......

Qin Miao shook her head helplessly, and then put on noise-canceling headphones.

This noise-canceling headphone is also given by the sponsor.

Qin Miao received three pairs of noise-canceling headphones in the driver's gift package alone.

There are countless other uniforms, shoes, watches, and the like that are customized to his body.

However, Qin Miao didn't look long before there was a knock on the door of his lounge.

It's just that because Qin Miao was wearing noise-canceling headphones, he couldn't hear the knock at the door at all.

These noise-canceling headphones can block the terrifying noise of the F1 car engine, so it is normal for Qin Miao to hear the knock at the door.

However, the person who knocked on the door obviously had a good relationship with Qin Miao, and when he saw that no one responded to the knock on Qin Miao's door, the other party directly opened the door.

Although he couldn't hear the sound, Qin Miao's eyesight was still good, and after seeing someone coming at the door, Qin Miao turned his head to look at it.

I saw a man wearing black trousers and a white Meben work vest standing at the door.

Qin Miao raised her head completely and just wanted to see who the other party was, Qiu Meng's little face appeared in Qin Miao's eyes. (End of chapter)