After completing a task, Qin Miao got a new test task.

Qin Miao was also in such a test again and again, looking for a training setting that was comfortable enough for him to use.

The day's work ended quickly, and Qin Miao's results in the first and second practice matches were relatively average, ranking 6th in the first practice and 16th in the second practice.

But everyone will have fun watching the results of the practice round, and neither the spectators nor the technicians of the major teams will pay too much attention to it.

After a day off, after the regular meeting the next day, Qin Miao devoted herself to her work again.

At the beginning of the third practice, Qin Miao ran a long distance again, and this time Qin Miao used a set of tuning that had been temporarily determined to be used in the main competition stage.

The results are a great improvement from yesterday's Q1 results, and the wear of the tires is further reduced.

Looking at Qin Miao's tire wear report, Toto even bluntly said that if the rules allowed, Qin Miao could even run the entire race on hard tires on any F1 track.

Of course, it's a pity that the rules of the FIA don't allow this to happen.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao only used four sets of tires in the three practice matches.

One practice one set of hard tires, two sets of neutral tires, and three sets of soft tires.

In fact, Qin Miao originally wanted to use only one set of soft tires in the third practice.

But was stopped by Toto.

You're not a hamster, you can't take these tires home with you, and if you really want to hide your lap times, you might as well go straight to the engine, just set the system up and reduce the power output a bit.

The first half of the third practice confirmed his tuning settings, and the second half was the imitation of the qualifying in the light fuel mode.

Qin Miao ran a time of 1:15.911, which can only be said to be okay, but it is not too good.

The final results of the third practice are not a reference for other teams, but they are still a reference for Qin Miao.

Because Hamilton also restricted his engine in the last practice session of the third practice, and then ran the qualifying test, and the degree of restriction was the same as Qin Miao's 7%.

After the run, Qin Miao's qualifying time was 0.219 seconds slower than Hamilton's.

To be honest, this gap is still a bit big, of course, it may also be that Qin Miao is not so familiar with this kind of track with more medium and low speed corners.

However, Qin Miao at least knew that there was still a big gap between himself and Hamilton.

At the end of the three trainings, during the period when the team changed Qin Miao's qualifying position and the special transmission for the race, Qin Miao watched the lap test video of himself and Hamilton in his lounge alone.

Although Qin Miao's utilitarianism is not strong, Qin Miao can be regarded as relatively pure-hearted in this paddock, but Qin Miao's love for racing and driving racing cars cannot be faked.

There are many competitors in the Mercedes team, and the drivers often fight to the death, but the real opponents of the drivers are actually only one person, and that is their teammates.

Because each team's vehicle performance is different, and only your teammates have the same performance as the car you drive, the comparison between you and your teammates is the most straightforward and accurate.

Now that Qin Miao was violently beaten by Hamilton, Qin Miao was naturally a little unconvinced, and naturally wanted to find out where the gap between herself and Hamilton was.

In fact, if you get Hamilton's accelerator and brake data, Qin Miao's comparison will be much more intuitive, but these data are only transparent to the team, but not to other drivers, and these data are trade secrets to a certain extent.

Qin Miao is not a cheeky person, so he didn't go to Hamilton or the team to apply, just relying on the public car video and his familiarity with Mercedes racing.

The final progress was naturally not so ideal, and Qin Miao was also a little swollen.

However, just as Qin Miao was still struggling, the door of Qin Miao's lounge was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Qin Miao took off her headphones and looked over, and saw Hamilton poking his head out of the door.

"I knocked on the door, but you didn't hear me." Hamilton explained.

Qin Miao did not shy away from Hamilton, paused the comparison of the two Mercedes, opened the door and said to Hamilton: "Come in and sit." ”

Hamilton naturally saw the picture on Qin Miao's laptop, and asked curiously as he entered the door, "What are you looking at?" ”

Qin Miao turned the notebook to Hamilton: "Just now, the car screen of the two of us in the simulated qualifying race, I want to see how the 0.2-second gap between me and you increases." ”

Hamilton was surprised by Qin Miao's honesty, but in the face of Qin Miao's question, Hamilton couldn't give an answer, after all, he went to participate in the event recording after the three practices, and he had just come back.

However, there is no way to help Qin Miao solve the confusion he is currently experiencing, and Hamilton is not without it.

"You wait for me."

After finishing speaking, Hamilton opened the door of Qin Miao's lounge and went out, and said to his track engineer who was looking down at the monitor in front of him at this time, "Pete, I will practice the final stage of today's three qualifying simulation data, you send a copy to Qin Miao's mailbox." ”

Pete looked at Hamilton in surprise after hearing Hamilton's words, but Pete did not question Hamilton's decision, and directly found the file on his computer, typed a compressed package, and sent the document to Qin Miao through Meiben's internal system.

Qin Miao, who had been entangled for a while, was the most itchy time at this time, so in the face of the documents sent to him by Hamilton, Qin Miao did not refuse, but after Hamilton sat back, Qin Miao still said sincerely: "Thank you." ”

"I haven't found a chance to thank you for helping me stop Verstappen in the Circle, it's not a small thing, and even if it weren't, I wouldn't mind sharing it with you if you needed it." Hamilton is very generous, and the demeanor of the seven-time champion is unmistakable.

Qin Miao didn't care about being polite to Hamilton at this time, and after a perfunctory sentence, he hurriedly downloaded the compressed file in the mailbox, and then unzipped the file, opened the accelerator and brake data package, and compared his data with Hamilton's data while also starting to play the video he had been researching early in the morning.

Qin Miao did lose a lot of hair on this, and now that there are signs and opportunities to solve it, it is naturally more urgent.

In just over a minute, Qin Miao watched the video more than seven times, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that there is anything wrong with Qin Miao's operation, Qin Miao's problem lies in the rhythm of the bending.

Qin Miao's exit fuel was a little slower than Hamilton's, about 0.05 seconds.

Qin Miao's timing of refueling is indeed not as good as Hamilton's, and the gap may not be visible in one or two corners, but the speed gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton will be very obvious after there are more corners.

And in addition, Qin Miao also has many details that are not as good as Hamilton, these details are basically some small skills on the track, relying on the accumulation of competition experience, it is understandable that Qin Miao's ability in this area is not as good as Hamilton.

After reading it, Qin Miao, who found the crux of the problem, lay down on the sofa in the lounge and let out a sigh: "It's comfortable~"

"What?" Hamilton's voice rang out suddenly.

After hearing this, Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Hamilton was still in his room, and patted his brain with some annoyance, Qin Miao said a little embarrassed: "My fault, I was a little too engrossed in the problems on the track just now, and I didn't notice Lewis you." ”

"It's okay."

"What do you want to drink? I had a drink in the fridge that my girlfriend had prepared for me. ”

"No, you should know that we can't mess around." Hamilton didn't even think about refusing decisively.

Qin Miao didn't force it, and after taking a sip of his thermos cup and taking a sip of it a little comfortably, he remembered that he hadn't asked Hamilton yet: "Anyway, I haven't asked you why you came to me?" ”

"Oh, yes, I didn't bother you when I saw you so engrossed, I forgot about it myself after a long time, this time I came to you mainly because the two of us will have a small Vlog arranged by the team later, originally the shooting of this video was for me and Toto, but I think you need more exposure than Toto, so I want to ask if you are interested?"

Hamilton now also knows about the strange contract signed by Qin Miao and Mei Ben, and when he first knew it, he really didn't understand why Qin Miao avoided this kind of thing that could increase his popularity as if he was avoiding the plague.

But with an attitude of seeking common ground while reserving differences, Hamilton did not delve into it.

It's just that Hamilton still has a certain amount of gratitude to Qin Miao at this time, so he also wants to pull Qin Miao off the sidelines.

Hamilton still has some experience in managing fans and how to increase fan stickiness.

It's just that what Hamilton didn't expect was that Qin Miao directly refused: "I'll forget it, it's going to be a qualifying match later, I have to adjust it during this time, after all, there are still three games above my head that will be kicked out of the sword of Damocles that will be kicked out of Meiben if I don't run well, and I can't be sloppy." ”

Hearing Qin Miao's reason, Hamilton pursed his lips in his heart.

It's okay for you to fool other people for this reason, but I'm not an outsider, you conquered the top of Toto and Meben in the first race, and the position of the second driver of Meben has already been decided, and what kind of sword of Damocles is.

But since Qin Miao didn't want to go, Hamilton didn't force it.

After chatting with Qin Miao for a few more words, Hamilton left.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, waited in the lounge until the qualifying match was about to start.

When I came to the P room of the team, Qiu Meng and Boss Zhou had been waiting here for a while.

Winking at his daughter-in-law and nodding at Boss Zhou, Qin Miao gathered his mind and began to prepare for the game.

After sorting out the equipment and sitting in the racing car, and through the screen in front of his racing car, he determined the tires that he was about to use later, and after the miscellaneous things were dealt with, Qin Miao took advantage of the gap that his racing car steering wheel had not yet been connected, Qin Miao reached out and gave his racing car a buff.

And Qin Miao's pre-race preparations, Qin Miao's crew staff have long been surprised, after all, Qin Miao is also here before the start of every race when he is in F2.

But sometimes you really have to admire these metaphysical things, because sometimes these things are really useful.

Just like Qin Miao, when he was in F2, the car never had mechanical problems, and even some minor problems could be solved through remote settings at the command platform.

After the preparations were completed, Qin Miao was waiting in the garage for the start of the game.

"Radio test, can you hear me?"

"Yes."

"Okay, Qin Miao, the probability of rain in this game is 20%, and the probability of rain is very low, so you don't have to worry about rain."

"Roger."

"But it's a bit cold, the tyres are going to heat up very slowly, and the team recommends that you do an extra warm-up lap, but because of the weather, and we have a cooling upgrade in the off-season, so you don't have to worry about the car overheating and you can keep the engine revving high for a long time.

That's all there is to it, Good hunting. ”

……

In the 14th minute of qualifying Q1, Qin Miao was also released by the team.

However, it has only been released for two minutes, Qin Miao's first warm-up lap has just finished, and when he was about to start sprinting on the second warm-up lap, a red flag appeared on the track.

Because Tsunoda made a mistake in the T14 and T15 combination corners, he crashed.

After a short period of yellow flags, the red flag was presented.

As the best rookie driver in Bahrain other than Qin Miao, Tsunoda's mistake came as a surprise to many.

After driving the car back to the maintenance area and parking, Qin Miao looked at the replay at the scene.

Tsunoda's impact was visually a set of gearbox rear wing and rear suspension, and the floor should have been damaged.

The floor of F1 is a single piece of carbon fiber, so if the floor of Tsunoda is damaged, even if it is only a small piece, the entire plate will have to be replaced.

If nothing else, the $1.5 million start to repair, and there is no cap, if the engine also breaks down because of this, the cost may have to be doubled.

Three minutes later, Qin Miao, who had moved his body again, drove onto the track again.

Qin Miao's speed after the first lap was not outstanding, 1:15.119, temporarily ranked first, but with Hamilton and Verstappen's efforts, Qin Miao's results soon came to the third position, and some continued to fall downward.

By the time Qin Miao returned to the maintenance area, Qin Miao's position had already fallen to seventh.

For Mercedes, such a result is absolutely not good.

However, Qin Miao's first qualifying match was also so slow to heat up, and it wasn't until after Q3 that it was supported.

In the end, Qin Miao's last lap of Q3 only moved his position forward and advanced to Q2 with the fifth place.

In the Q2 stage, Qin Miao encountered traffic problems and was slightly blocked by Sainz on his driving line, so the results in the first lap were not good, and Qin Miao was even squeezed out of the promotion zone for a time.

However, after Qin Miao changed to a new set of soft tires, he still advanced to Q3 with the 6th place.

In the Q3 stage, Qin Miao started his first flight lap with a set of soft tires used in Q1, and this time it was mainly to make a guaranteed result, and finally fell in seventh.

With about four minutes left before the Q3 qualifying stop watch, Qin Miao drove out of the pit lane and prepared to start his last flight lap of this qualifying race.

ps....... Arrow, this broken car. (End of chapter)