181: Walk the track

"Qin Miao! Qin Miao! A peer who looked about the same age as Qin Miao, after seeing Qin Miao, came to Qin Miao a little nervously, and then asked excitedly, "Can I take a photo with you?" ”

At the same time, several of his companions also looked at Qin Miao with hope on their faces, obviously wanting to ask Qin Miao for an autograph or a group photo.

Qin Miao is also a celebrity no matter what she says, and she has also met many viewers watching F1 in her daily life, looking for autographs.

But those people were at most a little surprised to meet an F1 driver by chance on the road, and they just asked for an autograph by the way, and they were not Qin Miao's fans.

After all, Qin Miao is only famous in F2, and he who has just entered F1 is difficult to have fans other than domestic fans.

And to be honest, this is the first time Qin Miao has seen his fans offline.

Looking at their fluent Chinese, and thinking of the current environment, these two should be international students from China.

After all, in the current situation, basically no parents or parents will allow their children to go abroad.

"Of course you can, but you also know the current situation, so it's okay if we take pictures a little farther away, right?" Qin Miao didn't let them get too close, so he stood not far behind them and asked them to take a selfie in a dislocation.

Of course, meeting fans is definitely not just about taking pictures, after the other party took the photos, he handed Qin Miao a poster and marker, and wanted Qin Miao to sign the poster.

Qin Miao naturally had no reason to refuse, so he took the poster they handed over and prepared to sign it.

But after Qin Miao saw the picture on this poster clearly, he was stunned.

The poster shows a driver standing in the rain with his hands on his hips, next to a Formula 2 car that has sunk into the gravel, and other Formula 2 cars can be seen speeding past him on the track.

Under the stillness and movement, the rider standing in the rain inexplicably had a sense of sadness and tragedy.

The first thing that comes to mind when anyone sees this poster is regret, pity, and the like.

Coupled with the raindrops hitting the car body and the racing car, it is a good picture of "The Loneliness of the Loser"

But if you have watched this F2 race, you will know that this person who looks full of loneliness is the F2 championship that season, pulling off the second place with 330 points, and winning the championship with an unprecedented winning streak, which is so powerful.

It was also the only time he made a mistake this season to get off the track.

is also because of Qin Miao's terrifying record in this season, so this mistake has a certain special significance.

Of course, this is just what outsiders think, thinking that this mistake ruined Qin Miao's winning streak, which is a pity.

But Qin Miao actually didn't care.

However, after seeing this picture, the corners of Qin Miao's mouth couldn't help twitching, after all, to a certain extent, this is his own black history.

That mistake really shouldn't have been, I was in too much of a hurry.

Because of this, the international student who was still a little clear in Qin Miao's eyes just now became disgusting at this moment.

And Qin Miao's crying and laughing look naturally fell on the eyes of these Qin Miao fans without reservation, as a fan, after seeing Qin Miao's somewhat crying and laughing expression, he would naturally be very happy, and he also felt that it was worth the trip.

After all, most fans actually want nothing more than a few words with the driver after meeting their favorite driver offline, making a harmless joke, asking for an autographed group photo, etc., and after experiencing all of this, they are already satisfied.

After all, I specially prepared this poster to show off in front of Qin Miao, to see what kind of expression Qin Miao would have after seeing her black history, and then record Qin Miao's expression and post it on the Internet to show off well.

Although she couldn't laugh or cry, Qin Miao still picked up a pen and signed her name on this poster.

Naturally, it is also Chinese.

After signing three posters and signing their names on a fan's hat, these little fans were all satisfied.

Qin Miao returned all the things to them and instructed: "It's not safe outside now, go back quickly when you get the signature, don't go around talking about this matter, otherwise it will be even more unsafe for the crowd to gather at that time." ”

Naturally, those people nodded happily in agreement.

After the business was over, Qin Miao waved at them and turned around and entered the enclosure.

And these fans watched outside the turnstile as Qin Miao gradually disappeared at the end of their field of vision.

And throughout the process, they all held their mobile phones to record them, obviously preparing to use these videos to pretend to be forced back after the meeting was over.

Qin Miao has no extra emotions in this regard, since entering F2, Qin Miao often needs to face the camera, and has long been accustomed to this feeling of living under the camera.

After Qin Miao left their sight, several little fans were still immersed in the excitement of seeing Qin Miao, and Qin Miao chatted with them for a while.

After walking into the paddock, Barber frowned and said: "The situation is still not optimistic, in fact, after meeting fans, the right thing to do is to stay away from them, instead of conniving at them and signing autographs." ”

Qin Miao couldn't explain to Barber that he wouldn't be tricked at all, but because Qin Miao also knew that what Barber said was from the standpoint of his position, Qin Miao didn't blame him for being nosy, but just spread his hands and said, "Okay, okay, I'll pay attention next time." ”

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Qin Miao came to the door of Meiben's convoy, and many Meiben staff greeted him warmly after seeing Qin Miao.

Feeling the change in people's attitude towards herself, Qin Miao's heart was full of emotion.

This was not the case in Bahrain, although the staff of the Meiben team would also take the initiative to greet them at that time, but at that time, they were more curious about Qin Miao and their own self-cultivation requirements.

And now that they were greeting Qin Miao, they were a lot more sincere, and Qin Miao also saw their recognition of themselves in their eyes.

Entering the team's house, today is not a working day after all, there are people here but these staff are doing preliminary work and equipment maintenance, in short, some back office staff are making sure that the equipment does not go wrong in the middle of the next Grand Prix weekend.

Qin Miao didn't bother them, but went into her lounge to change her clothes.

When Qin Miao went downstairs, he happened to see Hamilton walking in with Angela from the entrance.

"Good afternoon." After seeing the other party, Qin Miao said hello from a distance.

"So early?" Hamilton walked over and shook hands with Qin Miao with a smile, and then hugged each other with a smile.

Qin Miao smiled and said: "To be honest, after Imola, I fell in love with the feeling of standing on the top podium and letting everyone listen to me sing the national anthem, in order to be able to let you listen to it a few more times, I think I should work hard." ”

"It's really a special feeling, and it's very easy to get addicted." Hamilton smiled and nodded, but quickly said, "But with me here, you won't have too many opportunities to stand in that position in the future." ”

The relationship between the two is already very good at this time, and this kind of joke can be afforded, and no one will think much about saying such things.

Qin Miao rolled her eyes: "There is an old saying in our country, it is called the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, I believe there will be a day." ”

Hamilton naturally does not know the meaning behind Qin Miao's words, and China's 5,000-year-old cultural heritage is not so easy to understand, even Chinese who grew up in China cannot understand the meaning behind some words.

"That's all there is to it, I won't bother you, I'll go on the track for two laps first, get acquainted with it, it's my first time at Portimão." Qin Miao waved his hand and prepared to leave.

But Hamilton stopped Qin Miao and said: "You wait for me for a while, let's go together, it just so happens that I will also go up to see if the track has been repaired, and at the same time, if you have any doubts about this track, I can also give you some guidance." ”

There was a seven-crown champion who could help him answer his questions at any time, and Qin Miao was naturally very happy, and after waiting in the rest area downstairs of the team house for five or six minutes, Hamilton changed out of a set of clothes on his body, changed into a short-sleeved T-shirt of the Mercedes team, and put on a hat to shade the sun.

"Let's go."

The two walked through the pit lane onto the track.

Portimão Circuit was the track that was temporarily decided to join the calendar last year because of the lack of tracks, and even Hamilton had only run one race on this track, so he followed Qin Miao to the track this time to deepen his understanding of this track.

After getting on the track, Qin Miao walked to the driving line, squatted down and buckled the asphalt on the track line, and felt the roughness of the asphalt surface of the track with his fingers.

It's obviously old asphalt that has been used for a long time, and this kind of asphalt is still quite friendly to tires.

Looking at Qin Miao's movements, Hamilton also squatted down next to Qin Miao.

"This asphalt is obviously old asphalt, and this track has been in operation for a long time, so why do I watch the video of last year's race, and the regular pit stop strategy of this track is two stops?" Qin Miao picked up a piece of asphalt that had fallen off the side of the track and asked Hamilton.

Hamilton explains: "The track has a lot of corners, most of them at medium to high speeds, so there's a lot of wear on the tyres, and even though the asphalt is tyre-friendly, the two tyres on the left side of the car wear out at a very high rate. ”

Qin Miao also knew this, after all, this is how the simulator gave him feedback, but at that time, Qin Miao naively thought that it was a problem with the asphalt of the track, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Getting up, Qin Miao threw away the asphalt block in his hand and continued to walk along the starting route of the track.

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The Portimão track is relatively short compared to other tracks, so Qin Miao and Hamilton walked around together, joking with each other from time to time on the road, squatting down to carefully observe the paint grip on the shoulder or shoulder, and when they returned to the pit lane again, it was already more than an hour later.

During this period, Qin Miao also saw other drivers walking the track here, such as Latifi Perez.

However, they are all drivers with their own teams, not like Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers walk together, followed by only two physical trainers.

After walking through the track, Qin Miao was ready to go back to the team's home and study the information he had just recorded on the track.

However, Hamilton stopped Qin Miao, who was about to go back to the convoy home, and then under Qin Miao's gaze, Hamilton pushed out two black scooters from the P room of the car.

It is the kind of two-wheeled scooter that Qin Miao usually rides when commuting between home and factory.

This thing accelerates violently and has a long range, and it doesn't take up space, but the top speed is a bit slow, but for a short-distance commuting vehicle, the top speed is not a particularly fatal disadvantage.

The 30-kilometer bicycle is naturally not difficult to run a lap on the track, and the main reason for using this car is to let Qin Miao feel the driving line of this track in advance, as well as the bumps of the track in the driving state, and at the same time, Hamilton can also tell Qin Miao where the grip is weaker in the car.

The two spent 20 minutes riding the scooter for a lap.

After the two got off the track, today's work was basically over.

Hamilton rode to Angela first, while Qin Miao was going to go directly back to the convoy house, because Barber was waiting for him there.

And Qin Miao had just ridden into the P room of the Mei Ben team, and then when he passed through the P room and entered the staff passage behind the P room, Qin Miao saw Norris wearing McLaren's iconic yellow team uniform.

Norris was under a lot of pressure at the start of the new season, given the strength of his new team-mate Ricciardo, a solid fan base and six separate race wins.

Although Norris himself has been at McLaren for three years, he has not won a single championship, and in front of such a strong teammate, Norris is actually under a lot of pressure.

Because everyone knows that in F1, your biggest enemy is always your teammates.

However, after two fights, the pressure on Norris was suddenly gone, as he won both games against his team-mates.

Whether Norris is more comfortable with McLaren's car than Ricardo, or for other reasons, everyone can tell that Norris is better than Ricardo.

So Norris at this time seems to be very relaxed, and the whole person's mental outlook is very good.

And after he saw Qin Miao, he even went up directly to stop Qin Miao.

"Qin! Wait a minute! ”

After he stopped Qin Miao, he looked at Qin Miao's scooter as if he was looking at a big toy, and asked curiously, "Where did you get this thing?" It's fun, borrow me to play. (End of chapter)