Qin Miao didn't refuse, anyway, it was only a few thousand yuan, since Norris wanted to play, he would lend it to him.

Even if he really loses it, Qin Miao can't afford to lose it.

And Hamilton doesn't plan to come back after giving this thing to Qin Miao, even if he talks about it, Hamilton will smile at most, this thing is just a more interesting toy for him.

Briefly taught Norris how to drive a scooter.

There was no barrier to getting started with this thing, and after trying it twice, Norris was able to control the scooter with ease.

After running, Norris waved his hand at Qin Miao with some excitement, and then drove the scooter onto the track like the wind.

It's just that Norris, who rode the bicycle, obviously didn't take into account his team staff, of course, this is not within Qin Miao's consideration, he walked the track this time by himself and Hamilton, and directly did not take the rest of the Meiben team.

However, Qin Miao frowned slightly as he looked at Norris's departing back, he felt that Norris inexplicably seemed to have a certain amount of kindness towards him, but Qin Miao was not sure where Norris's kindness came from.

There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as he is willing to give up, Qin Miao can't figure it out, so he simply doesn't think about it and walks back to the car home.

Back at the Auto Home and back in the lounge, Qin Miao imported the data he collected on the track into his work computer, and looked at the video of last season's race.

However, what these things can give Qin Miao is just a reference, if you really want to determine which things are useful, you have to run through the arena to be clear.

After reading it, Qin Miao had nothing to do.

Anyway, there is nothing else to do when I go back to the hotel at this time, and I go back to play with the computer.

But to be honest, although Qin Miao's laptop configuration is already the best laptop that can be bought on the market, the inherent disadvantages of the laptop are there, and the size of the monitor naturally limits the gaming experience, so Qin Miao doesn't really want to go back to the hotel.

Speaking of the monitor screen, Qin Miao's eyes inadvertently saw the 120-inch wall-mounted TV used for meetings on the second floor of the team house.

This thing is used to show data to the staff or play PPT to the meeting staff during the meeting.

It just so happened that Qin Miao knew a little bit about computers, so he saw Qin Miao study it a little, and then divided his work computer into a dual screen, and then put a movie on this TV.

Qin Miao has a certain collecting habit for these things.

is that if Qin Miao finds a movie that he likes very much, then he will find a way to download the resources of this movie to the hard drive of his computer, even if he doesn't watch it, it doesn't matter, the main thing is that he has to have it.

Called Bobble up from downstairs, he watched the movie for more than an hour and then it was gone, and he might be bored waiting below, so he simply called him up, and the two watched the movie together.

Seeing Qin Miao's good interest, Barber ran to the first floor of the team house to get Qin Miao something to eat.

Then the two stayed here until six o'clock in the afternoon, and then left without getting enough of it.

It's not that the two of them don't want to watch it, if they can, Qin Miao doesn't mind sleeping directly in the team house today.

The two of them left mainly because they were caught by the head of the logistics department of Mei Ben.

Originally, he thought that these two people had unfinished work here, but after a closer look, he realized that Qin Miao had brought his physical trainer and nutritionist to watch a movie here, so he directly drove them away.

The special team home uses an independent power supply system, especially the conference room on the second floor, after all, the computer and the files in the equipment here are very important, in order to avoid the tragedy of data loss when the power is not saved, so the power of the generator is still quite high.

Then Qin Miao watched the movie and directly finished watching half a tank of oil for the main generator.

For the Meiben team, this half tank of fuel is not worth much, but it has increased the workload of the logistics department.

To be honest, Qin Miao was still a little embarrassed after knowing this matter, he was a driver, and he didn't know much about the logistics operation of the Meiben team, so he naturally didn't know that the power supply system of the team's home was independent.

After apologizing to the staff of Meiben's logistics department, Qin Miao took Barber back to the hotel.

Norris didn't return Hamilton's scooter after all, because it wasn't his own, and Qin Miao forgot to ask Norris for it after he was addicted to the movie.

After getting up the next day, Qin Miao directly forgot about it.

And this thing is just a big toy for Hamilton, and after giving it to Qin Miao, he is not ready to come back.

So the scooter inexplicably disappeared into the paddock......

Friday.

Today is the day when the first and second exercises begin.

At today's entrance, Qin Miao didn't see fans sneaking in, and entered the paddock smoothly.

Afterwards, I went to the pre-race media area for an interview, answered some questions from the media, and then naturally returned to the team house for breakfast.

Later, while waiting for the start of the race, Qin Miao and the staff of the Meiben team have been watching Sky Sports' live broadcast, because Sky Sports filmed Red Bull Racing's newly upgraded side grille fins today.

The time spent waiting is naturally to study and discuss these things, what specific improvements can be made to the performance of Red Bull Racing, and look for countermeasures.

Before the game started, Barber would knock on the door to remind Qin Miao that it was time and he had to start preparing.

Qin Miao, who was in the room, naturally made all the preparations before the start of the game as soon as possible.

When I came to Room P, greeted the staff, and chatted with Hamilton for a while, it was time for the practice to begin.

Entering the car, starting the engine, and waiting for the system to complete the self-inspection, Qin Miao drove out of the P room.

Qin Miao's proficiency in the Portimão track is really not high, so the first training team put a set of hard tires on Qin Miao to familiarize him with the track.

This period of time is mainly used to find racing tuning settings for Qin Miao, because he is not familiar with the track, so the data team he ran out during this time cannot be used.

However, Qin Miao's learning ability and adaptability are really terrifying.

In the first twenty minutes of practice, Qin Miao was obviously rusty when driving the car, and he couldn't even enter the top ten when he did long-distance laps.

But twenty minutes later, Qin Miao's lap time directly changed qualitatively, and he jumped all the way to the fifth position.

After this, Qin Miao's lap time can be used as the data of the race for simulation, and Qin Miao is also testing the effect of the new upgrade on the floor of the car.

In the end, the first practice ended in a dull way, and Qin Miao's data met the team's expectations, but it was a pity that Qin Miao felt that the car was still a little uncomfortable to drive, but Qin Miao couldn't find the specific reason.

After a two-hour break, the second practice began.

During the second practice, Qin Miao's task was still to familiarize himself with the track and find his own training settings.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Qin Miao ran 25 laps with a set of soft tires.

The cruising range of neutral tires running out of a set of soft tires looks quite outrageous in other teams, and the most important thing is that Qin Miao's average speed in these 25 laps is quite impressive.

This made many teams who paid attention to the Meiben team murmur in their hearts.

But helplessly, except for Mei Ben himself, no one knows what the wear data of Qin Miao's tires is, and whether the subsequent failure is controllable.

On Mei Ben's side, after getting the exact data, he naturally smiled slightly, and the eyelids of the strategy team jumped.

At the end of the second practice, Qin Miao used up a total of two sets of soft tires during this period.

After that, the team naturally took the data from the two drivers on the track and analyzed and summarized them, and then went to the strategy team to roughly formulate a general direction for the tactics of qualifying and Sunday race.

During this time, Qin Miao and Hamilton could rest for a while, but the two obviously didn't have this idea, but instead got together and began to study and discuss the changes and some discoveries they felt on this track.

Although strictly speaking, the two are in a competitive relationship, but the two don't care much about this relationship, on the one hand, because the relationship between the two is very good in private, and on the other hand, because Hamilton knows that Qin Miao's strength is not as good as his own, but Qin Miao is also a person who values affection, if he needs it, Qin Miao will definitely help him, so without a clear conflict of interest, he doesn't mind sharing the knowledge he has gained on the track with Qin Miao.

As for Qin Miao, although now he has the idea of no longer being the No. 2 driver, Qin Miao knows that he is fledgling at this time, and his influence is not enough, so he is not qualified to challenge Hamilton's status, so Qin Miao will suppress this idea in the depths of his heart, and at this stage, he is still honestly his No. 2 driver.

On the track, he will do his best to help his teammates, plus the relationship between the two in private is really good, Qin Miao is a person who values feelings more, so he didn't care about these benefits and losses in a short time.

Besides, to a certain extent, Hamilton has no reservations about Qin Miao, Qin Miao wants Hamilton's telemetry data, and Hamilton gives it directly without saying a word.

The big brother has done enough fun, and the little brother can't just want to seek the usurpation of the throne, right?

Friday's work came to an end quickly.

Unlike the overtime work of the strategy team, most of the Meiben staff returned to the hotel to rest after a busy day's work, and only the people in the strategy team worked overtime in the factory or team home.

And at this time, Hamilton always has people bring refreshing coffee and late-night snacks to his colleagues, which is very considerate.

On Saturday, today is the third practice and qualifying.

Before officially starting work, Qin Miao went to accept an interview with a media reporter as usual, and most of the questions asked at this time were questions from yesterday's first or second practice, and Qin Miao also had a certain amount of experience in answering reporters' questions.

During the third practice, Qin Miao and Hamilton both worked on qualifying simulations, and there was nothing to say about this.

During the third session, the team also discovered a feature on the track, that is, the failure speed of the medium tyres is not much different from that of the hard tyres, but the speed is actually more than 0.4 seconds faster than the hard tyres.

Despite knowing the news, the team still asked Qin Miao to test how well these two tires performed on his car.

The results obtained are gratifying, Qin Miao's normal driving state of the normal driving of the normal tire and the hard tire exhaustion speed is the same, if the tire is protected, Qin Miao's neutral tire does consume faster than the hard tire, but not much, but if you drive fiercely, Qin Miao's neutral tire durability is even higher than the hard tire, and Qin Miao's average speed of this set of neutral tires is 0.5 seconds faster than the hard tire.

As soon as this statistic came out, it was doomed that all the cars in this race would basically not use hard tyres in the main race stage.

And the data from the hard tires can't be used.

After getting the news, everyone in Mercedes was relatively calm, except for Mercedes' head of strategy, James Vincent, and his strategy team staff.

With this variable, their tactics have to spend a lot of time to adjust, and the overtime hours have to be extended.

But they're used to it.

After the vignette, Qin Miao has been using a set of old soft tires on the track to do qualifying simulations during the three trainings.

Because it was a qualifying simulation, Qin Miao pushed almost every lap to the limit, coupled with his unfamiliarity with the track, and the difference between the height of this track was a little too big, Qin Miao also rushed out of the track twice.

Fortunately, these two times were controlled, one was pulled back to the track by Qin Miao before he rushed into the buffer zone, and the other time was rushed into the buffer zone, but the speed had dropped down at that time, and Qin Miao did not let the race show the yellow flag, and he drove the car out of the buffer zone by relying on the control of the car.

When I returned to the team to check, I found that there were only a few more scratches on the carbon fiber under the car, which basically did not affect the aerodynamic performance of the car, and there was no damage.

At the end of the third practice, Qin Miao changed into a new set of soft tires, and finally ran a flying lap and won the first place in the third practice.

However, the results of the practice session can only be used as a reference, except for Qin Miao's fans, who were happy for a while, everyone else didn't care much about this result.

The preparation time in the middle of the three practice sessions and qualifying rounds is not long, and it is only two hours.

During this time, the team replaced the two drivers with qualifying-specific engines and gearboxes, as well as a new exhaust system.

In fact, Qin Miao's old exhaust system can still be used, and the degree of wear is only 30%, which basically has no effect on the lap time.

But this thing will give a lot of shares, a full eight sets, Mei Ben's rich people don't care about this money at all, and the rhythm of changing one set of exhaust in three games is just enough for Qin Miao to run for the whole season.

And in addition to the exhaust, Hamilton also turned on his second MGU-H.

In fact, the MGU-H wear degree of the engine dedicated to the Hamilton race is only 50%, and it is not impossible to insist on running the qualifying and main races of this race.

But there was always a risk in doing so, and with a small speed advantage this season, the team chose to replace Hamilton with a new component for the sake of stability, as they wanted to create an eight-time title and win the constructors' title again. (End of chapter)