Qin Miao officially won the first pole position of her career, and she was also the first sprint qualifying champion in F1 history.

At the same time, there are three points in the pocket.

But to be honest, it was a really boring sprint qualifying session.

Of course, boredom is boring, no matter how you say it, this championship was snatched from Verstappen and Hamilton, and it will not affect Qin Miao's happiness after winning the championship.

Park the car at its own position on the track, and Qin Miao got out of the car.

After saying hello to the audience, Qin Miao happily went to complete the weighing.

After weighing in, I cleaned up my appearance a bit, and then I was led by the official staff and Hamilton Verstappen to get into a car that was the same as the pre-race driver parade.

Today's sprint qualifying session was followed not only by the parade, but also by the interview.

The first to be interviewed was Qin Miao, who won the sprint qualifying championship, and before the interview, Qin Miao was also hung with a wreath made of olive branches around her neck.

Then Qin Miao took this thing with her, waving to the audience at the scene, and accepted the host's interview.

But to be honest, Qin Miao really has nothing to say in this game.

What can he say?

"I didn't feel any pressure from the start, and then I ran a long test on the track on the soft tyres?"

So for the host's question, Qin Miao's answer was relatively uninspiring, almost the same thing as diplomatic rhetoric, without any nutrition.

After Qin Miao's interview was over, it was Verstappen's turn.

At this time, Qin Miao also came to Hamilton's side, and the two didn't say anything, just hugged each other.

Qin Miao knew that Hamilton knew that he was ready to fight, and Hamilton also knew that Qin Miao had the idea of challenging himself, just like all his former teammates.

But seriously, Hamilton didn't have any negative emotions about it.

will not break with Qin Miao because of this.

By his age, he had a clear idea of what he thought about human nature, about when young people would be.

These are human feelings, and he understands them.

But just like Hamilton has taken so many of his teammates.

Time has passed, but Hamilton is still the No. 1 driver of Mercedes Racing, one of the team's iconic figures.

Even now when you think of Mercedes F1 Team, you think of Hamilton, and when you think of Hamilton, you think of Mercedes.

Both the driver and the team are covered in each other's marks.

So even if he knew what Qin Miao was going to do, Hamilton was still confident that this young man would not be his opponent.

At least on his home turf, Qin Miao will definitely not be his opponent.

Hamilton is confident about it.

At the end of the parade, the starting order for tomorrow's race was given.

Pole Position Start Qin Miao 2: Verstappen

3: Hamilton 4: Leclerc

5: Norris 6: Ricardo

7: Alonso 8: Sebastian Vettel

9: Ocon 10: Sainz

11: Gasly 12: Russell

13: Kimi 14: Stroll

15: Giovinaz 16: Tsunoda

17: Latifi 18: Mick

19: Mazepin 20: Pérez (Pérez needs to start from the pits due to sprint qualifying)

Because of the first place in the sprint qualifying, Qin Miao, Hamilton and Verstappen went to the post-race press conference after the race, and only pulled away from the long guns and short guns of the reporters an hour later.

went to participate in a post-game fan meeting event and distributed a wave of gifts to the audience, Qin Miao and Hamilton's work today came to an end.

However, after the work in the paddock was over, Qin Miao did not go home, but turned around and went to the team's factory.

At this time, although it was already off work, the lights were still bright in the F1 factory in Brackley, and the team R&D personnel and engineers who Qin Miao knew or didn't know were still busy at their workstations at this time.

This is the case with F1 teams, where almost everyone except the drivers have to work overtime, and it's not uncommon for R&D staff to be busy until one or two o'clock in the evening.

However, there is a reward for the effort, and the annual salary of some engineers in the R&D positions of Mercedes is even higher than that of the last F1 driver.

Of course, this is only the driver's annual salary, nothing else, and the engineer has to count overtime pay.

When Qin Miao came to the team, he didn't go anywhere else, he went directly to the event department, looked at the long-distance data of his sprint qualifying, and looked at the report that the team had made in a short period of time.

Although these things can be of limited help to Qin Miao in tomorrow's race, for the first pole to win in his career, Qin Miao has also done the three words "do your best, obey the destiny of heaven" to the limit.

Do what you can do to the limit, and leave the rest to the gods and Buddhas.

After looking at his own data, he ran on the simulator for more than an hour before Qin Miao returned home.

Seriously, despite a busy day today, Qin Miao didn't feel tired after returning home.

However, tomorrow's game is too important, Qin Miao didn't do anything else at night, took a shower and went to bed directly.

At night, Qin Miao, who hadn't dreamed for a long time, had a rare dream.

He dreamed that he had gone through a lot of hardships and finally snatched the championship from Hamilton's hands.

At that time, Qin Miao was still happy for a long time, and showed off her might in front of the British audience at the scene.

However, when Qin Miao first woke up from the big dream and realized that he was dreaming, he smiled with relief.

It seems that I used to be a salted fish, but now I have begun to dream of that glory so much.

gave a kiss on the face of Qiu Meng, who was still asleep, and then Qin Miao got up from the bed.

After a simple washing exercise, Qin Miao drove to the paddock.

Today, Qin Miao is no longer driving an RV, today Qin Miao's car is a new Mercedes-Benz C63, and this time on the way to the paddock is a publicity activity.

Although Mei Ben's people said that if Qin Miao liked this car, Qin Miao asked Barber to help him do a transfer, and it was okay if he didn't return it, and they were even willing to help Qin Miao maintain the car permanently.

Even if they were in a car accident and hit them, they would help Qin Miao repair them for free.

It's just that Qin Miao really has no place to park at home, and Qin Miao doesn't have any collecting habits for cars.

Besides, this is not a supercar, and it is useless to accept it, so Qin Miao finally politely declined the other party's kindness.

At seven o'clock in the morning, when Qin Miao and Barber passed through the driver's tunnel, Qin Miao could see a lot of spectators.

There were more spectators in the main race today than yesterday and the day before yesterday combined.

According to statistics, a total of 350,000 spectators came to the paddock today, and many of them slept directly on the paddock at night, setting up a tent and a barbecue grill on the grass by the track, and then these guys came from work on Friday to find a suitable position on the grass of the track, and stayed for two days and two nights.

There are also many people who come by RV, and RV culture is still quite prosperous in foreign countries.

These people don't come to watch the game, but to travel and vacation.

Of course, with the exception of the UK, most of the circuits have such events and the spectators who do so.

had breakfast at the convoy house in Meiben, during which Qin Miao also met Hamilton, who came early like Qin Miao.

Hamilton is also at the forefront of fashion.

For this kind of thing that is out of the public, to be honest, Qin Miao can't appreciate it.

In fact, there have been many fashion brands that wanted to invite Qin Miao to come over to endorse, but Qiu Meng refused without asking.

Compared with the two drivers of Meiben, Qin Miao is more like the older one.

Because unlike Hamilton's change of fashion every day during the race, Qin Miao is always the team's driver shirt when he comes to the paddock unless the team has special requirements.

Of course, Hamilton is also here to make money, not chilling.

And many European nobles still like Hamilton's tune.

After saying hello to the old man, Qin Miao returned to the rest area of his team after eating breakfast.

The start time of today's main competition is three o'clock in the afternoon, and Qin Miao usually starts to prepare for the main competition at one o'clock in the afternoon.

The reason why she came so early, in addition to preparing early and waiting for the game to start, Qin Miao also had an interview task before the start of the main match today.

Because CCTV people also came to the scene today, Qin Miao came so early in the morning to set aside nearly two hours for them to do an exclusive interview.

After all, it is the official media of his own country, and Qin Miao has to pay attention to what he says.

The process of the interview was quite pleasant, and the other party didn't ask Qin Miao any difficult questions to answer.

More often, I still ask Qin Miao about the mental journey she has come through, whether she is still happy with her colleagues in the team, and whether she has encountered any problems in her daily work.

Seriously, Qin Miao had a moment when she felt that these people were like elders who cared about how their juniors were doing abroad, more like a reporter.

Finally, I asked Qin Miao if he was sure of today's game and whether he was confident of winning the first place or something.

After all, he was from his own family, so Qin Miao didn't say anything big, and said very modestly that he would fight for two.

But Qin Miao forgot that most of the riders in the paddock probably won't be able to get on the podium in their entire careers, but in his modesty, they are fighting for two.

His words were somewhat pretended, of course, if you want to understand this as Qin Miao's self-confidence, there is no problem.

In the end, the CCTV interview lasted more than an hour, and counting the time spent preparing and waiting, the interview lasted only an hour and a half.

After that, Qin Miao returned to the team house and began to rest and wait.

At noon, after having lunch and resting briefly for a while, Qin Miao entered the ice bucket and stayed for ten minutes, and after coming out, he changed into a team uniform and prepared for the pre-race driver parade.

After the parade was over, Qin Miao changed into a racing suit and began to come to the track to prepare for the race.

After driving the car and changing the old tires for three laps on the track, Qin Miao slowly parked his car in his starting grid after making sure that the state of the car was fine.

After the car was parked, Qin Miao got out of the car and returned to the team's P room to wait for the official start of the game.

During the waiting period, the other drivers were in a daze or closed their eyes and pondered, what routines they had in their minds for today's race, silently simulating the process of the race in their minds.

And what about Qin Miao?

Take out the phone and Genshin Impact activates!

……

At half past two in the afternoon, Qin Miao took a sip of water under Bobble's reminder, then handed over his mobile phone to Bobble and went to the track.

Later, on the track, he stood at several corners of the British flag affixed to the track floor and listened to the two national anthems of the United Kingdom.

Then Qin Miao returned to his racing car.

The good news is that Qin Miao's car is in pole position, and he turned around and walked two steps to the side of his car.

After preparing for a while, Qin Miao put on his helmet and entered his racing car.

After going through the process, Qin Miao began to quietly wait for the moment when the game officially started.

"Good evening to the audience, welcome to the live broadcast of the F1 World Formula One Grand Prix, the UK station brought to you by Five Star Sports."

"I'm Phineas."

"I'm a soldier."

"I'm Brother Ran."

Soon, as the opening words were finished, the three commentators of Five Star Sports also appeared in the studio.

"First of all, we would like to congratulate Zhou Guanyu on winning another title in F2, which is his third F2 stage of the race."

"That's right, as time goes by, Zhou Guanyu's technique has become more and more proficient."

Although Zhou Guanyu is still not as good as Qin Miao's dominant performance in F2 last year, Qin Miao can only be regarded as a special case, and it can be said that in the entire history of racing, Qin Miao's performance in low-level formula is unprecedented, unprecedented.

Putting Qin Miao aside, it is really rare for Zhou Guanyu to have today's performance, and judging from Zhou Guanyu's performance in recent races, Zhou Guanyu also has the strength to impact the F2 championship this year, and we can also expect two Chinese drivers to appear in the paddock next year. ”

In the chatter that followed, all the teams pushed their drivers' cars to their grids, and the warm-up laps were about to begin.

As all the staff on the track withdrew to both sides of the track, Qin Miao moved his hands, then held the steering wheel, and waited for the time to reach three o'clock in the afternoon.

As Rolex's big wall clock came to three o'clock, Qin Miao took the lead in driving his car out of the parking position.

The three commentators are still analysing whether Red Bull will pose a threat to Mercedes in today's game, after all, Verstappen has a good starting position, and Verstappen was not completely pulled away by Hamilton behind Hamilton in yesterday's sprint qualifying session.

And after they chatted for three minutes, Qin Miao, who was wearing neutral tires and brake pads, stopped at his starting position towards the outside.

After Silverstone started, the next two corners didn't need to be braked, and this distance was enough for Qin Miao's brake pads to cool down, so like Qin Miao, there were many riders who made their brake pads very hot when warming up the tire lap.

Because doing so can reduce the temperature loss on the tread of the tire to a certain extent.

Qin Miao's front wheel was just stuck within the limit allowed by the rules, and it was able to press the white line in front of him.

Adjusting the engine mode to the starting mode, Qin Miao took a deep breath, and didn't even look at Hamilton behind him and Verstappen behind him, just stabilized his mind.

As the last Ma Zeping entered his starting position, the green flag waved behind and the medical car was in position.

The game is about to begin.

Qin Miao hung up neutral, stepped on the accelerator lightly, and stared at the five signal lights above with blazing eyes.

As the five red lights lit up one by one, Qin Miao's eyes became more and more focused.

……

At a certain point in time, the five red lights went out suddenly, and Qin Miao also released the clutch button on his steering wheel at this moment and started smoothly.

And with the success of the start, Qin Miao also began to constantly upgrade.

Before entering Turn 1, he took the time to glance at the rearview mirrors on both sides of his car.

And after seeing the picture in the rearview mirror, Qin Miao was a little relieved in his heart.

His start was fine, the reaction time was within 0.25 seconds, and Verstappen, who was behind his right, could only start decently, while Hamilton's start was similar to Qin Miao's, which was also fast.

So it can be seen that after the start, Verstappen was pulled away by Qin Miao, and Hamilton gradually approached Verstappen and began to prepare to overtake Verstappen.

However, Verstappen was very resolute, and after starting to find that his side was dirty and inside, he began to look for space on the outside and squeezed Hamilton's cornering angle.

In the end, because T1 at Silverstone was a right-turn, Verstappen held his position on the inside and even pushed Hamilton off the track very hard in T1.

Back on the track, Hamilton didn't lose much speed, sucking up Verstappen's wake in T2 and adjusting his way all the way to T3.

Seeing that Hamilton didn't lose much speed and was still ready to continue attacking himself, Verstappen held the inside, while Hamilton put a late brake on the outside, ready to take the cross line to continue to put pressure on Verstappen.

However, Verstappen relied on solid fundamentals to block Hamilton's approach to the corner.

Hamilton has no room to do, and he can only choose to avoid it for the time being.

Then the two went all the way to T5.

It is worth mentioning that Hamilton deliberately took a wider line when he got out of T4, that is, after the next straight after T5, Hamilton's exit speed was faster than Verstappen's, and there was also Verstappen's wake bonus.

Obviously, after yesterday's sprint race was blocked by Verstappen for a full 17 laps, Hamilton knew that he would be very embarrassed to run the race if he didn't exceed Verstappen in the race.

So as soon as the game began, Hamilton did everything he could, ready to finish the battle.

Verstappen was naturally reluctant to let Hamilton eat his wake.

So Hamilton just posted it, Verstappen changed lanes and stood on the inside line, and at this time Hamilton also happened to come to Verstappen's outside line, Hamilton wanted to take a big puff of wake and then go to the inside line The idea was directly blocked by Verstappen.

Hamilton had to go one way to the black, relying on Mercedes to beat the straights in the paddock and try to overtake Verstappen before entering T6.

But if he didn't overtake Verstappen before entering T6, then with the long left-hand corner of T6, Verstappen would definitely push Hamilton off the track.

The end result, before entering T6, Hamilton had overtaken Verstappen's left front wheel, even though Hamilton had tried his best to squeeze Verstappen's cornering space and angle to the inside.

But after entering the corner, Verstappen relied on the Red Bull Racing's terrifying corner speed in the mid-to-high-speed corners to break free himself from this huge disadvantage.

At this time, Qin Miao didn't even have the perspective of watching the game.

Because after a whole first timing period from the start, Qin Miao had already pulled away from the rear car for more than 1.3 seconds.

Hamilton and Verstappen had just entered T6, and Qin Miao was ready to start accelerating at this time out of T7.

In the next three corners, T6, T7, and T8, Hamilton relied on the powerful and terrifying straight speed of the Mercedes car to suck Verstappen's wake.

The next big straight between T8 and T9 was for Hamilton to suck Verstappen's wake straight and start approaching quickly.

In the process, Verstappen also made a defensive defence, but Mercedes' car was too fast on the straights, so although he was blocked by Red Bull, Hamilton was still side by side with Verstappen before loosening the throttle in the corner, and stood on the inside of the high-speed corner of T9.

At this time, the speed of both cars has reached about 310 kilometers per hour, which is very fast, and they are both entering the corner.

Both cars were in a balanced state at this point, with a multitude of power packages putting more than 2 tonnes of downforce on the Formula 1 car.

In the process of entering the corner, Hamilton took the middle line of the track and did not cut the center of the inside of the corner.

After all, if you go wider, Verstappen's in-turn route is not too good, and you may not only have to release the throttle when exiting the corner, but even need to wear a foot brake.

That would allow Hamilton to overtake Verstappen before the first lap and avenge his sprint qualifying.

After that, he can chase his teammate Qin Miao in the follow-up games.

It's just that Verstappen didn't loosen the accelerator or even stepped on the brakes as Hamilton expected, Verstappen, like Hamilton, just released the throttle and began to accelerate out of the corner after passing the corner.

And like the first two fights between the two at the start of this match, Verstappen still didn't choose to back down.

Perhaps it was his personality, or perhaps it was the two fights before the start of this race, which made Verstappen feel that Hamilton was not so resolute in this race.

All in all, to the astonishment of all the spectators, there was a slight scraping between Verstappen's right rear wheel and Hamilton's left front wheel.

(End of chapter)