240: Hungaroring Missile Base (Red Bull Special Edition)

It is worth mentioning that while the rest of the drivers were parked on the grid, Arrow's Giovinaz opted to pit for medium tyres.

From TR, it can be known that he is ready to take a gamble on neutral tires.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with his approach, and the consequences that need to be borne are nothing more than a pit lane start.

For Aro, who already has nothing, instead of inserting a urinary catheter and waiting to die, it is better to gamble on a big wave like the current Giovinaz does!

It's just that all the commentators feel that Giovinaz's gamble is a bit too big.

"Today's game is a little difficult for Qin Miao." On the eve of the game, the three commentators of Five Star Sports chatted with their colleagues from their positions.

"That's right, the overtaking difficulty at the Hungaroring circuit is already high, and now that it's raining again, it's even more difficult to overtake without DRS, and Qin Miao is still Verstappen and Pérez in front of him.

It is believed that Verstappen and Pérez will guard Qin Miao strictly in the main match stage, it is too difficult for him to surpass these two, so he can only rely on the time after the rain has stopped in the main race to change to dry ground tires. ”

"I hope there will be no accidents at the beginning of the race, and ...... start steadily"

Now Qin Miao is no longer a nobody who was very controversial when he first entered F1, after half a season of tempering, Qin Miao's skills have matured a lot, and at the same time, the audience and commentators in the paddock have a deeper and deeper understanding of Qin Miao, and they are also familiar with Qin Miao's driving style and characteristics, and know his weaknesses.

Because of this, the three commentators who stood firmly on Qin Miao's side also began to worry about Qin Miao's performance on a rainy day.

And they are not the only ones who are worried about Qin Miao's performance on rainy days, there are many fans who like Qin Miao, even including Qin Miao herself.

Although the sky was still drizzling at this time, as time went on, the water on the track became more and more accumulated.

And the tires of the car also start to cool down quickly because of the rain, although the semi-wet tires of the F1 car do not have high requirements for the temperature of the track and the tires, but you still have to skid after the temperature is low to a critical value.

So after the car was parked, Qin Miao was still silently praying, and the drivers behind him hurriedly parked in their places.

Despite this, Qin Miao still waited on the track for about half a minute, and the cars behind him were parked one after another.

As the medical van at the rear stopped, the green flag waved in the drizzle, and the five red lights lit up one after another.

Qin Miao squinted his eyes, lightly oiled, and kept the speed of the car at about 7200 rpm per minute, starting in rainy days is different from starting on dry ground, the grip is not so strong, and the starting stage naturally can't let the speed be too fast, otherwise the rear wheel will slip when starting.

For F1 drivers, if the starting wheel slips, the starting position will basically drop by more than three.

Although Qin Miao is not good at rain fighting, he still has a certain talent in starting this aspect, at least he will not make mistakes at the start.

As the fifth red light lit up, Qin Miao's attention also reached the limit, and his eyes were staring at that touch of red.

The moment the red color disappeared, Qin Miao suddenly released the clutch button of his racing car.

The rear wheel started instantly, and Qin Miao's most worried rear wheel idling problem did not appear, and he steadily completed a catapult start.

But Qin Miao forgot a little when he was a little too irritable because of the rain, and Reyes would secretly heat up the ground temperature at the four tires at his starting position when it rained.

This is basically what all teams do when they start every rainy day, so Reyes and they thought that Qin Miao should know this, so they didn't mention it in particular.

But Qin Miao was not in a good mood because the sky was cloudy and rainy in the morning, and she was a little worried, and she forgot about it when the game began.

So the engine speed of his start-up was not higher, but lower.

After starting, he could clearly see that Qin Miao was quickly chased by Norris from behind.

And Verstappen in front of Qin Miao started well, although not as fast as Hamilton, but much faster than his teammate Pérez, and after the start, he came to the back of Hamilton and the front of his teammate Pérez.

On the other side, Qin Miao saw that Verstappen had given him a clean lane, and Norris behind him was menacing.

In order to be able to defend Norris's attack, Qin Miao decisively came to the middle line of the track, leaving only Norris a route on the dirty side of the track to take.

On the other side, the road in front of Pérez was blocked by his teammate Verstappen, and Qin Miao had the intention of squeezing over and sealing himself behind Verstappen, so he started a little faster than Qin Miao and forced himself directly in front of Qin Miao after starting.

Looking at Pérez, who was forcibly inserted into front of him, Qin Miao could only reluctantly let go of the accelerator in order to avoid a collision.

And because of this foot of the throttle, Norris, who was originally just approaching and overtaking Qin Miao at a constant speed, directly surpassed Qin Miao from the outside and approached Perez.

Qin Miao's teeth were about to be crushed when he saw this scene, after all, he started a little slow this wave, and as soon as he came up, he didn't keep his position and was going to be attacked by Norris, not to mention, Pérez also rode on his head to and pee.

But that's competitive sports, you make a mistake and your opponent doesn't, you have to pay the price.

But what Qin Miao didn't expect was that Norris's starting speed was a little ridiculously fast, and it was not enough to surpass Qin Miao before entering T1, he also surpassed Perez.

Qin Miao suddenly thought about it after seeing this scene.

The poor grip on the dirty side of the dry ground is mainly due to the fact that the asphalt on the dirty side has some slight bumps and unevenness, and the grip of the tires cannot be 100% exerted when running on this kind of ground.

But it's a different story on a rainy day, because it's raining, but this slight bump increases the traction of the car even more.

No one went to the dirty side in the race, purely because the speed advantage of the dirty side traction advantage could not offset the benefits of moving from the normal driving route to the dirty side and coming back again.

At the starting stage, Norris just walked on the dirty side after starting, and his grip was one section stronger than Qin Miao's.

So the audience clearly saw that Qin Miao and Perez were directly eaten raw by Norris from the inside.

After surpassing these two people, Norris was not in a good position to enter the corner, but he was easily suffocated by Pérez's late brake from the inside line when he took the outside line.

So Norris overtook Pérez and came directly in front of Pérez, with no more than 2 metres between the two cars.

We all know that this season's car will lose more than 60% of its downforce due to the turbulence of the car in front when it follows behind the driver in front of it.

Today it was raining, the track was slippery, and the brake point of T1 was still downhill.

Norris entered the brake point and began to brake and slow down, and Pérez behind him also chose to slow down at the same time.

But because he had a McLaren in front of him very close to him, and because of the car in front, the overall downforce of the Pérez car was more than 50 per cent lower than normal.

Despite Pérez's preparation, he didn't apply the brakes too much and adjusted the brake balance very far back, but Pérez found himself constantly approaching Norris in front of him, as if he was not on the brakes, but on the accelerator.

Before Pérez felt like he was about to hit Norris, he had to apply the brakes a little deeper, in an attempt to further slow down the proximity between the two cars.

It's just that this kind of subconscious action completely made the situation fall out of control.

The grip of the Pérez racing tyres, which had not had much downforce, was at the limit, and it was still a downhill slope, and although Pérez had adjusted the brake weight to the rear wheels, the load on the car was basically all on the front wheels when decelerating.

So Pérez lowered the brakes a little and locked the right front wheel of his car.

Originally, the track was wet, and Pérez's right front wheel was locked and then the left front wheel was also locked.

Both front wheels were locked up, the rear wheels followed suit, and Pérez's Red Bull car spun out of control on the spot.

It slammed directly into Norris's ass as he was slowing down.

Norris's attention was now focused on Verstappen on his side and Hamilton in front of him, glancing in the rearview mirror before entering the brake point, and then ignored Pérez after noticing that he didn't tap his inside line, not realizing that danger was coming.

Then, Pérez hit his head right in the back of Norris's car.

Pérez's left front suspension was broken immediately after the collision, while Norris's rear diffuser was scrapped on the spot, and the car was shoveled into the air.

The good news was that Pérez had a lot of braking power after the left front suspension broke, so Norris's car eventually fell to the ground because the car behind him suddenly slowed down.

The bad news is that Norris's tires have lost grip after Pérez's tackle, and his left front is Red Bull's Verstappen.

So Norris, who didn't have any grip, made a close contact with Verstappen, although because of the angle, Norris's left front wheel hit the back of Verstappen's right front wheel, so both cars kept their suspension.

But this collision directly destroyed the windbreaker wing on the side of the two, and Norris even crashed his own nose wing.

At the same time, Pérez, the man who started it all, lost traction and slid straight towards the buffer zone like Norris.

Originally, he had a car waiting on the same road as Norris, but Gasly was different from Verstappen, he saw the collision between Perez and Norris, so after seeing Perez coming towards him, he didn't enter the corner, and rushed straight into the buffer zone.

Although Gasly avoided a collision by dodging Pérez's meat bullet impact, it was just the beginning of the race.

Running to the buffer zone to avoid danger, he still rushed straight in, and the consequence was that when Gasly returned to the track again, Giovinus, who had entered the pit lane to gamble, ran ahead of him.

He fell to the back of the line.

The good news is that after such an accident, the race will have to at least use the safety car, so this loss can be recovered quickly.

The bad news is that Gasly started fifth, and he has now dropped straight to the bottom of the team.

This is a bit of a big difference.

Qin Miao, on the other hand, took on the role of Kimi's war correspondent and witnessed all this happening, and the camera of his car also faithfully recorded everything that had just happened.

And after seeing all this, Qin Miao was even a little glad that he made some mistakes at the beginning, otherwise he would have been one of the people who were involved in the car accident just now.

But Qin Miao was just glad that it wasn't long ago, and when he was about to enter the corner, he suddenly felt a crisp carbon fiber breaking sound from behind his racing car: "Click!" ”

Then a huge force came from behind the car, and the rear wheel of his car was also shoveled and flying.

The first time he found that his car was out of control, Qin Miao felt a sigh in his heart.

It's so bad! I was also scolded.

But fortunately, there was a lesson from the car ahead, and the car behind left a lot of margin when it entered the corner, and Qin Miao was just slapped on the buttocks, and then because of the sudden huge force behind him, Qin Miao's car also lost its grip when entering the corner, and also entered the buffer zone outside the track like Pérez.

When he lost control, Qin Miao also took the time to take a look behind him, and what appeared behind him was a red Ferrari.

Sainz didn't finish in the top 10 at all in qualifying, so it was self-evident who was behind him at this time.

And Leclerc was a little helpless when he saw that he had put Qin Miao out of the track, and he didn't want to, but when T1 entered the corner, he was slammed to the side by Stroll, who was out of control on the grass inside T1 behind him, and he was also out of control, and he just hit Qin Miao.

But fortunately, the power at this time was not great, and Qin Miao's racing car visually showed no more damage except for the rear diffuser.

After the focus of this round of the World Class 1 Bumper Car Grand Prix was over, only Hamilton, who started from pole position, was unaffected by the front row of riders.

It's like fate.

It is worth mentioning that although this accident affected many cars, except for Pérez, the suspension of other cars did not have any damage, at most there was damage to the windbreaker, floor, and front nose wing, but these injuries did not affect the normal driving of the car, so except for Pérez's car parked in the buffer zone of T1, the other drivers drove away quickly.

So although the collision was very serious, only one Red Bull was the first to retire.

Of course, this is only talking about the cars that retired from the race, and in addition to the cars that withdrew, the cars involved in this track accident have lost a lot of positions.

(End of chapter)