During the first practice session on Friday, it was still raining in the sky, and the good news was that the rain was not too heavy, just light showers, and it didn't even rain in many areas of the track.

However, because it had just passed a rain cloud, the whole track was now wet.

The air conditions were similar to yesterday, with an air temperature of 12 degrees, a track temperature of 16 degrees, and an air humidity of 90%.

It's not a good temperature for a car, and the data collected isn't that useful, but the good news is that according to the weather department's forecast, it will rain tomorrow and the next two days.

Despite the rain today, there were many spectators in the practice stage, and the sales of grass tickets were the same as before the epidemic.

However, after a practice, the rain gradually stopped, and because there were cars running on the track all the time, the track was completely dry in about ten minutes.

Qin Miao also made a pit stop and changed into a new set of neutral tires.

The weather forecast is sometimes really a random report, Qin Miao remembered that before getting in the car, the people from the meteorological department swore to themselves that it would rain during the entire first and second exercises.

But a set of semi-wet tires on the track stopped rain before two laps were completed.

The practice session that followed was a calm affair, with everyone constantly refreshing their test results and testing the limits of their cars on the track.

Soon, at the end of the first practice, Qin Miao ran the fastest lap with a set of soft tires, and won the first place after a rare practice.

After that, the rhythm of the second practice was the same as the first practice, and Qin Miao also helped the team get a lot of data, but it is worth mentioning that everyone used dry tires in the first and second exercises, so the data that ran out were also the data of dry tires.

However, the weather department said that it would definitely rain on Saturday and Sunday, and the data measured on dry tires today may not be useful in qualifying and racing.

However, at least this is the case with other teams, and Qin Miao and Mei Ben also said that they could barely accept it.

At the end of the second practice, Qin Miao finally accepted the interview and finished work!

On Saturday, this time the weather department was not mistaken, and the track was raining as they said.

The bad news, local showers, where the rain is light on the track, you can run the car line during the third practice, and in the wet place, the water mist raised by the car is as high as four or five meters.

But at least according to the weather forecast, the rain will continue until the end of qualifying.

Therefore, the three exercises become very important.

An hour later, Qin Miao finally chose a set of high downforce tuning, and among the two sets of new rear wings, Qin Miao also chose the rear wing with relatively high downforce.

At the same time, Qin Miao opened a new set of engine and exhaust gearbox, and it can be said that Qin Miao's team in this race is going to the championship.

Qin Miao's rain battle ability is not good? Then directly give him a new set of engines and core power components, and use hardware to make up for this shortcoming.

Qualifying.

As soon as I came up, the qualifying session was postponed due to the heavy rain in the afternoon.

When it starts depends on when the rain becomes lighter.

But despite this, the audience was still full, and the lawn was full of tents and RVs.

During the time when waiting for the start of qualifying, Qin Miao and these drivers naturally couldn't run around, so they could only stay in the team's P room.

During the period before waiting for the start of qualifying, Qin Miao was different from his teammate Hamilton, the old man directly put on his helmet and waited in the car, while Qin Miao sat in the position specially prepared for the driver behind Toto.

When the on-site director began to look for shots everywhere, he happened to see a picture taken by a photographer in front of Qin Miao.

Because of Qin Miao's ranking in the standings at this time, the photographer on the scene deliberately found an angle, and the camera captured Hamilton who was sitting in the car and preparing, and also photographed Qin Miao who was looking down and didn't know what to do on the other side.

The director just released this picture.

At the same time, the photographer also raised his lens a little, just aiming at what Qin Miao was looking down.

If you zoom in a little, you can see that Qin Miao is holding a red Switch......

The man was fishing in between work......

If Hamilton and Qin Miao were not in the same shot, then no one would say anything about Qin Miao's free time playing games before the game started.

It will even make many people feel sorry for Qin Miao, after all, many people will want to touch the fish and relax in their daily work and life.

But this picture happened to be placed with Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton, and at this time, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton was sitting in his car waiting for the resumption of the game.

I'm afraid of comparison, and now with the comparison of Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton, Qin Miao's behavior is a bit out of business.

Even some people thought at the first time that Qin Miao was a little drifting because he was ahead of his teammates in the standings.

And even if the fans who want to help Qin Miao speak, there is no good reason to refute at this time, after all, this picture is too impactful.

In fact, Qin Miao was still a little restrained at this time, because he used to play with his mobile phone before waiting for the start of the race, but because of the use of communication equipment during the race, he was fined 5,000 euros by the team.

So at this time, Qin Miao changed her mobile phone to Switch.

It's not a communication device, is it?

As for the rhythm that I brought up in and out of the paddock because I played the Switch during the game at this time?

Qin Miao didn't know at all, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care about these rhythms, because as long as Qin Miao performed well enough in a game and won one or two sub-station championships, these stains on his body would automatically be ignored.

And this is just a small fishing during work, not a matter of principle, not even a stain.

And Qin Miao is still confident in his own strength, although this week's Spa is a little difficult, but there is still half a season of games ahead.

Ten minutes later, the FIA reminded the teams that, according to the weather department, the rain had begun to light down and that the teams could pick their tyres and get ready for the lap time.

Qin Miao handed over his Switch to Bobble as soon as he received the notification, and quickly put on his equipment and returned to his racing car.

According to the Mercedes Weather Department, it will rain throughout qualifying, so all drivers will have to use wet tyres during the race.

However, the number of wet tires in a qualifying weekend is limited, and Qin Miao has used up one set of half and one full rain tires in the practice session, and now he only has three sets of half and two full rain tires left.

The key is that it may also rain in tomorrow's race, so there are only two sets of semi-wet tires and one set of full rain tires that Qin Miao can use in the qualifying stage.

So in the Q1 stage, Qin Miao was going to use all-rain tires when she went on the track.

On the one hand, using full rain tires is to see how fast the full rain tires are, if the speed is not bad, relying on the performance advantages of Mercedes racing cars, you can directly use all rain tires to run the entire Q1 stage, which is also considered to save tires.

But if you're not fast enough, the full wet tyres can also drain some of the water out of the track a bit and prepare yourself for a pit stop and switch to the semi-wet tyres.

However, after all, Mercedes has the heritage of a large team, so when Q1 first started, whether it was Mercedes, Red Bull or Ferrari, they all stayed in the P room and did not move.

The main thing is to see how fast these riders who come out of the P room first.

After the other drivers had run a lap, Mei Ben also released the two drivers.

Qin Miao and his teammate Hamilton both use all-rain tires.

After the warm-up lap began, Qin Miao obviously felt that there was too much water on this track, and the driving line was not dry, and the drainage of all the rain tires was not very clean.

Qin Miao had just started her own flying lap, and Latifi, who used semi-rain tires in the second time session, rushed into the grass buffer zone.

If the team released Qin Miao a little earlier than five seconds, Qin Miao's results in this lap would be ruined.

After the first flight lap was finished, Qin Miao's time came to 2:11.1, temporarily ranking third, not even as fast as Russell who used semi-rain tires.

Russell started the race on semi-wet tyres, while his team-mate Latifi also started on semi-wet tyres.

It's just that Russell ran the first lap with half-rain tires and went to the first place after the first lap, while Latifi ran into the buffer zone without finishing the first lap.

Because the durability of rain tires is stronger than that of dry tires, you can still run the second and third flight laps after the first flight lap.

And when he ran the second flight lap, Russell, who used half-wet tires, directly brought his time to 2 minutes 02 seconds in his second flight lap.

Compared with Qin Miao, who used all-rain tires for the second, it was improved by a full 9 seconds.

It's not hard to understand why there is such a terrifying improvement, after all, all the drivers are on the track at this time on all-rain tyres.

The floor of the car itself has a strong adsorption force, which will suck up the water on the track, plus the drainage function of the racing tires.

As long as it doesn't rain, the grip of the track will increase by at least 20% after all drivers have run a lap around the track.

That's why Russell's performance on semi-wet tires is so against the sky.

After learning this, Qin Miao had just finished his second flight lap and was ranked sixth, when he also heard a voice in the team's TR: "BOX, BOX, let's change to semi-rainy tires." ”

After hearing the team's instructions, Qin Miao knew that she was a little difficult in the main race stage.

In Q2 or the main race, I need to use old semi-wet tires for at least one link.

However, Qin Miao had just come out of the pit and got another bad news, that is, the rain would become heavier in three minutes.

So in order to be able to regain a chance to run a flight lap before the rain fell, the warm-up lap after Qin Miao came out was directly used as a flight lap.

In the end, it rained when Qin Miao flew lap to the second time period.

The good news is that at this time twenty cars are running on the track, and there is no water accumulation on the driving line, except for some wetness, so the speed of the semi-wet tires is still very impressive.

At 3 minutes, Qin Miao completed her first effective flight lap on semi-rain tires, and the final time was 1:59.02.

Temporarily come to the fourth.

And after running this flight lap, Qin Miao started charging again, preparing to charge a lap of electricity before running the last flight lap.

With 20 seconds left at the end of the race, Qin Miao crossed the finish line and started the last flying lap of his Q1 stage.

Soon, after this flight lap was finished, Qin Miao's ranking rose to seventh, and he advanced to Q2 in a decent position.

After all, it's Q1, so it's enough to be promoted.

The last five drivers to be eliminated in Q1 were: Gio Venaz, Tsunoda, Mick Schumacher, Kimi, and Mazepin.

Surprisingly, Williams advanced to Q2 today with a double car.

Q2, Qin Miao used semi-rain tires, but Qin Miao used the old semi-rain tires used in Q1.

No way, it's raining these days, and the number of semi-rainy tires is not enough, if the race and Q3 want to have new semi-rainy tires, then Q2 has to overcome it.

Qin Miao and Hamilton were the first to go out.

However, the two of them had just gone out when the team's meteorological department said that it would rain in five minutes, and that the rain would continue until the end of Q2.

After a brief discussion with the team's strategy team, it was decided to recall both Mercedes drivers from the track.

And directly replace it with a new set of semi-rain tires to make a final decision.

After the rain falls, you won't go out and run directly to protect the durability of this set of semi-rain tires.

After completing the first flight lap after the pit stop, Hamilton made a mistake, so the first flight lap was directly released, and Qin Miao was slightly better, after the first flight lap was finished, the time was 1:57.3, and the position came to second.

And not long after this result, it really started to rain again, just as the team's meteorological department said.

However, when Qin Miao asked the team if he wanted to pit to protect his tires, the team directly said: "There is no need to pit stop, this rain will stop soon and continue to advance on the track." ”

The weather is out of order.

It seems that the team is ready to directly give up Qin Miao's use of new semi-rain tires in the main race stage, but with Qin Miao's tire protection ability, it is not impossible to use an old set of old tires as a new one in the main race stage.

In the final stages of Q2, all the drivers refreshed their speed on the track where the track conditions gradually improved.

In the end, Qin Miao advanced to Q3 with the fifth place, while his teammate Hamilton was second.

The drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Leclerc, Latifi, Sainz, Alonso, Stroll.

In addition to the surprise that Williams qualified for Q2 with two cars, it was also surprising that neither of the two Ferrari drivers in Q2 made it to Q3.

Meanwhile, Norris advanced to the next round in Q1 and Q2 with the first place.

His teammate Ricciardo was pulled six places away by him in qualifying, and it can be said that Norris pressed his team-mate to the ground and rubbed it.

As soon as Q2 was closed and the drivers of each team were back in the garage, a heavy rain fell.

And as you can see from the weather map, not only does this rain not mean to get smaller, but it is getting bigger and bigger.

At the same time, the wind speed has increased to 10 km/h.

This adds even more uncertainty to the already slippery Spa-Francorchamps circuit.

The good news is that it's raining so hard that almost all the riders don't go out on the semi-wet tyres because it's raining more than it was when Q1 started.

And in the middle of Q2 and Q3, the rainwater that had been drained by the cars on the track accumulated again.

In Q3, the first driver to come out was Norris.

Norris was in great shape in this race, and it could be seen that Norris wanted to continue his performance in Q1 and Q2 in Q3, taking advantage of the fact that top drivers such as Qin Miao, Hamilton and Verstappen were not so good in the rain, and grabbed a pole position in his hands.

Halfway through Norris's warm-up lap, Vettel said in the team's TR that it was raining too much and that the race should be red-flagped.

The current amount of rain should indeed be red flag, but for some reason, the tournament did not do so.

And because Norris Q3 was the first to go out at the beginning, he didn't need to run the first flight lap, and he had a result after the warm-up lap crossed the line.

If this red flag lasts longer, then the rest of the race may not be played at all, and everyone will be ranked according to the Q2 position, then Norris will take the first pole position of his career here.

It may be cruel to say, but Norris has been racing in F1 for so long that the best starting position of his career is second.

In comparison, Qin Miao won the first pole position of her career in Silverstone.

This gold content is not low at all, you must know that Yinshi is Qin Miao's teammate, Hamilton's home field.

Getting pole position on a teammate's home ground is no easy task.

Although Qin Miao and Norris don't have any grudges, and even because they can often play games together when they have nothing to do, the relationship between the two is quite good.

But because the relationship between the two is not bad, Norris saw that Qin Miao, who entered the paddock two years later than himself, had better grades and performance than himself, and it was impossible to say that he was not jealous that Qin Miao had a good car.

And now he finally has a chance to beat Qin Miao by one point in qualifying, and can even trample Hamilton and Verstappen under his feet and break a new record in his career.

Norris's feet on the gas pedal were a little more powerful than ever.

So even though he had already achieved results after the warm-up lap, he didn't choose to pit and started his first lap in Q3.

T1 was fairly stable when cornering, and Norris straightened his steering wheel a little after the corner, and there was basically no loss of speed.

The last full throttle went straight to the Al Rog Corner.

Just when everyone thought Norris would continue his amazing performances in Q1 and Q2, the camera turned.

A McLaren, which had been in the Elrog bend well, turned into a spinning top when it came out of the bend.

The front and rear 4 wheel suspensions of the car were all scrapped by the collision, and they were pulled on the car and rotated and slid along with the car.

Debris was scattered all over the ground, and the metal parts rubbed against the ground to create dazzling sparks, and the race was naturally the first to show the red flag.

In the midst of the rain, no one knew what had just happened to Norris.

In fact, with the current rainfall, the race should have shown a red flag a long time ago, but it was the red flag that appeared after Norris crashed.

If this red flag is a little earlier, even if the club really wants Norris to get pole position for this race, he can give the red flag after the warm circle run.

But now, everyone can only see everyone in McLaren's P room holding their heads in their hands and looking at the replay of Norris crash in disbelief.

Qin Miao and Hamilton were also preparing to go out, but as soon as they saw the red flag, the small computer in front of Qin Miao was replaced by the staff of Mei Ben with the picture of Norris's car accident just now.

Fortunately, when the camera cuts to Norris again, you can see that the Norris car as a whole is still in good condition, and the monocoque and roll cage are not damaged.

During this period, Vettel, who had just passed the pit entrance behind Norris and found a red flag, naturally couldn't run anymore, and he couldn't just drive back to the pit lane like this, so he had to run around the track again.

When he came to the wreckage of Norris's car, Vettel stopped the car to check on Norris.

After making sure that Norris's helmet was still moving, that there should be no major problems, and that he had responded to his movements, he didn't stay where he was and drove away.

Soon after Vettel left, the medical van also roared.

By the time the replay of Norris's accident was released, everyone could clearly see that when Norris was going uphill, the Elrog bend was full of downward currents.

And the normal driving lane is also full of water.

Norris went uphill into T2 and the car still had grip, but when T3 went uphill, the right front wheel pressed against the shoulder of T3, and the car went out of control.

The grip of the right front wheel was lost on the spot.

When the grip of the right front wheel is lost, the car will naturally deviate to the right.

Norris, on the other hand, found that the front of the car was deflecting to the right, so he chose to correct it to the left on the spot.

It's a pity that F1 drivers like Norris, who have strong control of the car, have no way to completely predict how much the car will correct in the rainy weather, and when to get back to the right steering wheel.

So by the time Norris realized that he had overcorrected and wanted to turn the steering wheel, the car had completely deflected to the right and lost control.

Then he hit his head on the parapet wall on the side of the track, and spun wildly to slide forward under the inertia of the car.

The good news is that Norris was not injured despite a violent impact, and even got out of the car on his own initiative.

After the red flag, Qin Miao didn't stay in the car, got off the car directly, and took the initiative to get into the medical car.

Qin Miao and the other team riders waited for more than half an hour during the red flag.

This half an hour was not too difficult for Qin Miao, who brought a game console to the paddock.

Half an hour later, Matthew on the track had cleaned up the debris that had been scattered after Norris's crash, and the parapet he had hit had been restored.

(End of chapter)