“Nice！”

After the goal was scored, Hamilton was applauded and cheered by all the Mercedes staff who were watching the game and the marketing staff who recorded the video.

Hamilton even shook his fists and celebrated happily.

Qin Miao applauded in some surprise, the ball was indeed lost.

After a brief celebration, Hamilton smiled and came over to high-five Qin Miao.

However, the ball seemed to drain all Hamilton's luck, and the next three balls were smashed out of the frame.

In the end, only one of the five shots was left with a somewhat embarrassing result.

However, Hamilton is not surprised by this, after all, he really can't play basketball, and it is good luck to be able to score one.

After Hamilton was over, it was Qin Miao's turn.

Qin Miao still touched basketball for a while when she was studying, but the technique can only be said to focus on participation.

Therefore, Qin Miao only has a game entertainment mentality for this activity.

It's just that when Qin Miao really touched the basketball, stood at the free throw line, dribbled the ball a little like Hamilton, and then threw out his shot.

"Huh!"

Hollow into the net.

The moment the basketball entered the net, the crowd of onlookers rang out with the same applause and whistle from Hamilton when the ball was just thrown.

And Qin Miao was a little stunned, he really threw this ball indiscriminately, and he didn't expect it to be scored.

After celebrating with Hamilton, the second ball was in Qin Miao's hand after coming back and standing up.

After a simple dribble, with a slight adjustment, Qin Miao raised the basketball above his head, and this time he honestly threw the ball out according to his habits.

"Huh!"

Another hollow into the net.

The cheers were louder.

Qin Miao is also even more confused, is buddy's basketball talent so good? When I was studying, I didn't play basketball in physical education class, right? But at that time, I didn't seem to hit a few free-throw line shots, right? And most of the three-point line shots are three-pointers......

Could it be that he didn't have enough strength when he was a child?

Third goal.

"Huh!"

Fourth goal.

"Huh!"

After throwing it here, Qin Miao was happy, and even felt that the sound of the basketball passing by was quite good.

Hamilton and the rest of the Mercedes staff had big question marks on their heads.

Let you come to participate in an event, didn't let you come to the gym, what kind of car are you driving with this performance? Play NBA Go!

What? Playing in the NBA doesn't make much money by driving?

That's fine.

On the fifth ball, Qin Miao finally didn't enter the net anymore, Qin Miao has been abroad for so long, and he still understands a little bit of human sophistication.

Teammate 1 of 5 shots, you 5 of 5 shots, that doesn't make sense.

Even though it's just an entertaining game, if you do that, your teammates won't look good.

So the last ball Qin Miao threw very casually, of course, it couldn't be seen from the outside.

The basketball slammed into the rebound in a graceful arc, then bounced off the outermost basket and bounced off.

5 shots and 4 hits are also a good result, and as soon as Qin Miao's result comes out, it is self-evident who the winner of this game is.

Hamilton came to Qin Miao with some confusion, and asked curiously while shaking hands with Qin Miao, "Have you practiced before?" Why so skilled? ”

Qin Miao smiled and spread her hands: "No kidding, I really haven't practiced basketball before, and I can perform like this today just because of good luck, and of course I can't rule out the possibility that I am very talented in basketball." ”

Hamilton has known Qin Miao for so long, and he really hasn't seen Qin Miao tell any lies in front of him, so after thinking about it for a while, Hamilton agreed with Qin Miao's statement.

Then he jokingly said, "Then it looks like the American basketball world has lost a top shooter like Curry." ”

"Don't don't, I'm self-aware, and I can't compare with their geniuses." Qin Miao hurriedly waved his hand.

After this, the first stage of this small event came to an end, and Qin Miao won.

After all, it's a fan-oriented video, and there's no punishment or anything like that.

The second stage is to shoot three-pointers.

Hamilton, who couldn't shoot from the free-throw line, wasn't much better here to make a three-point shot, still shooting 1-of-5.

Seeing this, Qin Miao continued to release water, so the next few balls were thrown at random.

In the end, he shot 2 out of 5, which was a little relieved for Hamilton.

Stage 3 is all about dribbling.

After reaching this stage, the essence of Qin Miao's novice was exposed, and at first glance, he was not very good at dribbling, and he could not master the basic skills well.

Of course, Hamilton is not far behind, let the two dribble, that is really to let the audience watch the rookies peck each other.

However, Qin Miao's shooting skills are enough to bring a big surprise to Mei Ben's fans who like to play basketball.

After the event, Qin Miao and the others experienced several entertainment activities that are very common for American car fans, such as throwing frisbees, baseball, and the like.

After this event, all of Qin Miao's marketing activities on Thursday ended.

In fact, there was a sponsor dinner for Mei Ben in the evening, but Qin Miao didn't go directly, and the people who went this time were Hamilton and Toto, and Bottas.

After such a long period of high-intensity marketing, although Qin Miao didn't mention that he wanted to rest, Toto still took the initiative to reduce Qin Miao's burden.

Friday, the day when the first and second exercises begin.

Although Qin Miao has to accept a penalty in the United States, it is not without good news.

That is, after coming to the United States, it finally stopped raining for three days during the main race and practice match.

And the average track temperature is around 50 degrees Celsius, which is extremely suitable for a race.

In other words, Qin Miao can drive at full speed without any scruples in the main race stage on Sunday, chasing the riders in front of him.

One practice.

Because of his unfamiliarity with the American track, Qin Miao did not run as fast as he should in the whole practice, and the fastest result was only ranked sixth.

Qin Miao's entire practice was to familiarize himself with the track and run long-distance tests.

The team is accustomed to the slow heat of Qin Miao's practice session.

Although because of Qin Miao's slow heat, the team could not spend all the time of the three practice sessions on improving Qin Miao's lap speed.

But newcomers are familiar with the same when facing unfamiliar tracks, such as Williams, Haas and Alfa Romeo.

Mercedes is a little unaccustomed to it, just because they haven't brought many new F1 drivers like this.

As the defending champions, the drivers who join the Mercedes team are usually those who have already achieved a certain number of results in the paddock.

And these drivers can't afford to make the same mistakes that rookie drivers like Qin Miao often do.

Of course, despite this, Qin Miao can always get familiar with the track quickly, and in the next few practice sessions, he will come up with satisfactory results for the team.

At the end of the final practice, Hamilton was first, Verstappen was second, Leclerc was third, and Qin Miao was sixth.

After a short break at halftime, Frankie also chatted with Qin Miao about what he didn't do well enough in this practice match, and the next practice match needed to be improved and adjusted.

It is worth mentioning that when Barber went to Hamilton's assistant to ask for Hamilton's racing data, he was politely refused.

In other words, Qin Miao had to set up and debug his own car in this game by himself and his team.

Qin Miao was a little surprised when he got the news, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with Hamilton's approach, let alone any negative emotions, and felt that Hamilton suddenly didn't give him the data, because Hamilton was stingy, looked down on himself or something like that.

Hamilton shares his data for free, and it is his duty not to share it.

There is a saying in China very early on, relying on everyone to run, relying on the mountains to fall.

It's better to rely on no one than on yourself.

Instead, Barber and Frankie were a little indignant.

Qin Miao also persuaded them a few words.

Two exercises.

Qin Miao, who was in the second training stage, already had a relatively clear understanding of his racing car and was familiar with this track.

Even compared to other tracks that Qin Miao had not run, it was easier for Qin Miao to become familiar with the American track.

After all, the Circuit of the Americas is actually a stitch of other tracks, and you can see a lot of shadows of other tracks here.

Among them, Qin Miao was most impressed by the continuous bends that were the same as the silver stone.

So in the second training stage, with the familiarity of the first practice, Qin Miao started his fastest lap test.

During the second practice, the other riders began to test the long distance, so when the second practice was finished, Qin Miao actually went directly to the first place.

However, if Qin Miao's result is compared with Hamilton, Qin Miao is only less than 0.1 seconds faster than Hamilton.

So if Hamilton is asked to come over and run a flying lap at this time, Hamilton will be faster than Qin Miao nine times out of ten.

Therefore, Qin Miao didn't think that this second-practice champion had anything to be proud of.

On Friday, three exercises.

At the end of the third session, it was Pérez who won the first place, and the second was not one of the three contenders, but Sainz.

Verstappen, Hamilton, and Qin Miao are the three championship drivers ranked third, fourth and fifth.

Of course, whether these three people deliberately did not take out all their strength in the three training stages, it is unknown.

In short, at the end of the three exercises, the rankings of these three people did not reach the position expected by the audience.

After a few hours of rest, qualifying begins.

During the break, the team completed the replacement of Qin Miao's engine parts.

In the qualifying stage, although he had to start at the end of the team, Qin Miao still got on the track.

Although Qin Miao's car was filled with a brand-new engine and gearbox at this time, there was no way for the team to pack tickets to ensure that Qin Miao's power unit had no problems.

Therefore, the Q1 stage is when the team wants to test the stability of Qin Miao's power unit, so that Qin Miao can run through the run-in period of this engine.

After the run-in period is over, test the engine again, and if you make sure that there is no problem, you don't have to worry about Qin Miao's engine running halfway through the race.

After changing to a new engine, Qin Miao's speed has improved significantly.

After the end of Q1, Qin Miao directly advanced to Q2 with the first place, and Hamilton Verstappen, the two main competitors of Qin Miao, were ranked behind Qin Miao.

Q2, because Qin Miao was not the only one in this game who replaced the new engine, in addition to him, Vettel, Alonso and Russell also chose to replace a full set of power units.

And these drivers who have changed their engines have also entered Q2, so in order to start the race further forward tomorrow, Qin Miao still ran two flight laps in Q2.

With Qin Miao's strength and Meiben's racing, Qin Miao naturally easily entered Q3.

In the end, the drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Ocon, Vettel, Gio Venaz, Alonso, Russell.

After all the riders who received the penalty with Qin Miao in Q2 were out, Qin Miao did not continue to run Q3.

As soon as Q3 began, the on-site director gave the camera to the P room of the Meiben team, and the camera happened to focus on Qin Miao's No. 66 car.

At this time, Qin Miao happened to get out of the car, you must know that this is just the beginning of Q3.

"Qin Miao, did you get off directly?" Today's female commentator Li Bao asked with some surprise: "Do you need to go to the toilet?" ”

Because the timing of the U.S. Grand Prix was a bit too shady for domestic spectators, qualifying started at 5 a.m.

Fei Ge and Brother Bing, the two commentators, really don't have the energy to stay up late to explain the game because of their age, so today's qualifying match and tomorrow's main stage are all in charge of Li Bao, Zhou Haoran, and Wang Yang.

After hearing Li Bao's question, Zhou Haoran explained: "Qin Miao should be preparing to retire, after all, Qin Miao replaced a full set of power units and gearbox components in this game, no matter what results he gets, he will eventually be punished to the end of the team." ”

Wang Yang also agreed: "That's right, if there is a penalty, even if Qin Miao finally gets the pole position in Q3, Qin Miao will still be punished to the end of the team to start, so instead of running another Q3, it is better to make sure that there is no problem with the engine and gearbox, and the ranking is higher than the Q3 who gave up the qualifying race after the three drivers who also relegated to the end of the team, and save a little more engine."

After all, when I watched the pre-game interview, Qin Miao said that if nothing else, this is the last time he will replace engine parts this season.

You definitely need to protect your engine as much as possible to survive until the last race. ”

After losing Qin Miao, the qualifying competition in Q3 did not lose half of the excitement, and the battle between Hamilton and Verstappen was still exciting.

In Q3, the lap times of the two in qualifying can be described as you singing and I will appear, one faster than the other.

However, in the end, it was Verstappen who came out on top, and it is likely that this is also due to Newway, who returned from injury.

It's also possible that the Circuit of the Americas doesn't suit the Mercedes muscle car.

Eventually, after Q3 was suspended, the ranking of qualifying racers was as follows:

1: Verstappen

2: Hamilton

3: Pérez

4: Leclerc

5: Sainz

6: Ricardo

7: Norris

8: Gasly

9: Tsunoda

10: Qin Miao

11: Ocon

12: Vettel

13: Giovinaz

14: Alonso

15: Russell

16: Stroll

17: Latifi

18： Kimi

19: Mick

20: Ma Zeping

However, the final position in qualifying does not represent the starting order of the race.

The starting positions for tomorrow's race are as follows:

(Austin Circuit is counterclockwise, but the starting position is pole on the right.) ）

First row: Hamilton, Verstappen.

Second row: Leclerc, Pérez.

Third row: Ricciardo, Sainz.

Fourth row: Gasly, Norris.

Fifth row: O'Connell, Tsunoda.

Sixth row: Stroll, Giovinaz.

Seventh row: Kimi, Latifi.

Eighth row: Ma Zeping, Mick.

Ninth row: Vettel, Qin Miao.

Tenth row: Russell, Alonso.

Qin Miao started from the seventeenth place, the penultimate row.

Although this starting position is still not too good, it is much better than the team's previous prediction of starting from the back of the line.

At least Qin Miao had three missing goals in front of him that needed to be surpassed.

However, after the qualifying round, Qin Miao also found a problem, that is, Austin has been in a hot state for the past few days.

Both practice and qualifying showed that the soft tyres were not adapted to the conditions on the track.

The tire formula given by Pirelli for this race is C2-C4.

However, due to the temperature and track characteristics, soft tires in Austin are extremely prone to overheating, and when they overheat, they will become granulated, and then the tires will wear out excessively.

So even if it's Qin Miao, this game doesn't plan to use soft tires to create a miracle.

It's not that Qin Miao doesn't want to, it's not that Qin Miao doesn't have this ability, it's mainly that the soft tires really can't hold up too many laps, especially when Qin Miao needs to drive fiercely and constantly surpass the rider in front of him.

So after Saturday's qualifying session, the team had two sets of tire strategies for Qin Miao on Sunday, one was yellow and white, and the other was white and yellow.

The two pit stop strategies are different, and the yellow and white stop is a very conventional pit stop strategy.

Qin Miao can run a long stint with yellow tires and use the pit stops of other drivers to try to overcut them.

can also rely on the performance of the car and Qin Miao's offensive ability to surpass the drivers in front of him more on the track.

Under this pit stop strategy, the team's strategy group has little room to play, which is equivalent to handing over the race to Qin Miao, a driver, and letting him control the direction and outcome of the race.

Another pit stop strategy is a white and yellow stop.

The operation space on the side of this strategy team is not small, and Qin Miao can be arranged with different pit stop times according to the situation on the field at this time.

Of course, this pit stop strategy also requires Qin Miao to run a long stint.

Qin Miao saw the two competition tactics prepared for him by the team at the meeting, and after thinking for a while, he chose the first one.

Yellow and white stopped.

Conventional tactics may not be impressive, but at least they are safer and less risky than those bells and whistles.

After determining the tactics and tire strategies that needed to be used on Sunday, Qin Miao finished her day's work and returned to the hotel where she was staying very leisurely.

Qin Miao had a good night's sleep.

I don't know why, it may also be a habit that I practiced in F2, Qin Miao didn't have a situation where she couldn't sleep because she was too anxious the night before the start of the race.

But Leclerc had such troubles.

Before the start of the race on Sunday, when participating in the drivers' parade, Qin Miao heard the complaints of Leclerc beside her.

"Honestly, in the last few game weeks, I haven't been able to sleep well on Sundays, and I always have to roll into bed until the wee hours of the morning to fall asleep."

Qin Miao smiled and waved to the audience on the sidelines, and replied: "Don't look at those things that are not there before going to bed, come another five kilometers to ensure that you sleep like a dead pig." ”

"Shut up, I really didn't see anything at night, I went back to the hotel to take a shower and went to sleep, but I just lay on the bed and tossed and turned and couldn't sleep." Although Leclerc was very distressed at this time, after all, it was a part of facing the audience, so he didn't show it, and even still had a smile on his face, still smiling at the audience.

Qin Miao thought for a while: "It's a pity, I really haven't experienced this feeling of yours, so I can't give you any help."

But I have a more radical idea. ”

Leclerc asked curiously, "What idea?" ”

"You find a stick and put a stick on your head before you go to bed, it should be good." Saying that, Qin Miao also made a move of knocking his head with a stick.

"Fuck off, give yourself a treat, it's already a question of whether I can get up and continue the race the next morning." Leclerc laughed.

"Then there's nothing I can do." Qin Miao spread his hands.

Leclerc also had a distressed look on his face.

"But no kidding, it's really not good, you go to a more famous Chinese medicine doctor, drinking some Chinese medicine can relieve your symptoms, of course you have to find a better Chinese medicine doctor."

"Is there any Chinese medicine in the United States? I'll check it out after the game. ”

"I don't know." Qin Miao's face was full of innocence: "I only know that our country's traditional Chinese medicine has a strong ability to regulate the human body, but my body is very good, and I have never been to the hospital except for vaccination." ”

Leclerc: (▼ヘ▼#)

Looking at Leclerc's somewhat angry face, Qin Miao suddenly remembered that she had to ask him for a group photo.

But after all, it is a driver's parade, strictly speaking, Qin Miao is still at work now, so Qin Miao didn't take out her mobile phone and took a photo with Leclerc directly.

Instead, when the rider's parade ended, Qin Miao found Leclerc, who was about to leave, and took a group photo with his mobile phone under Leclerc's confused expression after taking his shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

It's not like Leclerc hasn't been pulled for a photo, and it's even common for F1 drivers to want to have a picture with you.

But Leclerc never expected that one day his friend would run over and put his arm on his shoulder and take a photo with him like a fan.

If you do it to someone you don't know, Leclerc will accept it.

The key person to do this is Qin Miao, looking at Qin Miao's face, Leclerc feels very awkward no matter how he thinks about it.

"It's useful, you don't care." Qin Miao replied without raising his head while looking down to see if the photo in the phone was clear.

Leclerc was angry: "You asked me to take a photo without my consent, strictly speaking, you have violated my portrait rights, I didn't sue you for violating my portrait rights, which is enough to give you face, and now you still have this attitude towards me?"

I'll give you a chance to reorganize the language! ”

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I dare next time!"

Qin Miao admitted her mistake very sincerely, but she just didn't change it.

(End of chapter)