"I'm looking forward to the day when you can get into F2 and challenge the record I set in F2 and break it."

When Qin Miao said this, Qiu Meng quietly poked Qin Miao in the back.

Don't you have a little idea of what exactly F2 is?

At this time, not only did this not encourage Arthur, but it was very likely to hit his self-confidence.

After all, Qin Miao's achievements in F2 are not to mention insiders in the racing industry, and outsiders feel outrageous after hearing it.

But fortunately, Arthur inherited his brother's Han, and did not feel that Qin Miao's expectations of him were a little difficult to fulfill, but instead patted his chest and promised: "I will definitely do it!" ”

After a brief chat, Qin Miao took Qiu Meng into Leclerc's house.

"You're here so early?" At this time, Leclerc was still packing his things, and he was very surprised when he saw these two people.

Qin Miao shrugged her shoulders, and unceremoniously took some dried fruits from the plate where Leclerc's house put dried fruits and ate them, and said while eating: "The main thing is that Qiu Meng is used to being a little earlier, I generally like to get stuck points." ”

Leclerc nodded knowingly: "Find a place to sit here as if it were your own home, I'll clean up here for a while." ”

Qin Miao lit up the dried fruit in his hand, meaning that he was not polite to him at all.

After a while, Arthur also came back and came to Qin Miao's side.

Because of Qin Miao's age, people who are much older than him are his fans, Qin Miao is already a little desensitized.

And aside from his relationship with Leclerc, Arthur is just an ordinary young man who can drive an F3 car and has a certain racing talent.

Therefore, after Qin Miao was stunned at the beginning, he was able to correct his mentality and start chatting with Leclerc's younger brother Arthur calmly.

However, although Qin Miao looked very relaxed at this time, Arthur was still a little overly excited after seeing the idol.

He was a little stumbling when he spoke: "Qin Miao, can I ...... Can I take a picture with you? ”

Qin Miao naturally would not refuse to take a photo with Arthur and request for an autograph.

Because Qin Miao and the others started waiting at Leclerc's house after they came, Leclerc packed up his things a lot faster.

At 9:50 the three of them went out.

After all, this time he was going to work, and because Arthur still had a training mission, he naturally couldn't follow Qin Miao and them to Mexico.

Naturally, there was laughter and laughter on the road, Qin Miao and Leclerc could always find a topic to chat with when they were together, even if they didn't chat, pull Qiu Meng over, and the three of them could also get together to fight the landlord's game.

Not to mention, Leclerc got an extra XBOX on his plane after Qin Miao rubbed him on one of his planes, and downloaded a lot of games.

So on the way to Mexico, Qin Miao didn't feel bored.

After landing, Qin Miao separated from Leclerc.

From the moment their plane landed in Mexico, the two of them entered the work area.

For the next period of time, both of them have their own jobs to be busy, and the places where they work are not together, and separation is inevitable.

There is a branch of the Ritz-Carlton near the track in Mexico, and this hotel is one of the sponsors of Mercedes, so Qin Miao and their entire team race week stayed at this hotel.

After landing, Qin Miao did not start salting fish, but found Bobble for the first time, and the two went to the hotel's own gym together and began to carry out adaptive exercises.

I also mentioned the altitude problem in Mexico City earlier, although Qin Miao will not feel out of breath here because of his physical fitness, but it is a fact that the air here is thinner than other tracks.

Although it is not felt, such an environment has some effect on the driver's body.

Qin Miao needs to adapt to this high-altitude climate for two days, Wednesday and Thursday, and naturally needs the guidance of a professional like Barber on the side.

So on Wednesday, Qin Miao didn't take a break, and all the time was spent adapting to the local climate.

On Thursday, the work belonging to Qin Miao began.

I walked the track in the morning, ate something at noon and rested for a while, and then started adaptive training again.

Qin Miao rejected the team's plan to shoot on Thursday afternoon, and with Qin Miao's agreement with the team, he would be fine not to participate in any media and sponsorship events for the rest of the season.

Friday, the day of the start of the Mexican Grand Prix.

Mexico is in the southern part of North America, which is about the same time zone as the United States, so the race time in Mexico is still relatively shady for fans in Europe and Asia.

On the domestic side, the first practice started at 1:30 a.m. on November 6, and the second practice came directly to 5:00 a.m.

Therefore, there are very few domestic fans who stay up late to watch the game in the first and second practice stages.

However, there are many fans who arrive at the scene in the first and second practice stages, and Mexicans are still more interested in F1 races, not to mention Mexican driver Pérez at Red Bull Racing.

And in terms of the performance of the Red Bull car, Pérez has a podium finish in this race.

So for today's Grand Prix, the enthusiasm of the Mexican fans is high.

As a result, on Friday alone, the number of Mexican fans who arrived at the scene reached 150,000.

That's just the number of fans on Friday for one day.

In the first practice stage, Qin Miao and Hamilton began to complain about the state of the track on the first lap.

At this time, the track was so dirty that the organizers did not clean the surface of the track properly at all, and the driving line was full of dust, gravel, grass and other debris.

When the car is running on it, you can clearly feel the rear wheel of the car slipping, even if the tire temperature is up.

This state lasted for the entire first and second practice.

Of course, as the practice session came to the end of the second session, the track conditions did improve, and all the drivers made faster results than they did in the first practice.

In Mexico, which is not a friendly track for the characteristics of Mercedes racing, the two drivers of Mercedes in the first and second training stages unexpectedly won one or two places.

The time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton is also not large, only 0.131 seconds.

However, the results of the practice race can only be used as a reference, and the two Mercedes drivers Qin Miao and Hamilton in this practice race can be said to be unreserved, and the two drivers of Bao Buqi Red Bull are hiding something.

After the first and second exercises, Qin Miao and Hamilton also completed the actual test of the new cooling system.

The result was satisfactory, with no signs of engine overheating on the team's side, and the heat dissipation efficiency was better than expected, and the Mercedes car could benefit from the long distance races.

But other than that, Qin Miao and Hamilton both encountered a lot of problems.

Although the team set the two cars with high downforce, when running on the track, both reported that the car lacked downforce.

At the same time, the tires of the racing car are also prone to overheating, the balance consistency of the car is problematic, the DRS efficiency is not high, the braking temperature is too high, and so on.

To be honest, no one in the Mercedes team would have imagined that they would have so many problems after the race started.

All the technicians and engineers are in a hurry to solve these problems.

Qin Miao and Hamilton were not available during the two half-hour breaks between the first and second exercises, and were pulled by the team's strategy team to discuss the specific reasons for the birth of the problem, and also asked the two to give a solution appropriately.

But fortunately, the technical background of the Mercedes team is rich enough, and most of these problems were solved on Friday, and it is not impossible for the other problems to be dealt with in a practice session on Saturday.

Saturday.

More Mexican fans came to watch the race on Saturday than on Friday.

According to the official report, 200,000 fans arrived at the scene on Saturday.

Yesterday there were some remote stands with a few fans, but today all the stands are full of local Mexican fans.

And most of the fans in the stands wore the black uniforms of Red Bull Racing, but the Ferrari fans, who had the most fans, did not see many in this race.

In the third practice session on Saturday, Qin Miao and Hamilton completed the final debugging of the car, and solved all the problems that had been discovered and not discovered.

However, to the surprise of Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers, Red Bull in the third training stage seemed to have suddenly awakened, and the speed became very fast.

By the end of the third session, the average time gap between the two Red Bulls and the two Mercedes had reached 0.6 seconds.

This time gap made everyone up and down Mei Ben a little confused for a while.

"How the hell did these gangsters get out?" This doubt lingered in the minds of everyone above and below Mei Ben, but no one on Mei Ben's side felt panicked and troubled.

Soon, after three practice sessions and a two-hour break, it was time for the qualifying session of the Mexican Grand Prix.

The game is still in charge of the three commentators of Five Star Sports.

In the Q1 stage of qualifying, Qin Miao and Hamilton did not finish the first flight lap, and a red flag appeared on the track.

The reason is that Stroll's car spun in the corner stage, the car directly hit a smash, and the car stopped directly behind the grid, which was a serious obstruction of traffic, and it was not easy to evacuate, so the race had no choice but to send a red flag.

Twenty minutes later, the wreckage of the car was cleared and the car was towed away by a crane, and Q1 was back on the grid.

But by the time the drivers came out of the pits, there were only 10 minutes left before Q1 ended, and there were still a number of drivers who had not finished Q1.

So everyone knows that at this time, you have to hurry up and get on the track, no matter what, you have to run a valid result first.

Due to the tight schedule and the fact that 20 cars were running around the track, it was easy for traffic problems to drop the lap time in qualifying.

So at Qin Miao's initiative, the team took the lead in letting Qin Miao out of the maintenance area.

At 6:19 seconds in Q1, Qin Miao completed her first flight lap with a score of 1:16.991.

After this result came out, Qin Miao's ranking came to second.

After running this lap, Qin Miao returned to the P room of the team, and the entire Q1 Qin Miao didn't go out to run because it was unnecessary.

This result is enough to ensure Qin Miao enters Q2.

In the end, when Q1 stopped watching, Qin Miao was promoted to Q2 in the fourth position, and there was no danger.

Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton also entered Q2 with the first flying lap.

After resting and adjusting in the pit area for ten minutes, Qin Miao adjusted the angle of his front nose a little more, and then drove his car onto the track.

It is true that it is not possible to adjust the tuning settings of the car during qualifying, but these restrictions do not include adjusting the angle of the car's nose wing.

The reason why Qin Miao did this is mainly because Q2 is going to use neutral tires to run races, and the grip of neutral tires is naturally much worse than that of soft tires.

Qin Miao naturally needs to make up for these lost downforces from other places, and other places are not easy to adjust, so he can only start from the front nose.

Soon Q2 begins.

Verstappen took his time to 1:16.483 on the first lap after the start.

Hamilton soon countered as well, 1:16.499.

Although Hamilton was not as fast as Verstappen, the time gap between the two was only 0.016 seconds, which is about the same time.

Half a minute later, Qin Miao also completed her first flight lap of Q2 with a time of 1:16.583, just 0.1 seconds slower than Verstappen.

After this lap, Qin Miao ranked third.

And after this trip was over, Qin Miao immediately slowed down the speed of his car and brought the car back to room P safely.

Qin Miao's result is similar to his performance in the Q1 stage, and it can also allow him to directly advance to the next round.

However, Qin Miao didn't choose to get a steady score like Q1 and then stop running after getting a steady score in the next round.

But when Qin Miao came out, the tires were a set of soft tires that had run several laps.

Qin Miao: This is completely using the little time left to run a long-distance test.

See how the speed performs after the soft tyres wear too much.

In the end, Qin Miao Q2 advanced to Q3 with the fourth place, without any thrills.

At the beginning of Q3, Mercedes' strategy team explained to Qin Miao and Hamilton that they were going to let the two drivers pull each other's tails.

Of course, the team has said that it will not interfere with the internal competition between Qin Miao and Hamilton, but on internal issues, it is obvious that beating Red Bull is a higher priority for Mercedes.

Therefore, the team hopes that Qin Miao and Hamilton will each give each other a wake in Q3.

In this way, you can effectively gain an advantage in the qualifying stage, and the main race stage will naturally be easier to run.

Qin Miao naturally had no opinion, and Hamilton nodded in agreement after thinking for a while.

After all, the Rodriguez Brothers circuit has a long starting straight, and although the wake effect is not obvious here due to the thin air, there is still a wake effect in qualifying, which can more or less provide a little speed to the car behind.

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