Although they didn't say it explicitly, Qin Miao knew that they were all curious about what they relied on to run the whole race on a set of hard tires.

However, because the relationship between these drivers and Qin Miao can only be said to be an ordinary colleague relationship, and the relationship with Qin Miao is not as good as that of Leclerc and Norris, who can often get together during breaks.

So they didn't have a position like Leclerc to directly ask Qin Miao how he did it.

After all, strictly speaking, this is also a secret for the driver.

Therefore, after surrounding Qin Miao, these people just asked sideways, and did not speak directly.

Although Qin Miao also wanted to answer their doubts, it was a pity that Qin Miao knew that even if he told the truth, they might not believe it.

So in desperation, I can only choose to be vague and foolish.

After all, if they really told the truth, they would feel that Qin Miao was perfunctory to them, and they didn't find a suitable excuse.

After dealing with it for a while, Qin Miao got rid of these colleagues.

Seriously, before entering F1, Qin Miao didn't think that these people were saints or something, flawless, but for these drivers, at least there was a layer of beautifying filters there.

After all, there are only 20 F1 drivers in the world, which is really less than pilots.

Naturally, it will make people think that these 20 people should be top talents, gentlemen and so on.

But after he became one of them, Qin Miao found that these guys are also human beings, and they will also have seven emotions and six desires, and even many people have some shortcomings that Qin Miao can't bear at all.

After being anxious, the content of fragrant mothers is not less than that of ordinary people, and even some talented mothers are surprisingly high.

After returning to the door of room P, Qin Miao saw Qiu Meng wearing the uniform of the Meiben team waiting for him at the entrance of room P.

Judging by her boring appearance, she must have been waiting for a while.

Walking in front of his daughter-in-law, Qin Miao smiled bitterly, grabbed her hair and said, "No way, I didn't start well, let the big tooth torpedo, let you look forward to a game in vain." ”

Qiu Meng smiled and gave Qin Miao a hug: "It's okay, it's already great, and you're still leading in the standings, as long as you continue to maintain stability on the track like you did in the middle of the season, everything else depends on God's will." ”

Qin Miao nodded slightly.

chatted briefly, but because Qin Miao still had work to do, he quickly let go of Qiu Meng and returned to the team P room with Barber.

After packing up her things a little, Qin Miao went to the team house and waited for the start of the team meeting.

Because Qin Miao and Hamilton's performance today was not too good, and compared to the pre-race plan, the Mercedes team did not get enough points to defend the title today, so the atmosphere of this post-race meeting was somewhat dull.

Neither the drivers nor the team's top management were in a good mood at the moment.

In the end, it was Toto who took the initiative to take responsibility at the meeting and put the blame for the loss of the game on his head, and then the atmosphere of the whole meeting was a little better.

At the end of the meeting, all the data will be flown back to Brackley's factory for analysis, but whether or not a satisfactory result can be reached depends on the fleet.

As for why the data needs to be transported by air, instead of being uploaded directly back to the fleet headquarters using the network?

A piece of cold knowledge, don't look at the current network speed is not moving gigabits, 10 megabits, and even 100 megabits, but now the most economical and fastest way to transfer data is through real transportation.

Don't look at a team with three days in a Grand Prix weekend, but the data they can collect over those three days is calculated in tens of thousands of terabytes.

Tens of thousands of terabytes of data are transferred to the fleet headquarters through the network faster than a bunch of hard drives are not as fast as directly transporting a bunch of hard disks back.

Moreover, the data of the fleet also needs to be confidential, and there is a risk of interception if the data of Meiben is transported through the network.

If it is leaked, it will be particularly troublesome, especially if other teams get their hands on Mercedes data, which may be relied on by the other team to directly improve the lap time of the car by 0.2 seconds.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, it is better to use the safest and most secure mode of transportation.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Miao got off work.

After another day of rest in Mexico, Qin Miao did not go back to Monaco or the United Kingdom on Monday, but went directly to Brazil.

After arriving in Brazil, Qin Miao began to use the simulator provided by the team to practice the Interlagos circuit as if he had just entered F1, and also helped the team run the simulator.

And Qiu Meng didn't come with Qin Miao this week, she needed to go back to Monaco to keep an eye on the house of the two.

And considering Qin Miao's identity and occupation, Qin Miao will definitely have more and more cars in the future, and the storage of vehicles will also become a problem at that time.

Therefore, Qiu Meng is also preparing to spend this week in France to build a piece of land and get a garage for Qin Miao.

After all, their home is on the border between Monaco and France, so it is more convenient to get a garage in France for Qin Miao to use.

However, Qiu Meng still didn't want to miss the picture of the Mercedes team winning the constructors' championship, so she would still go to Brazil during the race week.

Like Qin Miao, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton came directly to Brazil after a day of rest in Mexico.

For Brazilians, Qin Miao may just be an ordinary driver, and there may be fans of Qin Miao in Brazil, but compared with Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton, Qin Miao's popularity in Brazil is negligible.

Hamilton is arguably second only to Senna in the racing industry in Brazil.

Brazil is also Hamilton's other home stadium.

Moreover, after Hamilton came to Brazil ahead of schedule this time, he did not carry out various business activities as he did before, but like Qin Miao, the two of them practiced the Interlagos circuit on the simulator prepared for them by the team.

Hamilton was also stimulated by Verstappen in the last game.

Mexico's fiasco not only dealt a heavy blow to the Mercedes team, but also hit Hamilton, Qin Miao and other drivers.

So after leaving Mexico, Hamilton breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he had not suffered so much since he entered F1, and he had not lost so badly.

He needs to reclaim it on a circuit in Brazil that is more in keeping with the characteristics of Mercedes.

So after coming to Brazil, Hamilton resolutely pushed off all business activities and plunged into the simulator.

From Monday to Wednesday, not only Qin Miao, Hamilton, but even Bottas from the team's factory and the test riders of Mercedes were all working at high intensity, without any rest time, and working overtime at night.

In the past three days, Qin Miao hasn't even touched the computer, even if it is fitness, it is an hour of basic physical training to ensure that her physical fitness does not decline.

After the training was over, he didn't have half an hour of rest, and Qin Miao directly started working again.

After three days of intense work, it was finally on Thursday, the day before the start of the Brazilian Grand Prix, that Meiben solved some of the problems reported by Qin Miao and Hamilton in the Mexican Grand Prix.

And it brought a new tail wing upgrade to Brazil.

And because of the hard work of the past three days, Qin Miao was about to vomit when she ran the Interlagus track on the simulator, and Qin Miao on Thursday didn't even want to go to the track, she was too tired.

It is no exaggeration to say that Qin Miao now feels that as long as he gives himself a suitable car, and then puts on the buff of the integration of personal cars, he can physically run a lap on the Interlagos track with his eyes closed, without hitting the wall or rushing out of the track, and even Qin Miao has the confidence to maintain the lap time at a good level.

Muscle memory is about to be developed.

And the high-intensity work in the past few days is unbearable for Qin Miao, not a physical problem, with Qin Miao's physical fitness, there will be no problem staying up late every day in this life.

The main thing is to sort out the data, review the simulator video, and then modify it against the data, and then continue to run the simulator, which is a bit too brain-consuming and mental effort.

But there is no way, today is strictly speaking, Qin Miao's working day, Qin Miao has to go to the track to familiarize himself with the state of the Interlagos circuit in reality, and he also has to do some psychological construction for his crew members.

After all, in the last race, Qin Miao and his team did not get the minimum points obtained standard set by the team for them before the start of the race.

Just take the opportunity to walk the track for Qin Miao and the crew members of his team to create a semi-enclosed space, during which they can have a good chat about what has happened recently and cheer up the team's technicians.

At the same time, because of Hamilton's relationship, the marketing activities of the Mercedes team in Brazil are not small, and these marketing activities require the presence of Qin Miao and Hamilton.

In short, the three practices are back-to-back, whether it is the driver or the team, no one is comfortable, and the only happy person may be the spectators who are watching this year's race.

After all, they have been watching games every weekend for more than half a month.

After coming to the paddock, Qin Miao saw Hamilton in the team P room when he was about to go to the track.

Looking at Hamilton's somewhat haggard face, which was as haggard as himself, he didn't know why, Qin Miao suddenly felt that his tiredness in the past few days was nothing.

And Qin Miao also noticed that after Hamilton saw him, the tired expression on his face seemed to ease a little.

However, when Qin Miao took a closer look, he didn't see anything unusual from Hamilton's face, it was probably just Qin Miao's illusion.

They nodded to each other and said hello, and then got together and chatted about what they have been doing in the past few days, and then the two were a little stunned to find that the other party, like themselves, had not rested much in the past two days, and was helping the team's R&D department run simulator data.

The reason why Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't know that the other party was busy with the same things as himself was mainly because their contacts were different.

And when they are busy, they are in a state of no distractions, and they are always engrossed in their work, how can they have the leisure to pay attention to others.

After knowing what happened to the other party, the two looked at each other with pity in their eyes.

On Thursday, after walking the track, Qin Miao and Hamilton recorded a lot of promotional videos together.

However, after the team's promotional video was recorded, Qin Miao left work, and Hamilton needed to shoot commercials and record interviews.

No way, who calls Hamilton more endorsements.

On Thursday, this was considered a pass, and Qin Miao also had a night's rest.

After taking a comfortable bath and sleeping peacefully, Qin Miao's day was over.

Soon, the time came on Friday, the day when the Brazilian Grand Prix officially began.

The Brazilian Grand Prix is the last Grand Prix weekend of the season to feature sprint qualifying rules.

Everyone was quite nervous about this, after all, compared to a normal Grand Prix weekend, this week's practice was after qualifying.

However, the good news is that thanks to the efforts of Qin Miao, Hamilton and the factory staff of the Mercedes team, the Mercedes side has obtained two sets of tuning settings that are relatively in line with the Interlagos circuit.

Therefore, it is possible for the team to find the best qualifying tuning for W12 one practice at a time.

During the first training stage, Qin Miao, who had changed into a racing suit and completed the pre-race preparations, sat in the car.

Reyes put a display screen in the middle of Qin Miao's racing flip-flops, and after putting it away, Frankie's voice sounded in Qin Miao's headphones: "You should also feel it, the weather in Sao Paulo is good today, the air temperature is 15°, and it can be called a pleasant climate if you can have such a temperature in November."

But this temperature is not good news for the tires of the racing car, and the track temperature is only 25°, so when you go out, slide carefully and keep an eye on the tire temperature at all times.

The weather is cloudy, the probability of rain is 40%, if there are rain clouds coming, we will alert you through TR as soon as possible. ”

"Roger." Qin Miao looked at the data in front of him while answering Frankie's words just now.

"The car is ready and ready to go." Franky's voice was heard as well.

Qin Miao finally confirmed whether the various settings of the car were the same as those he chose, and after making sure that there was no problem, he gave Reyes a thumbs up to the side to indicate that he was ready.

After receiving the signal from Qin Miao, Reyes asked the staff of Qin Miao's car crew to remove everything such as the display, tire warmer blanket and so on on Qin Miao's car.

After making sure that everything had been removed, Reyes guided Qin Miao out of the team's P room.

In the first training stage, not only Qin Miao, but almost all the drivers focused their main attention on the lap time simulation of the qualifying race during this time period.

They couldn't help but be unconcerned, after all, in qualifying, all the drivers had to push with all their might, and in such a state, a small mistake could cause the car to lose control and hit the wall.

In order to avoid such accidents as much as possible, both the team and the drivers themselves will try to familiarize themselves with the driving style of the soft tyres on the track in the limited time of the year.

Thanks to the assault training period before the start of the race, Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers, were not bad at the Interlagos circuit, and they soon made effective results.

Finally, at the end of the first practice, Hamilton and Qin Miao brought it back one or two.

Hamilton scored 1:09.040 and Qin Miao scored 1:09.150.

Unlike the usual Grand Prix weekends, all the drivers at this time were desperately doing lap times for their own safety and for the safety of their cars.

Basically, no one is going to hide their secrets at this time.

In other words, this lap time is a reference to a certain extent.

After the first practice, the team was busy with data again, and Qin Miao was also watching the replay of the fastest lap he had just run.

It is worth mentioning that during this period of time, the team has already marked Qin Miao's bad work in the fastest lap just now.

After getting out of the car, Qin Miao naturally had nothing to say, learning, improving, and comprehending.

Soon, the time came to the afternoon.

Before the qualifying match began, Qin Miao rested for half an hour to relieve his somewhat swollen head from watching the game video with high intensity.

This race will determine the starting order for tomorrow's sprint qualifying stage.

Although at this time, both fans and drivers inside and outside the paddock were scolding for this sprint qualifying system, Qin Miao also felt that this system was a bit chicken, and even the gold content of Sunday's qualifying race was greatly reduced, and because of the fear of car damage, no driver was willing to engage in a high-intensity struggle with the driver in front of him in the sprint race on Saturday.

But the FIA rules have already been decided, and there is no way to change them.

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Although the FIA gives all teams a full practice session to familiarize themselves with how their cars perform on the track, people are different in talent, and so are teams and teams.

Mercedes can find a set of tuning suitable for qualifying in a short period of time, but this is not necessarily the case for other teams.

On the first lap after the start of Q1, the two Mercedes cars showed terrifying speed, and Hamilton and Qin Miao occupied the first two places in the first lap.

Despite Red Bull's strong performances in recent races, Red Bull is a little less impressive than Mercedes when it comes to team heritage.

So when Q1 stopped watching, the two Mercedes drivers still occupied one or two, while the two Red Bull drivers advanced in fifth and sixth.

Although they also qualified for Q2, it is not difficult to see that Red Bull is in a hurry.

Q2, after starting the table, the speed of Mei Ben's side was still strong, and Qin Miao and Hamilton teamed up again to advance.

However, the team did not look happy because of the outstanding performance in Q2, after all, it can only be regarded as an appetizer before the race.

The only thing worth mentioning is that after the Q2 stoppage, Hamilton was almost 0.3 seconds faster than his teammate Qin Miao.

0.4 seconds faster than Verstappen.

It can be seen that Hamilton still has a certain home blessing here in Brazil.

The situation in Q3 was similar to that in Q2, Qin Miao and Hamilton ranked first and second in the first lap of Q3.

However, on the final lap of Q3, before the race was about to be stopped, Verstappen showed his terrifying talent.

In the last lap, he snatched the second place from Qin Miao's hands by 0.009 seconds.

And the first is still Hamilton's.

After the final qualifying session, the top 10 drivers from Saturday's sprint qualifying session are as follows:

1: Hamilton

2: Verstappen

3: Qin Miao

4: Pérez

5: Gasly

6: Sainz

7: Leclerc

8: Norris

9: Ricardo

10: Alonso

The first four drivers are basically the four drivers of Mercedes and Red Bull, and fans are already used to it.

It is worth mentioning Gasly.

Despite driving a Little Red Bull car, Gasly showed a terrifying speed in this car that did not belong to Little Red Bull, whether it was in Mexico last week or now in Brazil, Gasly has always been in the middle of a Mars and Earth group.

I just don't know how Yuki Tsunoda will feel when he sees such a gap.

It's not terrible to have bad grades, it's scary to have poor grades and your teammates' grades are better than yours......

However, this year's Taijun still has a reason to prevaricate.

After all, this is only the first year that Yuki Tsunoda has entered F1, and it is understandable that he can't keep up with the pace of his teammates.

What? You say Qin Miao?

He is the only one among the billions of genius people in China at this level, and there is no comparison with such a pervert.

Just after qualifying was halted and Ricardo, who was setting the lap time at the end, crossed the line, and everyone thought that this qualifying race was going to end in this way, an accident happened on the field.

After qualifying, the top three drivers drove their cars back into the pits and parked in their own positions.

Normally, the next three drivers would have been to get out of their cars and then pack up for a post-race interview

But after Verstappen got out of his car, he didn't give the first post-race interview.

After getting out of the car, Verstappen looked at his car, then at Hamilton's car behind him, and focused on the rear wing of Hamilton's car.

Later, Verstappen slipped to the rear wing of his car, took off his gloves and used his fingers to roughly measure the gap under the rear wing of his car.

Getting a rough angle, Verstappen walked straight to the rear of the Hamilton car and reached out to measure it at the same position as the rear wing of the Hamilton car.

Perhaps it was because he didn't feel accurate the first time, or maybe he didn't get the answer he wanted, and Verstappen's hand changed positions.

It's just that it seems that the data obtained from this adjustment is still not what Verstappen wants.

You know, it's just the end of the race, and all the cars are waiting to be tested.

At this stage, no one other than the FIA staff is allowed to touch the moving parts of the car.

Although Verstappen's touch on Hamilton's car was not immediately stopped, the image must have reached the FIA Race Officer, and if nothing else, Verstappen would have been punished.

(End of chapter)