326: Zhou Guanyu's first career title
And because the soundproofing of the lounge was complained by Qin Miao once, after which the team installed soundproof cotton in the driver's lounge, so Qin Miao couldn't hear the sound outside the door after the door was closed.
What Qin Miao didn't know was that when Qiu Meng had just taken her mother-in-law to go to the rest area above the team's P room to eat something and look at the scenery, Toto came back from outside after finishing FOM's interview with the team leader.
Toto naturally knew Qiu Meng, but this was really the first time he and Qin Miao's mother had met.
After the two sides met, they were briefly introduced, and then they chatted very happily.
"Mrs. Qin, I really thank you for cultivating such an excellent racing driver as Qin Miao, your son is now very important to the Mercedes team, and now he has become an indispensable part of the Mercedes team, without him, this season's team championship is really not so easy for us to take."
And Qin Miao's mother can actually answer Toto's questions in English, and when she answered, her mother didn't have much accent: "You are too polite, in fact, I should say thank you to us, if you didn't give Qin Miao a chance, he wouldn't have come to this height now, there is a high probability that he will go to Le Mans or other events at this time, and it is impossible to enter F1." ”
"Mrs. Qin, you underestimate your son too much, Qin Miao's talent is not only me, but the leaders of all the teams in the paddock can see it.
If Qin Miao showed the intention of jumping to other teams at that time, then I think all the middle and lower reaches of the team would throw an olive branch to Qin Miao. ”
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The two naturally talked happily with each other, and Qiu Meng, who was on the side, was not surprised to hear Qin Miao's mother speaking fluent English.
However, Toto is the leader of an F1 team after all, and drivers like Qin Miao have to go through heavy pre-race preparations on Sunday, and his team leader has no less pre-race work than Qin Miao.
So after chatting for two or three minutes, Toto said goodbye to Qin Miao's mother on the grounds that he had a heavy workload.
"Have a nice time in the paddock, goodbye."
"Goodbye."
After that, Qin Miao was immersed in the pre-game preparations, and she didn't eat too much, following the pre-game preparation principle of eating less and eating more often.
Soon, the time came to prepare for the game.
After receiving Bobble's notice, Qin Miao closed the screen of his laptop, changed into the racing suit that he had prepared a long time ago, and went out to the track.
Because it was the last race, Qin Miao and all the F1 drivers needed to go to the track to take a group photo before the race started.
It's a traditional F1 show, a process that you have to go through before the start and end of each season, and you can't even say no, and the drivers are happy to go to such events.
Soon, Qin Miao came to the track.
At this time, the FOM staff had set up six chairs at the finish line of the track, and there was a row of iron shelves behind the chairs.
In front of the chair is the sign for the race and the description of the F12021 season.
These six chairs correspond to the six drivers of the top three teams in the current F12021 season.
Qin Miao and Hamilton's Mercedes team is the constructors' championship this season, so the two of them naturally sit on the two chairs in the middle, and then Qin Miao has two drivers from Red Bull Racing on their right and two Ferrari drivers on their left.
As for the drivers of the other teams, they stood on the high platform behind Qin Miao from left to right with the current team rankings.
Soon, a group photo of all the drivers for the 2021 season was frozen at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.
It is worth mentioning that there is one person missing from this photo.
The man who is less is Nikita Mazepin of the Haas team.
Before the start of this game, Ma Zeping was diagnosed positive for the new crown.
So he naturally couldn't participate in this photo session, and at the same time he was also absent from today's game.
However, because the Haas substitute driver did not qualify for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday, Haas was unable to get the substitute driver in place of Mazepin, despite a vacant driver's spot.
Therefore, there were only 19 drivers participating in today's race, and there were only 19 people in this group photo before the race.
It didn't take long to take a photo, and it was over quickly.
After the photo session was over, Qin Miao and the others took advantage of the situation and walked onto the back of the pre-race parade truck not far away.
After all the riders got into the car, the parade truck started slowly.
The first to be interviewed on the truck was Pan Zi Verstappen, who started the race from pole position, although he is currently only third in the standings at this point.
During Verstappen's interview, Qin Miao has been interacting with the audience, and there are many Chinese fans who came to the scene today.
Walking all the way down the parade, Qin Miao saw many fans waving their national flags.
Because there are relatively few spectator seats on this track, and most of the track is bare, Qin Miao and they don't need to be open for too long, and most of the time Qin Miao is chatting with Norris Leclerc and the two of them.
Verstappen's interview ended quickly, followed by Hamilton.
However, after Hamilton's interview ended, it was not postponed to Norris, and the host directly found Qin Miao, who was fighting with Leclerc and Norris.
Norris didn't care too much about this, and the edges and corners of Norris's body were basically worn to the ground after Russia stood up, which was a bit salted at this time.
Qin Miao's interview before the drivers' parade was similar to yesterday's post-race interview.
It's just that the arguments are different, so I won't repeat them here.
After the pre-race parade was over, after another half an hour of preparation, after completing the final pre-race inspection of his car, Qin Miao sat in his car and was pushed onto the track by Frankie.
In fact, he can let Qin Miao go out for a lap to test whether there is any problem with the performance of the car, and then let Qin Miao stop on his grid.
But Qin Miao used soft tires in this game, and the wear of soft tires was particularly important, so Qin Miao didn't let out too many tires.
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"Good evening, today is December 12, 2021, and it is also the finale of the 2021 season."
"I think today is definitely the most exciting and exciting day for our domestic fans, and many viewers think that this year is also the most exciting season."
"At the beginning of the season, we got the good news that Qin Miao was about to join Mercedes-Benz, and as soon as Qin Miao joined Mercedes-Benz, he brought his talent for the dominant level in F2 to F1.
But in fact, at the beginning of the period, we still thought that Qin Miao this season would only be able to get a good result at most.
But to the delight of all our domestic fans, Qin Miao's performance on the field has not only been getting better, but even as Qin Miao gradually adapts to Mercedes' car, he has even taken the lead in his teammate Hamilton this season. ”
On the side of Five Star Sports, Fei Ge said a completely different opening speech from the past.
Brother Bing quickly followed Fei Ge's words and said, "That's right, and before this season, we didn't expect that this season's competition would be so fierce.
So much so that now in the final race, there is still suspense about the ownership of the drivers' championship. ”
In the end, Zhou Haoran was responsible for the finish: "Although Qin Miao did not deal with this game because of the failure of the racing battery last week, so that this week's Qin Miao announced on Thursday that he would replace the entire set of battery components of the racing car, and according to the rules, Qin Miao needs to be punished 10 places to start."
This is out-and-out bad news, but in terms of Qin Miao's overtaking performance on the field this season and his strong stability, we still believe in Qin Miao, and believe that he can still win honors that we couldn't have imagined before under many unfavorable conditions. ”
After finishing the opening remarks, Qin Miao also happened to appear in the broadcast screen of Five Star Sports.
At this time, Qin Miao raised his head slightly and leaned on the pillow of his racing car, but because of the helmet, the three commentators could only see Qin Miao's eyes and nose, and from these two organs, the commentators could not judge Qin Miao's state at this time.
Soon, however, the commentators' broadcast footage came to the pre-race introduction map and the starting order of the race.
On Qin Miao's side, the team has already prepared all the work before the start of the race, and now Qin Miao and Reyes are just waiting for the warm-up lap of this race to start.
And at this time, Qin Miao was more or less bored, after all, he had nothing to do now, and Qin Miao didn't want to continue to listen to the kind of songs in TR that were worse than the sound quality of the sound that Taobao bought for five yuan to listen to.
Because Qin Miao has been preparing for the competition today, Qin Miao is only a little free to think nonsense.
So after his brain was a little empty, Qin Miao had other ideas.
Because Zhou Guanyu's F2 race has been completed today, Qin Miao wanted to ask Zhou Guanyu what the final result of this race was, whether he won the drivers' championship.
Although he had confidence in Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao was still a little worried before this matter was completely settled.
However, Qin Miao is not helpless, anyway, the game has not started at this time, and there should be more than ten minutes before the game starts.
Without much consideration, Qin Miao got out of the car directly and found Bobble, and after asking, he felt a little more relieved.
Zhou Guanyu finally won the 2021 F2 Drivers' Championship without any danger, and even in the last F2 race, Zhou Guanyu also won an F2 sub-race championship.
Although the drivers' championship, three race championships and six sprint championships are not as good as Qin Miao's performance in F2 in 2020, they can also be called the invincible opponents of the entire F2.
At this time, Zhou Guanyu seemed to have pulled the staff of the UNI-Virtuosi Racin team to find a place to celebrate.
After a matter on her mind, Qin Miao returned all her attention to the car without distraction.
From now on, Qin Miao will only have racing in his mind.
Soon, with the FIA's notification, all the drivers were ready for the race.
The team staff with tires and the racing support personnel withdrew, and Qin Miao's car was also placed on the ground.
Before leaving, Reyes still instructed Qin Miao twice: "We haven't figured out the specific cause of the failure of the racing battery for the time being, and it is estimated that we will have to wait until the end of this season to return to the factory."
But what is certain is that the car's battery cannot be turned on twice in a row in a short period of time, and after using this mode once, you will have to leave the battery for at least 5 laps to dissipate heat. ”
"That is, I can still use this mode in this game?" Qin Miao asked unexpectedly.
Reyes nodded: "That's right, but I recommend not using it too many times in a short period of time, and the total number of times you use it in a match should not exceed four." ”
Qin Miao nodded: "Got it, is there anything else I need to pay attention to?" ”
Reyes thought about it carefully: "No, but everyone in our crew wants to say to you, run well, don't put too much pressure on yourself, we believe you can do it." ”
After Qin Miao heard this, he made a slight joke: "Seriously, since this week, I have listened to this kind of encouragement no less than twenty times, and my ears are almost calloused." ”
Reyes smiled, reached out and patted Qin Miao's helmet and said, "This is everyone's strong expectation of you, you must know how to cherish it."
Alright, it's almost time, it's time for us to withdraw, happy hunting! ”
"Trust me, I won't let you down." With a thumbs up to Reyes, Qin Miao returned all his attention to his car.
Soon all the staff on the track were withdrawn.
At the signal of the race officer, all the cars started and set their own grids.
The warm-up lap begins.
In the process of running the warm-up laps, Pirelli gave the pit stop strategy for this race, and although the three tires Pirelli gave the drivers in this race were the three softest tires, Pirelli still gave two pit stop strategies: red and white and yellow and white.
Pirelli's data was followed by FOM's prediction of the final Drivers' Championship as voted by the audience.
Qin Miao's side got 40% of the votes in the audience, while Hamilton had 27%, Verstappen's conditions were too harsh, so his vote rate was only 10%, and the rest were with other drivers.
In fact, Hamilton is very passive now, and the audience vote rate is still because Hamilton has won seven drivers' championships in the field over the years.
And apart from this part of the audience, the rest is only Hamilton's British audience.
Almost the vast majority of the British audience is adamant that Hamilton will eventually take home this year's Drivers' Championship.
PS. Finally paid off all the debts since the book was opened.,But I know that this month there are still big guys' tips and everyone's monthly pass plus more is not counted.。
But it's finally over.,Take a day off.,It's only 4,000 today.,Tomorrow I will count the monthly pass and the big guy's reward and continue to more.。
Finally, I wish all readers and fathers: good health, all the best, and thick hair! Never die! (End of chapter)