After Reyes and the others received the news, they immediately installed the tires in their hands on Qin Miao's car, and took off the warm-up blanket on the neutral tires.

As the staff on both sides of the track withdrew, the moment Qin Miao gently stepped on the accelerator pedal, he finally heard the first engine roar of the W13.

Then it was naturally Qin Miao who drove his own racing car onto the track with ease.

The appearance of the defending champion was naturally noticed by everyone immediately.

The broadcast footage of the scene was also given to the W13 driven by Qin Miao for the first time.

On the other side, on the side of Five-Star Sports, the three commentators said happily after seeing Qin Miao: "Here, Qin Miao has come out." ”

"To be honest, I'm looking forward to Qin Miao's speed today, the characteristics of the ground effect car are very different from last season's car."

"I still believe in Qin Miao's adaptability, last season's Qin Miao's adaptability to the upgrade of the car and the adaptability of the new track has always been very fast, and this car should not be difficult for Qin Miao."

It's worth mentioning that F1 has now become the most-watched show in five-star sports, so a lot of times, unless it's another race like the final, you have to make way for the F1 program, even if it's just a test.

So during this time, the three commentators of Five Star Sports appeared in the studio on time to meet the audience.

On the field, Qin Miao actually didn't encounter the problems mentioned by the three commentators, and there was no such thing as adapting to anything, the moment he touched the car, Qin Miao established a connection with the car and knew the car well.

However, today's Qin Miao didn't have a chance to push this car to the limit, not so much because he didn't have a chance, but because the team at this time didn't dare to take the risk of letting Qin Miao push this car to the limit.

After all, due to the change of technical rules, only 30% of the parts inherited from the W12 of this W13 are redesigned, and the remaining 70% of the parts are all redesigned.

There is no guarantee that the car will be accident-free at high speeds.

If there was an accident, the car hit it and it was nothing, it was a big deal to rebuild one, Mei Ben was rich and rich, and it was not bad for this money.

But if Qin Miao had an accident during the test because of the imperfect design of the car, I believe that the Meiben team would be sprayed to death by the fans at that time.

Therefore, after Qin Miao went out, in addition to testing the overall balance of the car and collecting data on various parts of the car, he was also responsible for checking the problems of the car.

Therefore, the car must not be driven too fast.

At the same time, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton also staggered back to the team's P room shortly after Qin Miao went out.

During his absence, he actually went to the P room of the other teams to see the appearance of their cars.

It fully embodies what it means to know oneself and know one's opponent in a hundred battles.

After all, the old man is a seven-time champion, so the staff of the other teams couldn't get rid of Hamilton when they found out that he was probing his brain outside the P room of their own team.

He could only watch.

And after Hamilton watched all the cars of other teams, he also learned the news that Qin Miao was about to drive on the track from Angela.

Hamilton, who has officially listed Qin Miao as his primary competitor in the new season, naturally didn't want to miss the picture of Qin Miao on the track to start testing, so he came back.

For the rest of the morning, Hamilton stayed with Toto, watching Qin Miao's test footage and Qin Miao's data on the track, as well as Qin Miao's feedback in the team's P room.

On Qin Miao's side, after running to the tenth lap and the team's data were almost done, Frankie said in the team TR: "Qin Miao, now you can try to speed up a little, let's see the state of the car at high speed."

You have two laps and after two laps you're back in the team's P room, where we're going to install an airflow net. ”

Qin Miao was naturally extremely happy.

And Qin Miao clearly felt that the grip of this season's car was obviously stronger than that of last season's car, especially in high-speed corners, the car's cornering speed envelope was very large.

Last season, I had to refuel a little and even need to apply the brakes in the middle and high speed corners, but this season I can go straight and fast.

That's where the inefficient floor horror comes in.

Of course, now Qin Miao has also found a lot of problems.

After entering the mid-to-high section, the stability at the rear of the car was a bit too high.

To put it in layman's terms, there is too much downforce at the rear of this car.

As a result, the car is prone to overheating tires on the track.

At the same time, the special new suspension design makes the car suffer a little on the track with a relatively high shoulder and a stiff shoulder, and it is easy to lose grip when crossing the shoulder, and the vibration is a bit large.

And Qin Miao also had a feeling that at the end of the straight, this season's car acceleration was obviously not as crisp as last season.

After 300 km/h, it is easy to slow down the speed.

In addition, there are quite a few problems, big and small.

It's just that most of them are set up problems, which can be solved by going back to the team's P room and adjusting the software and programs of the car.

Of course, the current test is for the FIA team to solve these problems, Qin Miao did not feel uncomfortable because of this, and was even very happy to see the problems of the car exposed during the test, because the more problems exposed in the test, the fewer problems that appeared in the main race stage.

In the next morning, Qin Miao devoted himself to the excavation and improvement of racing problems.

It's almost like going out for a dozen or twenty laps, and then coming back to adjust the settings of the car, discussing the problems he found with the team's technicians and designers in the design department, and making a record, and then after the car is adjusted, Qin Miao returns to the car to run on the track.

After the morning practice was over, Qin Miao's work today came to an end, and the next afternoon time was Hamilton's test time.

During this time, Qin Miao replaced Hamilton's position and came to his own position to observe Hamilton's driving data.

It is worth mentioning that after getting Qin Miao's data, Hamilton ran a few flight laps as soon as he came out.

Even the speed of the fastest flight lap was nearly 1 second faster than Qin Miao's fastest lap in the morning.

Qin Miao didn't feel anything about this, but he was a little worried that Hamilton would be too risky to run the flying circle at this time, but Toto on the side glanced at Qin Miao meaningfully.

However, after seeing Qin Miao's calm expression, he raised his eyebrows, and then shifted his attention to work, as if nothing had happened.

……

The next day, Qin Miao began to try to speed up, and it is worth mentioning that because Qin Miao began to speed up, he found a big problem.

That is, when the car is driving at high speeds, it will bounce.

Maybe in the broadcast footage, this bounce is not violent, but just a shaking up and down when driving at high speed.

But in Qin Miao's feelings as a driver, after every bounce, his entire back will collide with the seat cushion of the racing car once.

That's right, it's the impact.

Because the human body is soft, there is a certain amount of compression, and when the bounce occurs, the first time the car is violently pushed up, the human body will naturally fly up for a while under the suspension reaction force, and then will be dragged back to the chair by the seat belt, and during this time the suspension of the car is recompressed, the distance between the human body and the carbon fiber backrest behind it is even a little more, and then it is pulled back again.

Once or twice, you may not feel anything, but too many times is really uncomfortable.

But the bouncing at high speed has always existed, even if Qin Miao has such a strong physical fitness, after being hit too much, his back was hit a little painfully.

The only thing that comforted Qin Miao was that after returning to the pit area, he found that almost all teams had such problems, the difference was only the frequency and amplitude of the dolphin jumps.

After returning to the team, Qin Miao naturally reported this problem to the team as soon as possible.

The team naturally attaches great importance to it, after all, this dolphin jump will not only attack the driver, but also seriously limit the play of the Mercedes engine, and the speed of the car will not be fast at all in the high-speed driving stage.

It can even have an impact on the consistency of the car.

The team made adjustments as soon as possible, and even Hamilton, who was frowning and meditating on the cause of this phenomenon, was driven to the team's house by the team, changed into a racing suit and entered the car, and began to help the team find the cause and solution of this problem.

The team then tested two solutions at the same time, one was to increase the stiffness of the car's suspension, and the other was to install stiffeners on both sides of the car's floor.

Tested by Qin Miao and Hamilton respectively.

So it was rare that during the testing phase, there was a picture of two Mercedes cars speeding on the track, which was like a practice match.

On the track, Qin Miao felt that the adjusted racing road feeling was too strong at this time.

Originally, because of the new suspension, it was already stiffer than last season's suspension, but after the adjustment, it was really the Huang master of Goose City - high and hard.

But don't say it, the stiffer suspension did alleviate the W13's bounce at high speeds, but Qin Miao found that the adjusted car accelerated more slowly than before the adjustment.

The only good thing is that the dolphin jump used to occur at around 305 km/h without turning on DRS, but now it will only appear at around 315 km/h.

But the speed up is slower than before the adjustment.

For F1 cars, it's a matter of picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

In addition, there is a big trouble, that is, because the suspension strength has become higher, the appearance time of Qin Miao's racing dolphin jump has indeed slowed down, but the amplitude of the dolphin jump is also greater and the intensity is higher.

All in all, this is not good news.

On the other hand, Hamilton's setting did alleviate the time for the dolphin jump to appear, but it was also a palliative, and even because of the appearance of the two tie rod structures, the wind resistance of the car increased slightly, the problem of weight and balance also appeared, the problem of consistency between the exit and entry corners, and the same corner two laps apart appeared two different cornering characteristics, and the outstanding one was a complete random.

In short, the day after the test began, Mei Ben encountered a big problem here.

Of course, despite the fact that this issue is particularly difficult right now, neither the Mercedes team management nor Toto Wolff have immediately changed their confidence in the current car structure because of this small setback, and still feel that this situation can be solved by the next gradual escalation.

After three days, the test ended.

Although the results of the Mercedes team were not optimistic, or even bad, the dolphin jumps at high speeds bothered everyone.

The only good news is that this trouble is not only bothering the Mercedes team, almost all of which have been affected by the dolphin jump.

At this time, the Meiben team has also initially had a solution to the dolphin jump, but all this will have to wait until the Meiben team has sorted out and analyzed all the data collected in this practice race.

On the other side, after the three-day test was over, Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu, and Leclerc went out for a meal together.

During the meal, the three of them naturally chatted about this season's racing.

Because of the dolphin jump, almost all the riders were hit on the back by their own cars thousands of times in three days.

"Did you meet the dolphin jump?" Qin Miao was the first to speak, and after three days, his back had already been red by the dolphin jump on the track, and after returning to the hotel, there were even bruises in many places behind him.

"Tsk, it hurts." Zhou Guanyu only said this paragraph, but his meaning is very easy to understand, and it is estimated that there is also a blue and purple behind him at this time.

Leclerc looked at the two of them with some surprise: "You haven't adjusted it, have you?" We solved this problem by increasing the suspension strength a bit. ”

The corners of Qin Miao's mouth twitched, after discovering this problem the next day, the Meiben team tried all kinds of adjustments in the next two days, and even gave up part of the time to collect data, just to find a way to alleviate the dolphin jump, but all kinds of ways have been tried, and even four levers have been connected to the chassis, but the jump is still a jump.

So much so that on the afternoon of the third day, Mei Ben didn't try to alleviate it directly, but filled Qin Miao and Hamilton's cars with sensing parts, and the key parts were also painted with paint, just to find the specific cause of the dolphin jump, collect enough data and then find a way to solve it after returning to the team factory.

Because of this, Qin Miao and Hamilton have been upside down in the past two days.

Thanks to the fact that testing is only taking place now, the team is able to use the data collection during this time to make adjustments to the car.

"It's easy to say, but we don't have any eyebrows on the side of the team." Zhou Guanyu said helplessly.

Qin Miao also shook her head and said: "On the third day, we directly gave up the scene to solve the problem of dolphin jumping, but started to collect data, and we have to find a way to change it after returning to the team." ”

After saying this, Qin Miao sandwiched a chopstick beef, and couldn't help but start feeling the pain behind her back again.

There is less than a month left until the Bahrain test in March.

Qin Miao is willing to believe that the team can solve most of the problems that have been exposed so far in less than a month, but Qin Miao always has a feeling that the problem of dolphin jumping is not so easy to solve.

After returning to the team, to Qin Miao's surprise, Hamilton did not go anywhere else in the past month.

I returned to my accommodation in London and came to the team factory at about 10 o'clock every morning to start work.

It seems that Hamilton has also realised that this season's racing doesn't seem to be as competitive as last season, and the whole person is nervous.

Qin Miao still lived in the house near Brackley's factory during this time, living a random day at nine nights every day.

The randomness mentioned here mainly refers to the fact that when to get off work is completely dependent on when Qin Miao finishes the day's work.

……

March 7, 2022, a very ordinary Monday.

Qin Miao got up early as usual, put on her clothes, and after washing, she carried a mobile phone and prepared to ride her scooter to work in the team factory.

Because of the problems found during the test in Barcelona half a month ago, everyone in the team has been busy day and night for half a month, Qin Miao has also put all his attention into the simulator recently, and even his favorite game has been put down, which has made the audience in Qin Miao's live broadcast room who want to watch his live broadcast complain.

There was even a time when Qin Miao's fans and fans were still scolding in the live broadcast room.

The two parties who scolded each other were actually fans of Qin Miao, one was a fan who liked to watch Qin Miao's racing, and the other was a fan who liked to watch Qin Miao play games.

Fans who like to watch Qin Miao play games shout in the live broadcast room every day when Qin Miao will come back to the live broadcast, and the other side of the fan comes to Qin Miao's live broadcast room to take a look around, wanting to see when Qin Miao will start broadcasting, and listen to him talk about racing, so naturally they saw these people shouting in the live broadcast room, and then it was logical that the two sides quarreled.

After all, in the eyes of fans, Qin Miao's identity as a racing driver is higher than that of the anchor, and the racing driver must make more money than the anchor, so he naturally has to focus on the racing career.

And the other group of people are completely fun people, they just want to watch Qin Miao play games live, and when they see Qin Miao not there, they shout a few words and complain.

In short, I scolded inexplicably.

made the fans who both like to watch Qin Miao's racing and watch Qin Miao's live broadcast confused.

Let's get back to business.

Today's Qin Miao is also preparing to go to work in the team as usual.

After arriving at the team, they clocked in every day, found Barber in the canteen, and after eating the breakfast prepared by Barber, the two went to the team factory together to start their day's work.

It is worth mentioning that almost all the top management of the team's technical department is in the team today, and even Mike Elliott, who is busy with new parts and looks a lot haggard than before, has returned to the team factory today.

After working until the afternoon, after checking the data in front of him, and then packing the documents and sending them to the mailbox of the simulator department, Qin Miao stretched and stood up from the ergonomic chair in his office.

Stretched comfortably, and after moving his wrist again, Qin Miao picked up his mobile phone and looked at the time, 4:20 pm.

I don't know why, but I have a little less work today, so I can go back from work early.

Since there is nothing to do now, and it has been almost half a month, it is rare for me to be able to get off work before 5:30 one day.

Qin Miao naturally packed up her things and prepared to leave her office in the racing factory.

Because he often runs to the team factory, Mei Ben also prepared an office for Qin Miao in the factory, and Qin Miao spent much more time in this office than he spent in the office of the administrative building during this time.

But as soon as Qin Miao packed up her things and went out, suddenly there were two firecracker explosions at the door, "Touch!" Sound.

Normal Europeans and Americans should hear this sound and probably think that there is a shooting or that someone is fighting near them.

Hearing this voice, he subconsciously wanted to lie on the ground with his head in his hands.

But Qin Miao, a native Chinese, was only startled by this sudden voice because he was unprepared after hearing this voice.

But that's all, Qin Miao didn't show any more reactions.

Then many smiling faces appeared in front of Qin Miao, including Toto, Hamilton, Elliott, Alison, and Hodgkinson.

In short, basically all the senior executives of the technical department of the Meiben team came over, and these people cheered at Qin Miao together: "Qin Miao! Happy 21st Birthday! ”

Qin Miao was stunned for a while.

Yes? Got your own birthday? When? Why didn't anyone remind me?

And just when Qin Miao was still in a daze, Qin Miao's press officer, Alisa, had already pushed a cake with 21 candles inserted, but there was a 1 in the middle.

It's not hard to guess what these 21 candles and this 1 mean.

21 is Qin Miao's 21 years old after today, and this 1 means that Qin Miao has won a world championship.

After seeing this, Qin Miao gradually reacted, today is his birthday.

Then Qin Miao couldn't cry or laugh again, she was so busy during this time that she was so busy that she forgot her birthday.

But that's fine when you're a celebrity, because you don't need to remember your birthday, someone will always remind you, and even if you don't know it, they'll prepare birthday surprises and gifts for you.

In fact, if Qin Miao went online to look at his mobile phone during this time and swiped short videos, he would be able to swipe information about his birthday.

But Qin Miao was too busy during this time, and he had to train his physical fitness, and he had to help the team run the simulator, and at the same time, he also had a lot of shortcomings to make up.

Qin Miao, who couldn't wait to spend a day as a two-day flower, naturally had no time to look at his mobile phone.

At this time, Qin Miao subconsciously wanted to behave less emotionally, after all, in Qin Miao's own opinion, she was now 21 years old and no longer a child, but the corners of Qin Miao's mouth were like AK, and she couldn't hold it down.

In the end, Qin Miao simply gave up, hugged the colleagues who sent blessings to him with a smile, and personally distributed the cake to everyone.

Of course, Qin Miao didn't forget to bring a piece back to his daughter-in-law. (End of chapter)