And Zhou Guanyu's qualifying race did give domestic fans a certain intensity, and Zhou Guanyu was once squeezed into the 17th elimination zone before the watch was stopped in Q1.

Just when fans in China thought that Zhou Guanyu might stop in Q1 in the first qualifying race of his career, after the last flight lap, Zhou Guanyu's score rose directly to 1:32.210, directly rushing to tenth, and advancing to Q2 in front of his idol Alonso.

Of course, Zhou Guanyu's result is good, but compared to his teammate Bottas, Zhou Guanyu is indeed a little less interesting, but no one will think that Zhou Guanyu is not good or anything because of this, after all, this is only the first qualifying match of his career.

We can't ask too much of a rookie driver, after all, the F1 race has been held for so long, but only one Qin Miao has appeared.

Not all people are born to know it.

In the end, the drivers who were eliminated after the Q1 stop were Albon, Yuki Tsunoda, Hulkenberg (crooked head, Hulk played on behalf of him), Ricardo, and Stroll.

After returning to the garage, Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car, only looked at the car video of his fastest lap, and after watching it, Qin Miao directly set his eyes on Verstappen and the two Ferrari drivers.

Ferrari's performance in today's race was surprisingly good, and all the forbearance of last year paid off this year, with Q1 of qualifying alone, Ferrari showed surprising speed, with the two drivers taking first and second place straight away.

In Q2, the two drivers on Meiben's side still steadily advanced to Q3 in the midstream group, while Zhou Guanyu's side was not fast and was eliminated in Q2 with the twelfth place.

At the same time, the drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Ocon, Zhou Guanyu, Mick Schumacher, Norris, Russell.

That's right, McLaren this season has been reduced to a third-tier team.

Ricciardo, who was poached by McLaren from Renault at a high price, was eliminated in Q3, while McLaren's prince Norris lost to first-year student Zhou Guanyu in Q2 and was eliminated in 14th place.

It can only be said that the impact of McLaren's economic crisis on the McLaren team this season has affected the entire McLaren F1 division.

It's possible that McLaren will be like Red Bull in '20 this season, with no effective upgrades throughout the year.

"It's a pity, judging from the speed shown by Bottas, it is possible for Zhou Guanyu to enter Q3 in this game." On the side of Five-Star Sports, Brother Bing sighed after the game was over. ”

However, today's commentator Brother Shrimp said something for Zhou Guanyu: "We can't actually ask Zhou Guanyu too much, after all, this is only the first F1 Grand Prix of Zhou Guanyu's career, and the performance of the car he drives is not as good as Qin Miao's, and the first Grand Prix of his career has Mercedes' car to drive." ”

Although it is a pity that the commentators and Zhou Guanyu have not been able to go further, at least Zhou Guanyu's current achievements are satisfactory to both the domestic audience and the commentators of Five-Star Sports.

……

Soon, Q3 began.

Qin Miao returned to the track.

From Q3 onwards, there was no time on the Mercedes side, with the two drivers and the other teams basically getting out of the pits on their feet and starting their own laps after a warm-up lap.

Qin Miao's strength is still there, and the training of his racing ability has not stopped during the winter break, and the most important thing is that Qin Miao is still young now, and he still has enough room for growth.

On the track, in the first timing section of the first flight lap of Q3, Qin Miao directly brushed purple, but the second and third timing sections were slightly stretched.

After Qin Miao finished running, her score came to fifth.

However, as Hamilton behind him crossed the line, Qin Miao's score fell to sixth.

The four in front of the two Mercedes drivers are Leclerc Sainz and Verstappen Pérez.

The race has come to this point, although many people still have certain illusions about the Meiben team, but some of the more sharp-eyed people have discovered that Qin Miao's lap time in this flight circle is 1:31.871.

This result is a significant improvement compared to Q1 and Q2, but compared to Ferrari and Red Bull's drivers, Qin Miao's improvement is a little too little.

Looking at Leclerc's time of 1:30.771, it seems that the Mercedes team has a kind of strong crossbow flavor.

You know, last season's Ferrari drivers had no way to see the Mercedes rear lights after 10 laps of the race.

Therefore, as soon as the qualifying round of this season opened, it unfolded like this, which caught everyone off guard.

In Q3 of qualifying, Ferrari was a full 1.2 seconds faster than Mercedes.

What is even more surprising is that Red Bull, which had a good momentum last season, also overwhelmed Mercedes this season, but despite this, Red Bull was trampled under the feet of Ferrari.

Regardless of what fans of Mercedes and Red Bull think of the start to the two teams, at least in the eyes of the majority of the Iron Buddha Temple, the performance of the two Ferrari drivers in qualifying has undoubtedly given them all a shot in the arm.

The nest has accumulated for a year, a whole year! It's finally time to accumulate a lot!

And this is indeed the case, in the last lap of Q3, although Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers, both played all their strength unreservedly on the track, Qin Miao was more than once on the verge of losing control of the car.

But after Qin Miao finally crossed the line, his score only came to 1:31.509, not to mention catching up with Ferrari and Red Bull, and he even had a time gap of 0.3 seconds with his teammate Hamilton.

This is Qin Miao's result without any mistakes in the whole process.

It can only be said that the 22 season of Mercedes' car is really a bit stretched.

In the end, Leclerc took pole position in this race with a time of 1:30.558.

Verstappen, who was the only one who could challenge Leclerc, crossed the line with a time of 1:30.681

And by the end of Q3, Ferrari had taken everyone by surprise, but deservedly taken the first place.

The time gap between Leclerc and Verstappen came to 0.123 seconds.

The final qualifying Q3 standings are as follows:

1: Leclerc

2: Verstappen

3: Sainz

4: Pérez

5: Hamilton

6: Qin Miao

7: Bottas

8: Magrusen

9: Alonso

10: Gasly

Ferrari got the 2022 season off to a flying start.

Don't look at Sainz behind Verstappen, but in fact, Sainz's last lap was canceled due to the yellow flag on the track, while Sainz's last lap was actually quite good, and there is a good chance of overtaking Verstappen.

And with no run on the final lap, the time gap between Sainz and Verstappen was only 0.006 seconds.

It can be said that if Sainz manages to complete the last flying lap, the Ferrari duo will occupy the top spot of the race.

Ferrari was jubilant after the results, and Leclerc shouted his mantra in his team TR: "Come on!" let's gooooo!“

A few families are happy and a few are sad, unlike the jubilant scene on the Ferrari side, the TR of the Mercedes team on the other side is a little dull.

Qin Miao looked at the sixth place displayed on his steering wheel and the result of 1:31.871, and sighed a little before saying in the team TR: "I did my best." ”

There is no problem with Qin Miao's words, because in the last flying circle, Qin Miao has indeed discovered all his limits, and several times in the corners, Qin Miao's car is in a limit state, and if the operation is a little bigger, it may directly lose control.

But despite this, after running the last flight lap, Qin Miao's results were still not so impressive.

"Received, I'm sorry Qin Miao, we couldn't give you a competitive enough racing car, come back now, let's see what else we can do." The person who said this to Qin Miao was not Qin Miao's track engineer Frankie, but Toto.

This can be regarded as Toto's apology to Qin Miao on behalf of the Meiben team.

And Hamilton on the other side is similar, but compared to Qin Miao's simple "I did my best", Hamilton's side complained significantly more.

"The dolphin jump of the car was too bad, my back hurt a little bit, the car didn't have enough speed, and the tires were a little difficult to heat up......"

If there is still a group of people who will be uncomfortable when they see Qin Miao and Meiben team's poor performance on the field, then there are only domestic fan groups.

After seeing Qin Miao's performance on the track, the domestic audience who has just come into contact with the sport of F1 is actually a little unacceptable.

After all, a large part of Qin Miao's domestic fans are pure champion fans.

They like Qin Miao and pay attention to Qin Miao because they know that Qin Miao can show eye-catching results in the arena.

Or to put it bluntly, they like Qin Miao purely because Qin Miao can win in F1 and win the game.

However, the champion fans who watched this game found that Qin Miao didn't seem to be as strong as they thought this season, and he was only ranked sixth in qualifying, even behind his teammate Hamilton.

[That's it for the world champion? 】

[Is this the so-called world champion?] 】

[Didn't you press Hamilton last season? ] Why can't I outrun Hamilton in qualifying this season]

[Give me some strength, Qin Miao, I'm not here to see you lose the game]

Although many people were a little disappointed after seeing Mei Ben's performance, some even started to ridicule directly.

But most championship fans are like he won't take the initiative to pay attention to F1, even if they see that Qin Miao didn't run well in this race, they won't deliberately come over to say something, and just leave silently.

However, veteran fans who often watch F1 races are much calmer than these people.

Although they also regretted to see that Meiben had completely lost its former competitiveness under the new technical rules.

But they know it's F1, a sport that's very cyclical.

There is no way that a team will dominate the paddock all the time, and even more so that the ground rules introduced by the FIA are not intended for the Mercedes team.

After all, everyone knows that it is not his car design ability that dominates the paddock, but his engine.

And after entering the era of ground effects, if you want to show results on the track, you have to rely on excellent aerodynamic design.

In short, although the old fans don't want to see such a scene, after seeing such a scene, they can also accept the result calmly.

Therefore, they did not sneer at the major media platforms, but silently looked forward to the Mercedes team being able to gradually regain its speed in the subsequent upgrades.

Not to mention being able to turn the tide, from the disadvantage at the beginning of the season to the end of the season, you can directly participate in the competition for the Constructors' and Drivers' Championships, but you should not be thrown by your opponents by a second in qualifying.

After all, Qin Miao and Hamilton were still holding Verstappen's head last season, and after a few months, they couldn't see Verstappen's taillights.

On the other side, the three commentators of Five Star Sports were also a little silent after seeing Mei Ben's results.

After all, the three commentators of Five Star Sports have always been on Qin Miao's side, both on the surface and on their true thoughts and positions.

Not to mention, at the meeting in the last competition, Qin Miao left a very deep impression on the soldiers.

Naturally, I like Qin Miao more.

But after seeing the performance of Qin Miao and the Meiben team this season, all the three commentators can do is to enlighten the audience watching this game in their own way in the live broadcast.

……

on the field.

After parking his car under the podium at the entrance to the pits, Leclerc got up from his car, and then, under the eager gaze of all the Iron Buddha Temple, Leclerc installed his steering wheel and tactically adjusted the trajectory after getting out of the car.

And in the process, Leclerc simply raised his fist to celebrate, and did not show too much excitement and excitement.

Then Leclerc calmly walked to the weighing position.

At this time, Qin Miao also happened to park her car and put on a helmet to prepare to weigh her.

And if Qin Miao wants to weigh himself, he has to pass by the platform where Leclerc weighs.

Seriously, Qin Miao at this time really didn't want to meet Leclerc, but if you can't go to weigh it, you have to go through that side.

So Qin Miao also came to Leclerc's side, and after seeing Leclerc, Qin Miao said nonchalantly: "Congratulations." ”

After seeing Qin Miao coming over, Leclerc, who was still forcibly holding back the excitement and smile in his heart, couldn't hold back at all: "Hahahaha, Qin Miao!" Am I not awesome? It's 1 second faster than you in a lap! ”

Saying that, Leclerc smiled and gave Qin Miao a big hug.

Qin Miao also reached out and hugged Leclerc, and after patting Leclerc's back, Qin Miao said with a little sourness: "You kid is also lucky, Ferrari has exploded this year, how did you develop the car?" ”

"Hahahaha, luck is also part of strength, isn't it?" Seeing Qin Miao's appearance, Leclerc smiled even more happily.

You're a world champion, aren't you? You wait, I'll win a world title this year too.

"Bad luck."

After scolding, Qin Miao bumped his fist with Verstappen, who came over and was about to weigh him, and then weighed himself.

Leclerc, who was left with a happy face, enjoyed his victory on the spot.

In the post-game interview stage, looking at the reporter in front of him who he had met a few times, but not many times, Qin Miao smiled bitterly: "I remember that last season we agreed that the fewer times we met, the better." ”

The other party also shrugged helplessly: "Actually, I don't want to see you here, but obviously Ferrari and Red Bull don't think so, it seems that we have met many times this season." ”

After a joke on each other, the interview began.

"It can be seen that the speed of the two cars in today's race is not very ideal, and even the time gap between the two cars in this race is not very good, and even the time gap with Ferrari is a little too large, what happened?"

Qin Miao spread his hands and said: "Obviously, the car has encountered a lot of problems, as for what happened, in fact, we are not very clear, but the main reason must be because of the dolphin jump, and now the team is working to solve this problem, I believe there will be a result soon." ”

"How does the early season defeat affect your mentality? You're the defending champion, after all, but it's clear that this season's Mercedes doesn't seem to be able to provide you with a competitive enough car, so would you be frustrated? ”

"Even though this is only the second season of my career, I also know that F1 teams have their ups and downs, just like some dynasties in history.

I think I'm in a pretty good frame of mind, I don't have any negative emotions because of the defeat in one or two races, and I believe in the team, we're only having a temporary situation and there will always be a way to fix it. ”

"Okay, last question, probably not related to the track.

How do you feel when your good friend Leclerc's Ferrari regains its competitiveness this year? ”

Hearing this question, Qin Miao smiled: "Although I really think he has shit luck when I see him behaving like this, it is undeniable that I am indeed quite happy."

I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to play Leclerc on the track this season. ”

[G, Mei Ben's car this season didn't play clearly]

[This time gap is too big, I can't figure out why the time gap between Mercedes and Ferrari can go to one second]

[At least Qin Miao doesn't seem to be affected by the unfavorable performance of the team's cars]

[Let's transfer, I think Red Bull is good, give Panzi some strength]

After the interview, Qin Miao returned to the home of the team.

Now it's just that the qualifying round of the Bahrain Grand Prix is over, not that the entire Bahrain Grand Prix is over, Qin Miao still has work to deal with next.

So after returning to the team home, Qin Miao put away the negative emotions in her heart, changed a set of clothes and adjusted her state, and then began to work again.

……

"Hey, hello Dong Chou!"

In the reception room of the Meiben team, Qin Miao accurately found Jay Chou as soon as he entered the door, and Jay Chou's assistant Dani could be seen in the distance.

"Qin Miao, good afternoon, in fact, I have watched your F2 races, as long as I am not busy in last year's race, I didn't miss your race."

Because there are a lot of celebrities and other public figures in the paddock, Qin Miao also has this aspect of entertainment.

And meeting Jay Chou can't be regarded as entertainment, strictly speaking, this is actually chasing stars at public expense, after all, Qin Miao has always liked Jay Chou since she was a child, and the song "Blue and White Porcelain" can really be said to be Qin Miao's big heard.

And Jay Chou's other songs are not to mention, each one is more classic than the other.

"It's good that I don't think I disappointed the fans with my performance last season, but today's game may not be so comfortable, right?"

"No, in fact, I'm quite worried about you, after all, I heard that it was the Mercedes team's car that failed this season, which caused you and Hamilton to not be able to play to their full strength."

Qin Miao waved his hand: "The Meiben team is only relatively strong, not a saint, there are always times when mistakes are made, and this situation is inevitable."

Okay, let's not talk about these unpleasant topics, by the way, Dong Chou, what, it's inconvenient to sign me, in fact, I've always liked your songs. ”

"Absolutely, no problem." Jay Chou naturally agreed.

Then Jay Chou saw Barber hand over a helmet to Qin Miao.

Qin Miao handed the helmet to Jay Chou a little nervously and said, "Dong Chou will sign on this helmet." ”

Looking at this helmet with obvious traces of use, and even a little dirty, Jay Chou looked at Qin Miao with some surprise: "Is this helmet used?" ”

Qin Miao nodded: "That's right, this helmet was used on the track just now, it's okay, just sign it, I still have a lot of spare helmets." ”

Jay Chou looked at the helmet that Qin Miao handed him with some pity.

To be honest, what Jay Chou wants is actually for Qin Miao to sign this helmet, and then give this helmet to himself, so that the collection value of this helmet is too high.

However, since Qin Miao had already handed the helmet to him, it was impossible for Jay Chou to refuse, so he simply picked up the marker pen handed over by Barber and signed his name on it.

Well, after Jay Chou wrote this signature, Qin Miao estimated that he would have to put this helmet in the collection room at home for the rest of his life.

After getting Jay Chou's signature with satisfaction, Qin Miao chatted with Jay Chou.

But strictly speaking, Qin Miao is the master here, and he is responsible for entertaining Jay Chou.

So in this process, most of the time Jay Chou was asking Qin Miao about racing, and Qin Miao answered Jay Chou's questions.

What is it like to sit in a race car and feel a dolphin jump?

Does it hurt to have back pain?

Are the brakes really that hard to apply in a race car?

Is it possible for him to go up and experience Formula 1 cars or something?

"Well, don't tell me, if you really want to try it, I really have a way to get you to sit in an F1 car and run a few laps." Qin Miao said.

"Huh? Really? Jay Chou was also a little surprised. (End of chapter)