Seeing this, Zhou Guanyu also returned to the position arranged for him by the competition: "I'm ready to take pictures, don't talk about it." ”

"Okay." Qin Miao, who knew the process, knew that after the photo was taken, the two of them would return to their teams to prepare for the next race, and the two might not meet again until the end of the race, so Qin Miao said: "Come on, strive to get the top five in the first race." ”

Zhou Guanyu smiled bitterly, it is indeed easy to say, but how easy it is to complete all this.

Afterwards, the 20 drivers of the 2022 season stood together with their teammates for a photo.

It is worth mentioning that because Sebastian Vettel is not here today, it is substitute for him to wear the Aston Martin jersey by substitute driver Hulkenberg.

After the photo was taken, all the riders walked to the pre-race parade trailer in front of them.

Originally, Qin Miao wanted to change his mind during this time, because the driver parade stage was one of the few opportunities during the Grand Prix to completely empty his mind and only wave to the spectators on the sidelines.

Moreover, the spectator seats on the track of the Bahrain Grand Prix are not too much, and Qin Miao can even spend 80% of his time in a daze if he finds a better angle.

But Qin Miao had just found a relatively unnoticeable position, and Zhou Guanyu came over.

Qin Miao didn't even ask him why he didn't want to interact with the audience at the scene, why did he come over to find himself, Zhou Guanyu said with a shy face: "What, Qin Miao, is there any noteworthy details on this track, take advantage of the time now, you can tell me in detail." ”

Qin Miao is stupid, buddy, you are holding Buddha's feet temporarily, why are you hugging me here

And it's a rare break for me, and I really don't want to use my brain right now......

However, looking at Zhou Guanyu's eyes full of anticipation, Qin Miao sighed, but still didn't say the words of refusal: "Okay."

But I'll have an interview later, and if you really want to hear it, you'll have to wait until this interview is over. ”

"No problem!" Zhou Guanyu naturally agreed.

Then Qin Miao was the first to be interviewed under the greeting of the host.

As the 2021 world champion, this treatment and ranking are still there.

After completing his pre-game interview, Qin Miao returned to his position.

Zhou Guanyu has been waiting for a long time.

Then Qin Miao greeted the audience at the scene, and at the same time roughly talked to Zhou Guanyu about some noteworthy places on the Bahrain track.

Of course, Qin Miao, as an F1 driver, also knows that even if he doesn't say it, Zhou Guanyu's track engineer and his coach will tell Zhou Guanyu some tricks.

Maybe with the size of the Mercedes team, the team does know some points that the Arrow team didn't find, but there are never too many of these things.

Because the advantages these things give to the driver are very limited, they cannot play a decisive role.

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu can only be regarded as a small gain in the end, and it may be that after the integration is completed, Zhou Guanyu's lap speed will be increased by 0.1 seconds compared with normal circumstances.

Halfway through the chat, Leclerc, who was interviewed, also came over: "What are you talking about?" ”

didn't shy away from Le Si, Qin Miao switched the language module to English and said: "Some tips on the track, what, do you have something to share?" ”

"No, I signed an agreement, I can't say it."

……

After a lap around the track with the trucks paraded before the race, most of the 20 drivers were interviewed.

After that, the drivers returned to their team room P for the final preparations before the race.

After two hours, the sky was darkening and the track was lit up to illuminate the entire Bahrain circuit.

When the camera cut back to the track, Qin Miao was already waiting in his own car.

The first shot after the director cut it over was given to Qin Miao.

There is no way, last season's world champion, now after a winter break, actually fell directly to the sixth position on the grid.

This result was not even as good as Qin Miao's first qualifying race of his career, when he not only started in second place, but even defeated his teammate seven-time champion Hamilton.

It can only be said that the passage of time and the movement of things are people's faults.

Outrageously, after yesterday's qualifying session ended, some people immediately began to sing about Qin Miao on the Internet, thinking that Qin Miao Jianglang was exhausted, and this season would begin to decline, and finally the straight road was abandoned by the Meiben team.

However, Qin Miao, who was sitting in the racing car, was very calm.

Sitting in the car, he rested his hands flat on his lower abdomen, listening to the song while waiting for the game to start.

It is worth mentioning that the Meiben team knows that Qin Miao likes to listen to songs and relax before the game, and the quality of the team's TR is not very good.

Therefore, the Mercedes team specially upgraded the team's TR system during the winter break, and improved the sound quality of the headphones for everyone in the team.

It's not a hassle for an F1 team, but these upgrades can take a toll on the team's budget.

And this upgrade is completely bad in the eyes of other teams, because the sound quality of the team's TR is not a particularly important component, and it does not improve the performance of the car.

But that's exactly what Mercedes did, and EPOS, the headset sponsor of Mercedes, did a lot of work here.

This can only show that Mei Ben really attaches great importance to Qin Miao.

When she found out about this in Friday's practice match, Qin Miao was shocked, and then a heart-warming feeling that was taken very seriously arose.

However, at the beginning of the pre-game, Qin Miao did not put all his attention on listening to the songs.

At this time, what appeared in front of Qin Miao was his own system interface, the subdivision interface of the task.

[Mission 1: Finish on the podium of the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix]

【Reward: Team Free Attribute Points*1】

[Mission 2: Not to be overtaken by any driver during the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix]

【Reward: Team Free Attribute Points*1】

[Mission 3: Overtake four cars in the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix main stage (undercut does not count)]

[Reward: Attack Ability Score +1]

Looking at this season's tasks, Qin Miao found a pattern, that is, the rewards given by the system last season were more focused on Qin Miao's personal ability to improve, and this season has fully turned to the attributes of the team.

Moreover, the task given to Qin Miao by the system in this game is not too difficult, so the reward given to Qin Miao in the end is not particularly good, at least not as good as last season.

After reading it, the music in Qin Miao's headphones also stopped, and Frankie's voice interjected: "Radio test, Qin Miao, can you hear it?" ”

"Yes, it's clear, I've never heard you so clearly when I'm sitting in a race car."

"Haha, if you like it.

Well, back to the main topic, there are still 5 minutes left to start the race, and the staff on the track is about to withdraw, so please prepare in advance. ”

"Roger, I'm ready."

“Good luck.“

After finishing speaking, Reyes also made a gesture to Qin Miao, and then the team staff responsible for transporting tires and other equipment dragged their large boxes away from the track.

Only 4 technicians in charge of Qin Miao's tires and front and rear jacks were left.

Not long after, the thermal blankets on Qin Miao's four tires were also taken off and attached to the tires of Qin Miao's racing car in a semi-encircled state to maintain the temperature of the tires.

At the same time, Qin Miao's racing car was also placed on the ground, and the engine started.

A few minutes later, following a reminder from the race officer, all the team's driver engineers withdrew from the track and waited for the start of the race next to the track.

And Qin Miao sat in the middle of the car, looking at the butt of the Red Bull racing car that rarely appeared in front of him, and his heart was more or less complicated.

At the same time, it is inevitable that there is a very strong sense of disparity, but fortunately, Qin Miao's adaptability is strong enough, and there is not much fluctuation in his mentality because of the sudden change in position.

After all the crew on the track had withdrawn, the distant lights lit up two green lights, and Leclerc, who was in first place, pressed the accelerator pedal on the brakes and drove the car out of his parking position.

This is where the warm-up lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix begins.

During the warm-up laps, Pirelli gave two pit stop strategies for the race.

Both proposals are two-stop.

They are red, yellow, red, and red, white, and red.

Because teams are not required to use the same set of tires as the fastest lap of the second practice qualifying, almost all teams have experienced varying degrees of tire life.

It also adds a lot of different options for the team in the main race stage.

And Qin Miao chose the pit stop strategy of yellow and white one stop because of his terrifying fetal preservation ability and the data obtained during the three practice matches.

So it can be seen that when all the drivers in the front row started with soft tires, Qin Miao used a set of yellow neutral tires.

With Stroll parked in his place, the medical van behind him was in place, and the green flag in Matthew's hand waved.

Here at Five Star Sports, after seeing this picture, Brother Bing explained: "Attention, in the 2022 season, everything is ready for the Bahrain Grand Prix...... Five red lights lit up...... Extinguish and the game begins! ”

Qin Miao's starting reaction speed was very fast, and he was even significantly faster than Perez in front of him.

But because of the gap in tire performance, even if Qin Miao started faster than Perez, the time gap between him and Perez after the start was only narrowing very slowly, and it did not have the effect of deciding the outcome of the battle.

Hamilton on the other side didn't start badly, even better than Qin Miao, so Hamilton has been on the outside since he started, ready to enter the corner from the outside.

After Perez started, he found that Qin Miao was faster than him, but after the proximity rate was very low, he relaxed his vigilance against Qin Miao, and instead focused his main attention on Hamilton behind him.

Pérez felt an extremely strong threat from Hamilton.

Hamilton's starting speed was supposed to be very good, but Sainz in front of Hamilton didn't start well.

And after the start, Sainz and Hamilton both chose to look inside for overtaking opportunities.

This directly caused Hamilton to turn back to the left in order to avoid Sainz in front of him.

It is important to know that any turn in the starting stage of the F1 car has a great impact on the speed of the car, because part of the power that the car originally used for the straight start has to be consumed in the steering.

As a result, one lane change to the inside line and one lane change to the outside line completely wiped out Hamilton's starting advantage.

It's fair to say that both Mercedes drivers had an uneventful start this time, without any mistakes, but also didn't gain any advantage from the start.

But just when Qin Miao and Hamilton thought that this start would be like this.

Pérez visibly slipped out of the T1 corner.

That gave Hamilton a chance.

Hamilton forced Pérez's inside line directly in T2, and after accumulating enough lead in T2 and T3, he overtook Pérez in one fell swoop.

And Qin Miao couldn't catch this flaw of Perez because of his position.

But in the two corners of T2 and T3, when Pérez and Hamilton entered the wheel-to-wheel struggle, Qin Miao kept sucking the wake of the two, so that when he came to the big straight between T3 and T4, Qin Miao's tail speed was amazing, and he squeezed into Pérez's inside line directly before T4.

Then with a late brake in T4, Qin Miao completely blocked Perez's entry line, and naturally took Pérez's position after exiting the corner, improving his ranking to fifth.

And the roof leak happened to rain overnight, just when everyone thought that Pérez was over after the two Mercedes drivers knocked him away.

T8 Magrosson seized the opportunity of Pérez's inconsistent form after being overtaken by two Mercedes drivers, and forced Pérez's entry into the corner on the night of T8 with the brakes, and also overtook Pérez.

This was also the highlight of the Haas team, not to mention the outstanding results in qualifying, and it directly surpassed a Red Bull at the beginning of the race.

And the faces of Pérez and the Red Bull side are not very good-looking, after all, anyone who sees their drivers not only not get any advantage at the beginning, but lose three positions without finishing a lap.

Someone is going to ask at this time, isn't Bottas behind Qin Miao? How did it become Magnussen?

The reason for this spicy image is also very simple, the transmission developed by the Arrow team never disappoints when it comes to disappointing.

The gearbox was unsurprisingly unexpectedly in the first F1 Grand Prix of the 2022 season.

Both Arrow riders had a rough start at the start.

So much so that the two lost a lot of positions at the start, Bottas fell from 7th to 14th, Zhou Guanyu was even worse, and he started from 11th and fell directly to the bottom of the team.

Perhaps judging from the broadcast footage and the audience's perspective at this time, this is completely a personal mistake by the two Arrow drivers.

But in fact, both the drivers of Zhou Guanyu and Bottas encountered the problem that the car went into anti-stall mode directly after the start.

If one person makes such a mistake, it can be blamed on the driver's own problem, and if both people do this, it can only be the team's problem. (End of chapter)