In the next few days, Qin Miao's life returned to normalcy, and the time soon came to Wednesday, the time point when the system released tasks every week.

It is worth mentioning that none of the three system tasks that Qin Miao refreshed last week had completed Qin Miao.

One task is to ask Qin Miao to be on the podium in the main race stage, one is to surpass three cars in the main race stage, and the other is to enter the top three in the qualifying stage.

Unfortunately, whether it was a qualifying match or a main match, Qin Miao stayed in the fifth position and didn't move much, so Qin Miao didn't get any task rewards last week.

And this week's system seems to know Qin Miao's current situation, and the difficulty of the tasks released by Qin Miao has been reduced a lot.

It's just that because of this, there aren't many rewards for the task.

One task is that Qin Miao's lap speed needs to be maintained above 1:25.00 to finish the race in the main race stage, and the safety car and yellow flag period are not counted.

The reward is Qin Miao's personal long-distance speed rating of 0.3 points.

The other is to bring the car back in its entirety.

The bonus is 0.1 for the team's car durability research and development ability.

From the rewards given by the system, you can see how simple these two tasks are, although it is not enough to say that they can be completed with a wave of your hand, but basically it doesn't take much effort on Qin Miao's part.

It's just that looking at the two tasks released by the system to herself, Qin Miao has a feeling that she is underestimated by the system.

How can you say that you can keep your lap time above 1:24.500 in the race!

……

On Wednesday, in the morning, Zhou Guanyu came to Qin Miao's house.

Because Qin Miao has a private jet, and the relationship between the two is good, basically as long as the team has no special arrangements, Zhou Guanyu will rub Qin Miao's plane to go to the competition together.

Anyway, the two of them have the same destination, and they basically depart on Wednesday, and most of the time they are also in the UK.

Bringing one person is also a belt, bringing two people is also a belt, a few more people and a few fewer people will not have any impact on the fuel cost of Qin Miao's plane.

However, after Zhou Guanyu got out of the car, Qin Miao, who was standing at the door of the house waiting for Zhou Guanyu, still complained: "Otherwise, you should buy a suite directly here, and you won't have to run over every weekend." ”

Zhou Guanyu got out of the car and locked his car and thought about it carefully, and really felt that Qin Miao's words made sense, but after thinking about it, Zhou Guanyu still said: "There is not much time now, I will come to your side to see the house after the Australian Grand Prix." ”

"It seems that the neighborhood is full of ancestral houses of the villagers themselves, and it may be difficult to find them." Qin Miao opened the door and said while motioning for Zhou Guanyu to come in.

Zhou Guanyu shrugged his shoulders: "It's a big deal to buy your neighbor's house directly, it's nothing more than a matter of price." ”

Hearing Zhou Guanyu's words, Qin Miao gave him a thumbs up: "Rich man!" ”

Speaking of Qian Zhou Guanyu put down his luggage, he looked at Qin Miao and asked curiously: "By the way, you also won the drivers' championship last season, so Toto didn't say anything about it, give you a salary increase or something?" ”

Qin Miao didn't mean to hide it, Zhou Guanyu was still very strict-mouthed, and he wouldn't take these things out and talk nonsense, so Qin Miao said calmly: "The salary has been raised, but this matter has not been announced." ”

"What's the annual salary now?"

"It's not much, it's only 20 million US dollars a year, and if you count the bonus and income from business activities, I can earn about 50 million US dollars a year, and because I live in Monaco, this money can go into my pocket without paying taxes, basically I can earn 50 million a year."

Zhou Guanyu heard Qin Miao's understatement, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily: "You can use this "Not Much" and "Also" very well, but you still grew up in China, if you don't know how to use it, I suggest you don't use it." ”

Qin Miao smiled proudly, but just as Qin Miao was about to say something, Qin Miao's phone rang.

After chatting for a few words, Qin Miao hung up the phone and said to Zhou Guanyu: "The plane is ready, go directly to the airport." ”

Zhou Guanyu sighed, he just arrived at Qin Miao's house and had to leave for the airport without even drinking saliva, but Zhou Guanyu still said, "Okay." ”

The two then drove to the airport with their luggage and flew non-stop from the UK to Australia.

Although it is a bit long, at least the only advantage of a private jet is that you can move freely on the plane, and you can get up and move for a while when you are tired, plus Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu are both F1 drivers, and their physical fitness naturally belongs to the top group of people, so the whole flight did not cause any discomfort to the two.

After landing, the two went separately to the hotel booked by their own team.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Qin Miao and many drivers went to the paddock and began to record some promotional videos and carry out some commercial activities.

Fast forward to Friday, and everyone in the Mercedes race week is looking forward to and worrying.

The anticipation is naturally due to the team's introduction of a new upgrade this week, and according to the simulator's simulation results, this new rear diffuser is effective in reducing the W13's dolphin jumps.

The worry is naturally because the Mercedes team has fallen off the altar, and everyone is a little worried because of this, worried that the performance of the Mercedes team on the field will disappoint the fans.

But regardless of the mental activity of the team before the start of this race, this race is something that everyone needs to face.

In the first practice session on Friday, Qin Miao and Hamilton changed their normality, and the practice race had just begun, and Qin Miao and Hamilton went to the track to test.

The positive attitude of the Meiben team made other teams confused after seeing it, what happened to Meiben today? Got the wrong medicine?

But soon, Qin Miao and Hamilton had completely different feelings on the track.

Indeed, the upgrades introduced by the Mercedes team have significantly slowed down the dolphin jumps in the car.

At least at high speeds, the car has a much smaller number of dolphin jumps than last week's car at Jeddah, and there are no dolphin jumps even at top speed in qualifying with light gas.

But this is just that the jump is not so strong, and the car will still jump in the heavy oil state, which means that the car will still have dolphin jumps in the main race stage.

At the same time, however, the car's tail speed and end-of-the-road acceleration have been significantly improved, at least not until the end of the tank is almost in the tank, and the car's top speed is still hovering around 300.

And for this level of bounce, Qin Miao's physical fitness is acceptable, and even after the bounce slows down, Qin Miao feels that he will not have any discomfort in his back after running the entire Grand Prix.

But Hamilton can't do it anymore, people can't refuse to accept old age, Hamilton, who is already 37 years old this year, naturally has no way to compare with Qin Miao, a 20-year-old young man.

So even though the dolphin jump has slowed down dramatically, Hamilton still feels some discomfort in his back after a practice run.

Therefore, after the practice was over, Hamilton and Qin Miao returned to the lounge with different moods.

Qin Miao honestly stayed in the lounge and waited for the second practice to begin, while Hamilton found Toto and Elliott and began to discuss the possibility and development direction of further reducing the dolphin jump of racing cars.

After a short break and preparation, the second practice begins.

And in this process, Qin Miao has always maintained a speed that surprised everyone in the team.

What the team's simulator didn't simulate was that because of the introduction of the new baseplate, the car's cornering speed was significantly improved, so much faster than expected.

After the first and second practice was over, Qin Miao's score in the second practice was actually second, and Leclerc was 0.1 seconds faster than Verstappen.

Although I could only have fun watching the results of the qualifying race, after seeing this result, whether it was the commentators of Five Star Sports who were commenting on the practice match, the domestic fans or the staff of the Meiben team, they all felt excited.

Even Toto, who has always been unsmiling during the game, has a rare relieved smile on his face.

At least judging from the current progress of the team's upgrades, the team upgrade is effective, and it is indeed possible for the Mercedes team to return to its previous competitiveness and participate in the title race in the middle or later stages of the season.

But when it came Saturday and qualifying began, that illusion was quickly shattered.

In Q1, Qin Miao's speed is really good, and he is faster than his teammate Hamilton, but the results of the two are still fifth and sixth.

It can be seen from this that the two Mercedes drivers in the practice session are doing their best to run the lap time, and whether it is Ferrari or Red Bull, they are really just practicing in the practice session.

In the Q1 stage, Qin Miao and Hamilton did advance steadily, but no matter how you look at it, this result is a little inconsistent with Mei Ben's previous image.

On the other hand, Zhou Guanyu's Q1 in this game also passed smoothly.

The last drivers eliminated in Q1 were: Albon, Russell, Magnussen, Vettel, Stroll.

In fact, it was a little surprising to see Magnussen eliminated in Q1.

Because Magnussen's speed this season is actually okay, at least from the first two races of the season, Magnussen's performance is very impressive.

But now look at Magnussen's results...... It can only be said that it is high and walking.

Soon, the time came to Q2.

In the Q2 stage, Qin Miao and Hamilton had similar rhythms.

However, when he advanced this time, Qin Miao ranked sixth and Hamilton fifth.

It can be seen that the gap between the two Mercedes drivers in lap speed has been further narrowed this season.

From the past, Hamilton has always overpowered Qin Miao in qualifying, and now the two are fighting back and forth on the track, and Qin Miao's growth rate is amazing.

Zhou Guanyu was a little regrettable and was eliminated in Q2.

Meanwhile, Zhou's teammate Bottas was also eliminated in Q2.

The time gap between the two is not too big.

At least this can reassure the domestic audience, in terms of the results of the two-person qualifying match, Zhou Guanyu is not much worse than Bottas.

In the end, the drivers who were eliminated in Q2 were: Gasly, Bottas, Zhou Guanyu, Tsunoda, Mick.

Soon, Q3 began.

However, Qin Miao and Hamilton had just finished their first flight lap in Q3 when there was an accident on the track.

Alonso's mistake in the second lap was understeered in T11 and he went off the track and onto the wall.

It is not difficult to see from the replay footage that Alonso has been trying to downshift the car with his left hand when entering the corner, but there seems to be something wrong with the car's hydraulic system, and the gear has been stuck in 4th gear, and there is no way to lower it.

At this time, someone is about to ask, Alonso, as an experienced veteran driver, is fully focused when running qualifying, and it is impossible to miss the corner and rush out of the track in the cornering stage, even if he can't downshift, it shouldn't affect his rhythm in the corner.

But in fact, there is not only one braking method in F1 cars, but also another braking method for the engine.

When the gearbox is downshifted, the engine with reduced revs effectively reduces the rear wheel speed to brake the car.

As a result, after Alonso was unable to downshift his engine, the car lost some of its braking power, causing Alonso to miss the corner, so that he understeered and rushed off the track and hit the wall.

Alonso's collision with the wall directly damaged the left front suspension of his car, and there was no Matthew access in his position, so it was very troublesome to clean up the wreckage of the car, so naturally the race showed a red flag.

Fortunately, most of the riders completed their first flight lap.

The unluckiest of all was Sainz, who had a red flag on the course about 100 meters before crossing the line, and his first flight lap was invalidated.

Don't underestimate this bottoming flight lap, because after a bottoming flight lap score, the riders dare to run without scruples in the last flight lap.

Because even if you don't do well in the last lap, or make a mistake on the wall, you still have a score to build upon, and your ranking may be a little worse, but it will definitely not be bad enough to start in 10th place or something that you can't accept.

But Sainz was troubled by this, and when the last flight lap started running, he would definitely have some scruples and dare not push to the limit, so the results would naturally be a little worse than if there was a flying lap to start running.

In the end, Sainz didn't really get a good result in qualifying.

But it wasn't because he didn't run one less lap, but because the car went wrong in the closing stages of the race, so he was nearly 1.1 seconds slower on the last lap than Leclerc, who was in first place.

On the other hand, because there is one less of the four drivers in the two teams in the front row, Qin Miao can also get a glimpse of the top four positions.

After qualifying, the top 10 results were as follows:

1: Leclerc

2: Verstappen

3: Pérez

4: Qin Miao

5: Hamilton

6: Norris

7: Ricardo

8: Ocon

9: Sainz

10: Alonso

(End of chapter)