After walking the track, Qin Miao went back to the hotel to rest.

Friday, the day when the first and second exercises begin.

As soon as Qin Miao entered the paddock, many reporters at the entrance of the paddock who had been waiting for Qin Miao for a long time were surging towards Qin Miao like sharks smelling blood.

Even Qin Miao, who had experienced a hundred battles, was frightened when he saw the momentum of these reporters, and took two steps back.

Looking at their hungry eyes, Qin Miao already realized what they were going to ask.

And after staying in the paddock for so long, Qin Miao also knows very well the urine nature of the reporters, and before he gave them a satisfactory reply, they were like flies around you, and they would ask questions that they were all curious about at every opportunity.

Thinking of this, Qin Miao simply didn't leave, and directly found a position with relatively few people in the paddock, and answered the doubts in their hearts: "My cooperation with Mei Ben has always been smooth.

During the process, both me and the team staff were very satisfied with each other, and we were familiar with the working environment here, so I had no plans to leave Mercedes in a short period of time. ”

After dealing with several questions from reporters, Qin Miao was able to get out of the crowd.

Barber said: "Actually, strictly speaking, it is a bit disadvantageous for you to say such things in such an environment, and they are likely to over-interpret your answers. ”

"I know." Qin Miao nodded, and then spread his hands: "But if I'm not here, give these reporters a satisfactory answer, whether it's a pre-race interview or a post-race interview, or a driver parade, or a post-race interview, there will always be other reporters who ask me such questions."

So instead of answering them then, it's better to give them a satisfactory answer now, so that at least some of the journalists who are purely eye-catching will have the news as soon as possible, and I will have a lot easier on the following Grand Prix Sunday. ”

Although Barber recognized Qin Miao's idea, he still felt that it was a little unsafe not to let Mei Ben's own media mouthpiece speak out, but he had also worked with Qin Miao for almost a year, and he also knew that Qin Miao was sometimes very afraid of trouble.

However, since Qin Miao had already been interviewed, it was pointless to say it at this time, so he shook his head, and Baber didn't delve into this matter.

In the first training stage, Qin Miao, who hadn't touched a car for a while, had a very good speed.

As soon as he came up, he got off to a good start, and when he ran the qualifying race, Qin Miao's lap speed was 0.4 faster than that of his teammate Hamilton.

At this time, some people are about to ask, why not use Qin Miao's results to compare with other drivers, such as Verstappen and Leclerc?

Because......

In particular, Ferrari and Red Bull have been upgraded to varying degrees, and Mercedes has not even unified its internal caliber, so that now Qin Miao's lap speed is even 0.2 seconds slower than that of Enns.

Sainz: Are you polite? When did I become a unit of measurement?

And anyway, I'm also the No. 2 driver for Ferrari, right?

Respect! Child.

Although Qin Miao won the championship in this game, even the podium was very reluctant.

But despite this, the opponent's upgrade did not affect Qin Miao's familiarization with the track during the practice stage, and helped his strategy team collect the required track data.

The second practice is almost the same, Qin Miao didn't pay attention to the results of Ferrari and Red Bull during the whole process, because there is no need, and you can't compete with them on the track.

This concludes Friday's work.

After the end, Qin Miao was a little helpless to find that many reporters asked him the same question in the post-game interview stage.

Qin Miao actually wanted to pick a son and quit at this time, so it was a big deal to learn KIMI directly, be silent directly, or even turn around and leave.

But if Qin Miao did this, it was estimated that the heat of this matter would rise again, so Qin Miao still answered the question honestly with his patience.

Saturday, the day of the third practice and the start of qualifying.

There is nothing to say about the third practice, the only surprise is that Zhou Guanyu's fastest lap actually came to eighth during the third practice, which is only about 0.03 seconds less than Alonso.

However, as mentioned earlier, the results of the practice rounds are not indicative.

The time when the drivers and teams really give their full strength is in qualifying.

Q1 and Q2 have nothing to say about Qin Miao, after all, although the performance of the Mercedes race car is not good, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.

The performance of the car is still there.

However, Arrow in this game is a little weak.

Zhou Guanyu and Bottas both stopped in Q2.

Mainly a problem with the broken gearbox of Arrow Racing, Paul Ricard is a high-speed track after all, with two long straights.

Arrow's car used a Ferrari engine this season, so it was supposed to play well on such straights, but because of their self-developed gearbox problems, his main advantage was that on the track with many corners, the car's straight tail speed was worrying.

Therefore, in such a track, Arrow could not give full play to the full strength of his engine.

And this track Zhou Guanyu has also run with F3 and F2, so Zhou Guanyu is not unfamiliar with this track.

But after all, the restrictions of the car were there, so in the end, Zhou Guanyu was only stuck at the cut-off line, and was finally eliminated with a time gap of 0.14 seconds in 11th place.

The good news is that despite this, Zhou Guanyu won against his teammate Bottas.

It was as if Bottas was destined to be restrained by the Chinese.

When Qin Miao first joined F1, he stepped on the seat of the Mercedes team obtained by Bottas.

Now that Bottas has regained the driver's seat after a season, Bottas's speed is still there, and it has not been wasted because of the time of the year.

You can see that 77 wants to get back into racing.

But after Zhou Guanyu gradually adapted to the rhythm of F1 and began to absorb F1-related racing knowledge like a sponge, Zhou Guanyu's growth rate was also very amazing.

In the last few games, Zhou Guanyu has been stable in terms of results against his teammate Bottas.

The only thing that makes domestic fans feel sorry is that Zhou Guanyu's growth rate is too slow, if Zhou Guanyu's growth rate is a little faster, and the Arrow team is not alive, the current driver standings, Zhou Guanyu can definitely stabilize his teammate Bottas.

By then, both Chinese drivers were ahead of their teammates in the standings, and it was fun to think about it.

And this is not groundless, there is a great possibility of realization.

It's just that there are no ifs in this world.

Q3 just started.

Hamilton and Qin Miao began to wake on the track.

After all, the straights are very long, so the wake effect of this track is particularly strong.

Compared to the other teams, the two drivers of Mercedes are clearly experienced in pulling the tail.

Since Hamilton helped Qin Miao pull the wake at the Monaco Grand Prix, the two have also specially practiced pulling the wake on those tracks that can pull the wake and have a good wake effect.

The two drivers have already had the experience of pulling each other's tails before, and compared with the drivers of other teams, the two drivers of Mercedes will have a lot less psychological burden and more calmly than the drivers of other teams when they help their teammates pull the tail.

After all, human affection is something that you help me and I help you build up.

The first flight lap of Q3 was when Qin Miao helped Hamilton pull a wake.

There is no other reason why Qin Miao was chosen in front, the two drivers of Meiben have a high threshold in terms of mentality, in short, a big heart.

Hamilton has developed his mentality because of so many years of racing.

Qin Miao is born with a big heart, although he has emotional moments on the track, his driving style has never changed, he has always been very steady, and there has not been any mistakes caused by too much tension in his entire F1 career.

F2 doesn't count.

On the track, in addition to Mercedes, the two Ferrari sides are also waking their teammates.

However, the wake of the two teams is not the same.

Although Sainz entered Q3 in this game, he changed the number of engines that exceeded the limit of the rules in this game, and even if Sainz in the qualifying stage finally won the pole position in qualifying, Sainz in the main stage will be punished to the end of the team.

So after entering Q3, Sainz did not return to the team's P room to rest, and Sainz helped Leclerc on the track throughout Q3.

I pulled it three times.

And Qin Miao and Hamilton both pulled each other's wake for each other.

Compared with Qin Miao and Hamilton, Leclerc, who has more room for trial and error, has a good performance in this qualifying match.

On the last lap before the Q3 stoppage, Leclerc took pole position in Q3 qualifying with a time of 1:30.872.

Leclerc was a full 0.3 seconds faster than Verstappen.

Leclerc, who took pole position, happily cheered in the team TR: "Let's gooooooo!"

Ferrari does not have any psychological burden in doing this, after all, whether Sainz helps Leclerc pull the tail Sainz tomorrow's starting position is already doomed.

On the other hand, Mei Ben is because the relationship between the two drivers has eased, and the two have also helped each other to pull each other's wake on different tracks before, so it is normal for Mei Ben to let the two pull each other's wake in this race.

But Red Bull is not good, on the one hand, forced by the outside world, that is, the pressure brought by Mercedes to Red Bull, at this time the difference between the two teams is not even ten points, if Pérez's qualifying is sacrificed, Mercedes is likely to surpass Red Bull in the standings before the summer break to the first place in the constructors' standings.

In addition, Red Bull also needs to consider Pérez's mood.

Although it is true that Pérez is the No. 2 driver, his contract is quite long, if the interests of Pérez are sacrificed to complete Verstappen at this time, then Pérez is likely to keep this matter in mind, and if Pérez does not work in a place where Pérez is particularly needed, then Red Bull may lose more than one pole position.

However, despite this, Red Bull Racing still has a lot of performance advantages over the team's internal turmoil, so in qualifying, Red Bull still came back with second or third despite missing out on the first place.

And Qin Miao's qualifying stage performance in today's game is actually quite satisfactory, but alas, Hamilton in today's game is like taking some kind of medicine, and the qualifying lap result is terrifyingly fast, and the result directly comes to 1:31.435.

Hamilton's lap time was only 0.1 seconds slower than Pérez's third.

And Qin Miao's score in this game is 1:31.566.

He was 0.2 seconds slower than his teammates and more than 0.3 seconds slower than Pérez.

There may be many people who feel that today's game is Qin Miao's failure to play well after seeing this.

After all, today's Qin Miao didn't even defeat his teammates in the qualifying stage.

But Qin Miao knew in his heart that he was playing normally in today's game, and he could even say that he played well today.

However, compared to himself, his teammate Hamilton played significantly better.

The final qualifying positions are as follows:

1: Leclerc

2: Verstappen

3: Pérez

4: Hamilton

5: Qin Miao

6: Norris

7: Alonso

8: Tsunoda

9: Sainz

10: Magnussen

The reason why Magnussen appeared behind Sainz, who had his Q3 results cancelled directly, was because Magnussen also changed the engine of the car in this race, just like Sainz.

And in Q2, Magnussen's Q2 promotion results were not as good as Sainz's, so Magnussen was behind Sainz at the start.

So while both Ferrari drivers were disqualified from qualifying, there was a difference in treatment for those who were also disqualified.

After the game was over, Qin Miao's work was almost completed.

participated in the post-race interview, and the reporter who interviewed Qin Miao this time had a good relationship with the Meiben team, and did not ask any questions that would make Qin Miao feel embarrassed.

A Saturday that was not so pleasant in Qin Miao's eyes ended like this.

Sunday, the day the race begins.

Strictly speaking, Monaco is actually in France.

Although Monaco was formerly part of Italy, Monaco became independent.

Today, Monaco has carte blanche in charge of foreign and international affairs to France.

So in a way, Monaco is actually part of France, but Monaco has nominal independent sovereignty.

So today's French Grand Prix is also a home game for Ferrari's Leclerc, but Leclerc's treatment is slightly worse than that of Gasly and Ocon.

However, due to the current performance of the Alpine, the majority of the French audience is still more willing to support Leclerc.

In yesterday's qualifying session, Leclerc beat Verstappen to take pole position, as evidenced by the tsunami cheers of the French crowd in his post-race interview.

After the pre-race riders' parade is over, the race is about to begin.

ps. Fathers, it's the end of the month, let's vote for my son on the monthly ticket. (End of chapter)