After separating from Verstappen, Qin Miao came to Frankie and them.

Hugging Frankie and shaking hands with his chief technician, Reyes suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Do you see something?" ”

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, Frankie asked if he had just stood in front of Verstappen's car and watched for a long time, did he see something.

Qin Miao rolled his eyes, he was not an expert in aerodynamic design like Newway, he knew at a glance what effect a certain component would have on the car, and the airflow would probably go in that direction when the car was driving at high speed.

"No, I couldn't read anything, I just wondered why they were so fast."

"Well, that's normal." Reyes nodded.

After that, Qin Miao went to tidy up her image and came to the post-game interview seat.

At this time, the two drivers of Red Bull had completed their post-race interviews, and Qin Miao was the last to appear.

"Qin Miao, congratulations on winning the third place in this competition, how do you feel about this game today?"

Qin Miao sighed, and then said: "To be honest, the Spa Circuit gives me the feeling that it is still as good as ever, the weather today is also very good, I got up very well from the two starts, everything is in the best position in our plan, but unfortunately the result is not like this." ”

"Before this race, did Mercedes Racing think that the speed gap between themselves and Red Bull would be so huge?"

This question is actually a bit tricky and difficult to answer, but what is surprising is that Qin Miao nodded and spread his hands and said: "After the qualifying round, we already expected that today's game would be a serious challenge for us, Red Bull showed a speed not like on this planet in the qualifying stage, but we didn't expect them to be so fast, and we will study what happened in the middle after we go back." ”

After answering the two questions, Qin Miao turned around and left.

Then there is the podium link, Qin Miao still likes this link before, no matter how many he wins, but after all, it's good to have a podium, isn't it?

Now Qin Miao only felt that the Dutch national anthem was a little noisy.

After the end of the Dutch national anthem, the Belgian Grand Prix came to an end.

After this race, the final driver standings and points are as follows:

P1: Verstappen +26 (fastest lap)

P2: Pérez +18

P3: Qin Miao +14

P4: Sainz +12

P5: Alonso +10

P6: Leclerc +8

P7: Ocon +6

P8: Vettel +4

P9: Gasly +2

P10: Russell +1

The most unfortunate driver in today's race was Leclerc, who was originally in 5th place and fell to 6th due to the team's "inspiration", and finally only got 8 points.

It can be called the F1 version of picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

In today's race, Russell also defeated his teammate Albon to become the last F1 driver to score points in the 2022 season.

After this race, all the drivers who participated in the 2022 season also have their own points in their accounts.

At the same time, Zhou Guanyu could have won a point in this game.

But in the battle with Albon, Zhou Guanyu's gearbox had problems again.

Other gears can be added or lowered normally, but Zhou Guanyu's 8th gear can't be raised.

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu's normal driving will not be affected, but the tail speed of the straight road will not rise at all.

In the end, Zhou Guanyu couldn't even keep his position as the goalkeeper in the points area, and could only finish in 13th place, behind his teammate Bottas.

Meanwhile, after this race, the overall drivers' standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao.238

2: Verstappen.225

3: Pérez.178

4: Leclerc.172

5: Sainz.129

6: Hamilton.110

7: Norris.64

8: Aucon.62

9: Bottas.38

10: Alonso.37

11: Magnussen.19

12: Zhou Guanyu.19

13: Vettel.19

14: Gasly.17

15: Ricardo.14

16: Tsunoda.9

17: Mick.6

18: Stroll.2

19: Albon.1

20: Russell.1

After this game, Qin Miao's lead in the standings was almost nil, and he was only 13 points ahead of Verstappen.

If Red Bull Racing can continue to show the terrifying pace of the current state in the next race, it is believed that the top spot in the standings will change hands after the next race.

Leclerc, meanwhile, is back in the standings for his familiar fourth place.

After this race, the overall Constructors' Standings points are as follows

1: Red Bull: 423

2: Mercedes: 391

3: Ferrari: 324

4：Alpine：111

5: McLaren: 78

6: Alfa Romeo: 64

7: Haas: 25

8: Little Red Bull: 26

9: Aston Martin: 22

10: Williams: 2

Although it may seem that the points gap between the top three teams in the constructors' championship is small, given the pace shown by Red Bull Racing, Red Bull will soon open up the gap to the teams behind them in the second half of the season.

……

This is the end of the game, but the ripples of the game have not gone away.

Obviously, everyone can see that Red Bull Racing has only become so fast after the FIA issued the TD039 technical directive during the summer break.

Therefore, many people in the paddock are questioning whether the technical directive issued by the FIA is deliberately helping Red Bull.

But the FIA also felt that he was wronged, he obviously didn't do anything, and the TD039 technical instructions were written clearly in black and white, just to let the team control the bounce of their own cars, and even did not limit the team, the way to control the bounce.

In short, no matter how the FIA feels aggrieved, public opinion in the paddock is all about the FIA.

Major social media platforms are arguing about this issue.

Qin Miao had an attitude of watching from the sidelines, after all, he knew that there was a figure of Toto behind this technical instruction.

And now it seems that this technical directive promoted by Toto has indeed had the effect it should have.

However, the effect of this technical instruction was not as good as the Mercedes team expected, and it was only half done.

It was originally a knife that went to Red Bull and Ferrari, but in the end it only hit Ferrari, and Red Bull didn't have a, but it was faster.

And Ferrari was directly abolished by this knife, and when he came back from the summer break, Mei Ben couldn't run.

In short, Qin Miao is a stinky driver, and he doesn't know much about the twists and turns of paddock politics, and now he wants to know if the upgrade brought by the team at next week's Dutch Grand Prix can solve the problem of insufficient performance of the current car.

Speaking of the Dutch Grand Prix, Qin Miao couldn't help but feel a little unlucky.

Red Bull's B team seems to have a bit too many home games.

On the one hand, the Austrian Grand Prix is the home of Red Bull, which is not much to say, and on the other hand, Pérez is a Mexican, the Mexican Grand Prix is also considered the home of Red Bull, and the Belgian Grand Prix, which has just passed, is also considered the home of Red Bull.

Because Verstappen's mother is a Belgian, most of the local crowd at the Belgian Grand Prix was in support of Red Bull Racing.

This Dutch Grand Prix is also considered the home of Red Bull, because Panzi is Dutch.

One team, four home Grand Prix.

On the side of Mercedes, there is only one British Grand Prix as their home stadium.

After all, Qin Miao's home field, the Chinese Grand Prix, has not been re-held.

All in all, next week's Dutch Grand Prix is Verstappen's home race.

And Qin Miao had already expected that Red Bull, whose racing characteristics were more suitable for the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands, would be brought back at the Dutch Grand Prix next week.

Now Qin Miao only hopes that during the Dutch Grand Prix, the upgrades brought by the team can effectively increase the performance of the car, at least narrow the somewhat jaw-dropping time gap between Mercedes and Red Bull.

After the game, Qin Miao returned to the UK.

After resting at home for a night, Qin Miao was called to the team factory the next day.

In the team factory, Qin Miao got a good piece of good news.

At next week's Dutch Grand Prix, the team's side will bring a new sidebox upgrade.

This new sidebox upgrade is based on a sidebox upgrade under the new W13 chassis architecture, which still maintains the zero-sidebox concept of Mercedes, and the whole is in the form of a large front and small rear compressed Coke bottle.

The new side box has undergone some changes in appearance, with more bulges to direct airflow, and an additional deflector on the side box, which can be combined with the vortex generator of the floor to block the high-pressure air flow inside the floor.

On top of that, the new sidebox is 500g lighter and leaves room for the next car makeover.

The only drawback is that the overall projection area of the car is increased, and the drag of the car is increased a lot.

Of course, compared to the 500g weight loss, this resistance is nothing.

Don't look at the weight of 500g, some people may eat more than this in one meal.

But this 500g can increase Qin Miao's lap speed by about 0.04, and it can also make Qin Miao's tires run 1 more lap, and the fuel will be 500g less during the race.

Coupled with the aerodynamic upgrades itself, the potential of the car is quite sufficient, and it is also worth looking forward to.

Of course, at the team meeting, it was different from Qin Miao's satisfaction with the team's upgrade.

Hamilton spoke aggressively at the team meeting and solemnly said: "What about the cockpit moving back? What about my cockpit moving backwards?! ”

Qin Miao's side has a very flat view of the team's upgrade, as long as you have an upgrade, the performance of the car has been significantly improved, Qin Miao is satisfied.

But Hamilton, he really wanted the team to move that damn cockpit back a centimeter or two and change the overall balance of the car.

However, the team has really not had a better way to do it lately, and replacing the old parts after the chassis has been changed is a gradual process, and changing the position of the cockpit is the most difficult and time-consuming of all the changes.

Because after the cockpit is moved, whether it is the engine, or the air intakes, cooling system, and floor panel, these have to be changed.

Now the only thing that has changed is the territory and the side boxes.

To be able to complete these changes in such a short period of time is already the team's current extraordinary performance.

Originally, the upgrade of the side box was expected to be implemented in Singapore, and it was already unexpected by the team so soon.

The team really doesn't have the capacity to make changes to so many parts of the car at once.

And it's still a big project.

Because improvements are required one by one, even the improved parts will have a certain design that is compatible with the previous generation parts.

At that time, after all the improvements to the car have been completed, it will take time to remove these designs to achieve the design goal of reducing weight or reducing the overall projection area of the components.

The meal had to be eaten one bite at a time, and Ruth had to take it one step at a time.

The team really couldn't give Hamilton a satisfactory answer in a short period of time, but the team still gave a final point in time under Hamilton's repeated urging.

Although in Qin Miao's opinion, this guarantee came a little too late.

The Mercedes team assured Hamilton at the meeting that they would adjust the W13's car seat position to Hamilton's desired position ahead of the US Grand Prix.

And the United States Grand Prix is the penultimate race of the 2022 season......

At that time, even if Hamilton gets the car that he hoped would be comfortable enough to drive, Hamilton is unlikely to compete with Qin Miao in the standings.

Of course, Hamilton may not have thought about it that much, and he may have simply been a little demoralized by the garbage truck that he is not used to driving this season, and wants to quickly regain the competitiveness he was in the beginning.

Qin Miao hadn't gone to Hamilton to ask about it, so the final result of this matter could naturally only remain in speculation.

Because it's a back-to-back game this week, no, it's been three back-to-back games in a row.

There were no breaks in between, Belgium, the Netherlands and the upcoming Italian Grand Prix next week.

However, it was also the last back-to-back race of the season, and despite the complaints from the team and drivers, everyone was gritting their teeth and persevering.

Qin Miao spent a day in the team on Monday, mainly to participate in simulator tests and meetings in the team.

But the next day, that is, Tuesday, Qin Miao went to the Netherlands in advance.

Qin Miao didn't feel it before, and basically only went to the location where the game was going to be played on Wednesday or Thursday.

But after getting acquainted with Hamilton, the old man would teach Qin Miao some tips that F1 drivers could learn during the Grand Prix.

Back-to-back races are tiring, and although the team has time to rest for the drivers, the energy and physical exertion that an F1 driver puts into a Grand Prix weekend is unimaginable.

Let's not talk about triptych back-to-back.

Therefore, Hamilton taught Qin Miao a method, if you encounter three back-to-back matches, you go to the competition venue some time in advance, whether it is to adapt to the venue environment or something else, in short, go over first.

This way, at least you spend a little more time in the local environment and your body will be able to adapt a little bit to the local climate.

After staying in one place for a long time, your subconscious will also think that you are familiar with the place, and your mind will be more relaxed.

However, Qin Miao came over first as Hamilton said, but he didn't feel the effect that Hamilton said.

Of course, it is also possible that Qin Miao's physical fitness is very good, and he doesn't need to come over in advance to prepare.

But it's all here, and it's still quite comfortable not to have to run to the team simulator department every day.

On Tuesday afternoon, Qin Miao also saw Leclerc while wandering around the paddock.

Leclerc has his own industry on the Dutch side, and there is also an F3 race this week.

And Leclerc's younger brother, Arthur Leclerc, will also have a race in the Netherlands this week, so Leclerc has to come over to take care of his own property on the one hand, and on the other hand, take care of his younger brother and teach each other a little bit of his experience on this track.

Qin Miao saw Leclerc, and Leclerc naturally saw Qin Miao too.

waved his hand and greeted Qin Miao: "Qin Miao! ”

Qin Miao walked over with a smile and hugged Leclerc: "Charles, why did you come here so early this week?" ”

"It's also rare to see you on the track at this point in time." Leclerc did not answer Qin Miao's question, but approached the topic from another angle.

"I'm going to come to the track early this week to get used to it." Qin Miao didn't say another reason, the other reason was that the team members said that there would be a team meeting until the start of the Grand Prix for the next three days, and Qin Miao was annoyed, so he came to the track in advance to hide and be quiet.

Leclerc smiled and shook his head: "Sometimes I really envy you. ”

Qin Miao spread his hands and said, "What do I have to envy?" ”

"Freedom, there is not so much marketing work, you can get off work whenever you want, and there are no taboos when you eat food." Leclerc counted his fingers one by one, but Qin Miao had a feeling that there were many things in Leclerc could do it if he wanted to, but he just needed to pay some price.

But Qin Miao can be sure that the only thing that Leclerc really envy himself is that he doesn't get fat no matter how much he eats, and he doesn't increase the important physique of his body.

"Envy? In exchange for wages. Qin Miao spread his hands.

Leclerc was just about to say something, when a cheer suddenly came from the distance: "Qin Miao! ”

Both of them looked towards the person who made the sound, and a person who looked about the same age as Qin Miao, but who looked eight points similar to Leclerc walked over.

"Qin Miao! Long time no see. As soon as Arthur Leclerc came over, he directly ignored his brother and gave Qin Miao a hug with a smile.

Qin Miao also responded with a smile, and after patting the other party's back and letting go of him, Qin Miao said with a smile: "I heard that your performance in F3 has been very good recently?" What are the odds of entering F2 next year? ”

The other party's face, which was still a little happy after seeing Qin Miao, suddenly collapsed.

F3 is not as difficult as F2 to F1, but it is not that easy.

You are either very rich, like Zhou Guanyu or Ma Zeping, and directly buy or invest in an F2 team, or you are particularly talented and are favored by the leader of the F2 team, or you join the youth academy of the F1 team and rely on the assessment to get to the top.

Although Arthur Leclerc has a certain talent, he is indeed a little worse than his brother Charles Leclerc.

And although Leclerc's family lives in Monaco, middle-class families can only be considered a beginner in the racing industry.

Leclerc Plus couldn't afford to pay for both racers at the same time, so Arthur had already missed the best opportunity to grow.

Arthur, in particular, was still in the Ferrari Drivers' Academy.

Although this place often lets go of some good drivers with good talents, such as Qin Miao.

But Ferrari's own fame and history lay out here, and for young people who don't know much about the paddock but have a racing dream, the Ferrari Driver Academy is a great place to go.

Therefore, there is no shortage of talented young drivers in the Ferrari Driver Academy, and therefore, in such an environment, the possibility of Arthur's side getting the qualification of F2 drivers at this stage is possible, but it is not high.

"I don't know, but I'll do my best." Arthur said.

"Today I'm bringing Arthur over to familiarize myself with Zandvoort for F2 and F3 races this week." Leclerc explained.

Qin Miao patted her head: "Recently, my attention has been on F1 races and the upgrading of the car, and the team's affairs have also made me a little anxious and forget that there are F2 and F3 races this week, so you guys are busy first, I won't bother." ”

As soon as Qin Miao was about to leave, Leclerc smiled and hooked Qin Miao's neck: "Don't be in a hurry to go, we haven't had a good meal together after the summer break, I'll treat you tonight!" I ordered whatever I wanted, let go of it, and I didn't have a job tomorrow anyway. ”

The corners of Qin Miao's mouth twitched wildly: "I said that I still have urgent matters to deal with now, do you believe it?" ”

Leclerc smiled silently.

Qin Miao spread her hands helplessly: "It's really unlucky." ”

Qin Miao knew Leclerc too well, and with his current expression, Qin Miao had already guessed what he was thinking.

The bastard obviously saw that he had no convoy with him when he came to the paddock today, and knew that he was here to hang out.

And then today I am going to bring my brother to the track to familiarize myself with the track.

Isn't that right?

You can pull Qin Miao to check and fill in the gaps.

The guidance of the world champion is not so easy to get, and in terms of his relationship with Qin Miao, he will not have any psychological burden at all.

Looking at Qin Miao's expression of hating himself so much, but he couldn't help himself, Leclerc smiled and patted Qin Miao's shoulder: "Okay, accept your fate."

And didn't I say I'd invite you to dinner? Don't make such an expression as if you've lost millions, just smile happily. ”

Although saying so, Qin Miao seemed to agree, but Leclerc did not let go of the hand that hooked Qin Miao's neck, as if he was afraid that Qin Miao would run away.

Then Leclerc said to his younger brother Arthur: "Thank you Qin Miao, he is willing to walk the track with us, the opportunity for a world champion to guide you is not very often, you should cherish it." (End of chapter)