How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1180 - 446: The Defensive Master and the Collapsing Perez

Since the Singapore Grand Prix has been held, every race has deployed a safety car, so during yesterday night’s review meeting, Qin Miao and the team formulated a pit stop strategy for the race today: one stop with yellow and red tires, using medium tires to start.It’s a gamble on the safety car, allowing Qin Miao to use medium tires for a long distance on the track.

If the safety car gamble pays off, Qin Miao, using soft tires in the later stages of the race at Marina Bay, would be unbeatable.

However, unexpectedly for everyone, just as Qin Miao returned to his car, heavy rain started to pour down on the track.

The torrential rain lashed the track mercilessly.

Due to this sudden downpour, the FIA postponed the race by 65 minutes.

During this time, all the teams naturally packed up their things and pushed the cars back to the team garage to avoid the rain.

Under such conditions, leaving the cars on the track isn’t safe; splashing water droplets on the ground might let water get into the cars.

Moreover, if equipment gets a little wet, it might be okay, but such heavy rain could cause rainwater to damage and short-circuit electronic components of some equipment.

Helplessly, Qin Miao also returned to the team garage to wait for the rain to stop.

This time, Qin Miao didn’t drag a chair to sit at the team garage door because the rain was just too heavy.

There’s simply no way to sit in the front.

More than an hour later, the rain gradually lessened, but it was still drizzling on the track, and there was no sign of the track drying up.

But at least there was no issue with starting the race.

However, before the race started, Qin Miao’s medium tire strategy was unlikely to be used; he could only use intermediate tires.

After the race restarted, Qin Miao went through the pre-race preparation process again before stopping his car on the track.

Then naturally comes the warm-up lap. After completing it, he stopped the car at his starting grid position.

Qin Miao looked around, with Leclerc in front and his teammate Hamilton on the left.

Both of their starting speeds were actually quite good, but if his own start was good enough, overtaking his teammate shouldn’t be a big problem.

However, Hamilton, due to changes in the car’s characteristics during this Grand Prix weekend, seemed to be in a much better state.

So his start might be better than ever.

After all, the feeling of recovering something important can really dramatically improve a person’s overall state.

Adjusting the car’s gear to third, maintaining an engine speed of 8000, Qin Miao began waiting for the five red lights to go out.

Normally, during the start phase, Qin Miao’s car would stay in second gear, but today he chose to start in third gear because there was water on the track. Starting in second gear might cause the rear wheels to have too much traction, potentially causing the car to skid.

"Alright, the five red lights are on, they’re out! The race begins!"

"Let’s take a look at Qin Miao’s start... Qin Miao’s start is as good as always.

Hamilton is doing well too, but Leclerc’s start isn’t great!

Does Qin Miao have a chance? Ah! Leclerc blocked Qin Miao from the inside, Qin Miao is stuck, but Hamilton managed to take first purely through an excellent start!

Qin Miao remains in third, with Leclerc falling to second."

During the starting phase, although Qin Miao’s start rhythm was good, he was on the outside line; the inside line had his teammate and was also blocked by Leclerc, so Qin Miao’s angle into the T1 corner was very small, and without having an absolute advantage in starting speed, he couldn’t advance a position despite being surrounded.

However, there was no noise on Qin Miao’s offensive end, but on the defensive end, Qin Miao directly thwarted Perez.

In fact, in the race’s start phase, Perez was actually the driver with the fastest starting speed.

But when Qin Miao realized despite his decent start, he couldn’t secure a good position, he shifted most of his focus to the defensive end.

Actually, Qin Miao mainly wanted to see how Verstappen’s start was, but he was puzzled and scratching his head when he didn’t spot Verstappen among the many drivers behind him after the start.

Instead, Qin Miao saw Perez with an incredibly fast starting speed.

Then Qin Miao immediately used his inside line with Leclerc to close the door on Perez’s overtaking route before T1.

Before the start, Perez was rather calm, but when he realized his starting speed was unexpectedly fast, even beyond Perez’s expectations, he knew today’s race would have a strong start, at the very least taking one spot.

But after the start, seeing the Mercedes car in front of him and the gap that seemed big enough for a car to pass but actually couldn’t, along with the gap on Qin Miao’s right that also looked like it could be fitted into but was actually all water, where no one dared to enter, Perez let out a "F**K!"

He didn’t even try to suppress it.

Qin Miao! You deserve to die!

Being blocked at the start, so you come to annoy me?

Getting rained on yourself, so you can’t stand seeing others with an umbrella!