How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 888 - 352: Agonizing Porpoising

Three days later, the testing concluded.

Despite the Mercedes team's not-so-optimistic, even downright terrible, results due to the dolphin jumping at high speeds bothering everyone.

The only good news is that this issue affects not just Mercedes, but almost all the teams have been impacted by dolphin jumping.

Meanwhile, the Mercedes team internally already has a preliminary idea for solving the dolphin jumping, but all of this needs to wait until the team organizes and analyzes all collected data from the practice sessions.

On the other side, after three days of testing, Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu, and Leclerc went out to eat together.

During the meal, naturally, the three started talking about this season's race cars.

Because of the dolphin jumping, every driver's back was slammed by their car thousands of times over the three days.

"Did you guys encounter dolphin jumping?" Qin Miao spoke first, after three days on the track his back was lashed red from dolphin jumping, and back at the hotel, there were quite a few bruises.

"Ugh, it really freaking hurts," Zhou Guanyu only said this, but it's easy to understand that his back is probably bruised as well.

Leclerc looked at them with some surprise: "Didn't you guys make the adjustments? We enhanced the suspension strength and solved the problem."

Qin Miao twitched his mouth slightly, after discovering the issue on the second day, the Mercedes team spent the next two days trying various adjustments, even sacrificing some data collection time, just to find a solution to alleviate the dolphin jumping. But after trying all kinds of methods, even connecting four rods to the chassis, the jumping continued.

By the afternoon of the third day, Mercedes decided not to try alleviating it anymore and instead loaded Qin Miao's and Hamilton's cars with sensing components and marked key parts with paint, aiming to identify the specific cause of the dolphin jumping and collect enough data to solve it back at the factory.

As a result, Qin Miao and Hamilton were quite shaken these past two days.

Luckily, it's just testing now, and the team can adjust the car based on the data collected over this period.

"Easy for you to say, but our team hasn't got a clue," Zhou Guanyu said helplessly. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Qin Miao shook his head and said, "On the third day, we directly gave up on-site solving of the dolphin jumping issue and started collecting data, we'll have to go back to the team and find a way to improve."

After saying this, Qin Miao picked up a piece of beef with chopsticks and couldn't help but feel his aching back again.

Less than a month left until March's Bahrain test.

Qin Miao is willing to believe the team can solve most of the exposed problems within this month, but Qin Miao has a feeling that the dolphin jumping issue won't be that easy to resolve.

Back at the team, surprisingly, Hamilton also didn't go anywhere for this month.

Back at his residence in London, he came to the team factory for work around ten o'clock every morning.

It seems Hamilton also realized the cars this season might not be as competitive as last season, and he's getting tense.

Qin Miao is still living in the apartment near the Brackley Factory, having a life of nine-to-random.

The randomness mainly refers to when he finishes work, entirely depending on when Qin Miao completes his day's work.

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March 7, 2022, just another Monday.

Like always, Qin Miao got up early, dressed, washed up, clutched his phone, ready to ride his scooter to the team factory.

Because of the issues found half a month ago during the Barcelona test, everyone in the team has been working day and night for half a month. Qin Miao also devoted all his attention to the simulator, even setting aside his favorite games, causing complaints among viewers in Qin Miao's live streaming room.

There was even a time when Qin Miao's fans had a fight in the streaming room.

The two sides arguing were both Qin Miao's fans, one side loving to watch Qin Miao race, the other loving to watch Qin Miao play games.

Fans who liked watching Qin Miao play games kept asking in the streaming room when he'll be back to stream, while the other fans came by to see when Qin Miao would go live, hoping to hear him talk about racing, naturally encountering the questioning fans, which led to arguments.

From the racing fans' view, Qin Miao as a driver is higher than being a streamer, also race earnings must be more, so racing should be prioritized.

While the other group are just fun-loving viewers, they merely want to see Qin Miao stream games, complaining when he's not there.

Inexplicably, an argument broke out.

Making fans who love both Qin Miao's racing and streaming confused.

Veered off topic, back to the main point.