How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 94 - 80: Young People 2

But he couldn’t tell his fans there’s a high chance he couldn’t do it, so he could only say it this way.

Qin Miao didn’t mind, after taking the hat offered by the other person, he shook hands with Zhou Guanyu and then left.

As for how to become a formal F2 driver, Qin Miao didn’t ask anymore.

This thought had been just a whim of Qin Miao’s, now that the interest had waned, Qin Miao no longer had such thoughts.

Qin Miao had a big change in mindset after he got money; at this moment, he was like Wang Ziyu, coming enthusiastically, leaving satisfied, without asking for results.

Zhou Guanyu, on the other hand, watched Qin Miao and company leave, feeling somewhat excited. After all, although he had a following domestically, F2 was still too niche in his country; there would be some attention but not many, and domestic audiences definitely wouldn’t come asking for autographs.

Returning upstairs to the P room, Qin Miao didn’t pay much attention during the third practice session, he only chatted with Qimeng upstairs.

When it came to the qualification race stage, Qin Miao and Qimeng once again entered the Ferrari P room.

After all, it was qualifying, there were significantly more Ferrari VIP customers in casual wear like Qin Miao.

Qin Miao casually observed, most at the scene were foreigners, it was just him and Qimeng who had Asian faces.

It’s worth noting that to avoid awkwardness again, Qin Miao and Qimeng didn’t stand in the wrong spot this time, both standing in the VIP viewing area behind Leclerc’s car.

The wait in the P room was not hard to bear, as Ferrari staff would bring snacks and drinks to Qin Miao and other VIPs.

Not long after, Vettel arrived first at the P room.

He greeted and shook hands with the VIPs on his side, then put on his helmet and sat in the race car.

Not long after Vettel arrived, Leclerc also entered the P room.

He went through the same steps as Vettel, shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with the VIP clients.

When he reached Qin Miao, Leclerc raised his eyebrow a bit then joked, "Did you come to the wrong place?"

Qin Miao smiled and nodded, "Vettel’s side is already crowded, I couldn’t squeeze in, so I came over here."

Upon hearing Qin Miao’s words, Leclerc amusingly rolled his eyes.

But he still shook hands with Qin Miao.

While shaking hands with Leclerc, Qin Miao suddenly remembered the eSports match with him yesterday.

Their cars had the same performance, but why was he quicker at many corners, especially Turn 9?

That was clearly a high-speed corner, how could he chase me down so much there?

So, while everyone encouraged Leclerc to perform well in the qualifying stage, Qin Miao asked, "I can’t figure it out, during yesterday’s race, how could you gain 0.2 seconds on me in Turn 9 alone?"

Qin Miao’s unconventional question stumped Leclerc once more.

Recalling it carefully, he soon remembered that Qin Miao was referring to the mini competition at the simulator experience area yesterday.

As an F1 driver, his racing experience was certainly extremely rich.

He naturally could analyze the reason for Qin Miao’s speed drop from his performance yesterday.

Leclerc initially wanted to say: You panicked at Turn 9, at least lifted half the throttle.

But recalling Qin Miao’s driving performance yesterday, this person was clearly able to drive, although his skills were still immature, he had potential indeed.

Thinking again about Qin Miao’s recent "I can’t figure it out," Leclerc instinctively felt Qin Miao might not have been timid yesterday, he purely didn’t understand the specific performance of the Ferrari SF90.

Thinking SF90 couldn’t take Turn 9 with full throttle like other cars.

Quickly realizing the reason, Leclerc tentatively responded, "Silverstone’s T9, Ferrari can take it with full throttle..."

Hearing his response, Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, then frustratedly slapped his forehead.

Seeing the action, Leclerc knew Qin Miao wasn’t afraid of pressing the throttle, he simply suffered due to not knowing SF90 well, smiling and patting Qin Miao’s shoulder, letting him be frustrated for a bit before going to shake hands with the other VIP guests.

Soon, Leclerc also completed the preparations before the qualifying session began, wearing his helmet and sitting in the Ferrari cockpit.

The qualifying race officially started.

Everyone put on noise-canceling headphones. In the environment of an F1 team P room, it’s hard to stay long without wearing a pair of noise-canceling headphones.

Staff busily covered the tires with warming blankets to keep tire temperatures, and a blower was inserted into the engine intake above the car to ensure oxygen supply and cooling.

Two multifunctional panels were mounted by engineers in the middle of flip-flops in front of Leclerc.

Having played F1 racing games, Qin Miao knew the specific function of these panels. He thought reality might differ from the game.

But from Qin Miao’s standpoint, the panel in front of F1 drivers was basically the same as in F1 2019, probably differing only due to team designs and parameter display styles.

After a while, a commander standing in front of Leclerc’s car received an instruction from the team leader, signaling staff handling warming blankets to remove them.

And these people promptly peeled the warming blankets off tires but didn’t take them away immediately, placing folded blankets above tires for final warming.

The commander stepped back a few paces to confirm pit traffic conditions, finding no cars coming from either side, signaling Leclerc to drive out.

Meanwhile, staff at all four wheels removed the warming blankets.

With a sound of tires rubbing against the ground, the Ferrari SF90 roared out of the pit.

After that, one could see the fierce competition among twenty drivers from ten teams during the qualifying phase.

Q1 and Q2 had nothing worth elaborating on, nor did the final Q3 results bring significant surprises.

The dominant Mercedes returned first and second, although British audiences were somewhat disappointed Hamilton didn’t get the pole; Bottas gained it by 0.006 seconds ahead of Hamilton, leaving Hamilton in second.

Meanwhile, Hamilton’s four consecutive British Grand Prix pole records were interrupted, and Bottas achieved his 10th career pole.

Third was Leclerc with a final stage lap time of 1:15.172, 0.079 seconds slower than Bottas.

The top three times were extremely close.

Fourth was Pan, fifth was Gasly.

Leclerc’s teammate Vettel finished sixth after the qualifying session.

So staying in the Ferrari P room, Qin Miao could clearly notice significantly different expressions among Ferrari staff on both sides.

Staff belonging to Leclerc’s garage showed satisfied expressions, embracing and high-fiving in celebration, encouragement and praise never ceasing, even VIPs on Leclerc’s side were overjoyed.

On the other hand, staff with Vettel had unappealing expressions, lacking celebratory gestures; even VIPs behind them had blank expressions.

After brief celebrations, several staff from Ferrari on Leclerc’s side ran out with some equipment.

After the race when the car was shut down, logistics still needed to ensure no bumps and scratches, being expensive, so staff must deploy to insert dust covers into engine intakes and side-box intakes.

At this time, Qin Miao and these VIPs could go to the driver internal area behind the P room to closely observe the drivers after their qualifying run.

Qin Miao, like other Ferrari VIP guests, went outside; he wanted to join the excitement.

But they could only watch really, as a few drivers had staff interviewing them on the move.

Others were energetically jogging, hardly did anyone dawdle in the paddock for Qin Miao to observe thoroughly.

All in all, Qin Miao felt today’s trip was really worthwhile.

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