How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1361: Chapter 511: Bahrain Race Begins

As for Ferrari, which Qin Miao’s agency is currently in contact with... Qin Miao has decided to see if there’s anything special about Ferrari under Vassel this season.

If there is, it’s not impossible for Qin Miao to consider the Red Prancing Horse.

Anyway, the negotiations between my agency and the team won’t result in anything quickly, and even if they do come up with a plan, I can take my time to consider.

Not much needs to be said about the practice session.

As dusk fell, it was time for the qualifying session to begin.

"Alright, welcome everyone to the live broadcast of the 2023 Formula 1 World Championship Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying session brought to you by Five-Star Sports. I’m Bing."

"I’m Fei."

"I’m Brother Ran."

After the familiar opening, the three commentators started chatting casually:

"Alright, we’ve endured the whole winter, and finally, it’s time for the new season’s schedule."

"Yeah, we really didn’t feel how grueling those two months of winter break were before, but ever since Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu gradually joined F1, and Lynk & Co also gave all domestic F1 fans a massive New Year gift during the holidays, I believe domestic and international audiences alike have been looking forward to this year’s F1."

"This winter break has become increasingly hard to endure year after year."

"Of course, as fans, we sincerely hope that Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu, and friends including Lynk & Co have a good start in the first race of the 2023 season."

While Five-Star Sports’ commentators were doing their opening remarks, Qin Miao and Hamilton had already driven their cars out from the team garage.

Both drivers were using medium-downforce wings today.

And if nothing unexpected happens, both Mercedes drivers will be using the same type of downforce wings for the entire season.

As the two started their warm-up laps, drivers from Red Bull and Ferrari also drove out from their team garages.

Q1 began.

During the first flying lap, Qin Miao and Hamilton started to test the limits of their cars, much like drivers from other teams.

On the first flying lap, leveraging experience accumulated from three practice sessions and a set of comfortable tuning settings, Qin Miao clocked a time of 1:31.120.

This time is not good for Mercedes, even slower than Qin Miao’s teammate Hamilton by 0.15 seconds.

But this is just Q1 and only the first flying lap, not to mention the person who clocked the time is Qin Miao.

Hmm... that’s not surprising at all.

However, since this is a new car and Qin Miao is driving a car with these characteristics for the first time, the novelty hasn’t worn off yet, so Qin Miao didn’t clock out as usual after getting a time that could stably enter Q2.

He ran another flying lap during the second round.

Only this time, Qin Miao used the soft tires from the previous flying lap, and during the flying lap, Albon also disrupted Qin Miao’s race rhythm.

Although the impact wasn’t significant, it was expected that Qin Miao didn’t refresh his previous flying lap’s time.

Actually, Mercedes had intentions to stop it, but Qin Miao had already gone out.

Eventually, Q1 ended, and the drivers eliminated were:

Norris, Gasly, Magelsen, Piastri, De Vries.

Honestly, McLaren wasn’t a top-tier team back then, but it was always an upper-mid-level team. Yet, no one expected a single economic crisis to turn McLaren into a bottom-tier team.

In this year’s first qualifying session, they didn’t even enter Q2.

As for De Vries...

This race’s performance today was indeed very different from when he stood in.

We can only say young people still need to be honed.

Lynk & Co is also willing to give young people a bit more opportunity.

Q2, first flying lap, Qin Miao successfully advanced.

After Qin Miao completed his first flying lap, he recorded a time that could advance to Q3.

Just as Qin Miao still wanted to continue running a lap on the track, Toto called him back.

Anyway, since you’ve already advanced to Q2, don’t waste engine durability on the track.

The season is still long, and if you’re truly interested in a car with these characteristics, Mercedes can develop the car in this direction from now on.

By then, you can drive until you get sick of it, so don’t stubbornly resist now.

Also, last season had engines that could endure abuse, letting you drive as you wished without worrying about that bit of lifespan.

But this season, it doesn’t work like that. Engine durability still needs to be saved.

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