How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Roxin shook his head and sighed after hearing this: "Money and power can easily corrupt some people, especially after such a long time."

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Qin Miao did not know that the two bigwigs of his team were talking about him in terms of the paddock gossip.

Once Qin Miao was in work mode, he basically devoted his whole mind and energy to his work, with no extra thoughts for anything else.

After a period of preparation, the time came to the eve of the sprint race.

Qin Miao was back on the track once again.

Sitting in the race car, looking at the prancing horse emblem on his steering wheel, Qin Miao's emotions were complex and difficult to discern.

But soon the sprint race was about to begin, and Qin Miao withdrew his chaotic thoughts, concentrated his attention, and began to put all his energy into the racing.

Quickly the warm-up lap began, and starting from the eighth position, Qin Miao was using hard tires today.

Although Qin Miao still wanted to run the entire race with a set of soft tires, on this high-speed track at Silverstone, even with Qin Miao's tire conservation ability, it was impossible to use a set of soft tires to complete the full race.

So by this time, the track was no longer uniformly hard tires; there were also quite a few drivers using soft tires, preparing for a single pit stop during the sprint race.

Although switching to hard tires meant losing the tire advantage, with Qin Miao's tire conservation ability, he could compete throughout the sprint race without preserving tires, maintaining an aggressive driving style throughout.

However, for some reason, after the warm-up lap ended and he returned to his starting grid in eighth place, Qin Miao felt a bit unsettled.

And the originally sunny sky seemed to reflect Qin Miao's sense of unease, beginning to cloud up.

But at this time, Qin Miao's attention was entirely on the five red lights in the distance, not noticing the quiet weather change.

Very quickly, the five red lights lit up and extinguished, and amidst the roar of F2 engines, the British sprint race officially began.

Qin Miao's driving skills were unaffected by the rampant rumors in the paddock, starting off stable and fast.

Just at the start, Qin Miao overtook his compatriot Zhou Guanyu.

And Zhou Guanyu was quite aware of the situation, offering no resistance when Qin Miao came over, directly giving up his position to Qin Miao, and after Qin Miao passed, slyly followed behind him, hoping to pick up whatever Qin Miao left after overtaking.

Familiar with this track, Zhou Guanyu continued using DRS and Qin Miao's slipstream to match Qin Miao's rhythm.

On the seventeenth lap of the race, Zhou Guanyu had used this technique to climb to third place behind Qin Miao, who had cut through smoothly to second.

It was apparent that today's Qin Miao was somewhat off his form because before, he could reclaim the first position within ten laps; yet, today, by the thirteenth lap, he was still in second place.

Though the weather was getting increasingly gloomy, it hadn't started raining yet.

Moreover, Qin Miao was fully exerting himself to block out external negative influences, but evidently, the effect of his efforts wasn't ideal.

Unnoticed, the entire sky had darkened, and sparse raindrops began to fall from above.

Qin Miao only realized the sky had turned gloomy after a raindrop shattered on the visor of his helmet.

Realizing his bad feeling was proving right, Qin Miao quickly asked over the team's TR: "What's going on? Is it going to rain?"

Frankie was aware of the sudden change in weather earlier, but as Qin Miao typically disliked being disturbed while driving, Frankie didn't remind him immediately but waited until Qin Miao asked before replying: "Yes, but the rain won't intensify quickly; dry tires are still the best choice now. We suggest you push the limits further now to establish enough advantage before the rain."

Qin Miao could also deduce the strategy he should choose based on the current situation, but having people like Frankie who have a higher perspective and receive more information to strategize for him relieved Qin Miao from wasting effort on strategy.

So upon hearing the response, Qin Miao decisively replied: "Got it."

Subsequently, despite being off form, having a car tuning that wasn't comfortable, and with the weather increasingly gloomy, Qin Miao began pushing the car towards its limits.

The speed naturally showed a remarkable increase, leaving Zhou Guanyu, who had been struggling to keep up with Qin Miao, entirely unable to follow.

Currently in front of Qin Miao was a driver named Drogovich, standing ninth on the leaderboard.

Since the start of the race, Drogovich made no errors, steadily pulled away from the cars behind utilizing his positional advantage.

Yet he had no real intent of pursuing victory, especially with someone like Qin Miao in the race.

However, Drogovich did not want to surrender his position without being genuinely overtaken by Qin Miao.

Hence, throughout this time, he ran very seriously, striving to maintain his current position.

As the sky grew darker, raindrops increased in quantity and size.

Aware of Qin Miao's poor Rain Combat Ability, Drogovich felt like a traveler lost in a dark forest suddenly glimpsing the lights of a distant city.

Qin Miao was so strong that he cast a shadow over all F2 drivers, making them lose hope for the season's championship.

Yet this rain offered Drogovich hope, a chance to break through that shadow, to see the light, to see the hope of the championship trophy.

Drogovich sensed this could possibly be his only chance this season to truly grasp the F2 championship trophy.

Because of God's rain.

So when Qin Miao was just two seconds behind, he began racing aggressively without conserving tires, akin to Qin Miao.

Trying to delay as much as possible, hoping the rain would intensify.

Having watched Qin Miao's rain battle footage, Drogovich knew that once it rained, defending against Qin Miao's attack would bring significantly less pressure.

Thus, rarely did spectators witness Qin Miao in a furious pursuit of another car, while that car desperately sprinted to avoid Qin Miao catching up.

However, due to Qin Miao's overall speed, he was at least 0.4 seconds faster per lap than Drogovich.

Hence, after two laps, Qin Miao entered Drogovich's slipstream.

In the fifteenth lap, the two cars began a mutual entanglement.

It's rare for spectators to see Qin Miao in combat with another driver.

Yet the confrontation was somewhat intense; Qin Miao was faster than Drogovich, but his advantage lay in Silverstone's cornering sections, with limited advantage on the straight; moreover, during rain, DRS was forbidden, so Qin Miao had no advantage on the straights, unable to overtake in corners, and was firmly blocked behind Drogovich.

However, when the opponent made mistakes and left gaps, Qin Miao seized the inner line.

Yet after exiting the corner, the opponent using his head-start in the corner, gave no room to Qin Miao, squeezing him off the track.

It happened not just once or twice.

If Qin Miao at that moment wasn't focused on taking the championship to vindicate himself against those Ferrari executives doubting him, he wouldn't tolerate Drogovich at all.

If you're daring enough to squeeze me out, I'm equally daring to retire with you. After all, I sit with 150 points atop the leaderboard.

But the current Qin Miao was different because he very much wanted to prove himself at this time.

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