How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 747 - 307: Beaming Mercedes Team Members

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Compared to Verstappen and Hamilton, Qin Miao being able to reach this position is purely due to his greater stability compared to these two drivers, making fewer mistakes on the track.

If one pays close attention, it's not difficult to notice that as the race progresses, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton is shrinking at a visibly rapid pace.

The specific reason is naturally due to Qin Miao's growth this season.

But it is still an objective fact that Verstappen and Hamilton are stronger than Qin Miao.

Currently, Qin Miao's speed is not that fast, aside from the driver's personal ability, it's more about the difference in the team.

Hamilton's team has been assisting him in adjusting his car since he joined Mercedes.

After so many years of working together, everybody is basically at a point where they understand each other very well.

They don't even need to remind each other on how to choose between adjustments and different data, Hamilton's team members can independently make choices that are most comfortable for him to drive or use, based on their understanding of Hamilton.

Then there's Hamilton's race engineer.

The two have also worked together for a long time, with a quite harmonious collaboration, the chemistry between them is very strong.

As for Qin Miao's side, although his team's working efficiency is stronger than teams like McLaren, Alpine, Aston Martin.

But comparing Mercedes personnel to those teams is meaningless; the comparison should be with Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton.

And compared to Hamilton, Qin Miao's team members' efficiency is not high enough, and their initiative is not strong enough.

This mainly comes down to their lack of deep understanding of Qin Miao.

Although Frankie has been Qin Miao's race engineer since his time in F2, like Qin Miao, this is Frankie's first year in F1.

After moving from F2 to F1, he also had a chaotic period.

In the first five races of the season, Qin Miao's car was adjusted with Reyes's help, and Frankie was just assisting Qin Miao in weather observation and threat analysis from other drivers.

Starting from the sixth race, in Azerbaijan, Frankie began helping Qin Miao with overall car setup, but at that time, Qin Miao's team was aided with data from Hamilton's team, so his lack of initiative and efficiency was not exposed.

But now, losing the support of Hamilton's data, Qin Miao is clearly encountering setup issues with the car.

This race serves as evidence.

Of course, even knowing where the problem lies, Qin Miao and his team can't immediately solve it, as this involves an issue of experience and foundation.

To improve his team's capability in this area, Qin Miao can only hope for growth from Reyes and the others next season.

Meanwhile, after this race, the team championship standings are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 653

2: Red Bull: 486

3: Ferrari: 268

4: McLaren: 220

5: Alpine: 95

6: AlphaTauri: 92

7: Aston Martin: 69 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

8: Williams: 13

9: Alfa Romeo: 7

10: Haas: 0

Since there are only three races left this season, even if all points are obtained, the final possible total is only 132 points.

And even if Red Bull were to gain all 132 points and the Mercedes team fails to score any points in the next three race weekends, Red Bull's total score would only reach 618 points, which wouldn't be able to catch up with the current Mercedes team.