How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 810 - 327: Pan’s Signature Defensive Move

However, in today's race, for Hamilton to ultimately win the championship, not only does he need to defeat Verstappen to claim the race victory, but he also needs to watch Qin Miao's performance on the track.

Despite the dire situation, British fans did not show any pessimistic emotions; each of them was full of confidence.

British fans even took over an entire section of the stands, adorned with British flags, and their clothing was uniformly blue, white, and red.

It indeed seemed somewhat oppressive, at least for Qin Miao's fans who came to watch the race on-site.

But the changes outside do not affect Qin Miao at all.

Now, racing for Qin Miao feels a bit like running on the team's simulator.

In the simulator, there is also a special rendering for the audience area of the stands; after a while, once Qin Miao enters the zone, he can directly ignore the spectators on both sides of the stands. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

So even when he ran those two races at the Red Bull's home field this year, Qin Miao was not affected by the orange army on-site.

The bad results in those two races were purely due to Red Bull's car characteristics being too suited to the Red Bull Ring circuit.

In just the second timing segment alone, the Red Bull car could easily outpace the Mercedes car by about 0.3 seconds.

Back to the main topic.

The warm-up lap passed quickly, and two minutes later, Qin Miao parked his car at the twelfth starting grid position behind Gasly.

At this point, the tire temperature was just right, the car fuel was full, and the battery had long been ready to go.

As Mick Schumacher, at the last position, parked his car properly, the medical car was in position, the green flag waved at the back, and five red lights lit up one by one—the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was about to start.

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"Alright, let's take a look at the 2021 season finale, the start of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix main race!"

"Five red lights out! The race begins!"

On the track, Qin Miao's start this time maintained the high-level start skills he had always demonstrated.

His speed after the start was evidently faster than Gasly.

It was even 0.05 seconds quicker compared to Alonso, who has long been known for his start speed.

Gasly did receive Dr. Marco's instruction, which was to help Verstappen defend against Qin Miao behind him at all costs.

Moreover, it wasn't just Gasly; Yuki Tsunoda and Perez also received Red Bull's direction.

Tsunoda was to defend against Qin Miao for several laps when Qin Miao got behind him.

And Perez was mainly assisting Verstappen to gain an advantage over Hamilton, doing his utmost to help Verstappen win this race and later, if possible, after helping Verstappen, then defend against Qin Miao.

The best scenario was for Perez to pit and come out just in time in front of Qin Miao, then use new tires to defend against Qin Miao whose tires were already worn.

It can be said that Perez was very busy in this race and under immense pressure.

Unlike Gasly and Tsunoda, who are drivers from the junior Red Bull team, if these two drivers couldn't defend against Qin Miao, it would be due to the performance of the junior Red Bull cars, an understandable circumstance.

But not Perez; he couldn't use this reason because it wasn't acceptable or convincing.

Plus, with Red Bull's tendency to frequently change the second driver, even though this was only Perez's first season with Red Bull, if his performance in this race wasn't good enough, the consequences were imaginable.

Perez was feeling a lot of pressure; he needed to prove his worth to the team with his performance in the final race.

But after receiving the task, Gasly watched as Qin Miao, who quickly caught up and overtook him outside the track, and didn't feel guilty for failing Marco's task, instead he felt the same powerlessness as he did facing his teammate Verstappen.

Why do some people naturally possess such terrifying racing talent, as if they were born to dominate the racetrack?

If you say it's God-given, Verstappen's talent doesn't compare to Qin Miao's.

Of course, when Gasly thought about this, he hardly realized that he himself was also among those with extraordinary talent.

But compared to Qin Miao, Verstappen, and Hamilton, those fed by fate, his talent was indeed not as good.

However, being an F1 driver, joining Red Bull, and even winning a race, Gasly's achievements and talent actually surpassed 90% of F1 drivers.

He was also part of the group that mid and lower-tier F1 drivers saw as having extreme talent.

Only now, he had become somewhat accustomed to this state.

After the start, Qin Miao first relied on his start reaction to surpass Gasly before T1, bringing his position to eleventh.

Though Alonso's starting speed wasn't as fast as Qin Miao's, his speed was not much slower.

Thus, even though Qin Miao was slowly shortening the time gap between him and Alonso after the start, when the drivers all reached before T1, Qin Miao didn't truly find an opportunity behind Alonso to attack him.

So in the start phase, Qin Miao only managed to gain one position.