How Did I Become an F1 Driver?

Chapter 1171 - 442: Qin Miao’s Half Home Field (8K, Repaying Yesterday’s Missed Update)_3

Because it’s a street circuit, it’s relatively bumpy, with 23 corners.Although most of these corners are right-angle turns, street races surely put more pressure on the drivers compared to regular circuits.

In the drivers’ eyes, it’s as if the walls are directly rushing towards them.

Qin Miao hasn’t competed on this track, mainly due to the pandemic, as the 2021 Singapore Grand Prix was canceled.

Therefore, Qin Miao hasn’t personally experienced how tough this track can be, but from the mouth of drivers Qin Miao knows, opinions about the Marina Bay Circuit are quite mixed.

However, one thing Qin Miao is certain of is that when racing here, it’s like being fully focused in a sixty-degree sauna, without any breeze, and even if there is some, it’s hot wind.

As for opening the visor to breathe during the race?

Don’t you want your eyes anymore?

At a racing speed of 200 kilometers per hour, your eyes won’t be able to stay open due to the wind, not to mention if the air has debris kicked up by the car ahead, or small things like mosquitoes.

Hit you, and you’ll end up with a big cut on your face.

Taking this into account, coupled with the new upgrades for this race, Mercedes simply asked the two drivers for their opinions on the shape design of the new parts during manufacturing.

One option is a normal nose cone opening that won’t lose any performance, the only downside being that your cockpit might feel a bit stuffy on the Marina Bay track of the Singapore Grand Prix.

As for the other option, it’s a design with an opening at the nose cone area that’s twice as large as the normal one.

This opening allows more... around 30-degree hot air to enter the car monocoque.

But at least it’s much cooler than the cockpit air that’s as high as 60 degrees, though it will reduce the car’s cornering performance...

When the two options were presented to Qin Miao and Hamilton, Qin Miao pondered whether he could withstand the high temperatures on the track, while Hamilton directly chose the second option.

Moreover, he pulled Qin Miao along to choose the second option.

Qin Miao didn’t have a precise impression of the conditions at the Marina Bay Circuit, after all, he hadn’t raced there.

But Qin Miao clearly saw that whenever Old Man talked about the Marina Bay track, he had an expression like he was facing a formidable enemy.

After arriving here, Qin Miao roughly understood that the track was really hot, for the drivers.

After getting feedback from the two drivers, the team naturally adjusted their production plans accordingly.

Of course, the main task was simply to produce two sets of front wings with large air intake holes.

No spares were prepared.

Because these front wings are expected to be used only at the Marina Bay track this season, the team chose to save money and only made two sets.

If the drivers damage these front wings on the track, they can only switch to new wings without comfort modifications.

Anyway, the aerodynamic effects of the two sets of front wings are basically the same, just with slightly more drag in one, which is negligible.

Besides, the team also took into account that Qin Miao and Hamilton’s performance this season has been very stable, with almost no car damage.

Naturally, production of car parts was kept to a minimum, wherever possible.

If both drivers actually manage to damage their front wings during the race, they can only use the front wings without comfort upgrades.

However, even if this happens, the performance of the car won’t decrease.

In any case, the Singapore Grand Prix is still worth anticipating, and actually, it can be considered half a home advantage for Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu.

Due to well-known reasons, Singapore has a large number of Chinese people, and Chinese is one of the official languages commonly used in Singapore.

You can even see many shops on the street that directly use Chinese names for their stores.

To some extent, this race is also a rehearsal for Qin Miao and Zhou Guanyu before their home race.

And Qin Miao seemed to have heard that the Singapore Grand Prix tickets were sold out a month in advance, yes, completely, not a single one left.

In past Grand Prix weekends, maybe thirty thousand people or more would attend over three days, and there would always be some expensive tickets left unsold, but in Singapore, not one was left.

Upon receiving this news, Qin Miao already envisioned who were the people buying out all the tickets.

Qin Miao even started to feel a strange anticipation.

According to Qin Miao’s usual character, after three weeks of non-stop work, he would definitely give himself a day or two off.

But considering his position on the leaderboard, and the increasingly fast Red Bull cars.

The slightly relaxed mind started to get tense again.

Upon returning to England, Qin Miao rested for just one day on Monday before diving back into his daily routine.

However, Qin Miao didn’t spend all his time at the team factory, he only followed a normal work schedule since he had a system supporting him, accomplishing tasks assigned by the team every day, and resolutely not working overtime.