Chapter 1480 - 560: Red Bull’s Underwear Exposed
Therefore, before the start of the next season, Qin Miao will definitely be looking for a new place in Monaco.
However, he indeed didn’t do everything right. Given what the other party said, Qin Miao didn’t reject the goodwill of the Monaco royalty, he accepted the key.
What? Qin Miao accepted mainly because he wants to show off this key in front of Leclerc?
Superficial!
Is Qin Miao such a shortsighted person?
𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Besides showing off to Leclerc, he also thought about showing off in front of Norris, Hamilton, and Zhou Guanyu!
Of course, this is just a joke. After spending time with them, Qin Miao has a basic understanding of the values of the Monaco royalty.
These people grew up pampered with luxury, truly not regarding money as money.
Compared to money, they value the identity, status, and abilities of others more.
Thus, gifting a room to him, strictly speaking, is not just an apology but also a recognition from the other party.
But Qin Miao always feels it’s a bit strange...
However, Qin Miao also knows that even if he has this house, he probably won’t stay there long term, maybe just visit for a couple of days when he has free time.
After Friday, nothing unusual happened, the day ended peacefully.
Saturday, the day of the third practice and qualifying session begins.
There’s not much to elaborate on today’s third practice; the Monte Carlo track in the Monaco Grand Prix is indeed complex, but actually quite simple because the track is short.
Qin Miao completed all his work for the race weekend 30 minutes before the third practice ended, such as collecting data, car adjustment, and familiarizing brake points.
After completing this work, Qin Miao wanted to clock off, but Frankie and Toto pushed Qin Miao back into the car, asking him to switch to a set of used medium tires for a twenty-minute long-distance test run.
Sure, Qin Miao’s work is indeed fully complete, continuing to run only adds wear to the car’s power unit without yielding more data benefits.
But damn, F1 is a commercial alliance, everyone needs to make money.
Even though you Qin Miao are leaving Mercedes next season, your enormous commercial value and your country’s huge development potential are still present.
Though the practice session doesn’t have many viewers, sponsors have needs too; so, you Qin Miao get as much screen time as you can.
Finally, Qin Miao was forced to work overtime for over twenty minutes, getting off the car with 6 minutes left before practice ended.
Right when Qin Miao barely got out of the car, an incident occurred on the track.
In the last five minutes of the third practice, Old Man lost control at T5 and hit the wall.
Mercedes’ Golden Left couldn’t withstand Monaco’s uncompromising barriers.
Like Sainz yesterday, Hamilton’s steering rod broke on impact.
Unlike Sainz yesterday, where he lightly brushed the wall at high speed and broke the steering rod.
Old Man crashed heavily into the barrier, yet Hamilton’s car merely broke a steering rod, indicating Mercedes’ front suspension is indeed harder than most cars.
Meanwhile, yesterday Sainz’s mistake led to crashing and retiring, the car was lifted up, and the floor was seen by other teams.
No one in Mercedes could have imagined, yesterday they were gloating over Ferrari, today the same damn situation is on Mercedes.
Elliott looked at Hamilton’s car being lifted up by Matthew, gritted his molars.
"Unlucky."
...
The Mercedes car was lifted up, its floor openly admired, surely brightening other teams’ aerodynamic designers’ eyes.
However, when they compared Mercedes’ floor with their own, they found, Mercedes’ floor is almost without textures, most designs concentrated around the vortex generators on the edge and the entrance of the Venturi channel.
These team designers were left scratching their heads, damn, Mercedes’ floor isn’t much of a model to learn from...
Ferrari’s floor even has more to offer than Mercedes.’
After the third practice, Qin Miao didn’t even make it into the top ten.
Because during the whole third practice Qin Miao used only one set of old soft tires for a qualifying simulation, during which he was blocked by a slower car, impeding his time by 0.7 seconds.
Apart from this flying lap, Qin Miao was doing long-distance tests, naturally, the results weren’t particularly good.
After the third practice, Qin Miao took a cold shower.
Monaco in May has already begun to warm up, coupled with the high temperature inside the car, Qin Miao relaxed his muscles in advance for comfort during the qualifying session.
After resting, the qualifying session began.
Compared to other tracks, Monaco’s qualifying session is significantly more important.
Given the current length and width of the cars, overtaking in Monte Carlo is the hardest in the racing calendar.
As long as there’s no red flag or rain during the main race, your qualifying position is practically your final race result.
On the track, after Q1 started, Qin Miao maintained his usual race pace, achieving a fairly good flying lap in Q1, then didn’t return to attempt again.