CHAPTER 191: CHAPTER 123: SLICING THROUGH THE FIELD

This is Qin Miao’s first time running a sprint race, and also his first time starting amid a flow of cars. Under normal circumstances, any driver would feel a bit tense right now.

But Qin Miao seems to have an internal switch; once he enters the racing car, all negative emotions evaporate into thin air.

So at this moment, Qin Miao is not nervous. Instead, he feels eager to face the challenge.

His overall state is indescribably good.

At this moment, Qin Miao has already added a buff to his racing car. To be honest, after applying the buff, Qin Miao thought of Zhou Guanyu from yesterday.

For a moment, Qin Miao also wanted to see if he could apply his buff to Zhou Guanyu’s car. But today, it’s clearly not possible, as the race is about to start. However, if given the opportunity, it might be worth a try.

As the warm-up lap ended, the chaotic thoughts in Qin Miao’s mind were gradually discarded, and he slowly parked his car in his starting grid position.

At this time, Ilott was in front and to the left of Qin Miao, and Armstrong was directly ahead.

Behind him were Panasonic and Ness, but these two were not as important because there was a 90% chance Qin Miao would leave these unlucky guys behind once he started.

During the preparation phase, Qin Miao set a small goal for himself—to gain two positions at the start.

Amidst the roar of engines, five red lights lit up one by one.

These five red lights seemed like the accelerator pedal for the drivers; the more lit, the louder the engine roared.

As soon as the red lights lit up, they went out instantly, and all the race cars started at the first moment.

Qin Miao was, as always, the fastest starter among the drivers. The adequate tire warm-up allowed Qin Miao’s set of soft tires to reach optimal temperature.

Moreover, except for Qin Miao, everyone else was using hard tires, so the grip of Qin Miao’s soft tires was unmatched across the entire field.

Naturally, it was stronger than Ilott and Armstrong ahead of him.

Coupled with a perfect start, his soft tires provided even stronger traction.

After completing the start phase, Qin Miao drew closer to the two of them at a visible speed amid the engine roar and completed the overtaking of Ilott under the starting signal lights.

By the time he reached the uphill before T1, Qin Miao had completed a feat of overtaking two cars thanks to a perfect start.

Knowing Qin Miao’s potential and talent, and noting that he was using a set of soft tires today, even the F2 official broadcaster knew they should focus more on the young drivers at this moment. However, curiosity could not be contained, wondering how many cars Qin Miao would overtake at the start using soft tires. The broadcast camera directly gave Qin Miao a close-up shot.

"Oh! Qin Miao had a great start!" Seeing Qin Miao’s perfect start after the sprint race began, Fei couldn’t help but exclaim, "Taking the lead! Got it!"

"One overtaking two at the start! Qin Miao is stunning!" Bing also couldn’t help but marvel.

Only Zhou Haoran analyzed more rationally, "Qin Miao’s perfect start together with a new set of red tires, completing an overtaking of two is understandable. However, to be fair, this overtaking was indeed beautiful."

The two unlucky guys who got overtaken looked at Qin Miao’s tire where the red Pirelli letters formed a red ring under fast rotation and had no complaints.

Fight? What to fight with against this monster? Yesterday’s race had already proved that they and this monster are simply not on the same level.

Moreover, Qin Miao was a Ferrari simulator tester before participating in F2, and none of these young Ferrari training drivers didn’t want to get that position.

This position grants a lot of time to communicate with Binotto and the Ferrari F1 team engineers, and allows driving F1 cars on the simulator.

Driving F1 cars on the simulator is secondary; the main thing is the opportunity to become familiar with Binotto and the Ferrari F1 team’s engineers.

But to gain this position requires enough strength and understanding of racing cars.

They, as training drivers, naturally are not qualified.

Actually, they vaguely suspected before Qin Miao joined F2 that Qin Miao’s strength might be beyond their imagination.

But at that time, it was only speculation as no one had truly competed against Qin Miao on the track.

Then, an internal test within Ferrari’s training program struck like a big slap, waking all the Ferrari training drivers.

That day, they realized there are people beyond people, heavens beyond heavens, and made them understand Qin Miao’s strength concretely.

The first time they were crushed by Qin Miao, they might still have some defiance. However, after being steamrolled by Qin Miao during the Austrian race the second time, they had basically no thought of continuing to fight with Qin Miao.

So now, they even didn’t make symbolic defensive maneuvers, letting Qin Miao pass as if a slow car yielded to a fast car.

After being overtaken, the two had no objections, and honestly followed their own rhythm.

The field entered T1.

Since Qin Miao started from the inside, he naturally took the inside line after overtaking.

In front of Qin Miao was Long Jia De, who was also squeezed to the inside line because of the chaotic start. Plus, Long Jia De and Ticktum entered T1 wheel-to-wheel, so all overtaking routes for Qin Miao were blocked at T1.

However, Qin Miao was not in a hurry. The race has 28 laps, and this is just the beginning.