CHAPTER 171: CHAPTER 115: WALKING THE TRACK WITH ZHOU GUANYU

However, Qin Miao couldn’t possibly explain the reason to Frankie. After a brief chat, they began waiting for Sui Wentao’s inspection results.

The inspection in this regard is relatively simple. The F2 car’s on-board system comes with a self-diagnosis function, you just need to activate it for a self-check.

The results came out quickly. Sui Wentao approached the two with a somewhat strange expression on his face and said frankly, "The telemetry system has no problems. We checked the computer before Qin Miao returned, and it showed no errors..."

After saying this, Sui Wentao looked at Qin Miao, and Frankie also stared at Qin Miao, with a look of astonishment in his eyes, but more of it was surprise and a hint of uncontrollable joy.

But that wasn’t the end. Frankie then pointed to the graph representing fuel levels and said, "And there’s also fuel consumption. You used nearly 6% less than Mick."

Upon hearing this news, Qin Miao was also a bit stunned.

Qin Miao could understand the reason for his tire wear being less than Mick’s, but he didn’t know why his fuel consumption was significantly lower than Mick’s. After all, he didn’t have any skill reducing fuel consumption in his skill set.

Baffled by this, Qin Miao could only attribute this point to Mick’s driving habits.

The matter of Qin Miao’s abnormal tire wear could not be concealed.

Someone from Mick’s team even came over to ask if Qin Miao’s data was incorrect. At the time, their expressions weren’t good, probably thinking Qin Miao’s team was using fake data to fool them.

Finally, after much persuasion, Frankie even took out backup data from his computer to show them before they believed that this utterly bizarre data was indeed real.

Today’s testing lasted for two days in total. Since F2 has standardized cars, there aren’t many areas that need testing and adjustment. Two days were enough for Qin Miao and his team to familiarize themselves with and understand the car’s condition.

Next up, Qin Miao and his team’s destination: Austria.

It’s worth mentioning that before Prema’s two big trucks left Maranello, Mick did three flying laps on the track using soft tires, but none surpassed Qin Miao’s flying lap record from the first day.

Sitting in the car, Qin Miao heard from Sui Wentao that when Mick got out of the car and removed his helmet, his face was all sour.

About this, Qin Miao just smiled. He didn’t have a deep relationship with Mick, and as Qimeng said, Qin Miao showed little regard to all Ferrari Driver Academy drivers.

Although now both are in the same team, Qin Miao no longer directly ignores Mick when he sees him, but at most they nod to each other, and basically, there is not much conversation.

After this incident, the relationship between Mick and Qin Miao is likely to become even more strained.

After returning to Vicenza and resting for two days, Prema’s two cars set off again, heading to Austria for this year’s first F2 race, which is also the first F1 race of the year.

Austria is adjacent to Italy, and from the map, Austria is just above Italy, plus Vicenza is in the northern part of Italy.

So, driving from Prema headquarters to the Red Bull Ring track is only more than 400 kilometers and takes four and a half hours, similar to a long-distance trip.

On the way, Qin Miao used the ROG laptop gifted by Qimeng to play Red Alert with his team members.

This is the advantage of having trucks in the team. To ensure the car’s safety during transportation, the interior of the rear cargo compartment has a double-layer shock absorption setup.

This setup is somewhat like a large gimbal that can hold things.

After asking, Qin Miao found out that this setup was quite difficult to realize, so it was very expensive. Generally, trucks like this are used to transport antiques or other valuable fragile items.

Having foundation and connections, Prema managed to get two transport trailers discarded by Ferrari, repaired them, and reused them effectively.

As long as the truck driver doesn’t drive like Qin Miao, seeking extreme cornering, the experience inside the trailer is quite good. You hardly feel the bumpiness of the road, with vibrations being very slight, only sensing noticeable horizontal changes on uphill or downhill slopes.

The only downside is the lack of internet in such a good environment, so Qin Miao and the others can only use laptops typically used to adjust car settings to play games like Red Alert and CS1.6 that can be played over LAN.

The Prema crew set off in the morning and arrived at Red Bull Ring in Spielberg by noon.

Qin Miao is an F2 rookie, but the Prema team members are all seasoned veterans, easily maneuvering the team RVs into the track.

After registering with the organizers, today’s tasks were completed.

Of course, only Qin Miao’s task was completed. Sui Wentao and the other Prema team technicians still need to unload the cars for the two drivers, set up a temporary pit for the race car at the designated location.

Later, they’ll need to pick up tires and such; basically, they won’t have time to rest today.

As for Qin Miao, he needs to walk a lap around the track before the sun sets today, as practice and qualifying races will begin tomorrow.

After ensuring his car was settled in, Qin Miao took a glance around and spotted Zhou Guanyu’s UNI-Virtuosi Racing team, which was just two positions away from his team’s pit area.