How Did I Become an F1 Driver?-Chapter 916 - 361: Mercedes Team Riding a Rocket
This distribution is also easy to understand. Firstly, the speed of Mercedes' car is actually quite good this season. The engine is basically on the same level as Red Bull's Honda engine, though it doesn't have the huge advantage it did during the initial hybrid era, but neither is it a disadvantage.
In other words, the engine isn't considered a shortcoming for Mercedes, at least for now.
Therefore, Qin Miao has allocated these three attribute points to make up for the team's shortcomings in aerodynamic design and chassis development.
It's a pretty reasonable distribution.
However, Qin Miao's upgrades for his car are not limited to this. He also used his remaining [Golden Skill Enhancement Card].
This card was obtained during Qin Miao's golden ten-draw at the end of the 2021 season when he won the championship. At that time, Qin Miao didn't rush to use it, and now it's just the right time to put it to use.
He directly upgraded his original [Research Department's Guide] purple skill to gold.
[Research Department's Guide (Gold)]: When equipped with this skill, the team's average skill rating increases by 10, and the success rate for setting targets when developing team components increases by 5%.
Initially, Mercedes' team attributes included the 5 attribute points originally brought by Qin Miao's purple skill.
Now, with an additional 5 points, the team's attributes and ratings are as follows:
[Team: Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team
Overall Team Rating: 85.1→90.1 (+5) 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
Car Issue Detection Capability: 81→86 (+5)
Simulator Development Capability: 82→87 (+5)
Car Tuning Capability: 89→94 (+5)
Race Strategy Formulation Capability: 87→92 (+5)
Car Protection Capability: 75→80 (+5)
Tire Changing Capability: 90→95 (+5)
Power Department Development Capability: 94→99 (+5)
Aerodynamics Department Development Capability: 88→93 (+5)
Chassis Department Development Capability: 86→91 (+5)
Durability Development Capability: 83→88 (+5)]
With Qin Miao's skill in effect, many of Mercedes' team attributes that were originally hovering around the 80s have shot up to the 90s.
The quite outstanding Power Department Development Capability directly skyrocketed to 99, almost reaching a perfect score.
At the same time, other capabilities have also seen a very significant increase.
In short, due to Qin Miao's presence, the already leading development capabilities of Mercedes have achieved a qualitative leap.
Although the team attributes look quite impressive, this high attribute doesn't have as much impact as imagined on Mercedes.
Because since last season, the FIA has officially introduced the budget cap rule, so Mercedes can't allocate resources and develop the car without considering expenses like during the pre-ground effect era.
Therefore, even if Mercedes has numerous ideas due to Qin Miao's enhancements, the team can't implement all of them but has to selectively pick some for improvement and upgrades.
Not to mention, currently, Qin Miao only has four skill slots.
Considering the three essential skills: [Diligence Can Make Up for Shortcomings], [Strong and Healthy (Purple)], [No Illness or Calamity], Qin Miao can only equip one additional skill.
And during races, Qin Miao must equip [Car God (Gold)].
So, Mercedes will find that during race weekends, the team's workers don't think as quickly, but off the race days, ideas practically overflow.
However, Qin Miao received a news that may or may not be good: the three team free attribute points used for team upgrades don't follow him when he leaves the team, unlike his skills.
Once these skill points are added to the team, they permanently belong to Mercedes.
As for the explanation of the last item, [success rate+5%] when setting targets developing team components,
It means that when the team develops a new component, they set a target for it, like achieving certain criteria.
With this entry, the team's R&D staff has a 5% higher likelihood of reaching this target compared to the normal state.
For the team, this is indeed a very impressive skill.
After completing all this, looking at the team's ratings, Qin Miao is still confident in regaining competitiveness this season.
At the same time, Qin Miao added another item to his daily skills; as long as it's not a race day, he likely won't take down [Research Department's Guide (Gold)].
Not just for the team, but for himself.
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Qin Miao and the Mercedes team didn't stay long in Bahrain, nor did they hold a meeting to reflect on aspects of the race that could be improved, because there is another Middle Eastern Grand Prix next week: Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah Circuit.
This track is actually quite a tough one for Mercedes currently, especially for the two racers, literally tough.
After the race, Qin Miao and Hamilton immediately disbanded, and the two only need to report at the paddock before Wednesday afternoon.
By then, the team will hold a post-Bahrain Grand Prix summary meeting based on the analysis data from Brackley Factory.
Because of this, Qin Miao also got a brief two-day rest period.
