Qilu Evening News Qilu One-point trainee reporter Xu Yijie Wang Qiuyi
At the Weifang Kuka Kart Club, the roar was loud and the heavily armed go-karts drove away from the starting point. Accelerating, bending, tails, the reporter standing in the stands can only capture the silhouette of the speeding gallop. It's a go-kart race with a time limit of seven minutes and a ranking of the fastest laps. As the runners reached the finish line, the ranking of the race was presented on an electronic screen.
The first place"Dylan Foam", this cute nickname is particularly eye-catching in this exciting arena. In line with the reporter's speculation, the owner of "Dylan Foam" is today's interviewee, 20-year-old female go-kart coach Qi Miao.
First sight of Qi Miao, red and white motorcycle uniform, blue background lion pattern helmet, cool personality. In Weifang, kart players are mainly male, there are very few women, and female players like Qi Miao, who have excellent driving skills at a young age, are even rarer.
Qi Miao's father is a racing enthusiast, Qi Miao was taken to the racing track by his father to watch the race when he was in junior high school, and he liked to drive from then on. Because he was not old enough to drive a car, Qi Miao went to play with the karting in the car park. With the increasing number of kart encounters, Qi Miao's interest in karting has become more and more intense, and he has also developed the idea of professional training. So Qi Miao completed his homework in school as much as possible and made time to practice at the racing track.
"Driving a go-kart requires a brain," requires accurate judgment and physical coordination, and also requires good physical strength, which is a good emerging sport, and I like it very much." Qi Miao told reporters.
Because Qi Miao has a cheerful personality and is willing to spend time practicing, the staff in the racing track and professional racing drivers are willing to teach her. She competed with the fastest employees in the racing track, followed by professional racing drivers as a teacher, and set a new record in a lap of practice, catching up with professional male drivers and occupying the top of the performance charts.
"She's very young, and she's a girl, and I'm so impressed that we can't drive her," a staff member at the depot told reporters. ”
But Qi Miao was not satisfied with the results achieved, she consulted the relevant information on karting skills, collected competitive videos of international racers to watch their brake details and corner angles. "When your lap time reaches a certain fast result, it's hard to improve anymore. In addition to ensuring accurate control of brakes, throttles and directions, how to trace the wire has become a key point to improve speed. In order to further improve his lap speed and break through the bottleneck period, Qi Miao would continue to practice on the track, figuring out the difference between each line, until his back was sore and his face was pressed by the helmet with two deep red marks.
When asked if his heart had been shaken, Qi Miao said: "Sometimes I haven't improved for a long time, and I will be discouraged and even want to give up this exercise." But if you think about it again, you will feel that you should not accept defeat, so you grit your teeth and continue training. In order to reduce the wind resistance, Qi Miao will continue to bend over while driving. In order to reduce speed obstruction, Qi Miao will pay attention to diet and maintain optimal weight. "It's tiring and hard, but when you see the speed increase by a few tenths of a second, it's worth it."
In 2020, Qi Miao became an adult, and she obtained the karting national first-level referee certificate for the first time. In 2021, she became a special coach of the Kuka Karting Club, and in her free time she came to the club to teach beginners the correct driving method and guide students to improve their grades. Her love for go-karting has also infected her classmates and friends, and more and more people are trying to go-kart sports.
In addition to a go-kart coach, Qi Miao is also a college student majoring in computer art design, working in interior design at a large renovation company. "My future plans still want to make interior design my main business, hoping to improve my professional knowledge to the point where I can do better than most people like driving a go-kart." Karting is still a sunrise industry, and has not yet become a popular movement, but I believe that as China enters the automobile era and the rapid maturity of automobile culture, karting will certainly be well known to everyone, and at that time, I may really take my hobby as my profession. ”
The go-kart coach or the interior designer, either of them is her, none of them are all her. Qi Miao's experience shows us that as long as we love, women can shine in any field.