"But on the other hand, it also proves that there is no driver disagreement in the Mercedes team after the change of drivers."

"Originally, there was no problem of driver disagreement in the Meiben team, it should be said that Toto had a discerning eye and found that Qin Miao's strength was not weaker than Bottas, and there would be no unnecessary intra-team contradictions, and there were drivers with strong growth.

As long as there are no accidents, just one Qin Miao is enough for Mei Ben to last for more than five years. ”

……

After running in F1 for a while, Qin Miao now has a basic understanding of his strength.

As I guessed after I lost F2, I did have the strength of an F1 driver early on, and I am still a top driver.

However, it is not the top among the top riders, because the speed of Lao Han and Verstappen is faster than Qin Miao, if nothing else, Qin Miao's strength should be at the same level as Perez Bottas, maybe slightly stronger than Pérez, Bottas is not easy to say, after all, Qin Miao has no chance to compete with him now.

Therefore, Qin Miao, who knew the gap, did not deliberately block his teammates, because it was unnecessary, and it was not enough for other drivers to catch up with him by letting his teammates lose less than a second, and it would not affect Qin Miao's ranking in this race, so Qin Miao did what he did.

On lap 40, Verstappen finally made a pit stop, and this time Verstappen switched to hard tyres, and in the final sixteen laps Verstappen was able to chase Hamilton as hard as he could without saving tyres.

Unfortunately, after Verstappen came out of the station, there was another Mercedes in front of him.

After leaving the pit, Verstappen looked at the flashing red light at the rear of the car in front of him, and suddenly a sense of foreboding suddenly surged in his heart.

Although it only took 1.9 seconds to pit stop Red Bull to change tires, Verstappen had a hunch that his 1.9 second advantage was a complete joke in front of the Mercedes in front of him.

At this time, Qin Miao, who was running a long distance on the tires, heard the voice from his team's TR again, but this time it was not Franky, but Toto: "Qin Miao, Verstappen is 1.7 seconds behind you, try to help Hamilton defend him for a few laps as much as possible." ”

Qin Miao was stunned for a moment, didn't this guy just surpass him just now? Why did you run behind yourself again?

Although he had doubts in his heart, in the face of Toto's request, Qin Miao would not and had no reason to refuse, but he still asked: "How many laps will he defend?" ”

Now it's Toto's turn to be stunned, can you still precisely control the lap time of the specific defensive opponent?

However, Toto didn't think deeply, and after Qin Miao asked him, Toto said: "The more the merrier, but according to our calculations, you only need to defend Verstappen for three laps, and Hamilton's championship in this game is a certainty." ”

"Understood."

Qin Miao didn't refuse Toto's request, just like I said earlier, Qin Miao's speed in this game is not as fast as Verstappen and Hamilton, and the other drivers can't cause Qin Miao any trouble, and being idle is also idle, it's better to defend Verstappen to play, anyway, defending Verstappen won't have much impact on Qin Miao's speed.

After answering, Qin Miao's lap time decreased less significantly, about 0.2 seconds slower than Qin Miao's cruising state per lap.

The main thing is that Qin Miao needs to defend Verstappen at this time, and to defend Verstappen, Qin Miao needs to use his own ERS system, and during the time when Verstappen is chasing him, Qin Miao needs to charge his battery as much as possible.

When the F1 car is in a charging state, the rear taillights will flash, and looking at Qin Miao's flashing rear taillights, Verstappen swallowed a mouthful of saliva and felt a faint pressure on his shoulders.

Verstappen didn't know why, he always felt that the Chinese driver's car in front of him was much wider than the other drivers' cars, and it was especially difficult to overtake him.

Five-Star Sports.

The three commentators also came to the spirit at this time.

Qin Miao had already brought enough surprises to the three commentators when she defended Verstappen for the first time, and now she can watch the attack and defense between Qin Miao and Verstappen again, as the audience and commentators, they really feel quite happy.

"Verstappen out! Although the 1.9-second tire change speed was really fast, and it may even be the fastest tire change speed in this race, it was a coincidence that Verstappen fell behind Qin Miao after coming out of the pit stop. Brother Bing said happily.

"There's a good show to watch now, how many laps can Qin Miao hold on to Verstappen this time?" Fei Ge was also full of anticipation at this time.

"I feel that Qin Miao only needs to block Verstappen for three laps, and Hamilton's championship in this race will be secure." Zhou Haoran still likes to use data to speak.

"It shouldn't be able to stop for that long, after all, Qin Miao's hard tires have been used for 22 laps now, and Qin Miao's tire wear is not low at this time." Although he was looking forward to the next offensive and defensive battle, Brother Bing still said so.

Zhou Haoran retorted: "But when I watched last year's F2 race, Qin Miao's tire protection ability was almost the only one in F2, Qin Miao's tire condition should be quite good, right?" ”

"Do you think it's possible that Qin Miao's white tires are ready to run the whole race directly?"

……

In fact, as Zhou Haoran guessed, Qin Miao's tire wear at this time is only 29%, and the cliff point has not been passed, and he still has enough grip, and it is no problem to hold the whole game under normal conditions.

However, if defending Verstappen, Qin Miao's tire consumption will inevitably increase, so at this time, Meiben's strategy team has begun to calculate the possibility of Qin Miao using the two-stop tactic.

At the same time, Verstappen caught up behind Qin Miao in a lap and a half, and relied on DRS to get an opportunity to attack Qin Miao on the starting straight.

On the 42nd lap, Verstappen at this time had a long memory, and he already knew in the five-lap grappling with Qin Miao that Qin Miao was difficult to entangle in the close-range hand-to-hand grappling, so if he wanted to surpass Qin Miao, he had to surpass Qin Miao in DRS with absolute speed like he had last time.

In order to be able to complete the battle, Verstappen chose to directly squeeze out the remaining 40% of the power of his car after the T14 this time.

Having experienced Qin Miao's defensive package, he knew how terrifying Qin Miao's defensive ability was, so in order not to be trapped by Qin Miao for too long, Verstappen chose to gamble everything he had this time.

DRS, big windward, wake, ERS, all the advantages are stacked together again.

Qin Miao saw the proximity rate of the car behind him and knew that he couldn't rely on his skills to defend the other party in the corner, but when Verstappen overtook him, he still squeezed the opponent's driving line slightly.

Verstappen then took the lead two thirds of the way into the Grand Straight.

Verstappen was also not affected by Qin Miao's squeeze.

This time, Verstappen still passed the DRS detection point in front of T1 faster than Qin Miao, but the first time Verstappen was only about 0.09 seconds faster than Qin Miao, and this time Verstappen was directly 0.15 seconds faster than Qin Miao.

Maybe 0.15 seconds doesn't sound like a long time, but on the field it's more than a car distance.

Just as Verstappen was about to enter the corner normally, he suddenly saw Qin Miao's front wing of the car appear in his rearview mirror.

When I looked over, I found that Qin Miao's approach rate at this time was ridiculously fast.

And at the node position of his own turn, he completed the side by side with himself, at this time Verstappen really couldn't understand how this Mercedes braked so late and so hard, how to do the front wheel not lock.

Although there was a moment of crankiness in his mind, Verstappen still understood Qin Miao's intention: to prepare to rely on the extreme late braking to block his entry line.

But Qin Miao will inevitably give up a crossing line for Verstappen to go, but Verstappen at this time did not feel very happy because Qin Miao gave up the crossing line to himself, because Qin Miao has DRS, even if he has a crossing line to surpass Qin Miao in T1, Qin Miao can give back to Chao in the second DRS area in the future......

But despite this, Verstappen still relied on the crossing line to overtake Qin Miao.

As Verstappen thought, after coming out of T3, Qin Miao relied on the double acceleration of ERS and DRS and a late brake to complete the transcendence of himself in T4.

Even this time the defense of Qin Miao is not as clean as before, the angle of T4 into the corner is relatively large, Verstappen takes the outside line, and Qin Miao relies on himself to enter the T4 corner first, and after the corner, Qin Miao directly does not leave space for Verstappen on the outside, and directly squeezes Verstappen out of the track.

Verstappen actually doesn't have to worry about being squeezed out as long as he releases the throttle, but they are all F1 drivers, and Verstappen at this time still has the opportunity to challenge Hamilton, anything can be discussed, but it is impossible to release the throttle at such a time.

So in the end, not surprisingly, Verstappen was forced out of the track by Qin Miao.

After being squeezed out, Verstappen unsurprisingly complained in TR: "F**k! He squeezed me out, how could he do that? ”

Red Bull just shook his head helplessly after seeing this scene, what could they say? Qin Miao has a priority in the first corner, so his operation is okay?

Definitely not, so do you want the mentality of the driver?

So in the face of Verstappen's complaints, Red Bull could only comfort: "OK, MAX, we will report it." ”

And this voice was also played to the director, and after hearing Verstappen's complaint, Fei Gerui commented: "Qin Miao's defense has no problems, this kind of defensive action is within the scope of the FIA's rules, and Verstappen doesn't use this trick less when defending, so anyone can say that Qin Miao's defense is dirty, but only you Verstappen can't." ”

And at this time, the happiest one is Mei Ben's side, seeing Qin Miao squeezing Verstappen out, the technicians in Mei Ben's team who were looking up at the monitor intently cheered directly, and Toto also smiled with satisfaction.

……

On the track, the outside shoulder of the T4 was not high after the corner, and it was flat, so Verstappen didn't lose much speed despite being squeezed off the track.

However, Verstappen still lost some rhythm after the mistake, so Verstappen didn't find a good chance to overtake in the second half of the race.

It wasn't until lap 43 that Verstappen found another chance to attack in the DRS zone after T10.

This time it was Qin Miao's own problem, the oil was a little slower after the corner, resulting in a much slower speed out of the corner than Verstappen, plus Verstappen had the bonus of DRS.

Halfway through the straight, Verstappen had already pulled Qin Miao's outside line, and finished side by side with Qin Miao before entering the corner.

In this corner, Qin Miao couldn't force Verstappen's line like the last defense, because of the chain reaction caused by that small mistake, the other party didn't brake late or anything, just relied on DRS to exceed Qin Miao's distance by one of the front wings before entering the corner.

Now the priority of the track is in Verstappen's hands, and Qin Miao has no way to continue to defend strongly.

But Qin Miao didn't give up his position, the two cars just went into the corner side by side, and after entering the corner, because of the advantage of the Mercedes car in the corner performance, Verstappen couldn't get rid of Qin Miao, and the two cars passed T11 and T12 wheel to wheel, all the way to T13.

After the two cars came to T13 side by side, Qin Miao's position became the outside line, and Verstappen wanted to replicate Qin Miao's operation just now, relying on his own line power to squeeze Qin Miao out of the track.

But Qin Miao predicted Verstappen's thoughts, and instead of giggling with you, he braked early and crossed the line to exit the corner.

Looking at Qin Miao, who did not appear on the left side of his car, but braked the corner in advance, and then began to accelerate, Verstappen felt his scalp tingle for a moment.

Because Qin Miao is like a roundworm in his stomach, he can always predict his thoughts and what he is going to do next.

But despite this, the advantage of the Honda engine on the straights and the grip of Verstappen's new hard tires still showed their advantages at this time, so Qin Miao was still side by side with Verstappen when he came out of the corner, and the two cars continued to be wheel-to-wheel, and no one let anyone go all the way to T14.

And Qin Miao deliberately turned off the ERS mode that he had been on before entering the DRS detection point of T14, so before the two cars passed the DRS monitoring point before T14, Verstappen passed by the DRS monitoring point before T14 a little faster than Qin Miao.

Because he entered the bend later and was still on the outside line, Qin Miao didn't fight with Verstappen this time, letting Verstappen walk in front, and he took a wider line.

And Verstappen took the defensive line, because he didn't know how Qin Miao would attack him.

But just because Verstappen is on the defensive line, its exit speed is actually not as fast as Qin Miao's, and now Qin Miao has both DRS and a wake with excellent effect, and ERS still has half the power.

Qin Miao's relative speed was 10 km/h faster than Verstappen's.

Just past the starting line of the big straight road, Qin Miao took the lead in Verstappen's inner line.

And Verstappen was also the first to cut the inside defense, and Qin Miao naturally turned to the outside.

Verstappen also followed up, but at this time, Qin Miao had already taken the lead inside, and Verstappen could only leave a certain amount of space for Qin Miao, and tried to use his own turbulence to disturb the aerodynamic effect of Qin Miao's car.

But these bells and whistles are useless, because Qin Miao's relative speed is too fast.

Therefore, the big straight at the start was only four-fifths of the way around, and Qin Miao had already completed the overtaking of Verstappen.

And so far, Qin Miao has defended Verstappen for three laps.

……

"How far is Hamilton and me now?"

"24 seconds, well done Qin Miao, Verstappen can't catch up with Hamilton."

"Roger."

ps. It's a bit of a carvin today, it's only 4K......

(End of chapter)