Sebastian Vettel's lead has also attracted a lot of attention, including the track engineers and team leaders of each team, as well as the audience and live directors and commentators.

Although the track was drying up by this point, no one knew exactly how the car would perform after switching to dry tyres, and Vettel's pit stop gave them a chance to observe.

However, judging from the fact that Vettel started to spin on his rear wheels immediately after leaving the station, the track conditions at this time were not suitable for changing to dry tires.

And you don't have to look at Vettel's performance, you only need to look at the rankings, and after changing to dry tires, Vettel was directly surpassed by the two Little Red Bulls behind him.

Although there was a Leclerc in the position behind Qin Miao about a second behind him who continued to put pressure on Qin Miao, Qin Miao was very stable and did not have any psychological fluctuations at all because of Leclerc's frequent taps.

Leclerc is not a threat to Qin Miao when Qin Miao does not make mistakes, so Qin Miao is in a cruising state at this time, and the team is not afraid that suddenly reporting these data to Qin Miao will affect Qin Miao: "Sebastian Vettel just made a pit stop and changed to dry tires, although the speed of the third time period is ideal, but the speed loss of the first and second time periods is too great, so at this time there are still no conditions for changing dry ground tires, so please continue to stay on the track." ”

Qin Miao, who was on the track, did feel a lot calmer after receiving the news, although he still needed to run the race on rain tires, but the overall conditions of the track were gradually getting better, and his speed was gradually getting faster.

Hamilton and Verstappen in front of them stopped their struggle for more than 15 laps as the tyres deterred, with Hamilton in front and Verstappen behind, and the gap between the two men was 1.2 seconds and they began to wait for the track conditions to improve.

On lap 27, the second driver to switch to dry tires appeared, and it was Yuki Tsunoda of Little Red Bull.

At the same time, the data of the race also gave information that Vettel, who had switched to dry tyres, was 0.7 faster than Hamilton in the first time period, so it was predictable that it would be time for the drivers to pit and switch to dry tyres.

At the end of lap 27, Verstappen, who had been following Hamilton, opted for a pit stop for dry tyres.

It's just that because of the characteristics of the track, the average time for Imola to make a pit stop is about 30 seconds, so although Verstappen fell behind Qin Miao after he came out, there was still about 10 seconds of clean air between him and Qin Miao.

It is impossible for Qin Miao to deliberately slow down his speed in order to defend Verstappen, if he really does this, Qin Miao will not be the No. 2 driver of Meiben, but Hamilton's own father, because only such an identity has the position to do so.

And after seeing Verstappen pit for a tire change, Qin Miao hurriedly asked in his TR, "Can I pit and stop?" ”

Seriously, driving a car in a rainy state really made Qin Miao feel like he couldn't make it stronger, and the team quickly replied after receiving Qin Miao's question: "Yes, BOX, we use neutral tires, this is our last pit stop." ”

Qin Miao thought about it, with his own ability, it is difficult to run the remaining 33 laps on a set of neutral tires, but it is not impossible, after all, the track of Imola is still relatively friendly to tires.

So Qin Miao didn't say anything else, but began to push with all his might, as much as possible to widen the distance between himself and Leclerc behind him.

Although Ferrari's tire changers work twice in three days, and it is a big job, a unique job, but they are sometimes really fast, and although the technicians of Mercedes practice changing tires every day, they are not without mistakes.

So out of the protection of his runner-up position, Qin Miao still used up all the power in his battery before making a pit stop, and the time gap between himself and Leclerc was reduced to 1.8 seconds.

As soon as the camera turned, Hamilton also pitted for medium tyres the lap after Verstappen's pit stop, and the total time was four seconds because the right front tyre changer was slow.

It was 1.8 seconds slower than Verstappen's tyre, and it was predictable that when Hamilton came out, the original advantage would be wiped out because of this tyre change.

After all, Verstappen was faster than Hamilton after changing dry tyres.

But there was no time left for the mechanics of Meiben to be annoyed and sad, as Hamilton had just left the tire changing position, Qin Miao also appeared at the entrance of the pit lane.

Unlike the tires of those riders whose tread in the center of the semi-rain tires is almost worn out, Qin Miao's tires are still clear although the tread patterns are worn.

I believe that Qin Miao will not have any pressure to run more than ten laps on the track with this set of tires.

A heavy brake locked his tyre in front of the pit lane white line and reduced his speed to 80 km/h.

He then entered the pit lane and stopped at the team's tyre change position with great precision.

There were no surprises in the team's tire change this time, and Qin Miao did not encounter the problems Hamilton encountered this time when changing tires, with a tire change speed of 2.1 seconds.

Not fast, but definitely at the top of the race for the speed of changing tires.

And Ferrari is rare not to work this time, and the tire change speed of 2.5 seconds is also qualified, but after all, Leclerc made a pit stop to change the tires at the same time as Qin Miao, so naturally there is no possibility of turning over Qin Miao when changing tires.

On the contrary, after leaving the station, Leclerc was pulled away a little by Qin Miao.

After leaving the station, Qin Miao's attention was on Leclerc behind him, because Qin Miao didn't plan to pit again, so Qin Miao was not prepared to defend Leclerc too fiercely in the next period of time.

Because if the defensive action is too large, your tire consumption will be a little large, which is a little disadvantageous for the overall game.

After a lap, Qin Miao got a good news, Leclerc is indeed faster than himself, but not much faster, still about 0.2 seconds faster than himself per lap, and because only the driving line of the car is dry on the track at this time, and the track outside the driving line is still wet, if the car with dry tires is driven, the speed will drop very seriously, and it may even lead to the loss of grip and let the car lose control.

This invisibly added another layer of geographical advantage to Qin Miao's defensive ability.

Originally, Qin Miao didn't have too much trouble defending Leclerc, but now that he has changed to dry tires, and the track conditions are gradually getting better, Leclerc can't catch up with Qin Miao even more, and Qin Miao's pressure to defend Leclerc is even less.

Just when Qin Miao thought that the next race was about to enter the usual cruising state, Qin Miao suddenly found a Mei Ben parked on the gravel ground when he crossed the T7 corner.

Although the number 44 on the shark fin of the Mercedes is not so obvious, there are only two Mercedes cars on the field, one with his teammate Hamilton and one with him driving now.

By the time Qin Miao overtook him, Hamilton's car had just begun to reverse, ready to drive out of the buffer zone.

Predictably, after this mistake, Hamilton will be half ruined in this game, don't even think about the championship or anything, now let's see how many points he can get by the end of the race.

And all the commentators regretted Hamilton's mistake, because all the focus of the game was originally focused on him and Verstappen in front of him, and now Hamilton made a mistake and withdrew from the championship race, and the spectacle of this game will naturally be greatly reduced in the eyes of the commentators and the audience.

The good news is that Hamilton is back on the track after reversing, and the bad news is that there are still problems when he gets back on the track, Hamilton's right front plate hit the parapet when it crashed into the gravel ground, and one end plate has come off and is now grinding against the ground.

You don't have to think about it to know that Hamilton has to pit again for a change of nose wing.

By the time Hamilton pitted for another tyre change and came out with a new nose wing, he was in 10th place.

The good news is that Hamilton is still in the points zone, but the bad news is that there is only one point.

However, the race was not over at this point, with 29 laps to go, Hamilton still had plenty of time to chase ahead.

And the team was the first to tell Qin Miao the main reason for Hamilton's mistake, when he overtook in the T7 corner, the two left tires pressed on the wet on the track.

T7 is a V-bend, the requirements for mechanical grip are still quite high, the tires that have not warmed up enough to press the water directly lose grip, so that the car as a whole is understeered, and then Hamilton just rushed straight towards the buffer zone and guardrails.

After hearing the team's announcement, Qin Miao smashed his mouth with some pity, Qin Miao had no way to substitute Hamilton's perspective at that time, but if it was Qin Miao, even if there was a slow car in front, he would not be so anxious when he passed T7.

But now that things have happened, Qin Miao won't think too much about why Hamilton made a mistake, but when Qin Miao came back to his senses, he was a little surprised to find that he seemed to be in second place now.

With Hamilton's exit, there is only one Verstappen left in front of him, and if nothing else, he will have his second F1 Grand Prix podium and first runner-up trophy in his life.

And Leclerc, who was behind Qin Miao, also picked up a big leak like Qin Miao, who was originally guarded by Qin Miao, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and was mentally prepared not to win the podium in this game.

But Hamilton's mistake gave him a big surprise.

On lap 43, Leclerc couldn't put any more pressure on Qin Miao at this time, and as the race progressed, the track conditions were getting better and better, and Qin Miao's speed was also speeding up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Leclerc was a little shocked to find that Qin Miao gradually widened the gap between him and himself, and now the gap between the two has come to 1.5 seconds.

At the same time, Hamilton made a mistake and began his own frenzied pursuit, and now he has overtaken seventh position and has begun to attack Ricciardo in sixth place.

At Hamilton's pace, a return to the podium is almost impossible, but a race to the top four is a possibility.

On lap 45, as the course conditions continued to improve, the race chose to turn on the DRS.

However, for Leclerc, this DRS is dispensable, because Qin Miao at this time has opened up the distance of himself by more than 2 seconds, and they are also neutral tires, and in the absence of rain, Qin Miao's speed per lap is 0.5 seconds faster than Leclerc.

Nothing else, just fast.

And just when Leclerc was thinking that he should change his tactics and keep his third place, there was another change on the track.

Immediately after the accident, the race team dispatched a safety car.

The driver involved in the accident was Russell, who was in 10th place.

The location of the accident is in front of T2 on the track.

Here Russell relied on his DRS to attack Stroll, who was ranked ninth, and Stroll certainly couldn't give up his position so simply and easily, so he chose to defend inside, and Russell, who had DRS, didn't want to give up this opportunity to overtake, so he chose to overtake from the right side.

However, although the track has dried up at this time, and the conditions for turning on the DRS are available, there is still water remaining on the grass next to the track.

Although Stroll left enough space for Russell, Russell, who was driving the Williams garbage truck, finally had a chance to score points, so he was a little too urgent, and when overtaking from the right side, the body position was not well controlled, and the right tire of his car pressed on the grass.

At that moment, the two tires on Russell's right side lost all grip in a way that the differential couldn't save.

Russell, who sensed that something was wrong, decisively counterattacked to the left to try to save the car, but this time the car that was just out of control and slid towards the front had a sideways force, so Russell's entire car deflected to the left.

Fortunately, the young master has not braked at this time, and he is also some distance away from Russell.

So Russell's car didn't hit Stroll when it was yawing, but just hit the wall on the left side of the track.

In an instant, a large amount of debris was scattered on the track in a violent collision.

When Russell's nose hit the parapet, all kinetic energy disappeared and instead slid back under the reaction force, just as the whole car was slashing towards the center of the track.

Kimi, who was in 11th place, couldn't dodge and hit Russell's rear diffuser with his front nose, but Kimi still hit his car backwards at the last moment, and in the end it only hit a large piece of his left front nose.

The track was covered with debris and Russell's car stopped on the track and lost power.

With that in mind, the game could not continue, so the game quickly turned the yellow flag into a red flag.

And after receiving this news, the two Ferraris were really numb.

With 18 laps to go, you don't have to think about it to know that everyone will be on soft tyres after the pit stop.

And the two of them didn't have new soft tires, not to mention, the gap between Hamilton and the two of them that was originally more than 30 seconds was instantly pulled to less than three seconds.

Leclerc thought he would have a chance of getting a podium in his hands, but he never imagined that this would happen.

And if you untie all the laps and get all the cars back in their respective positions, you may not be able to stop Hamilton's attack in 18 laps.

After receiving the red flag signal, Qin Miao naturally drove his car back to the pit area honestly and parked behind Verstappen.

Because it was not so fast to resume the game after showing the red flag, Qin Miao directly got out of his car and moved his body after the car stopped.

Imola's T11 and T12 were suddenly downhill and suddenly uphill when they cornered, and there was more than 4.3G lateral G force pulling, after running so many laps, Rao is Qin Miao's strong physical fitness was also a little uncomfortable, although he could hold on to the end of the game, but it was still quite comfortable to be able to move his limbs halfway.

Not long after Qin Miao stopped, Qiu Meng, who was wearing Mei Ben's uniform, trotted to Qin Miao's side with a Mei Ben coat, today's outdoor temperature was only a dozen degrees, Qiu Meng was afraid that Qin Miao would sweat after running the car, and then he took off his clothes because he was too hot, which eventually led to a cold, so he rushed over.

Qin Miao's parking location happened to be at the exit of the maintenance area, and Mei Ben's P room was at the entrance of the maintenance area, and this girl was already exhausted and out of breath when she ran in front of Qin Miao.

After seeing Qiu Meng coming, Qin Miao didn't say anything, just smiled and took the clothes and put them on.

Then Qin Miao turned his head to look at the cars lined up in front of him and behind him.

Verstappen was still in the car, and Leclerc ran out of the car like Qin Miao.

Qin Miao and Leclerc even glanced at each other from a distance, although the two had been intriguing on the track for almost 20 laps, there was no anger or negative emotions in the eyes of both sides looking at each other, the two just smiled and nodded at each other, and did not get together to talk about anything.

It's not over yet, so it's better to keep a certain distance from each other.

"Got an idea?" Seeing Qin Miao's movements, Qiu Meng asked with some curiosity.

Qin Miao nodded slightly: "Before this accident happened, I didn't even think about it, but now take a look." Speaking of this, Qin Miao pouted at Verstappen's car: "He's only so close to me, it's really a pity not to try."

If I really get a sub-station championship in my hand, my mother won't say anything about me every day after my buddy goes back. ”

Looking at Qin Miao's sworn appearance, Qiu Meng shook her head a little funny: "That's all you need." ”

"Don't talk about that." Qin Miao quickly changed the topic, pinched the clothes on Qiu Meng's arm with her hand, and after making sure that the clothes this girl was wearing were thick enough, she asked, "Isn't it cold?" ”

Qiu Meng smiled and nodded: "It's not cold." ”

Qin Miao nodded slightly, and then after the technicians of his team arrived, Qin Miao asked them to adjust the front nose wing of their car to the angle of the qualifying race, and at the same time pulled Qiu Meng to watch the technicians of the team put on a new set of soft tires for their cars.

With Qin Miao's tire protection ability and the slow tire wear of this track, Qin Miao will not have to worry about tire wear even if he drives fiercely throughout the next race, and although other drivers can also use soft tires to run the whole race, not to mention whether they have so many new tires to use like Qin Miao, just the last few laps of tires entering the cliff point and the lap speed began to drop rapidly is enough for them to think about it for a while.

However, everyone is a professional driver, and the ability to protect tires is still there.

And Qin Miao looked at the Red Bull in front of his car with all four tires wrapped in a thermal blanket, and had a bold idea in his heart, maybe he really had a chance to touch the sub-station championship in this race, and the chance to surpass Verstappen was in the last few laps.

But if you want Verstappen's tyres to be out of stock for the last few laps...... I should have to give him some intensity in these laps......

Just when Qin Miao was thinking about how to follow Verstappen and give Verstappen strength while not being thrown away by the other party, Frankie came to Qin Miao's side.

Looking at the other party's sweaty head and panting frantically, Qin Miao raised his eyebrows.

Qiu Meng trotted all the way and was only a little panting, but Frankie was already sweating and panting under such temperatures.

Seeing this, Qin Miao couldn't help but teased: "If your body is so fat, sooner or later, there will be problems, if you don't know that the chair on the command platform can't bear your weight, then the chair will be directly sat through by you to see what you do, if you want me to say that you can exercise with me for a while during this time." ”

Frankie wiped the sweat from his head and said very seriously, "Now is not the time to talk about this, there is news for you that is not very good for you." ”

After hearing this, Qin Miao also put away her joking look and asked, "What news?" ”

Frankie wiped his sweat again, and said in a somewhat hesitant tone: "Toto wants you to help Hamilton suppress the two Ferraris and create an opportunity for Hamilton to challenge Verstappen in the next race." ”

Hearing the news brought by Frankie, Qin Miao was silent, and Qiu Meng's good-looking brows beside Qin Miao also wrinkled, and just as she wanted to say something, this girl's afterglow saw the official FIA staff who were filming him and Qin Miao, and she still resisted the urge to say something for Qin Miao.

Talking about this matter under the camera is not to make Qin Miao unable to get off the stage, mainly because TR is shared by all teams, and what you say in TR can also be received by other teams.

And after Ferrari receives this news, it will definitely make some moves and preparations, and then the gains will outweigh the losses.

Instead, he wanted to convey Toto's meaning, and now this way of saying it in front of Qin Miao is the most appropriate. (End of chapter)