It's not that Hamilton deliberately slowed down his pace in order to let Qin Miao catch up, although Hamilton has enough time to catch up with Verstappen and overtake, but this is a race, even Hamilton in his heyday will not be conceited that he can take first place in F1 and take Qin Miao to attack second.

Although Qin Miao did this kind of thing very secretly when he was in F2, it was only F2 after all.

Qin Miao was able to keep up with Hamilton's rhythm purely because his own strength was strong enough, plus the team just said that Qin Miao's tire failure curve was slower than expected, so Qin Miao could increase his speed a little, and at the same time, Qin Miao charged his battery for half a day after knowing that Hamilton had pitted, and it happened to be all used at this time.

Although Qin Miao doesn't seem to have any need to catch up, anyway, the front can't catch up, and the back can't catch up, just mess up in the last few laps.

But Qin Miao still has some pursuits, what if he brushes the fastest lap?

Of course, Qin Miao didn't refresh the fastest lap of the race in the end, and only followed Hamilton three laps, and was thrown off by Hamilton after the ERS power reserve ran out.

However, these three laps also allowed Qin Miao to take 0.2 seconds less time per lap than under normal driving conditions.

On lap 55, with 11 laps to go, Hamilton was a second behind Verstappen just after the Grand Straight.

With much newer tyres than Verstappen, it's no surprise that they can catch up in such a short period of time.

To be honest, when this picture appeared in front of Verstappen and Red Bull's strategy team, Red Bull's strategy team staff were all earthy, and then they were a little relieved, although the final championship position did not fall into their hands, but the second was originally the result they could finally achieve without changing their tactics.

The only thing that made them a little uncomfortable was the feeling of losing after winning the first place, and this pit stop for Mercedes was a big blow to Red Bull's morale.

If the three commentators are in a normal state, they would like to see Verstappen make a difference in this game.

The best thing to do is to snatch the title from Hamilton, as the Red Bull Racing staff thought.

After all, Hamilton and Mepen have ruled the paddock for too long, and everyone wants to see the appearance of a dragon slayer hero.

To put it simply, I want to see the strong being pulled off the horse.

But this year, the attitude of the three commentators is different, and what they used to see when they saw Meben was a very powerful team, with strong technical power, and had dominated the paddock for six years.

But now?

Mei Ben is the team that values Chinese driver Qin Miao the most in the entire paddock.

After bringing it into Qin Miao's perspective, Mei Ben is a Bole who explores his own potential and talent.

Even domestic fans who didn't have a very good impression of Mercedes-Benz in the past feel that the Mercedes-Benz logo has become clear-eyed at the moment.

So now Hamilton chased Verstappen and said: "Mercedes' pit stop strategy is really beautiful, and it directly predicts Red Bull's prediction. ”

"One step first, one step at a time."

"Mercedes' strategy team really taught Red Bull a good lesson."

"Indeed, the Red Bull strategy group still has a lot to learn."

The rest of the picture is as you can guess, with Hamilton attacking Verstappen.

Despite knowing that his tyres were in worse condition than Hamilton, Verstappen was reluctant to give up the race he already held in his hands.

Began to fiercely resist Hamilton's attack.

To put it simply, he began his own dying throes.

Hamilton naturally won't be polite to you Verstappen, and after coming to Verstappen's DRS area, they began to fight each other.

If the grappling between Qin Miao and Verstappen is a relatively restrained competition between the two drivers, although the range of action is not small, but within the scope of the rules, there is room for the other party, as long as the opponent is willing to give in, there will be no loss of time by being squeezed out of the track.

Then Hamilton's grappling with Verstappen is a real hand-to-hand fight, the kind that will break your head and bleed to the death.

Picking at the eyes and pulling the hair can no longer describe the relationship between the two, and the two sides are eager to pull each other's intestines out of their stomachs and step on their feet when they are on the field.

The struggle between the two earned enough attention from the director and the audience for a while.

But what most people didn't notice was that Qin Miao had gradually been pulled apart by the two of them to the same speed as the two of them silently, and even after another circle, after the grappling between the two entered the white heat, Qin Miao began to quickly approach the two of them.

This is mainly due to the fact that after the start of the grappling, the speed of the two was much slower than when they were driving normally.

On lap 58, despite Verstappen's best efforts, Hamilton's advantage was too great.

Being able to defend Hamilton for three laps with the tyres at a disadvantage was already the limit of what Verstappen could do.

So in the end, because Verstappen stepped on the throttle in a corner, his speed was affected, and Hamilton managed to take his championship back from Verstappen.

But before the spectators could savor the exciting battle between the two top drivers over the course of the three laps, another Mercedes came silently behind Verstappen's Red Bull.

"Qin Miao! It's Qin Miao! He's catching up, too! Fei Ge's eyes were sharp, and after the fight between the two was over, he glanced at Qin Miao's position.

Originally, he just wanted to sigh about the gap between Qin Miao and the two drivers, but after seeing Qin Miao's results, he found that Qin Miao was less than a second away from Verstappen.

【it!】 】

[Qin Miao! 】

[It's fierce, I actually saw Qin Miao start to attack Verstappen]

[Is this also in Meiben's calculations?] 】

When did he catch up?] 】

【？？？ 】

……

Just like the commentary and the audience's confusion, after Verstappen in the car was overtaken by Hamilton, before he had time to get frustrated, he suddenly found that there was another Mercedes behind him.

Verstappen had a momentary trance after seeing this Mercedes, and he had an inexplicable illusion, as if the car behind him was not the No. 66 Meiben W12 driven by Qin Miao, but No. 44.

But Qin Miao's red helmet was so dazzling in Verstappen's eyes.

This is the damn wall of sighs.

If it weren't for Qin Miao's few laps in front of him, Hamilton at this time would definitely not catch up with Verstappen so quickly, and there would still be suspense in the follow-up of the game.

What puzzled Verstappen was why the wall of sighs he had worked so hard to climb suddenly turned on the offensive and pressed directly towards him.

However, Qin Miao would not give Verstappen more time to think about the reason.

As soon as the skill was up, Qin Miao began to put pressure on Verstappen.

On the fifty-ninth lap T7 and T8 just came out of the corner, in this kind of corner that is not suitable for overtaking at all, Qin Miao began to tap on the inside line, constantly putting pressure on Verstappen.

As soon as Qin Miao put a little pressure, Verstappen's pressure increased by 1%.

Qin Miao remembered that Verstappen's pressure level did not rise so fast in the past, and if nothing else, Hamilton's overtaking brought a certain amount of psychological pressure to Verstappen, so he seemed a little unstable at this time.

It didn't take much time, Qin Miao completed the overtake of Verstappen on the 61st lap two laps later, relying on DRS on the starting straight.

In fact, when Qin Miao came out of the corner, he still took the tire protection route, but after the corner, Qin Miao had DRS and ERS that had not been used at all.

And Verstappen's side has just ended the fight with Hamilton, and the tires themselves are a little overheated and worn, and the ERS power has long been used up in the process of fighting, and there is not much Verstappen can do at this time.

That is, just like Qin Miao defended him, he began to draw dragons in a small area on the strong side of the driving line.

And Qin Miao didn't suck Verstappen's wake after discovering his movements, Qin Miao's own relative speed was faster than Verstappen's, just pull it up in a straight line.

And Verstappen didn't make too many moves after discovering Qin Miao's intentions, the relative speed gap between the two sides was a bit big, and in the face of absolute speed, the help that skills could provide was almost nothing.

In the end, Qin Miao didn't use up half of the ERS's power, and he had already surpassed Verstappen before the braking point of T1.

Looking at the tail lights in front of his car, which he was used to, Verstappen knew that he probably wouldn't be able to sleep well after the end of this race, and what he dreamed of in his dreams was probably the tail lights of Qin Miao's Meiben in front of him.

In fact, Verstappen's driving problems cannot be blamed for this race, mainly because Red Bull's strategy team chose to be safe.

If Verstappen also followed Hamilton into the pit stop and changed to a set of medium tyres that had only run two or three laps, then he could have fallen to second place at worst after turning over Qin Miao.

And with this set of neutral tires that surpassed Qin Miao, defended Hamilton three laps, and the grip had reached the limit, all Verstappen could do was watch Qin Miao gradually widen the distance between him.

Suddenly, Verstappen asked in the TR, "How long has Qin's pair of neutral tires been used?" Why is he still so gripping now? ”

Verstappen's question stunned his track engineer, and then he looked up at the FIA's display showing the status and speed of all the drivers, and the number behind Qin Miao's yellow medium tyre made his brow skip a brow: 53 laps.

If he was chatting on the Internet, then after seeing Qin Miao's tire use laps, he would definitely send out a lot of question marks to express his doubts, shock, incomprehension, and confusion.

No, your Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is strong, and I can accept that you can run more than 50 laps with neutral tires, but why do you still have grip after running for so long? And the grip is stronger than Verstappen's?

Why?

This is not scientific!

Could it be that Qin Miao used not a neutral tire at all, but a hard tire, but the outer ring was painted yellow?

Soon, Verstappen and the team's TR were released, and everyone found out that Qin Miao had not made another pit stop since Tsunoda retired.

The three commentators also talked about it.

"That's not right, why did Qin Miao's set of neutral tires run for so long?"

"I think he just went into the pits once when Tsunoda quit and didn't go back to the whole race after that, right?"

"When did Pirelli's tyres become so durable?"

[Appeared, Pirelli Special]

[Pirelli really has to give Qin Miao a knock, right? ] What a great promotional material.]

【True Pirelli】

[Strict inspection! 】

[Outrageous, neutral tires run as hard tires, the key is that you can overtake after running for so long]

[You young people are just making a fuss, you know after watching Qin Miao's race in F2 that Qin Miao's ability to protect tires has always been outrageous]

……

Outside the field, he was amazed by the durability of Qin Miao's tires.

And Qin Miao also had a bit of a headache at this time, because Verstappen had been launching a tentative attack on himself.

Although Qin Miao took advantage of the excessive wear and tear of Verstappen's tires and the high temperature, the timing of the ERS running out of power surpassed him.

But Verstappen is, after all, a talented driver who can compete with Hamilton in the Mars rover in a Red Bull.

After the tyre temperature cooled down and the ERS was charged twice, Verstappen naturally fought for his second position.

However, the good news is that Verstappen's tire condition is much worse than Qin Miao's tire condition.

Even with the blessing of the Honda engine, the limit of what Verstappen can do is to keep up with Qin Miao and pull his head in the DRS zone from time to time.

However, due to tire wear, Verstappen's grip was not enough, and he often had to brake early to prevent his tires from locking up or not braking in time.

In the face of Verstappen's approach, Qin Miao couldn't judge for a while, whether he really wanted to attack or put pressure on himself.

So it's a little more stressful.

However, the end result was good, and after two laps, Verstappen's tyres were completely out of order and he went to the cliff point.

The lap speed began to drop rapidly, basically 1 second slower than Qin Miao per lap, and this exhaustion speed was still increasing rapidly.

Of course, with less than three laps to go, fourth-placed Leclerc is 22 seconds away from Verstappen, and even if the tyres get into the cliff point, Verstappen won't have to worry about losing his position.

However, the second with the drill in hand became the third, and I believe that Verstappen and Red Bull will not be in a good mood.

The two Mercedes drivers pulled away for more than four seconds on the final lap, and there was no need to guess what the final outcome of the race would be.

Before the two drivers crossed the line one after the other, the live camera did not show the staff of the Mercedes team who were hanging on the guardrail and ready to cheer wildly at the two drivers, but to Toto in the P room of the Mercedes team. (End of chapter)