However, it is not once or twice that the engine power is limited during the Mercedes practice session.

So most fans who know Mei Ben's urine sex will not worry too much about this.

Of course, there are no surprises in the world, and it is inevitable that although the audience who knows that Mercedes likes to limit the engine power during practice matches and hide his truest side, they are still worried about the results of Mercedes.

Since they were worried, they needed to have an outlet to vent, so these people chatted on Mei Ben's social media.

As for their worries on social media, Meiben's external propaganda staff, who have skilled and rich experience in dealing with them, quickly calmed them down.

At the end of the second practice, Qin Miao drove his car back to weigh it, and during the waiting time, Hamilton came to Qin Miao's side.

After shaking hands with each other and hugging each other, Hamilton took off his helmet and asked, "How does it feel to practice one or two?" ”

Qin Miao thought for a while: "It's not bad, I have tested and adjusted all the data tested on the factory simulator, and now the car basically meets all the expectations in the main race stage, the only problem is that I am worried that my engine will have problems in the main race stage, and everything else is fine." ”

Hamilton frowned after hearing Qin Miao's words, and then lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if you have tested with all your strength, but I ran with all my strength before the end of the second practice, but the results were not ideal." ”

Qin Miao was a little surprised: "Has the engine been adjusted?" ”

The meaning of this sentence is to ask Hamilton if there is a limit to the power of the engine.

Hamilton shook his head.

After listening to this, Qin Miao was also a little dignified, and the design philosophy of Mei Benli Big Brick Flying seemed to have encountered a situation that was not adapted to the soil and water on this track.

"I'll test it out tomorrow when I practice three times to see how it goes."

Hamilton nodded worriedly.

The two drivers chatted and then went back to room P.

Putting down their equipment, Qin Miao and Hamilton went to the interview area together.

When they were on the road, the two of them were still looking for classmates to answer the answers when they were studying, and they were adjusting their parameters to each other.

This year's two Mercedes drivers have the same driving habits and style, that is, they both like understeer cars, so there is little difference between the two tuning settings, and if necessary, the tuning settings between the two can be used as references for each other.

Comparing the tuning data with each other and talking about their own intentions in this tuning can generally make the other party better understand the tuning window of the Meiben car on this track.

In the post-match interview session, the FIA reporter who has a good relationship with Mei Ben was responsible for interviewing Qin Miao.

Since they are acquaintances, the questions asked will naturally not be too tricky, and the reporter will not deliberately embarrass Qin Miao by asking some questions about the team's secrets that Qin Miao is not easy to answer.

The interview session was quite comfortable.

However, Qin Miao's work today does not end there, he will be very busy as long as it is a competition week, such as helping some self-media people to write autographs for their fans, and some photos and photo albums taken by some more famous photographers in the paddock.

These works that can invisibly increase Qin Miao's influence are exactly what Qin Miao needs to do most at this stage.

And Qin Miao was busy in the paddock until more than seven o'clock in the evening, and after a meal at the team home in Meiben, Qin Miao returned to the hotel.

Qin Miao, who was tired for a day, was in no mood to do anything else after returning to the hotel, so after taking a shower, she hugged her daughter-in-law's fragrant and soft body and fell asleep.

The next day, after getting up and washing, Qin Miao went down with a bottle of health care medicine.

The whole person was instantly refreshed.

After a simple physical training, Qin Miao came to the paddock, and there was a qualifying match today, so Qiu Meng also came.

However, she didn't follow Qin Miao to the team's P room this time, but watched the game in the VIP area upstairs.

On the team's side, there was a tense mood in the team before the third practice.

The three exercises really began, and after Qin Miao's qualifying simulation was finished, the tense mood in the team became even more serious.

Although Qin Miao came to the first place directly after the qualifying simulation, Qin Miao's results were slower than the fastest lap of Verstappen in the second practice stage yesterday.

Moreover, when Qin Miao ran this lap, the engine was not in a restricted state, that is to say, if Qin Miao really started to run the qualifying, his score would be at most 0.2 seconds faster than his current time.

But just as Mercedes likes to hide their strengths, Red Bull may not be hiding things, and everyone knows that the drivers will not use their full strength for safety reasons.

After all, this is a street race, and if you push the limit and hit the car, this race will be half wasted.

There is no guarantee that if you crash today, you will be able to fix the car tomorrow during the race.

No team would risk their race points.

After receiving the bad news, Toto and Director of Strategy James Vincent discussed and agreed to adopt a trailer strategy in qualifying.

Not to mention Q1Q2, with the strength of Mercedes, they may not be able to outperform their biggest rival Red Bull on this track, but it is still no problem to outperform other teams.

However, after Q3, the team arranged towing tactics for the two drivers.

Originally, they could also suck the wake of other drivers, but the success rate of sucking the wake of other drivers is relatively low, not to mention, it is not controllable, and considering that Qin Miao still has four sets of new soft tire reserves, the team decided to let the two drivers pull each other's tails after thinking about it.

Once the decision was made, the team began to work out the timing of the qualifying stage for the two drivers to qualify.

In the Q3 stage, Qin Miao first pulled Hamilton's wake, and then Qin Miao returned to the garage and flew a flight circle with a teammate's wake with a new set of soft tires.

It's just that before the qualifying session began, no one could have expected so many accidents on the race track today.

Q1: There's no need to pull the tail.

In Q1, Stroll got everyone off to a good start when he got out of the corner at T15 and broke the right front suspension of his car, triggering a red flag.

But Stroll crashed very early, and Qin Miao had just been released at that time.

It's just a pity that this set of new soft tires on Qin Miao's racing car, although this set of tires has only run for less than a lap, but the grip is definitely not as strong as the new soft tires when running qualifying with this set of tires.

After waiting in room P for fifteen minutes, the red flag was canceled, and Qin Miao was released by the convoy again.

However, because of Stroll's crash, the race time was much less, so for safety reasons, most of the teams released their own team drivers as soon as possible.

However, Mei Ben still went his own way, and when the other drivers came to T7, Qin Miao and Hamilton drove onto the track.

After all, it was Q1, and Qin Miao and the team did not have the idea of going all out.

So Qin Miao used the soft tires that had run a lap.

As I said earlier, this set of tires is slower, it's not that it can't be used, and with this set of tires, you don't have to worry about running out of the results that will make Qin Miao unable to enter Q2.

But the unfortunate thing came again, the first flight lap of Q1 was about to be completed, the finish line was within reach, and Qin Miao's car was less than 500 meters away from the finish line.

And Qin Miao's results are green in the first time period, purple in the second time period, and there are no obvious mistakes in the third time period.

There was another red flag on the track, and when the camera looked over, it was seen that Giovinaz had also hit the car in the exact same place as Stroll's crash just now, and even the angle and position of the damage were very similar to Stroll's.

Street racing, crashing is 100 percent red flags, regardless of whether the track is wider than Monaco or not.

Qin Miao was quite happy after crossing the line, but when he heard the TR coming: "Qin Miao, although I'm sorry, I still have to inform you, because there was a red flag in the second time session, our results for this lap are invalid." After that, Qin Miao began to curse in the helmet.

The most important thing is that Qin Miao's soft tire results were directly scrapped without running out.

Although he can still run on the track, but with the soft tires after running two exit laps and one flight lap, Rao is Qin Miao can't 100% guarantee that he can use this set of tires to enter Q2.

So Qin Miao didn't hesitate much, and drove the second set of soft tires in the Q1 stage.

In fact, Qin Miao's situation is much better than that of other drivers, because of Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, so after three practice races, Qin Miao will always have one or two more sets of soft tires left.

This is not the team deliberately helping Qin Miao save tires, mainly because other people can only measure the data of four sets of tires, Qin Miao often only needs three sets of tires to complete the task.

Even the title of the tire protection master in the paddock has faintly shown signs of being transferred from Perez's head to Qin Miao's head.

Since you can keep an extra set, then the team will naturally not deliberately use it, and it is good to keep an extra set of tires to prevent accidents.

At this time, someone is going to say, didn't Toto look at Qin Miao's provincial tires in the past also let Qin Miao run a new set of soft tires in the Q3 stage?

But you must know that it was Q3 in qualifying at that time, and Qin Miao not only had one more set of soft tire reserves, he had two more sets of tire reserves.

With so many tires, it is basically impossible to use them up in the race, so Toto asked Qin Miao to go up and use up the tires.

So now Qin Miao still has sufficient tire reserves, while other drivers are different, some have even driven their second set of soft tires and have not yet made effective results.

In short, although there was a brief yellow flag in the first time section in the second half of Q1, fortunately, there was no red flag on the track to interrupt the race, and Qin Miao also relied on the new soft tires to run to the fourth place familiar with his friend Leclerc's 10 points in the last two flight laps of Q1.

"Hey, Qin Miao performed well in Q1 today." It was rare to see Qin Miao in the top five of the Q1 rankings, and Fei Ge couldn't help but praise it.

Brother Bing also nodded: "This is mainly because Qin Miao's first set of soft tires had no grip during the two red flags in Q2, and then he changed to the second set of soft tires to run the last flight lap of Q1, so there will be such good results." ”

Zhou Haoran said: "I feel that Qin Miao should be hiding something this lap, it is possible that Mei Ben can't run Red Bull on this track, but it's not normal to run Ferrari in Q1." ”

……

Rebuild the car in the team's P room, refuel, change the tires, and change the engine oil.

After these things are almost taken care of, Q2 begins.

At the beginning, Qin Miao still drove a new set of soft tires according to his habits and ran the first flight lap of his Q2.

If you are rich, you are arrogant.

Qin Miao's results in this flight lap are okay, because he came out early, so he once ranked first after crossing the line, but as the drivers of other teams also completed their first flight lap in Q1 one after another, Qin Miao's position continued to decline, and finally ranked sixth.

In any case, Qin Miao's result was enough for him to advance to Q3, after all, his result was 0.3 seconds faster than the team's expected Q3 cut-off line.

After the maintenance of the P room was completed, Qin Miao was released by the team when there were two minutes and fifteen seconds before the Q2 stoppage.

In the team's calculations, Qin Miao's warm tires plus this section out of the pit lane, and in the end, Qin Miao should have 19 seconds to stop the watch when he crosses the line.

The margin left is indeed a bit small, after all, it is already Q2 at this time, there are not so many cars on the track, and it is unlikely that there will be traffic problems.

However, just when Qin Miao changed into the old tires and was ready to complete the last flight lap of his Q2 with a relaxed attitude, a red flag appeared on the track again.

When the camera cuts over, a McLaren is seen hitting his head against the parapet.

The place of this crash was finally not in T15, but in the right-angle bend of T3.

Through the replay, it can be seen that the accident was McLaren's driver Ricciardo, and the reason for the problem is that the left front wheel was locked when Ricardo entered the corner, because the front wheel lost its grip, so the car also lost its ability to steer, and Ricciardo entered the corner too fast, so he crashed into the wall of T3.

Well, there was only one and a half minutes left until the end of Q2, and the other drivers didn't have to run, because a minute and a half after the race restarted was not enough for them to go around and start their own lap.

Therefore, the Q2 result is the final result of all the drivers running on the first flight lap of Q2.

Qin Miao was stuck in the sixth position and advanced without any danger.

Q3, Qin Miao still has two sets of new soft tires, at this stage Qin Miao will only drive one set of soft tires if he can, and the other set of soft tires will be left in the main race for standby.

But today's race is special, Qin Miao needs to help Hamilton pull the wake, so Qin Miao and the team want to use these two sets of tires, anyway, with Qin Miao's tire protection ability, it is unlikely that there will be a red, yellow and red pit stop strategy on the field.

As for the safety car on the track or something...... Anyway, Qin Miao still has a few sets of used soft tires, and when the time comes, you can use these tires for emergencies.

After deciding Qin Miao's next pit stop strategy, the team released Qin Miao and Hamilton.

Because in the first lap, Qin Miao pulled Hamilton's wake, so on the track, Qin Miao came out of the pit lane first, and Hamilton came out later.

However, I don't know if it was a coincidence or if Ferrari did it on purpose, and when May released the car, two Ferrari drivers also drove out of the pits.

Sainz happened to be stuck between Qin Miao and Hamilton.

However, it turned out to be a coincidence, as Ferrari gave Hamilton out of the pits and onto the track.

Qin Miao and Hamilton ran two warm-up laps before they began to pull their wake normally.

After getting out of the T16, Qin Miao took the lead out of the corner and started his own flying circle, and then Hamilton started slowly Qin Miao by 3 seconds.

According to the team's calculations, such a time gap is just enough for Hamilton to eat Qin Miao's wake on the straight, but not for Hamilton to eat the turbulence of Qin Miao's car when he is in the corner.

It is worth mentioning that the two Ferraris came behind Hamilton just when Qin Miao and them ran the second warm-up lap and ate Hamilton's wake.

So Ferrari's Leclerc was in first place after the first lap of Q3, even 0.3 seconds faster than Verstappen.

However, neither Qin Miao nor Mei Ben cared too much, after all, everyone knew that Q3 still had a chance to fly in the circle, and sooner or later Leclerc could be squeezed down.

In the end, Mepen's trailer tactics worked, but only halfway there.

Because the gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton was a little too big, although Hamilton ate the wake pulled by Qin Miao in the final big straight, he didn't eat much, and the effect was also limited, so in the end, when the first flight lap of Q3 was finished, Hamilton was only 0.2 seconds behind Leclerc, ranking second.

And Qin Miao is ranked sixth, ahead of Perez and behind Norris.

There will be a period of rest and adjustment between the two flight laps in Q3 of qualifying, and the two drivers of Little Red Bull did not come out to join in the fun when the other teams started to run the first flight lap in Q1 due to the problem of tire reserves, but waited for the window period after the other teams finished running.

The biggest advantage of this time period is that there are only two cars on the track, and there are no traffic problems.

The sponsors are also happy to see this picture, after all, there are only two cars of Little Red Bull on the track at this time, who else can the live director shoot if he doesn't hold the camera to shoot at them?

And at this time, Gasly suddenly stood up.

Because after he ran the first flight lap, his first time lap actually went purple, and even if he didn't continue to paint purple in the second time lap, his overall speed would be 0.02 seconds faster than Leclerc, who is currently in first place.

Although the third time period did not catch the wake of the other teams like Leclerc, Gasly was still in fourth place after crossing the line.

Qin Miao's original ranking of the sixth place dropped one place to seventh due to Gasly's rise.

Oda also moved up one spot, overtaking Alonso from 10th to ninth.

Once the two Red Bull drivers had completed their own laps, it was time for the other teams to release their drivers for the final lap.

On Mei Ben's side, Qin Miao changed into his last set of new soft tires, and Hamilton was going to come out before Qin Miao.

Hamilton didn't play any tricks, and before qualifying began, he said that he would pull each other's wake in Q3, so he wouldn't break his promise.

Originally, domestic fans were a little unconvinced when they saw Qin Miao pulling Hamilton's wake, after all, no matter how you look at it, Hamilton is relying on the old man to bully Qin Miao.

If Qin Miao's results in the first flight lap are better, then domestic fans will not say anything, because if it has no impact on the results, it basically belongs to the category of hands-on work for Qin Miao, and there is nothing inappropriate to help.

But now that Qin Miao is about to fall to the eighth, can they not be in a hurry?

Fortunately, as the race progressed, they found that Hamilton actually pulled up the wake for Qin Miao, so the fans also relaxed a lot.

And I was looking forward to Qin Miao's final results.

With 24 seconds left before the end of the race, Hamilton and Qin Miao crossed the finish line one after the other and started their last flying lap of the race.

Sometimes the unexpected comes so unexpectedly.

Qin Miao's last flight lap had just passed T4, and a yellow flag suddenly appeared in the first time session.

When the camera cuts over, I saw that a little Red Bull was created on the parapet wall of T3.

With the appearance of this scene, the yellow flag on the track was instantly transformed into a red flag.

All the commentators who were commenting on the game exclaimed.

"Oops! Tsunoda! Red flags! ”

At the same time, Sainz, who was following Tsunoda, had no choice but to rush into the buffer zone on the side of the track after Tsunoda hit his head against the parapet wall, because the exit angle was blocked by Tsunoda's car.

Fortunately, the car was not damaged and drove out of the buffer zone without any problems.

The drama ensued, with just over 20 seconds left before the end of the race, and there was no way for the other riders to complete the last lap of Q3.

In other words, the Q3 stage of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, just like the previous Monaco, ended directly after a flight lap.

And Leclerc once again picked up a pole position for nothing, as he did in qualifying in Monaco.

The commentators were surprised and saw Qin Miao's ranking again, and then began to frown one by one.

Because Qin Miao's position means that he has to start from the rear like Monaco.

Although Qin Miao's performance in Monaco was very amazing, his overtaking show in Monaco was unique in the history of F1, Qin Miao's starting position in this race was not as bad as Monaco, and the difficulty of overtaking was not as difficult as Monaco.

can be a fan of Qin Miao, whether it is a domestic commentator or an audience, they sincerely hope that Qin Miao can start in front.

In the game, whether Qin Miao can gradually overtake him like he did in the last game is another matter, at least when Qin Miao starts in the front row, they will feel a lot more stable when they watch the game.

But it backfired, Qin Miao did not finish the second flight lap of Q3 again, and it can only be regarded as a guaranteed result.

Soon, the director gave a replay of the cause of the accident in Tsunoda.

Coincidentally, the place where Tsunoda had an accident happened to be the same place where Ricardo's accident took place.

Both men even locked their tires in the same position, and both locked their left front wheel.

Even on the parapet at that location, you can see the traces of Ricardo's impact. (End of chapter)