241: Hell starts
The drivers of the second group came up at the first time, and Ocon even appeared directly in the second position.
The race team showed the yellow flag immediately after the collision, and then the yellow flag was transformed into a safety car, which was transformed into a red flag before Melander had even completed a lap on the track.
At this point, the T1 on the track was full of carbon fiber shards, but if the tires of other drivers drove past the T1, it was a different accident.
Considering that there is no problem with the red flag being dispatched here.
And interestingly, this race, like Silverstone in the previous game, also sent out the red flag before the first lap was finished.
The red flag also gave other drivers a chance to breathe, and almost all drivers who were damaged needed to assess whether the car still had the possibility of repairs and whether they needed to retire.
Qin Miao is also one of them.
After being created, Qin Miao was a little bored.
It's not that he has such negative emotions because after he was hit, the system task of [the father-in-law of the logistics department] could not be completed at all.
The reason for his frustration was that he had lost too much of his position after being hit, and the Hungaroring track was not easy to overtake, and it was still raining...... Hamilton's position has not changed at all, and if nothing else, he will have to say goodbye to himself at the top of the table in this game.
Of course, it's better for his team-mates to snatch back the top spot than for Verstappen to take that position.
After Qin Miao returned to the maintenance area, he found that he had directly dropped seven positions and came to the eleventh.
In front is old rival Mick Schumacher, and in the back is Gasly of Little Red Bull.
This is also an inverted egg, starting fifth, and now it has fallen to twelfth, also down seven positions......
Hiss!
In this way, it seems that he is also an unlucky egg.
As for Leclerc, who collided with him, he retired directly after returning to the pit lane.
Ferrari's idea was very simple, after seeing the car, I felt that the damage to Leclerc's car was too great, not to mention that the car was broken, and the rear suspension seemed to be a little loose, and the scene could not be repaired at all.
So instead of wasting the life of the engine and racing car parts, it is better to just quit the race.
At the same time, Stroll, the initiator of the second accident, also chose to retire from the race, for the same reason as Leclerc, although his 4 suspensions were fine, but the side collided with Leclerc, and the windbreaker on its side was directly shattered, and the carriage was also sunken down a large piece, which was also an injury that could not be repaired.
And at the same time, the unlucky Norris also retired, and after two collisions, Norris's car also had no need to be rescued, and it was already the limit to be able to insist on driving back to the pit lane.
In addition, although Verstappen insisted on running back, the car was extremely badly damaged, and the right side of the car that collided was knocked off like Leclerc, leaving only a frame-like thing that Qin Miao had sat on standing there alone.
This is also an injury that can be withdrawn directly, but Red Bull did not choose to retire Verstappen.
After all, Red Bull is preparing to compete for the title with Mei Ben this season.
The constructors' champion Because of Qin Miao's existence, Red Bull has no idea, but Verstappen, the drivers' champion, can still try, after all, Verstappen's points have not been completely thrown away by Hamilton and Qin Miao at this time.
And this year's Mei Ben happens to have such an anti-backbone boy as Qin Miao, who thinks about usurping the throne and replacing Hamilton at every turn.
I don't know how long I have to wait for such a great opportunity, so although Verstappen's car seemed to have no need to be rescued at a glance, Red Bull still did not give up, and during the red flag, no one in the Red Bull Racing team even bothered with Pérez, and hurried to Verstappen's car with equipment, and began emergency repairs after surrounding Verstappen's car.
Glue, glue, carbon fibre plates, whatever works is to restore the competitiveness of Verstappen as much as possible.
Although Verstappen has completely lost the possibility of competing with Hamilton for the championship in this race, the foundation of Red Bull Racing is here, although it has been created a little, and there is a lack of a windbreaker on one side, but the speed is still guaranteed, and it may not be impossible to get points after a simple rescue.
Red Bull began to repair Verstappen's car on the principle that a few points are a few points, and a point is a point if they are pulled away by Hamilton.
The only thing that comforted Red Bull was that at this moment, there was also a group of people around Qin Miao's car who were rushing to repair Qin Miao's car.
Now for Qin Miao, the question is what is Reyes's evaluation of their car, and after the evaluation results come out, this period of time in the red flag can restore the downforce of their car on weekdays.
Of course, from another point of view, the red flag was also good news.
Because Qin Miao had just radioed the meteorological department of the convoy, they said that the rain would gradually decrease or even stop after half an hour.
And when the rain stopped, it was not long after the red flag ended, which was about the time when the drivers went to the track for a lap or two, so Qin Miao could look forward to changing to neutral tires when the race started.
Soon, Reyes came over with a sweat.
Qin Miao looked at Reyes a little nervously and asked, "How's the situation?" ”
The expression on Reyes' face was very serious: "Not optimistic. ”
Qin Miao's heart was really cold after hearing Reyes's words.
However, before Qin Miao could ask, Reyes continued to add: "We have only recovered about eighty percent of the mechanical grip in the rear, and you will still have a difficult run in this race." ”
Qin Miao was still a little nervous, but after hearing Reyes's words, he breathed a sigh of relief, the loss of mechanical grip in the rear was not fatal to Qin Miao.
At least they can still run, unlike Pereznorris who just quit the race.
Despite the fact that the loss of 20 per cent of downforce on a track that is difficult to overtake is quite devastating.
"Okay, I see, thank you guys." Qin Miao reached out and patted Reyes on the shoulder, and then ignored the light rain that was still falling at this time, and began to check whether there were other injuries on his car around his car.
Then he reached out and touched his racing car, and under the skill of integrating people and vehicles, Qin Miao really only felt that there was something strange in the back of the car.
After making sure that his car was fine, Qin Miao turned around and went to the P room of the team.
The main reason is that it is still raining lightly on the track at this time, and in order to better compete in condition, it is impossible for Qin Miao to stand in the rain for a long time.
After coming to the P room of the team, Qin Miao looked at the replay of the bumper car just now.
Qin Miao fully saw what was happening on the track, that is, it was the rain that made trouble, and Pérez also underestimated the power of the downhill at the T1 braking point.
But if Qin Miao is asked to judge this accident from the perspective of a race officer, then Qin Miao will decide that this is just an ordinary track accident, and basically will not deduct Perez's super driver's license points, and may not even have to go to the small black house in the future.
During the period when the red flag ended, Qin Miao didn't go out of the P room of the team, moved a stool, and Qin Miao sat directly beside Toto openly, bowed his head and played with his mobile phone.
Qin Miao didn't use his phone to read messages or reply to other emails or anything like that, he really just picked up his phone and started playing Genshin Impact.
Toto also saw it, but he didn't say anything at all, as if he didn't see Qin Miao fishing in the open.
But whether it should be said or not, Qin Miao's performance on the field just now was really not very good, although he was hit, it is an indisputable fact that he lost a lot of positions.
And even if Qin Miao made a mistake in advance, he dared to fish in front of the boss, and he could indeed boast of being bold.
The order of drivers in the pits is as follows:
1: Hamilton
2: Ocon
3: Sebastian Vettel
4: Sainz
5: Tsunoda
6: Latifi
7: Alonso
8: Russell
9:KIMI
10: Mick
11: Qin Miao
12: Gasly
13: Ricardo
14: Verstappen
15: Ma Zeping
16: Giovinaz
To be honest, the opinions of those who are now paying attention to Qin Miao are divided into two factions, one group of people thinks that Qin Miao's game is over, and the first place in the standings cannot be kept.
The reason for this faction is also very good, Qin Miao's performance in the rain battle from F2 to F1 has not been as good as he is in the dry state, and this view has been recognized by many people for a while.
On the other hand, Qin Miao's brilliant performance on the Monaco track, which is more difficult to overtake than Hengaroring, believes that Qin Miao still has a chance to turn the tide in this race.
Even if Hamilton is willing to press the car, Qin Miao may even finish in the top three in the end.
You must know that this track is a lot easier to press than Silverstone in the previous race.
However, no matter how noisy the audience was, it couldn't affect Qin Miao at this time.
Twenty minutes later, Qin Miao got the good news from the meteorological department, the rain was light, and the sun might come out on the track in a while.
There were still five minutes before the end of the red flag, Qin Miao said hello to Toto and then walked out of the P room and went to the side of his racing car.
After putting on the equipment again, Qin Miao entered his car again.
At this time, the rain has completely stopped, and the sun has begun to appear, but the track at this time is still wet and slippery, and it is estimated that you will still have to use semi-wet tires for the first few laps of the race, but I believe that you will soon be able to change to dry tires.
Soon, while all the drivers were getting ready, the live broadcast footage was given to Verstappen.
Viewers can see through the broadcast footage of the live that the entire structure of the Verstappen car on the right side of the car is directly gone.
The protruding and destroyed connections were also wrapped in metallic rubbers by the Red Bull crew.
This effectively reduces the wind resistance caused by burrs on the surface of the broken carbon fiber.
As for the hole in the side box, it is relatively easy to repair.
Every team has one or two sets of spare parts for their car, and the side box of an F1 car can actually be seen as the front hood of a commercial car.
Naturally, there are spare parts for this thing, so Red Bull directly replaced Verstappen with a new side lid.
As for the Aero Wing, this thing is one with the chassis of the racing car.
Although Red Bull also has spare parts for the baseplate, it is particularly troublesome to want to replace it with a new one.
Everything on the car had to be removed from the old base plate and put on top of the new one, and half an hour during the red flag would definitely not have been able to complete such a complex workload.
Even if Red Bull's technicians are born with divine powers, all of them are little Saiyans who can complete the replacement of the base plate in half an hour, Red Bull will not do this.
Because of doing this on the track, the engineers of 10 teams in the paddock, 11 teams, will come to watch the dismantling and repair process of your Red Bull car, the kind that can't be stopped.
The result, of course, was the internal structure and construction of the Red Bull car, which was all taken over by other teams for study.
A less shameless team might even be able to directly replicate the overall construction of Red Bull Racing.
After all, except for the stronger teams such as Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren, the bottom-of-the-line teams such as Haas Arrow and Williams have nowhere to copy.
And after surpassing you Red Bull, you can directly go up several rankings, why not?
So Red Bull's fix for Verstappen is the best fix they can imagine at the moment.
One thing to say, the side of the restored car looks much more pleasing to the eye than when the wind breaker was still there, and it has a simple and clean beauty.
But seriously, after Qin Miao saw the appearance of Verstappen's car in the broadcast screen, he felt that his race should be as ruined as his teammate Pérez.
The reason why they are still on the field may just be that Red Bull wants to see if Verstappen's speed is enough, and if he can, he can take a point.
One more point in this game, the gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao and Hamilton will be narrowed by one point in the next game
The red flag counts down to 1 minute.
Qin Miao habitually checked the equipment on his body, and at the same time checked the system of the racing car, Reyes would also help Qin Miao confirm that there was anything missing in Qin Miao's racing car.
After confirming that there was no problem, Qin Miao's crew members also took off the warm-up blankets on Qin Miao's half-rain tires and withdrew to both sides of the track.
The one-minute countdown was over, and Hamilton took the lead in the safety car.
Although the rain has stopped and the sun has come out, the track is still wet, so basically all the riders are on semi-wet tyres.
However, after Qin Miao got on the track, he found that the rest of the track had dried up a lot, and it was in a semi-dry and half-wet state.
And when it came to the lap, Russell said, "If you go like this, everybody will pit and change tires." ”
At this time, Qin Miao also said to Frankie in his TR: "The track is doing very fast, I think I can pit and change to neutral tires." (End of chapter)