242: Formula One World Grand Prix
Frankie replied: "Roger, this lap pits, but I think soft tyres would be a good option if you want to chase more positions."
With your ability to keep the tyres, the soft tyres should be able to hold up for a few more laps on the track. ”
Qin Miao thought about the characteristics of this track, it was difficult to overtake, and the soft tires couldn't last too long, but if he delayed too much time behind a driver, his race would basically be ruined, so he still shook his head and said, "Just the neutral tires, I still have a new set." ”
"Roger."
When Qin Miao had just finished talking to the team, it was almost when Hamilton, who was in first place, came to the entrance of the pit lane.
It is not known how Hamilton and his track engineers communicated, but Hamilton did not choose to make a pit stop after coming to the pit entrance.
The other drivers, as Russell had just said, felt that they were ready to pit for dry tyres after the lap.
So the audience can see that except for Hamilton who passed by the pit lane entrance alone and did not enter, all the drivers behind him, including Qin Miao, entered the pit lane.
When the camera turned to the starting grid, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV saw such a famous painting of the century.
There were only two cars in the normally stuffed grid, a Mercedes parked at pole position with half-rain tires, and a red Mercedes medical vehicle far behind him.
Seriously, when Qin Miao returned home to watch the replay of this game after the game, he really felt a sense of sadness in this picture.
I just don't know what kind of psychological state Hamilton was like after parking his car and finding that all the drivers behind him, including his teammates, had made a pit stop, and he was the only one who started on the grid.
But the famous scene and the chaos that took place at the start were enough to put the race in F1 history.
One game, two famous scenes, Qin Miao, as one of the witnesses, is honest, and the sense of participation is directly full.
Soon, five red lights went out and Hamilton started on the grid alone.
Without comparison, naturally there is no gap, and I don't know if Hamilton will be in poor shape this time because of the environment.
The rest of the drivers only started out of the pit lane at this time.
It is worth mentioning that because Williams' pit lane is at the exit position, after Russell has changed his tires, there is no place for him to cut into the pit lane at the exit position of the track.
And this little clever ghost did not choose to honestly wait for the traffic to let go from the position where he came out after changing the tires before inserting it, but walked directly along the outside of the pit lane and came to the position next to Aokang.
By the time Hamilton got started, Russell was noticeably faster than Ocon.
So when the left side of the rankings came out, Russell, a little clever ghost, rose directly from eighth to second.
Seriously, after knowing Russell's operation through the team TR, Qin Miao wondered, why Meiben was not the team's penultimate last season, if Meiben was the team's penultimate last season, this advantage should be taken by himself.
But soon, Frankie said calmly: "This guy will have to return this position sooner or later." ”
Hearing this, Qin Miao's heart was balanced.
Let's go here first.
During the pit stop, Russell moved up six positions.
And his teammate Latifi is not as bold as Russell, but he just relied on Williams to be in a better position in such an environment, and honestly chose to cut the team, and also moved forward two positions to fifth.
Qin Miao didn't take advantage of this kind of small advantage when he was released, and as far as the location of room P at the entrance of the Meiben maintenance area was concerned, he couldn't take advantage of it if he wanted to, so he was squeezed from the eleventh to the twelfth, and Ricardo was squeezed to the tenth.
The chaos and change of position was no less than the bumper car at the start.
Although Hamilton opened up a long distance from the car behind him after the start, the time it took to make a pit stop at the start was not the same as it was during the race.
And on the track at this time, Hamilton's half-wet tyres were not as fast as the dry tyres of the car behind.
The difference between the two tires is at least two seconds per lap.
The commentators were frantically discussing where Hamilton would end up after his pit stop.
They didn't even notice that Qin Miao, who they were most concerned about, overtook Mick in front of him when he was in T2.
It is the so-called eating and sleeping super Mick.
This overtaking was more unpretentious.
When passing T2, Qin Miao put pressure on Mick on the inside, and there were obvious signs of late braking after the tap.
And Mick didn't know what to think, after seeing Qin Miao take the offensive line of the inside line, he didn't defend, but went to the outside line to prepare to take a wider line to try to overtake Qin Miao in a wave of crossing lines.
And after Qin Miao saw Mick's operation, he slowly typed a question mark in his mind.
T2 is a turning back, and it's not impossible to get it back on the following straights with the crossing line in a normal state.
But Mick didn't take into account the performance gap between the Mercedes and Haas.
Do you understand the gold content of Mercedes engines? How did you have the audacity to play crossover with me as a Ferrari-powered broken haas?
So after exiting the corner, Qin Miao directly opened the distance between him and Mick at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.
Crossover lines? Although my rear diffuser is damaged, the timing of the oil can't be so early, but the gap in the car is here, how do you chase it?
And Mick is like a pig's head chasing swallows, unable to do anything but collapse and shout in the back.
After simply and easily surpassing Mick, Qin Miao was in front of Ricardo.
At this time, the distance between the two is not too far, but after all, he is a driver who has won the championship of the sub-station, and his strength is still there, coupled with the characteristics of the track, Qin Miao has no idea of surpassing the other party in a short period of time.
Instead, they keep putting pressure on the other side, waiting for the other party to make mistakes, and waiting for DRS if they can't wait.
Now the track conditions are getting better, and I believe that the race will soon open the DRS.
At the same time, however, Russell, who was in second place, began to slow down very noticeably.
Seeing this, the commentators were very puzzled: "Why did Russell suddenly slow down?" ”
"Oh, it's a shame, because of the characteristics of the Hungaroring circuit, it's easy to get a good result after finishing second, and it's a shame that Russell's car is having problems now."
"Did you hit somewhere? It's hard to overtake at the Hungaroring circuit, and it's a shame that something goes wrong at this time. ”
And the fact is that this is not because Russell's car has a problem, but as Frankie said to Qin Miao, Russell was fined for overtaking in the pit lane and returned to his original position, that is, from second to eighth.
Meanwhile, at the same time Russell returned position, Hamilton pitted for an old medium tyre that had run three laps.
By the time Hamilton pitted, Ocon had already chased Hamilton three seconds behind him.
This shows how big the speed difference is between semi-wet and dry tires.
The old man is not like Qin Miao, he has a characteristic unique to Chinese people who do not have some food at home, so there is no new neutral tire reserve.
By the time Hamilton came out of the pits, all the cars had passed.
It is worth mentioning that Latifi was originally fifth, but with Russell returning his position, Hamilton made a pit stop to change tires, and Latifi went straight to third.
The two drivers ahead of him were Ocon in the lead and Sebastian Vettel in second.
It's hard to imagine that Latifi would be in third place.
Before this image, no F1 fan would have imagined that such a scene would be on the track.
At this time, the standings on the track are as follows:
1: Ocon
2: Sebastian Vettel
3: Latifi
4: Tsunoda
5: Sainz
6: Alonso
7: Russell
8:KIMI
9: Ricardo
10: Qin Miao
11: Mick
12: Verstappen
13: Gasly
14: Giovinaz
15: Hamilton
And at this point, the gap between Hamilton and Giovinaz came to 5.5 seconds.
It was to be expected to be an extremely long pursuit, and it would be a difficult track to overtake at Hengaroring.
By the way, after entering the pit area, Ma Zeping never came out of the pit lane again.
Because Ma Zeping collided with Kimi who had changed tires and came out of the tire change area during the pit stop, Ma Zeping's right front suspension collided with the left rear wheel of Kimi's car, and Ma Zeping's right front suspension was broken on the spot, while Kimi's car did not have any.
If the suspension is broken, there is basically no way to repair it urgently on the field, it is not like the rear wing of the DRS is broken, you can use a strong glue to glue it back again, or even not to open the DRS directly, and the suspension is broken, leaving the drivers with only one choice, that is, retirement.
This was only the fifth lap of the race, and five drivers had already retired, and two drivers were injured in their cars.
Qin Miao was the least damaged one.
However, at this point, the game can be regarded as a stumbling and official beginning.
At the end of the sixth lap, Qin Miao relied on the strong performance of the car and his own strength to catch up to the position 0.6 seconds behind Ricardo.
Although the downforce on the rear has decreased a lot after the tail diffuser is damaged, the performance of the W12 itself is still there, chasing the T13 and T14 after Ricardo in the two last consecutive combination corners, Qin Miao took the line that is more conducive to acceleration on the rear straight.
And because the pressure given by Qin Miao was large enough, Ricardo took the defensive line.
So after getting out of T14, Qin Miao has a speed advantage of 5 kilometers per hour over Ricardo, although because of the relatively large route taken, the time gap between himself and Ricardo after the corner was stretched to 0.8 seconds, but relying on the faster exit and Ricardo's wake, Qin Miao was still rapidly approaching Ricardo in front of him in the acceleration of the back section.
Although Ricardo noticed that Qin Miao was quickly approaching, he took the defensive line inside.
However, Qin Miao, who was in oil-rich mode and released with full force of ERS, still completed the side by side with Ricardo on the outside before the braking point of T1.
And when it came to the braking point, Qin Miao's front wheel was in the front nose position of Ricardo.
As for the turning of T1, Qin Miao knew that there was no way to overtake if the inner line was blocked here, so Qin Miao went towards the crossing line at the beginning.
After taking the cross line out of T1, the gap between the two is very small, only 0.3 seconds.
Although the straight after T1 was not too long, Qin Miao took the inside in the middle of the straight.
Ricardo still wanted to struggle, and when he entered the braking point, he gave Qin Miao the inside line out, ready to copy Qin Miao's operation just now and take the cross line.
But what Ricardo didn't expect was that Qin Miao didn't brake late at all, and entered the corner side by side with him.
directly suffocated the line that Ricardo wanted to take the cross line, and then Ricardo could only watch Qin Miao overtake him from the inside line in T2, and then go up to ninth.
Ricardo looked at Qin Miao's car in front of him, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness rise from his heart.
Ricciardo is also considered to be the most talented among the many drivers in the F1 field, although this season's McLaren he is a little unaccustomed to driving, but the Qin Miao he needs to face is not complete, Qin Miao's car is still damaged, but in the face of such Qin Miao, Ricciardo feels that he has no power to resist, and he will be passed by Qin Miao in various offensive ways a few times.
Although this is not the first time he has experienced this feeling, it is not something that a cat or a dog can make him feel this way.
And now there is another name of Qin Miao on this list.
"He's too fast, he's too precise, I can't stop it." Ricciardo's somewhat frustrated voice rang out in McLaren's TR.
……
"Beautiful!"
After seeing the picture of Qin Miao surpassing Ricardo, Fei Ge raised his arms and cheered: "Beautiful and accurate crossing line!" ”
Brother Bing also sighed: "Now watching Qin Miao's overtaking on the field is really a pleasure, the line is sharp and the overtaking is decisive, and the rhythm is just right, there is no inappropriate operation." ”
Zhou Haoran also commented: "Qin Miao's overtaking is like a program that has been optimized countless times. ”
"That's right, it's beautiful."
"Now the pressure is on Hamilton, Qin Miao is chopping melons and vegetables in front, if Hamilton can't catch up with Qin Miao before the end of the game, Qin Miao will open the points gap between Hamilton and Verstappen in the standings."
Brother Bing smiled: "I only hoped that Zhou Guanyu would be able to enter F1 one day.
Unexpectedly, one day Qin Miao appeared in our sight.
Qin Miao's appearance is an out-and-out surprise for us and the majority of domestic fans.
But with our imagination exhausted, we could never have imagined that Qin Miao could enter a championship team like Mercedes-Benz in the first F1 season of her career.
The most important thing is that as Qin Miao gradually adapts to the rhythm of F1.
No, it can even be said that he has put on an extremely impressive performance without adapting to the rhythm of F1 competition, and now he is directly ahead of his teammate Hamilton, the seven-time champion.
That's really hard for us. ”
"It's not an exaggeration, now when I dream of Qin Miao's performance on the field, I may wake up laughing......"
…… (End of chapter)