However, as mentioned earlier, the qualifying race is still based on safety, and Qin Miao's performance is also because he uses old soft tires.

So when Qin Miao used a new set of soft tires in the second flight lap, Qin Miao's results immediately improved.

After the second flight lap of Q1, Qin Miao came to first with a time of 1:09.591.

Qin Miao's fans were originally complaining because Qin Miao's first flight lap of Q1 was a little slow, and they had been squeezed into the safety line of Q1.

After suddenly seeing Qin Miao's achievement, many people directly and slowly put a question mark on their heads.

【？ 】

[It's broken, Qin Miao's Q1 is up soon! ] 】

[You are not Qin Miao! Who are you? 】

[Quick! 】

[Qin Miao finally knows how to be considerate of the fans, every time I see him running lazy and lazy in Q1Q2, I beat the drum in my heart]

……

Although Qin Miao's result in the Q1 stage was quickly squeezed out, Qin Miao finally advanced to the eighth place without any danger.

It is worth mentioning that Pérez in this race was blocked by the slow car several times when he came out to run because the team released the car at the wrong time.

In the last flying lap, he didn't run a valid time, so in the end, Pérez unfortunately stopped in Q1.

The race will start in 16th position.

It's also a pity.

Of course, this feeling is limited to Red Bull fans and the Pérez crew.

Mercedes knew that Pérez was about to go crazy after stopping in Q1, and tomorrow the main match will be one or two again, and everyone thinks that after this game, Mercedes is likely to pull him down at Verstappen's Dutch home stadium.

During the break between Q1 and Q2, Toto began to ask Qin Miao if he wanted to think about starting on neutral tires for tomorrow's race.

What? Other drivers are also likely to start on neutral tires, why do you still ask Qin Miao about this?

Qin Miao's neutral tire, is that a neutral tire? It's a hard tyre with medium grip.

The team's racing strategy for Qin Miao in this race was originally the same as Hamilton's, starting on soft tires.

The difference is that Hamilton needs to make two stops, while Qin Miao only needs to score once.

Toto asked Qin Miao to think about the yellow tire start, and naturally had the idea of asking Qin Miao to help Hamilton block Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao's yellow tires must have to run a long distance before making a pit stop.

During this time period, Qin Miao's neutral tires were in a state of gradual decline, and it was very likely that Verstappen would appear behind Qin Miao after entering a station.

This approach is in line with the overall interests of the team, and it will not damage Qin Miao's speed too much, and even retains the possibility of Qin Miao winning the championship.

But this approach is still a little unfair to Qin Miao, so when Toto talked to Qin Miao about this matter, he used a consultative tone, and Hamilton also chose to avoid it at this time.

When Toto and Qin Miao were talking about this matter, he, the ultimate beneficiary, was indeed not suitable to be present.

But it's clear that Toto and Hamilton are angry about it.

After all, it's not a big deal for you to be a first-year No. 2 driver in the standings and weigh on the team's seven-time champion, is it?

Of course, Qin Miao has been in the paddock for half a year, and she has more or less learned to judge the situation a little.

Although Toto seems to be discussing with himself, Mercedes must be focused on ensuring Hamilton's title this season.

Qin Miao's position in the team at this time was completely supported by Qin Miao's own excellent driving skills, the soaring sales of Meiben cars in the Chinese market, and the sponsorship of Meiben by Yili behind him.

The power behind Qin Miao is indeed big enough, but compared to the team's desire to create an unprecedented eight-time champion Hamilton, the power behind Qin Miao is obviously not enough.

After all, there have been two seven-time champions in F1 history, but there are no eight-time champions, and the century that will make history and leave its name in the history of F1 is what everyone in the entire Mercedes team is looking forward to, just like those who wanted to make history of celebrities in ancient times, the attraction of celebrity history is extremely terrifying.

This is the highest need in Maslow's needs theory, the need for self-actualization.

Therefore, even if the chairman of the Daimler Group came over, he had to weigh whether his weight was enough for the Mercedes team to change his mind about making a name for himself in the history of F1.

Although Qin Miao at this time refused Toto's request, Toto would not say anything, but there would inevitably be a rift between himself and Hamilton.

Although Qin Miao had already defeated his teammate Hamilton on other tracks before this race, most of those were completed by chance, which made people feel that Qin Miao did not mean to challenge Hamilton in his subjective will.

Qin Miao secretly wanted to pull Hamilton off the horse in his heart, and he openly expressed in front of Toto that he wanted to play with Hamilton.

So in the face of Toto's request, Qin Miao agreed without thinking about it.

Isn't it just running long distances on medium tyres? Do you use soft tyres late in the race? It can be done! Dude is very familiar!

However, after really agreeing to Toto's request, Qin Miao was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, after all, those who can become F1 drivers are all geniuses in a million, basically all of them are arrogant, Toto's words are clearly telling Qin Miao that you are not as good as your teammates, so you have to make sacrifices for your teammates.

But you can't help it, if you want to gain a foothold in this paddock, you have to suffer these grievances.

Be a grandson first, then a grandfather.

……

It is worth mentioning that Russell, who had a good performance in last week's race and this week's Q1 race, had an accident on the track.

When cornering at high speed, Russell's right front wheel pressed against the shoulder, which eventually caused Russell's right front wheel to lose grip and even directly triggered a red flag on the track.

Fortunately, Russell's car did not have any major problems, and it was fixed during the red flag, and although Russell returned to the track on the first flight lap of Q2 after the red flag ended, the speed was obviously not as fast as last week and Q1.

It felt like it was that after he defeated Qin Miao last week, his heart was directly knocked out.

At the same time, Latifi, another Williams driver, also had the same problem as Russell, and even the two drivers had problems in the same place.

Latifi was not as lucky as his teammates, Russell's crash was a light brush against the parapet and the car was fine, but he was directly slammed on the parapet, and the suspension on one side of the car was all broken, and this time the red flag on the track was knocked out again.

Because when Latifi crashed, there was just over a minute left before Q2 stops.

That wasn't enough time, and Q2 riders came out of the pit lane, took to the track, ran a warm-up lap, and then crossed the line for the last lap.

So the Q2 result was frozen at the moment when Latifi crashed.