Mei Ben's side, although he did hope that Qin Miao would help Hamilton block Verstappen, this was not Qin Miao's main task, and it was impossible for the team to give Qin Miao an order to sacrifice Qin Miao's interests to achieve Hamilton.

After this order is issued, not only Qin Miao will be dissatisfied, but Meiben's fans and fans will also be dissatisfied with the team's senior management, and even the senior management of the group may come down to be held accountable.

So for now, the team is still letting the drivers run at their own pace.

This is true of both Qin Miao and Hamilton.

And Verstappen is still in front of Hamilton after following Hamilton's rhythm in and out, after all, Verstappen's accumulated advantage in the early stage is too great.

Hamilton couldn't close the gap much with a single lap, and the team made a mistake when he was changing the tyres, totalling 3.2 seconds.

It will be even more difficult to close the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton.

But then it's better to watch, because the data given by the director shows that after Verstappen came out of the pit area, the director showed the speed gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen.

The above shows that Verstappen is 0.4 seconds faster than Qin Miao per lap, and this gap will get bigger and bigger over time, after all, Qin Miao's tires have run 21 times more than Verstappen's tires, and Qin Miao's tires will naturally fail faster.

The event department estimated that in about 10 laps, Verstappen would catch up with Qin Miao.

At that time, anyone who knows a little about Qin Miao's driving style can guess what will happen after Verstappen catches up with Qin Miao.

The pit stops for Hamilton and Verstappen opened the pit stop window for the race, and the other drivers followed suit.

One of the good things about Zandvoort is that most of the teams have different tactics.

There are those who are ready to make two stops, and there are those who are ready to stop once.

So even though the pit window was open, there was no pit stop for the drivers in a short period of time.

However, Qin Miao was not affected by this, and still maintained her own rhythm to run the game.

By the time the race came to lap 30, Qin Miao's speed was still very fast, and Verstappen behind him had a much slower prediction of Qin Miao's proximity rate.

At this time, it was already the time when the two of them were about to start attacking and defending, but the time gap between the two was still 4 seconds.

After all, there was not much reference data given at the beginning of the race, and it was just a lap after Verstappen finished the opening lap, and this lap of Verstappen may be a lap released by ERS with all his might, so the speed is very fast.

At this time, Red Bull's strategy team gave Horner and Verstappen's track engineers two options.

"According to our estimates, Max will enter the DRS area behind Qin Miao within five laps, but with the characteristics of the Zandvoort track, Max will inevitably pay a lot to overtake Qin Miao, so our suggestion is to let Max pit for white tires before coming behind Qin Miao, and now there is a time gap of more than 26 seconds between Max and Leclerc behind him, and after another pit stop to change to white tires, there will only be Hamilton and Qin Miao in front of him, and Hamilton's neutral tires cannot last until the end of the race, So we had Verstappen pit early to try the two drivers of the undercut.

We also had a new set of white tyres, but Hamilton didn't have any new white tyres, just a set of medium tyres that had run three laps. ”

Horner frowned after hearing Red Bull's words and asked, "What if Qin Miao and Verstappen pit together?" He also has a brand new set of white tires. ”

Red Bull's strategy director paused for a moment, and then spoke: "But it's better than doing nothing, and Max is faster than Qin Miao, we have to believe in Max's speed in the circle, and if nothing changes, Max will definitely be blocked by Qin Miao when he comes behind Qin Miao, and then it's time for Hamilton to attack." ”

Horner sighed and rubbed his brow.

That's where the one-on-two is uncomfortable, and no matter what tactics you devise, you're going to be held back by another driver in the Mercedes team.

One is not good, let alone keep the championship, and the second may be gone.

"How many laps has Qin Miao's yellow tires run? When does failure begin? Horner rubbed his brow for a moment before asking.

"Thirty-one laps, Qin Miao used a new yellow tire when he competed, according to Qin Miao's previous habits of using yellow tires, if Qin Miao kept the tire to the limit, his yellow tire could last until about 60 laps."

Hearing this, not only Horner, but most of the Red Bull crew's staff who were connected to the team's internal TR took a breath.

If Qin Miao really insisted on defending Verstappen, how many laps could he defend Verstappen in this game?

And if Hamilton makes a pit stop while Qin Miao is defending Verstappen...... Don't dare to think about it...... I didn't dare to think about it at all.

Horner began to scratch at his hair.

"Let's let Max try first to see if he can surpass Qin Miao, give him five laps of time, if there is no good result after five laps, let Max pit and change to white tires to run a long distance with all his strength as you said." Although the decision was difficult, Horner made the decision.

"Roger."

……

Compared to the scratching of the ears and cheeks after the Red Bull side won the pole position, Toto on the other side looked much more laid-back.

Toto was leaning back in his chair with his hands on his chest, his expression very relaxed, waiting for the situation on the field to change.

On lap 35, Verstappen finally caught up in the DRS area behind Qin Miao.

There was still a four-second gap between Verstappen and Hamilton.

Although the team didn't tell Verstappen how much time he had to attack, Verstappen knew that if he couldn't overtake Qin Miao in a short period of time, he would be called in by the team in advance to change tires.

"Come and see, Verstappen has finally chased after Qin Miao." After seeing it, Fei Ge explained: "Qin Miao's performance in this game is extremely critical, whether Qin Miao can bring back a championship at Verstappen's home stadium depends on Qin Miao's defense this time, and he can defend Verstappen for a few laps." ”

Qin Miao naturally noticed Verstappen behind him.

And after discovering that Verstappen had come behind him, Qin Miao's speed slowed down.

Especially after the first time period passed the T1 turnaround, Verstappen was a little surprised to find that he had unknowingly stuck to the position 0.1 seconds behind Qin Miao.

Verstappen was immediately alarmed by this unusual change.

Although he didn't know that there must be a demon when things went wrong, he knew that with Qin Miao's terrifying defensive ability, it was impossible for Qin Miao to make such a low-level mistake if he was just close to him.

And after seeing the gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen, the audience at the scene immediately burst into huge cheers.

But Verstappen soon realized that Qin Miao's forcing was disgusting, although he was very close to Qin Miao at this time, but there were many subsequent corners in the first time period, and now he was the same as Hamilton in Hungaroring at that time, there was no room for overtaking at all, no matter how good the tires were.

Therefore, after the T1-T6 corners of the first time period, Qin Miao's speed was kept at a very slow pace, but as long as Verstappen dared to tap inside and outside the outer lane, Qin Miao squeezed Verstappen's line slightly, and Verstappen had to loosen the throttle.

What? If you don't let go of the throttle, it's dry!

Then Verstappen was waiting to rush out of the track, because Qin Miao's squeeze directly blocked Verstappen's best exit line.

And these corners, which were also the first time period, the gap between Verstappen and Hamilton of more than 4 seconds directly became 3.6 seconds.

In one timing period, Qin Miao blocked Verstappen by one second.

In the first time period, Verstappen also tried to cross the line in T3, and then tried to overtake it on the outside line of T5, but Qin Miao didn't make any aggressive defensive moves, just squeezed him a little on Verstappen's exit line, and Verstappen could only release the throttle in order not to rush out of the track.

At this moment, Verstappen, everyone at Red Bull Racing, and all the crowd supporting Verstappen at Zandvoort felt their scalps tingling.

Because they saw the shadow of Alonso on the Hengaroring track on Qin Miao at this moment, and even Qin Miao put more pressure on Verstappen than Alonso gave Hamilton at the beginning.

This is different from Bahrain's defense of Verstappen at the beginning of the season, Bahrain's overtaking is much less difficult than Zandford, but it is that kind of track, Qin Miao also defended Verstappen for more than 10 laps in total.

What if the field was moved to Zandvoort, where it was easier to defend the car? And what appeared in front of Verstappen was no longer the rookie Qin Miao who had just entered F1, but the talented driver Qin Miao, who won 4 races in the first season.

The difficulty of overtaking can be imagined.

At this time, Horner didn't have the extra mind to pay attention to the grappling between Verstappen and Qin Miao, because he found a big problem, that is, since Qin Miao and Verstappen began to fight, Hamilton quickly shortened the time gap with Verstappen.

Maybe some people don't think it's anything, but if you take a long-term view, Qin Miao blocks Verstappen for three or four more laps, there may be more than one Hamilton in the back to shorten the gap with Verstappen, and Gasly of Little Red Bull and the two drivers of Ferrari will also shorten the gap with Verstappen.

If Verstappen had chosen to pit for tyres at that time, Verstappen would have come out behind the two Ferrari drivers.

Although Ferrari has been directly rotten this season, and there are few promotions in the middle of the season, and it is not a direct competition with Red Bull, but with a Red Bull behind him, whether it is Leclerc or Sainz, he will definitely not let Verstappen go easily.

With this in mind, Horner directly asked Red Bull's strategy team to start calculating when Verstappen would pit if the current trend continued, so that he would not get stuck behind Ferrari.

What? Fourth place is Gasly of Little Red Bull, doesn't need to think about him blocking Verstappen as well?

Didn't you also say that the fourth place is Little Red Bull.

And what kind of team is Verstappen driving? Red Bull!

No matter how fast the second team is, it is still a second team, and if Gasly doesn't want to be pressured by Marco, Verstappen will have to give up his position when he appears behind him.

If Ferrari finds Verstappen behind him, he will block it out of idleness and idleness, just enough to stop you from Verstappen playing.

But the speed of the two cars of Red Bull and Little Red Bull is completely out of the same level, the key is that this is still the first and second teams of the same team, and Gasly blocking Verstappen is a completely thankless task.

So no matter what makes sense, Gasly letting Verstappen go is his best choice, and even if the timing of the car is good, Gasly can rub the DRS when Verstappen leaves.

On the field, after the first time period, it is time to move on to the second time period.

There were no suitable overtaking points in the entire second time session, but despite this, Qin Miao also sold Verstappen a lot of flaws.

Deliberately braking a little earlier into a corner, causing a very slow entry into the corner, and a large space was vacated on the outside line, which Verstappen could pull from the outside.

Coming out of the corner, the oil was late and noticeably slow, and Verstappen had a chance to tap on the outside of the next corner.

Although Verstappen saw it, even if he found that his speed in and out of the corner was much faster than Qin Miao's, Verstappen didn't try to attack Qin Miao.

Because Qin Miao's flaws were a little obvious.

Brake too early into the corner? But Qin Miao didn't let go of his inside line.

Late to get out of the bend to get oiled? But the next bend followed, and Qin Miao was late to give oil out of the corner, not only did he not wear out the tires after he got out of the corner, but even because the time to give oil out of the corner was relatively late, he also protected his tires to a certain extent.

So although Qin Miao looked full of flaws in front of Verstappen, Verstappen didn't dare to overtake Qin Miao's car at all.

Because after so many games, he can see that if Qin Miao sells flaws to himself, then there must be a set waiting for him behind him, if he gets in, he will be pulled away by Qin Miao in an instant, and he will probably miss the best overtaking opportunity in the future.

Therefore, Verstappen chose to stand still, seeing that he had saved 60% of the ERS power, and was secretly proud in his heart.

You wait, I won't overtake you, wait until you get to the DRS area, let you see the power of Honda's racing engine!

It's just that Verstappen didn't expect that he was still put on a position by Qin Miao.

In the T10 of the second time section, when entering the corner, Qin Miao took not a normal exit route, but a wider exit route.

Everyone knows that Qin Miao took such a line for the natural speed after the corner, and there was a longer straight to accelerate the car.

But there have always been people behind Qin Miao, so after Qin Miao took such a line, an opportunity to insert Qin Miao's inner line appeared in front of Verstappen.

Moreover, Qin Miao is the DRS detection point before the T10 in front of Verstappen.

So no matter how Qin Miao enters T10 and exits T10, Verstappen will have DRS in the DRS area after T10. (End of chapter)