On lap 43, Qin Miao did not defend Hamilton behind him, allowing Hamilton to overtake him on the starting straight by relying on DRS.

This is not that the team has given a team order, the main thing is that Qin Miao's lap speed of this set of tires is not as fast as Hamilton's new neutral tires.

No matter how Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is, it is impossible for him to violate the rules of physics and run faster than Hamilton, the seven-time champion, with a set of tires whose grip is already almost out of order.

At this time, Verstappen stopped three times earlier and tried to cut himself and Hamilton in the back.

Qin Miao and Hamilton were not running the same tactic, and at this time, blocking Hamilton was a bit faster than the relatives and enemies.

So Qin Miao let Hamilton go.

After letting Hamilton go, Qin Miao and Verstappen behind him began another long-distance test.

At this time, the gap between the three was released, as well as where Qin Miao would fall after he pitted, and how many seconds Verstappen would follow.

The excitement just now is gone.

However, when the competition between the three championship drivers in the front group entered a brief period of peace, it was not like there was no wonderful picture presented at the rear.

Pérez, who had started at the back of the pack, had made it all the way to 11th, with McLaren's Ricciardo and Norris ahead of him.

And at this time, Pérez is only 2 seconds away from Ricciardo, and with Red Bull's racing performance, it is only a matter of time before Pérez wants to overtake Norris in front.

In the next few laps, when Qin Miao, Hamilton and Verstappen were running their own rhythm, the director gave the camera to the other drivers.

Soon, however, as the race came to lap 49, spectators who had just watched the battle between Gio Venaz and Vettel suddenly noticed that the director had turned the camera, and then a Mercedes-Benz W12 with neutral tires slowly drove into the pit lane.

"This is Qin Miao, right?"

"Yes, Qin Miao, a set of neutral tires ran 49 laps before he pitted, and the speed hasn't dropped too much, so only he can do it." Fei Ge sighed.

This is Qin Miao's first pit stop in this race, and it is also the last pit stop planned, he has a 10.7-second gap with Verstappen behind him at this time, and there is a high probability that he will fall 10 seconds behind Verstappen after the pit stop.

According to the data tested by Meiben himself, if both sides run the race with normal tire wear, Qin Miao can be 0.9 seconds faster than himself with neutral tires in the next lap of the soft tire state.

And if you push fast regardless of losses, Qin Miao, who uses soft tires, can be faster than neutral tires by more than 1.5 seconds per lap.

Although Verstappen wasn't driving a Mercedes, the difference in speed between the tyres should be pretty much the same.

So if nothing else, Qin Miao caught up with Verstappen in front of him after about 11 laps, and there were still 11 laps left before the end of the race.

Qin Miao had enough time to attack Verstappen in front of him.

As for what happened to Hamilton in front of him after Qin Miao surpassed Verstappen?

If the problem appeared on the faces of the senior management and staff of Meiben at this time, they would hesitate for a moment, and then say with some unconfidence: "Let's talk about it if it is exceeded." ”

And what about Hamilton at this time? He began to protect his tires after he overtook Qin Miao and widened the gap between himself and Qin Miao to 5 seconds.

Although Hamilton's medium tires have been running for 21 laps, thanks to Hamilton's deliberate protection of his tires since he overtook Qin Miao, his tire wear is still under control.

At this point, it's not hard to guess what Hamilton had in mind at this point, even though the team's strategy for Hamilton was to make two stops.

However, the race and the team did not force Hamilton to make two stops.

Hamilton felt that with Qin Miao's defensive ability and Verstappen's speed, if he really chose to follow the team's plan in this race, the final championship would probably not fall to him.

And his teammate Qin Miao is ready to stop and finish the race directly, Qin Miao also has a new set of soft tires, with Qin Miao's tire preservation ability, the last one stint Qin Miao will definitely use soft tires to finish.

So when the time comes, Qin Miao will inevitably have a fight with Verstappen.

I believe that with Verstappen's defense and his desire for the championship, Verstappen will not be able to give up his position to Qin Miao too easily.

The two of them are bound to fight for a while in the back, so they will have more time to distance themselves from the two and protect their tires.

As long as the two of them fight a little longer, no matter who wins in the end, they will be the ones who will benefit.

With this in mind, Hamilton didn't communicate with his team staff, but he had already secretly decided to hold out late in the race and see if he could run the whole race on his current set of medium tyres.

Even if he loses this bet, Gasly in the back is almost 63 seconds away from him, and the worst thing is to bring back a third place.

If you lose the bet, Hamilton will not lose more, but if you win the bet, the gain is very considerable, and do nothing at most to get a second in your hand.

When Hamilton had two options in front of him, it was self-evident what he would choose.

Qin Miao naturally didn't know what his teammates were thinking, so after controlling the speed of the car below 60 kilometers per hour and turning on the pit stop mode, all Qin Miao could do at this time was to silently pray in his heart that the team's tire changer would not give himself a whole moth like every pit stop in the past.

The car was lifted and lowered, and the brand-new red tires were installed on Qin Miao's car.

After landing, Qin Miao kicked the accelerator, and the body tilted and directly "slid" out of his parking space.

The tire change time shown in the bottom right corner of the screen is 2.5 seconds.

"2.5 seconds, that's a bit slow, 0.3 seconds less than Verstappen, and that 0.3 seconds is a risk of losing a position on the track!" After all, he is a driver from his own country, and although this tyre change result can be considered qualified for all F1 teams, and even for Alfa Romeo and Haas, this result is a dream, but Fei Ge is still not too happy with it.

After all, in Fei Ge's opinion, this is Qin Miao's advantage in the arena, and the tire changer will be lost in 0.3 seconds, and they feel that it is not worth it for Qin Miao.

However, Qin Miao is already very satisfied with this, at least he has not had a situation in his career where he has changed a tire for more than 10 seconds, or even a bolt stuck on the tire and cannot be removed.

So when he finished changing the tires and drove in the pit area, Qin Miao didn't forget to praise the tire changers of his team in the TR of the team: "Well done, guy, let's look at me next." ”

The driver's TR is connected with the team staff's TR, the difference is that Qin Miao and Qin Miao's track engineer and Toto can speak, while other technicians can only listen, and the frequency band of their speech and communication is different from that of the driver.

"Roger, we're all waiting for you to give Verstappen a little color." Frankie's voice sounded in Qin Miao's TR.

The Red Bull staff who were listening to the Mercedes Racing TR frowned when they heard this.

Why are you Mei Ben and these people talking so politely?

……

After coming out of the pit lane, Qin Miao did fall 11 seconds behind Verstappen, and at this time, with 22 laps left before the end of the race, Qin Miao began his pursuit.

The director didn't give other drivers the camera at this time, and the broadcast camera was locked on Qin Miao's car, and the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was given directly below the broadcast camera.

Because Verstappen used the old neutral tires, and Qin Miao used the new soft tires, the speed gap between the two was very obvious, so basically every corner could clearly see that the gap between the two was being narrowed rapidly.

Basically, a timing segment will be reduced by 0.4~0.6 seconds.

The three commentators of Five Star Sports had nothing to say at this time, and at this moment, they had completely brought themselves into Qin Miao's perspective, and they couldn't help but start to get nervous for Qin Miao.

What if I don't catch up? What if a tire blows out because the distance traveled is too long, or if the tire is failing quickly? What if the grip of the tires is lost after catching up with Verstappen, but it can't surpass Verstappen?

In short, the problems that Qin Miao didn't consider were worried about them one by one.

And Qin Miao on the track was the one who had the most distractions.

At this time, all he could think about was controlling his car and running his best speed on the track over and over again.

Even when Qin Miao didn't notice it, he snatched the fastest lap in the field from his teammate Hamilton.

But this is also normal, at this time it is close to the end of the race, the drivers have a lot less fuel in the car, and Qin Miao came out with a new soft tyre, although he has enough tire durability to be able to catch up with Verstappen, he is not so extreme, but he is still very fast.

On lap 50, the gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen, which was originally more than 11 seconds, directly became 10.6 seconds.

On lap 51, the gap was 9.2 seconds.

Lap 52, 8.1 seconds.

And although he knew that Qin Miao would catch up with Verstappen in a short time, all the staff on Red Bull's side were helpless about it.

They have done everything they can and it is up to the drivers themselves to keep their position.

Finally, on lap 55, Qin Miao, who had been chasing behind, saw the taillights of Verstappen in front of him.

On lap 57, he entered the turbulence area behind Verstappen, and Qin Miao's speed dropped significantly.

On lap 59, Qin Miao came to the DRS area behind Verstappen and began to put pressure on Verstappen, and the skill Qin Miao did not hesitate to throw it on Verstappen's head.

[Verstappen pressure value: 19%]

Qin Miao's approach rate to chasing Verstappen was about the same as Qin Miao's estimate, Qin Miao really chased Verstappen for a second, and came behind Verstappen ten laps later.

Now the offensive and defensive forces are reversed, but the situation of the two sides is completely different.

At this time, Verstappen not only needed to defend against Qin Miao's attack, but also had to find a way to catch up with Hamilton in front of him, because there were only 13 laps left before the end of the race.

Although the gap between himself and Hamilton was closing every lap, he was only six seconds away from Hamilton.

But with Qin Miao's arrival, the pressure on Hamilton suddenly decreased.

At this time, Verstappen's most important task is to defend Qin Miao, who is killing behind him, rather than chasing Hamilton in front, and it can even be said that as long as Verstappen dares to chase Hamilton in front, Qin Miao can use the tire advantage to surpass Verstappen in the rear.

If he didn't want to hand over his position, Verstappen could only slow down his speed and seriously defend Qin Miao behind him.

Hamilton, on the other hand, can run at his own pace without any scruples until Qin Miao overtakes Verstappen or Qin Miao's tires fall into a cliff point, and can no longer pose any threat to Verstappen.

Hamilton felt that when Qin Miao and Verstappen split a result, it was already near the end of the game, and there was a high probability that he would pick up one of the missing championships in this game.

And Hamilton is not the only one who has such thoughts, the three commentators of Five Star Sports, after seeing the situation on the field and the number of laps left before the end of the game, Fei Ge directly asserted: "It's over, Qin Miao has no way to compete with Hamilton for the championship in this game, Hamilton's decision to stop is really beautiful, and he just took advantage of his teammate Qin Miao's pit stop, killing two birds with one stone." ”

"It can only be said that after all, Mei Ben's side still values Hamilton more, and found that there was an opportunity to steal a championship from Verstappen, and after Qin Miao was behind him to contain Verstappen, Mei Ben decisively chose to let Hamilton stop, and chose to run a long stint with old yellow tires." Brother Bing also nodded in agreement.

"Although this choice does look amazing, it is a stroke of genius." Zhou Haoran also interjected: "But it still depends on when Qin Miao can surpass Verstappen, if it is fast, there will still be suspense in this game."

However, I personally feel that Hamilton is the most likely to win the championship in this game, but the second and third, and who is more suspenseful. ”

……

【Open milk!】 】

[Well said!] 】

[Utilitarian milk is not advisable (annoying)]

Hamilton (Danger!) ）】

[Hamilton ran and found that his steering wheel and gas pedal were milking]

[After the race, FIA officials inspected the car's fuel and found that Hamilton's tank did not have a drop of oil, it was all milk]

[An ancient mysterious power from the East silently locked Hamilton]

[Is the five-star poisoned milk going to work? ] 】

Hamilton on the field naturally didn't know that there were three mysterious Oriental mages who were doing something for him, and although his tires were already struggling a little at this time, Hamilton didn't have any worries.

Because with Hamilton's ability to drive for so many years, although his tyres are a bit struggling now, he feels that his tyres will still allow him to last the next 12 laps.

By lap 59, Hamilton found himself at a standstill with Verstappen's narrowing time gap, which had widened.

This shows how much pressure Qin Miao put on Verstappen, so much so that Verstappen had to lose more speed to defend Qin Miao.

This is indeed the case, Verstappen on the field obviously feels that Qin Miao is still putting a lot of pressure on him.

However, Verstappen is not without defensive routines, which can be used on Qin Miao's body.

Verstappen is a genius after all, at least after being defended by Qin Miao in that deliberate way of burying the pit when attacking Qin Miao for so long, Verstappen didn't go through the post-game summary, he just experienced it himself and learned Qin Miao's defensive routines very much, and directly used them on the field.

Also in the first time session, Qin Miao watched Verstappen in front of him with a confused look and made several mistakes when exiting and entering the corner.

At this moment, Qin Miao's eyelids really jumped.

Minotaur in person, right?

Not to mention that Verstappen's mistakes in position are indeed the same as Qin Miao's defense, and he did not give up the most critical inside line, but you don't want to think about it, you Verstappen is such a ruthless track machine, there will be so many mistakes in these few corners that are not too high-tech in the first time period, is he really reasonable?

So Qin Miao was not fooled at all, but because Verstappen did not take the best cornering route, Qin Miao further narrowed the time gap with Verstappen.

Of course, Qin Miao also quickly reacted to why Verstappen had such a defensive move when he had not yet posted to the high-threat position 0.5 seconds behind Verstappen.

[Verstappen pressure value: 22%]

After too much pressure, Verstappen will understandably make some irrational defensive moves.

After that, Qin Miao continued to narrow the time gap with Verstappen and put pressure on him.

However, Verstappen is Verstappen after all, and Qin Miao really didn't find too good offensive opportunities for a while.

Until lap 62, the second timed segment.

Out of the DRS area after T10, Qin Miao launched an attack on Verstappen for the first time.

Because of the advantage of tires, Qin Miao has been following Verstappen when he came out of the corner, and he was not pulled away by Verstappen because of the turbulence in the corner.

After exiting the corner, Verstappen began to draw the dragon before entering the braking point, while Qin Miao was unmoved, and turned on DRS and began to accelerate.

You must know that Qin Miao has a lot of advantages now, on the one hand, Qin Miao uses soft tires, although this set of soft tires has been used for twelve laps at this time, but with Qin Miao's tire protection ability, Qin Miao's speed is still faster than Verstappen with neutral tires, and the speed in the DRS area will naturally be faster.

Coupled with the fact that during the period of time that he was behind Verstappen, Qin Miao had not used the ERS power of his car too violently.

On the other hand, Qin Miao's racing engine was replaced with a new set of Spa last week, although Red Bull also changed a new set of racing parts to Verstappen in order to have a better result on his home turf, but Honda's engine is still inferior to Mercedes.

Do you understand the gold content of Meiben engine power brick flying industrial aesthetics?

Therefore, Qin Miao also has certain advantages in terms of speed.

The most important thing is that Qin Miao has DRS.

Therefore, Qin Miao directly began to accelerate with the performance of his own car in the absence of Verstappen's wake, trying to surpass Verstappen from the outside.

Seeing this, Verstappen did not continue to draw dragons on the track, but he did not appear in front of Qin Miao to provide Qin Miao with a wake.

Instead, it stuck on the inside of the track.

The DRS area between T10 and T11 on the Zandvoort Circuit is not too long, and Verstappen feels that even if Qin Miao can rely on this DRS to complete the wheel-to-wheel with himself, and even surpass himself before the braking point, as long as he guards the inside line and brakes with one foot, Qin Miao's advantages will all be in vain.

Even because of the violent acceleration this time, Qin Miao's soft tires will have greater wear.

And the situation on the field is really as Verstappen calculated, although Qin Miao has a speed advantage, but he did not suck Verstappen's wake, and even hit the turbulence discharged from both sides of Verstappen's car, Qin Miao and Verstappen's approach rate is not fast, and the DRS of this section is not long, so before entering the braking point of T11, Qin Miao did not completely surpass Verstappen.

However, before the braking point of T11, Qin Miao did surpass Verstappen by half a front.

And after that, Qin Miao, who was robbed of the inner line, took the normal braking line, and Verstappen braked late, he didn't do anything else, just blocked the bend position.

In this way, Qin Miao's best route out of the bend will naturally be gone, so he can only take a larger arc, and then cut the bend center of T12.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao was extremely tough in the corner this time, so he did not give up his position when he came out of T11, and he was still in the state of wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen.

However, Verstappen took advantage of the late braking, and the front of the car slightly surpassed Qin Miao.

At this time, Verstappen found that Qin Miao had no intention of taking the cross line, but took the outside line and continued to fight with him in the next corner.

So after coming out of the corner, Verstappen began to rely on his cable power to squeeze Qin Miao's line.

Verstappen's idea is very simple, I'll give you a face when you have the right to line, and I won't squeeze you out of the track.

But now that I'm braking late, I'm going into the corner earlier than you, and the line is mine, and if you honestly don't grab the inside of a corner with me, I won't do anything to you, but if you come and grab the inside line of a corner with me, then don't blame me for being ruthless.

And Qin Miao is not used to you Verstappen, drill when there is a gap, and go when there is a gap in front, after all, you Verstappen braked late, and the speed when exiting the corner is not as fast as mine, I just want to squeeze in front of you into the corner.

The inner thoughts of both of them are just positive with each other, and it is self-evident what will happen after the two of them have an idea at the same time.

When the two entered T12 side by side.

Verstappen squeezed towards the inside line, and Qin Miao took the best exit line, not hiding at all.

Then in the midst of all the exclamations of the commentators who were paying attention to the game, Qin Miao and Verstappen's cars collided.

"Bump!"

"Click!"

The crisp sound of carbon fiber breaking came into Qin Miao's ears, accompanied by the sound of tire bursting, and the sound of tires pressing on the gravel ground and splashing stones on the carbon fiber shell of the racing car.

(End of chapter)