On the other hand, Qin Miao's side was barely under cut Russell, but then Qin Miao needed to face Sainz in front of him.

Sainz, although he did not have a direct conflict with Qin Miao at this time, was like Hamilton and Verstappen.

But there is a bit of an unresolved contradiction between the two of them, about the seat of Ferrari.

So when Sainz found out that Qin Miao appeared behind him, he didn't think about giving up his position so easily.

Although Ferrari's car this year is indeed not as good as your Mercedes-Benz W12, I don't want to cause you a little trouble Qin Miao, I'm sorry that after I entered Ferrari this season, I was sent a cordial "greeting" by Ferrari fans.

Then Qin Miao felt the pressure that Sainz brought to him.

Sainz had already started charging his car's battery before Qin Miao came to the position behind him that was threatening him, and when Qin Miao overtook Russell and came behind Sainz, Sainz suddenly began to discharge.

Qin Miao didn't have much power when he came out of the pit area, and he also needed electricity to drive a train with Hamilton, after all, it was difficult to follow the car this season, and if he didn't use electricity, he would easily be thrown out of the DRS area by the car in front.

And when he just overtook Russell, Qin Miao also used up all the already small amount of power in his racing battery, and there was really nothing he could do about Sainz for a while.

Therefore, Qin Miao only barely followed Sainz for about 2 seconds behind Sainz for a period of time, maintaining the time gap between himself and Sainz.

At this time, Qin Miao was charging his battery while putting pressure on Sainz, and he was also looking forward to Sainz's possible mistakes in his heart.

On lap 25, Qin Miao was still trapped behind Sainz due to battery power problems, and he couldn't overtake in a short time.

Hamilton, who had already run 24 laps on medium tyres, even painted a purple on the track.

1:39.908.

At this time, everyone else's pace is basically around 1 minute and 40 seconds.

Should it be said that he deserves to be the seven-crown champion, he is not much worse than Qin Miao when he seriously protects his tires.

On the other hand, although Norris in front of Hamilton was eaten away by Hamilton little by little to eat away at the advantage he had established not long ago, there was still an 11-second time gap between the two at this time because of Russell's relationship.

So Norris just felt the pressure at this time, but this pressure didn't make Norris mess up.

On the 28th lap, Qin Miao, who was charged to 80% of the car, did not continue to giggle with Sainz in front of him.

It's the big straight after the T18 again.

While your Ferrari engine is powerful, how do you deal with the DRS, ERS, and oil-rich patterns and your wake when you pull out the underlying DRS, ERS, and your wake?

Sainz: ......

Sainz didn't even defend after discovering Qin Miao's terrifying proximity, he just ran his own rhythm on his own driving line.

And Qin Miao was after T1 in Sainz's inside line, and then completely overtook Sainz at the exit of the pit lane, and after surpassing Sainz, Qin Miao quickly returned to the normal driving line.

By the time Qin Miao reached the braking point of T2, he had already thrown off a gap in the body of Sainz behind him.

Sainz looked at Qin Miao's distant car, and could only helplessly say in the team TR: "I'm sorry guys, the absolute speed of the Mercedes car is too fast. ”

Sainz didn't even want to praise Qin Miao's racing skills, but talked about the performance of the Mercedes car.

But in any case, after surpassing Sainz, Qin Miao's ranking came to tenth.

The driver in front of Qin Miao also became Gasly, and there was a difference of 3 seconds between him and Gasly at this time.

I looked at my battery level at this time, 21%.

Qin Miao thought about it for a while, and during the time he added Gasly, he would charge the battery of the car by the way, and after catching up with Gasly, the power was almost enough to launch an attack on his own.

And at this time, Gasly still hasn't entered the state, Qin Miao is confident that he can surpass the other party in a state where the power is not so sufficient.

However, as Gasly's Little Red Bull driver, he should not be able to fish, and should defend Qin Miao as much as possible within his ability.

Of course, the priority is to catch up with Gasly in front of him, and then we can talk about attack and defense.

However, Qin Miao really thought well, and when Qin Miao caught up with Sainz, Marco took out his mobile phone and called the racing director of Little Red Bull.

After Qin Miao surpassed Sainz, Marco reappeared in the P room of the Red Bull Racing team like a nobody.

And it didn't take long for Little Red Bull to give Gasly an order to defend Qin Miao with all his might.

On the same lap, Hamilton finally made a pit stop.

Although his pace has been maintained well, the advantage that Russell has built for Norris up front is simply too great, and the time gap between Hamilton and Norris has remained at 11 seconds until now.

Seeing that he couldn't catch up with Norris in front of him with this set of old neutral tires, Hamilton decisively chose to pit and replace the new hard tires, and naturally saved Norris under cut.

Verstappen, meanwhile, also opted for a pit stop.

Hamilton and Verstappen pitted almost one after the other.

However, unlike Hamilton's medium tyres to hard tyres, Verstappen changed from hard tyres to medium tyres.

For Hamilton, there was nothing wrong with his pit stop, it was just a regular pit stop.

But for Verstappen, the white tyres on his car pitted a little too early.

With 34 laps left before the end of the race, Verstappen pitted a little too early for the medium tyres, even though it was likely to rain at the end of the race.

It is believed that the later the race, the more Verstappen's tyres will struggle and the speed will become slower.

Of course, Red Bull's approach is not incomprehensible.

The barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes.

Verstappen, who started at the back of the team, had a chance to chase Hamilton hard, and it was a big deal to bet that it would rain more than expected in the final stages.

Originally, I didn't have much in my hands, and I wasn't afraid of playing stud with a shoe-wearing person like Hamilton.

The efforts and benefits of both parties are not proportional at all.

Hamilton came out behind Sainz and Verstappen behind Russell.

There was a Ricardo and Russell between the two.

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao had already appeared in front of Hamilton at this time.

This time, the strategy team of the Meiben team did not bury Qin Miao's pit, and he even directly cut his teammates.

However, the difference is that Hamilton has a greater tire advantage in the race, and if Qin Miao's speed is not fast enough, I believe Hamilton will soon catch up again.

The conditions and opportunities created by the team for Qin Miao depends on Qin Miao himself.

On lap 29, Verstappen quickly took out Russell in front of him and began to chase Ricciardo in front of him.

On lap 30, McLaren's side finally made Norris pit stop for a tyre.

Naturally, the tires are also hard.

The pit stop lasted 2.9 seconds, which was a bit slow, but the loss of time was negligible given Norris's previous time advantage.

When Norris came out, he landed in front of Gasly and behind Leclerc.

At this time, the four drivers in front of Norris, including Gasly, were all hard-tyres and none of them had ever made a pit stop.

In other words, Norris at this time still holds his first position.

And in addition, Norris has more than six seconds of clean air in front of him, and Gasly behind him can also block the pursuit of Qin Miao and Hamilton behind Norris to a certain extent.

And Norris also has a 6-second gap to Gasly behind him at this time.

In other words, even if Qin Miao killed Gasly and started chasing Norris, Norris was not worried that Qin Miao could catch up with him in a short time.

Moreover, during the time that Qin Miao was chasing him, Hamilton behind Qin Miao estimated that he had also gotten rid of the shackles of other riders and began to pursue Qin Miao.

If Qin Miao is replaced by Bottas at this time, McLaren's side will be a little worried.

Because everybody knows that Bottas is Hamilton's wingman, Mercedes' No. 2 driver.

If Hamilton catches up with Bottas at this time, the Mercedes team will definitely let Bottas give up his position and give Hamilton enough space to chase Norris in front of him.

That's when the pressure comes to Norris.

But now the situation is different.

Although Hamilton is still in the last years of his prime, Hamilton is 36 years old and he is no longer young.

And Qin Miao is only 19 this year, 17 years younger than Hamilton Qin Miao is as talented as Hamilton back then.

Even Qin Miao was still ahead of his seven-time champion teammate Hamilton in the standings at this time.

Although the appearance of these two drivers is likely to mean that the reign of the Mercedes dynasty is likely to continue for many more years.

But this also gives birth to another problem, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and it is inevitable that there will be conflicts of interest between the two drivers on the field.

At this time, there is no way for the Meiben team to pull the offset.

After all, both drivers are too important to them, one for the present and the other for the future.

So Mercedes can only let these two drivers decide a winner on the field, and all they can do is silently pray that these two people don't go up when they are fighting cars.

The performance of the two top drivers is still the same, and it is conceivable that there is no way for these two to separate the winners and losers in a short period of time.

And this is undoubtedly great news for McLaren and Norris.

On lap 31, Qin Miao originally thought that it would take at least 3 laps for him to catch up with Gasly to make a move on Gasly.

After that, coupled with Gasly's hard resistance, he had to surpass Gasly around laps 32 or 33.

It's just that he overestimated Gasly's ability to protect tires, and Gasly, who has not made a pit stop to change tires, really wants to defend Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao stuck behind Gasly after coming out of the T18, Qin Miao's cornering speed was obviously faster than Gasly, and then on the big straight of the start, Qin Miao didn't enter the DRS area, so he relied on absolute speed to overtake Gasly from the outside.

And when Qin Miao surpassed Gasly, it was just before the DRS monitoring point in T1, so after T1, Qin Miao still had additional DRS to use.

By the time Qin Miao came to the braking point of T2, he had already opened up Gasly behind him with a huge time gap of more than 0.4.

It's really not that Gasly doesn't work hard, but that Qin Miao is overtaking too openly this time, crushing with pure speed, without any skills.

After surpassing Gasly, Qin Miao came to fifth, and the position in front of him 6 seconds was Norris, except for Norris, the drivers in front of him were all drivers who had not made a pit stop, so I don't consider it here.

Surpassing Gasly this time, Qin Miao basically did not engage in any grappling with Gasly, so there was no loss in speed, and the gap between him and Norris remained unchanged.

And when he came behind Norris, Qin Miao immediately asked in the TR of the team: "What is my speed compared to Norris?" ”

There was silence on the other end of the TR for a moment before Frankie replied, "Your lap time is about the same as Norris, you have to be 0.1 seconds faster than Norris per lap, please show more speed if you can." ”

"Roger."

After answering Frankie's words, Qin Miao began to restrain his spirit and ran his lap time as best he could.

However, what Qin Miao, who was indulged in chasing Lloris, did not notice was that Sainz behind him was overtaken by Hamilton on lap 30.

And after Qin Miao surpassed Gasly, Hamilton followed closely and began to attack Gasly.

Before lap 32, Hamilton was in the DRS zone between T10 and T13, using the same method that Qin Miao used to overtake Gasly, and copied Gasly again.

Gasly, who was very powerless in the face of Qin Miao, was also powerless in the face of Hamilton.

Gasly: "Sick, you two. ”

After Hamilton surpassed Gasly, the time gap between him and Qin Miao was only 2 seconds.

Unlike the two drivers in the front, Verstappen in the back was basically locked up by Ricardo.

What stands out is that a well water does not interfere with river water, and no one can help anyone.

On lap 34, Qin Miao, who was running at his own pace in front, was finally caught up by his teammate Hamilton.

However, after running these two laps, Qin Miao really chased Norris for a second, and the time gap between the two was only 5 seconds at this time.

It took Hamilton 3 laps to chase into the DRS zone behind Qin Miao, which shows that Qin Miao's speed is not slow.

When Hamilton chased into the DRS area behind Qin Miao and began to frequently put pressure on Qin Miao behind Qin Miao, the director switched the TV broadcast camera to the P room of the Mercedes team in a very funny way, and the camera was aimed at Toto Wolf's face.

At this time, Toto was still the same as usual, with his hands on his chest, leaning on his position, and staring at the surveillance screen in front of him.

It's just that Toto's face did not show the emotions that the audience was expecting, and Toto seemed very calm at this time, as if the two drivers who were about to fight were not from their own team.

But at this time, no one knows what Toto has in mind.

Strictly speaking, this is actually the first time Qin Miao has faced his teammate Hamilton on the field.

In the past, either Qin Miao or Hamilton was far ahead, or Qin Miao took the initiative to give up his position directly.

But today, judging from Qin Miao and Hamilton's actions, neither of them wanted to give up their positions like this.

Then, of course, on lap 35, the two fought.

T17 braking point, Hamilton braked late, stuck to Qin Miao's car behind the corner 0.5 seconds, if there is no accident after the next corner, Hamilton can rely on the 0.5 time gap between himself and Qin Miao in the next big straight position to achieve Qin Miao's surpass.

After all, Hamilton will have both DRS and wake blessings, and it is not surprising that the T18 will take a wider exit line.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that Qin Miao had a slight slippage on the rear wheel when he got out of the T17, which was obviously a hurry to give oil when he came out of the corner.

Although Qin Miao soon counterattacked and saved the car that was about to go out of control, this time it was very fatal when defending.

So much so that Hamilton directly forcibly inserted the inner line of Qin Miao's racing car.

After coming out of the corner, he directly used the advantage of the inside line to surpass Qin Miao.

The audience at the scene was even more shocked when they saw this scene.

And the three commentators of Five Star Sports saw this scene and held their heads in their hands in disbelief.

Because in their impression, Qin Miao's real defy is actually his defensive ability.

But such a talented driver who is a defensive master in their hearts would make such a low-level mistake against Hamilton.

"It shouldn't be, with Qin Miao's ability and mentality, there is no reason for him to make such a low-level mistake in such a place." Brother Bing even said such a paragraph directly and clearly.

"Judging from Qin Miao's performance all along, he really shouldn't make such a mistake."

The other two commentators also nodded in agreement.

But before the two of them could express their opinions more, the situation on the field changed again.

Although Qin Miao was overtaken by Hamilton from the inside when he entered T18.

But when Hamilton overtook Qin Miao, he took the inside line, so Hamilton's line out of T17 was not very good, and Qin Miao just slipped the rear wheel, which was not a big mistake, and there was a loss of speed, but not much.

The T17 was only a little slower than Hamilton, who temporarily changed the exit route.

So when the two entered T18 one after the other, the time gap between the two remained only about 0.8 seconds.

The two then entered the big straight and began to accelerate at full speed.

And in this process, everyone unexpectedly found that after Qin Miao's mistake was overtaken by Hamilton, not only was he not quickly pulled away by Hamilton, but began to gradually approach Hamilton.

After passing T1, he relied on the wake to get 0.5 seconds behind Hamilton.

With the passage of T1, Qin Miao successfully turned on the DRS of his racing car.

With the dual blessing of wake and DRS, Qin Miao's speed is at least 15 kilometers per hour faster than Hamilton.

And Hamilton sensed that something was wrong when he found out about Qin Miao's mistake.

Now looking at Qin Miao, who was rapidly approaching him in his rearview mirror, Hamilton finally knew why Qin Miao, who was known for his defensive ability and good stability, had that low-level mistake at that time.

Although Hamilton had never heard the idiom of retreating as advance, he also guessed Qin Miao's intention to do so.

But the lead was already in his own hands, and Hamilton said there was no way he could give it back to him.

So in the face of Qin Miao, who was coming towards him with great momentum, Hamilton kept staring at the distance between Qin Miao and himself, and did not go to the inside defense at the first time.

And when Qin Miao came to Hamilton about 0.2 seconds behind him, ready to take the inside line, Hamilton relied on the fact that the two cars did not come to the braking point at this time, and directly changed lanes to the inside line at the same rhythm as Qin Miao.

After seeing this scene, Qin Miao naturally continued to play direction, while Hamilton had been pressing Qin Miao's position.

But in the end, when Qin Miao was pressed to the edge of the track, a certain position was left for Qin Miao.

After all, the edge of the track in Sochi is a parapet wall, not a grass field for a normal open track, otherwise Hamilton would have more room to suppress Qin Miao.

also because Qin Miao was left with a certain amount of space, Qin Miao's speed advantage was brought into play.

In the end, Qin Miao still took the lead in Hamilton's inner line, and Hamilton also knew that Qin Miao's layout was successful after he found out that Qin Miao inserted his inner line.

As far as the two of them have just arrived at the exit of the pit area, Qin Miao, who is relatively faster, will overtake him before the braking point of T2.

So in the next stretch of Hamilton returned to his normal driving line, and Qin Miao also passed him before the braking point of T2 as Hamilton expected.

Hamilton didn't feel annoyed by the failure of an attack, Qin Miao's defensive style is honest, Hamilton is still the first time to experience, and this kind of driver who likes to lay out in advance is also rare.

Rather than feeling that there was anything to be frustrated about a failed attack, Hamilton became a little excited.

And Qin Miao also felt a lot of pressure from Hamilton's body.

How can this chicken catch up so quickly?

Just as the two drivers were thinking about what defensive routines or offensive tactics they should use for their next offense/defense.

Their TRs rang out together, and Toto's voice reached their ears: "Stay safe, you two should know what is most important to the team in this race." ”

Hearing Toto's words, Qin Miao and Hamilton were both stunned, although this could not be regarded as a team instruction, but it also gave the two who were about to take out the real thing and fight each other with a bottom line, that is, there should be no too dangerous actions.

This is also a little cooler for the two guys who are about to burn up. (End of chapter)