281: Russian Grand Prix Finish (6K, plus 6/20)

However, the matter has come to this point, and the team also knows that the swear words that Qin Miao spewed out at this time can only be said to be a kind of venting, and cannot play any positive role.

So after hearing the fragrance of Qin Miao's mouth, the team immediately comforted the team TR: "Calm down, Qin Miao, the data shows that the tire pressure of the left front wheel is normal, and the tire should not be too damaged, but the pressure of the hydraulic system in the side box has increased, but it is still within the controllable range, please continue to stick to the track and protect your car." ”

After being reminded by the team, although Qin Miao was still very angry, the game still had to continue, so Qin Miao tried her best to collect her emotions.

Recalling what Frankie said just now, Qin Miao still asked a little worriedly: "The damage to the car doesn't affect my race, right?" ”

"It should be able to hold out until the end of the game." Frankie's answer was simple: "We will let you know as soon as we have any questions." ”

But this answer was enough for Qin Miao.

And Hamilton also saw the collision between Qin Miao and Norris through the rearview mirror.

The first time he saw them collide and something fly out, Hamilton was about to be happy.

It was a feeling of happiness that Hamilton didn't know how to share it with anyone else.

It's as happy as picking up 5 million for nothing on the road.

After the time gap between himself and Qin Miao widened to 10 seconds, Hamilton asked Qin Miao about the state of the car at this time in the team TR.

"I saw Qin Miao crash, is he okay?"

"Qin Miaoren is fine, the car is slightly damaged, but it can last until the end of the race." Hamilton's track engineer said.

Hamilton smacked his mouth when he heard this, feeling a little pity.

After all, if Qin Miao is really retired by Norris, he can overtake Qin Miao in the drivers' standings, and Verstappen will also be thrown away by himself, and everything will be back on track.

Thinking of Verstappen, Hamilton glanced at the position at his wheel in the gap between his own drives.

What the heck?

Didn't he start at the back of the team? When did you get to the fourth? Wouldn't any other car get in his way?

After making sure that the data on his steering wheel was correct, Hamilton suddenly smiled with relief.

It's good that Qin Miao can continue to run, at least compared to Verstappen, the car Qin Miao drives is the same as his own.

Compared with dealing with Red Bull, whose performance may suddenly jump at any time, Hamilton still feels that it is easier to deal with Qin Miao.

At least their cars will always be on the same level, and they can rely on their rich racing experience to defeat Qin Miao.

In the following races, Qin Miao continued to persist on the track despite the car damage.

The damage to the floor and side box significantly slowed down Qin Miao's car, but the most serious impact of this accident was the overall balance of Qin Miao's car.

Because of this, Qin Miao's lap time has dropped significantly, and each lap is 2 seconds slower than Hamilton.

Of course, despite this, Qin Miao was not worried that his second position would also be snatched away, after all, Norris was still dying in the heavy rain with a dry tire at this time.

Verstappen behind Norris was still more than a minute away from Norris at this time, and it was even farther away from Qin Miao, so he couldn't threaten Qin Miao's position at this time.

As long as Qin Miao doesn't make the same mistakes as Norris, Qin Miao guarantees a second in this game.

If Hamilton is lucky, Hamilton will be struck by a thunderbolt or something, maybe Qin Miao still has the possibility of winning the championship again.

Of course, this is a complete joke.

After this crash, the race between Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers, was over.

All they need to do now is finish the remaining two laps and take the car back to the pits to claim the prize.

So at this time, the director did not give the camera to these two drivers anymore, but gave more pictures to Norris.

As an unlucky guy, Norris had a real good chance of winning the championship in this fight, but the problem was his choice.

I can't say there's anything wrong with Norris's choice.

Because like Norris, there are other drivers in the back, such as Leclerc, who also chose to use dry tyres to continue to stick on the track.

But from the moment Hamilton pitted and Norris didn't, Norris was doomed to stiffen on the track if he wanted to keep the title.

It's a pity that in the end, it turns out that Norris's choice is wrong.

……

On the same lap, Norris had just pulled into the pit lane entrance when Verstappen behind him passed him into third.

After only half a lap, Verstappen chased Norris for more than a minute.

This shows how much the rain has affected the tires of the car at this time.

Norris had fallen to sixth after coming in and out, behind his team-mate Ricardo, and shortly after coming out, he was overtaken by Alonso behind him because the tyres were not at working temperature.

With Norris's quality and the competitiveness of McLaren Racing this season, Norris will win the race sooner or later.

It's just a pity that it's not today.

In the end, in the ecstasy of all the staff of Meiben, Hamilton and Qin Miao drove past the square flag one after the other.

This race was still a little uncomfortable for Qin Miao, after all, the championship was gone, but at least Qin Miao still got the expected ranking set by the team for Qin Miao before the game.

Although Qin Miao was in four places in this game, Hamilton also went up three places.

But the best driver voted by the crowd for this race was Red Bull's Verstappen.

There was no way, they started from the back of the team, and finally brought back in third, and went up to 17 positions in one race, and the Red Bull Racing team also stumbled Verstappen in the process.

But despite this, he still came to number 3.

It can be said that Verstappen's honor is well deserved.

"Congratulations to Qin Miao, although there are a lot of twists and turns in this game, at least we have won the ranking in our plan, well done!" After crossing the line, Toto's voice sounded in Qin Miao's ears.

In fact, under normal circumstances, the person chatting with Qin Miao at this stage is usually Qin Miao's track engineer Franky, and at this time, Toto came out and said that these words were more to comfort Qin Miao.

"Well, I know, thank you Toto, and thank you to everyone in the team." Qin Miao replied.

Adjusting the mode of the car to a low-power mode, Qin Miao slowly brought the car back.

By the time Qin Miao stopped the car in his place, Hamilton had already trotted all the way to the staff of the Meiben team.

Unfastened the seat belt and removed the steering wheel, Qin Miao climbed out of the car.

After reinstalling the steering wheel, Qin Miao also went to the side of the Meiben team.

Like Hamilton, Qin Miao also hugged each other and high-fived all the staff of the team in celebration.

It's just that when the staff of the Mercedes team hugged Hamilton, they were more congratulating Hamilton on another victory.

And when Qin Miao came here, although everyone had smiles on their faces, they were all comforting Qin Miao.

There is no way, Qin Miao was indeed a little unlucky in this game, and he was directly knocked out by Norris at the most critical stage.

But fortunately, the final result was quite satisfactory, and Qin Miao also brought the car back without danger.

After the celebration was over, Hamilton took the initiative to come over and hug Qin Miao: "Don't be discouraged, your performance today is great, but your luck is a little worse." ”

Normally, at this time, it would feel strange for the winner to say this to the loser.

Even if the other party doesn't mean this, these words reach the ears of the loser, and the loser will subconsciously feel that the other party is mocking him.

But listening to Hamilton's words, looking at the other party's sincere and concerned eyes, Qin Miao really didn't feel that Hamilton was yin and yang weird or that there were other superfluous meanings in his words.

Qin Miao really just felt that the other party wanted to comfort and comfort herself.

"I know, it's come to this, and I'm willing to accept this result." Qin Miao reached out and patted Hamilton on the back.

At this time, Qin Miao calmed down a little, and when he recalled the Norris torpedo incident, he was not so angry.

Hearing Qin Miao's words, Hamilton was surprised.

After all, he also came from Qin Miao's age, and the most difficult thing for a young man like this to accept is actually his own failure.

In particular, this kind of failure is not caused by one's own strength, but by luck.

Qin Miao's words once again made Hamilton look at Qin Miao with admiration.

Although there is no saying on the British side, "victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged", but there are proverbs with similar meanings.

At this time, Hamilton felt that this proverb could be used on Qin Miao's body.

"Good." patted Qin Miao's shoulder, and Hamilton weighed in.

Qin Miao was also with her, and she also said hello to Verstappen when she was on the way.

Qin Miao knew that Verstappen started from the back of the team, and it was really a bit of a surprise to see Verstappen Qin Miao here.

So I sincerely congratulated the other party.

After completing the weighing, Qin Miao came to his car and looked at the damage to his car.

Well, the bottom plate is cracked, and there are no plans to upgrade the base plate recently, so this base plate is scrapped, and the $200,000 is gone.

The side box was also broken, but fortunately, the side box of the Mercedes car was a large board and could be replaced.

So the loss of this place is not big, 30,000 US dollars, about 210,000 yuan.

After making sure that the maintenance fee would not be too outrageous, Qin Miao glanced at the right front wheel of his car again.

Then Qin Miao saw a place that made him break out in a cold sweat, that is, there was a deep scratch on the side of the right front wheel of his racing car.

Qin Miao leaned in with some surprise and took a look, it was indeed a scratch, and it was at least 1.5 centimeters deep, if nothing else, this scratch was left by the carbon fiber fragments on Norris's car when it collided with Norris's car.

If the impact force at that time was a little stronger, Qin Miao would probably not be able to bring his car back......

Thinking of that scene, Qin Miao was really a little scared in her heart.

Now Qin Miao even felt that it was acceptable for him to finally bring back the matter of only being the second time.

After a brief glance, Qin Miao was back on track.

After Qin Miao put his helmet away, he put on his hat, but Qin Miao did not go to the interview for the first time, but found Norris who was still sitting in the car for a long time and unwilling to get out of the car among the drivers behind.

Seeing Qin Miao walking towards him, Norris, who was still a little confused in his mind and a little broken in his mentality, thought that Qin Miao was here to take revenge on him.

After all, it was he who knocked him off the track, knocking out all his chances of winning the championship.

Even after thinking of this, Norris felt that it was good to be beaten by Qin Miao, at least the physical pain could relieve his mental pain.

It's just that what Norris didn't expect was that after Qin Miao walked to Norris's side, he just stretched out his hand and shook Norris: "Don't be discouraged, today's game is the protagonist, there is a saying in my hometown, how can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain."

You can be sad, but don't be discouraged, there are still many opportunities in the future.

And that crash was just a normal track accident, I don't blame you. ”

Looking at Qin Miao's sincere eyes, Norris wanted to smile at Qin Miao and express his gratitude.

But at this time, he really couldn't touch the corners of his mouth.

"Thanks, really." Qin Miao reached out and patted the hand he and Norris were holding together.

Norris also nodded in response, and after that, Qin Miao left.

After all, Qin Miao was the second place in this competition, and his unusual move of leaving the interview area was also captured by the photographer for the first time.

So everyone saw the picture of Qin Miao going to find Norris.

Then there was a scene of Qin Miao and Norris shaking hands in the broadcast footage.

"It's ...... Qin Miao took the initiative to shake hands with Norris? After seeing this scene, Brother Bing said: "One thing to say, although we didn't have the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with Qin Miao because of the epidemic, I have also watched Qin Miao's live broadcast, and he is indeed a relatively easy-going person in private."

But I really didn't expect that after this kind of thing happened, which would make ordinary people extremely angry, it was Qin Miao who took the initiative to find Norris and comfort the other party. ”

Fei Ge also echoed: "Yes, this picture alone is enough to prove Qin Miao's character." ”

……

After chatting with Norris for a while, Qin Miao returned to his familiar place, the interview seat.

At this time, Verstappen's interview had just ended, and Hamilton was being interviewed.

Qin Miao didn't hear what questions the interview host asked Hamilton, but he heard Hamilton's answer.

"That's right, this season has been a bit too difficult for me, with my teammate Qin Miao in front of me constantly widening the gap between me and Verstappen chasing me in the back.

I've been a little negative and stressed a lot lately, but this championship has helped me alleviate this problem a bit, and I can get a good night's sleep when I go back. ”

"Okay, thank you Lewis." The host smiled and thanked Hamilton, and that was the end of Hamilton's interview.

After that, at the suggestion of the host, Qin Miao took a step forward, and he was the next person to be interviewed.

"I'm sorry to see Qin Miao, you only finished second in the end, this game is a pity for you, right?"

Qin Miao nodded helplessly: "Yes, we had a good rhythm at the beginning of this game, and we got the position we wanted not long after the game started, but in the late game, a rain changed all this, and no one wanted to see such a thing happen, but this thing has happened, and I don't want to talk about it too much." ”

"Okay, we just saw you go and shake hands with Norris, can you tell us what you talked to him about?"

"It's nothing, it's just a relief to Norris, I have a good relationship with him privately, and I don't want an unintentional mistake on the field to end up souring our relationship.

At least when I found Norris, Norris looked pretty good. ”

Although he took the initiative to talk to Norris, the negative emotions of losing the championship did not subside so quickly, so after answering the host's two questions, he didn't wait for the host to continue asking.

waved his hand to the audience who came to the scene, and then Qin Miao turned around and went to the lounge behind the podium amid the applause of the audience.

The applause of the audience was mainly for the handshake between Qin Miao and Norris.

In any case, Qin Miao's generous performance just now is quite in line with universal values, and it is not surprising that he can circle a wave of fans in a short period of time.

By the time Qin Miao arrived at the rest area behind the podium, Hamilton and Verstappen were already sitting in their respective positions chatting.

When Qin Miao came in, Hamilton and Verstappen looked at Qin Miao together.

Hamilton was the first to ask, "Qin Miao, what happened in that corner of the field?" All I saw you and Norris crashing. ”

Qin Miao was helpless, this person really is, which pot is not opened.

Don't you see that buddy is uncomfortable?

However, Qin Miao did not avoid this question, picked up the water in his position, drank half a bottle in one go, and then exhaled a long breath.

After a pause, he said: "At that time, the three of us entered the corner together, and the Norris line with dry tires was not the driving line, it should have been overwhelming too much water, and the tires locked when the brakes slowed down, and I happened to enter the corner on the outside of his line. ”

Speaking of this, Qin Miao clapped his hands: "Touch!" Just bumped into it. ”

At this time, the screen in the lounge also happened to show the picture of Qin Miao and Norris colliding.

To be honest, that collision was really not light.

"You're so lucky to be able to bring the car back after an impact like this." Verstappen commented.

Qin Miao also looked at the screen and nodded: "Who said it wasn't." ”

After finishing speaking, Qin Miao looked at Hamilton with some resentment.

Although Hamilton received Qin Miao's somewhat resentful look, Hamilton was unmoved.

This is not his problem, Qin Miao was knocked out purely because of bad luck.

The three of them chatted in the lounge for a while, and then put on their respective hats under the notice of the staff, and went out to receive the awards one by one under the introduction of the host.

In previous years, the Russian Grand Prix would be present to present awards to the drivers in person, but this year he was self-isolating due to the epidemic, so he naturally couldn't attend.

As soon as the trio stood on the podium, two of the UK's national anthems began to play.

After listening to it so many times, Qin Miao could already write down the melodies of these two songs in his mind.

When listening to the national anthem, the camera was given to Toto Wolf in the audience more than once.

After all, Mei Ben brought back two cars, and Toto Wolf was still very happy at this time, and it could be seen from his expression.

After the national anthem was played, he applauded no less than the other staff around him, and the smile on his face was about to crack behind his ears.

It's just that the audience at this moment couldn't imagine that when Qin Miao and Hamilton were fighting on the field, his frowning brows were about to kill mosquitoes.

After all the podium sessions were over, the FIA side gave the driver's score after the race.

1: Hamilton +25

2: Qin Miao +18

3: Verstappen +15

4: Sainz +12

5: Ricardo +10

6: Alonso +8

7: Norris +7 (fastest lap)

8: Kimi+4

9: Pérez +2

10: Russell +1

At the end of this race, the overall drivers' standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao 266

2: Hamilton 249 (+17)

3: Verstappen 238 (+28)

4: Norris 118

5: Leclerc 111

6: Pérez 106

7: Sainz 91

8: Ricardo 83

9: Gasly 54

10: Alonso 50

11: Vettel 44

12: Ocon 35

13: Stroll 18

14: Tsunoda 12

15: Russell 10

16: Kimi5

17: Latifi 3

At the end of the match, only Alonso and Vettel, Kimi and Latifi were the only four players who changed the rankings.

The point gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton has been further narrowed, from the original 24 points difference to 17 points.

However, the gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao's original 25 points was expanded to 28 points.

However, since Verstappen opted for new engine parts for this race, Red Bull Racing was ready for the points to be expanded, so this was expected by Red Bull Racing.

At the end of the race, the Constructors' standings are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 515

2: Red Bull: 344

3: Ferrari: 202

4: McLaren: 194

5: Alpine: 85

6: Little Red Bull: 66

7: Aston Martin: 62

8: Williams: 13

9: Alfa Romeo: 5

10: Haas: 0

There are seven races left in the season, which is 308 constructors' points.

Despite this, there is no suspense about who will win the constructors' championship in this race, and now it depends on which race Mercedes will completely kill this suspense.

It is worth mentioning that the end of the Russian station was followed by the Singapore station.

However, the Singapore station was cancelled due to the Singapore government's control of the epidemic, and the Singapore station was replaced by the Turkish station.

When she learned the news in June this year, Qin Miao didn't feel much.

It's just that except for Qin Miao and Mick Tsunoda, who are newcomers who entered the F1 field in the first year, they don't have much feeling about this news, and all the other drivers are in a state of universal celebration for the appearance of this news.

Because the sensitive content was blocked for a while, sorry for the long wait.

(End of chapter)