There was also rain in the pre-race anthem and oath-taking session for the twenty riders.

But the rain was not heavy, it was a light rain that would take two or three minutes to get wet if you stood in the rain without an umbrella.

Despite this, the drivers also switched to semi-wet tyres in the preparation phase.

After all, as long as there's a little water on the track, Norris in the last Russian Grand Prix stage will tell you how slippery it really is.

Before the start of the race, Qin Miao's inner emotions were a little complicated, on the one hand, it would be more difficult for Hamilton to catch up with him in a happy and rainy state.

Without Qin Miao doing anything, the four Red Bull drivers behind would not have let Hamilton catch up so easily.

On the other hand, I am also worried that I will not perform well in this rain.

After all, behind him is Verstappen, with his and Verstappen's position in the standings, Verstappen will definitely spare no effort to attack Qin Miao in this game.

However, when Qin Miao sat in his own car, the worries in his mind were automatically thrown out of Qin Miao's mind.

The other Qin Miao couldn't control it, but Qin Miao knew that if he wanted to get a good result on this track that he was satisfied with, the only thing he could control was to do everything he could do as much as possible.

After some preparation, Reyes also explained to Qin Miao again in front of Qin Miao the weather conditions and wind direction on the track, as well as some details that Qin Miao needed to pay attention to.

After Qin Miao went through Reyes's words in his mind, he gave Reyes a thumbs up and signaled that he understood.

Then all the team engineers on the track evacuated to both sides of the track, and the race was about to begin.

With the two green lights on, Qin Miao drove his car away from his grid.

Because of the accumulation of rain, Qin Miao had just started running, and the mist raised by Qin Miao's rear wheel had already affected Verstappen's vision behind him somewhat

And not long after Qin Miao started, he also ushered in another news from the team, which I don't know if it is good or bad.

"Qin Miao, according to the forecast of the meteorological department, this rain may last for the whole game." There was also some worry in Frankie's tone.

"Got it." Qin Miao replied.

However, at this time, Qin Miao didn't have the same worries in her heart as Frankie.

No matter how many tangled and chaotic thoughts Qin Miao had in his heart before the start of the race, as long as he sat in the cockpit of the racing car, all the negative emotions in Qin Miao's heart would always be dispelled by a sense of security.

It's like returning to my mother's arms, my childhood swaddling clothes.

Qin Miao, who had no distractions, finished the warm-up lap of the Turkish Grand Prix and stopped at his position.

With the pursuing vehicle in the rear in place.

Five red lights come on and go out.

At the moment when the five red lights went out, Qin Miao instantly ejected.

Surprisingly, with a dibuff like rain, Qin Miao's start was unexpectedly good.

And Verstappen's start behind Qin Miao's left can only be regarded as decent, while Leclerc's start behind Qin Miao is slightly better than Verstappen's, but there is no way to do it as fast as Qin Miao.

Therefore, Qin Miao did not feel too much pressure after this start, and in the process of coming all the way to T1, Qin Miao paid most of his attention to the track in front of him, except for occasionally glancing at his rearview mirror to determine the position of the two drivers who threatened him.

Thanks to the fact that most of her attention was on the track, Qin Miao actually quickly opened up the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen behind after the first time session.

"It's a good start, keep it up." After the start was over, Qin Miao's TR resounded with Frankie's encouragement.

"Roger, keep an eye on the weather for me." Qin Miao replied and instructed.

"I'll let you know as soon as there's a situation." Frankie replied.

Although I don't know if the Red Bull in the rear is in any trouble, after starting, Qin Miao feels that the speed of Verstappen behind him is obviously not as fast as his own.

So just one lap later, Qin Miao, who was pushing with all his might, shook off the gap of more than a second behind Verstappen behind him.

However, in Qin Miao's opinion, the time gap of 1 second is not enough insurance, so Qin Miao still continues to expand the time gap between himself and Verstappen.

After lap 1, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen behind him reached 1.2 seconds.

Without any interference, Qin Miao's rain battle ability is actually barely watchable, after all, the system forcibly gave him so many points, Qin Miao at least the speed of the lap will not be too slow.

Hamilton, on the other hand, was already ninth at this time, and he went straight up two places from the start.

Hamilton overtook two drivers, one Alonso and the other Sebastian Vettel.

Alonso collided with Gasly after a turn 1 at the start, and the car skidded off the track and turned 360 degrees.

Red Bull driver Gasly was solely responsible for the collision and was given a five-second penalty following the subsequent FIA investigation.

However, compared to Alonso, this punishment is actually not too heavy.

Readers who have run in F1 know that when a Formula 1 car skidds or makes a mistake at the beginning of the track, that position is really brushed off.

By the time Alonso got his car back on the track and was back on the track, Alonso, who had started from fifth, had fallen to 18th.

A number is no longer enough to describe Alonso's on-track accident.

There was no such accident at Vettel, Hamilton was directly ahead of Vettel, and this time the overtaking relied on pure racing performance, so there was nothing to go into detail.

After completing the start without any danger, Qin Miao started his own cruise, and kept widening the time gap between him and Verstappen behind him during the cruise.

Not only was Qin Miao surprised that his speed in the rain battle was actually faster than Verstappen, but Red Bull and Mercedes were also surprised by this.

Red Bull made a mess of porridge and began to hurriedly check if there was something wrong with Verstappen's car.

However, they don't know what kind of people from Meiben's side they can find, anyway, they are very happy to see the picture of Verstappen not being able to catch up with Qin Miao.

At the beginning of the game, they were still worried about Qin Miao, but now that they look at it, this worry is completely unnecessary.

On lap 5, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen behind him came to 2 seconds.

After reaching this time gap, Qin Miao did not continue to open the time gap with Verstappen.

Although the team has already told Qin Miao, according to the calculations of the meteorological department, this rain may last a whole race.

However, the team's weather department didn't say that the rain would definitely last the whole race, so there is a chance that the track conditions will improve later on.

In order to cope with the changes in the track environment near the late stage, Qin Miao still preferred that his set of semi-rain tires last longer, so after there was no threat from Verstappen behind him, Qin Miao entered the tire-protecting cruising mode.

Keep your lap time at around 1:35.700 and your speed will not fluctuate by more than ±0.1 seconds.

And Verstappen's side has wanted to get closer to Qin Miao several times, after all, there is still a gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen in points, and the two also need to work hard for the first drivers' championship in their careers.

But Verstappen only caught up behind Qin Miao on the ninth lap, but after this he arrived, Verstappen couldn't do anything, because when he chased here, the team reminded Verstappen that his tires were overheated, and if he continued to run like this, the life of the tires would be much shorter than the team calculated.

In the end, Verstappen could only reluctantly slow down his speed again, and wanted to keep running behind Qin Miao within 1.5 seconds.

But Qin Miao obviously couldn't give you Verstappen a chance to attack him, so Qin Miao quickly opened the gap.

Although the follow-up Verstappen is still constantly trying to attack Qin Miao, Qin Miao can always speed up a little bit before Verstappen wants to catch up with him, so the time gap between the two has changed back and forth, but neither of them has broken out into a real grappling until the end of this game.

Therefore, the director basically didn't give these two people any shots in this game, and the director's camera has been on Hamilton, who is constantly chasing forward.

After all, compared to the two drivers in front of them who were running boring laps, it was obviously Hamilton's overtaking show in the rear that was more interesting.

It is worth mentioning that by the 10th lap of the race, Sainz, who had been penalized for changing the engine, had already chased to the eleventh.

The speed of the pursuit is not unfast.

At this time, Hamilton had already reached seventh and began to pursue Norris in front of him.

On lap 11, Hamilton overtook Norris, who was not even defending Hamilton.

It may also be that he knows the difference in strength and vehicle performance between himself and Hamilton, and there is no obvious conflict of interest between the two in terms of points, so it is understandable that Norris chose to keep the tire rather than defend Hamilton.

After Hamilton overtook Norris in front of him, he was just four seconds away from Gasly in front of him.

And in those 4 seconds, Hamilton ran a flying lap alone without any impact.

After the lap, Hamilton's stats showed that he was 1.5 seconds faster than Qin Miao's lap.

After knowing Hamilton's pursuit speed, the three commentators of Five Star Sports were really taken aback.

But soon they were at ease, after all, there was a Gasly in front of Hamilton, a Perez, a Leclerc, a Verstappen, and then Qin Miao.

Since Qin Miao joined Mercedes, there has never been a moment like this for the three commentators of Five Star Sports, hoping that the Red Bull drivers can beat Hamilton.

On lap 15, Hamilton overtook Gasly in front of him.

This overtaking was purely a crushing of the car's performance, and there was nothing to say.

After passing Gasly, Hamilton was seven seconds ahead of Pérez.

On lap 17, Hamilton ran almost unreservedly for the 17 laps as he continued to chase the driver in front of him.

As a result, Hamilton's tires degraded in advance, and the tread pattern on the inside of Hamilton's semi-rainy tires has been completely smoothed.

On the other hand, Qin Miao's side, the tires are still in good condition, and the tread pattern has become shallower, but there is still good drainage performance.

On lap 20, Verstappen, who was behind Qin Miao, finally chose to give up attacking Qin Miao.

Can't catch up, really can't catch up.

And Qin Miao's speed is still the speed that Qin Miao ran out of a reserved state, and Leclerc in the back was pulled by Verstappen to 9 seconds, but Verstappen still couldn't catch up with Qin Miao.

Once Verstappen entered the alert zone of 1.5 seconds behind Qin Miao, Qin Miao would speed up a little, widening the gap to 2 seconds.

So the time gap between the two is fixed at about 2.5 seconds, and the overall speed of both men has decreased.

On lap 22, Norris blew the horn for a pit stop and switched to a new set of semi-wet tyres in the pits.

McLaren, for their part, was betting that it would rain like this throughout the game, so they called Norris in early, and then Norris had 11 seconds of clean air in front of him.

On lap 28, Frankie routinely asked Qin Miao: "How are the tires?" ”

Qin Miao could just see the tread of his right front wheel at this angle, and after glancing at it, Qin Miao replied while brushing the fastest lap: "It's not bad, the tire should be able to hold on for a while." ”

"Okay, please continue to protect the tires, if you can, your set of tires may be used until the end of the race."

Frankie's words surprised Qin Miao: "Can you run directly?" ”

"Yes, but we will also adjust at any time according to the situation on the field, and I will let you know as soon as there is any situation."

In the FIA rules, there is no explicit requirement for drivers to pit once to change tyres in case of rain.

The law is nothing to do, and the same is true of the F1 rules set out in the FIA.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many team engineers who study the rules set by the FIA day and night just to be able to exploit the loopholes in the rules.

The chat between Qin Miao and Frankie happened to be released by the director, and when the slow motion of the scene was given to Qin Miao's racing tires, it was obvious that there were still treads on the tire table of Qin Miao's right front wheel.

"Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus is really too strong." Looking at the tread pattern on Qin Miao's tires, Brother Bing sighed.

"It's been 28 laps, and Qin Miao's right front wheel has only a little bit of wear and tear, but the tread is much shallower." Fei Ge also nodded.

On lap 30, Pérez stayed behind him for a full 15 laps, while Hamilton was still behind Pérez.

Of course, it's not that Hamilton didn't attack Pérez, it's mainly that Hamilton was shortening the time gap between himself and Pérez in the previous period.

By this time, Hamilton's tyres were no longer grippy, and like other drivers, Hamilton's half-wet tyre tread had been worn out, and Hamilton had begun to use his semi-wet tyres as a softer slick tyre.

Although there were already many corners on the track by this time, most of the area was still covered by rain, so Hamilton couldn't get up to speed.

Instead, it was Qin Miao, who had already widened the time gap between himself and Verstappen to 5.2 seconds.

Everyone is very strange at this moment, why was Verstappen, who was 0.2 seconds faster than Qin Miao per lap on average in a dry field, why was he pressed and beaten by Qin Miao in the rain battle that Qin Miao was not good at?

On lap 33, Hamilton finally got behind Pérez and began to try to attack Pérez.

The director also focused on the two drivers.

On lap 35, after two laps of pursuit, Hamilton finally found an opportunity to attack Pérez and put on a brilliant round-to-wheel battle in the third time period.

And this round-to-round offensive and defensive battle is the only relatively exciting offensive and defensive battle in this game.

The two battled four corners before finally deciding the winner.

In the end, Pérez also relied on his resolute defense and several crossings to hold Hamilton's attack.

After all, after driving in the paddock for so many years, Pérez is not as talented as a talented player like Qin Miao.

But Pérez definitely has plenty of experience.

Although he was still a little uncomfortable with the overly sensitive front direction of Red Bull Racing, Pérez's rich racing experience allowed him to make the right choice in the right place.

Pérez also ended up defending Hamilton's attack.

It is worth mentioning that when the two were attacking and defending, Pérez was once squeezed by Hamilton to the entrance of the pit lane.

On lap 37, after Red Bull found out that Verstappen really couldn't catch up with Qin Miao, he called Verstappen in through the team TR.

If he continued to use the old tires to follow Qin Miao, Verstappen would only be able to mix a second place in this race.

But at this time, Pérez and Hamilton have been in a state of entanglement, so the time gap between the two and Leclerc in front of him has reached 20 seconds.

At this time, Verstappen can get stuck in front of Pérez after the tire change comes out, and there will be a lot of clean air in front of Verstappen after the pit stop tire change.

Verstappen came in and out right in front of Pérez and behind Leclerc.

And at this time, all the pressure came to Mei Ben and Qin Miao's side.

At this time, an option was placed in front of the staff of the strategy group of the Meiben team, Verstappen behind Qin Miao made a pit stop, does Qin Miao also need to pit together?

They only had one lap to think about it and make a decision before Qin Miao pitted for the next lap.

The good news is that because of the time advantage created by Qin Miao before the pit stop, both the Meiben team and Qin Miao herself will be more calm when facing the choice.

After all, even if he made a pit stop, Qin Miao still had a time advantage over Verstappen after he came out.

The Meiben team is actually more inclined to let Qin Miao pit and change tires.

Although Qin Miao's tires are in good condition now, and the most worn right front wheel has just shown signs of being smoothed out, the team still feels that Qin Miao's pit stop tire change is a little safer.

However, Qin Miao is a driver after all, and his feeling of driving the car is sometimes more correct than the team's judgment, so the team still consulted Qin Miao's intentions.

"Do you want to come in?"

Qin Miao felt that he could finish this race directly, but he really didn't know whether he should pit or not.

So Qin Miao said honestly: "If there are no rules in the race that require you to enter a pit stop even in the rainy state, I feel that I can run the whole race with this set of tires."

But if you want me to pit now, I won't say no. ”

After hearing Qin Miao's words, Frankie knew that Qin Miao wanted them to help Qin Miao make a decision, so Frankie quickly chatted with the staff of the team's strategy team, and after getting the reply from the strategy team, Frankie said in the team's TR: "Okay, BOX, pit for the next lap." ”

"Okay."

On lap 38, Qin Miao chose to pit and change to a new semi-rain tire.

After coming out, Qin Miao fell behind Leclerc and in front of Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao and Verstappen are one after the other, and no matter how against the sky, Verstappen can't chase Qin Miao with a time gap of 5 seconds in one out circle.

Pérez helped Verstappen block Hamilton behind him, and also helped Qin Miao.

But Red Bull didn't do it because Verstappen was too slow today.

After Qin Miao came out, he was 6 seconds away from Leclerc in front and 4.5 seconds away from Verstappen in the back, which was a relatively comfortable position.

Now what Qin Miao needs to study is whether Leclerc in front of him will choose to pit stop, and if Leclerc wants to finish this race with his current set of semi-rain tires, how can Qin Miao surpass the other party.

Qin Miao's lap speed in the rainy state is guaranteed, but the overtaking ability is really average, and Qin Miao didn't dare to pack a ticket and say that he would definitely be able to surpass Leclerc in front of him.

Of course, there are still twenty laps before the end of the race at this time, and if Leclerc really doesn't pit stop, Qin Miao still has a long time and opportunity to try to overtake Leclerc.

It is worth mentioning that in the same lap of Qin Miao's pit stop, Vettel also chose to pit stop.

It's just that unlike other drivers who pit for semi-wet tyres, Sebastian Vettel pits for medium tyres.

So predictably, Vettel started to skid all the way out of the pits.

Although there were already lines on many corners of the track at this time, it was different from what Martin expected, although there were already lines on the track, Vettel on hard tyres was still very slippery after driving the car up, and there was no grip on the line at all.

Of course, it was just a gamble for Martin.

It's just that they lost the bet.

But the losing bet was a wake-up call to all the other teams that the track conditions did not allow them to use dry tyres.

Like the Martin team, many teams who saw obvious lines on the track and wanted their drivers to pit for dry tyres were immediately dispelled by the unrealistic ideas in their minds. (End of chapter)