However, the premise of all this is that Qin Miao has to catch up with Norris in front of him.

Because of the gap in vehicle performance, as well as the blocking of Qin Miao by the two cars of Little Red Bull in the period before the start of the race.

After Qin Miao overtook Stroll and Vettel pitted, the driver in front of Qin Miao became Norris, and Norris at this time was 14 seconds away from Qin Miao.

This time gap is not that Qin Miao has no confidence to catch up, after all, Qin Miao is driving a Mercedes.

Although the current Mercedes compared with Red Bull, the advantage of vehicle performance is not so obvious, and in some unsuitable tracks, Mercedes can not even beat Red Bull.

But compared to McLaren, the advantage of Mercedes is still obvious.

The only doubt may be that Qin Miao's tires may not be in good condition after chasing after him.

But now these things are handed over to the team to consider, so Qin Miao didn't continue to think deeply after just going through it in his mind.

Just run at your own pace.

After Qin Miao got rid of the two Aston Martins, he ran another lap, and the director gave the time gap between Qin Miao and Norris in front of him, as well as the proximity rate between the two.

Data shows.

Qin Miao's speed was 0.7 seconds faster than Norris.

From this point of view, it has become inevitable for Qin Miao to catch up with Norris in this game, and the only question now is how many laps it will take for Qin Miao to catch up with Norris, and after catching up with Norris, Qin Miao still has enough spare strength to chase Sainz and Ricardo in front of Norris.

On lap 20, the time gap between Qin Miao and Norris shrank from 14 seconds at the beginning to 11 seconds.

In the twentieth lap alone, Qin Miao chased Norris for two seconds.

This is mainly because Qin Miao put out a lap of electricity, so the speed is relatively fast, and Norris also encountered Ma Zeping's slow car on the track, and the speed has been affected to a certain extent.

On lap 23, Qin Miao chased behind Norris for 8.6 seconds.

Twenty-five laps, 6.5 seconds.

Twenty-nine laps, 1.5 seconds.

The proximity between Qin Miao and Norris is getting faster and faster, and Qin Miao chased Norris for 12.5 seconds in the tenth lap.

Although it seems that this proximity rate is very outrageous, this is actually Qin Miao's advantage in tire consumption.

And this advantage is getting bigger and bigger over time.

On the one hand, Qin Miao pitted two laps later than Norris, and with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, when he compared Norris horizontally, Qin Miao's tires were more and more advantageous as he ran.

On the other hand, because of the existence of systematic skills, Qin Miao's tire loss is the least in the paddock, so this is another layer of advantage.

It's just that Qin Miao also knows that no matter how good Norris has a good relationship with him in private, he will not show any mercy to his subordinates when he needs to fight with real knives and guns on the field.

Even if Norris knew he wasn't his opponent in the Circle, the two didn't even have any rivalry.

But Qin Miao understands Norris, facing himself, he will definitely not release water, and he will definitely try to make two moves with him.

Although Qin Miao didn't know what Norris's internal motivation was, with Qin Miao's understanding of Norris, he was sure that the other party would do it.

On the thirtieth lap, Qin Miao came to the DRS area behind Norris.

It's just that what Qin Miao didn't expect was that Norris didn't defend him.

In the DRS zone of T11-T12, Norris just ran at his own pace and did not take any defensive lines.

When Qin Miao overtook Norris, he just took a pinch of Norris's wake, and then pulled inside, and entered the corner side by side with Norris at the braking point, and after exiting the corner, he relied on the stronger tire grip of Qin Miao's car to get rid of Norris.

When he came out of the corner, Qin Miao glanced at Norris in some surprise.

It's just that Norris didn't look at Qin Miao at this time, but continued to run his own rhythm.

Qin Miao is really curious, Norris, this kid has changed sex? Why don't you guard against me?

But soon, as the race came to the thirty-first lap, Qin Miao knew the reason, and Norris behind him made a pit stop directly.

In fact, Norris was almost at the pit stop window assigned to him by the team.

Norris felt that he was going to pit in the next lap anyway, and it was completely unnecessary to make trouble for Qin Miao at this time, so he simply let Qin Miao go without affecting his rhythm.

If Qin Miao can surpass himself, let him surpass, and if he can't, he won't take the initiative to let Qin Miao pass.

In addition to Norris, Ricciardo, who was in front of Norris, also chose to make a pit stop.

McLaren pitted in two cars, but because there was a 10-second time gap between the two drivers, the simultaneous pit stops of both drivers did not affect their tyre change rhythm.

After McLaren's two drivers came out, they both fell behind Qin Miao, and Qin Miao also took advantage of the trend to fifth, and the position in front of him was Pérez.

Facing 8 seconds of clean air, Qin Miao naturally began to push with all his strength at this time.

However, Qin Miao had just started to speed up, and Franky's voice came from the TR: "Qin Miao, how do you feel about the current state of racing tires?" ”

At this time, Qin Miao happened to pass the three curves of T3T4T5 that were very similar to Yinshi, and when the lateral G force pressed over, Qin Miao couldn't spare his energy to speak, so after there was no bend in T19, Qin Miao replied: "It's not bad." ”

"Okay, we're doing a good job, if we can, try to protect your tires, we want to extend this one and get you new tires when the time comes."

After Qin Miao heard the arrangement of the convoy, his mind was full of question marks.

He didn't know why the team was arranged.

However, as mentioned earlier, since the two-stop tactic was used, Qin Miao didn't need to think about anything else, just trust the team's judgment.

So Qin Miao said without thinking about it: "Received." ”

Didn't ask why, didn't ask when to pit stop.

It can be understood that Qin Miao has already lost his brain at this time, and now Qin Miao is just thinking about running races, running races faster!

After the team confirmed that Qin Miao had received it, the team's simulator and data model also began to formulate a new pit stop strategy for Qin Miao based on the data from Qin Miao's main race and practice match.

On lap 33, Qin Miao caught up with Leclerc, who was in fourth place in front of him.

Don't look at Qin Miao's ranking at this time, she only ran thirty-three laps in the race before chasing from the back of the team to fifth.

However, the time gap between Leclerc and Pérez in front of him was 11 seconds, while Pérez was 21 seconds away from Verstappen in front of him, and Verstappen was 15 seconds away from Hamilton, who had not yet made a pit stop in front of him.

Although Qin Miao was less than 2 seconds away from Leclerc, Leclerc had already completed two stops at this time, and Qin Miao had only entered one station.

Counting the time when Qin Miao made a pit stop, the time gap between Qin Miao and the first Hamilton at this time was almost a minute.

Of course, Hamilton didn't make a pit stop at this time, and he only made one pit stop like Qin Miao.

……

Because he needed to protect the tires, even if he chased Leclerc in front of him, Qin Miao had no intention of making a move.

After all, Qin Miao's car is on a set of hard tires that have run for nineteen laps, while Leclerc has a new set of hard tires that have just come out to run.

Even if Leclerc's set of hard tires did not reach the right working temperature in a short period of time, Qin Miao did not have the confidence to say that he could surpass Leclerc with this set of tires that were already ruined.

So Qin Miao chose to follow Leclerc honestly, suck the wake if possible, and prepare to attack Leclerc by DRS, if it is impossible, he will always follow honestly, waiting for the team to give him instructions to pit stop.

And Leclerc is going crazy with joy at this point.

There aren't many opportunities to keep Qin Miao behind him, and today is the right time!

Just block my lane when you're playing simulators, right? You're nicknamed the Master of Defense, aren't you? Your name is Qin Miao, right?

Today I'm going to give you a taste of being locked up!

What? Bullying people with tire advantages?

Then you let Qin Miao enter the station to change tires, and I didn't stop it.

Qin Miao did try to attack Leclerc, after all, his tires were only not gripping enough when exiting and entering corners, and the role of tires in straight-line acceleration was not so important.

So Qin Miao still tried to attack in the DRS area, but as long as Leclerc stood on the inside line in advance, Qin Miao had no way at all.

Whether it is out of the corner or crossing the line, Qin Miao has no way to complete the overtaking because of the grip of the tires.

On the contrary, Qin Miao and Leclerc's several buckets made Qin Miao's tires more consumed.

The convoy reminded Qin Miao for the first time, and Qin Miao finally came down honestly.

Leclerc saw that Qin Miao had no idea of continuing to attack, and the pressure on his body was less, and most of his energy was naturally focused on his speed.

However, the 11-second gap between Leclerc and Pérez in front of him at this time is not so easy to chase.

Leclerc didn't expect to finish on the podium in this race, and he thought it would be nice to keep fourth.

Thirty-nine laps, Qin Miao's tires were grinding a little close to the limit, and the speed began to gradually fail to keep up with Leclerc.

However, the good news is that the time gap between Qin Miao and Ricardo behind him has been widening, and now the time gap between the two is 16 seconds.

In other words, if Qin Miao pits, he will not lose too many positions, and because he is replaced with neutral tires, Qin Miao will have a faster speed than the driver in front of him.

In the fortieth lap, Qin Miao finally heard the sound of heaven: "Box, Qin Miao, box." ”

"Roger!"

The director also released Qin Miao's chat with the team at this time.

As soon as the picture turned, the audience saw Qin Miao driving into the maintenance area.

Although the Meiben team asked Qin Miao to wait for them to be notified of their pit stop, Red Bull guessed that Meiben should want to change Qin Miao into neutral tires.

After all, it was too early to change to soft tires at that time, and it was too late to change to hard tires, and only medium tires were barely suitable.

But after seeing the neutral tire in the hand of the Meiben technician, Red Bull also began to get nervous.

With Qin Miao's offensive ability, maybe he can really get a few more positions in this game, and if he catches up with a podium position, it will be troublesome......

"Qin Miao actually changed to a yellow tire this time?!" Even Zhou Haoran, who was the commentator, was surprised when he saw the tire in the hand of Mei Ben's tire changer.

Wang Yang said: "Qin Miao's set of white tires has run for twenty-six laps in this game, and since Mei Ben chose to let Qin Miao run such a long stint with white tires, he should want Qin Miao to do more things with a set of yellow tires in the later stage of the race." ”

Li Bao asked with some concern: "Now there are still sixteen laps before the end of the race, Qin Miao's yellow tires are to be used to chase the drivers in front, can his yellow tires last until the end of the race?" ”

"It's a real concern." Wang Yang also nodded and began to worry about Qin Miao.

On the contrary, Zhou Haoran held his hands to his chest, and said more confidently than the strategy group of the Meiben team: "Actually, don't worry about this, Qin Miao's tire protection ability is not weaker than his defensive ability at all, I have seen Qin Miao's lap record since entering F1."

Compared to other riders, Qin Miao's lap time exhaustion speed was the slowest, and even this speed was slower than Pérez's.

This also means that Qin Miao's tires are slower than other drivers.

So if nothing else, the next period of time is the time for Qin Miao to push forward the pursuit with all his might. ”

When changing the tire, the team gave Qin Miao a little strength, and the tire changer on the left front wheel made a tire change mistake when changing the tire, and after removing the old tire, the new tire was not installed for the first time.

Take it off a little bit and then install it before installing it in place.

And this mistake brought Qin Miao a 3.4-second tire change.

Of course, this is just a little bit of intensity, and after Qin Miao came out, he did not fall behind Norris, but in a position 4 seconds in front of Norris.

This is the same position as estimated by the team's strategy team, except that the time gap between Sainz and Sainz has been changed from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.

Of course, Qin Miao saw the team's mistake very openly, as long as he didn't let himself fall out of position, time or something, as long as there was no other driver blocking him, he could still easily catch it back.

On lap 41, Qin Miao spent a lap to raise her neutral tires to the right working temperature and shorten the gap between herself and Sainz.

The time gap between him and Sainz at this point was 1.4 seconds.

After crossing the finish line of the forty-first lap, Qin Miao began to launch an attack on Sainz in front of him.

Sainz found Qin Miao standing and fell behind him, and began to raise his morale.

However, he found that Qin Miao came behind him, but he was not like other drivers, slowing down the car to recharge the battery, preparing to deal with Qin Miao's attack.

Instead, he continued to pick up speed and began to pursue Ricardo in front of him.

Sainz knew that Qin Miao's tires were not only newer than his own, but also neutral tires, and with the addition of the name Qin Miao, Sainz didn't feel that he had any chance of winning under normal defense.

So there are only other ways to defend, such as the DRS train, which is hated by all midfield riders.

Sainz was only 1.5 seconds away from Ricardo in front of him.

On the forty-second lap, Qin Miao had already chased to the DRS area behind Sainz, but looking at Ricardo in front of Sainz, Qin Miao was a little sore and stunned.

MD, it's DRS train again!

At this time, it was already in the late stage of the game, and Qin Miao could not choose to pit under cut like he did when he encountered the DRS train of Little Red Bull.

So in the face of another DRS train, all Qin Miao can do at this time is to be hard.

Glancing at the power of his battery, Qin Miao asked again in the team TR: "How is the fuel situation of my car?" ”

"The temperature is normal, there is a margin of about 1.7 laps, and you can do whatever you want." Frankie naturally saw Qin Miao's predicament at this time, so he gave Qin Miao the information he wanted to know most at this time.

After getting the answer he wanted, Qin Miao also knew where his limit was.

On the forty-third lap, Qin Miao's power came to 90%.

Although it was not yet 100%, Qin Miao felt that this was enough.

Medium tyres are more than enough to make up for this 10% shortfall.

After crossing the finish line, Qin Miao began to approach Sainz quickly.

However, Qin Miao did not try to discharge with all his might on the big straight.

This is because the DRS area of the Grand Straight is not long enough compared to the DRS between T11 and T12.

Therefore, Qin Miao used most of the power to follow Sainz in the first and second time segments, so as not to be pulled away too much by him.

And Sainz naturally found that the distance between Qin Miao and himself was a little too close.

Sainz knew that Qin Miao should be ready to do it to himself in this circle.

In terms of Qin Miao's tires and the performance of the Mercedes car, Qin Miao in the DRS area of the second time section is really likely to surpass himself and Ricardo in front of him in one fell swoop.

Sainz naturally couldn't be caught with his hands tied, otherwise he wouldn't have found Qin Miao appearing behind him and began to chase Ricardo in front of him and Ricardo to form a DRS train to defend Qin Miao behind.

So after T9 came out of the corner until the middle of T11, Sainz took the defensive line, and Ricardo in front also found the threat behind him, and after noticing Sainz's movements, he actually took the initiative to slow down his speed.

Apparently wanting to continue to supply Sainz with DRS and wake.

Ricciardo hasn't had a particularly good time since the move to McLaren, one of the few races he has been able to run against his team-mate Norris this season.

So in the face of Qin Miao behind him, Ricardo didn't want to give up his position so simply.

In this way, the two of them just blocked Qin Miao's two out-of-curve routes.

Faced with this situation, all Qin Miao could think of was the intersection line.

And that's not all, when it came to the braking point, Sainz, who was on the inside line, deliberately braked early.

When Qin Miao came to the outside line and was about to take the cross line, he found that which Ferrari of Sainz was still in the corner, and he blocked the exit line of the cross line tightly, you must know that at this time, Ricardo had already begun to accelerate out of the corner.

There is no way, the intersection line can't be walked, so Qin Miao can only take the normal driving line.

However, because Qin Miao walked the way of taking the cross line, he wasted a lot of time, and he was about 0.3 seconds slower after coming out of the corner.

This wave has to be said that Sainz predicted Qin Miao's thoughts.

Qin Miao didn't expect that Sainz still had such a strong desire to defend himself.

On the other hand, Sainz's exit from the corner was also affected to a certain extent because of his deliberate slowing speed, but the distance he walked was shorter than Qin Miao's after all, so Sainz was still in front of Qin Miao after the corner.

Then, because Sainz had the advantage of line power, T11 began to suppress Qin Miao's exit line when he came out of the corner.

Qin Miao also knew that the track was not his own at this time, and when he saw Sainz pressing over, he could only drive out of the track helplessly.

Therefore, by the time Qin Miao returned to the track again, Sainz had already run away.

However, Qin Miao did not give up, and the three ways to increase the speed of the car were fully opened.

After all, he didn't release the throttle when he ran off the track, and he was pulled away by Sainz only because the outside of the track was dirty after he ran outside the track, and he didn't have enough grip, so he couldn't speed up fast.

But after Qin Miao returned to the track, Qin Miao could barely absorb a little of Sainz's wake, coupled with the performance blessing of the Mercedes car.

Qin Miao immediately stopped the ever-expanding distance between herself and Sainz.

Then he began to visibly shorten the time gap between himself and Sainz.

It is worth mentioning that because of the deliberate slowdown to block Qin Miao's crossing line, even Ricciardo also slowed down his pace, and Sainz was still pulled away by Ricciardo.

So the time gap between Sainz and Ricardo in front of him was 1.6 seconds, and Sainz was still able to suck Ricciardo's wake, but the effect was limited.

In addition, because he had to defend Qin Miao, there was no way to replenish the power consumed at this time.

Therefore, Sainz's acceleration was much slower than Qin Miao's.

In the end, Qin Miao was about two-thirds of the way through the DRS Grand Straight and took advantage of the car's sheer speed to overtake Sainz before braking points.

At this time, Sainz, who was on the inside defense, was also ready to repeat his old tricks, ready to brake late to block Qin Miao's exit line.

But Qin Miao also raised the alert level for Sainz at this time, deliberately avoiding Sainz, and after Sainz crossed him with a late brake, he walked away from the small crossing.

Sainz could only watch Qin Miao's racing car arrive first, and finally looked at the charging light flashing on Qin Miao's racing buttocks and sighed.

In fact, if Sainz had been on the line normally, relying on the help provided by Ricardo DRS, Sainz would not have been taken down by Qin Miao so quickly, but in the face of Qin Miao's attack, Sainz was still a little too eager.

He wanted to prove to all the Ferrari fans who questioned him that he was no worse than Qin Miao.

One thing to say, aside from the Ferrari seat and the matter of cat meat, Qin Miao really has no opinion on Sainz.

And it's been so long since the Ferrari seat, Qin Miao is not a grudge, he has lived well in Meiben.

It can even be said that when Qin Miao defeated Leclerc and Sainz in the first Grand Prix of his career, all his negative views and resentment towards Ferrari disappeared.

After all, you can't turn down someone who pushes you into a better future.

Now it seems that Sainz himself can't let go of this matter.

It's also possible.

One day in the future, Sainz will indeed prove to all Ferrari fans that he is no worse than Qin Miao, a first-year freshman, and that he is worthy of the Ferrari driver's seat.

But by no means today!

(End of chapter)