Finally, after discussing with the team, Hamilton first pulled a wake for Qin Miao, and then Qin Miao pulled a wake for Hamilton.

This arrangement seems to be very reasonable, neither of them suffers, but in fact, Qin Miao still suffers a little bit compared to Hamilton.

After all, the track conditions are certainly not as good as those of the drivers who run first.

But there is no way, although Toto said that he would not interfere with the competition between himself and Hamilton, but compared with Qin Miao, Mei Ben subconsciously still subconsciously favored Hamilton.

Qin Miao couldn't say anything about this, after all, he was new.

And compared to Hamilton's contribution to the Mercedes team, Qin Miao didn't feel that there was anything to be indignant about this special treatment.

And after Toto's words, at least on the surface, Qin Miao will not encounter the uneven distribution of resources within the team, and Qin Miao is already very satisfied with the current state.

In the first flight lap of Q3, Hamilton did not compromise on the big straight from T17 to T1 to pull the wake for Qin Miao, according to the team's estimates, this flight lap was just in this straight, Hamilton saved Qin Miao 0.3 seconds.

And Qin Miao did not live up to the wake that Hamilton pulled for himself, and completed this flight circle without any mistakes in the follow-up.

After crossing the line, Qin Miao's score was 1:16.111, and she temporarily came to the first place.

Verstappen, who finished second, clocked just 1:16.225.

Red Bull's side naturally discovered Mei Ben's tail pulling tactics for the first time, but after looking at Pérez, Red Bull's strategy group couldn't open this mouth.

With only enough time left for the drivers to continue running one flight lap on the track, Red Bull could not afford to sacrifice Verstappen for Pérez's time.

It is even more impossible to let Pérez give Verstappen a wake for the sake of Verstappen's results.

You would have changed any Grand Prix, Red Bull's strategy team would have dared to do that in such a situation, but today the game was in Mexico.

As Pérez's home turf, Red Bull would rather have neither Verstappen nor Perez enjoy the wake provided by their teammates, rather than favour one over the other.

So even if Red Bull found out about Mercedes' trailer tactics, they couldn't do anything, and this feeling was really like eating a fly, which was very disgusting.

They can only pinch their noses and admit this dumb man.

On the last lap of Q3, Qin Miao pulled a wave of wake to Hamilton.

It is worth mentioning that Hamilton's flight circle started relatively early, so after helping Hamilton pull the wake, Qin Miao still has enough time to run another flight lap on the track before the countdown ends.

However, thanks to Qin Miao's wake on the last lap, Hamilton's last lap time entered the 1:15 second mark and came to 1:15.981, successfully taking pole position.

In the last flight lap, Qin Miao made an obvious mistake of over-fueling in the second time section, and the rear wheel lost grip after the race.

Although Qin Miao reacted quickly and rescued the car as soon as possible, Qin Miao also lost the opportunity to refresh his performance in the last flight lap of Q3.

The good news, however, was that Verstappen had a poor finish on his final lap due to the lack of a team-mate to help him pull his wake.

In the end, when Q3 was stopped, Verstappen, like Qin Miao, did not refresh his fastest time, and both used his first flight lap in Q3 to become his qualifying speed.

In the end, in the midst of the celebrations in the P room of the Mercedes team, the Mercedes took the front row on a track that was not considered their traditional strong plan.

Hamilton took pole position, Qin Miao was second, and Verstappen Perez, the two Red Bull drivers, started in the second row.

Although everyone knows that the Rodriguez Brothers Circuit is too long on the straights, a driver who starts from pole position can easily be sucked into the wake by the driver behind him if he does not start as fast as the third driver behind him, which in turn threatens his pole position by the car behind him.

But no one on the Mercedes side gave up on pole position for that reason.

They still have a clear distinction between the most important and the other.

At the end of the day, the drivers were ranked as follows:

1: Hamilton

2: Qin Miao

3: Verstappen

4: Pérez

5: Gasly

6: Sainz

7: Ricardo

8: Leclerc

9: Tsunoda

10: Norris

11: Sebastian Vettel

12： Kimi

13: Russell

14: Giovinaz

15: Ocon

16: Alonso

17: Latifi

18: Mick

19: Ma Zeping

20: Stroll

However, at the start of the grid, Russell, Tsunoda, Norris, Ocon, and Stroll were all punished for retiring to the end of the team because they had replaced the new engine like Qin Miao in the previous race.

At the end of the season, basically all the drivers have used up the number of engines required by the FIA, so at this time, they can only tighten their belts and reluctantly accept the FIA's punishment.

After qualifying, Hamilton, Qin Miao and Verstappen naturally went to the post-race interview.

Qin Miao was quite satisfied with his ranking, so he was still relatively relaxed during the post-game interview, and Hamilton also hugged Qin Miao's shoulder and thanked Qin Miao.

After all, in the wake of the last lap, Qin Miao really came out of Hamilton and pulled all the way to the brake point.

Without Qin Miao's unsparing efforts to pull the wake for himself, Hamilton knew that he might not be able to break through the 1 point 15 mark at his own speed.

After the interview ended, Qin Miao's day's work was also over.

I went back to the hotel and took a comfortable shower, and then I didn't do anything, and went straight to bed.

The next day, Sunday, is the day of the start of the Mexico main draw.

There were 360,000 more fans at the race today than on Friday and Saturday combined.

In the eyes of these people, the epidemic is as if it does not exist, and what stands out is a continuation of music and dancing.

Basically, all the stands that can be seen are full of fans, and the places where people can stand and those who can't stand are also crowded with fans in twos and threes.

After the two-day Grand Prix, Qin Miao had a vague hunch, he felt that this group of people supporting Pérez might just be incidental, and the real purpose of their coming to this Grand Prix was to participate in a large party, a large entertainment event and the like.

To put it simply, it's a bunch of fun people.

Sunday's pre-race press conference and pre-race driver parade went well, and Qin Miao also saw a lot of compatriots here, and it was rare to see several fans wearing white Mercedes jerseys in a large crowd of fans in black Red Bull jerseys.

Qin Miao naturally took out her mobile phone, took a photo of them, and posted it directly on social media, thanking them for coming to the scene to support her, and said that she would definitely do her best.

This method was also taught to Qin Miao by the old man, which can increase the retention rate of fans and attract fans who like you to come to the scene to watch your race.

Seriously, compared to driving skills and knowledge of car tuning, what Hamilton taught Qin Miao the most was how to operate his fans and how to get along with his fans.

Although some of them don't fit in with his profession, at least what Hamilton teaches does work.

After all, so far, even if it is the home of Red Bull's Red Bull Ring, Qin Miao has also seen Chinese fans cheering for him at the scene.

However, there is also the result of Qin Miao's own efforts, but Qin Miao can't deny the role that Hamilton taught him to play in this.

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Soon, all the preparatory activities before the race were over, and Qin Miao returned to the familiar racing cockpit.

After all the pre-match preparations were completed, Reyes routinely reached out and shook Qin Miao before withdrawing.

"Come on, race, we are waiting for your good news in room P."

Qin Miao's other hand also stretched out and patted the back of Reyes' hand and said, "Don't worry, just watch me perform." ”

After chatting with Qin Miao, Reyes and the others withdrew from the track with their equipment.

With two green lights on, two black Mercedes cars drove out of their grid.

Soon, the warm-up lap was over, and Qin Miao found that Hamilton was obviously frantically suppressing the distance between the drivers behind him and the drivers before he stopped on the grid.

Compared with Hamilton, Qin Miao is more calm, Hamilton is still pressing the driver behind him, and when he wants to let himself enter the grid later, Qin Miao is the first to stop in his position.

Half a minute later, the drivers behind them stopped on the grid one after another.

Qin Miao is very relaxed at this time, there is no pressure to win the championship, and the points are also in a worry-free position, it can be said that Qin Miao at this time is the most relaxed driver in the whole race.

But soon Qin Miao regretted it......

With Stroll, who was in last place, in his own grid position, the pursuers behind were in position.

As the green flag waved in the rear, the five red lights began to light up one by one.

Qin Miao began to instinctively increase the speed of the engine, staring at the indicator light in the distance.

"Five red lights...... Extinguish! ”

"The Mexican Grand Prix is on!"

"Qin Miao's start here is relatively average, he didn't quickly shorten the gap between himself and the driver in front of him like in the previous Grand Prix!"

'Verstappen got off to a very good start and we could clearly see that Verstappen was coming straight from behind.

"Will Hamilton be able to hold his place?"

On the track, Verstappen actually started better than either Mercedes driver, but it wasn't too big.

This advantage is basically negligible on a normal track, and it can be said that Verstappen does not have any starting advantage.

But the Rodriguez Brothers circuit is different, and the big straights on this track are a little too long.

The most immediate effect of the long start straight was that Verstappen had enough distance to suck Hamilton's wake and take advantage of his modest advantage to increase it a little bit.

But that's just for the top three.

If you don't look at the first three drivers, but look directly at Pérez and Gasly behind Verstappen, the gap between them and the three drivers in front of them has been opened up to the point where they can get into their respective lanes.

So it's not that Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't start well, but that the three of them started very well.

As the saying goes, there is no harm if there is no comparison, and when the three of them started well, at first glance, it is natural to feel that the three of them have not started well.

Soon, as he continued to accelerate, Verstappen got closer and closer to the rear of Hamilton's car, but the position between Qin Miao and Hamilton did not change much.

After all, Qin Miao, like Hamilton, didn't have a car in front of them to suck the wake.

Moreover, the engine performance of the two cars is similar, and it is unrealistic to want to quickly open up the gap with other drivers at the start when there is not much difference in air resistance and there are no mistakes in the start.

However, Verstappen made a tap on Hamilton's outside before he reached the braking point, and took advantage of the wake to form a side-by-side situation with Hamilton before the braking point.

The reason why Verstappen doesn't take the inside line is mainly because Qin Miao is on the inside line at this time, Verstappen is just reckless when driving, and he is not stupid, can he forcibly squeeze the gap between the two Mercedes drivers, can he squeeze it in first, what if he gets sandwiched after squeezing in?

At the same time, Qin Miao also followed a Perez behind him.

Although Pérez's start was not as fast as Qin Miao's, relying on the advantage bonus of the late wake, Pérez still caught up with Qin Miao before the braking point and got behind Qin Miao's car.

Pérez, meanwhile, has a McLaren on the inside.

And we all know that Norris was sent to the back of the team because he changed the engine of the car, so the McLaren who appeared on Pérez's inside line at this time could only be Ricardo.

Ricciardo's start to this race was also very good, and it can even be said that his start was better than Hamilton, Verstappen, Qin Miao, all three drivers.

As a result, he started seventh on the grid without finishing the first straight from the dirty side all the way to fifth, and based on his position at this point, he is likely to squeeze past home driver Pérez in this race and move him to fourth.

However, the place where Ricciardo walks is dirty after all, and the Rodriguez Brothers circuit is not normally used for racing, and only F1 and Formula E are held here.

So the dirty side grip of this track and the grip of the lane are completely different concepts.

At this time, Ricciardo was still the innermost part of the dirty side of the track, the kind that almost ran onto the turf.

Still, Ricciardo wanted to try his famous trick: late braking. (End of chapter)