It's worth mentioning though.

24 laps, that is, Qin Miao has just completed the point in time that it has not been long since Kimi surpassed.

Hamilton had been pulled away by Verstappen for almost nine seconds.

Red Bull's trust in Verstappen was duly rewarded, they didn't trust the wrong person, and Verstappen did beat Hamilton.

After Verstappen started from the safety car, Verstappen has not given Hamilton any chance to attack him until now

At this time, Hamilton also complained in the team TR with some resentment: "Red Bull is much faster than us in this race. ”

It sounds like a complaint, but Hamilton is actually putting pressure on the team.

What kind of broken car did you give me? Why can't Verstappen catch up?

And Hamilton was not the only one who felt anxious at this time, except for the staff who were paying attention to Qin Miao, the others looked at Verstappen who was running farther and farther, and they all had the same unreal feeling as Hamilton at this time.

After all, in the qualifying session yesterday, the two Red Bulls ran that B-like.

Who would have thought that Verstappen would stretch Hamilton away by 9 seconds in just 20 laps, and Pérez would be able to keep Hamilton and Mercedes under pressure from a position of 2.2 seconds behind him.

However, Qin Miao was not clear about the team's anxiety, and Qin Miao was quite relaxed at this time.

I can't really see how fast Qin Miao is in this race, but Qin Miao in this race is really chopping melons and vegetables all the way, except for Giovinaz and Ricardo, who was behind Qin Miao after coming out of the pit lane, every driver behind Qin Miao was surpassed by Qin Miao.

At least it proves that Qin Miao's speed in this game is definitely enough to watch.

On lap 31, Qin Miao completed the overtaking of Vettel.

This time, it took Qin Miao 5 laps to catch up with Vettel, and it took another 2 laps to overtake Vettel.

After this overtaking was completed, Qin Miao came to the 7th position.

And 11 seconds ahead of him was Sainz.

After seeing this time gap, the three commentators of Five Star Sports breathed a sigh of relief.

In this race, Qin Miao overtook one driver from time to time, and surpassed one driver from time to time.

Even putting aside the identity of commentary, purely from the perspective of a fan, Qin Miao's performance is really cool for them.

But as a commentary, every time Qin Miao overtakes, he has to say a paragraph, which is really tiring.

This feeling of pain and happiness can finally come to an end.

Now that Qin Miao has finally come to a window period where there is no slow car and no other drivers blocking it, Qin Miao can run a long distance comfortably, and find a way to cool down his tires and engine.

However, on lap 31, Leclerc made a pit stop.

When Leclerc came out, he fell straight behind Alonso in 10th.

Because of this, Qin Miao's ranking moved forward one place to 6th.

However, at this time, there were no other drivers in front of Leclerc except Hamilton and Qin Miao, and Qin Miao's pit stop was also before the start of the race, and he was bound to have to pit again.

Therefore, Ferrari felt that Leclerc's original 5th place could still be retained.

And the pit stops of Hamilton and Leclerc also completely opened the pit stop window for the front drivers.

On lap 32, Gasly pitted third after Hamilton pitted and came out in eighth place.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Haoran, who had been paying attention to Qin Miao's lap time, suddenly sighed, and then said: "The speed of Leclerc's new white tires in this lap is actually the same as Qin Miao's old white tires that ran 33 laps?!" ”

"Huh? Is Qin Miao's speed so fast now? Brother Bing and Brother Fei were also a little surprised after hearing Zhou Haoran's words.

"Well, even Qin Miao is 0.1 seconds faster than Leclerc."

"Let's see, it should be the first lap, Leclerc's tires didn't reach the right operating temperature."

……

On lap 34, Verstappen pitted in 2.2 seconds and came out in second, in front of Hamilton and behind Pérez.

In this game, Verstappen was too fast, not only to shake off Hamilton, but also to his teammates.

On the 37th lap, Qin Miao chased 8 seconds behind Sainz, and chased 3 seconds in 6 laps, and the speed slowed down significantly, and behind Qin Miao was Gasly, who was originally ranked 4th, and Gasly was 7 seconds away from Qin Miao at this time.

Although Qin Miao's position was already in front of Gasly at this time, and according to the data given by the FIA, Qin Miao's speed was the same as Gasly's speed.

But no one on the Red Bull side was worried about this, because everyone felt that Qin Miao's set of hard tires would not be able to run the whole race, and he would inevitably have to pit and change the tires once.

——

So Red Bull waited for Qin Miao's pit stop.

As soon as Qin Miao enters the station, Red Bull will be ready to put pressure on you Qin Miao.

On the 40th lap, Qin Miao's speed began to drop, but to be honest, it didn't drop much.

However, Qin Miao's fatigue also made Gasly behind Qin Miao notice, and he began to shorten the time gap between himself and Qin Miao.

At the same time, Pérez made a pit stop, switched to hard tyres, and came out four seconds ahead of Sainz.

On lap 43, the time gap between Qin Miao and Sainz in front of him came to 3 seconds.

At this time, Qin Miao's tires began to fail uncontrollably, and the Sainz tires in front of Qin Miao were naturally in the same condition.

Even because Sainz is using a neutral tire, his degree of exhaustion is naturally more severe than Qin Miao, so Qin Miao can still slowly, but steadily gradually shorten the time gap between him and Sainz.

The team also found that Qin Miao's lap time began to drop at this time, so they asked in the team TR: "Qin Miao, how are the tires in condition?" ”

"I think it's pretty good."

"Okay, keep it up."

These words seemed to be just an ordinary exchange between the driver and the track engineer, but in fact the team was asking Qin Miao if she was ready to pit for new tires.

And Qin Miao refused.

Mei Ben naturally knew Qin Miao's ability to protect the fetus, so he also believed Qin Miao's words.

At the same time, they also guessed Qin Miao's thoughts, and they thought that Qin Miao might want to pit around lap 51 in this race and directly change to soft tires.

Red Bull were skeptical on their side, but although the soft tyres could theoretically last around 20 laps on the Rodriguez Brothers circuit.

But after Qin Miao falls behind Leclerc, he will definitely have to surpass the driver in front of him, so the consumption of soft tires will be very large, and Red Bull will not have to worry about Qin Miao surpassing Gasly in this race.

On the side of the Red Bull Racing team's P room, Marco said to Horner with a smile: "Qin Miao, this young man does have some strength and talent, but sometimes it is too arbitrary to make decisions. ”

Horner on the side also nodded in agreement with Marco's opinion.

At the same time, Sainz finally opted for a pit stop for tyres.

With a tyre change time of 2.3 seconds, the circus is often alive, but there is one thing to say, Ferrari when it is not alive is still worthy of their name and so many years of F1 history.

Sainz came out in 7th place behind team-mate Leclerc in 6.8 seconds, and Ricardo in 7 seconds behind him.

In other words, if Qin Miao also pits at this time, he will also be in front of Ricardo after he comes out, which is Sainz's 7th at this time.

In the time of 43 laps, Qin Miao chased all the way from the 17th at the end of the team to the 7th, and chased 10 positions in the time of 43 laps.

Although Qin Miao's final ranking in this game stopped at 7th, no one would say that Qin Miao's performance in this game was not good enough, but everyone in both Qin Miao and Mei Ben didn't think it was enough.

And after Sainz made a pit stop, many people thought that Mei Ben would also take advantage of the situation to let Qin Miao pit together to prevent himself from being pulled too far by Sainz, but to their surprise, Qin Miao did not do this, but continued to insist on the track.

At this time, Qin Miao was 11 seconds away from Perez in front of him, and Gasly behind him was 6.5 seconds, ranking fourth.

On lap 51, just when everyone thought that Qin Miao would pit for this lap, Qin Miao chose to stay on the track and persevere, and the time gap between him and Gasly, which was still shortening, stopped, and the gap between the two even remained the same.

As for Pérez in front of Qin Miao?

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

On the 55th lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Gasly was still 6 seconds, and the commentary was a little unsettled.

Qin Miao...... Is he preparing a set of white tires to run directly? Brother Bing saw Qin Miao, who had not yet entered the station at this time, and his eyes were full of absurdity.

"Actually, this point in time has passed the best pit stop window, I feel that Mei Ben really wants Qin Miao to run the whole race directly with a set of white tires, but the white tires shouldn't last so long, right?" Fei Ge was also confused.

"According to the tyre data given by Pirelli, this set of white tyres can run a maximum of 60 laps, after which the grip of the tyres will drop significantly." Zhou Haoran said: "And at this time, this set of white tires on Qin Miao's tires has run 54 laps?? ”

However, Brother Bing quickly found another concern: "How is Qin Miao's speed now?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Haoran glanced down at the data on the laptop in front of him, and then said in a somewhat strange voice: "The speed has started to decline, but compared to Gasly, Qin Miao is only about 0.2 seconds slower per lap." ”

Hearing this, the two commentators in the five-star sports studio were silent for a while.

After a long time, Fei Ge asked faintly: "Could it be that Qin Miao really wants to finish a set of white tires?" Impossible, right? ”

What the commentators don't know is that the Meiben team actually asked Qin Miao at the 53rd lap, whether they need to come in and change a set of soft tires or something, according to the calculation of the team's strategy group, at this time, Qin Miao did not need to worry about tire wear in the follow-up race no matter how he overtook the car.

But Qin Miao still used that reason: "The tires feel good, and I think I can continue to persist on the track." ”

After all, the steering wheel is in Qin Miao's hands, even if the team has an idea, if Qin Miao doesn't cooperate, they can only watch.

And the speed that Qin Miao showed at this time was indeed as Qin Miao himself said, with a certain degree of competitiveness.

……

As time passed, by the time the race came to lap 56, Qin Miao was more than 28 seconds slower than Perez in front of her.

Although it looks quite desperate, since the accident at the beginning, the battle for the podium in this race has nothing to do with Qin Miao, and now whether Qin Miao can keep his fourth position is the key.

After the little red bull found out that the situation was wrong, he immediately gave Gasly an order: "Qin Miao is very likely to finish this race directly with a set of hard tires, accelerate, accelerate now!" ”

Gasly was already wondering why he was still in 5th place and didn't return to his original 4th position, when the game was almost over.

Hearing the team's reminder, Gasly reacted in hindsight, what? Qin Miao hasn't made a pit stop yet?

At this time, Gasly no longer had the leisure to think about why Qin Miao's tires were so durable, and what Gasly, who realized that his position was not secure, could do was to start accelerating with all his might, trying to catch up with Qin Miao before the end of the race with only 15 laps left, and regain his position under Qin Miao's defense.

And in addition to Gasly, Leclerc and Sainz behind Leclerc also received the team's instructions for the first time: "Qin Miao is likely to want to run the whole race directly with a set of white tires, start to accelerate, and strive to overtake Qin Miao before the end of the race." ”

Qin Miao naturally noticed the abnormal movement of the driver behind him as soon as possible, and the team also reminded Qin Miao in a timely manner.

But Qin Miao is also quite helpless at this time, now his tires are indeed a little unbearable, although Qin Miao is confident that he can use this set of tires to finish this race directly, but Qin Miao really can't squeeze more speed out of this set of tires.

Being able to maintain the current speed is already the limit of what Qin Miao can do at this time.

And strictly speaking, Qin Miao shouldn't expect a set of hard tires that have already run 55 laps to bring him more speed.

On lap 59, the time gap between Gasly and Qin Miao went from 6.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds.

On 61 laps, the gap was reduced to 3.7 seconds.

65 laps, 2.2 seconds.

Just when everyone on the Red Bull side thought that Gasly could continue to chase Qin Miao and get Qin Miao's position back before the end of the game.

Gasly found himself catching up with Qin Miao's footsteps and involuntarily began to slow down.

At this time, Gasly had already entered a distance that would be affected by the turbulence of Qin Miao's car, and at the end of the second and third time periods, Gasly could no longer approach Qin Miao as quickly as he did without the influence of the turbulence of the previous car.

However, in the first time period, Gasly was still able to visibly shorten the time gap between himself and Qin Miao.

After 68 laps and 3 laps, Gasly finally came to the position 1.5 seconds behind Qin Miao.

But at this time, Gasly encountered a lot of problems, because of the turbulence of the front car, the radiator pressure increased sharply, and the pursuit all the way made the engine of Gasly's car overheat.

And the ERS battery had run out, coupled with the impact of Qin Miao's racing turbulence, Gasly was a little stunned to find that after chasing Qin Miao's position for 1.7 seconds, there was no way to continue to get close to Qin Miao.

In the first time period, Qin Miao's not too strong driving effect was used to get close to Qin Miao's back for about 1.2 seconds, and in the second and third time periods, Qin Miao would rely on the stronger mechanical grip of the Mercedes car than the Little Red Bull car to throw Gasly away again.

In short, the two of them were completely embarrassed.

And Gasly, who was stuck behind Qin Miao, was also a little anxious, after all, there were only three laps left before the end of the race, so Gasly asked in a very impulsive tone in the team TR: "What happened?" Why does Qin Miao still have speed? How fast is he, exactly? ”

Not to mention Gasly, Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, even including the FIA event officer, the Pirelli staff, the spectators, the spectators who were watching the game, the live broadcasters, the commentators from various countries, all of them were a little confused.

They all had the same doubts as Gasly, why could Qin Miao's tires continue to run?

It's been 68 laps now, Qin Miao's hard tires have been running 67 laps, how can his tires still have grip?

At this time, on the command stand of Red Bull Racing, Horner and Marco looked at each other.

They couldn't have imagined that this would be the case now, and the two of them recalled their unashamed words just now, and they both had a feeling that their faces had been slapped in the face by the No. 66 driver on the field.

On lap 70, Gasly looked at the 1.7-second time gap between himself and Qin Miao with some despair, his eyes full of unwillingness and incomprehension.

What kind of monster is this Chinese driver in front of him, and why can his white tires run for so long?

In the last two laps, Gasly can be said to have exhausted all his skills, pressing, attacking, feints, and DRS's full force to release the pursuit.

But the front Mei Ben was as if he didn't see his own movements, and he ran his normal rhythm before he posed a real threat to the other party.

And in these two laps, Gasly really didn't find any opportunity to attack Qin Miao.

By the end of lap 71, when Verstappen crossed the line, the time gap between Qin Miao and Gasly behind him remained at 1.4 seconds.

And when Qin Miao crossed the finish line, Gasly behind him barely caught up in the DRS zone behind Qin Miao.

Eventually, the game ended.

Verstappen won the title, Hamilton was second and Pérez was third at home.

Although the absolute highlight of this game is Qin Miao, it is undeniable that this game is a big victory for Red Bull.

Verstappen was ridiculously fast today, leaving Hamilton far behind at the start of the race.

Suffice it to say that after overtaking Hamilton from the first turn of the first lap, Verstappen dominated the race.

After the Red Bull brought back one or three, in the standings, Verstappen further opened the points gap between himself and Hamilton, and narrowed the points gap between himself and Qin Miao.

After Qin Miao crossed the line, the team also sent encouragement to Qin Miao.

"Well done Qin Miao, genius performance, good tire protection." Although Qin Miao's feat of running the whole race directly on this set of hard tires was against the sky, Qin Miao could hear the frustration in Frankie's tone.

This is not incomprehensible, even Qin Miao has the same emotions.

After all, Qin Miao was ranked 2nd at the start, and the final 4th finish not only did not meet the team's expectations before the start of this race, but also made Qin Miao feel very uncomfortable.

And if Qin Miao hadn't had that accident in this race, as long as Qin Miao and Hamilton cooperated well enough in this race to stop Verstappen, it would be possible for Mei Ben to defend the constructors' championship in advance in this race.

But Verstappen's performance today, coupled with Qin Miao's car accident, all of this ultimately led to the failure of the Mercedes team's plan to defend the title today.

Naturally, everyone on the team's side was not too happy.

After all, the sooner they win the championship, the more prize money the team staff will receive.

Therefore, Qin Miao also had some lack of interest after the end of the race, after all, he was in 2nd place before the start of the race, and no matter how bad he was, he could get a podium, but he didn't expect to win 4th in the end by relying on the super long stint that did not pit and change tires.

Hamilton on the other side was in a similar state to Qin Miao, and the Red Bull in this game was too fast, so fast that Hamilton had a deep sense of powerlessness.

So after the race, Hamilton complained a lot in the team TR: "The balance of the car is really poor, the acceleration of the car after the corner is not enough, the downforce in the corner is not comparable to Verstappen, I can only watch him pull me away, I also tried to attack, but once I get into the turbulence area behind Verstappen for 3 seconds, the speed of my car drops significantly, and the tyres of my car are also very degraded......

This may be the so-called survivor bias, and when you win a race, in Hamilton's eyes, these shortcomings of the W12 are the characteristics of the car.

As long as you can win the race and the car is fast enough, then everything is not a problem.

But once you lose the race, not as good as Verstappen, then all the flaws of the car become unacceptable shortcomings.

However, fortunately, Qin Miao's communication channel was separate, he could only hear the communication between Frankie and Toto and the other team executives of Meiben, and Hamilton's complaints and negative emotions would not be transmitted to Qin Miao.

After the race, Hamilton and his top three drivers went to the fan-packed corner of T13 for the final awards and post-race interviews.

And Qin Miao, like all the other drivers, drove his own car back to the pit lane.

It is worth mentioning that Pérez is the first Mexican driver in history to finish on the podium on Mexican home soil.

Therefore, you can imagine how happy and excited the Mexican fans were after the race.

When Pérez crossed the line, the cheers at the scene could be heard clearly even if he was wearing a helmet and having sound-isolating headphones in his ears.

(End of chapter)