And at this time, Verstappen was already a little numb.

No matter how he suddenly accelerated, Qin Miao could always control the time gap between himself and him to about 1.5 seconds.

Because he had been following Qin Miao for a long time, Verstappen's tires hadn't blown much cold air.

Whether it is the engine's heat dissipation system, the surface of the tires, or Verstappen himself, during the time he followed Qin Miao, he absorbed the exhaust fumes from Qin Miao's racing car and the turbulence after the W12 Wind Breaker was cut.

As a result, Verstappen's racing tires and engines were not effectively cooled, and the tires began to granulate after overheating, and because Verstappen wanted to keep up with Qin Miao's rhythm, the tires were always in a state of excessive wear.

The engine also lost at least 2~3 horsepower due to overheating.

Naturally, on the straights, the Red Bull, which is already not fast, is slower than the Mercedes.

On lap 18, Hamilton passed O'Connell and Gasly in front of him to move into seventh.

And Verstappen, who was behind Qin Miao, also gave up the pursuit of Qin Miao, and really couldn't catch up.

At this point, the time gap between the two came to 2 seconds.

This situation is mainly due to the fact that the time gap between Verstappen and Sainz behind him has come to 10 seconds at this time, such a time gap is here, Qin Miao knows that he has completely no conditions and necessity to press the car, even if he presses the car at this time, before the end of the game, Sainz will not be able to catch up.

So run honestly at your own pace and finish the race.

On lap 20, Hamilton passed Leclerc to move up to sixth.

On lap 23, Hamilton moved into the DRS zone behind fifth-placed Norris, and also before the braking point in T1, he used his tail speed and late braking on the inside to easily pass Norris in front of him and move up to fifth.

After passing Norris, the race came to lap 24, the final lap of the sprint qualifying.

And Qin Miao was like Verstappen at the Mexican Grand Prix last week, who took first place after the start, and then finished the whole race in first place.

Under the waving checkered flag, Qin Miao rushed to the line.

After this sprint qualifying session, Qin Miao finally relieved the pressure on the points that he had been chasing by Hamilton and Verstappen.

In addition, Verstappen in second place brought home two points, and Sainz in third place also brought home one point for Ferrari.

Of course, the brightest spot in this sprint qualifying session was Hamilton, who started from the back of the team.

Twenty starts, chasing fifteen positions in just twenty-four laps.

Although there is also a good track to overtake, Hamilton has a new internal combustion engine, and the reason why other drivers are not willing to defend is in it.

But Hamilton did move up fifteen places on his own.

Hamilton, who has such a performance, is completely unthinkable how strong he will be after the main game.

"The perfect choice of tires, in the first time after the start to establish a sufficient advantage for themselves, coupled with the terrifying tire protection ability and the control of long-distance cruising speed, directly dragged down all the offensive possibilities of Verstappen's later stage, this is Qin Miao, a wonderful game!" After Qin Miao crossed the line, Zhou Haoran of Five Star Sports summed up Qin Miao's performance in this game.

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The old man at the back ended up being fifth, and after overtaking Norris, he was a little far away from Pérez in front of him, and there was no time for him to go any further.

However, in addition to the penalty of retreating to the end of the team in the sprint qualifying session, Hamilton will also have to be punished for five positions to start tomorrow's main race.

So even though Hamilton made it all the way to fifth in this sprint qualifying session, he will start from 10th tomorrow in the main race, behind Vettel and ahead of Ricciardo.

However, I believe that Hamilton in tomorrow's race should have the same performance as today, after all, 24 laps, Hamilton will chase 15 positions, and tomorrow's race will be 71 laps, enough for Hamilton to chase all the way from tenth to first.

After the race, Qin Miao drove the car back to the entrance of the pit lane.

The steering wheel was removed with ease, and the steering wheel was reinstalled after getting out of the car.

Without much celebration, Qin Miao took off his gloves and walked to the place where the team engineers were staying.

At first glance, he naturally saw his daughter-in-law, smiled and gave Qiu Meng a hug.

"It's amazing, it's a beautiful start!"

Qiu Meng praised.

"That's, I say, and the best F1 driver in China." For her daughter-in-law's praise, Qin Miao chose to accept it all.

"Alright, let's go to Frankie and celebrate with them." After a simple hug, Qiu Meng took the initiative to let go of Qin Miao.

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"Qiu Meng is here today, too? I haven't seen Qiu Meng in the broadcast screen of the three exercises. For Qiu Meng, the three commentators of Five-Star Sports are no strangers, after all, this girl has not appeared in the broadcast footage of F1.

And she also has the identity of Qin Miao's girlfriend, and there are few domestic fans who are particularly interested in Qin Miao who don't know her.

Qiu Meng did only arrive at the paddock during the sprint qualifying, mainly because she slept too late last night and woke up a little late.

After hugging, Qin Miao found Frankie again, and they simply celebrated.

The post-race process was different from the normal qualifying process, Qin Miao first received a wreath made of olive branches, and then interviewed.

"A clean race Qin Miao, congratulations on winning the sprint qualifying championship, how do you feel about the tires during the race?"

"Thank you." After politely thanking him, Qin Miao began to answer the host's question: "Actually, the wear of the tires at the beginning was a little unexpected for us, so we can see that our speed has been dropping, and the tires were also struggling in the middle of the race, so I couldn't get rid of Max at all."

Luckily, the team's calculations were correct, and the tyres were able to finish the race before the cliff point, which really scared me out of a cold sweat late in the race, but fortunately we were happy with the final result. ”

For those who don't know the inside story, Qin Miao's answer can be described as detailed and reliable, and there is nothing wrong with it at all.

But when this answer reached Verstappen's ears, Verstappen's eyelids were about to play a canon.

Listen, hear what you say.

What does it mean to not be able to get rid of yourself at all? In particular, the speed of the first few laps of the soft tyres is not as fast as Hamilton on the medium tyres in the back, even if you don't run seriously, you can't get rid of it, right?

Before entering the cliff point? You go downstairs and take a look at your four B tires now, the tire rubber has just dropped more than half of the tires, and the tires are at least one sprint away from the cliff point!

Verstappen's inner scolding is not on the table for the time being, as the interview ends, Qin Miao, Verstappen and Sainz in the drivers' standings have increased accordingly.

But those six points were clearly not enough to make any difference in the standings between the drivers.

After the sprint qualifying, the team obtained a lot of valid data, and the performance of Hamilton and Qin Miao on the field also gave everyone in the Mercedes team confidence.

Of course, the strong rise of Mercedes in today's race is also partly due to the team's early investment in next season's research and development after last week's loss.

All in all, the victory in this race gave everyone at the Mercedes team a confidence that suppressed Verstappen's confidence.

After returning to the P room of the team, Qin Miao was naturally praised for a while, and the smiling Toto also came over to encourage Qin Miao.

"Well done Qin Miao, today's game is very beautiful, I am already looking forward to your performance tomorrow."

"Thank you Toto, it's not just me who does it, the team has helped me a lot."

If it was Toto before, he might have been a little surprised to hear Qin Miao's modest words, after all, it was different from Hamilton's kind of person who took credit for himself in words and actions.

Qin Miao was sometimes too modest.

But now Toto is somewhat accustomed to Qin Miao, or the modesty of the Chinese in their bones.

After a little chat with Toto, Toto went to Hamilton, who was also very good in today's race, and as the owner of the team, he also needed to go over and encourage him.

After Toto left, Qin Miao packed up his things a little, and reviewed today's game, and Qin Miao's day's work ended here.

After packing up her things, Qin Miao took Qiu Meng back to the hotel.

There was no word all night, and the next day, Sunday, was the day of the start of the main race in Brazil.

You don't have to think about this game, Mei Ben's side is determined to win the championship in this game, and Qin Miao also has his own ideas.

As for whether Red Bull can find the reason why the speed gap between themselves and Mercedes is so big in the main race stage, it is difficult to say.

After the pre-race parade, it was soon time to prepare for the race.

In today's game, Qin Miao's tuning setup is the same as yesterday's sprint qualifying.

Originally, Qin Miao was going to start with soft tires in this race, after all, Qin Miao had experienced starting from the inside in yesterday's sprint qualifying, and he knew how much advantage the drivers who started from the inside line were.

As long as you start a little faster than the pole sitter, it's easy to hold the lead in your hands.

It's just that the team strategy team didn't let Qin Miao go, but chose neutral tires for Qin Miao.

According to the simulation after the team's strategy department imported Qin Miao's data, the red and yellow stop is not the fastest pit stop choice for Qin Miao in this race, and the yellow and white stop is the fastest, because the speed of the soft tires will be seriously exhausted in the later stage.

Qin Miao has no objection to this, professional issues are left to professional people, Qin Miao still believes in the team strategy group.

So at the beginning of this game, Qin Miao used neutral tires.

The other drivers also started the race on medium tyres, with the exception of Yuki Tsunoda.

Perhaps the Japanese had a unique perspective on the start-up when he started out on soft tyres.

However, Tsunoda's starting position was a bit far away from Qin Miao's starting position, and his starting with soft tires could not affect Qin Miao at all.

Soon, all the pre-race preparations were over, and Qin Miao also stopped at the position where Verstappen started yesterday.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to being an outside line, there is also a spectator stand in this position, and the awning of this spectator stand just hits the shadow on Qin Miao's car.

Although it doesn't seem like much, it's just a shadow.

But you must know that the tires of F1 cars are extremely sensitive to temperature, because of the shadow, Qin Miao's tires did not have direct sunlight during the time when he started and waited, but Verstappen on the outside did not have this problem.

In other words, because of the problem of sunlight exposure, Qin Miao's tire temperature at the initial stage was at least 1~2 degrees lower than that of Verstappen.

The temperature difference of 1~2 degrees may be nothing in the data, but in F1, where every second counts, Qin Miao's starting speed may be lost because of this temperature difference of two degrees.

So before the race started, the team had been heating up the track where Qin Miao's four tires were located while waiting, and tried their best to provide a little temperature for Qin Miao's tires.

As time went on, it was time for the game to start.

encouraged Qin Miao as usual, and Reyes and the others withdrew from the track one after another with their equipment.

The warm-up lap begins.

Qin Miao still runs relatively slowly on this warming lap, and because Qin Miao doesn't have to worry too much about tire wear, Qin Miao raised the tire temperature of his racing car excessively when he ran the warming lap, and the highest temperature was about 130°C.

But no matter how Qin Miao presses the car, there will always be slower existences in the rear than him.

When Qin Miao parked his car in the first starting position, Verstappen in the rear also inked for a while before stopping at his starting position.

Verstappen's idea is simple, I can stop on the grid earlier than the drivers behind me, but I have to be later than you Qin Miao.

Hamilton at the back was even more extreme, as he was more than twenty cars away from Vettel in front of him.

By the time Hamilton had stopped in his place, a full ten seconds had passed.

But in any case, these tricks and tricks at the beginning are just appetizers before the start of the race.

How much you can do on the field will have to wait until the game officially starts.

With Ma Zeping, who finished last, in position, all the preparations before the start of the match were completed.

It is worth mentioning that Kimi was penalized for starting from the pits after the team's engineers got the rear wing setting wrong.

It's not Kimi's problem, it's a mistake on the part of the Arrow team's staff.

So after getting the news, Kimi was furious on the spot, and spat at his crew members directly in the TR of the team.

The amount of mom in this process is extremely high.

But one thing to say, you can't blame Kimi for her short temper.

Because you changed Qin Miao to come over, drove a garbage truck, and worked hard to run out of the thirteenth in the qualifying race.

In the main race stage, I was gearing up to attack the points, and you told me that because of an operation error, the rear wing was mistakenly modified by the crew members and could not be adjusted back?

And because the rear wing was passive, he had to be punished to the pit lane to start.

Qin Miao really can't run away from the competition, get out of the car and beat that idiot first.

(End of chapter)