Now Qin Miao is still quite confident in whether he can surpass Verstappen.

Just because Qin Miao's qualifying speed was faster than Verstappen's in the qualifying stage yesterday, Qin Miao had full confidence.

Verstappen naturally saw Qin Miao who appeared in his rearview mirror.

Verstappen, however, did not feel nervous, and all he felt was a sense of powerlessness.

A sense of powerlessness that the performance of the car cannot match that of the opponent.

From the last few races of the season, it is not difficult to see that the Mercedes car has recently been upgraded, and on this kind of track dominated by medium and high speed corners, the Mercedes car is surprisingly fast in both corners and straights.

Now not only has there been an insurmountable distance between Hamilton and himself, but Qin Miao behind him has also caught up.

You must know that at the beginning of the season, Qin Miao could only rely on his defensive ability as a supermodel to create a little trouble for Verstappen on the way to attack Hamilton, as long as he surpassed Qin Miao, the next stage for Verstappen and Hamilton would be.

Who would have thought that before a season was finished, Qin Miao already had the ability to challenge and threaten Verstappen's position at this time.

So Verstappen had a strong sense of powerlessness.

Verstappen could only lament that the newcomers were all monsters.

In the DRS area of the 14th lap, the current Qin Miao naturally could not pose any substantial threat to Verstappen.

After all, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen is still quite large, so before driving DRS all the way to the braking point of T1, Qin Miao did not have a chance to attack, so he just pulled the inside of the track and appeared in the Verstappen rearview mirror to put pressure on Verstappen.

In the successive corners that followed, Qin Miao took advantage of the fact that the performance of the Mercedes car began to slow down, but it was very stable to shorten the distance between him and Verstappen.

The Mercedes car is very well adapted to the track, and in these high-speed corners, the speed is faster than that of Red Bull, who specializes in low-to-medium speed corners.

But Verstappen is Verstappen after all, and under such unfavorable conditions, he still only allowed Qin Miao to shorten the time gap by 0.2 seconds.

At the end of lap 14, after T16, the time gap between the two was only 0.5 seconds.

Under this time gap, whether Qin Miao's attack can succeed or not has to be put a question mark.

It's just that Qin Miao doesn't care whether the success of the attack is high or not at this time gap, and after the corner, he starts to release the full force of ERS.

And Verstappen began to draw dragons left and right after coming out of the corner.

Qin Miao also followed closely behind Verstappen to draw a dragon together, so that he could maximize the amount of wake provided by Verstappen.

But while Verstappen was drawing the dragon, Qin Miao's car would inevitably crash into the turbulence left behind by Verstappen's car.

Because of this, Qin Miao's approach rate was a little slower than he imagined.

It wasn't until he crossed the finish line of lap 14 and came to lap 15 that Qin Miao took the lead on Verstappen's outside line.

Verstappen's defense, especially for Hamilton and Qin Miao, the two opponents who competed with him for the final drivers' championship of the season, was full of intensity.

So after seeing Qin Miao tap on Verstappen's outside line, Verstappen directly hit the left direction and began to squeeze Qin Miao's line.

Qin Miao naturally couldn't go head-to-head with Verstapa at such a time, so he gave way to the left and chose to avoid a certain amount of track.

It's just that Verstappen has made some inches, and when Qin Miao's left rear wheel is pressed against the white line on the edge of the track, he is still squeezing towards Qin Miao.

There was no way, Qin Miao could only continue to let it.

Because at this time, Verstappen's left front wheel was stuck in front of Qin Miao's nose, and if there was an accident at this time, he collided with Verstappen, and he would suffer eighty percent of the losses.

Even if he didn't suffer a big loss, he was likely to end up losing both, and Hamilton was happy in the end.

And when he saw that Qin Miao's left rear wheel had been so pressed that he had rolled up the dirt on the lawn outside the track, Verstappen also knew that he couldn't overdo it, so he returned to the normal driving line.

Because of Verstappen's squeeze, Qin Miao's attack naturally ended in failure.

After entering T1 and exiting the corner, Qin Miao naturally began to spit fragrance in the team's TR.

"What's going on in the head of this idiot Verstappen? Does he even know how to drive? If you don't know how to drive, you can go home with your kids! ”

"Stay focused." Frankie reassured: "It's still a long game, we're faster than Verstappen and we still have a chance. ”

Qin Miao let out a sigh of relief, and after adjusting his mentality, he said, "Received." ”

However, Qin Miao had just finished answering when Toto's voice came in: "Don't worry about Qin Miao, we will report it to the event officer." ”

"Well, hopefully there will be a good outcome." Qin Miao replied.

"Rest assured, trust us."

……

After returning to the track, Qin Miao fell 1.2 seconds behind Verstappen.

Fortunately, this loss is not serious, and Qin Miao still has the possibility of pursuit.

On lap 15, Qin Miao appeared 0.7 seconds behind Verstappen in the same place.

It's just that due to the release of the last lap, Qin Miao's ERS power in this lap is a little insufficient.

Therefore, Qin Miao could only borrow DRS to further shorten the time gap with Verstappen.

On lap 16, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen after the T16 came out of the corner was finally shortened to 0.4 seconds.

After a round of replenishment, Qin Miao finally had 40% of the power in this round to let Qin Miao attack.

And this time Verstappen defended Qin Miao in the same way as just now.

Qin Miao had just come out of the corner and sucked Verstappen's wake, and Verstappen began to draw dragons.

It's just that this time Qin Miao fully learned the lesson of the attack just now, and Verstappen drew the dragon and he was directly unmoved, and normally used the two modes of DRS of ERS to accelerate his car on the driving line of the car.

Don't say it, after not following Verstappen's rhythm, Qin Miao's speed has improved immediately, and the approach rate to Verstappen is obviously faster than the last time he attacked.

Verstappen saw that Qin Miao didn't draw the dragon with him, so he simply didn't waste the traction of his car on the point of drawing the dragon, but directly stuck on the inside of the track.

This time, when Qin Miao took the lead on Verstappen's outside line, Verstappen was still oppressing Qin Miao's line, but it was not as fierce as the last time.

Presumably, Horner also reminded Verstappen in the team TR just now.

Next, until the grid position at pole position, Qin Miao finally completed the side by side with Verstappen on the outside, and Qin Miao continued to surpass Verstappen.

By the time Qin Miao came to the exit of the pit lane, he had already surpassed Verstappen on his side by half of his body.

When it came to the braking point, Qin Miao's right rear wheel was almost the same as Verstappen's left front wheel.

Verstappen braked particularly late this time.

Qin Miao had been paying attention to Verstappen's movements, and after seeing that the time and position of his deceleration were fundamentally different from his own, Qin Miao realized something.

The foot that had already stepped on the brake immediately released again.

Even Qin Miao made up the accelerator.

Then in the on-site commentary and the exclamations of the audience, Qin Miao and Verstappen did not take the normal bending route at all, and the two rushed out of the track together.

Verstappen even had the intention of squeezing Qin Miao into the gravel field outside T1.

It's just that Verstappen didn't really do this, he just disguised this defense as a driving mistake and missed the braking point, not really wanting to explode with Qin Miao.

So he just squeezed himself and Qin Miao out of the normal driving lane together.

And because of the accelerator that Qin Miao made up after releasing the brakes, when Qin Miao and Verstappen returned to the normal track from outside the track, Qin Miao still retained the advantage he had gained in the DRS zone.

The next T2 was a left turn, and the advantage was on Qin Miao's side.

After exiting the corner and exiting the corner, Qin Miao also forcibly squeezed Verstappen's exit line, and also squeezed Verstappen out directly.

Just now in T1, Verstappen squeezed Qin Miao out of the track, in fact, it didn't make sense, he could only use mistakes to cover up his true purpose, but Qin Miao was different this time, Qin Miao was in front, and Qin Miao had the right to go out of the corner.

After coming all the way to T3 and T4, Qin Miao stabilized his rhythm and did not give Verstappen a chance to regain his position.

Until T7, Qin Miao had a time gap of 0.5 seconds with Verstappen.

At this point, Qin Miao's overtaking was completed, and Qin Miao also breathed a sigh of relief.

But thinking of Verstappen's two defenses that were definitely not clean, Qin Miao still couldn't help but scold as if venting in the team's TR: "Verstappen is really a fool, I have never seen a Sonofbitch as dirty as he drove when he was so big." ”

And Qin Miao's words are placed in the broadcast screen, which is a long paragraph of "beep beep".

When the three commentators on the side of Five Star Sports were just happy that Qin Miao had finally surpassed Verstappen, the director released Qin Miao's team TR.

Although they were confused when they looked at the content of the call that had all been silenced, and they didn't know what Qin Miao had said to the team, it didn't seem to be very difficult to guess what kind of mood Qin Miao was in after surpassing Verstappen.

The three commentators all smiled when they heard this, and even felt that Qin Miao's scolding was a little short.

After all, they also felt that Verstappen's two defenses against Qin Miao were a bit too much.

The three commentators chatted happily about Qin Miao again, and after the overtaking of Verstappen this time, Zhou Haoran suddenly said an extremely interesting data: "It is worth mentioning that this overtaking of Verstappen should be the first time that Qin Miao has surpassed Verstappen on the track in his entire career." ”

"Is that so?" Brother Bing was obviously very surprised when he heard this data.

"Yes, we used to see more Qin Miao defending Verstappen, even if he surpassed Verstappen, Verstappen had an accident, or some other reason, this is the first time to surpass Verstappen."

……

On the other side, everyone in the P room of the Meiben team cheered after seeing Qin Miao finish surpassing Verstappen.

The camera just happened to give Toto.

At this time, Toto clenched his fists in front of his chest and cheered, and the other staff members in the team were also constantly applauding Qin Miao's overtaking.

It's just that Qin Miao couldn't be happy after completing his overtaking of Verstappen.

Because Hamilton was 12 seconds away from him at this time.

The race was only 15 laps into the race......

Although there is indeed a reason why Qin Miao and Verstappen are constantly fighting, the speed of Hamilton's game is indeed a little abnormal, right?

On lap 18, Verstappen, who had already opened a 2-second time gap by Qin Miao, chose to pit stop.

Verstappen originally followed a two-stop tactic, but now he is trapped behind Qin Miao to chase, can't catch up, overtake, can't overtake.

Verstappen wanted to overturn Qin Miao at this time, so he could only actively seek change.

Normally, Qin Miao was going to finish the game directly after a stop.

But after Verstappen pitted, Frankie on the team's side asked Qin Miao in the TR: "Verstappen has pitted, do we have to follow Verstappen's rhythm in this race?" ”

At this time, there was not much time left for Qin Miao to decide, and unkindly, when Frankie asked Qin Miao a question, it happened to be when Qin Miao ran to the end of the straight, and then needed to face a lot of continuous turns in the second and third time sections.

At this time, Qin Miao didn't have too much brain to think about when it was appropriate to enter the station.

But Verstappen behind him made a pit stop, which was another hidden danger that had to be guarded against.

So Qin Miao thought for a while and then said, "I don't know, you decide what I should do for me!" ”

After getting Qin Miao's answer, Frankie quickly contacted Mei Ben's strategy department.

Then on lap 18, Hamilton, who was leading in front, pitted for hard tyres with a time of 2.3 seconds.

And after Hamilton pitted, Qin Miao also pitted, and also changed to hard tires, with a tire change time of 2.4 seconds, which was completely an acceptable tire change speed for Qin Miao.

A perfect two-car pit stop, and neither driver suffered any unacceptable losses due to the crotch pull in the pit stop.

Meiben's current idea is very simple, the main purpose of the team must be to bring back one or two.

Now Hamilton is 13 seconds faster than Verstappen and nearly ten seconds faster than Qin Miao.

He didn't need to take any risks, he would use whatever tactics Qin Miao and Verstappen used in battle, and he would use whatever melee tactics he used.

Play with a hand of impotence.

And Qin Miao's side is almost the same idea, anyway, Qin Miao's speed is faster than Verstappen's, and his defensive ability is against the sky, as long as he follows Verstappen's rhythm, Qin Miao is not worried about being overturned by Verstappen by other means.

After Qin Miao completed the tire change and came out, the audience was naturally looking forward to whether Verstappen could undercut Qin Miao in this lap.

It's just that Red Bull underestimated the speed of the C2 tires in this race, and also overestimated the speed of the C1.

After coming out of the pit lane, Qin Miao was still in front of Verstappen, with a time gap of 1.7 seconds.

(End of chapter)