It is worth mentioning that the time lost for a pit stop at the Russell International Circuit is about 22 seconds.

The positions of the first three drivers have not changed since they entered and exited, and they are still in their original positions.

In other words, with only 19 laps to run, the time gap between the three of them and fourth-placed Alonso was more than 22 seconds.

……

After Qin Miao came out, he naturally had a little different idea.

Qin Miao began to speed up.

Because of the team's temporary decision, Qin Miao also switched to a two-stop tactic in this game, so Qin Miao no longer has to worry about tire wear in the future.

In addition, the local temperature in Qatar tonight is only 26 °C, which is very comfortable for the heat dissipation of the car, and Qin Miao does not have to worry about the overheating of the racing engine.

So after coming out, Qin Miao began to speed up the pursuit of Hamilton in front of him.

On lap 20, you can see that the original 10-second time gap between Hamilton and Qin Miao has been shortened to 8.9 seconds.

Qin Miao chased Hamilton for 1.1 seconds in a lap.

The reason why Qin Miao was able to chase so fast was not only because of Qin Miao's acceleration regardless of tire loss, but also because Hamilton basically didn't have any sense of crisis at this time and was running normally to protect the tires.

And Qin Miao was accelerating with all his strength in this lap, and Verstappen behind him was also accelerating.

Verstappen knew that after Qin Miao came out with new tires, the temperature of the tires definitely didn't come up, and he had a lap of time to warm up the tires, maybe he could use this opportunity to surpass Qin Miao.

Then Verstappen was a little stunned to find that under the influence of Qin Miao's racing turbulence, he couldn't catch up with Qin Miao......

Moreover, his tentative attack behind Qin Miao had no way to interfere with Qin Miao's rhythm of the game.

Even on lap 21, the time gap between the two was widened to 2.5 seconds.

In the next few laps, Verstappen stayed in this position behind Qin Miao, wanting to put pressure on Qin Miao, but neither the sudden acceleration nor the tap before the braking point of the track had any impact on Qin Miao.

Qin Miao didn't seem to see Verstappen behind him constantly putting pressure on him, and still ran his own rhythm normally on the track.

Verstappen was a little surprised by this, Qin Miao's defensive ability has always been like this.

Lap 28.

After 8 laps, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton was fixed at 5 seconds.

Qin Miao also gave up continuing to chase Hamilton, because he really couldn't catch up, after Hamilton began to speed up, Qin Miao could only chase Hamilton for less than 0.2 seconds per lap.

And Qin Miao has a feeling that Hamilton is now in a normal cruising state, and if he also starts to accelerate, he may not be able to catch up with him.

On the other side, Verstappen also followed Qin Miao's position for 2.7 seconds, and there was no change.

In this race, Mercedes's car is really strong, even if Verstappen knows that his personal ability is stronger than Qin Miao, he can't catch up with Qin Miao, and now it's a little difficult to follow Qin Miao's position.

Since then, the top three drivers have officially entered the cruising state.

And the most surprising thing about this lap was that Ferrari made a two-car pit stop.

And what is even more surprising is that there were no accidents in the Ferrari tyre change this time.

Sainz had a tyre change time of 2.2 seconds and Leclerc 2.4 seconds.

Both riders switched from medium to hard and both changes were silky.

Although this tyre change was carried out to other teams, such as Mercedes, or Red Bull, or even McLaren, this tyre change can only be described as excellent.

But here at Ferrari, such a tire change is enough to make the Iron Buddha Temple ecstatic.

Even many of the Iron Buddha Temple, who are rich in associative ability, have begun to imagine that Ferrari will rise strongly next season, and will slaughter all sides in the paddock, and finally turn Ferrari's decline in recent years, step on Mercedes and punch Red Bull, and finally win the 2022 season of the team and driver double championship in one fell swoop.

It's rare for the Iron Buddha Temple to eat something good.

On lap 38, 10 laps later, Verstappen gradually couldn't keep up with Qin Miao's rhythm in front of him as the tires wore out and time went by.

At this time, Qin Miao still maintained a time gap of 5 seconds with Hamilton in front of him, while the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao increased from 2.7 seconds to 4.4 seconds.

On lap 40, there were 17 laps left until the end of the race.

Qin Miao asked Franky, "I should still have a set of soft tires in my tire reserve, right?" ”

French didn't know why Qin Miao suddenly asked this, and there was no option for Qin Miao to change the soft tires in the tactics formulated, because the strategy team had copied the yellow, white and red pit stop strategy, and it could only be said that the speed was miserable.

Despite his doubts, Frankie dutifully replied, "Yes, you keep yourself on a set of soft tyres for almost every race." ”

Then Qin Miao asked curiously: "How many laps can I run on my soft tires on this track?" ”

"The test result for the second session on Friday was 13 laps, but the tuning we were using at that time was different than now.

If you're going to pit now, the soft tyres will have a life of about 11 laps. Frankie looked at the data he had recorded.

"Got it." After answering, Qin Miao didn't continue to speak, but the speed of the car increased slightly.

It's not that Qin Miao is going to run out of tires quickly, and then pit at the right time to change tires, Qin Miao is creating trouble for Hamilton's crew.

I'm going to make a plan, do you want to follow up, do you want to think about the feasibility of my idea, and what might happen if I do that.

In short, Qin Miao happened to be running more boring at this time, so he used the team TR to add to Hamilton's blockage.

After all, as the saying goes, being idle is also idle.

And Qin Miao really felt that it was feasible to change to soft tires after he pitted, so Qin Miao was not worried that the Hamilton crew would not respond accordingly after knowing his thoughts.

And the truth was just as Qin Miao expected.

After knowing Qin Miao's question about the team's tires through TR, Hamilton's team was in a panic.

However, before they could figure out anything, on lap 42, Verstappen made a pit stop and switched to medium tyres.

This can be regarded as a relatively effective solution for Verstappen to help Hamilton, since your Qin Miao soft tyre can only last for 11 laps, then I pit when there are still 15 laps left before the end of the race, do you follow?

If you pit ahead, you're going to have to use medium tyres, and on a track where tyre wear is more than Silverstone's, it's impossible to have enough speed on soft tyres after 15 laps.

Even if your Qin Miao's ability to protect the tire is against the sky, the speed in the last few laps will definitely drop significantly, and you will face the risk of being overtaken by Verstappen at that time.

And if you don't pit and wait until the right pit stop window, then Verstappen, who uses neutral tires, will definitely be able to undercut Qin Miao.

After all, medium tyres are 0.8 seconds faster than hard tyres per lap on this track.

It's really easy to overtake on this track with soft tyres, but can you Qin Miao be sure that after overtaking Verstappen, your tyres still have enough grip to chase Hamilton?

At this time, some people will be confused.

This is obviously the best time to watch a good show in the two-car infighting, why should Red Bull help Hamilton here?

But in fact, Verstappen really couldn't catch up with the two drivers of Mercedes in this race.

In the second place, compared to Qin Miao, they definitely hope that Hamilton will win the sub-station championship.

After all, Qin Miao is still leading the drivers' standings, if he wins another championship, he won't have to watch the last two races of the season, as long as Qin Miao doesn't retire in the next two races, he can win the drivers' championship this season.

So that's the main reason Red Bull does that.

After Verstappen pitted, Mei Ben also took the opportunity to call Hamilton and Qin Miao back.

The reason has already been said before, so I won't repeat it here.

Another two-car pit stop, and Meiben still completed its task steadily.

Hamilton changed to neutral tires in 2.4 seconds, and Qin Miao also changed to neutral tires in 2.0 seconds.

Although Qin Miao's tire change speed is 0.4 seconds faster than Hamilton's, after it is really reflected on the track, this advantage can be directly ignored.

The only thing worth mentioning about this tire change is that Hamilton used the old neutral tires, while Qin Miao used a brand new one.

This can be said to be the only variable in the ownership of the championship in this game.

After coming out of the pit lane, Qin Miao and Hamilton's positions did not change in any way, and Verstappen in the rear did not catch up.

Even the time gap between the three of them hasn't changed much.

However, on the 44th lap, Qin Miao was still slightly closer to Hamilton and refreshed the fastest lap.

However, on the next lap, Hamilton re-extended the time gap between the two to 5.4 seconds and took home the fastest lap.

Then on lap 47, Verstappen also set the fastest lap.

Next, the three drivers in front of them are constantly refreshing the fastest lap, and as for chasing people, they can't chase a little.

At this time, the director did not focus on the three drivers, but on Pérez and other drivers in the back.

In the last ten laps, for Qin Miao and the three championship contenders, this race was no longer much fun.

Instead, it was the drivers behind him, Latifi and Russell, who had flat tires one after another.

And during the replay, you can also see that both drivers pressed the green shoulder on the outside of the T8.

It was the excessive bumps on the green shoulder on the outside of the T8 that caused the tire to blow out.

After seeing this accident, Frankie reminded Qin Miao for the first time: "T8 don't go on the green shoulder on the outside, both Williams drivers have a flat tire because of the green shoulder on the outside." ”

Qin Miao didn't see what happened at the time, but the yellow flag only appeared briefly on the track and did not trigger a virtual safety car or a safety car, so it can be seen that the tire punctures of the two drivers were not serious.

So Qin Miao didn't ask any more questions, but just replied, "Received." ”

Soon, the race came to the final lap.

At this time, Hamilton was 7 seconds away from Qin Miao behind him, and Qin Miao was 3.9 seconds away from Verstappen.

In the end, Hamilton crossed the line first and claimed the 101st victory of his career.

And Qin Miao brought it back for the second time, which can be regarded as completing all the tasks assigned to him by the team.

Verstappen was third.

And the most surprising thing was that the driver who finished fourth was actually Alonso.

After the start of this race, the first brother seized the opportunity to start in the front row, ran the whole race steadily, and did not let Pérez behind him catch up.

And at the same time, Qin Miao in this race became the most popular driver with 30% of the votes.

In the return lap stage, when Qin Miao was thanking Frankie and all the staff of Mercedes in the TR of the team, Frankie suddenly interjected: "Well, Qin Miao, according to the data given by FOM, you seem to have become the most popular driver voted by the audience in this race." ”

Qin Miao: "Huh? ”

"I didn't look like I was playing as well as Hamilton in this game, right? Why me? Qin Miao's tone was full of doubts and incomprehension.

"Well, we don't know, maybe the crowd thinks it's rare for you to beat Verstappen in this game?" Frankie was also puzzled.

In fact, Qin Miao only has 1% more audience support than Alonso.

Qin Miao can understand why Alonso's vote rate is so high, after all, he is a two-time world champion, and Alonso is so old, it is indeed not easy to be so competitive in the arena.

Soon, Hamilton, Qin Miao and Verstappen parked their cars on the track, almost from the pit lane entrance to the exit of the track, next to the spectators.

Hamilton was the first to get out of the car after parking it, and when Qin Miao parked the car, Hamilton had already gotten out of the car and waved to the audience.

After parking his car and getting out of the car to put the steering wheel back onto the car, Verstappen belatedly parked his car in third place.

After getting out of the car, Qin Miao naturally waved his hand to the audience.

The audience on the side suddenly erupted in louder cheers than when Hamilton got out of the car and interacted with the audience.

To Qin Miao's surprise, not only did he get out of the car, the cheers of the audience were louder than Hamilton's, but there were also many guys at the scene who were obviously Middle Eastern people who were actually holding the Chinese flag and shouting for Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was also a little unclear for a while, so after thinking about it, he could only judge that although he only won the second place in this game, he still maintained the first position in the overall standings.

Smiled at those people and waved his hand, and then Qin Miao turned around and hugged Hamilton who was walking towards him.

"You're so fast in this game, I can't keep up with it at all." After hugging, Qin Miao said helplessly: "Do you still have strength in the later stages of this game?" ”

Hamilton didn't take Qin Miao's words, but asked, "It looks like your speed is much faster than Verstappen today." ”

Qin Miao: ......

Although he was helpless to talk about him with Hamilton's care, Qin Miao also knew that now was not the time to talk about this.

After a perfunctory sentence from Hamilton, he said hello to Verstappen, and Qin Miao went to weigh in for an interview.

The host in charge of today's interview is Jenson Barton, who was also nicknamed the Jenson button because of translation problems in the early days.

The first driver to be interviewed was Hamilton, who won today's championship.

The interview with the old man is as always, no matter what kind of results he has achieved today, at the beginning he will always thank the fans who came to watch the race.

This kind of operation will undoubtedly bring more passers-by to the old man, and it will also make his passers-by better.

Soon, the interview belonging to Hamilton ended, and Qin Miao came to the host's microphone.

"Qin Miao, I'm sorry that at this critical moment of competing for the championship, you only ended up in second, is this a kind of timely stop loss?"

Qin Miao didn't hesitate much, when she was interviewed before, Qin Miao would still worry about whether there would be any bad effects after she said the wrong thing in the post-game interview.

Until Qin Miao saw Verstappen's interview.

Pan Zi has always been outspoken in the post-game interview, and he dares to say anything after he is in a hurry.

But Verstappen has not been punished too harshly for his inappropriate remarks in the interview.

At most, the popularity of passers-by is not so good, as long as you have strength in F1.

As long as your character is not bad enough to be angry and resentful, your strength is strong enough to make many people forcibly ignore your character problems.

So in the face of the host's question, Qin Miao didn't think much about it and said: "Don't count, Verstappen and Hamilton have always been in a state of chasing me in the standings, and I have always had a sense of crisis about this, Hamilton's speed in this game is very fast, I have tried to chase Hamilton many times after surpassing Verstappen, but the result is obvious."

In the end, I was quite happy with the result, at least I had some respite after Hamilton took the title. ”

"There are two games left in the final game of the season, do you think you can defend your position in the last two games?"

Qin Miao spread his hands helplessly: "I don't know, let's take a step at a time, I hope I can create my own history." ”

After answering the two questions, Qin Miao's pre-match interview for this game ended.

After the interview, Qin Miao celebrated with Franchitoto and other senior executives of Mercedes, after which Qin Miao was called upstairs to the podium by FIA staff to receive the award.

Soon, the post-competition award ceremony began.

After listening to the familiar British national anthem, the award ceremony officially began.

The people in charge of awarding awards are people like local government officials in Qatar, and you can tell by their clothes that these people are very rich.

After all, they were all dressed in white robes, with a white cloth on their heads.

After the award ceremony, the director played the picture of the leaders of the two teams, Fang Meiben and Red Bull, leaving the podium.

The standings and points for the race were given shortly after: after the race, the drivers were ranked as follows:

1: Hamilton +25

2: Qin Miao +18

3: Verstappen +16 (fastest lap)

4: Alonso +12

5: Pérez +10

6: Ocon +8

7: Stroll +6

8: Sainz +4

9: Leclerc +2

10: Norris +1

11: Sebastian Vettel

12: Gasly

13: Ricardo

14: Yuki Tsunoda

15：Kimi

16: Giovinaz

17: Mick

18: Russell

19: Ma Zeping

20: Latifi (Flat tire retired)

The overall drivers' standings after this race and their standings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao 351

2: Hamilton 345 (+11→+6)

3: Verstappen 338 (+13→+13)

4: Pérez 174

5: Leclerc 155

6: Norris 130

7: Sainz 119

8: Ricardo 91

9: Gasly 78

10: Alonso 65

11: Vettel 49

12: Ocon 48

13: Stroll 26

14: Tsunoda 14

15: Russell 10

16：Kimi7

17: Latifi 3

After the match, Hamilton and Verstappen exchanged places.

The position of the other drivers has not changed, after all, it is the end of the season, the gap between drivers and drivers has been widened, and it is difficult to change the position.

However, due to the lack of championships in the last few races, the gap between Qin Miao and the second place has been further narrowed.

At the end of the race, the team standings are as follows:

1: Mercedes: 696

2: Red Bull: 512

3: Ferrari: 274

4: McLaren: 221

5：Alpine：115

6: Little Red Bull: 92

7: Aston Martin: 75

8: Williams: 13

9: Alfa Romeo: 7

10: Haas: 0

With the help of the Haas duo, the Haas team has been scoreless so far this season.

However, given that they haven't been promoted all season, it's no surprise that they have managed to achieve such a result.

After the final constructors' standings came out, the Qatar Grand Prix was also coming to an end.

The broadcast screen of Five Star Sports is also cut to the three commentators.

"Once again, congratulations to Hamilton for leading every lap of the race from the start of the race and finally winning the Qatar Race with a dominant performance!" Five Star Sports' Bing Ge began to sum up Hamilton's performance in this game.

Fei Ge also said: "That's right, Hamilton's performance in this game is really impeccable, and from the fact that Qin Miao and Verstappen can only keep up with Hamilton in the late game, but they can't catch up with Hamilton at all, it can be seen that Hamilton has always been very comfortable in this game." ”

"At the same time, as fans, we also hope that Qin Miao will not be affected by the two opponents who are gradually chasing after this week's race, continue to maintain the stability and speed shown now, and continue to run the last two races."

"We did fantasize that Qin Miao would be able to win the drivers' championship this season, but even if Qin Miao didn't win the final championship this season, we wouldn't blame Qin Miao for anything, his existence has already satisfied us enough!"

"Okay, after this race, I also hope that Qin Miao can rest for a while, adjust his condition, and finally let us see you at the Saudi Grand Prix in half a month!" (End of chapter)