317: Second Red Flag
On the Red Bull side, Horner's smile was almost irrepressible, and Marco on the side did not hide his inner emotions at all, and his old face was already wrinkled together.
Verstappen looked at the two Mercedes behind him and smiled happily, even with excitement in his heart.
The leading position, this is still the leading position in the street race!
The three commentators on the Five Star Sports side inevitably lacked frustration in their tones when analyzing the red flag and the results of the three drivers in the overall standings.
And Qin Miao was also a little helpless after getting out of the car, how could he be so dignified, the red flag.
But Qin Miao was willing to accept this fact.
After all, it has happened, and it is impossible for the tournament to cancel this red flag.
After getting off the car, Qin Miao did not leave the track, but walked from the exit of the pit area to the P room of the Meiben team at the entrance of the pit lane.
Qin Miao knew that she had to actively seek change.
If he didn't do anything and went on step by step according to the situation of this game, Qin Miao knew that he might be stuck in the third position.
Although Qin Miao is confident that she will surpass Verstappen in the next race, Qin Miao doesn't know if there will be unexpected accidents on the track later.
So after Qin Miao returned to the team's P room, he asked James Vincent, the strategy director, for a team's strategy options.
After some reference, Qin Miao finally decided to change a set of tires during the red flag
Swap straight to medium tyres.
As mentioned earlier, Qin Miao usually leaves three sets of new tires for himself before the start of the race, even if Qin Miao starts with neutral tires in this game, Qin Miao will still have a new set of neutral tires in his tire reserves.
So at this time, Qin Miao still has new tires for changing tires.
After the red flag, it was a static start, Hamilton no longer had new neutral tires, and Verstappen should also switch to hard tires after coming in, so Verstappen is likely to finish this race directly on a set of hard tires.
In other words, Qin Miao's only way to improve his position with a high probability at this time is to start.
Knowing that Qin Miao wanted to start with a new set of neutral tires, the team naturally did not object.
But after Qin Miao decided to start with this set of tires, James Vincent still asked more: "After changing to neutral tires, do you still have to make a pit stop?" I'll let the strategy department do the math for you. β
Qin Miao narrowed her eyes slightly: "If nothing else, I won't enter." β
After finishing speaking, Qin Miao left the P room of the team,
Only Toto and the others were left with surprise and surprise on their faces.
We agree that you Qin Miao has a strong ability to protect tires, and you have indeed had a relatively unnatural performance in terms of tire protection, such as a set of white tires running the whole race directly, and even that set of tires is still in the collection of Pirelli's headquarters.
But although the Jeddah track is not serious for the wear and tear of the tires, but this is also a super high-speed track second only to Silverstone, no matter how much your Qin Miao's tire protection ability is against the sky, at most it is to run the next 35 laps with hard tires, and it is impossible to finish this race with neutral tires.
However, Qin Miao was not very clear about the doubts in Toto's heart, and of course he wouldn't care about it.
Although Qin Miao also knew that it would be difficult to run the remaining mileage of this race on medium tyres, if he didn't do so, Qin Miao felt that after this race, his lead in the drivers' overall standings would be completely overtaken by Hamilton.
Regardless of the final result of his approach, at least Qin Miao's tactical choices were different from those of Hamilton and Verstappen.
If there is any accident on the field again, Qin Miao will have a high probability of profiting.
At this time, Reyes and the others had already learned about Qin Miao's new tire choice through the team TR.
Because the tires had been pulled next to Qin Miao's racing car, after Qin Miao came back, they had already helped Qin Miao change into a new set of neutral tires.
After finding a place to sit down, he took out an energy bar from Bobble's bag, and took the water bottle in his hand, Qin Miao was in a daze while eating, waiting for the game to restart.
And during this time, the photographer also gave the broadcast camera to Qin Miao, after all, this time Hongqi wants to say which of the three drivers who are likely to compete for the championship is the most unlucky and suffers the most, it is really Qin Miao.
Qin Miao was also a little annoyed at this time, seeing that the photographer almost clubbed the camera on his face to shoot himself.
I didn't have the anger to push the photographer's lens a little farther away.
Then Qin Miao thought of what Alyssa had said to herself.
In the face of the live camera, it is best not to have any excessive or overly drastic behavior, after all, the camera is the viewer's eyes looking at you.
Qin Miao may also feel that her action of pushing away the camera lens is a bit excessive.
After thinking about it, Qin Miao opened an unopened energy bar in his hand and handed it to the camera.
[Thank you, I don't eat]
[Come, dazzle my mouth]
[Woo woo, Qin Miao is so miserable and still brings me food, he is so gentle]
[Thank you I don't, but the energy bar you have eaten, please be sure to throw it in my mouth]
[I'm thirsty, Qin Miao, give me a sip of your water cup]
[Does anyone want the wrapping paper of the energy bar in Qin Miao's hand? ] If no one wants it, I'll eat it. γ
[Upstairs, you are really against the sky]
[Are Qin Miao's fans so abstract? γ
Five Star Sports here.
Originally, the three commentators were discussing during this time, how Qin Miao could turn defeat into victory in the next game and move his ranking forward by a few places.
There was no lack of concern about Qin Miao's final result in this game.
But while chatting and chatting, Qin Miao handed the energy bar to the camera in the broadcast screen.
Brother Bing smiled, and then said: "It can be seen that this sudden red flag did not cause too much trouble to Qin Miao, at least Qin Miao still has the confidence to joke now." β
After hearing Brother Bing's words, the two commentators also smiled and echoed the two sentences.
β¦β¦
As time goes on, the red flag is coming to an end and the game is about to restart.
Qin Miao put on his helmet again, put on his racing suit, and returned to his racing car.
After returning to the car, he carefully put on his gloves and fixed his steering wheel.
Soon, with Reyes and their withdrawal, the game was about to restart.
Verstappen in front of him drove out of the pits, and Qin Miao also drove his own car to keep up with Hamilton.
Just when everyone thought that the warm-up lap of the race would go on as normal, and it wasn't until after the start that the trio would really get to work.
The top three drivers started to bewitch on the warm-up laps.
Verstappen did a normal warm-up lap before Hamilton deliberately slowed down sharply after Verstappen had a blind turn.
And Qin Miao also began to slow down sharply after Hamilton slowed down through this blind corner.
Qin Miao's way of cooling the tires of the front car also learned from Hamilton.
Hamilton also dug a hole and buried himself.
Then the spectators saw a spectacle on the field, with Verstappen in first place and Hamilton in second place being pulled out by Hamilton at least twenty or thirty meters apart.
Qin Miao, who ranked third, and Hamilton, who ranked second, also had a distance of more than ten meters between him.
Qin Miao was still relatively honest after all, and he didn't pull directly to the limit distance like Hamilton.
At the same time, Qin Miao did not forget to constantly twist left and right to heat up the tires of his car.
And in the process, because Hamilton and Qin Miao were too far away, Verstappen kept complaining in the team TR, and he almost scolded.
Hamilton also complained about this: "Why is Qin Miao so far away from me?" β
Reminiscent of the distance between Hamilton and Verstappen at this time, Hamilton's words are somewhat darkly humorous.
But in fact, in addition to being a bit immoral, Hamilton and Qin Miao's approach will not violate the FIA's rules for warming up the tires, as long as the distance from the car in front is no more than 10 bodies.
Subsequently, the three of them naturally pulled wildly on the track.
They were slowing down, but due to the surprise of the blind corner, in the end, Hamilton and Qin Miao were still at least 3 seconds slower than the riders in front of them before stopping in their own positions.
And before Qin Miao's car was about to stop in his position, Qin Miao finally braked suddenly, and then kicked the floor oil.
Such an operation will cause Qin Miao's tires to idle for a short time.
It's a way to trade tire life for tire temperature at the start-up stage.
Compared with the first two drivers, Qin Miao's only advantage at this time is his neutral tires, so it is necessary to heat up the tires of the racing car to a suitable temperature.
With last-placed Latifi in position, the countdown to the second start of the race began.
The five red lights come on one by one, then the five red lights go off together, and the game starts again!
Qin Miao's start this time was amazing, and the speed was very fast, while Verstappen, who was in first place in front of Qin Miao, started significantly slower.
Hamilton, who was in second place, started much faster than Verstappen, but not as fast as Qin Miao.
So I saw that on the field, just starting to run 100 meters, Hamilton was side by side with Verstappen, and Qin Miao also came to the position of Verstappen's right rear wheel at this time, and was constantly shortening the distance between him and Verstappen.
When they came to the T1 braking point, the three cars were side by side on the track, Qin Miao on the outermost, Verstappen in the middle, and Hamilton in the innermost.
And when entering the corner, Hamilton was the first, followed by Qin Miao, and the slowest was naturally Verstappen.
However, Verstappen clearly did not want to give up the position he had won by chance, and he knew how important it was to him.
So we saw that Verstappen didn't get his car speed down to a safe threshold after crossing the braking point in T1.
Therefore, the audience can clearly see that because of this operation, Verstappen directly surpassed Qin Miao, who was 10 meters late before braking into the corner, and directly entered the corner with Hamilton, who had half a body more than himself when entering the corner.
Because Hamilton knew he had the right to the line, Hamilton didn't give up the line even when he noticed Verstappen's late braking.
And Verstappen braked so late that he basically couldn't return to the normal line, so it can be considered that after Verstappen found out that he lost his position, he didn't have any idea of giving up his current position at all, and he had the idea of rushing out of the track in order to keep his current position.
So you can see that Verstappen, who was sitting side by side with Hamilton into the corner, drove the car directly past the outside of the T2's shoulder due to his speed.
Also because Verstappen took this route without slowing down, after crossing the shoulder, Verstappen cut straight in front of Hamilton.
It's kind of keeping his position for the time being.
However, Verstappen's sudden attack also made Hamilton's rhythm a little disrupted, and as a result, Hamilton missed the best exit route in front of him.
Then T1 surpassed Qin Miao's Okang because of Verstappen's operation, and took advantage of Hamilton's opportunity to get out of the best corner, overtaking Hamilton and coming to second.
And Qin Miao also lost two positions to fourth because of Verstappen's anti-sky operation.
After all, when Qin Miao was about to slow down into the corner, Verstappen drove directly from Qin Miao's side, and in order not to hit Verstappen when he entered the corner, Qin Miao directly missed his own corner time.
It was at this time that Ocon picked up the wallet.
Qin Miao was a little irritable at this time, she started faster than Hamilton and Verstappen on both starts, but because the T1 of the Jeddah track was too close to the starting point, her two good starts were wasted.
Rarely, after being overtaken by Verstappen and Ocon, Hamilton didn't complain much about the team's TR.
On the contrary, Qin Miao was dissatisfied in the TR of the team and said: "Verstappen should be punished, he cut the corner directly!" And blocked my approach to the curve! β
"Okay, Qin Miao, don't be impatient, the team will fight for you." Frankie replied: "Our advice is to try to keep up with Hamilton as much as possible, and Verstappen will have to return his position. β
By the time Frankie communicated with Qin Miao, Toto on the side of the Mercedes team had already begun to contact the FIA's race officer by radio.
Red Bull on the other side is also contacting the FIA for help.
Verstappen's overtaking was unreasonable, and it was only a matter of time before he was penalized.
Red Bull are not trying to get the FIA not to penalize Verstappen, they are only contacting the FIA to get Verstappen to return a position and get back behind Hamilton without going to third.
The appeal of Mercedes was the exact opposite of that of Red Bull, who wanted to send Verstappen to third, preferably to a five-second pit stop.
However, the two teams had just started contacting the FIA, and before they even walked out of the team's P room, there was another puff of smoke and dust rising from the track, and PΓ©rez collided with Leclerc.
PΓ©rez's Red Bull car spun to the left after being hit, and the front nose wing hit the track wall directly, breaking the whole nose on the spot.
The yellow flag was shown for the first time, and in less than half a minute, the yellow flag was transformed into a red flag.
PS. Cough, fever, grogginess of the head.
This is yesterday's manuscript, and I can't write it today, so I won't have it tomorrow, so I'm sorry to ask you for a leave of absence in advance.
Guangdong suddenly dropped from 27 degrees to 13 degrees yesterday, and I still wear less clothes, I'm sorry.
I also hope that everyone will protect themselves and wear more.
I'm sorry.
(End of chapter)