Now the question arises, what kind of punishment will be for Verstappen's illegal overtaking after the red flag.

Is it a time penalty, or is it a direct penalty from the starting position?

At the same time, Qin Miao fell into blood mold again, falling from third to fourth.

On the other hand, Pérez withdrew outright.

Although Pérez only had his nose fin knocked off at the time of the collision, the team found that the left front suspension of Pérez's car was also damaged, which must have been knocked out of shape or something, so the car could not be driven.

At the same time, Ma Zeping also had a racing accident in front of him, and after Russell braked, Ma Zeping couldn't react and rear-ended Russell.

He also retired like Pérez, except that both of Mazeping's suspensions on the front wheels broke on the spot.

All three drivers in the championship are now anxious, and Verstappen, who is in first place, will definitely be penalized after that overtaking.

So now Verstappen's position is fake.

On the other hand, Hamilton also fell from second to third because of Verstappen.

Qin Miao was even more miserable, falling to fourth.

and their starting position is different.

All in all, the very beginning of this game was really chaotic.

After the red flag appeared, Qin Miao had no choice but to park his car in the maintenance area passage again.

Not long after Qin Miao came down, Toto went directly to the FIA.

Hamilton followed closely and also went to the FIA, only Qin Miao sat honestly on the shoulder of the road next to his car after getting out of the car, drinking water in a daze and not knowing what he was thinking.

It didn't take long for the FIA to give the punishment.

It was Verstappen who was penalised two positions on the grid and went straight to the start behind Hamilton, which was the third start.

The first is Okon, the second is Hamilton, the third is Verstappen, and as for Qin Miao...... Fourth.

This penalty is actually fair, after all, Verstappen is a cut of the corner directly ahead of Hamilton.

After getting the news, Qin Miao naturally found Toto through the team TR for the first time and wanted to appeal.

It's a pity that the FIA didn't have the idea of answering Qin Miao's appeal.

Qin Miao's outside line suffered too much, and when he entered the corner, although Verstappen braked very late, he rushed directly out of the buffer zone.

But when Verstappen entered the corner, it was because of his late braking, and the whole car had already run in front of Qin Miao's car, so Qin Miao was overtaken by Verstappen in the corner, and there was no violation.

After getting the news, Qin Miao was numb.

Although Toto also appealed for Qin Miao, the race officer's handling of the first three drivers has been decided, and the FIA is obviously not prepared to change this decision.

In the end, Qin Miao naturally had no choice but to accept this decision.

After the result of the punishment came out and was determined, another problem was exposed at this time, that is, how to choose Qin Miao's tires for the next game.

At this time, Qin Miao still had a new set of hard tires in his tire reserves.

Qin Miao subjectively didn't want to change tires, he still wanted to use the speed advantage of neutral tires to ensure that he had enough speed to surpass Hamilton and Verstappen in the next races.

But Qin Miao's set of neutral tires can no longer withstand the consumption of another start, according to Qin Miao's own expectations, if he still chooses to use neutral tires to start in the next competition, then his speed will have a very large decline in the later stage of the game.

Therefore, after Qin Miao thought about it carefully, he could only change to a new set of hard tires in the end.

Although the speed of the hard tires is much worse than that of the medium tires, at least after changing to this set of tires, Qin Miao no longer needs to worry about tire wear in the next races.

Maybe it's an opportunity.

For a long time to come, everyone waited for the end of the red flag.

Qin Miao began to eat again.

During the waiting period, the director also gave Qin Miao a lot of shots, and found that after he was eating again, not only the director, but also the audience in front of the TV and even the commentary, and even the audience at the scene were a little speechless.

Shouldn't you F1 drivers control your weight? Eating should ensure your physical fitness and hydration, etc., how can you start eating as soon as you have time, and you are not afraid of running races and wanting to go to the toilet while running?

Fifteen minutes later, the tournament gave notice that the game was about to resume.

After 10 minutes, Qin Miao and the others drove their own car back to the track and ran a warm-up lap.

At this time, Aokang, who followed behind the safety body, was naturally the happiest one.

Because of the one safety car and two red flags in this race, O'Com has eaten up all the bonuses he can eat, and he has chosen the best answer among the choices that have appeared so far in this race.

Now there is only one difficulty in front of him, and that is to start, and if he gets up perfectly enough this time, then Ocon will have a huge advantage in this race.

The game is guaranteed a fourth.

What? Podium?

It is indeed possible, but whether it is Qin Miao, Verstappen or Hamilton, these people have strong enough individual ability in overtaking.

Despite the geographical advantage in his hands, Jeddah is also a track that is not easy to overtake, and Aucon's defensive ability is not weak, but it is really not easy for him to keep the attack of these three top drivers.

Soon, the riders were all parked in their respective positions.

"Five red lights on! It's game on! ”

The race started for the third time.

It seems that the first two starts used up all Qin Miao's luck and reflexes, and it may be that the speed of the white tire start is indeed not as fast as the neutral tire, this time Qin Miao can only be said to be decent compared to Hamilton and Verstappen, and he was not pulled away too much because of the start, but it was not as amazing as the first two starts, and he quickly caught up with the rider in front.

And this time Verstappen got up particularly well, Hamilton got up a little better than Qin Miao, and much better than Aokang, who was in first place.

Of course, it is not ruled out that Hamilton has the same starting reaction speed as Aucon, but because Hamilton has a better car performance than Aukang, it looks like Hamilton has a faster start than Aucon.

In short, before the T1 braking point after the start, Hamilton at the second start was side by side with Ocon at the first start, and Verstappen at the third start squeezed directly into the inside line of Ocon and Hamilton by virtue of his own starting advantage.

Verstappen then came back with his trademark late brake and forced his way into T1 inside for the duo.

Hamilton, on the other hand, had cars on the left and right, so he slowed down a little bit in order not to unexpectedly retire on the track.

Hamilton himself knows that the most important thing for the three of their championship drivers now is not how well they finish at the start, but how to protect their cars from retiring for some strange reason.

However, although Hamilton had slowed down early, he still collided with the floor of the Ocon on the right side when he slowed down, but fortunately, there was no major damage to the two cars, but only scratched off a little bit of the floor of the Ocon car, and some sparks were scratched on the ground.

The collision with Hamilton forced Ocon to abandon the original approach to the corner, taking the same route as Verstappen at the second start, and slashing out from the track.

As a result, after sprinting off the track from that position, Ocon took the same place as Verstappen.

Ocon also knew that his operation was illegal, so after T3, he took the initiative to return the position to Verstappen, but did not return the position to Hamilton.

Because at the time of the corner, the front of O'Connell's car was in front of Hamilton.

The reason is the same as Qin Miao's time.

Hamilton, of course, also began to protest in the team TR.

It's a pity that this protest is destined to be as ineffective as Qin Miao's.

Different from the dangers of the first three drivers, Qin Miao's outstanding start in this wave is a flat and stable.

Qin Miao's start speed was not fast, but it was not slow, and when he entered the corner, he stood on the inside line, and he didn't give Ricardo behind him any chance at all.

Therefore, after the start, Qin Miao steadily protected his current ranking and ranked fourth.

A lap later, Hamilton overtook Ocon on the Grand Straight.

When Aokang came to the first place after eating up the dividends of the safety car and the red flag, Aokang's heart was very excited.

After all, this race will start from the first place, and this is another street race, as long as he is fast enough, even if the speed gap with the car behind him is 0.5 seconds per lap, Ocon feels that he has the opportunity and ability to defend.

It's just that in the face of real racing performance and driver strength, these are all imaginary.

Just getting started, both Hamilton and Verstappen put a lot of pressure on Ocon.

Verstappen was a man of arms in front of him without a fight, and Hamilton was able to easily overtake Ocon after a lap with the sheer performance of his car, which made Ocon realise the terrifying disparity between the top drivers and himself.

Of course, AuCom can also throw this problem on the point that Alpine's cars can't compare to the cars of Red Bull and Mercedes, after all, this is also true.

In short, when O'Connell saw Hamilton's racing car in his rearview mirror, he was ready to awaken the lion in him.

But after seeing Hamilton's proximity, he decisively gave up on the dangerous idea, choosing instead to keep his pace and keep going, without any defensive moves.

This can be regarded as being overtaken without damage.

And on lap 20, in the same position, Qin Miao also overtook Aokang in the same way here.

After seeing Qin Miao's proximity rate, Ao Kang chose to do the same thing when facing Hamilton's overtaking, that is, without any action, running his own line normally, and letting Qin Miao surpass himself from the inside line.

On the 21st lap, Qin Miao's ranking returned to third.

But Qin Miao still felt that she was in a panic.

After all, Aokang's speed is still a little slow, and after Qin Miao surpasses Aokang, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton in front of him has come to 3 seconds, and it is even farther away from Verstappen, a full 4.5 seconds.

You know, the race has only just started for 4 laps.

But it can't be helped, it's also part of the game.

What Qin Miao can do now is to surpass Ao Kang and see if he can get closer to the two people in front of him in the next game.

On lap 22, Qin Miao found that the time gap between herself and Hamilton had shortened from 3 seconds to 2.7 seconds.

Although he only chased the opponent for 0.3 seconds in two laps, Qin Miao still felt that he still had a lot of opportunities in this game.

And Qin Miao also feels that Hamilton's speed in this game is faster than himself, and the reason why he was chased by himself for 0.3 seconds in two laps is because Hamilton has Verstappen blocking Hamilton in front of him, and after eating Verstappen's turbulence, Hamilton's speed can't go up.

Therefore, Qin Miao knew that if he wanted to catch the flaws left by Hamilton and Verstappen during the struggle, he would have to chase down the DRS area behind Hamilton before Hamilton officially started attacking Verstappen.

So from the beginning of the 22nd lap, Qin Miao adjusted his fuel mode to the fuel-rich mode.

Qin Miao still has a certain experience in fuel saving, but the amount of fuel he brings has always been the standard fuel amount, so after more than one race, the fuel reserve of Qin Miao's racing tank can also allow Qin Miao to run seven or eight laps on the track.

But the reason why the team agreed to Qin Miao to bring so much oil was that on the one hand, they were also worried that half of the running would not be enough after the fuel belt was less, and on the other hand, before the start of the race, the FIA had basic requirements for the weight of the car.

If there is less fuel, the car will not meet the standard, so the team took into account the consideration of all factors, coupled with Qin Miao's own opinions, and finally decided to bring more fuel.

This is also one of the main reasons why Qin Miao's overtaking ability is so much more prominent than other drivers.

So the current Qin Miao is chasing Hamilton and Verstappen in front of him with the attitude of running a qualifying race.

It's just that Qin Miao was just about to start pushing with all her might, and a virtual safety car suddenly appeared on the track.

After seeing the virtual safety car, Qin Miao was happy in her heart, because this virtual safety car can effectively shorten the time gap between herself and Hamilton in front of her.

After slowing down, Qin Miao naturally asked what was going on in the convoy.

According to the team's side, it was Tsunoda who had just collided with Stroll in the rear.

The entire nose wing of the Tsunoda car was knocked off, and a large pile of debris was left on the track, as well as the front nose wing.

That's why the race will be in a virtual safety car.

So, before running a few laps, Qin Miao happily returned to Hamilton's back.

Kakuda can be regarded as helping Qin Miao save several laps of pursuit time.

Qin Miao, who has been unlucky since the start of the game, can be regarded as picking up a small bargain.

What Qin Miao needs to do next is very simple, that is, quietly wait for Hamilton to make a move on Verstappen, and at that time, Qin Miao will have the opportunity to pick up the wallet.

Qin Miao is actually not a person who likes to pick up other people's wallets to steal chickens, but the situation is compelling, and Qin Miao will not give up and miss such an opportunity.

On lap 24, the virtual safety car ends.

After Qin Miao started smoothly, he was not pulled away by Hamilton, but Qin Miao, who used hard tires, had no intention of making a move on Hamilton at this time, so he controlled his position 1.5 seconds behind Hamilton, and then charged the car.

Because Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is more against the sky, when following Hamilton, Qin Miao did not protect the tires or save fuel, and the only conservative action was to charge the ERS battery.

Qin Miao knew that Hamilton's speed was faster than Verstappen's, and one was a neutral tire and one was a hard tire, so Hamilton was bound to attack Verstappen.

Moreover, Qin Miao felt that when Hamilton attacked Verstappen, there was a high probability that it would not be possible to succeed at one time.

It's not that Qin Miao looks down on Hamilton's offensive ability, and even Qin Miao feels that Hamilton's offensive ability may only be a little worse than himself.

Mainly because Qin Miao knew that with Verstappen's character, it was impossible for him to defend Hamilton's offense in a conventional way honestly at this time.

He's going to have to get a whole moth out of the ring.

And under Verstappen's somewhat outrageous defensive moves, Hamilton and Verstappen are both likely to have accidents, and that is when Qin Miao really plays.

On lap 28, Qin Miao did not wait for Hamilton's attack on Verstappen, just like the difficulty of overtaking on the track mentioned earlier is not ordinarily high.

Even Hamilton struggled to catch up with Verstappen in the DRS zone in these laps, and more often after the first time period, he used these straights on the track to quickly shorten the time gap with Verstappen, but he was always left behind by Verstappen in the corners before the DRS inspection point.

So Hamilton, although he was able to reduce the time gap between himself and Verstappen to 0.4 seconds from time to time, was usually at the end of the straight, and the wake was not decisive.

On lap 29, the virtual safety car was again used on the previous lap, because on the previous lap there were some debris left over from the collision between Vettel and Kimi.

And because these debris are relatively small, it is a little troublesome to clean up, so the virtual safety car was brought to the 33rd lap in total.

At this time, there are still 17 laps before the end of the game, Qin Miao's tires are still in good condition at this time, although there are not many laps left before the end of the game, but Qin Miao's heart is still calm at this time, and her mood is quite stable.

Although Hamilton in front of him was on the same hard tyres as himself, Verstappen in front of Hamilton was on medium tyres.

And in this game, Hamilton has been putting pressure on Verstappen since he appeared behind Verstappen, which means that Hamilton has been pushing Verstappen all over the game.

As a result, after the second red flag restart, Verstappen did not have a lap to protect his medium tyres, and he was pushing at full strength.

So Qin Miao knew that Verstappen's tires couldn't last too long, and his tires would inevitably cross the cliff point before the end of the race, and then the grip began to drop sharply.

As a result, Qin Miao in this game still ran his own rhythm behind Hamilton normally, and the outstanding thing was that he was even.

It is worth mentioning that because Qin Miao, who was following Hamilton, had never shown any aggression, so when the game was going on at this point, Hamilton had not focused part of his attention on Qin Miao while attacking Verstappen as Qin Miao did when he first came behind him.

At this point, most of Hamilton's attention was on Verstappen.

For Qin Miao behind him, Hamilton knew that his speed in this game was only faster than Verstappen, so Qin Miao could keep up with his own pace, because he was also behind Verstappen, but Hamilton didn't think that Qin Miao could surpass him in this game at this time.

On lap 36, with 14 laps left before the end of the race, Verstappen's medium tyres were a bit off the beaten path.

After all, after being pushed by Hamilton for so long, it is normal for the tires to start to hold up at this time.

Therefore, Hamilton chased Verstappen within a second of the DRS detection point position of T22, so in the DRS area between T24 and T27, Hamilton finally opened his DRS.

And Qin Miao is still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai at this time, unchanged for 1.5 seconds for 10,000 years.

But looking at Hamilton's DRS that suddenly opened, Qin Miao knew that Hamilton's offensive horn for Verstappen in this game was officially sounded from this time, and his opportunity for this game was about to appear.

So at this time, although Qin Miao did not have DRS, Qin Miao still turned on his ERS and oil-rich mode and began to push with all his might.

He wanted to eat Hamilton's wake and DRS on the big straight.

It turns out that Qin Miao's choice to charge his racing battery has been correct.

Because Qin Miao didn't have too fast speed demand for a long time, the power of Qin Miao's racing battery has been maintained at the level of 91%.

The reason why it is not at 100% is because this B battery is also designed for life, if the battery is full all the time, it will bring a burden to the battery, which will naturally reduce the power reserve level and durability of the battery.

The best battery power should be kept at around 85%, and Qin Miao's 91% is already a bit high.

Frankie reminded Qin Miao more than once: "If you can, use more of the power in the battery, it's really useless to keep it." ”

Then, at the critical moment, Qin Miao directly adjusted the battery release mode of the car to the extreme mode.

The power release rate in this mode is even more aggressive than in qualifying.

The battery mode in qualifying requires the car to use up the battery in just one lap, as well as the power recovered by the MGU-K and MGU-H during qualifying.

When running a qualifying race, the power in the battery is more wasteful, less and slow.

This mode is different in that it uses up all the power in the battery in as short a period of time as possible.

Therefore, it can be seen that after Hamilton had Verstappen's DRS speed accelerated, Qin Miao's speed behind him also began to skyrocket.

Qin Miao's speed was actually faster than Hamilton's speed with DRS for a while, should it be said that it was the engine of Meiben. (End of chapter)