And it's not just the problem of the broken gearbox of the Arrow Racing, but also the program of the gearbox.

The engine can't even rev up, not to mention the acceleration of the car at the start.

It is also thanks to Zhou Guanyu, a first-year freshman, and Portas, who has not run a race for a year.

These two people didn't have any temper during this time, and they all thought about being able to return to F1/be able to become an F1 driver.

If it is replaced by Kimi at this time, it is estimated that he can scold the Arrow transmission department from the person in charge to the sweeping aunt in the team TR.

But fortunately, the game has just started at this time, and Zhou Guanyu's position is relatively high, and he didn't drop too many positions, and he was not thrown too far by the car formation.

After the engine revved again, Zhou Guanyu followed closely behind Ricardo.

He overtook Ricciardo in front of him before he finished the first lap and moved up to 19th.

Among the drivers who started in the front row, Qin Miao focused most of his attention on Magrosson behind him, although Qin Miao, like many spectators, was a little surprised that a Haas would actually appear in this position, but after coming to the track, Qin Miao would not take any opponent lightly.

So although this Haas looked like it was easy to bully, Qin Miao still maintained his attention to him, and for the next period of time, Qin Miao glanced at the position gap between himself and the other party from time to time.

However, time soon proved that Qin Miaobai was worried, and just over halfway through the second lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Maglusen behind him was opened by 0.3 seconds.

On the second lap, Zhou Guanyu forced Norris on the outside of T1 by relying on the performance of the car on the outside line.

That's right, Zhou Guanyu directly killed Norris.

Although there is a reason why Norris started with neutral tires, Norris still tried to defend Zhou Guanyu's offense, but under Norris's deliberate defense, Zhou Guanyu still managed to surpass Norris, which also shows that Zhou Guanyu's offensive ability is still remarkable.

In the third lap, Zhou Guanyu took out Stroll in front of him again, and his position rose to 17th.

It seems that the starting mistake did not have any impact on Zhou Guanyu's mentality, and even that mistake seemed to ignite a cloud of anger in Zhou Guanyu's heart, but made him faster and faster, and now he is almost catching up with his teammate Bottas.

And Qin Miao in front of him also entered a long-distance cruising state.

And Qin Miao has a feeling that after entering the era of ground effects, the difficulty of following the car has become much less.

Although at the team meeting before the race, the head of the team's aerodynamic department said: "This season, due to the introduction of ground rules, the turbulence of the front car will be much less than last season, so it will be much easier to follow the car, and it will be easier to overtake." ”

At first, Qin Miao didn't take this sentence too seriously, but after the race started, Qin Miao correctly felt that this season with the car in front of the corner, the downforce of the car basically did not lose much.

Entering and exiting corners is also able to maintain a relatively high speed and better attack the driver in front of you.

It's clear that this season's FIA has been getting what it wants.

On lap six, Zhou overtook Hulkenberg and moved up another position to fifteenth.

On Qin Miao's side, originally because of tire problems, Qin Miao has been gradually pulled away by his teammate Hamilton, but after six laps, the time gap between Qin Miao and teammate Hamilton has come to 2.1 seconds.

However, when the race came to the ninth lap, Hamilton's advantage in the soft tyres was gradually erased, and Qin Miao also kept up with Hamilton's rhythm.

It's just that at this time, neither the audience, nor the commentators, nor the on-site director have paid their attention to Qin Miao.

Because of Zhou Guanyu's performance from the end of the team to the fourteenth in the past few laps, he has now chased behind Albon and started to attack Albon, and the director directly fixed the camera on Zhou Guanyu and gave Zhou Guanyu enough shots.

And Zhou Guanyu also lived up to expectations on the 10th lap of the big straight, overtaking Albon in front of him.

However, after the shot of Zhou Guanyu surpassing Albon ended, the director immediately gave the camera to Qin Miao.

Because at this time, in the DRS area behind Qin Miao, a Red Bull was only 0.7 seconds away from Qin Miao.

Pérez, who lost his rhythm after the start, first overtook Magnussen after stabilizing his state on the track, and now he finally chased behind Qin Miao, ready to make a move on Qin Miao.

The two Mercedes drivers on the track had to admit that Red Bull was indeed faster than Mercedes this season, both in terms of qualifying and lap times in the race.

Therefore, Qin Miao, who has always been good at defensive ability, was also a little stressed after seeing Perez behind him.

On the one hand, the defensive difficulty of this track in Bahrain is a little high, and on the other hand, the speed of the Red Bull car is one second faster than the Mercedes car, and Qin Miao still uses neutral tires, so it is easier to follow the car this season.

It can be said that in the face of Perez's attack, Qin Miao had no room to resist at all.

Because of this, Qin Miao is as strong as Qin Miao does not dare to guarantee that he can lock Pérez behind him like he locked Verstappen last season.

However, the audience didn't think so, in the eyes of the audience, Qin Miao was still the talented driver with the first defensive ability.

Then to the surprise of all the spectators, Perez charged Qin Miao for a lap behind him, and then on the eleventh lap of the big straight, using DRS and ERS, Perez overtook Qin Miao directly before the braking point of T1.

Although Qin Miao also tried to draw a dragon in front of Perez, and even took the center line of the straight when Perez chased him, giving Perez a choice of either you walk the driving line and I will brake late later, or you have no speed after taking the dirty side corner.

But in the face of the absolute speed difference, these twists and turns were useless, Pérez even overtook Qin Miao before the braking point, and finally pulled his car back to the driving line very indifferently and smoothly out of the corner.

In fact, Qin Miao still wanted to struggle for a while, and was ready to take a cross line in the two corners of T2 and T3, using the speed of the corner and the DRS area between T3 and T4 to overtake him.

However, after Qin Miao came out of the corner, the position of the oil was 5 meters later than Perez.

Although he ate DRS after exiting the corner, Pérez, who came out of the corner faster, did not give Qin Miao a chance to catch up with him before the braking point of T4.

Therefore, Qin Miao could only watch Perez surpass him and walk away in the end.

In the face of the absolute speed gap, Qin Miao's resistance looked a little funny.

"Qin Miao, despite the attempt, we can still see that Qin Miao did not hold his position."

"Qin Miao can't be blamed for this, it can be clearly seen from this race that the two drivers of Mercedes are not fast enough, which is most likely because of the lack of competitiveness of Mercedes' cars this season."

……

Qin Miao's position is back to sixth, Qin Miao has a feeling that if there is no accident, he can only defeat his teammate Hamilton in this game to get fifth, as for the top 4 positions...... Then you can only think about it.

However, just when Qin Miao thought that Pérez would surpass Hamilton simply and easily like himself, Hamilton directly chose to pit and replaced with a new set of hard tires.

After Hamilton came out of the pit lane after changing to this set of hard tires, he happened to meet Zhou Guanyu, who had already pursued to the twelfth place.

Then because Hamilton's hard tires did not reach the right working temperature, Hamilton was overtaken by Zhou Guanyu.

That's right, in front of everyone, Zhou Guanyu surpassed Hamilton.

Killing the red eye belongs to yes.

In the next half lap, Zhou Guanyu also relied on his tyre advantage to gradually open the time gap between himself and Hamilton.

However, it didn't go too far, and on lap 13 of the straight, Hamilton regained his position.

Although the glory is very short-lived, at least this picture has brought a lot of surprises to many domestic audiences who are looking forward to Zhou Guanyu's brilliant performance in his debut.

And the fact that he was quickly overtaken by Hamilton has nothing to do with Zhou Guanyu, although this season's Mercedes still has a bunch of problems to be solved in the eyes of people within the team.

But Mercedes is the defending champion team anyway, and the gap between it and your Arrow is not half a star.

Next, the drivers on the track are in cruising mode.

On lap 15, the pit stop window opened.

Verstappen in front of Qin Miao led the pit stop, and after Verstappen pitted, Sainz behind Verstappen also pit with Verstappen's rhythm.

Ferrari's idea for this race was simple: to keep Sainz in the fight and help Leclerc contain Verstappen.

And because of the pit stop of the two drivers in front, Qin Miao's ranking came to third.

On lap 16, Leclerc and Pérez in front of them also made pit stops.

Ferrari's idea was simple, Leclerc was in good shape from the start in today's race, and Ferrari also had a speed advantage over Red Bull.

So at this time, Ferrari don't think too much, COS Kakashi, when Verstappen pit stops, we will pit with him on the second lap.

While this approach is nothing new, it at least ensures that the team will not make another mistake in their pit stop strategy.

And after all the drivers in front of him made a pit stop, Qin Miao took advantage of the situation to come to the first.

The first time in the 2022 season to lead the whole field is in such a state, to be honest, this is not what Qin Miao wants to see.

But everyone knows that Qin Miao's first is only temporary, and now it depends on how long Qin Miao's set of neutral tires can last.

also because Qin Miao came to the first, the next broadcast shots have nothing to do with him.

The camera is all on Verstappen and Leclerc.

Because Verstappen took the lead and eliminated the two-second time gap between himself and Leclerc, the two started the battle directly on the track.

Verstappen overtook Leclerc twice in T1 with DRS, and then Leclerc after turning in T3 and then regained his position in T4 with wake and DRS.

It's the same as the first way Qin Miao thought of dealing with Perez's attack and overtaking when he faced it, but Qin Miao didn't complete this set of operations because of the gap in car performance.

And Leclerc did.

The pair battled for a total of three laps, and in the third lap Verstappen was also in T1 ready to attack, and although he knew that even if he managed to overtake Leclerc in T1, Leclerc would come back in the future, but he did it without hesitation.

Then he locked up in T1 and the right front wheel was ground straight out of the scar.

This was the end of the offensive.

"It is undeniable that the two fights between Ferrari and Red Bull are indeed exciting, but after seeing such a picture, and then looking at Qin Miao who is still on the track with neutral tires in front, how can I have a feeling of déjà vu?"

Brother Shrimp also smiled: "Last season's Qin Miao really carried out the saying that the snipe and the clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman, and he always used his talent in protecting the tire to stagger the pit stop window between himself and Hamilton Verstappen, the two main rivals.

Then Hamilton and Verstappen, although they knew that if they continued to fight with each other on the track, they would eventually lose Qin Miao, but they were unwilling to fall behind because of their own personalities. ”

"Now that familiar feeling is back!"

However, soon, as the race came to the 26th lap, Qin Miao was also called back to the pit lane by the team.

Under such circumstances, Qin Miao has maintained a fairly good speed, and after running for so long, he can prove to all fans that his ability to protect tires has not degraded, but the car has been pulled.

This time, the tire change time is 2.7 seconds, which is not bad.

After Qin Miao came out of the pit lane with new hard tires, Qin Miao fell behind Hamilton and in front of Magruson.

In other words, Qin Miao's pit stop tire change basically did not lose any ranking, and he also earned 12 laps of new tires in vain.

Because other drivers still need to re-pit and change tires, Qin Miao's tires for these 12 laps still have to be returned in the end.

But at least in terms of Qin Miao's terrifying ability to protect the fetus that he is showing now, he is really likely to get a good result in this game.

As for the Meiben team, in fact, they had already calculated what position Qin Miao would fall in after he came out of the pit lane.

So after seeing Qin Miao's position, there was no surprise.

As for Qin Miao, relying on his terrifying ability to protect tires, he got a good result on the track?

To be honest, everyone on the side of the Meiben team only dared to hope a little, but they didn't have any hope.

Because the performance gap between the car and the four cars in the group in front is a bit big.

Qin Miao's tires are the same as Hamilton's, and Qin Miao's tires are 12 laps newer than Hamilton's, so after coming out of the pit lane and getting through the first warm-up lap, Qin Miao began to quickly shorten the time gap between himself and Hamilton.

However, Mercedes certainly doesn't want to see their two drivers clash on the track.

The team's strategy team knew the personalities of these two people, Hamilton would not take the initiative to let Qin Miao pass, and Qin Miao now had such a big advantage, it was impossible for him to willingly stay behind Hamilton and let Hamilton block himself.

Mercedes Racing had Hamilton pit for tyres on lap 27. (End of chapter)