Qin Miao finished fourth with a time of 0.09 seconds faster than Hamilton.

Surprisingly, McLaren, who had an ugly performance in the first two races, regained their form in the third race of the season, bringing back six or seven qualifying rounds.

Haas, who could still be seen in Q3 in the first two games, is back where they should have been.

Leclerc swept away the slump of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and took pole position for the Australian Grand Prix.

While the Australian Grand Prix and the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix are both high-speed circuits, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix's Jeddah circuit has more corners, while the Australian Grand Prix's Albert Park circuit is more of a straight and DRS area, so Ferrari can get the most out of its engine, which it has developed a season in advance.

Therefore, in terms of qualifying, Leclerc's speed is significantly faster than Red Bull.

When Qin Miao went to weigh after the race, he looked at Leclerc and others who were interviewed on the track through a glass wall, and there was no joy in his eyes after defeating his teammates, only envy when he looked at the track.

What was taken for granted last season seemed a bit out of reach for him at this time.

Shaking his head to clear out the chaotic thoughts in his heart, Qin Miao turned his head and threw himself into his work.

At least Qin Miao has expectations in her heart now.

In the two races between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the average qualifying lap speed difference between Mercedes and Ferrari and Red Bull was around 0.6 seconds.

And in this race, Hamilton doesn't count, Qin Miao's lap speed is only 0.4 seconds slower than the leading group in front of him on average.

Although Qin Miao has been helping the team develop the new season's car for a long time, Qin Miao still spends more of her working time running the simulator, and then through the feedback from the simulator, she tells the team what impact the thing they designed has on the overall aerodynamic layout of the car, and what Qin Miao feels like driving this car.

Therefore, what Qin Miao didn't know was that the upgrade of this rear diffuser was not long-lasting.

This means that the next improvement of the Mercedes car will not have such an immediate effect as this rear diffuser.

This rear diffuser actually solves the problem of excessive downforce on the W13's tail, which can be regarded as relieving a burden on the W13, and therefore the speed increase is very obvious, because strictly speaking, this season's W13 should actually be at this speed.

……

Nothing to say all night, and the next day, the main race.

Unlike the pre-race parade in the previous two races, which was carried out in the trailer of a truck, the pre-race parade of this game was completed by Qin Miao in an antique classic car.

One of the advantages of riding this kind of car is that you don't have to be interviewed during the pre-race parade, because this kind of antique car generally has only two seats, one for the driver and one for the driver, and there is basically no room for reporters to interview the driver.

However, the pre-race parade can't just let the drivers run around the track like this, so the race will still arrange pre-race interviews, but due to vehicle restrictions, it is impossible to interview everyone in the pre-race interview stage, and it is generally to interview the pole sitter of the race.

So Leclerc was in a four-seater classic car, with a camera in the front and Leclerc and reporters in the back.

At this time, Qin Miao is quite leisurely, so she only needs to sit in the car and greet the spectators in the audience seats on both sides of the track.

It is worth mentioning that at the time when China is still doing nucleic acid, foreign countries have completely liberalized, and what stands out is freedom.

Therefore, the spectator seats at the Albert Park Circuit were almost full, and Qin Miao also saw many fans wearing red hats and white uniforms of the Meiben team.

And when Qin Miao drove in front of them, these people cheered louder than all the spectators around.

Qin Miao was quite moved, at least at the trough, these people still did not leave him.

But where did these mugshots of the guys holding up their own laughing headshots come from???

Qin Miao recalled a little, her expression management has always been online, and she shouldn't have laughed so rampantly.

However, Qin Miao still pointed at the guys who looked like international students with a husky expression.

And these people also saw that Qin Miao was not angry, so they were even more energetic, holding Qin Miao's headshot and shaking it violently.

After the vignette, the post-race parade ended, and Qin Miao returned to the team's home.

After changing into his racing suit and solving his personal problems, Qin Miao returned to the P room of the team.

At this time, Reyes: They were still in the final inspection of the car.

Qin Miao was not in a hurry, moved a stool and sat next to Frankie.

After Frankie saw Qin Miao coming, he also gave Qin Miao some place.

"The weather is good today, the track temperature is very suitable, you can be a little more relaxed in terms of tire management, the team side according to your will, the pit stop strategy for you is red and yellow, but the soft tires in this race are C5, and the medium tires are C3, if you choose red and yellow to stop, according to the team's simulation, your tires in the late race may be a little struggling."

Qin Miao nodded indifferently and said, "It's okay, believe in my ability to protect the fetus, I can handle it." ”

Seeing this, Frankie didn't continue to talk about it, but changed to something else: "I know that with the current performance of the team's cars, you can be a little boring on the track, but if you keep the time gap between you and the leading group in front of you within 17 seconds, they will fall behind you after the pit stop, and if you choose to stop yellow, it is possible to try to defend them." ”

This is completely a joking conversation between friends, although after falling behind Qin Miao, Qin Miao's struggle with the car in front can effectively increase the exposure of the sponsors of the Mercedes team, but this is in conflict with the interests of the team itself, Frankie This is completely just the idea of seeing Qin Miao cruising alone on the track in both races.

Qin Miao really thought about Frankie's proposal a little, but Qin Miao finally shook his head and said: "Yes, but there is no need, since my tires may be a little nervous in this game, then I will most likely be in a state of tire protection." ”

"Of course, I'm just making a suggestion......"

"Qin Miao! The car is ready, come over and check it out. Reyes's voice came.

Qin Miao reached out and patted Frankie's shoulder and dragged his stool away.

……

After completing the final inspection of the car, Qin Miao went to the track with his own car.

After the broadcast footage of Five Star Sports was shown on the track, Qin Miao was already sitting in the car to adjust his gloves and helmets.

Soon, the warm-up lap begins.

"Haoran, we saw in this game that Qin Miao still started with soft tires, but we all know that the three tires in this race are given by jumping, namely C5C3C2, so we know that the C5 soft tires are actually not as durable as the normal soft tires, how many laps can this set of C5 soft tires last in the main race stage under normal conditions?" The commentators of Five Star Sports, who were commenting on this game, naturally started today's work with Qin Miao as the main topic.

Zhou Haoran didn't look at the information he recorded, and said directly: "In fact, today's race uses jump tires because the grip of this season's C4 on the Albert Park track is almost exactly the same as C3, so the speed of the two tires is the same, but the durability is much worse, so the race finally chose to use C5 as the soft tire choice for this race." ”

After explaining, Zhou Haoran returned to the topic: "Under normal circumstances, C5 can only run 13 laps at most, and it has to be in the state of light fuel in the car."

But if it is the starting stage, this number will be reduced if the car is fully fueled, and it may only be about 10 laps, so I am also curious why Qin Miao chose to start with soft tires. ”

"Is there a possibility that Qin Miao will use the two-stop tactic in the main competition stage?" Phineas curiously suggests another hypothesis.

But he was soon vetoed by Brother Bing: "In fact, according to the current speed of the Mercedes team, this choice is completely unnecessary, anyway, in the long-distance speed, the Mercedes team can't catch up with Ferrari and Red Bull, they may be cruising throughout the race, and there is no need to go to the sideways and increase the risk for themselves to get the results steadily."

In short, in any case, we still expect Qin Miao and Mei Ben to bring us some surprises in this game, and we also hope that the upgrades introduced by Mei Ben this week can have the desired effect. When Brother Bing said this, all the drivers had already finished the warm-up lap and parked the car in their positions, and Qin Miao was no exception.

On the track, Qin Miao looked at Hamilton's position.

Of all the cars in this race, only Qin Miao started with soft tires, and all the top ten drivers except Qin Miao used neutral tires.

Therefore, he should not need to face Hamilton's attack at the beginning, as for the three people in front......

Qin Miao set her eyes on Pérez.

Verstappen was directly in front of him, and the distance of more than two bodies was not something that Qin Miao could easily catch up, so Qin Miao set a goal for himself in this race, which was to try to overtake Pérez in front of him and fight for a podium position.

Soon, the five red lights gradually lit up, and Qin Miao also began to refuel and increase the engine speed.

When the five red lights all turned on and went out, Qin Miao suddenly released the clutch button on the steering wheel of his racing car, and the car started instantly.

After the start, Qin Miao's speed was obviously faster than Hamilton, and he quickly opened the distance between him and Hamilton, and Perez didn't play very well in this game, as if he felt the pressure brought to him by Qin Miao.

And by the time the four people in front of him came to T1, Qin Miao was already stuck in Pérez's inner line with half of the body.

In the T1 stage, Qin Miao braked normally into the corner, and when the bend was in the center, Qin Miao and Perez had already begun to wheel-to-wheel.

After leaving the corner, Qin Miao naturally gave full play to the advantages of the soft tires of the car, and began to accelerate with fuel at least 5 meters earlier than Pérez.

The low-speed acceleration of the Mercedes engine is faster than that of the Honda engine, even if the Mercedes racing car has certain defects in the aerodynamic design of the floor plate, but in this low-speed corner, it is not the turn of the ground effect floor to play.

Therefore, after coming out of the corner, Qin Miao came to the front of Perez and raised his ranking to third.

"Beautiful! Qin Miao! It started off to a great place and was tough when I got into T1! Directly overtook Pérez and came to third! At this time, the commentators also forgot that Qin Miao was still using soft tires, and after seeing Qin Miao's position, they subconsciously blurted out: "Is it possible for Qin Miao to get another podium in this game?" ”

On the track, after surpassing Pérez, Qin Miao also had an impulse in his heart, since it was so easy to surpass Pérez, could he also try to surpass Verstappen in front of him?

So Qin Miao bit Verstappen in front of him, and Qin Miao was constantly squeezing his own set of soft tires, wanting to stay in the DRS area behind Verstappen and wait for the game to turn on DRS.

However, on the second lap of the T12, Sainz, who had been losing his position since the start, made a mistake and rushed out of the track, and the car rushed directly into the grass, and then crossed the entire track under the action of inertia, and finally fell into the gravel buffer zone outside the track.

Although Sainz's car was stopped and tried to restart the car.

However, the sunken floor of the car had already touched the gravel ground, and no matter how hard Sainz pressed the accelerator pedal of the car, he could only spin the rear wheels of his car, and there was no way to provide any power to the car.

Anyone who has driven in F1 knows that if the car drives in and stops, it will basically retire.

As a result, on the second lap of the race, one of the Ferrari drivers who had performed so impressively this season withdrew from the race for the podium.

The yellow flag on the track quickly turned into a virtual safety car, and finally directly into a physical safety car.

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Guanyu happened to be behind Sainz and witnessed Sainz miss the braking point when trying to overtake in T11, and rushed into the grass outside T11 to lose grip, and then rushed directly to the gravel buffer zone on the outside of T12.

Many people may think that Sainz can rush off the track, which is too vegetable.

But the people at Ferrari actually knew that Sainz could not be blamed for this mistake, because the steering wheel that Sainz had mainly used was found to be unable to turn on during the final inspection on the track.

At that time, there were less than 5 minutes left before the start of the game, and there was no time to rebuild the steering wheel, so the team hurriedly changed Sainz to a spare one, but this spare did not enter the settings that Sainz ran out of the practice race of this race, so Sainz in this game was equivalent to holding a weapon that he was not familiar with on the battlefield.

So Sainz's withdrawal can also be said to be excusable.

ps. Happy New Year, brothers, make a fortune in the Year of the Dragon!

Love you guys

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