The safety car was carried for four laps, and the overhead light was not turned off until lap 6 and the race was about to restart.

Qin Miao can also be regarded as picking up a bargain, that is, his soft tires have four laps less wear, and Qin Miao has always controlled his tires at a very suitable temperature in these laps, so after the game restarts, Qin Miao will have the opportunity to try to get the damn second position in his hands.

It is worth mentioning that from this race, a new rule was introduced for the safety car, that is, when the safety car is about to be released, the front wing of the rear car is not allowed to exceed the rear wing of the front car, and the first time will receive a warning, and the second time it will be +5 seconds.

In fact, Qin Miao had a feeling that this regulation was aimed at Verstappen by name.

Because this guy was in second place, he liked to press from the side to the front wheels to put pressure on the rider in front of him during the safety car release.

And this time he was honest, and honestly followed Leclerc, not daring to take a step beyond Lei Chi.

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And Qin Miao was a lot calmer at the start, just following Verstappen normally, passing Verstappen's car and staring at Leclerc in front of Verstappen.

The reason for this performance is because Qin Miao has full confidence in his starting reaction speed, and he can be sure that he can keep up with Leclerc's rhythm the moment Leclerc starts.

And it turns out that Qin Miao never does things that he is not sure of.

Leclerc T14 began to accelerate after the corner, and Qin Miao, who had been paying attention to Leclerc, was not slow to react and kept up with Leclerc's rhythm.

And because of the formulation of the new safety car rules, after the game restarts, neither Qin Miao nor Verstappen in front of Qin Miao can find an opportunity to attack the car in front.

It's just surprising that the Pérez T15 rarely stepped on the accelerator too much when it came out of the corner.

There was a very brief idling of the rear wheel of the car, so Hamilton directly seized this rare opportunity and forced it into Pérez's interior line at T16, completing the overtake of Pérez.

The result was satisfactory for both Mercedes drivers, with Hamilton moving up a position from fifth to fourth.

On Qin Miao's side, it was because of the entanglement between Hamilton and Perez that opened the time gap between himself and Hamilton.

Originally, the time gap between Perez and Qin Miao may have been 0.5 seconds, and because of the difference in car performance, this time distance will soon be caught up by Pérez.

But Hamilton was so surpassed, Qin Miao not only had enough respite, but the time gap between him and Hamilton was directly expanded to 1 second.

Coupled with the soft tires on Qin Miao's racing car, Qin Miao estimated that he would not have to think about the threat posed to him by the driver behind him for a long time.

When the race came to the 8th lap, the commentators clearly felt that the time gap between Qin Miao and the two drivers in front of them had not been expanded, and Hamilton behind Qin Miao was visibly pulled away by Qin Miao with the naked eye.

Maybe those fans who have just entered the pit and don't know the rules of F1 very well will be very happy after seeing such a scene, because Qin Miao's performance in the main race stage is really good.

But the staff of the strategy team in charge of Qin Miao and Qin Miao's track engineer Frankie were already frowning at this time.

Because Qin Miao is completely chasing the two cars in front of him with the running method of running in qualifying, Qin Miao's soft tires will be consumed very quickly.

But as mentioned earlier, Qin Miao is now running the race with an attitude of running a qualifying race, and in this case, any slightest interference may cause Qin Miao's driving to make a mistake, which will cause a car accident.

So everyone chose to remain silent.

They also expected that Qin Miao might still want to move forward a few more positions, most likely because he wanted to wait until the DRS zone was opened to try to overtake Verstappen in front of him.

Although Toto, Elliott or other senior management of the team felt that Qin Miao's approach was a bit impulsive, they still believed in Qin Miao unconditionally, which was the confidence that Qin Miao had brought to them after running all season without any active and forced mistakes.

On lap 9, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton had reached 2 seconds.

On lap 10, DRS turned on.

Qin Miao, who had been hanging behind Verstappen for about 1.5 seconds, began to release the little power left in his racing car battery with all his might.

And soon came to the position of 0.8 seconds behind Verstappen, Qin Miao was already able to attack Verstappen.

But wait until lap 11 on the big straight.

After Qin Miao drove the DRS through the big straight, he only relied on his DRS to chase Verstappen to the position of 0.4 seconds behind, but despite this, Qin Miao still couldn't put any pressure on Verstappen.

Seeing this, Qin Miao, who has always been known for her stability, is also a little upset.

It's just that at this time, Frankie cooled down Qin Miao in a timely manner: "Qin Miao, now the consumption of your soft tires has exceeded expectations, and Hamilton behind you did not prevent Pérez's attack, at this time Pérez is only 3 seconds away from you, protect the tires, if you are still ready to compete for the podium." ”

Qin Miao was only a little above and wanted to continue to try to attack Verstappen in front of him, not completely losing his mind because he couldn't surpass Verstappen.

So after hearing Frankie's words, Qin Miao's eyes immediately returned to clarity.

"Roger." Despite this, a little unwillingness could still be heard from Qin Miao's tone.

Frankie didn't say much, and after making sure that Qin Miao's speed had indeed slowed down, he began to retrieve Qin Miao's tire data, and estimated how long Qin Miao's set of tires could last, so as to be ready to give Qin Miao advice at any time.

On the 15th lap, Pérez chased 0.9 seconds behind Qin Miao, and Qin Miao's tires at this time were not bad, about five laps away from the cliff point, and the lap time was only 0.5 seconds slower than Pérez.

But this gap is actually quite large, with Qin Miao's current defensive ability, it will still be a little difficult for him to hold on to Pérez's offense, after all, the Albert Park circuit is a high-speed track, and there are many DRS areas.

If this time gap is narrowed to 0.3 seconds, Qin Miao can really lock Pérez directly.

But the performance gap of the car is here, and Qin Miao can only struggle as hard as he can.

However, what Qin Miao didn't expect was that Perez chased him very fiercely when he chased him, but when Perez came behind him and began to attack him, he inhaled the turbulence of his car and the exhaust fumes emitted, and Perez's speed actually decreased, and Qin Miao's pressure to defend him was greatly reduced!

If you think about it carefully, it is not without reason, and Pérez's set of tires is estimated to have suffered a lot.

After a grappling with Hamilton and then chasing after him at full speed, it is estimated that Pérez's medium tyres will not have much durability left at this time.

Because of this, Qin Miao kept running in front of Perez until his tires reached the cliff point, that is, when he made a pit stop on the 18th lap to change tires, he put Perez over.

At this time, Pérez was six seconds behind Verstappen in front of him.

As for Qin Miao's defense, will Pérez increase his tire consumption? So much so that Qin Miao could have run a few more laps on the track?

Just kidding, Zhou Haoran said before, Qin Miao's C5 can only last for 13 laps on the track at most, although there are four laps of safety car, but the wear and tear of the tires during the safety car is only small, and it is not nothing, plus Qin Miao is full of oil, and he is chasing Verstappen on the track, and he is defending Pérez, Lin Lin finally came down, Qin Miao's soft tire If it is used normally, there is no pressure at all to run to 22 laps.

Being able to pit at this time can only be said to be a normal pit stop.

After Qin Miao came out of the pit area with neutral tires, Qin Miao fell to tenth, in front of Tsunoda, behind Bottas, and was 0.5 seconds away from Tsunoda behind him, and 2 seconds away from Bottas in front.

The team's pit stop this time can be described as extremely accurate, but if the pit stop is a little slower, Qin Miao will have to fall behind Taijun.

After coming out, Frankie thought of Qin Miao's performance on the field with soft tires in today's game, so he still persuaded Qin Miao: "If you can, protect your set of tires, if nothing else, you will use this set of tires to run until the end of the game." ”

Qin Miao naturally agreed, but after really getting on the field, what exactly Qin Miao would do to tell the truth Qin Miao himself was not very clear.

On lap 20, Qin Miao chased behind Bottas at a speed of one second per lap, and when he caught up with Bottas, it happened to be the DRS area between T12 and T13.

After eating a wave of DRS fiercely, he came to the starting straight, and Qin Miao directly overtook Bottas who was driving the Arrow car simply and easily.

That's right, Mercedes is really not good this season, and it is difficult to see the tail lights of Red Bull in the main race, let alone Ferrari, Leclerc is five seconds away from Verstappen at this time.

But I'll pinch you with a broken Arlo or pinch it in my hand.

And Bottas didn't defend Qin Miao on his side, so he directly let Qin Miao go.

Qin Miao took advantage of the situation to come to ninth.

The 8th in front is Gasly, who is 1.3 seconds away from Qin Miao.

When attacking Gasly, Qin Miao also chopped melons and vegetables, and on the 21st lap, Qin Miao overtook Gasly on the same starting straight by relying on DRS.

Compared with Bottas, Gasly's resistance is still quite fierce, after all, he is a member of Red Bull, and the speed shown by Qin Miao now has obviously begun to threaten the position of Red Bull driver Pérez.

But Gasly's resistance was useless, Qin Miao didn't giggle with you at all, he didn't go to the cross line, and he surpassed Gasly purely by relying on speed on the outside line.

And when Qin Miao came to the 22nd lap, he was a little stunned to find that why was Pérez undercut by himself?

In fact, Pérez was also quite helpless, after Qin Miao pitted, his tires began to struggle a little, so that he was even run over by Hamilton before the pit stop.

Therefore, it is normal for Pérez to fall behind Qin Miao after coming out of the pit area.

The next thing is interesting, Qin Miao is chopping melons and vegetables in front, and the speed of Perez behind Qin Miao is about the same as Qin Miao's, basically cutting melons and vegetables all the way, and then it depends on which of these two people can cut fast.

However, lap 23 was also the pit stop window for other drivers, and the drivers in front of Qin Miao and Pérez opened their own pit stop windows.

By lap 23, Qin Miao was already fifth, with Alonso in front of him, Hamilton in the back, and Pérez behind Hamilton.

Qin Miao always felt that the scene behind her was a little familiar.

In the second time segment on lap 23, Pérez overtook Hamilton.

And not long after Hamilton, the yellow flag appeared again on the track, and the yellow flag quickly became a safety car again.

When the camera cuts over, it is found that Vettel's car is parked on the track, but fortunately, there is Matthew's entrance behind where he parked, and from the outside, Vettel's car has no obvious damage on all four wheels, and Matthew can quickly push the car out of the track.

……

Vettel's mistake was a bit undeserved.

The place where he made his mistake was in the exit position of T4, there was a relatively high shoulder on the outside after the exit, and this time Vettel ate too much shoulder, causing the chassis of his car to crash on the shoulder, and before he could land again, Vettel was refueled.

So much so that the rear wheel of his car had a brief idling, and by the time he landed, the grip of the rear wheel of the car was completely gone.

As a result, the car lost control and crashed into the parapet of the track.

The front nose wing of Martin's car was knocked off the spot, leaving debris scattered all over the ground.

Naturally, the safety car needed to be dispatched for Matthew to clean up the debris.

Well, now the drivers who didn't pit before the pit stop window are in trouble.

Anyone can get a pit stop for nothing.

And those drivers who have just come out of the pit lane and run less than a lap, they probably want to die at this time.

However, Qin Miao is emotionally stable about this, and even a little eager to try, the neutral tires he is using now, and the hard tires used by Verstappen and Leclerc.

After the formation is recompressed, there is a chance to attack them.

Maybe you can not only get a podium, but also a runner-up?

It's just that Qin Miao found out that something was wrong while running, why didn't Alonso in front of him pit stop? I had already passed by the entrance to the pit area......

But take a closer look at Alonso's tyre options ahead, white tyres.

When I asked in the TR of the team, everything was clear.

Alonso's race started on white tyres, and although the drivers who stopped at this time had already entered the pit lane once, the drivers on the white tyres were now just over halfway through, and the pit stops at this time were indeed worth the cost.

(End of chapter)