378:Counterattack (6K, plus 6/15)
Even Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car at this time, thought so, he felt that the four forces in front of him would not leave him any chance to pick up the leaks.
On lap six, Hamilton also overtook Bottas in front of him and returned to sixth on the grid.
Meanwhile, just one lap later, Zhou overtook Yuki Tsunoda in front of him to move into twelfth, and it seems that Arrow is really good on this track.
Zhou Guanyu in this game is likely to regain points.
Seeing Zhou Guanyu's pursuit speed, Brother Bing directly slapped his hands and laughed: "As long as the Arrow team no longer causes trouble for Zhou Guanyu, then with Zhou Guanyu's current speed, he can at least finish in the top eight in this race." ”
After only 6 laps, he chased from 15th to 12th, and this pursuit speed really had the capital to make the commentators happy.
After all, strictly speaking, there is no DRS for the first three laps after the start of the race, and although it is not possible to overtake at all, it is difficult to overtake the car in front of it, so Zhou Guanyu surpassed the three drivers in three laps.
It's not fast.
If you change Qin Miao, it's almost at this level.
It's just that Brother Bing's words have just finished speaking for less than three minutes.
In the drivers' rankings on the left side of the track, Zhou Guanyu began to slide rapidly from 12th position.
In half a lap, he fell from 12th to last place.
Three commentators of Five Star Sports: ......???
When the broadcast footage of the scene was given to Zhou Guanyu again, Zhou Guanyu had already returned to the door of room P in the maintenance area, and the staff of the Arrow team framed Zhou Guanyu's car, and then pushed it back to the maintenance area.
It is obvious that Zhou Guanyu is going to retire from this game.
Speaking of which, Zhou Guanyu seems to be really a bit upside down.
A good flight lap in Q1 of qualifying, but a traffic jam at the penultimate corner.
When the race was gaining momentum, the car broke down.
Even Qin Miao was a little stunned after knowing that Zhou Guanyu had retired from the team TR.
"This guy...... Is it so unlucky? ”
On lap 9, on the big straight, Verstappen overtook Leclerc.
And soon threw Leclerc out of the DRS zone.
It's hard to imagine that Red Bull cars are faster than Ferrari at tail speeds on this circuit.
Ferrari, on the other hand, was faster in the corners.
The design ideas of the two teams are completely reversed.
On Qin Miao's side, after he came to fifth, he was gradually opened up by Perez with a time gap of more than 7 seconds.
And Hamilton behind him has been cruising 2 seconds behind Qin Miao.
Although Hamilton had the speed to catch up with Qin Miao and attack, Hamilton did not want to attack Qin Miao at this time.
Mainly because he knew that even if he did this, the possibility of surpassing Qin Miao was not very great, and in the end, it might only be a lose-lose result.
Because Qin Miao has a gap in racing performance, Qin Miao can defend Perez for so long, and now there is basically no gap in the racing performance of the two, no matter how he attacks Qin Miao, it is very likely that it will be in vain, and it is even possible to be threatened by Bottas behind him.
So Hamilton finally chose a way to make himself more comfortable, and ran normally behind Qin Miao.
On the other hand, Leclerc made another mistake here.
On lap 12, in T17, Leclerc, who had been chasing Verstappen 1.6 seconds behind, made a mistake and missed the braking point.
So much so that by the time he got back on the track, the gap between him and Verstappen in front of him was 2.6 seconds.
A small mistake can lead to a loss of 1 second.
Speaking of which, although Leclerc is also one of the talented drivers, compared with his friend Qin Miao, Leclerc's stability is obviously much worse.
There have been a number of unforced errors, particularly when chasing the driver in front, and there have been two of them this season alone, both while chasing Verstappen.
However, on the contrary, Leclerc rarely made mistakes when defending the drivers behind him, and was particularly consistent.
It can only be said that Leclerc's personality is still a little impatient.
After the race got to this point, the two Mercedes drivers, Qin Miao and Hamilton, didn't get much of the broadcast footage, and the two world champions started their own cruising on the track.
On lap 22, Qin Miao began to chase Pérez in front of him at a speed of 0.3 seconds per lap.
Obviously, at this time, the tires of the drivers of the leading group in front of him had begun to deplete rapidly, and Qin Miao used his tire protection ability to keep his tires in a good condition all the time.
But most people noticed this change, and everyone felt that it was nothing, the time advantage they had accumulated in the early stage was too great, and after Pérez opened his pit stop window on the 26th lap, Qin Miao's tire advantage would be wiped out immediately.
What made Qin Miao feel most uncomfortable was that Ferrari called Leclerc to pit on the 25th lap and put on hard tires.
After coming out, Leclerc was just stuck in front of Qin Miao for 3.4 seconds.
At this time, Qin Miao is not used to you Leclerc, and the outstanding thing is to pinch a soft persimmon while the temperature of your Leclerc's tires has not risen.
It's just that Ferrari has proven to be really strong this season.
Although Qin Miao suddenly accelerated, chasing the position behind Leclerc for 1.3 seconds was already the limit of what Qin Miao could do, and then Qin Miao could only watch Leclerc, whose tire temperature had already risen, gradually move away from him.
And I can't do anything......
Of course, Qin Miao's pit stop was later than everyone imagined.
By lap 28, Qin Miao's set of neutral tires was still within the standard speed, and even Qin Miao's speed was 0.2 seconds faster than Pérez, who had already made a pit stop in front of him to change tires.
However, Red Bull is not in a hurry at this time, anyway, you Qin Miao will have to make a pit stop.
Chase it, even if you pass Pérez, you'll fall behind.
However, on the 35th lap, Qin Miao's speed still decreased slightly, and the original pursuit speed of 0.2 seconds per lap was reduced to 0.1 seconds per lap.
But such a speed of pursuit still surprised many people.
After all, your Qin Miao's set of tires has now run 35 laps.
Horner and Marco were even more full of question marks when they saw this.
What the hell did you do, Pirelli? Did you add Michelin to Qin Miao's tires?
How can this still run?
And on lap 35, after Qin Miao came out of the pit lane, the original time gap between him and Pérez was 2 seconds and now became 1.1 seconds, and it didn't take long to enter the DRS area behind Pérez.
Of course, Red Bull is still very calm at this time, after all, according to the rules of F1, you Qin Miao always have to make a pit stop, no matter how against the sky your tire protection ability, after you pit stop, the time gap between you and Pérez will be reopened.
Even on Qin Miao's side of the team, Frankie asked with some concern: "Qin Miao, how are the tires now?" Do I need to make a pit stop for a tire change? ”
And after hearing Frankie's words, Qin Miao withdrew from the cruising state of integrating people and vehicles.
In fact, what the staff on the team side didn't know was that Qin Miao had just entered a state of integration of people and vehicles.
After all, it was cruising, and Qin Miao didn't have any pressure on him, so he began to wander while relying on his instinct to run the race.
After hearing Frankie's words, Qin Miao came back to his senses from this state.
Then Qin Miao suddenly found that Perez didn't know when he had appeared in front of him.
"Huh? Oh, the tyres are in good shape, how am my lap times now? ”
Frankie looked at Qin Miao and the lap time at the beginning of the race, which was only 0.4 seconds slower: "It's not bad, 0.2 seconds per lap faster than when you pit and change hard tires at this time." ”
After hearing Frankie's words, Qin Miao suddenly asked without a clue: "How many laps can I run with my soft tires pushing with all my might?" ”
"Ten laps."
"Then pit stop with 10 laps left."
"Huh? …… Good. ”
This TR was a bit too long, and although the broadcasters in charge of the broadcast of this tournament wanted to release it, they didn't do it in the end.
But the group of people in charge of the broadcast were also stunned and surprised after hearing Qin Miao's words.
However, the situation soon ushered in a turnaround, and when it came to the 36th lap, Qin Miao received another message: "It may rain in 8 minutes." ”
Qin Miao was stunned: "Then do I need to speed up a little?" ”
'No, keep it as it is, we now have a chance to overtake Pérez in front of us and I think we can wait a little bit for the safety car.
"Okay."
Although Qin Miao didn't think that with the current state of the track, there might be a safety car or a virtual safety car on the track, but anyway, Qin Miao had nothing else to do at this time, did he?
Although he has chased to the DRS area behind Pérez, Qin Miao's straight tail speed really can't catch up with Red Bull, and now he can catch up with Pérez mainly depends on the speed on the corner.
Therefore, after Qin Miao was sure that he had no way to pose any threat to Perez, he gradually began to enter a state of integration of people and vehicles.
After seeing this scene, the senior management of Red Bull couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, this time, the broadcaster did not miss this opportunity and released the first conversation between Qin Miao and Frankie.
After Brother Ran translated, the two old men, Brother Bing and Brother Fei, were all question marks: "Ah? After Qin Miao ran for so long, do the tires still have grip? ”
However, Qin Miaoyu didn't wait, and the pit stop window of the car didn't wait, but waited for the yellow flag on the track.
On lap 41, there was a collision on the track.
Gasly's car, which had just collided with Alonso while defending, was damaged and his speed dropped badly, presumably with loose tires.
And when Gasly was overtaken by Norris behind him, there was an unintentional collision between the two, Norris's right rear wheel directly hit Gasly's left front wheel, so that Norris's right rear wheel was hit by a puncture on the spot, and the tire leather flew out, leaving only one rim, which remained on the car bare.
After all, they were missing a tyre, and the car couldn't continue to drive, but the good news was that Norris's car was parked right in front of Matthew's entrance, and it looked like it would be easy to handle.
At the same time, the race will dispatch the safety car as soon as possible, and Qin Miao picked up a big bargain.
However, the Red Bull Racing team also saw the threat that Qin Miao would bring by the safety car pit stop this time, so when Qin Miao was called into the pit stop by the team, Pérez was also called into the pit stop.
At this time, when Red Bull was still a little relieved that his strategy had contained Qin Miao's attack, he suddenly discovered that something was wrong.
What is Qin Miao's most conspicuous feature on the field?
Tire protection ability!
So now, how many laps are left until the end of the race?
15 laps, and this lap number ......
It is known that Qin Miao started with neutral tires in the main race stage, and now there are 15 laps left before the end of the race, so ask: Will Qin Miao change to soft or hard tires this time?
This is completely a scoring question, Qin Miao will definitely change to soft tires, because at this time, using hard tires not only does not have speed, but also wastes.
And with Qin Miao's ability to protect the tires, the soft tires are enough for him to run the next 15 laps.
And this is indeed the case, after Qin Miao entered the maintenance area, the Meiben team replaced Qin Miao with a set of soft tires.
And because Qin Miao's speed was still the same after the tires of other drivers failed, the time gap between him and Hamilton was more than 11 seconds.
And because of the appearance of the safety car, after Qin Miao came out of the maintenance area, he was still in front of Hamilton.
After Pérez came out of the pits, because the Red Bull Racing team's tire change speed was one second faster than that of Mercedes, Pérez was two seconds ahead of Qin Miao.
I don't know what happened to the staff of the Mercedes team this season, the tire change speed is much slower than last season, and the average tire change time has soared from 2.7 seconds to 3.2 seconds.
The Meiben team, which couldn't find the reason, could only attribute the problem to the oversized tires.
Pérez has replaced himself with a set of medium tyres, and it is still a set of used medium tyres.
Although Pérez has the title of a master tyre, this set of medium tyres was used during the practice session, and Pérez did not even think of saving this set of tyres at that time.
So at this time, looking at Qin Miao who appeared behind him through the rearview mirror of the car, Perez was literally a little sweaty.
After all, Qin Miao is now using a brand new set of soft tires.
At the same time, there is also good news for Qin Miao, Ferrari did not call the two drivers of its team back to the pit lane.
In other words, if the car formation is compressed, Qin Miao really easily overtakes Pérez in front of him, and he still has a great possibility to hit a podium position in this race.
After several commentators on the side of Five Star Sports saw the current state on the field, they were even more geared up: "Qin Miao! Qin Miao's chance has come! ”
"I originally thought that Qin Miao's game would be like this, but I didn't expect that God would give me a chance, I hope Qin Miao can grasp this opportunity."
It's worth mentioning that there was more debris on the track than expected, after all, Norris's car slid far away after the collision.
The Miami Grand Prix track is a street race-like track, with not many entrances and surrounded by parapets, so it can be cumbersome and time-consuming to clean up.
As a result, the safety car was carried from the 41st lap to the 47th lap.
Seeing this number, Qin Miao was happy.
I remember the team told themselves that the current set of tires on the car is enough to push myself to about 10 laps.
And now? There are just 10 laps left before the end of the race, and now my tires don't need to be warmed, and after 6 laps, the tires have already reached the right working temperature.
At the same time, Qin Miao did not hesitate to throw his skills on the head of Perez in front of him.
If you look closely, Pérez's pressure value has reached 60% at this time.
From this, it is not difficult to judge that Pérez is indeed a little nervous.
Can you not be nervous? He was followed by a talented driver who was both offensive and defensive.
Pérez even recalled the picture when he was stubbornly defended by Qin Miao for 15 laps at this moment.
So Perez knew that he couldn't let Qin Miao surpass him in this game no matter what.
Because he knew that after being surpassed by Qin Miao, he probably had no way and ability to surpass him in this game.
That's why Pérez's pressure is so high at this moment.
"Let's see what you're capable of."
In the final warm-up stage before the restart of the race, Toto, who usually doesn't communicate with the drivers much during the race, also said this to Qin Miao in the team TR at this time.
Coincidentally, at this time, everyone in the Meiben team expected Qin Miao to be able to show enough amazing performance on the track.
"Then you just watch it and don't blink." Qin Miao said with a smile and very confidently.
And this section of the team TR was also released.
"Here, Qin Miao's performance moment, although there is an absolute gap in racing performance between Qin Miao and Pérez, we all believe in Qin Miao, after all, he is the only F1 world champion in China, now, it depends on whether Qin Miao can give us a wonderful race on the track!"
Soon, the car array came to the T17.
Verstappen, who had been in the lead since overtaking Leclerc, accelerated sharply.
And when Verstappen accelerated out, Qin Miao and Perez had just reached the center of T17.
Then just when Qin Miao was about to give Perez a higher pressure value, the rear wheel in front of Perez that accelerated out of the corner had a very brief idling.
After a brief idling of the rear wheels of the car, the pressure of [60%] on the Pérez car instantly increased to [70%].
Qin Miao also reacted immediately, Perez made a mistake when he came out of the corner, he gave the oil to the big, and the rear wheel skidped!
After a brief moment of astonishment, Qin Miao suddenly felt a burst of surprise in his heart.
After Qin Miao threw his skills on Perez's head, Qin Miao knew that Perez would definitely make some forced mistakes on the track, but he didn't expect Perez's mistakes to come so early.
No sooner had the game restarted than he made a mistake.
Because of this, the two corners of T18 and T19 Qin Miao were tightly attached to the back of Pérez's car.
After coming out of the corner, Qin Miao came to the big straight of the start, and Qin Miao was even more eager to step on the accelerator pedal into the rear diffuser of the Pérez car, and the ERS of the car was also released with all his might.
At the same time, Pérez's pressure value soared, and after coming out of T19 to the starting straight, Pérez's pressure value has come to [74%]
Although this section of the starting straight is not long, Qin Miao still took advantage of the cornering speed of his tires and the wake sucked by half of the starting straight to insert Pérez's inside line in advance.
Looking at the Mercedes that appeared in the right rearview mirror of his car, Pérez's originally nervous heart even eased for a moment.
But it was only for a moment, and then Pérez felt more powerless and prostration in his heart.
Having been driving in F1 for 11 years now, he is not the best driver and not the most talented, but he is one of the evergreens in the F1 paddock.
But look at his teammate Verstappen, and then look at Qin Miao of Mercedes, and Leclerc of Ferrari.
Pérez realized at this moment that the difference in talent between people is sometimes greater than that between humans and dogs.
Qin Miao's side has already grabbed Perez's inside line, and although Perez tried to squeeze Qin Miao towards the dirty side of the track, Qin Miao didn't compete for the championship this season, he was the barefoot one now.
Although he was also squeezed by Perez towards the inside line, Qin Miao was only squeezed to the edge of the right track, and Qin Miao refused to let go after arriving here.
Then T1's inside braked late, and Qin Miao skillfully and accurately sealed Pérez's best exit line.
And after coming out of T1, Qin Miao completed the transcendence of Perez in the overwhelming cheers of the audience.
“Nice!” In the P room of the Meiben team, there were also cheers at this time.
After Mercedes lost its competitiveness, Toto, who had few broadcast shots, rarely got the broadcast footage at this time, and Toto at this time clenched his right fist hard and shouted Nice.
And when the camera is pulled to a wide angle, you can see that the staff in the team are all cheering and celebrating Qin Miao's overtaking.
But the broadcasters of the US Grand Prix are going to make trouble.
After the reaction of everyone in the P room of the Mercedes Racing Team arrived, the camera turned, and the camera directly fell on the face of Horner, who was sitting on the command platform of the Red Bull Racing Team.
At this time, there was not much anger on Horner's face, but more calm.
However, through this shot, Marco's white hair is constantly shaking while sitting next to Horner in a white shirt, and it is clear that Marco is a little unhappy with Pérez's mistake.
……
"Qin Miao! He did it! He caught Pérez's rare mistake! "On the side of Five Star Sports, because there is a delay of about 5 minutes with the scene, the three commentators did not see the situation on the field until 5 minutes after this incident happened.
However, this did not affect them to jump up directly from their positions in excitement after seeing Qin Miao surpass Perez.
They didn't remember that this was the first time they had watched Qin Miao compete and stood up directly from their positions excitedly, but presumably this would definitely not be the last. (End of chapter)