On the other side, Qin Miao looked at the Leclerc DNF words that popped up on his steering wheel, and his mood was a little complicated.

On the one hand, Qin Miao was happy that the second place she had been desperately trying to fight for in this game could easily be obtained after Leclerc withdrew.

On the other hand, this Ferrari always works hard at such a critical moment, and Qin Miao is also a little crying and laughing after seeing it.

But on the bright side, at least Leclerc won't have to continue racing in the 50s like them on the track.

It's just that people who have a good relationship with Qin Miao seem to have bad luck, and on the 29th lap, only two laps after Leclerc retired, Zhou Guanyu also found that he had a problem with his engine.

I can't add up.

In the end, after discussion and questioning by the team's TR, it was determined that the car engine had a mechanical failure

In the end, Zhou Guanyu was also helpless and chose to retire.

This is the second consecutive game in which Zhou Guanyu retired without finishing, and Zhou Guanyu still retired in sixth place.

With the speed and stability shown by Zhou Guanyu in this game, Zhou Guanyu is likely to be brought back in 6th place in this game.

And after Qin Miao learned through the team TR that Zhou Guanyu had also retired, his mind was full of question marks for a while.

What does it mean?

Zhou Guanyu is really so unlucky?

Quitting two games in a row?

Should it be said that Zhou Guanyu and Leclerc are good friends, these two guys who came out of the Ferrari academy retired in pairs.

However, the above paragraph is just a joke, Qin Miao can also take this opportunity to laugh at Zhou Guanyu's luck after retiring from one game, but he retired from two consecutive games, and it was not because of his own mistakes, but because of the team's mistakes.

At this moment, Qin Miao also sympathized with Zhou Guanyu a little, this guy was really unlucky.

Although he was very sympathetic to Leclerc and Zhou Guanyu, Qin Miao knew that these things had nothing to do with his current self.

They retired and left work early, but he still needs to work hard for a podium finish.

On the 33rd lap, Qin Miao's speed was still stable.

In fact, it was already Qin Miao's pit stop window at this time.

The team calculated here, at this time, Qin Miao was called into a pit stop, and there was no problem with two sets of soft tires for the next 33 laps, and with Qin Miao's ability, the next 33 laps could run at full strength.

It's just that after the team asked Qin Miao in the convoy TR, Qin Miao still didn't prepare to make a pit stop.

And said that his speed, for now you can wait a little longer.

And Qin Miao waited until there were 20 laps left before the end of the game, that is, the 46th lap.

At this time, what made Pirelli sweat was that Qin Miao's lap speed was only 0.9 seconds slower than when the race began, which was completely acceptable.

At this time, there was only one Verstappen behind Qin Miao, and there was not a single car in front of him.

And Verstappen, who was behind Qin Miao, also respected Qin Miao very much at this time, and he didn't think about overtaking Qin Miao at all, and when he caught up with Qin Miao's position 2 seconds behind him, he began to cruise at Qin Miao's speed.

Anyway, you Qin Miao haven't made a pit stop to change tires so far, you always have to pit to change tires, and there will be no restraint in front of me when you pit stop.

It's like I'm overtaking you.

And behind Qin Miao, in addition to Verstappen at this time, the position 10 seconds behind Verstappen is Pérez.

If Qin Miao pits at this time, he will fall behind Pérez and in front of Bottas.

Without much thought, Qin Miao notified the team here: "I'm ready to make a pit stop." ”

After receiving it, the team began to prepare tires for Qin Miao as soon as possible.

As for the tires they prepared for Qin Miao, there is no doubt that a new set of soft tires must be prepared for the pit stop at this point in time.

After all, with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, he can directly run with a new set of tires for the remaining 19 laps, and the speed will not be too slow.

And Qin Miao advanced the last lap on the track, although this last lap did not allow Qin Miao to refresh the fastest lap of this track or anything, but the speed of this lap forced the time gap of 0.3 seconds behind Pérez behind him.

Don't look at 0.3 seconds is not much, but you have to take into account that Qin Miao's set of tires has now run 46 laps.

And seeing that Qin Miao in front of him finally made a pit stop, Verstappen didn't know why, but he actually felt a sense of relief.

The plague god is finally gone.

And people's situations and feelings are sometimes different, Verstappen in front is a little relieved, but Pérez on the other side is waiting for it at this time.

Because Qin Miao only fell behind him for 8 seconds after coming out of the pit lane.

After Perez saw Qin Miao coming out of the pit area, he still had some expectations that Qin Miao's speed would not be as fast as he imagined after he came out.

It's just that when Qin Miao finished the first lap out, Perez, who was already sweating due to the high temperature and huge physical exertion, was even more sweaty at this time.

Because Qin Miao's speed in this lap was 0.9 seconds faster than him.

Although he knew that this was the speed that the soft tires brought to Qin Miao, normally Perez would not be too nervous when he saw such a speed, because the soft tires couldn't last too long on the track.

It's just that the name of the person who appeared behind him is Qin Miao, and this force is stronger than a celebrity's management of time.

And this is still Qin Miao's debut circle results, and the temperature of Qin Miao's soft tires has not risen for a while.

If it was a normal run, Perez had a feeling that he might be directly given a second by Qin Miao.

Next, the on-site director didn't do anything else, but locked the camera on the two drivers, Qin Miao and Perre, and put a comparison chart of lap speed between the two.

Let the audience clearly compare when Qin Miao will catch up with Perez and complete the transcendence of Perez.

And when Qin Miao was frantically chasing Pérez in front, Hamilton, who fell to the end silently because of that collision at the beginning, had already appeared behind Bottas at this time.

Like his teammate Qin Miao, Hamilton only completed one pit stop except for the pit stop at the start, so he relied on a set of neutral tires to last more than 40 laps like Qin Miao.

And after Qin Miao came out of the pit stop, only 2 laps, that is, 49 laps, Hamilton also chose to pit and change to a set of soft tires.

Hamilton is also ready to learn Qin Miao's tire strategy, relying on the advantage of soft tires in the late stage to give the riders in front of him strength, at least to kill Bottas.

Hamilton came out of the pits and dropped to seventh.

You know, he started the race in sixth place and dropped to 19th after the start, and to be able to return to that position with 16 laps to go, Hamilton was perfect for today's race.

On the track, Qin Miao didn't take ten laps, only eight laps, that is, the 55th lap, and when there were still 11 laps before the end of the race, Qin Miao came behind Perez.

After two laps of chasing behind Pérez, and after charging his car's battery a little, Qin Miao took advantage of the car's absolute speed advantage on the big straight of the 57th lap to complete the overtaking of Pérez on the outside.

Although Pérez tried to draw a dragon in the face of Qin Miao's attack, occupy the inside line, and squeeze Qin Miao to the dirty side of the track, in front of Qin Miao, these operations seemed somewhat redundant.

Because Qin Miao completely relied on the speed advantage to eat Perez raw.

The speed advantage of the soft tyres is on full display at this moment.

And after overtaking Pérez, the driver in front of Qin Miao became Verstappen.

It's just that there are only 9 laps left before the end of the race, and Qin Miao still has a 13-second time gap from Verstappen.

This time gap is a bit too big, and even if Qin Miao pushes with all his might in the next lap, it is impossible for him to catch up with Verstappen.

So after surpassing Perez, Qin Miao's speed gradually slowed down.

After all, there are still 9 laps left before the end of the game, and Qin Miao's tires were used too hard in the previous period, although the tires did not run directly over the cliff point in the last few laps.

But the speed of the tires will decline quite quickly after the late stage, so Qin Miao also wants to protect this set of tires a little, at least there must be a certain margin to prevent Pérez's possible attack.

However, in the later stage of this game, Qin Miao's position did not change.

Perez behind Qin Miao seemed to be defended by Qin Miao and lost the motivation to attack Qin Miao, even if Qin Miao's speed slowed down, he didn't have any intention of making a move against Qin Miao.

Even Perez felt for a moment that Qin Miao was too bored, and deliberately slowed down to play with himself.

On the other hand, Sainz, who was behind Pérez, could not hold on to Hamilton's soft tyres, and finally Hamilton overtook Sainz on lap 61 to move up to fourth.

However, Hamilton's position did not last long, and by the time the race came to lap 64, the Mercedes team reluctantly told Hamilton in the team TR.

"Sorry, Lewis, the engine is a little too hot right now, please try to avoid running the engine at full power for the rest of the race, as this will likely cause your engine to fail and you will retire, so you can give up your position to Sainz."

And not only Hamilton, but even Qin Miao also gave the same notice.

However, even if the team didn't tell Qin Miao through the team TR, Qin Miao had already sensed that the temperature of the car engine was a little too high through his skills.

The temperature on the track today is too high, and the temperature inside the driver's monocoque is close to the 60°C mark.

The operating temperature inside the engine of Mercedes this season is generally around 130°C, which is at least 20°C higher than the average engine operating temperature of other teams.

Normally, with the durability of the Mercedes team's engine, a 20°C increase in temperature on the track will not affect the engine's performance output.

However, the temperature of the track in today's race is too high, and the air intake of the Mercedes car this season is small, and the air intake is not too much, so it can be said that such a situation will eventually occur.

However, this problem had little impact on Qin Miao, because when the team informed Qin Miao, Qin Miao was still a certain distance away from Perez behind him.

So from here until the end of the race, although Pérez found that Qin Miao's speed was much slower, he found that there were only two laps left before the end of the race.

In the end, Qin Miao naturally easily defended Pérez's attack, and finally completed the line in the second position.

At this point, the race was over, but surprisingly, the fastest lap of the race was not Verstappen's, but Pérez's.

Meanwhile, Hamilton went from 19th to fourth, two places up from his starting position, despite the fact that he was unable to finish on the podium due to engine heat dissipation.

Although they fell to 5th in the end, it has to be said that Hamilton's performance in this game was really impressive.

As a result, it is no surprise that Hamilton received the accolades of the crowd's favourite driver for today's race.

Qin Miao is the second to start and the second to bring back.

Many spectators who don't know why think that the Mercedes team's results are because the team has regained the competitiveness of the car.

But the team itself knows that the reason why this race looks like it has restored last year's competitiveness is actually all due to Qin Miao's personal ability to get back the results.

Therefore, although the staff of the team were happy for Qin Miao because of his good results, everyone also knew that the task on their shoulders was still very heavy.

After parking the car in the podium area after the race, when Qin Miao got out of the car to celebrate briefly with the staff of his car group, many people could see the clear sweat marks on the back of Qin Miao's black racing suit through the broadcast screen.

The physical fitness is as strong as Qin Miao, and he sweats like this on this track, which shows how harsh the conditions of this race are.

Of course, Qin Miao sweated so much in this race, and there were other reasons besides the high temperature of the track.

That is, the W13 engine of Mercedes is hotter than the engines of other teams, so the cabin temperature of Qin Miao and Hamilton will be higher than that of other teams.

But that's all in the past, it's been a whole game, and now it's time to reap the rewards.

It is worth mentioning that the three drivers of today's race had very different performances in the post-race interviews.

It is easy to see Verstappen's happiness after winning the championship in this game, while Qin Miao was calm after winning the second, without being overly excited or depressed, and answering questions was also very formulaic, looking like he had done a trivial thing.

However, in terms of his status as the defending champion, such performances are normal.

On the other hand, when it was Pérez's turn to be interviewed, it could be seen from his interview that he was not very satisfied with the result of today's match.

After all, on the field, Perez was completely blown up by Qin Miao, who was driving a car with worse performance than him.

But it's just that Pérez himself is more uncomfortable, no one on the Red Bull side thinks that his performance in today's game is not good enough, after all, Verstappen has been locked up by Qin Miao for so long, and it is normal for Pérez to not be able to play Qin Miao.

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