Qin Miao's idea of such an adjustment is not difficult to understand, he wants to further reduce the resistance of his car in the process of helping Hamilton pull the wake.

Let your car have more speed, and not let Hamilton get too close to him during the time when he helped Han Miaoton pull the wake, and he can also help Hamilton create a higher tail speed.

However, Qin Miao did not reproduce the scene where Hamilton pulled his wake for himself two weeks ago, because the straight of the Baku circuit was too long, and before Qin Miao reached the braking point, Hamilton was about to catch up with him, so Qin Miao gave up his position in advance.

And Qin Miao's wake added at least 0.2 seconds to Hamilton's lap time.

After all, Hamilton is a seven-time champion, and his own strength is obvious to all, so he did not live up to the DRS that Qin Miao helped him pull.

After this lap, Hamilton came straight to 1:41.879, which is fifth.

The first four are naturally the four drivers of Ferrari and Red Bull.

However, the team let Qin Miao and Hamilton run through the qualifying session during the practice session, so the team knows that with the normal performance of the W13, there is no way to even enter within 1 minute and 41 seconds.

Qin Miao pulled a wake into 1 minute and 41 seconds, although neither Qin Miao nor Hamilton may not even reach the podium in this race, but the team and Hamilton are already very satisfied with it.

In the end, Qin Miao crossed the line and ran his last flight lap before stopping the watch in Q3.

This result may not be enough in front of Ferrari and Red Bull, but for Qin Miao and Mei Ben, 1:42.497 is already the limit that Qin Miao can achieve under normal conditions.

In the end, the rankings for the qualifying stage are as follows:

1: Leclerc

2: Pérez

3: Verstappen

4: Sainz

5: Hamilton

6: Qin Miao

7: Gasly

8: Yuki Tsunoda

9: Sebastian Vettel

10: Alonso

After getting out of the car, the post-race podium session, which only enjoyed one game, naturally had nothing to do with Qin Miao.

After pulling over to the inspection area, Hamilton walked over.

Reaching out and shaking hands with Qin Miao, Hamilton also patted Qin Miao's helmet sitting in the racing car: "Thank you." ”

Qin Miao smiled: "You're welcome." ”

I won't go into too much detail about the post-match review process after that.

However, on Saturday night, when Qin Miao returned to the hotel after finishing her work, she saw herself and Leclerc, Zhou Guanyu, and Norris in a small group of four, and Zhou Guanyu was frantically complaining about his team strategy group.

Everyone is friends, so everyone is not stingy with their ...... at this time Jeer.

Qin Miao and Norris were both crazy with joy.

However, Leclerc was unusual, and did not start the crazy ridicule he would have carried out in the past about Zhou Guanyu's tragic experience, but comforted Zhou Guanyu.

Although Leclerc won pole position in this race and the team didn't give him any work, but thinking of the past when he was cheated by the team's strategy team in the past qualifying and race stages, Leclerc will definitely feel a little sour and sympathetic in his heart.

After the fun, everyone also rested.

After all, tomorrow is the main competition, and everyone needs to have a good competitive state in the main competition stage, and if you want to have such a competitive state, ensuring that you have good sleep and good mental state is the most important part.

After the pre-race interview and parade ended, Qin Miao adjusted his state in the lounge of the team's P room for the next period of time.

The time was fast before the start of the game.

Qin Miao, who was sitting in the racing car, adjusted the fit of her gloves and palms, while listening to Frankie tell herself about the state on the track at this time.

At this time, the tires used in Qin Miao's racing car were the same as his teammate Hamilton, and they were all new sets of neutral tires.

Normally, if the same team starts on the same tyres, the tyre strategy of the two drivers may be exactly the same, with pit stops in the order of succession, and there may be only one lap in between.

However, with Qin Miao's well-known tyre protection ability in the paddock, even if Qin Miao and Hamilton started on the same tyres, their pit stop strategies in the main race stage may be completely different.

And that's exactly what happened.

Qin Miao's game was prepared to be finished directly by Huang Hong.

Because in the two practice sessions, Qin Miao used his two sets of tires to show good long-distance speed and tire durability, it can be said that despite the tactics of yellow and red stops, Qin Miao also had enough tire margin to try to attack the rider in front of him.

And after the relationship between Hamilton and Qin Miao was good, Qin Miao also knew Hamilton's pit stop tire change strategy in this game.

Yellow and white stopped.

This pit stop strategy can't be said to be good, it can only be said to be decent.

Soon, all the pre-race preparations were in place, all the team staff were withdrawn, and the race was about to begin.

The five red lights come on one by one, then go out, and the game begins.

In fact, in the initial stage, Hamilton didn't get up too well, while Qin Miao played his usual high-level start.

But thinking that Hamilton had used up his favors just to start in front of him, it would be a bit rude for him to overtake him at the start.

And at this time, he didn't compete with Hamilton for the drivers' championship, and he still had more points than Hamilton, so although he started a lot faster than Hamilton, Qin Miao was still a little relieved after starting, and he didn't force Hamilton's inside line when T1 entered the corner, giving him too much pressure.

What Qin Miao didn't know was that Hamilton had actually been watching Qin Miao all the time when he started, after all, he knew that this race between himself and the four cars in front of him was not a race car on the same planet at all.

Even if they overtake them at the start, the performance gap will quickly bring them back when it comes time to drive long distances.

So Hamilton was staring at Qin Miao the whole time, naturally witnessing Qin Miao's starting reaction and acceleration faster than himself, but before entering T1, Qin Miao obviously released the accelerator and brake in advance.

Seeing this, Hamilton's heart is somewhat complicated and feels weird.

Later, when entering T1, Qin Miao also defended Gasly, who was stuck behind him and was waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack.

Gasly, who was stuck by Qin Miao, could only reluctantly choose to enter the bend honestly.

And it is different from Qin Miao and Hamilton's danger.

Leclerc didn't start very well, plus his starting position was on the outside, and Pérez on the inside started faster than him, and forced into Leclerc's inside line in T1.

A single corner was a direct overtake of Leclerc.

Of the six cars in front of the entire starting stage, only Pérez and Leclerc swapped places, and the other drivers did not change their positions.

Next, the race normally entered the rhythm of cruising and waiting for DRS to turn on.

However, by the time the race came to the 4th lap, Qin Miao had already arrived at the position of 0.7 seconds behind Hamilton.

This time gap is not available on a normal track, and the time gap between you and the car in front must be shortened to less than 0.4 seconds in order to attack the car in front.

However, the straight of the Baku circuit and the DRS zone are too long.

Therefore, Qin Miao directly stayed in the first lap after the DRS opened, and took advantage of the straight and the advantages brought by the DRS, and began to attack Hamilton in front of him in the rear.

Hamilton did not surrender directly because of the easing of the relationship between the two and Qin Miao's deliberate concession at the initial stage.

After all, for the Mercedes team, as long as the drivers in front of them do not have accidents or car failures, it is inevitable that the two drivers of Mercedes will win the fifth and sixth.

Instead of running 51 laps of the long cruise, finish the race.

It is better to have two Mercedes drivers compete with each other on the track at this time, and more or less expose the sponsors of their respective drivers' cars.

Therefore, after Hamilton found out that Qin Miao had offensive intentions, he directly defended on the inside line, preventing Qin Miao from forcibly inserting his inside line.

And Qin Miao doesn't have a good way at the moment, after all, the time gap between himself and Hamilton is a little big.

Before entering the braking point, all Qin Miao could do was barely complete the wheelset wheel side by side with Hamilton on the outside.

And after Hamilton braked into the corner late, Qin Miao could only get out of the way of the best cornering route.

On the track, the smell of gunpowder between the two Mercedes drivers quickly attracted the attention of the broadcaster, and the camera was directly locked on the two drivers.

Strictly speaking, this is actually Qin Miao's first chance to fight Hamilton on the track.

After all, in the previous game, either Qin Miao led the audience, or Hamilton threw Qin Miao far away.

And Qin Miao also knew that he might be a little bored in the next game, and it just so happened that Hamilton was not ready to let his faster self pass, so he simply played with Hamilton.

Anyway, because of the characteristics of the track, I have a lot of tire margin.

Then the audience saw a unique teammate infighting.

Unlike the previous infighting between teammates and other teams, Qin Miao and Hamilton are not worried about their driver's seat in the team.

A seven-time champion, a top talented driver.

These two people are two living fathers for the Meiben team.

For Qin Miao, the Meiben team was eager to sign a five-year contract directly and lock him directly in his team.

Hamilton is the cornerstone of the team, although Mercedes does not want to continue to pay Hamilton high salaries due to cost issues, but if they can, they also want to keep Hamilton in the team.

Even if the older Hamilton are not as competitive as before, they want Hamilton to retire directly at Mercedes.

It's nice to be a mascot.

So on the one hand, there is no pressure on the seats in this game, and on the other hand, there is no pressure on the results, after all, no matter how hard they try, they will finish the game in five or six.

So from the fourth lap, Qin Miao began to attack Hamilton, and the two have been fighting on the track all the time.

But the point is that the fight between these two people is not the kind where you go straight up, you squeeze me out of the track, and I block you out of the corner.

How to say it, the two fought very "restrained".

If you don't have enough positional advantage, no one will do a dangerous move.

And Qin Miao started from the fourth lap and attacked Hamilton until the eighth lap.

During this period, because of the struggle between the two, Gasli in the rear tried to attack Qin Miao several times and wanted to pick up the leak.

After all, when these two started fighting, they must not be as fast as they were in a normal match.

However, Qin Miao deserves the reputation of a defensive master.

While attacking Hamilton, he also has the ability to find time to defend Gasly behind him.

Then there was an appearance on the track, Qin Miao was attacking Hamilton in front, followed by Gasly, Yuki Tsunoda, and Vettel Alonso.

Because Gasly was defended by Qin Miao, several people in the rear were stunned by the small train driven by Qin Miao.

Because of this, unconsciously, the nickname of Qin Miao's train driver has been spread in the paddock.

After all, in the 2022 season, Qin Miao drove too many trains, and even the entire Monaco station, Qin Miao won the championship by driving the train.

At this time, the time gap between Hamilton, who was at the top of the Earth group, and Sainz in front of him, had reached 6 seconds.

Just when everyone thought that in this race, the two Mercedes drivers would be directly opened by the drivers in front of them because of infighting.

On lap 9, there was a time gap of 4 seconds to Verstappen in front of him, and a gap of 6 seconds to Hamilton in the back, but Sainz, who had basically no distractions on the track, rushed off the track at T5 and ran directly into the escape tunnel of T5.

However, when the camera cuts over, the audience realizes that Sainz's car lost all power directly when exiting the corner because of the engine.

Sainz had no choice but to retire.

However, because Sainz retired from the race at the exit of the track, and there were no car fragments on the track, the race only dispatched a yellow flag, not a safety car.

The yellow flag is on, and at this time, the drivers in the front row just arrived at T17, T18 and these places.

Not far ahead, is the entrance to the pit area.

So it's no surprise that most of the drivers chose to pit for tyre changes at this time.

This naturally also includes Qin Miao.

Meiben directly used two cars to enter the pit stop this time.

After Qin Miao and Hamilton both entered the station, because of the fight, the DRS trains piled up in the rear could not be maintained at all, and Qin Miao, the train driver, was laid off.

This time, Qin Miao's tire change time was not long, only 2.7 seconds, but it took Qin Miao 2 seconds to wait for Hamilton to change the tire and then drive into the tire change position.

So after Qin Miao came out of the pit area, the time gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton, who was originally in the DRS area behind Hamilton, came to 3 seconds.

However, after the race got here, Qin Miao's pit stop strategy had been completed, and Qin Miao could run directly with a new set of hard tires in the next race.

This challenge may be a bit difficult for other drivers, and even the speed may be greatly affected, but this is Qin Miao.

Pirelli studied the ruthless people who didn't understand a single season in 2021.

In terms of Hamilton's ability to pit at this time, they still need to pit for a tyre change in this race.

Next, the race entered the cruising state, and after Qin Miao's tire temperature came up, he began to overtake the car in front of him at the back of the team.

On the 15th lap, he overtook Hamilton, who didn't defend Qin Miao much.

On lap 17, overtake Ocon.

On lap 18, he overtook Gasly.

On lap 19, he overtook Ricardo and moved to fifth.

Next, there was only one Norris in front of Qin Miao who was in the position 3 seconds in front of Qin Miao.

However, just as Qin Miao was about to continue to accelerate and kill Norris easily, a timely reminder to Qin Miao came from the team TR: "Qin Miao, Norris has not yet made a pit stop, our actual position is already fourth, and the next race is still very long, please protect your tires." ”

"Roger."

After receiving the reminder from the team, Qin Miao's speed also began to slow down.

However, on lap 21, just when everyone thought the race would go on as normal, Ferrari gave the crowd another life.

Leclerc, who had started to lead the race because Pérez pitted for a tyre change during the yellow flag, was suddenly on the straight on lap 21 with a cloud of white smoke rising from behind the car.

But Leclerc didn't stop there.

Because the problem with his engine happened to be the big straight, and the car itself had a speed of more than 300 km/h, Leclerc entered the pits despite the sudden loss of power in the car.

Anyone who has watched an F1 race knows that F1 cars are so light that anyone can push them.

So Leclerc even parked the car directly at the entrance of the inspection area.

And with the retirement of the two Ferrari drivers, Qin Miao, who had a pit stop in front of him and changed tires, inexplicably came to third.

It seems that if Mercedes wants to finish second this season, it will have to look at Lali's performance.

Leclerc, on the other hand, seemed to be used to it, and although he retired from the race, he did not get hysterical in the team's TR: "NO! NO！ NO！ "That's it.

From lap 23, Qin Miao entered the cruising state.

On the 24th lap, just when fans in China knew that Qin Miao's race was over, they began to shift their attention to Zhou Guanyu, who was eighth.

Zhou Guanyu, who was defending his idol Alonso's attack, suddenly received the team TR.

"Sorry week, the car broke down, I'm afraid we're going to have to retire."

Zhou Guanyu: ???

In the end, Zhou Guanyu also returned to the team's P room and retired.

So far, only 24 laps have been completed, with three Ferrari-powered cars retiring.

This also makes people wonder if Ferrari will be sacrificing the engine life of its own car so fast this season.

On lap 33, Qin Miao had already shaken off the 3-second time gap behind Hamilton behind him, and Hamilton had been distracted to deal with Gasly behind him.

And just when the audience thought that the return of three Ferrari-powered cars was already the limit of Ferrari's race.

Haas's Magnussen car also malfunctioned on the track and slowly came to a halt.

It was the fourth Ferrari to retire from the race.

Like Sainz, Magroson was stopped at the exit of the track, and he retired because of a car failure rather than a car accident, so there were no carbon fibre fragments left behind on the track, so there was only a yellow flag on the track.

However, with such a good opportunity, Qin Miao still did not choose to make a pit stop, because both Qin Miao and Mei Ben's strategy team felt that this pit stop was unnecessary.

The only thing worth mentioning was lap 45, when the director's camera came to the door of the Scuderia Ferrari again, the entire Scuderia Ferrari's P room had been packed, and all the team technicians and engineering leaders, including the car, were gone.

Even the only two engineers left on the command podium of Scuderia Ferrari were responsible for collecting data on the cars of other teams.

The others packed up their things and left.

After this hiccup, there were no accidents on the track until the end of the race.

And Qin Miao got a podium from Ferrari in such a daze.

However, when the game ended, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen in front of him came to a terrifying 28 seconds.

It's really almost almost Red Bull Racing's car to finish the race half a minute faster than Qin Miao.

And Qin Miao also ran a long distance of 40 laps with white tires in this race.

Although there was a yellow flag in the middle that reduced Qin Miao's tire wear, the long distance of 40 laps still surprised many fans who had just recently entered F1 and knew the importance of F1 tire strategy.

[He's Pirelli's own son, right? 】

Many fans made such an exclamation.

But in fact, Pirelli basically took every set of tires used by Qin Miao back to its headquarters in the UK for testing and analysis.

The end result was a headache for Pirelli, as Qin Miao used the same tires as other drivers.

Red Bull won a big victory, and the team on the Mercedes side was also smiling.

Ferrari are often on the job, but they don't have a lot of opportunities to slip through their hands.

After the race, as the top three drivers celebrated and were ready to be interviewed, the live camera shifted to Hamilton.

At this time, Hamilton had just parked his car and removed his headrest.

The next picture that appeared made all the old car fans feel embarrassed.

After Hamilton had prepared all the preparations to get off the car, he was about to get off the car when he felt a tingling pain in his waist due to the excessive number of dolphin jumps in the car during the race.

I didn't even climb out in the first place.

After struggling and trying in the car's monocoque for a while, Hamilton struggled to climb out of the cockpit.

After climbing out, Hamilton did not leave the car, but sat on the flip-flops of the racing car, and subconsciously supported his back with some back pain with his right hand.

It took a few moments for him to sit on the flip-flops on the race car before Hamilton got out of the car.

Maybe it's the so-called Heroic Twilight.

On the other side, after Qin Miao finished the pre-match interview, Hamilton happened to pass behind Qin Miao.

Qin Miao naturally went over to say hello to Hamilton.

However, looking at Hamilton's slightly tired appearance, Qin Miao was a little silent for a while.

After listening to Mexico's national anthem on the podium, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was over this week. (End of chapter)