At the same time, because there was a stopped car behind it, all the cars needed to re-run a warm-up lap.

When I started again, there weren't so many surprises on the track.

However, Alonso's side doesn't know why, he hasn't come out since returning to the pit lane, and he should be ready to give up this game.

Zhou Guanyu started directly from the pit lane, for a race that can not pit and the total length of the race is only 100 kilometers, Zhou Guanyu's starting order tomorrow has been determined to be the end of the team.

Once all the cars are parked, five red lights come on and the race begins!

In fact, when he got here, Qin Miao's game was over, because Qin Miao used neutral tires in this game.

In addition, Toto said that in order to save more resources for the development of next year's car, Qin Miao and Hamilton are destined to be more conservative at the start and during the race.

After all, in an F1 Grand Prix, the most likely place and time for the car to have an accident is the time at the start.

However, the two Ferraris in front of them started Ferrari's long-lost infighting.

At the start, although Leclerc's speed was not as fast as Verstappen, his starting position was better, so after the start, the car as a whole leaned directly to the inside of the track, ready to brake late to see if he could grab the inside line to overtake Verstappen.

After all, there is no gap between the straight-line speed of Ferrari and the straight-line speed of Red Bull Racing, and the inside line of T1 is also the inside line of T3.

But Panzi's defensive ability is not covered, and after seeing Leclerc have ideas that he shouldn't have, Verstappen directly defended the inside.

Forced Leclerc's angle into the corner very small.

At this time, Leclerc's front nose wing and Verstappen are side by side, and if Verstappen does not go to the outside of the track to enter the corner, he will be directly held by Verstappen here.

It can be said that Leclerc at this time is a little difficult to ride a tiger.

So much so that when Leclerc came to T1, he could only brake early.

Because of this, Pérez, who obviously didn't start as well as Leclerc, picked up a leak on the outside of T1, because Qin Miao started more conservatively, which was about the same as Sainz's starting speed.

Coupled with the disadvantage of racing performance, when he came to T1, Sainz was directly half a position ahead of Qin Miao.

With a chance in front and no pressure in the back, Sainz directly relied on faster speed and angle into the corner to overtake teammate Leclerc on the outside.

The four drivers in the front row did not change their positions except for the two Ferrari drivers who switched places at the start.

However, when the race came to T4, Leclerc took advantage of Sainz's slow exit speed to attack Verstappen in T3 and regained his position.

Qin Miao, who was behind the two of them, was so addicted that she couldn't wait to pat the two of them in their ears and start a fight.

However, these two were still restrained, so after Leclerc surpassed Sainz, Sainz did not make any further moves.

And after getting his original position, Leclerc also quickly opened the time gap between himself and Sainz.

Qin Miao's race was relatively dull next, because of the strength gap in the car itself, and the team did not let Qin Miao change to soft tires to try to attack the driver in front, so Qin Miao hung up 1.4 seconds behind Sainz and started cruising.

Of course, the team said that they couldn't take risks, but Qin Miao definitely wanted to give himself a better starting position tomorrow, so when he ran with Sainz, Qin Miao directly gave Sainz a negative buff.

[Flood Beast (Gold): Locks onto a driver in front of him, continuously presses him, and the pressure on the driver in front of him does not decrease, and will increase with lap time and the number of tentative attacks until the driver in front of him is overtaken, or misses due to excessive pressure.

The increase in pressure level is determined by the opponent's mentality and the pressure value of the selected target driver is visualized. 】

[Sainz's current stress level: 34%]

There was pressure, but obviously not a lot.

After running down so many games, Qin Miao has attacked Sainz quite a few times, human beings are extremely terrifying creatures with adaptability, so after so many games, Sainz is a little accustomed to Qin Miao's offensive rhythm against him.

But again, in front of Qin Miao's system, these things are all false.

As Qin Miao's skills were put up, Sainz's pressure began to increase visibly.

However, Sainz's pressure levels are not growing very quickly.

Qin Miao soon realized that the reason for this was most likely because the distance between himself and Sainz was not close enough, and the pressure on him was not so sufficient.

After thinking about it, Qin Miao began to use her own tires more, which increased the lap speed by about 0.2 seconds, anyway, the neutral tires were enough for Qin Miao to finish this race, and there was still a lot of room for the tires to burn.

Because of this, Qin Miao's speed increased a lot, and he directly entered the DRS area behind Sainz.

Although this position was affected by the turbulence of Sainz during the corner, on lap 3, the race had already turned on the DRS, and the speed lost in the corner could be regained with DRS.

Sure enough, after Qin Miao came behind Sainz, Sainz's pressure increase speed had an immediate increase.

Basically, every lap Sainz will have a pressure level increase of about 1%.

But Qin Miao is not ready to chase any closer at the moment.

Because if the pursuit is too close, you will have the conditions to do it on your side.

When the time comes, Qin Miao may not be able to bear it.

Again, the difference between the third and fourth places is only one point.

Although Qin Miao's overtaking is very stable, this is a risky thing after all, and there is no need to bet on the competitiveness of next season's car for the extra point.

Now Qin Miao is constantly putting pressure on Sainz, and if conditions allow, he will further pressure Sainz behind his back.

Qin Miao wanted to see if Sainz could stabilize his mentality and bring the third back in this game under the premise of withstanding the huge pressure he was given.

Under the premise of Qin Miao's constant pressure on Sainz, the most comfortable person is Leclerc.

Because of Qin Miao's existence, Sainz behind him is no longer a threat to Leclerc, and he can comfortably run long distances on the track by himself.

Even so, when Leclerc waited for the race to reach lap 10, the track engineer in the team's TR informed Leclerc: "Charles, now you have a lap time 0.09 seconds faster than Verstappen, that's a good sign, keep up the good work." ”

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When Qin Miao was teasing Sainz in front, Perez in the back had already reached fifth place on lap 15, and Qin Miao was in front.

However, at this time, there was still a three-second time gap between Perez and Qin Miao in front of him, and there were still 8 laps before the end of the race.

Unlike Pérez's brave play, Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton encountered a lot of trouble in this game.

The two Haas in front of Hamilton drove the DRS train in front of Hamilton in the open.

Although Hamilton had already chased within 0.4 seconds of Mick in the DRS zone by this time, the overall speed of the car was 0.6 seconds faster than the two Haas.

But because of the DRS train, Hamilton couldn't get enough positional advantage in the DRS area, and he has been killed by two Huskas.

It wasn't until lap 22 that Hamilton struggled to overtake Mick in front of him and enter the sprint points to earn a point.

The sprint race was not long, and the race ended quickly.

Verstappen started from pole position and took back first.

And Qin Miao was also a little surprised to see that Sainz, whose pressure value had reached 74% in front of him, still completed his task steadily and took the car past the finish line.

When did this kid's mentality become so good? Under so much pressure, there haven't been any mistakes on the track.

Although it is a pity that Sainz did not make a mistake on the track, Qin Miao is quite satisfied with this result, at least the car did not have any problems on this track, right?

The standings and points after this game are also the starting order for tomorrow as follows:

P1: Verstappen +8

P2: Leclerc +7

P3: Sainz +6

P4: Qin Miao +5

P5: Pérez +4

P6: Ocon +3

P7: Magnussen +2

P8: Hamilton +1

It is worth mentioning that Qin Miao originally thought that after Zhou Guanyu started from the back of the team in this game, he would not be able to get any good rankings in the sprint stage.

Unexpectedly, when the final ranking was calculated, Zhou Guanyu directly chased to the 13th, which means that Zhou Guanyu will start from the 13th position tomorrow.

Anyway, Zhou Guanyu can't get points in this game, so it is already a very good result to get 13th from 19th.

As a joke, Zhou Guanyu made up for the disadvantages of racing in this race by himself.

The post-race process for a sprint race is much the same as for the main race.

The top three riders in the race will also receive their respective prizes, but unlike the main race winner's trophy, the sprint race will receive a medal.

And the fastest lap in the sprint stage does not count as points.

After completing the car inspection, Qin Miao also returned to the team's home, and during the post-race meeting, Toto patted Qin Miao's shoulder with great relief.

At least in the inconsequential race of the sprint race, Qin Miao safely brought his car back and also scored 5 points.

Here Toto is still satisfied.

As for Hamilton......

He had a collision with Gasly to his right at the start of the race, and Gasly's left rear wheel hit Hamilton's right front wheel.

The left back hit the right front, and the result was predictable, Gasly's car flew straight out.

From Hamilton's point of view, Hamilton was not responsible for the accident, after all, in Hamilton's first perspective at the time, he was Albon on his left and Gasly on his right, and when Gasly pressed over, he had nowhere to dodge, and he had already slowed down in advance.

But in fact, from the rear vista you can see that there is still some distance between Hamilton and Albon to his left.

Of course, this is true, but Hamilton's responsibility is actually not too big, and the main responsibility is Gasly on Hamilton's right side of the country.

After this collision, the right front suspension of the Mercedes car showed the characteristics of the Mercedes car.

Vibranium suspension.

After flying a Little Red Bull, Hamilton's right suspension was not damaged, and even after returning from the race, the team found that Hamilton's right front suspension didn't even need to be re-aligned.

What stands out is a stiffness!

But Hamilton's car was somewhat damaged.

A piece of the floor of the Hamilton car was scraped off, and the wheel knife on the right front wheel of the Hamilton car was also scratched.

In short, no matter what, Meiben's car will definitely be pulled to repair.

It's nothing to change the wheel knives on the tires, and there are spare parts on the team's side.

However, Hamilton's damaged soleplate is a bit tricky, and although the team has spare parts on their side, a soleplate is not cheap.

The team was also distressed, so Hamilton's team mechanics were assessing whether they could repair Hamilton's floor.

Some people may be about to say that there is no way to repair carbon fiber after it is damaged.

It is also true that the carbon fiber material cannot be repaired after it is damaged and broken.

At least there is no way to restore the damaged position to its original strength and characteristics.

However, Hamilton's base plate is only missing a carbon fiber fragment at the edge, which is not too big, just the length of the middle finger and ring finger together.

At the team's factory, after a short meeting, it was decided to re-produce a piece of carbon fiber about the size of the damage site, then flatten it with super glue and putty and scrape it flat.

After this repair, the aerodynamic effect of the bottom plate of the racing car is similar to that of the normal carbon fiber base plate, and the disadvantage may be that the overall weight of the car may be about 10 grams in the damaged position.

Of course, the biggest advantage of such a fix is that it is cheaper.

It's hard to imagine that if you are as wealthy as Mei Ben, you will now be thinking about saving money.

Of course, the team did so with Hamilton's permission.

All in all, although this sprint qualifying match also made Toto, who was watching the game, experience the mood swings of shock, frowning wildly, and his heart beating, but at least he was quite satisfied with the result.

The damage exists, but it is within an acceptable range.

As for the repair of his racing problems, Hamilton actually wanted to directly replace it with a new baseplate, after all, there was still a spare part for the floor, so there was no need to use it in vain.

However, considering the development of the car next season, I finally had no choice but to agree.

The effect on the car's speed was almost none, so Hamilton finally agreed.

After the meeting, Qin Miao naturally returned to the hotel to rest without debt.

The next day, after the pre-race interview, preparation, and pre-race driver parade, Qin Miao returned to the team's P room.

At this time, Frankie and the others were still conducting the final inspection of Qin Miao's car, and the content of the inspection was not complicated, after all, after yesterday's sprint qualifying, it was impossible to modify Qin Miao's car.

The racing tuning used by Qin Miao in today's race stage is the same tuning used in the sprint qualifying stage yesterday.

Therefore, at this time, their inspection of the racing car is more about the parts that may fail in the process of the race, especially the location of the problem in the oil pipeline of Qin Miao's racing engine last time.

When everything was ready, the car was pushed onto the track with the announcement of the race.

The weather in Austria was good today, and the mountainous scenery around the track was also very good, although there were clouds and fog from time to time, but so far there were no rain clouds moving in the direction of the track.

Of course, we can't rule out the possibility of rain in the main race today.

After all, the Red Bull Ring is located in the mountains of Austria, and the weather in the mountains really can change.

The sky was cloudless for 10 minutes, but after 10 minutes, it was cloudy and it began to rain.

At the same time, Bottas had a new internal combustion engine for this race, so he would go to the pit lane to start the race.

Although the change in Bottas' starting position is not directly related to Qin Miao's starting position, this news can give the Mercedes team a reference, that is, the engine of the Ferrari series team has begun to wear and tear.

And Bottas is the first driver of the season to retire to the pits due to a start-up engine change.

It can also be seen that Ferrari's engine is probably the least durable of all the drivers this season.

At that time, Mercedes Racing has a good chance to take advantage of this and retain the second place in the team from Ferrari.

As for Red Bull......

Truth be told, the Red Bull did have its fair share of stability issues at the start of the season, but as the race progressed, it became clear that Honda was also investing more in engine stability.

As a result, Honda's engine has been free of stability problems in recent races.

At best, there will be some minor glitches on the track, but there will be no more big problems that will cause the car to retire outright.

The overall speed of the Red Bull car is also good, and Red Bull is born with more advantages and accumulation in aerodynamic design, so in the later part of the season, Mei Ben will challenge Red Bull and the probability of winning the battle is very low.

In addition, Zhou Guanyu also enjoyed the bonus of his teammates' backward starting position.

Originally, he started from 13th place and went straight to 12th.

Zhou Guanyu, who has been running in the F1 paddock for nearly half a season, has become mature in both mentality and technique.

The starting position for this race was not too bad, and he was ahead of McLaren, who had not been competitive for several seasons due to a lack of funds at the team's headquarters.

As long as the team does not give Zhou Guanyu intensity, Zhou Guanyu in this race has a great chance of bringing back points for the team again.

Even if he takes 10,000 steps back, McLaren's emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and Zhou Guanyu will not be able to cross the thunder pool of McLaren drivers during the race.

Aren't there two more Haas in front?

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu can get at least one point from the tenth in this game.

By the time the camera was on the track, the team had already started to lower the car from the jack.

And also withdrew the warm-up blanket.

This time, Alpine didn't forget to remove the warm-up blanket from Alonso's car.

In this game, Qin Miao's tire choice is still soft tires.

Because Qin Miao set aside an extra set of soft tires in yesterday's sprint race, so in today's race, Qin Miao has two sets of soft tires in the tire reserve, one set of neutral tires and one set of hard tires.

So in today's race, the pit stop strategy that the strategy team of Meiben Racing Team wants to formulate for Qin Miao is two stops.

The strategy of the tires is red, yellow and red.

If something happens on the mid-course track, hard tyres are not an option.

Red Bull Ring is a high-speed track, and there are many corners, and the wear of tires under many high-speed corners is naturally greater than that of a normal track, so in today's race, the mainstream pit stop strategy is still a two-stop strategy.

Soon, in the midst of the orange-yellow smoke from the crowd, all the drivers were led by Verstappen to start their warm-up laps.

It is worth mentioning that Alonso, an old comrade, made a little move before the start of the race.

Normally, before the start of the race, the drivers will come to their starting position and park and wait for the riders behind them to take their seats.

Alonso, on the other hand, didn't run in yesterday's sprint qualifying, so he started directly from the last position at the end of the team.

But he ran slowly and leisurely, and the latter section ran for a long time.

Even Verstappen stopped in his place for about a minute before Alonso slowly came to the place where he was supposed to park and parked.

At the end of the minute, the Verstappen tires, which were already not too high, dropped by at least 20 degrees.

Of course, it's not just Verstappen, almost all the drivers who start in front of them have their tires cooled down to varying degrees.

However, Alonso finally parked the car in his place.

The five red lights on the scene were also lit up one by one, and the game was about to start.

Soon, five red lights went out and the game began.

This time, Qin Miao's start did not have the sprint qualifying competition.

Qin Miao started quickly, and he was significantly faster than Sainz, who started in front of him.

Here is the reason for Qin Miao's fast reaction speed, and there is also the credit of soft tires.

Therefore, before coming to the braking point, Qin Miao came to the inside line of Sainz and was side by side with Sainz.

Qin Miao controlled the car to the limit, and the wheel arch position on the left side of the car was tightly attached to Sainz next to him, Sainz went to the left, Qin Miao went to the left, and Sainz went to the right, and Qin Miao went to the right.

But that's not all, Sainz, who had already reached the limit of his feeling before braking, was a little stunned and surprised to see Qin Miao step on the brake about 5 meters later than him.

After Sainz saw this, the first thought that flashed through his mind was that Qin Miao made a big mistake this time, he missed the brake point, and it was estimated that he had to rush out directly. (End of chapter)