Then on lap 16, the pit stop window opened.

A large number of drivers pitted, but the position of the drivers in front of Qin Miao did not change.

However, on lap 24, Verstappen, who pit on lap 13, also got rid of the restraint of the slow train group behind him and came behind Qin Miao.

And coincidentally, Qin Miao at this time also chased behind his teammate Hamilton.

Qin Miao said directly and openly to Frankie in the team TR: "Give me DRS." ”

Frankie can be said to be one of the people who know Qin Miao the most in the entire Mercedes team, and after hearing Qin Miao's words, he knows what Qin Miao wants.

So Frankie turned his head directly to Hamilton's track engineers.

After some communication between the two, Hamilton's speed remained the same, but when Qin Miao came to the DRS area behind him, Hamilton did not have any defensive moves, but ran at his own pace with the normal exit and entry lines.

Qin Miao's side was comfortably sucking the wake and DRS of Hamilton's straight, and in the middle of the corner, he took the inside line to block Verstappen behind him.

Now the one who scolds the driver in front of him in the rear for hurting others and not benefiting himself has become Verstappen.

After all, Qin Miao's opponent is not just Verstappen, there are also Leclerc, and even Sainz.

Qin Miao blocked Verstappen here, completely giving up the top podium to the two Ferrari drivers.

Verstappen couldn't even figure out what Qin Miao's motive was for doing this.

As for Qin Miao's motives......

His idea was actually quite simple.

At this time, his team-mate Hamilton had not yet made a pit stop for tyres.

So his teammates are behind him at this time.

Rather than overtake Hamilton at this time, Verstappen was clearly better than himself in the car alone.

It is better to follow behind your teammates before they pit and use Hamilton's DRS to defend Verstappen behind them.

With Verstappen's personality, as long as he shows the slightest flaw when he runs ahead, he will definitely be like a mad dog desperate to seize this opportunity to try to attack himself.

In that case, Verstappen's tyre consumption will definitely be greater than normal driving or attacking himself.

Although Verstappen's tyres were hard at the moment, there was certainly excessive wear and tear in such an attack that didn't care about consumption.

When Hamilton pits, it won't be too much pressure to defend Verstappen alone.

As for Verstappen's thoughts, spending himself here with him would benefit the two Ferrari drivers in front of him.

Qin Miao did think about it.

But sometimes F1 is about the same as fighting, and you can't just look at the wins and losses of one city and one place.

Putting aside the final position of this race, Sainz only has a total of 88 points in the drivers' standings at this time, and even if Sainz wins consecutive championships in the next few races, it will take at least 3 races to catch up with him, and he still has no points in these 3 races.

Not to mention that Sainz's teammate Leclerc is significantly better in racing skills and ability than Sainz.

So instead of letting Sainz score more, Qin Miao would rather suppress Verstappen and let him score less.

And Leclerc......

Qin Miao's racing speed is not as fast as him, and he has not fallen into his own hands at this time, Qin Miao really has no good way to take Leclerc.

Back to the track.

At this time, Verstappen was played by Qin Miao.

Because Qin Miao will always leak a little when he goes out of the bend and out of the bend, it seems that it is very likely to surpass Qin Miao's flaws in one go.

Once or twice, Verstappen may still be able to hold back, but there are always times when Verstappen is not calm.

Then he was either squeezed out of the track by Qin Miao, or he was blocked by Qin Miao and fell out of the corner.

The most important thing is that during the whole process, Qin Miao has been in a state of waiting for work, his tires basically do not consume too much, while Verstappen is constantly accelerating and decelerating and braking hard.

On lap 27, Leclerc pitted for white tyres.

Because of the efforts of the two Mercedes drivers.

Leclerc came out of the pits and landed 1.5 seconds ahead of Hamilton.

And Hamilton was followed by Qin Miao and Verstappen.

In other words, Mercedes helped Ferrari make a wedding dress in this game, blocking Verstappen behind Leclerc.

The director had a very funny time when Leclerc came out of the pits and gave Ferrari Deriva principal Binotto.

At this time, Binotto didn't hold back, bent the corners of his mouth and laughed there, and then this scene was captured.

On lap 28, Hamilton finally reached his pit stop window and freed his team-mate and old rival Verstappen.

After Hamilton made a pit stop, Verstappen felt that his chance to surpass Qin Miao had come.

Then Verstappen was a little stunned to find that Qin Miao's speed had actually increased very significantly.

Verstappen quickly realized that it was Qin Miao who turned on the ERS and was accelerating at full strength, and soon after the battery ran out, he could still catch up with Qin Miao.

Then on lap 29, Verstappen was a little devastated to see that Qin Miao sucked the wake of Leclerc on hard tires.

It's over, isn't it?

Before that, Pérez and Sainz had already made a pit stop.

So at this time, Leclerc was first, Qin Miao was second, and Verstappen was third.

This is also a kind of under cut for Verstappen.

Although he has Qin Miao behind him as a buffer, Leclerc can not worry about Verstappen's attack on him in a short time, and at the same time, Qin Miao is unlikely to attack himself because of the performance of the car.

But Leclerc still had no intention of slowing down and forming an iron train man with Qin Miao.

Leclerc knows Qin Miao, and his ability to force offense is not much weaker than his defensive ability.

Once he entered the DRS area behind him, Qin Miao could find an opportunity to surpass him at any time.

Pulling away is the best way to defend Qin Miao.

After Qin Miao's ERS power was almost used up, Leclerc began to widen the time gap between himself and Qin Miao at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

Basically 0.4 seconds per lap.

In private, it's okay for Leclerc to suffer a loss, but in the game, Leclerc will still use all means to establish his advantage.

And Qin Miao also knew Leclerc, so he had already expected Leclerc's behavior.

And the main reason he kept up with Leclerc was to rub Leclerc's wake and make himself a little farther away from Verstappen behind him, so that there was less pressure on defense.

The next game will be more interesting.

Qin Miao's lap speed was originally not comparable to Verstappen's, but because Qin Miao made Verstappen waste a lot of his tire performance before Hamilton pitted.

Therefore, Qin Miao's lap speed in a short period of time was actually on par with Verstappen.

Although Qin Miao used neutral tires, Qin Miao's set of neutral tires also ran 18 laps.

Next, Leclerc slowly led away, and Qin Miao's speed also began to decline, and soon Verstappen entered the DRS area behind Qin Miao.

But Verstappen can't get a decisive speed now, so Qin Miao's defense against Verstappen is quite easy.

He knows Verstappen's attacking routines all too well.

Behind the two are Sainz, Hamilton, Pérez.

Finally, on lap 37, after attacking for so long without any real effect, Verstappen finally couldn't stand it anymore.

There was a Qin Miao in front of him, and Leclerc ran farther and farther, and if he didn't make some changes, his home game would become the third.

So Verstappen made another pit stop this lap, switched to hard tyres, and opened the two-stop window early.

Because he was more open to the drivers behind him, Verstappen only fell behind Sainz in fourth place after his pit stop.

But when Verstappen came out with a set of hard tyres that only ran three laps, the lap time was 0.3 faster than Leclerc's.

Naturally, it is faster than Qin Miao.

In fact, the team asked Qin Miao in the team TR after Verstappen pitted, whether to work hard for a lap and ensure his position before making a pit stop for soft tires, or to continue to stay on the track and wait for Qin Miao's own pit window.

Qin Miao thought about it for a while, and finally chose the latter.

There is no other reason, the main reason is that when Qin Miao stopped, the team gave himself a 3.4-second tire change, Qin Miao was a little worried that the team would give him another time, so he wanted to let the team tire changers rest for a while, and wait until the time agreed in advance to change the tire, so that they could have a psychological preparation.

On the 50th lap, Qin Miao made a pit stop and chose the second stop.

Naturally, it was a new set of soft tyres.

At this time, there were still 21 laps before the end of the race, and the overall weight of Qin Miao's car was reduced a lot because of fuel consumption.

The load on the racing tires is naturally much smaller than at the beginning of the race, and the durability of Qin Miao's soft tires has increased considerably.

According to the team's calculations, Qin Miao's new set of soft tires could run 25 laps later in the race, but it was due to the excessive consumption of the first Stint Qin Miao's soft tires, so this time the team planned to call Qin Miao in four laps late.

At the same time, Leclerc also made a pit stop in the same lap as Qin Miao.

Unlike the soft tires that Qin Miao changed, Leclerc changed to hard tires after the pit stop.

Next, Leclerc will start chasing the rider in front of him with all his might.

After Leclerc came out, Verstappen was in front and Qin Miao was in the back.

After Qin Miao came out, she was just stuck in the position 2 seconds in front of Perez.

By lap 51, however, Sainz had also pitted, and now Leclerc was left with a Verstappen-driven Red Bull in front of him.

As for Qin Miao's side, he was 1 second faster than Leclerc with new hard tires in one lap.

Originally, the time gap between him and Leclerc was only six seconds, but now there are only five seconds left.

However, Leclerc's new hard tyres pursued Verstappen's old hard tyres faster than Qin Miao's pursuit of Leclerc.

After all, the distance between the two is not large.

So on lap 53, Leclerc caught up with Verstappen and started to get started.

And Qin Miao in the rear is 3 seconds away from Leclerc.

However, Qin Miao got the fastest lap in his hands during this time.

Of course, Qin Miao didn't try to pick up the leak when he got behind the two of them on the 55th lap.

The main thing is that Leclerc, an old man, has also learned a lot from Qin Miao, he didn't leave Qin Miao any chance to pick up the leaks, and every time he attacked Verstappen, he took the inside line.

So what Qin Miao can do now is to get as close to Leclerc as possible, and when he overtakes Verstappen, see if there is a chance to overtake Verstappen together.

Of course, if it was possible, Qin Miao wouldn't mind overtaking both of them at once.

And that opportunity came quickly.

On lap 57, Leclerc finally found his chance and was 0.2 seconds behind Verstappen just before the braking point in T3.

Verstappen's side naturally stuck to the inside line when he saw this.

Leclerc, on the other hand, braked late on the outside and entered the corner earlier than Verstappen.

After seeing this, Qin Miao already knew Leclerc's offensive intentions.

He was ready to take a cross line.

After all, Verstappen's angle of braking into the corner was too small, and his speed out of the corner was definitely not as fast as Leclerc's entry into the corner at a normal speed.

And Qin Miao also realized that this was his chance to steal chickens.

So Qin Miao also braked late on the outside.

Qin Miao's front nose flank was almost attached to the diffuser of Leclerc's car, and it came out of the corner at almost the same rhythm as Leclerc.

After exiting the corner, because Verstappen's acceleration position was very late, Leclerc, who had sufficient acceleration distance, directly pulled Verstappen out of the corner.

And Leclerc was not the only one who blew up Verstappen on the outside, Qin Miao on the side also seized the opportunity of Verstappen's distraction.

Qin Miao sucked Leclerc's wake and also overtook Verstappen on the right side.

The kind that explodes directly.

And that's not the end of it.

You must know that when Qin Miao came out of the corner, he almost stuck to Leclerc when he came out of the corner.

Although because of the acceleration position after the corner, Qin Miao and Leclerc opened a certain distance.

But this distance is not too far, only 0.2 seconds apart.

This section of the straight between T3 and T4 is a DRS area.

And the distance of 0.2 seconds is just enough for Qin Miao to accumulate the speed of the car faster.

So Leclerc had just surpassed Verstappen, and before he had time to be happy, he saw Qin Miao coming behind him with some pain, and clinging to him tightly.

The key thing is that he used the late brake when he was in T3, and he was not only in the DRS area in front of Qin Miao, but also in the DRS area in front of Verstappen.

Verstappen-Leclerc was not too worried, even if the opponent had DRS, it was impossible for him to catch up with him after a time gap of 0.6 seconds in the straight.

But Qin Miao is now using soft tires, and Qin Miao not only has DRS, but also has her own wake, this is really no way!

Then this season, Ferrari, which has the fastest acceleration and tail speed in the paddock, was blown up by Mercedes on the straight.

Before the braking point of T4, Qin Miao had completely surpassed Leclerc.

After entering T4 next, there was a continuous corner, and Qin Miao, who used soft tires, took advantage of Leclerc's unstable mentality after being overtaken by himself, and directly threw Leclerc out of the DRS area.

"Fuck! Seeing that he had been defending himself for a long time, but in the end he was still stolen by Qin Miao to the first place, Leclerc was so angry that he exploded directly in the team TR.

You're a real chicken thief!

The people in the entire P room of Ferrari are also holding their heads in their hands at this time, like mourning.

Binotto couldn't laugh at this time.

Unlike the Ferrari team and fans, at this time, the corners of the crazy mouths of the Mercedes team and Qin Miao's fans were almost uncontrollable.

"Qin Miao! Seize the opportunity to string two! It's time to be number one! "Brother Bing on the side of Five Star Sports stood up directly from his position.

Originally, everyone was watching the fight between Leclerc and Verstappen in this game, and no one paid attention to Qin Miao, and even if there were, it wouldn't be too much.

But Qin Miao seemed to have surpassed Leclerc and Verstappen when they were both caught off guard, and Qin Miao also gave the commentators a big surprise by surprise.

"Beautiful! It's so beautiful, Qin Miao's ability to find opportunities is really good. Brother Shrimp was also amazed by Qin Miao's operation on the side.

"I think Qin Miao's overtaking can basically be selected as the best overtaking shot this season." Zhou Haoran said on the side: "You know, Pirelli gave data after qualifying, Mercedes' car lap speed is 0.2 seconds slower than Ferrari, Qin Miao can appear here more because of Qin Miao's terrifying tire management ability." ”

After Qin Miao came to the leading position, the voices of Frankie and Toto immediately came from the TR of the team.

"Super beautiful Qin Miao! But you still have to take care of your tires, we wait for your good news. Frankie said.

"Nice! You're doing too well, that's it! "This is Toto.

However, just after Qin Miao completed a series of twos, when Qin Miao switched from offense to defense on the track, a yellow flag suddenly appeared on the track.

By the time the live broadcast camera looked over, the Sainz car, which was still running at its own pace on the track, drove straight into the buffer zone on the outside of T4.

And the camera just caught a cloud of white smoke suddenly rising from the position of Sainz's racing engine.

Naturally, despite the car's own inertia, Sainz came to a stop after reaching the Matthew entrance on the outermost side of T4, a yellow flag appeared on the track.

Among the TRs of the team, Sainz's side is naturally a one: "NONONO. "That's it.

That's probably the fate of a Ferrari driver, if you get on this tractor, you'll be sitting in it and crying one day.

Even after Sainz's car stopped, open flames erupted directly from the position of the racing engine, and the fire was extremely ferocious, and soon spread to the entire side box.

Even when Sainz got out of the car, the flames burned to Sainz's hand.

However, the biggest function of the F1 driver's suit is to prevent fire, so even though the flames had already burned Sainz, Sainz jumped straight from the car like a nobody.

Then Sainz naturally sat on the side of the track with a sad face.

The chance to play well and greatly shorten the points gap between himself and Leclerc is gone.

Whoever comes to change the mentality will collapse.

However, when Sainz retired from the race, he drove his car to the Matthew entrance on the track.

Although the car caught fire, it was not difficult to extinguish the fire, so there was no further action at the race, just a virtual safety car.

However, this virtual safety car was dispatched relatively late, and it was only after Qin Miao and Leclerc Verstappen had passed the entrance of the pit lane that the virtual safety car appeared.

Qin Miao's monitor showed that after the virtual safety car was dispatched, he naturally asked the team as soon as possible: "Do I need to pit stop?" What's going on the track? ”

The team's strategy team started the calculations as soon as the yellow flag appeared on the track.

However, at this time, it was still a while before Qin Miao and the others ran one more lap and returned to the entrance of the maintenance area.

So the team wasn't particularly anxious, but Frankie still said in a quick and clear voice: "Wait a minute, there's still time, the team is currently studying whether you need to make a pit stop." ”

Qin Miao also knew that he couldn't be in a hurry now, but he couldn't help but look at the Ferrari and Red Bull behind him through the rearview mirror, wondering in his heart whether these two forced people would pit stops?

By this time, the Ferrari and Red Bull tyre changers had already arrived outside the team's P room with their tyres and tyre changing tools, and it seemed that they were indeed ready to call the driver in.

After some brainstorming on Mei Ben's side, Frankie finally told Qin Miao: "Stay outside, we think your soft tires are still in good condition, and you can hold on until the end of the game." ”

The team knows very well that the reason why Qin Miao was able to come to the leading position in this race is mainly because Qin Miao and Leclerc and Verstappen took a differentiated route.

Qin Miao's main advantage over the other two drivers is the durability of the tires.

And at this time, Qin Miao's new tire reserve is only hard tires, and the latest neutral tires have run 11 laps, and the latest soft tires have run 6 laps.

The durability of these two tires is similar to that of the set of tires used by Qin Miao at this time.

But if hard tires are used, then Qin Miao's weakness of not being as fast as Ferrari and Red Bull will be exposed, and it will be very difficult to even keep the podium when the time comes, let alone compete for the championship.

So after the team weighed it, it was finally decided to let Qin Miao stay on the track.

At least he had a 10-second positional advantage, combined with the speed of his soft tyres, and with only 12 laps left until the end of the race, the virtual safety car would be one more lap away and the race could be 11 laps away when the race restarted.

Qin Miao's tires can definitely withstand the consumption of the last period of time.

Therefore, Meiben has such a team instruction here.

Qin Miao didn't have any objection to this, he really believed in the decision of the team strategy team, at least so far the team had not cheated himself because of the wrong team instructions.

It's not like a strategy group for a red convoy.

Qin Miao didn't dare to imagine how miserable he would be by the strategy team in the first season if he entered a certain red team. (End of chapter)