At the same time, even if Mercedes found out about Ferrari's movements, he was not in a hurry at all.

Not to mention that Qin Miao's lap time of this set of soft tires is still stable, even if Sainz in the rear is faster than Qin Miao in a single lap after coming out of the pit lane, but Qin Miao's time advantage of 5.7 seconds after running 16 laps is enough for the IQ of the Mercedes team strategy group to temporarily reduce to the same level as the IQ of the Ferrari strategy group, and make a mistake.

And even so, Qin Miao had enough time to keep himself ahead after coming out of the pit lane.

Not to mention that the current Mercedes team was tortured by Toto after the last Grand Prix, and everyone in the team was silent, so Qin Miao did not make any mistakes in the pit stop on lap 22 in this race.

After Qin Miao came out of the pit area, his position naturally did not slip at all, after all, he was the last to pit among the drivers in the front row.

After Qin Miao came out, he fell behind him and Leclerc for 1.7 seconds.

After Sainz pitted, Leclerc's speed was obviously faster than that of Enns, so after coming out of the pits, the driver behind Qin Miao became Leclerc.

At this point, Leclerc had already made one stop, but he was on the same medium for medium as Sainz, which meant he needed to make another stop.

Next, Qin Miao's speed dropped significantly, and Leclerc caught up with Qin Miao and entered the DRS area behind Qin Miao.

I believe that it will not be long before Leclerc can launch an attack on Qin Miao

On lap 24, there was another magical scene on the track.

Eleventh, Ocon locked all of his teammate Alonso's offensive lanes, so much so that Ricardo behind Alonso was at a distance where he could easily attack the two, and Ocon didn't care about it.

Ricciardo then went straight from 12th to 10th in Ocon's defence against Alonso.

Ocon had no intention of stopping Ricciardo throughout the process, with all his attention on team-mate Alonso behind him.

As a result, Ricardo entered the points zone.

Ricciardo, who was sitting in McLaren's car, couldn't figure out how he had been unlucky for almost a season since joining McLaren, and he didn't expect to suddenly transfer today.

Alonso's side is still very helpless.

From the start of the game to the present, there have been countless attempts to attack, but Alonso's attempts to attack have failed.

The biggest fear for F1 drivers on the track is that you're going faster than the car in front, but for a variety of reasons, you can't overtake the car in front of you.

If that's not painful enough, then add the premise that the car in front of you is your teammate, and you'll be doubly painful.

Because this means that the performance of the car is the same between the two of you, and your superb offensive skills will not be able to play any role in the case of the difference in the performance of the two cars.

This process is referred to as bad luck opening the door to bad luck, and bad luck is home.

The most rebellious thing is.

Alonso reported the incident to Alpine, who left it alone and let the two drivers compete freely on the track.

Alonso laughed angrily when he found out.

On the other side, Qin Miao was also overtaken by Leclerc on lap 30.

But after seeing Qin Miao being overtaken, the mood of everyone on Meiben's side was very stable, because the team was ready to let Qin Miao run a 48-lap long stint on the track.

At this time, it didn't matter if Qin Miao was overtaken, because this was Qin Miao's tires protecting herself.

Even the commentators of Five-Star Sports, who usually like to be shocked, calmed down at this time, and explained to the audience in the live broadcast room: "It's not a big deal for Qin Miao to be overtaken at this time, anyway, Qin Miao is a one-stop tactic in this game, his tires have to run the whole game, and Leclerc They definitely have to make a stop."

At that time, the time advantage of 22 seconds was enough, and Qin Miao ran this game directly, and the Ferrari in the back couldn't catch up. ”

On lap 32, other drivers made pit stops on the track to switch to hard tyres.

Although Qin Miao didn't have the idea of changing to hard tires from the beginning to the end of this race, Qin Miao still paid attention to the lap times of other drivers using hard tires.

Then Qin Miao was stunned to find that the pace of his soft tires was basically about 1 minute and 23 seconds per lap in the heavy fuel state, and 1 minute and 24 seconds for medium tires, but the lap speed of these drivers who switched to hard tires was reduced to 1 minute 26.

You must know that the race has now been 32 laps, most of the cars have used more than half of the fuel, and the cars are at least 20 kilograms lighter than at the beginning of the race, which still has a big impact on the lap time.

And it didn't take long for Frankie to also tell Qin Miao about it: "Qin Miao, according to our observation, the applicability of the hard tires now is very poor, and they are completely unsuitable for the current track. ”

Qin Miao behaved calmly in this regard, and he didn't plan to change to hard tires.

Then on lap 40, Leclerc was called into a pit stop by Ferrari.

Ferrari, meanwhile, took out a brand new set of hard tyres from the team's P room.

You know, Arrow and Alpine, who made an early pit stop to change to hard tyres, have already helped Ferrari confirm that the current course conditions on this circuit are not suitable for hard tyres.

Despite this, Ferrari called Leclerc in and switched to the hard tyres......

The idea of the Ferrari strategy team was very simple, and the result of the Ferrari strategy team on the track during the practice session was that the lap time of the first ten laps of the hard tyres would be a little worse than that of the neutral, but after ten laps, the lap time of each hard tyre was 0.2-0.4 seconds faster than that of the neutral tyre.

That's when Leclerc strikes back!

Let's just say that this is Ferrari, and they didn't take into account the temperature in the race phase at all.

Not only was the cold wind blowing on the track, but there was also a little bit of rain in some areas, and the track temperature was not as high as it was during their practice tests.

So after switching to hard tyres, Leclerc didn't hold on for a lap, and was directly overtaken by Verstappen behind him.

Although Verstappen, who had just overtaken Leclerc, came to a 360-degree top on T4 on the track and put Leclerc back in the way.

But on lap 45, Verstappen regained his position.

Leclerc on the track had no room for resistance, and was directly handled by Verstappen behind him.

Then on lap 48, Ferrari found that Leclerc was not only not as fast as Verstappen, but even not as fast as Pérez behind him.

But at this time, Leclerc had just come out of the pits, so it was naturally impossible to let Leclerc pit again, which would be a bit too much of a loss.

The Scuderia Ferrari then called Sainz to the pit stop for soft tyres.

Seriously, when the news reached Qin Miao's ears, Qin Miao couldn't help but wonder if the current Ferrari was really as they said, not distinguishing between the first and second drivers among the two drivers.

Seriously, Qin Miao feels that the current Sainz is the No. 1 driver of Ferrari, and Leclerc is just a tester who helps Sainz test the thunder.

After Sainz pitted, the driver behind Qin Miao became his teammate Hamilton.

Both Leclerc and Sainz pitted for tyres to start their three-stop.

Although Qin Miao's current lap speed is not as fast as when this set of neutral tires just came out of the pit, Qin Miao's speed is still very stable, and the lap time has always been within the team's expected speed.

Meanwhile, third-placed Verstappen is fast moving closer to second-placed Hamilton and can close the gap between himself and Hamilton by 0.4 seconds per lap.

In fact, it was almost Hamilton's pit stop window at this time.

But considering that Qin Miao is still running his own long stint in front of him now.

Hamilton, who knew that it was very likely to win the championship with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires in this race, saw Verstappen's proximity and asked the team if it continued at the current pace, whether Verstappen would threaten Qin Miao's position.

The team also answered truthfully: "If Qin Miao's lap speed does not change much from the current rhythm, Verstappen will catch up with the DRS area behind Qin Miao on lap 64."

At that time, the only thing Qin Miao could rely on was his own defensive ability. ”

Hamilton did not deny Qin Miao's strong defensive ability, and even in private, Hamilton practiced offense and defense with Qin Miao, and Hamilton was a little suspicious of Qin Miao's defense at that time.

However, it is worth mentioning that the performance of the two cars at that time was the same.

This naturally made Qin Miao's defense a lot easier.

After that exchange was over, Hamilton even had the illusion that as long as Qin Miao thought, he might not be able to break through Qin Miao's defense in his life.

However, as Hamilton's understanding of Qin Miao gradually deepened, Hamilton gradually realized that his original idea might not be an illusion......

But the current situation was different from the past, and Verstappen's speed behind him was obviously faster than Qin Miao's.

Even though he had experienced how difficult it was to overtake on the Hungaroring track last season, Hamilton was still a little worried that Qin Miao would not be able to defend against Verstappen's attack.

So he decided to help Qin Miao defend Verstappen within the scope of his ability, at least when Verstappen chased after Qin Miao, Qin Miao's pressure would be much less.

So Hamilton directly missed his pit stop window, and defended Verstappen behind him for two laps on the track with a set of neutral tires with bottomed out of his grip, from lap 52 to lap 54, helping Qin Miao gain a time advantage of at least 2 seconds.

Hamilton also pitted for tyres after being overtaken by Verstappen.

With 16 laps to go, Hamilton naturally switched to soft tyres.

Hamilton came out of the pits with clean air in front and behind.

Sainz in front and Pérez in the back, and both drivers had a time gap of more than five seconds with Hamilton.

This is also the reason why Hamilton is willing to help Qin Miao defend Verstappen in front, after all, even if Hamilton does this, he will not have any substantial loss of speed.

After Hamilton was overtaken by Verstappen, Qin Miao also received the news through the team TR: "Hamilton helped you fight for a two-second time advantage in the rear, and now Verstappen is expected to enter the DRS zone behind you on the last lap of the race, how are the tires now?" ”

Hearing the team's report, Qin Miao was still a little surprised, he really didn't think that Hamilton would help him during the race, Qin Miao was already mentally prepared to fight with Verstappen in the last two laps, and even Qin Miao's ERS power has been kept at about 70%.

But Hamilton's sudden help caught Qin Miao off guard.

Because Qin Miao actually overprotected his tires a little, in short, the consumption of Qin Miao's tires was smaller than Qin Miao imagined.

Based on the current level of wear and tear of Qin Miao's tires, he can improve his lap time by 0.2 seconds in a single lap to finish this race.

If he did this, it would be impossible for Verstappen to catch up with Qin Miao until the end of the game.

Originally, Qin Miao entered the state of integration of people and vehicles, and didn't think about it so much, just used his most comfortable state and rhythm to run long-distance laps on the track.

But now that she has come back to her senses, Qin Miao has no longer protected the tire, and her lap speed has improved.

This Red Bull's strategy group was numb, because they found that with Qin Miao's current speed, even if the game was over, the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao might only be fixed at 3 seconds.

can't catch up with Qin Miao at all.

On lap 55, Ferrari called Leclerc to a pit stop for soft tyres.

Ferrari finally noticed that Leclerc's hard tyres were not up to speed, and even though Leclerc's tyre had only run 15 laps, they called Leclerc in.

As a result, Leclerc, who was still in the leading position, has completely lost all possibilities of competing for the championship of the race.

In today's race, Ferrari's car was the fastest of all cars, and there was no one.

No one could have imagined that such a good hand could be played by Ferrari like this.

To put it mildly, even if a dog is put in Ferrari's strategy group, that dog's pit stop strategy is better than that of Ferrari's current strategy group

Later in the game, Verstappen, who was second, chased Qin Miao, who was in first place, in the rear, and Hamilton, who was in fourth, chased Sainz who was third.

However, on lap 60, Hamilton was only 2.7 seconds away from Sainz in front of him.

And Verstappen is still 5 seconds away from Qin Miao.

However, the proximity rate between Verstappen and Qin Miao did not reach 0.5 seconds per lap, and even if the proximity rate between Verstappen and Qin Miao was 0.5 seconds per lap, Verstappen could only catch up with Qin Miao before the end of the race, and there was no extra time for Verstappen to attack Qin Miao.

Not to mention breaking through Qin Miao's defense,

So at this time, Verstappen never had a moment like now, and he wanted Hamilton to die quickly.

Without Hamilton's defense in those two laps, it was really possible for him to catch up with Qin Miao.

(End of chapter)