However, before the start of the race, Qin Miao, like all other drivers, picked a time to go to the corner where F2 driver Anthony Hubert died in a car accident to remember the other party.

There were a lot of racing accidents at Al Rog Bend in Spa, and the cumulative losses of hundreds of millions of dollars were small.

But Anthony Hubert is the only F2 driver who has died here, and it is still in this era when the FIA has issued a series of rules to protect the driver's safety.

But no one wants to see this kind of accident happen.

All others can do is take warnings.

In addition to Qin Miao, there were also other riders who came here to pay tribute to each other, but when other people came to pay tribute, they brought flowers and the like.

Qin Miao brought two packs of spicy strips brought from China.

It's not Weilong's, what Qin Miao brought was the kind of spicy strips that he bought from the commissary in his hometown.

Qin Miao felt that the taste was not bad, and the other party should like it.

Even if you don't like it, everyone else is dead, and you can't say anything.

After the memorial was over, Qin Miao returned to her daily work and life.

On Thursday, after the normal marketing work, attend a pre-match press conference.

On Friday, one or two exercises.

However, on Friday, Qin Miao got a piece of good news for him and for all F1 fans in China.

That is, the Arrow team renewed the contract with Zhou Guanyu and signed a two-year contract until the end of 2024.

This fully shows the team's recognition of Zhou Guanyu's strength, but seriously, no matter how strong the strength of the Arrow car is, their strategy group and tire changers are also the same as Ferrari's lineage.

So if Qin Miao is in Zhou Guanyu's position, he can consider jumping to other teams next season.

Even if it's Haas, at least Haas's tire change and strategy group are not as rebellious as Arrow.

But Zhou Guanyu didn't think about it so much.

Geely is still negotiating with Martin, but the two sides have not yet negotiated, and Geely has encountered great resistance, so even if Zhou Guanyu has met Geely's chairman and received an answer from the other party, he can't be sure that Geely will definitely enter the market in the near future.

Zhou Guanyu can't put his career on a gamble.

If Zhou Guanyu has Qin Miao's strength, then he doesn't have to worry about not having a car, but although Zhou Guanyu has the strength now, he has not yet reached the point where he can win Longwangshu, and there is a two-year contract in front of him, and Zhou Guanyu has no reason to refuse.

So in the end, Zhou Guanyu and the Arrow team completed the contract renewal.

The time soon came to Saturday, three exercises.

At the end of the third session, two Red Bull drivers won one or two.

Qin Miao and Hamilton are still doing long-distance tests more often.

Ferrari came on in the final 24 minutes.

However, before the end of the third practice session, Leclerc made a mistake in T12 and rushed off the track and onto the wall.

Fortunately, the collision was not serious, Leclerc only damaged the right front plate of the car, and the suspension and rear wing were still intact.

However, Leclerc's accident brought a lot of sand and gravel into the track, so in the final stage of the third practice, a red flag appeared on the track.

In the end, when there were 4 minutes left in the third practice stoppage, the game resumed, and Qin Miao simply didn't go out.

After all, his data has long been exhausted.

By the time the broadcast camera was shown to the P room of the Meiben team, Qin Miaoren was no longer in the car.

Two hours later, qualifying.

Although the sky has always been gloomy in Spa today, it is fortunate that there is no rain.

At the same time, a large number of drivers in today's race replaced engine parts of their cars and received penalties of varying degrees.

Bottas is also one of them.

Because he was among the replacement riders, and Bottas would have started in 14th place regardless of his qualifying results.

However, Bottas still entered Q2 and helped Zhou Guanyu pull the wake twice in Q2 to protect his teammate to Q3.

And Ricciardo also lived up to McLaren's expectations, stopping in Q2 on the premise that Norris entered Q3.

Then, in Q3 of the first qualifying session after the summer break, Ferrari began to show the audience.

Originally, the tactics developed by Ferrari Q3 were borrowed from Mercedes's wake pulling tactics.

Leclerc first put on the old soft tyres to help Sainz pull the wake for a lap, and then let Sainz put on the old soft tyres to help Leclerc pull the wake for the new tyres.

It was all well arranged, and Sainz had already started his own flight lap on the track.

Then when Leclerc came out of the pits, the tire changer gave him a brand new set of soft tyres.

Leclerc was stunned when he saw the tires on his car, and hurriedly asked the team staff what to do with the soft tires.

Then Leclerc's track engineer Harvey could only helplessly say: "You run a flying lap." ”

Naturally, Sainz could no longer sacrifice his flying circle to help Leclerc pull the wake without Leclerc helping him pull the wake, so Ferrari's two-car wake tactics went bankrupt before they even began.

However, in the eyes of Ferrari fans, this kind of thing happened unexpectedly and reasonably.

They weren't surprised.

The two drivers of Mercedes did not play well in the qualifying stage.

Although Qin Miao refreshed her fastest lap time in both flight laps, after running the two flight laps, Qin Miao's fastest lap time was actually 1.4 seconds slower than Verstappen!

Although Qin Miao still uses an old engine, Verstappen has a new internal combustion engine, and the Red Bull car is obviously more adapted to the layout of the track than Mercedes-Francorchamps.

However, the 1.4-second time gap in qualifying still made Qin Miao's brows jump wildly after knowing it in the team's TR.

Hamilton's side was even more exaggerated, with a terrifying 1.8 seconds between him and Verstappen.

All the executives of Meiben were stupid after seeing this time gap.

The results of Q3 in the final qualifying round are as follows:

1: Verstappen

2: Sainz

3: Pérez

4: Qin Miao

5: Leclerc

6: Ocon

7: Alonso

8: Hamilton

9: Norris

10: Zhou Guanyu

At the end of the race, everyone was surprised: after a summer break, the three teams, which had been separated by less than 0.5 seconds, had a huge regression after this race.

No, it should be said that Red Bull's progress this summer break is incomprehensible.

That's a time gap of 1.4 seconds!

It's a qualifying match.

"Isn't it a little too big?" After the qualifying session was over, Qin Miao couldn't help but ask in the TR of the team.

"Well, we figured that it might not be our problem, and our lap times were about the same as we had estimated."

Qin Miao: ......

After the game, whether it was Five Star Sports, Sky Sports or the fan community, they were all surprised by this huge time gap.

Soon, the results of the discussion came out.

Throughout the summer break, there were basically no major changes in the paddock, except for the upgrades of each team itself, and the only thing that was the TD039 technical instruction given by the FIA.

So don't think about it, the reason why the two teams Mercedes and Ferrari were suddenly pulled out by Red Bull with such a big time gap on the track is that this TD039 made trouble.

Of course, it is not excluded that Red Bull's own upgrades during the summer break have had an extremely significant effect.

So after the qualifying session was over, Qin Miao and most of the R&D department directors were called over for a meeting to discuss why the performance of the car was suddenly so much worse than that of Red Bull.

At the same time, because a large number of drivers have replaced new components, the starting position for tomorrow's race will not be the same as the qualifying results.

The correct starting position for tomorrow's race is as follows:

1: Sainz

2: Pérez

3: Qin Miao

4: Alonso

5: Hamilton

6: Zhou Guanyu

7: Albon

8: Ricardo

9: Gasly

10: Stroll

This may be Zhou Guanyu's best starting position since entering F1.

But it's still that problem, Arrow's car this season is not good, plus this season's overtaking is easier than last season.

Therefore, Zhou Guanyu is likely to not be able to keep his position, and the biggest possibility is that he will be overtaken by the rear car one by one in the process of the race.

However, Qin Miao only thought about Zhou Guanyu's side for a while, and after the qualifying match, Qin Miao paid more attention to Red Bull's side.

The gap is too big, and I don't know how such a terrifying time gap came out.

Qin Miao and Hamilton didn't do anything else after returning to the team's home.

In the conference room of the team's house, I turned on the projector and studied over and over again why the Red Bull car was so fast, and why the Mercedes car was so slow.

But in the end, Qin Miao and the two of them didn't come up with a reason.

And there wasn't much time left for the Mercedes team to study the matter, and the next day's race soon began.

Sunday, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.

Today was a rare day of good weather, sunny and cloudless, and the weather department reported a probability of rain in the race phase of less than 30%.

After a month-long break, the drivers and team engineers were already gearing up and waiting for their chance to hit the track.

It's just that there are still some people in the paddock who predict the final result of this game much in advance.

On the track, at this time, Qin Miao and Hamilton got together to chat about the current racing problem.

And together they wondered why the car was so much slower than Red Bull.

But until the two drivers' respective track engineers called them back into the car, neither of them could come up with a reason.

"We were also surprised by the gap between the car and the Red Bull car, what went wrong we will investigate and solve it at that time, so staying focused now and winning today's race is my first goal." It was as if he knew that Qin Miao and Hamilton were absent-minded.

Qin Miao had just sat in his car when Toto's voice was transmitted to Qin Miao through the team's TR.

"Okay boss, but all I can do is do my best to run this race, as for the position, I'll see if I can get a third, more I can't guarantee." Qin Miao replied.

Toto also knew that he couldn't force Qin Miao to do anything at this time, so he said in the team TR: "Just do what you can, we believe in you." ”

After finishing speaking, he cut off the call with Qin Miao and calmed Hamilton's emotions.

Soon, the time came for the game to begin.

All team crews evacuate the track, and as the lights come on, the 2022 season will begin with the warm-up laps of the Belgian Grand Prix.

At the start, Qin Miao used soft tires like Sainz in front.

This week's Belgian Grand Prix, Pirelli's tyre formula is three mid-hardness tyres C2-C4.

Based on the tire durability tested by Qin Miao in the qualifying stage, Qin Miao's soft tires in this race can last at least 20 laps.

And the redesigned chassis didn't give the car any speed gains, but it did help to warm up the tyres, and Hamilton said at the team's meeting after practice that tyre management was easier than ever at this point.

So in the main stage of this race, the strategy team in charge of the pit stop strategy of the Mercedes team also encountered a happy trouble.

If Qin Miao implements the pit stop strategy of red and yellow, Qin Miao's tires in today's game will not be used up directly.

Maybe after the race, Qin Miao's neutral tires can still allow Qin Miao to continue to run on the track for an extra 5 or 6 laps.

Hamilton's side does not need to implement the two-stop strategy, and the yellow and white stops can run the whole game, but if the two-stop strategy is to be implemented, Hamilton's tires can be used regardless of consumption.

If you don't count the Red Bull who showed their speed in qualifying yesterday, the pace of Mercedes in today's race is 10 points ideal and impressive in their own opinion.

Soon, the warm-up laps were over and all the drivers were back on the grid.

Qin Miao stopped at the first place in the second row, followed by his teammate Hamilton.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Miao began to wait for the five red lights to turn on.

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

"Five red lights go out, and the 2022 Belgian Grand Prix season officially begins!"

"Qin Miao! The start was good, ready to overtake Pérez! ”

"Pérez's starting rhythm is not very good, and he wants to compress Qin Miao's space! But Qin Miao's starting rhythm is too good, and he directly surpasses the outside line! Hamilton and Alonso were also quick, and they also overtook Pérez. ”

"Qin Miao! After the start, it came to the second, is there a chance to attack Sainz! ”

"That's right! That's right, that's how to stick to Sainz, waiting for the opportunity! ”

"Huh? There was a crash and Hamilton had a collision with Alonso! Hamilton's car flew straight up! "The three commentators of Five Star Sports have been paying attention to Qin Miao's racing state on the track since the start of the game, so the three of them know very well where Qin Miao is at this time.

Naturally, he knew that the Mei Ben in the car accident was not the car driven by Qin Miao.

On the track, the main cause of the accident was that when crossing the T5, Hamilton, who was behind Alonso, braked late on the outside of the T5 and grabbed ahead of Alonso.

However, the three corners of T5, T6 and T7 on the Spa circuit are combination corners.

The right turn of T5 is followed by the left turn of T6.

So in order to have a fast angle and speed when the T6 exited the corner, Hamilton squeezed directly towards the outside of the track in an attempt to get a wider approach to the corner.

However, Alonso was not completely overtaken by Hamilton's late braking at this time, and he was still in a state of joint position with Hamilton.

Alonso did give up a certain position to Hamilton at this time, and even before the collision between the two, Alonso's right front wheel was almost pressed to the green paint outside the outside shoulder of the T5.

However, Alonso collided with Hamilton due to lack of position at the corner.

In a very classic position, the right front wheel of the car hits the left rear wheel of the car in front.

Hamilton took off on the spot under the accident.

Hamilton's car even reached a top point of around 1.7 meters.

But both drivers are world champions, and their control over the car is not superb, but it can also be said to be handy.

So despite the accidents between the two drivers, both the launcher Alonso and the pilot Hamilton stabilized their cars in a short period of time and did not let their cars get out of control.

After the accident, the two naturally lost a lot of positions, and the rear of Hamilton's car had a noticeable leak, which soon covered the recording camera of Alonso, who followed him.

In this game, Hamilton's already modest chance of winning the championship was completely reduced to 0 after this collision.

A lap later, Hamilton's car crashed hard and the engine went wrong, so he had no choice but to stop on the side of the track and retire.

At this time, the competition also dispatched a virtual safety car.

In the end, the director gave Hamilton a shot that seemed to be full of heroic twilight.

During the virtual safety car, a large number of drivers opted for a pit stop for tyre changes, including Leclerc.

Because Leclerc's racing car ventilation duct was stuck in a helmet goggle patch.

The film that stuck in it caused a sharp reduction in the air intake of the brake ventilation ducts of Leclerc's cars, and the temperature remained high, so in order to prevent the brake discs from exploding, Leclerc had to pit to clean the brake ventilation ducts and change the tires at the same time.

But it seems that because of Hamilton's mistake, Leclerc's loss in this pit stop is not too big.

Then the race resumed, and Verstappen on the track put his horrific qualifying performance into practice, and Verstappen was still ridiculously fast in the race.

He started 14th and was already in 6th place after 6 laps.

He finished in 8 places on lap 6.

Qin Miao overtook the most times in the 2021 season, and none of the fastest races were as outrageous as Verstappen.

On the seventh lap, he came to fourth.

On lap 8, he overtook his teammate Perez and came behind Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was sucking Sainz's wake here, using the DRS provided by Sainz to keep an eye on Perez behind him, and suddenly Perez was replaced and became Verstappen.

After Qin Miao saw Pan Zi's car, his heart naturally couldn't help but tighten, and then he said in confusion: "Didn't this bastard start at the 14th level?" It's only been 8 laps, how did you get behind me? ”

Frankie was silent for a moment: "We actually want to know why. ”

Qin Miao was just a little puzzled after seeing Verstappen behind her, and complained to the staff of the team, but she didn't really want an answer.

After all, after the results of yesterday's qualifying race came out, Qin Miao knew that the Red Bull car in this race was abnormally fast, and he had already been mentally prepared to be directly pulled by the Red Bull car with speed.

On the 12th lap, using the DRS provided by Sainz in front, Qin Miao could be regarded as having a hearty attack and defense with Verstappen on the field again.

But although Qin Miao has many advantages.

The DRS offered by the front car, the soft tyres with more grip than the Verstappen at the rear, and the ERS power reserve, which was not very much after Verstappen overtook all the way from behind.

Although Qin Miao had so many advantages, Qin Miao still felt very difficult when defending Verstappen behind him.

Although Verstappen's driving is accurate and efficient, Qin Miao is not much worse than Verstappen in terms of driving and stability, but this forced car is fast, pure fast and unreasonably fast.

Fast cornering, fast acceleration, faster straights, and especially DRS efficiency.

After Qin Miao's DRS was turned on, he might only increase his speed by 15 km/h, but this Red Bull increased his speed by at least 24 km/h.

If it weren't for Sainz's cooperation, Qin Miao and him would have directly blocked the line that Verstappen could directly rush up with the late brakes, and the two of them would have been overtaken by Verstappen.

But this defense didn't last long, no matter how fast Verstappen's car was, he was not Qin Miao, and after 12 laps, Verstappen's soft tyre speed also began to decline.

Sainz in front of Qin Miao was even more so.

So on lap 12, Sainz pitted for a tyre change due to tyre wear.

And Verstappen's speed at this time was not as big an advantage as when he was chasing Qin Miao just now, and Qin Miao could barely guard against Verstappen.

On lap 15, the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao came to 0.9 seconds, and Qin Miao's difficulty in defending Verstappen gradually decreased.

Finally, Verstappen couldn't stand it anymore, he drove a racing car so fast, and was blocked behind your ass by you Qin Miao, which is really a bit too much to say.

Verstappen pitted for medium tyres and came out in third, four seconds behind Sainz.

At this time, Qin Miao's speed was still considerable, so he still didn't choose to pit for tire changes.

On lap 18, Verstappen, who had been replaced with new tyres, needed only two laps to overtake Sainz in front of him.

As a result, the lap speed difference between Red Bull and Ferrari is really 1.8 seconds. (End of chapter)