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However, because no one was separated too much, Hamilton finally found an opportunity to attack Norris on the fourth lap.

But you must know that overtaking on this track in Monza is also very difficult. After all, it is a high-speed track with many corners, and it is still very difficult to follow the car this season.

So although Hamilton officially started to attack Norris, the two of them, like Verstappen and Qin Miao in front, could only try to brake late at the T1 and T2 corners to see if they could overtake each other.

From this lap onwards, Verstappen stopped attacking Qin Miao. He just followed Qin Miao in the DRS area to put pressure on Qin Miao, and at the same time began to look for help from the team.

But despite this, Qin Miao was not panic at all. After all, the DRS efficiency of Monza track was the lowest among all the tracks throughout the season.

After all, the tail wings used by everyone are very straight. Even if DRS is turned on, the drag reduction effect of DRS is very weak.

"I can't get close to him," Verstappen said to the team in Team TR.

"Qin Miao is deliberately protecting the tires. We can only wait for the pit stop."

……

Lap 9.

Verstappen, who could barely follow Qin Miao in the DRS zone, also slowed down after hearing the team's reminder.

It's a good account.

If he keeps following Qin Miao, the speed advantage provided by DRS to Verstappen is not enough to make up for the speed loss caused by the turbulence of Qin Miao's car when he follows Qin Miao.

If it were yesterday's short sprint race, Verstappen would definitely stick to Qin Miao and constantly put pressure on him.

Looking forward to Qin Miao making mistakes under the constant pressure he puts on him.

But today is a 300km race.

Qin Miao happens to be good at defense and tire protection, so Verstappen's method is somewhat imitating Qin Miao's.

So at this time, there was only one choice before Verstappen, and that was to pit-stop with Qin Miao to change tires.

From the team level, try to see if you can surpass Qin Miao.

After Qin Miao found that Verstappen behind him was no longer putting pressure on him, he stopped suppressing his speed and began to run long distances to protect his tires.

Therefore, on the 12th lap, the distance between the drivers behind gradually widened.

The time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen remained around 2.5 seconds.

Ricciardo, who was third, was already 4 seconds behind Verstappen.

And at the same time, Hamilton showed his butcher knife at Norris in front of him.

However, due to the difference in tires between the two, all Hamilton could do was to get close to Norris in the DRS zone. However, before entering the braking point, Hamilton seemed to have insufficient tail speed and could not take the lead at all.

On lap 15, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen came to 4 seconds.

It's not that Verstappen doesn't want to stay in the position that has always been a threat to Qin Miao, it's mainly that Verstappen's soft tires are starting to fail.

However, Qin Miao's soft tire still has speed, and his lap time has been maintained very well, basically floating around 0.2 seconds.

On lap 19, Leclerc, who had been being chased by Perez, took the lead in blowing the pit horn.

Although Ferrari is a circus, even if it is a circus, the programs cannot be arranged too densely. The audience will be tired after watching too many shows, especially at Ferrari's home stadium.

It would have been outrageous for Sainz to be forced to retire due to traffic problems during the qualifying stage. If another problem occurred during the tire change stage during the race, it would be a bit too cruel for the Tefuji people present.

After the pit stop, Leclerc changed to the medium tires.

The time is 2.6 seconds, which is a relatively qualified result for Ferrari.

Ahead, although Red Bull did not tell Verstappen, when Verstappen passed the Red Bull team podium, Verstappen saw the sign sticking out from the team.

At this time, Verstappen already had concerns in his mind.

Although Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is incredible, according to Red Bull Racing's calculations, Qin Miao's soft tire speed is no longer as fast as the new medium tire speed.

Red Bull also saw that although Verstappen was faster than Qin Miao, it was extremely difficult to overtake Qin Miao in front of him on the Monza track.

So on lap 21, Verstappen, who had been pushed back to 4.6 seconds, used up all the last bit of grip on his soft tires and prepared to get closer to Qin Miao in the final stage so that he could undercut later. Qin Miao.

On lap 22, Verstappen pitted.

Verstappen pitted for new medium tires.

The Red Bull Racing Team didn't miss the mark either, performing an absolute textbook tire change, with the tire change time being: 2.09 seconds.

After Red Bull pitted, Qin Miao's TR heard French's voice: "Qin Miao, Verstappen has pitted. Now start accelerating, we will also pit this lap."

Mercedes' idea here is very simple. Anyway, Qin Miao has already gained a 4-second time advantage in front of him. They have a very sufficient fault tolerance rate and there is no need to worry about Red Bull's under cut tactics against Qin Miao.

Now that Verstappen has pitted, Qin Miao only needs to follow Red Bull's tactics and pit.

It doesn't even matter if you are a little slower when changing tires at the pit stop.

So on lap 23, Qin Miao entered the maintenance area.

At this time, the director also switched to the tire changers of the Mercedes team, and it could be clearly seen that the tires they were holding were yellow medium tires.

After the people at Red Bull saw Qin Miao's pit stop and the tire choices Mercedes gave Qin Miao, their back molars were almost broken.

Why are you so heartless?Are you really not giving me any chance?
Then a scene appeared that made all Red Bull staff ecstatic and Mercedes fans unbelievable.

After Qin Miao parked his car at the tire changing position, Qin Miao's car was pushed up immediately, and everyone quickly removed the tires on the car.

The right front wheel tire worker of Qin Miao Racing Car was an exception. He did not remove the right front wheel of Qin Miao Racing Car at the first time.

The reason was that the wind gunner who removed the bolts had a problem. He was not able to remove the bolts of the left front wheel of Qin Miao's racing car at the first time.

It wasn't until he replaced the wind cannon that he removed Qin Miao's bolt.

After the bolts were removed, the tires were also removed, and then new neutral tires were installed, and Qin Miao's car was put down.

After landing, Qin Miao hurriedly drove out of the parking spot, trying to regain a little bit of lost time.

However, the 8.1 seconds displayed on the lower right side of the broadcast screen deeply hurt the eyes of all Mercedes and Qin Miao fans.

After Qin Miao's car drove away, the wind cannon man on the left front wheel picked up the broken wind cannon again in confusion and began to inspect it.

To be honest, Qin Miao was confused when she realized that her left front tire had not been removed for the first time. Then she became anxious. She wanted to jump out of the car and let the wind gunner kick her away, then go and put the tire on herself. anxious.

But now, after all, things have happened. No matter how anxious Qin Miao is, it is useless. He can only calm down, drive the car out of the pit area, and continue to race.

Even Qin Miao can't be anxious in the pit area, because according to FIA rules, if the pit area is painted purple during the game, it is very likely that a 5-second penalty will be imposed.

On the other side of Five Star Sports, the three commentators were also filled with disbelief after seeing this scene.

"what's going on?"

"This is a Mercedes. Would Mercedes tire changers also make such low-level mistakes?"

"Ah! Qin Miao! What is Mei Ben doing?"

"Qin Miao's champion! Oops! Why!"

"Verstappen has passed, maybe Hamilton will pass by now!"

"8.1 seconds, oh my god."

……

【? ? ? ? ? 】

[What about Mercedes and the others doing JB? 】

[What a great situation, now the chain is off]

[It makes sense to guess whether Mei Ben did it on purpose and was preparing to kill Qin Miao]

【Toto is out of class! 】

【Hey! 】

[Toilet Wolf takes full responsibility]

……

On the Internet, there was a lot of criticism about Mercedes' tire changing mistake.

Many people even speculated that this was because Mercedes discovered that Qin Miao's score in the standings was too high and deliberately caused a stumbling block for Qin Miao.

But in fact, the person who made the mistake in changing the tire this time was actually a member of Qin Miao's crew.

Although he is not Reyes, he is still a technician who has a good relationship with Qin Miao.

Not to mention that the people in Qin Miao's crew will also be bribed. The possibility is very low. After all, Qin Miao and his crew are basically in a state of prosperity and loss.

Moreover, every time the team makes a mistake in changing tires, it will be reviewed after the game, and the root cause of the mistake in changing tires will definitely be found.

Then it’s time to change suppliers, and it’s time to train and train to avoid this happening again as much as possible.

If it is really man-made, the team will find out during review.

When the time comes to pull out the carrot and bring out the mud, no one behind the scenes will get any good results.

By the time Qin Miao came out of the pit area, he was already behind Vettel.

After seeing Vettel in front of him, Qin Miao really felt like he was a loser.

The perfect start I made in the initial stage just made the team lose their fun. If I had known that if I had run a few more laps outside, I might have missed that point and then changing the tires this time would be fine.Of course, despite what he thought, Qin Miao quickly collected his emotions on the field and began to devote himself wholeheartedly to the game.

Anyway, his car is fast enough, and although the engine is not new, Qin Miao feels that he still has a good chance of regaining his position.

In the following time, riders who started on soft tires started to pit one after another. Some changed to medium tires, but most of them changed to hard tires, probably because they wanted to finish the race immediately.

After the driver in front of Qin Miao entered the station, the driver who appeared in front of Qin Miao became Norris.

The rankings on the field at this time are as follows:
1: Verstappen

2: Ricardo
3: Hamilton

4: Leclerc

5: Norris
6: Qin Miao

7: Perez
8: Sainz
9: Stroll

10: Alonso
A mistake in changing tires cost Qin Miao five positions.

However, despite being disgusted by the team, when Hamilton pitted, Qin Miao caught up 0.7 seconds behind Norris in front and began to help the team fill the hole.

On lap 34, when Qin Miao passed T11, he was 0.5 seconds behind Norris in front of him.

Then he sucked Norris's tail all the way out of T11.

Although everyone knows that the wake effect of the Monza track is very weak, the weak wake effect does not mean that there is no wake effect. In addition, Qin Miao's ERS power that had been saved for several laps was fully released at this moment.

Qin Miao had already completed the tap on the outside of Norris before entering the DRS area. After entering the DRS area, his speed accelerated slightly, and he began to surpass Norris in front of him at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Norris's speed out of the corner was already at the limit of what he could achieve, but seeing Qin Miao surpassing him from the outside, Norris didn't have much negative emotions in his heart, but more of a feeling of powerlessness.

Although McLaren also uses a Mercedes engine, Mercedes is still much better than McLaren in terms of aerodynamics. In addition, Qin Miao's car tuning settings for this game have particularly low downforce. The speed can be said to be the fastest in this game.

In the end, Qin Miao completed his overtaking of Norris before reaching the braking point.

After surpassing Norris, Qin Miao's position moved up one place to fifth.

The fourth position in front is Leclerc, Leclerc, whom Qin Miao is very familiar with.

However, because Qin Miao has been attacking Norris in front of him during this period, his speed has dropped a bit. At this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc is 6 seconds.

It would take a few more laps before Qin Miao could get to grips with Leclerc.

The team only immediately provided the time gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc in front of him, and told Qin Miao how many seconds he had been chasing Leclerc every lap, and expected to catch up with him after a few laps.

On lap 41, Qin Miao spent 7 laps chasing Leclerc for 5 seconds, and finally came to the DRS area behind Leclerc.

At the same time, Hamilton in front also began to attack Ricciardo in front of him.

It seems that the third position is not enough to satisfy the seven-time champion, he also wants to go to the next level.

Ricciardo naturally tried his best to defend Hamilton.

But Hamilton encountered the same problem as Verstappen faced Qin Miao at this time.

When the speed gap is not particularly large, facing a driver who has his own experience in defense, Ricciardo is most praised for his late braking ability.

Hamilton was embarrassed to find that he seemed to be trapped in third position by Ricciardo.

Although Hamilton was faster than Ricciardo, he just couldn't find a way to pass Ricciardo in front of him.

Always at T1 and T4, the two easiest overtaking points, Ricciardo used late braking to prevent him.

If Hamilton is going to continue to forcefully enter the corner with Ricciardo, Ricciardo will directly squeeze Hamilton off the track by relying on his right to the line.

After all, before the start of this race, the race stewards used the collision between Qin Miao and Verstappen last week to talk about the seriousness of this incident in front of all the drivers.

So everyone is relatively restrained in this regard.

In other corners, Hamilton had no way to get close to Ricciardo in front of him.

Therefore, Hamilton's several attacks on Ricciardo in front of him were in vain.

On lap 48, Qin Miao, who had been following Leclerc for 7 laps, also encountered the same troublesome problem as his teammate Hamilton.

Although Leclerc chatted with Qin Miao in private, he was often yelled at by Qin Miao in the wide-body state on the simulator, and sometimes it even turned into an offline fight if he got anxious.

But after being defended by Qin Miao for such a long time, no matter how stupid you are, you will make some progress, not to mention that Leclerc is one of the geniuses in the racing industry.

So Qin Miao actually fell into the same predicament as his teammate Hamilton for a while.

However, unlike Hamilton, Leclerc did not close the door too hard, leaving some space for Qin Miao.

When defending, Qin Miao was not pushed off the track.

When Qin Miao saw that nothing could be done, he did not hand over the button of the nuclear weapon to the driver fighting with him like Verstappen did.

Although the two started to fight from time to time, both of them had a sense of control.

But as time went by, both of them began to become anxious.

Qin Miao was wondering why Leclerc still had tire grip after running for so long.

Leclerc, on the other hand, was anxious. How long are you going to catch up? My tires are almost gone. Can't you just let me take a breather?
……

On the other side, the two Mercedes drivers were blocked, but Verstappen in front was happy.

The person who benefited the most from Mercedes' mistake was Verstappen.

Not to mention that there was no obstruction from Qin Miao in front, the two Mercedes drivers were also blocked by other drivers.

Verstappen's mentality now is a bit like Qin Miao's mood when he won the lottery.

On lap 52, just when everyone thought the game might end with the current ranking, another accident occurred on the field.

Qin Miao's tire durability has always been a mystery, and Leclerc didn't care much about it.

I'm familiar with Qin Miao, but I don't feel how good his tires are.
But after today, Leclerc completely changed his mind.

Qin Miao turned on the ERS of his car after exiting the T52 corner on the 10nd lap and began to release his full strength.

Faced with Qin Miao's sudden attack, Leclerc, whose tires were already in critical condition, naturally had no choice but to watch Qin Miao overtake him before the T1 braking point arrived.

This is a complete crushing of speed. In addition to watching Qin Miao run farther and farther, Leclerc could only complain in the team TR: "Why does Qin Miao still have medium tires after running for so long?" Such a fast speed?"

Ferrari had no choice but to tell Leclerc: "Stay focused, the race is not over yet."

Leclerc…

My reputation as fourth child is gone, how do you want me to stay focused?

On lap 53, this race that was a pity for Qin Miao finally came to an end when Verstappen crossed the line.

Not counting Spa, Qin Miao's three-game winning streak was ended, and this was already the tenth race this season in which Hamilton did not get on the championship podium.

Although Hamilton is still ranked second in the standings after the game is over, recent games have indeed not gone well for the seven-time champion.

When the car was parked in the inspection area at the end of the game, Qin Miao was still a little upset. After all, if there was no accident, although Qin Miao was not 100% confident that he would definitely win the championship, at least Qin Miao would still have a podium. obtained by chance.

But now, I only got a fourth place, and I was only one step away from the podium, but this step was like a chasm.

Maybe while in the car, Qin Miao felt angry thinking that her podium was lost due to the team staff's mistake.

But after getting out of the car and calming down for a while, the adrenaline level in Qin Miao's body dropped, and Qin Miao's mind calmed down.

After calming down, Qin Miao was able to be considerate of the team members.

After all, we are all ordinary people, and everyone makes mistakes sometimes.

No one can guarantee that they will not make any mistakes in their work and life. Just try to avoid them next time.

Moreover, his losses were not particularly large, and he still maintained his leading position in the standings.

However, when Qin Miao completed the post-match weigh-in and went to accept the post-match interview, many reporters responsible for post-match interviews wanted to interview Qin Miao.

Because of Qin Miao's mistake in pit stop, reporters prepared many questions for Qin Miao.

Qin Miao's press officer ignored the others and found a reporter who had a good relationship with Mercedes and would not ask Qin Miao some questions that would sow trouble between Qin Miao and the team. After that, Qin Miao began his post-race interview for this game. .

However, it was also because of the relationship between this reporter and Mercedes, and the fact that Qin Miao's mistake in changing tires at the pit stop was the focus of most of the talk in this game.

So the questions after the game were basically nothing interesting, just some regular questions.

After completing the post-match interview, Qin Miao's work for the day ended.

However, when he returned to the P room of the team to pack his things and prepare to take Qiu Meng away, Reyes still found Qin Miao.

Qin Miao knew what Reyes wanted to say to him. At this time, Qin Miao had already looked away from the team's mistake, so he patted Reyes on the shoulder and comforted him: "Reyes, I know. , there are definitely times when mistakes are made, so I don’t blame you, this matter has passed, don’t take it personally.”

"I know, but I still want to say sorry to you. After all, because of our mistakes at work, you lost an opportunity to win the championship.

But I promise that this kind of thing will only happen once, and we will be more careful and careful in our future work. "Even though Reyes said this, Qin Miao could still see a certain amount of guilt in his expression.

Qin Miao sometimes felt helpless in such a scene.

It's obvious that I really don't care about what just happened, as I just said, and I didn't mean what I said.

But the other person just feels that you are trying to hold on, that you are still angry, and want to make it up to you. (End of chapter)