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Verstappen, who had the advantage, saw Qin Miao's action and felt that this was not a flaw that Qin Miao was selling to himself like he did in the previous corners. Qin Miao was doing this to make the next section of the DRS straight A way of coping without being surpassed by oneself.

The opportunity is fleeting, and it would be very difficult to overtake Qin Miao. If he enters the inside line at this time, Verstappen will be much more likely to overtake Qin Miao later.

Advantage is also a process of accumulating little and adding up, so when Verstappen saw the opportunity, he decisively chose to get into Qin Miao's inside lane.

Although Verstappen stayed on the inside line when exiting and exiting the corner, Verstappen did not dare to stab Qin Miao when exiting the corner.

When Verstappen was attacking and defending with Qin Miao, he didn't dare to give his opponent the choice of whether to crash or not like before.

In the past, Verstappen said: I will forcefully squeeze your exit line, and the choice of whether to crash or not is in your hands.

If you want to collide with me, then you won’t let me. If you don’t want to collide with me, just slow down and go outside.

The crews of Verstappen and Red Bull have analyzed Qin Miao's psychological profile. Qin Miao is a person who likes to be tough within the rules.

If at this time Verstappen will give the choice to Qin Miao and let him choose one of the two.

Relying on his own cable rights, Qin Miao will most likely choose to collide with Verstappen directly to see if Mercedes' golden suspension is worthy of its reputation or if your Red Bull's tires are hard enough.

And this is Verstappen's home court after all, and Verstappen doesn't want to retire so hastily.

So when exiting the corner, Verstappen did not take the best exit line.

This resulted in that although Verstappen was alongside Qin Miao when exiting the corner, Qin Miao briefly opened the gap between himself and Verstappen after exiting the corner and reaching the straight.

This situation was not relieved until Verstappen's DRS was turned on. As time went by, Verstappen gradually caught up with Qin Miao, and once again completed his victory over Qin Miao at the end of the second time period. But before entering the braking point, Verstappen did not completely overtake Qin Miao because the line was not particularly good. The two entered T11 side by side.

Because Qin Miao took the outside line when exiting the corner in T10, relying on Qin Miao to save more than 80% of the ERS power reserve, Qin Miao was not surpassed by Verstappen in the DRS area.

After reaching T11, Qin Miao's position changed from outside to inside.

His trademark late braking blocked Verstappen's exit line from the corner. Even because of Qin Miao's obstruction and failure to overtake, Verstappen's mentality was affected to a certain extent, and he was stunned when exiting the corner. The oil time is half a second slower.

So after this defense, Verstappen was unable to pose a threat to Qin Miao in the entire third period of time.

Because after T11 and T12, the time gap between Verstappen and Qin Miao came to 0.9 seconds.

When Qin Miao came out of T12, he deliberately kept the ERS released, so before passing the DRS detection point behind T12, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was exactly 1 second.

Therefore, on the subsequent DRS straightaway, Verstappen directly had no use for DRS.

After finishing this lap, in the next first timing period, Verstappen caught up with Qin Miao's rhythm again and came to a threatening position 0.6 seconds behind Qin Miao.

At the end of this lap, Hamilton had already arrived behind Verstappen within a second and started the DRS train.

Now Verstappen is starting to get a headache, because Qin Miao is still giving himself loopholes in these corners, but Verstappen will be defeated as long as he dares to attack.At the same time, Hamilton, who came behind Verstappen, also began to be dishonest, frequently putting pressure on Verstappen and squaring off inside and outside.

Although Verstappen's attack on Qin Miao had little effect, Hamilton's pressure on Verstappen from behind relieved Qin Miao's pressure.

What stands out about Qin Miao is that he is a person who remains unchanged in response to all changes and leaves it to Red Bull to find ways to change the current situation, instead of thinking so much himself and just maintaining his own rhythm of the game.

After all, as the race continues, Qin Miao's tires are in a normal state of consumption, and Verstappen needs to consume more tires to follow Qin Miao. On the other hand, he has to guard against Hamilton who is about to move behind him, and at the same time, he has to try to attack Qin Miao. , tires consume very quickly.

In short, there is a bit of a buzzing feeling inside Red Bull right now.

Qin Miao's defensive strategy remains unchanged, which is to freeze Verstappen's offense at Verstappen's home court.

In the end, it was Red Bull who made the first move.

On lap 42, Verstappen, who had been sandwiched between the two Mercedes, chose to pit for tire changes.

His pit stop was 0.7 seconds behind Qin Miao. He suddenly turned into the pit while putting pressure on Qin Miao, and there was no warning before the pit stop. Before Verstappen pitted, even the Red Bull in the team The technicians here all stayed in the P room without any movement.

But just when Verstappen left Qin Miao and walked towards the pit area, these technicians suddenly started to move.

Red Bull's side should have conveyed the message to Verstappen through the sign on the previous lap. In order to prevent Mercedes from knowing Red Bull's thoughts in advance, Red Bull's tire changer did not even wait until Verstappen made an obvious move. Any preparation in advance.

But Red Bull is Red Bull after all, and even the technicians are top-notch. Even though they started the action after Verstappen came into the pit, by the time Verstappen stopped, all the Red Bull technicians were already in their positions. Ready for action.

Qin Miao and Mei Ben were indeed shaken by Red Bull.

The tire changing time is 2.1 seconds, which is an excellent enough result even for Red Bull.

Now the problem is in Mercedes' hands, because there are still 30 laps to go before the end of the race.

According to Mercedes' tactics, Qin Miao will change to soft tires after entering the pits. Qin Miao's ability to protect tires is indeed terrifying. It is not impossible for him to complete the next 29 laps on soft tires, but if he wants to rely on While running the 29 laps on soft tires, they had to participate in offense and defense at the same time. Even with Qin Miao's pit stop strategy, it was very difficult to run.

But using the remaining set of new hard tires is a bit redundant. Even if Qin Miao keeps burning tires since coming out of the pit, he may not be able to use the tire wear below 30% before the end of the game.

Before that, the fuel in Qin Miao's fuel tank must be reduced below the minimum limit required by the FIA. It will be interesting for the FIA ​​to directly cancel Qin Miao's results.

So in the lap after Qin Miao, the team was quite helpless and didn't know what to make.

However, Qin Miao still took the initiative and said: "I won't stop. I will stop when there are 23 laps left according to the original plan."

After hearing Qin Miao's words, the team did not ask questions such as are you sure you want to do this? They just replied: "Copy that."

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