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However, as the race progressed, looking at the water mist rising from the back of Qin Miao's car, Leclerc couldn't help but curse in the team TR.

I used to know that Qin Miao's defensive ability was terrifying, but in the final analysis, Leclerc could only experience Qin Miao's defense in "i Raising" or in the simulator. In reality, this was the first time that he was blocked by Qin Miao.

I have to say, this feels really frustrating.

After experiencing it once, Leclerc never wanted to experience it a second time.

After all, Qin Miao was the first car to drive at full speed on this track after the red flag, and he brought up the most water mist when driving at full speed.

In the next few laps, the time gap between Leclerc and Qin Miao was within 1 second, but Leclerc was locked behind Qin Miao as if he had been put under a restraining spell by Qin Miao.

Leclerc tried many ways to attack Qin Miao.

But Qin Miao can always block Leclerc's route where Leclerc wants to attack, as if he has eyes in the back of his head.

The Monte Carlo track is not wide, so Qin Miao basically only needs to block the key route of Leclerc's attack, and his attack will be considered a failure.

Facing Qin Miao like this, Leclerc really felt as if he had punched cotton, unable to use his strength.

Qin Miao, who was in front of Leclerc, really didn't feel too much pressure when he defended Leclerc. After all, there are only a few corners on this track where you can overtake. Even if there are some unconventional corners, you just need to pay attention before entering the corner. If you walk a slightly narrower route, you can block the route of the car behind you at any time.

Although this method will be slightly slower than normal corner entry.

This is also why when two cars are attacking and defending, they will be quickly thrown away by the car in front.

But now Qin Miao is ranked first. It doesn't matter whether Qin Miao is slow or not.

Therefore, based on Qin Miao's defensive philosophy, more and more cars followed him.

So much so that by the time the race came to the fifth lap, there were already five cars blocked behind Qin Miao.

In fact, on the third lap, after Toro Rosso discovered that the track conditions had improved, Gasly was asked to pit and put on semi-wet tires.

After putting on semi-wet tires, Gasly's speed did improve significantly on the straights, but in corners, Gasly's car frequently locked up and understeered, and even The overall speed is not as good as full wet tires.

However, it has stopped raining now, and the track conditions will get better and better as the race progresses, so it is only a matter of time before Gasly's speed picks up.

On lap 7, although there was no safety car in front, many spectators looked at the long queue of nearly 10 cars and still had a sense of déjà vu as they were still being led by the safety car.

And Qin Miao is the safety car.

Leclerc behind Qin Miao is like Verstappen who was dissatisfied with the safety car's speed.

On the 9th lap, in the uphill area of ​​the first timing section, there were already obvious dry roads that could be seen in some places.

On lap 11, an obvious racing line could be seen in most areas of the track, but at this time no one was willing to change cars.

On the one hand, it is because of the characteristics of the Monte Carlo track, and also because the dry areas on the track are only driving lanes.

If you see that there is a traffic lane on the track and you stop to change tires, your speed may be faster than the car in front of you after you come out, or even much faster. However, because the rain outside the traffic lane has not dried, if you overtake the car in front, you will The dry tires are bound to hit the rain on the track.

At that time, problems such as the tires cooling rapidly, granulation, inability to brake, understeer when entering corners, etc. all appeared.

Therefore, even if you change to a set of dry tires that can lap 5 seconds faster than the car in front, as long as there is rain on the track, you will not be able to overtake the car in front of you on the Monte Carlo track.

There is another very important reason, that is, Qin Miao spent 11 laps to press all the drivers behind him together.

Among the drivers behind him, the largest time gap with the car in front was only 1.7 seconds.

The key is that due to track conditions, the driver behind rarely changes positions with the driver in front.

And in such a very rare situation, after pitting and changing tires, it is no longer as simple as three or four positions.

For example, if you are 10th in the pit to change tires, you will definitely end up in last place when you come out at this time.

The only drivers with a better pit stop window are the drivers in the bottom ten.

Because if they stop and put on dry tires at this time, there will basically be no cars in front of them.

You can run your own lap speed as hard as you can.

When the driver in front comes out of the pits, he can use the time and speed gained to try to undercut the car in front.

But despite this, no one dared to stop and change tires during this period.

After all, no one knows what the actual running effect will be after putting on dry tires on a track that looks like dry ground.

Just when all the drivers behind Qin Miao were complaining, on lap 14, the situation on the track finally turned for the better.

French told Qin Miao in the team's TR: "Don't press the car too hard. Release the car behind a little. You need to create a suitable pit window for yourself."

After the team found that the track conditions improved, they also began to consider the problems after Qin Miao pitted.

Qin Miao, who was guarding Leclerc from having chest tightness and shortness of breath, also slightly increased his lap speed after hearing French's words.

In fact, Qin Miao's current defensive ability is not as good as it is in normal dry conditions. The reason why he can defend Leclerc behind him is mainly due to his starting position and the narrow Monte Carlo track. road boundary.

However, while Qin Miao was unpacking the small train behind him, no one dared to enter the station.

Although the pressure has begun to unwind, the distance between cars is still dense, and there are too many places to drop into the pit at this time.

It was not until the 22nd lap that the conditions of the track fully allowed the drivers to use dry tires, and the outside of the traffic line had gradually revealed the original color of the track. Only after the conditions for overtaking from other positions were met, did any drivers try to pit for a change. Put on dry tires.

And this tire change seemed to turn on some kind of switch, and one after another drivers all chose to pit on this lap or the next lap.

Qin Miao and Leclerc behind him are no exception.

The Mercedes team is keeping an eye on Leclerc and Ferrari.

After Ferrari was about to let Leclerc pit, Mercedes also immediately called Qin Miao in, so the two entered the pit area one after the other.

At this time, Ferrari has no way to imitate Mercedes in using telecommunications fraud, because there are no conditions for committing telecommunications fraud now, and the drivers behind have all put on dry-terrain tires. If you use telecommunications fraud at this time, Qin Miao will be deceived. Come in and Leclerc continues to run outside, it is definitely Leclerc who suffers.

Qin Miao put on medium tires after pitting, but except for him, most drivers used hard tires.

Obviously, these drivers want to finish the next 55 laps directly on a set of hard tires.

After all, it is too difficult to overtake on the Monte Carlo track. Stopping to change tires can bring better tires to the driver and the performance will be faster, but it is too difficult to overtake on this track. Stopping to change tires. The advantage gained later does not necessarily translate into the driver's ability to attack.

Therefore, all teams have a consensus at the Monte Carlo circuit. If they can avoid pitting, it is better not to pit.

For Qin Miao, the durability of the medium tires is basically the same as that of the hard tires, which is enough for him to finish the rest of the race.

After Qin Miao entered the pits, Toto also solidly fulfilled what he said to Qin Miao yesterday.

The team did not hold back Qin Miao. The time it took to change tires at the pit stop was 2.2 seconds. After changing tires, Qin Miao was still ranked first.

And Ferrari's traditional skills were not brought into play in today's game.

There was a lap between the two drivers, Leclerc and Sainz, so Ferrari's pit stop was not rushed.

The race then fell into a lull. Since everyone had put on dry tires, there was basically no overtaking in the subsequent races.

Even if he looks like a local director in Monaco, he still knows where to place the camera at this time.

So it continued until the 26th lap. The audience watched Qin Miao defend Leclerc in a fancy way, and Leclerc tried to attack Qin Miao 0.5 seconds behind Qin Miao again and again, but all failed.

Just as Ferrari and Leclerc fans were gnashing their teeth, Mercedes and Qin Miao fans were cheering, but at the same time they were sweating for Qin Miao.

On lap 26, another accident suddenly occurred on the track.

Mick made a mistake in T10. His front nose touched the wall and then he swung his tail. His butt hit the guard wall and his car was directly broken into two pieces.

This mistake really made no sense. Qin Miao watched the replay after the game. He couldn't figure out how his old classmate drove this Haas like this.

But in any case, after the accident on the track, the race committee immediately issued a yellow flag.

Qin Miao, who had been defending Leclerc, also felt that the pressure behind him was much less.

In fact, after the safety car appeared, Qin Miao considered whether to change a set of tires while the safety car was in the pits. After all, if he insisted on running the next 55 laps on a set of soft tires, it was not impossible.

However, when Mick crashed, Qin Miao happened to pass by the entrance to the maintenance area. At that time, Qin Miao had no choice.

When Qin Miao had a choice again, he had already seen the place where Mick's car had an accident.

After seeing the car accident, Qin Miao immediately gave up the idea of ​​taking this opportunity to stop and change tires.

Because Qin Miao is so familiar with this track. Not only does he come here for a walk when he has time, but he also walked here for a long time on Thursday. He is also very familiar with and understands the place where Mick Schumacher's car had an accident. .

Although there is a crane there, the location is not spacious. It can only temporarily store retired cars, and only one can be stored.

And because the beach is 5 meters to the left of that place, there are only sidewalks around it, and there are no roads for construction vehicles to move. Therefore, Matthew was unable to transport the accident car away while the race was ongoing.

According to normal accident procedures, leaving the car there for a race is no big deal.

But Mick Schumacher's car was directly smashed into two parts, the fuel tank was exposed, and there was a possibility of leakage in the fuel tank.

So for this reason, Mick's car couldn't stop there. After all, he had to take responsibility for Matthew who was working on site and the fans outside the field.

If the car catches fire, it will be very difficult to put out the fire.

Therefore, Qin Miao judged that there was a high possibility that the FIA ​​would send out a red flag and then ask someone to remove the wreckage of Mick's car.

And the only place where Mick's remains can be transported away is the track.

This was indeed the case. After running 4 laps under the safety car, the race came to the 30th lap, and the race committee issued a red flag to suspend the race.

After returning to the pit area, Qin Miao actually wanted to put on a new set of tires like most other drivers.

But at this time, Qin Miao's garage only had a new set of hard tires and a new set of soft tires, but no new medium tires.

In fact, Qin Miao had considered whether to change to a set of soft tires at this time.

But after the idea was proposed, it was quickly rejected by Reyes and French.

Although there are no new intermediate tires for Qin Miao to use, the set of intermediate tires that Qin Miao currently wears has only run a few laps in total, and most of the mileage has been driven by the safety car. The consumption of life span is almost nothing.

Therefore, there is absolutely no need to replace this set of tires, and the team has also simulated that in the next race, Qin Miao can run the entire race with this set of medium tires.

As for the soft tires... with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, he can indeed run the entire race with a little sparing use.

After all, if you finish this race with soft tires, the wear of the soft tires will be extremely huge, and there may even be a risk of puncture.

Therefore, the team believes that there is no need for Qin Miao to take such risks and just finish the race safely.

In the end, Qin Miao was convinced by the team and did not choose to change the tires. Instead, he chose to continue using the old set of medium tires and wait for the race to restart.

The red flag did not last long this time, only 20 minutes.

After all, it wouldn’t take much time to move Mick Schumacher’s car away and repair the protective wall on the track.

However, after the red flag ended, because the slow car needed to be relieved, and the exit of the maintenance area of ​​the Monte Carlo circuit in Monaco was too narrow, Qin Miao had already blocked the entire exit with his car parked at the exit.
Therefore, the FIA ​​cannot directly untie the slow car at the exit of the pit area.

Therefore, after the red flag ended this time, there was no static start, but two laps led by the safety car.

In this process, the local train will be unblocked.

It was not until the 53rd lap that all the slow cars that had been freed returned to the rear of the car formation and the race started again.

Since the rule was introduced that the car behind was not allowed to overtake the rear diffuser of the car in front during the safety car period, Qin Miao did not make any mistakes from the start to T1 of the next corner after the restart of the race.

However, from the 32nd lap to the 40th lap, Leclerc behind Qin Miao tried his best to attack Qin Miao.

But to be honest, Qin Miao's defensive ability coupled with geographical advantages.

Leclerc's offense looks a bit moribund.

Starting from the 36th lap, the game entered the final countdown.

Because an F1 race has a time limit, after a certain point, the number of laps in the next race will not be completed, but will become a time limit.

Because there were two red flags in this game, this rule was activated.

After the race reaches the 36th lap, the next 41 laps will not be run, but will be changed to a 35-minute countdown.

After the 35-minute countdown ends, the game will end directly in this lap.

Behind Qin Miao, Leclerc's attack on Qin Miao ended with 15 minutes left in the countdown.

Because Leclerc's tires also experienced graining and excessive wear during the continuous attack.

In fact, during this process, Leclerc used all the offensive moves he had learned on Qin Miao.

But they were all resolved by Qin Miao one by one. Leclerc even tried to attack Qin Miao when he was slowing down in front to avoid it.

But Qin Miao's defensive experience and ability are too strong, and he easily resolved all Leclerc's offensive moves.

This last period has also become a traditional repertoire of the Monte Carlo circuit in Monaco.

There were no waves in the later stages of the game.

In the end, Qin Miao relied on his terrifying defensive ability to snatch the Monaco Grand Prix championship from the hands of the two Ferrari drivers without any danger.

At the same time, Leclerc also broke through the curse of absolutely retiring at home in this game, and even won the podium.

It's just a pity for Leclerc that he didn't win the championship on his home court.

Of course, this is not Leclerc’s own problem.

And after thinking that the person who won this race was Qin Miao, Leclerc felt very regretful but also convinced.

After all, after qualifying, Leclerc took the time to watch the replay of Qin Miao's fastest flying lap in qualifying.

In addition to the fact that Hamilton took the initiative to help Qin Miao pull the wake that surprised Leclerc, the quality and boldness of Qin Miao's flying lap also made Leclerc deeply moved.

How dare he?
After all, last season Leclerc also ran a flying lap in Monaco qualifying like Qin Miao. The consequence was that during the last flying lap of Q3, Leclerc directly broke the right front suspension of the car and went up the wall.

Then these bastards from Maranello claimed that the car had been repaired, but there was still a problem with the car during the race, causing them to retire directly.

In short, Leclerc does not feel that his failure to win the pole position in the Monaco Grand Prix is ​​due to his lack of ability, but just bad luck.

Finally, under the watchful eyes of all Monaco fans, Qin Miao's No. 66 car roared past the checkered flag waving at the finish line.

After crossing the line, Qin Miao also had mixed feelings.

A whole season, this is already the 7th game of the season. In the previous games, I was just on the edge of the highest podium at most, and never entered it.

Today I finally succeeded in getting first place, my first race championship this season.

However, Qin Miao did not feel relieved after crossing the line. Instead, he felt a little melancholy.

Because Qin Miao knew that based on the performance of the W13 given to him by the team on the track this season, he estimated that this season would only be the Monaco Grand Prix where he could win the championship due to the unique conditions of the track.

Another event that is slightly more likely is the Hungaroring Grand Prix, but if your qualifying results in that Grand Prix are not good enough, it is unlikely that you will win the race championship trophy.

Of course, this was just a passing thought.

After winning the race, Qin Miao was naturally very happy. No matter how the team's car is developed or what the results are this season, at least at this moment he relied on defense to get a victory that satisfied himself and everyone in the team. results.

"Awesome! Qin Miao! Awesome! I knew it! I knew you could do it!" At the same time as Qin Miao crossed the finish line, Franky's excited voice came from the TR team. sound.

After all, everyone knows the state of Mercedes this season, and this race victory can be regarded as a shot in the arm for everyone on the team.

It doesn't matter if the car is close, as long as he is on the right track, Qin Miao can always use his ability to bring championships to the team.

Hearing French's overly excited words, Qin Miao smiled and joked with him: "Huh, the duration of Leclerc's attack was a bit too short. I haven't had the full fun yet."

After hearing Qin Miao's words, the already jubilant atmosphere in the Mercedes team became even more lively, and many people even laughed outright.

Many people also whistled directly in the P room of the team.

After all, he is the champion, so the communication between Qin Miao and the team TR was also released.

The three five-star sports commentators who were originally in the studio and were sincerely excited for Qin Miao's victory in this game also laughed together after hearing Qin Miao's words.

"I have a good relationship with Leclerc. I didn't forget to mention him after the game." Li Bao said with a smile.

Brother Bing also smiled and agreed: "That should be mentioned. After all, after guarding him for so long, Leclerc should put a lot of pressure on Qin Miao."

"But I have to say, no matter how many times you watch it, you still think Qin Miao's defense is art. Besides the two red flags in this game, Qin Miao and Leclerc's offense and defense are worth watching." Fei Ge said.

Due to the restrictions of the track, the top three drivers parked their cars on the track after the competition.

So on the track at this time, we saw two Ferraris guarding a Mercedes.

Everyone knows that this picture cannot last forever, and even a Mercedes car can only appear here once in a season, so many reporters clicked the shutter frantically on this picture.

ps. Dads, please take a day off tomorrow (end of this chapter)