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As for whether Qin Miao's defensiveness is suspected of drawing a dragon?

Just kidding, Qin Miao came here by sucking Sainz's wake all the way. Sainz took the initiative to give up the seat in front of Qin Miao to Qin Miao. Qin Miao didn't even move the steering wheel. How could he be suspected of drawing a dragon? ?

And Qin Miao was just entering the corner normally, there was no problem at all!
Before Qin Miao surpassed Sainz, and even after the first lap of the race, the commentators of Five Star Sports became completely excited, because they could clearly feel that Qin Miao was extremely fast in today's game. .

Now seeing Qin Miao starting to attack Sainz even before DRS was turned on, I was naturally happy and excited. In the end, Qin Miao completed the overtake, and the three commentators all had smiles on their faces.

"This is Qin Miao, this is Qin Miao!"

"Stable, calm and unparalleled judgment."

"It seems like Sainz took the initiative to give up his position to Qin Miao, but it's all about details and operations."

"It seems that the upgrades brought by Mercedes this week have indeed had a significant effect, but I don't know if Qin Miao will be able to take a step further on the podium in this game."

After overtaking Sainz, Qin Miao also received Franky's voice through the team's TR: "What a beautiful move, Qin Miao, now you are 2.54 seconds away from Leclerc."

"It's not far, it's up to me." Qin Miao replied confidently.

At the same time, Hamilton behind Qin Miao also caught up with Sainz and began to attack Sainz.

After breaking free from Sainz's defense, Qin Miao began to chase Leclerc in front of him at a speed of 0.4 seconds per lap.

After the start of the race, Qin Miao felt happy that his race speed was not as slow as he imagined before the race. If he pushed a little faster on the track, he could maintain a 2-point gap between himself and Verstappen. Time difference within seconds.

To be honest, Qin Miao now really feels that it is too comfortable that his car is faster than the car in front.

On the fifth lap, Qin Miao caught up in the DRS area behind Leclerc.

After two laps, Qin Miao's ERS battery reached 60%, which was enough to overtake Leclerc.

Interestingly, during this period, Toto, the team manager of the Mercedes-Benz team, declared in an interview in the UK: "At this time, the two drivers in the team are extremely good, and the team is also very distressed about this, so the team has not made any decisions. There is a clear distinction between number one and number two drivers.”

Mercedes seems to be a bit faster than expected this week.

Qin Miao just briefly understood Hamilton's situation, and then withdrew all his attention. After surpassing Leclerc and coming to second place, Qin Miao focused his main attention on Weiss in front. On Tappan.

But in fact, this is purely because Hamilton's choice of medium tires in the starting stage makes Hamilton's car's cornering speed and grip in the corners not as fast as Sainz in front, so that Hamilton does not have enough in the DRS area. distance to try to surpass Sainz in front of him.

Because they felt something was wrong from Qin Miao's state in this game.

Even with a light fuel load during qualifying, Verstappen, who won the pole position for this race, only ran a tail speed of 307/kh. Qin Miao's speed was faster than Verstappen's Red Bull. A full 20/kh.

Many Leclerc fans breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the first person to pit at Ferrari was finally not Leclerc. At least if Ferrari performs another outrageous pit stop maneuver, Leclerc will not be the unlucky one. Claire.

You know, because of the track, all teams are using high downforce settings here.

Because as long as your car is faster than the car in front, you have countless ways to overtake the car in front of you on the track.

Then Ferrari had an accident as expected.

However, Qin Miao did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, he stayed in the DRS area behind Leclerc for 2 laps and did not start attacking Leclerc until the 7th lap.

This must be a huge headache for Red Bull Racing's strategy team.

Ferrari's tactics at this time are also easy to understand. Put Sainz on medium tires at the pit stop, and then put on soft tires at the end of the race. You can definitely get a good result in the later stages of the race.

What Qin Miao, who was sitting in the car, didn't know was that when he overtook Sainz, the Dutch fans who were supporting Verstappen collectively chose to remain silent, like chickens whose necks were pinched.

But Leclerc's battery has bottomed out.

All three of them have speed in this race, but there is no good way to take down the driver in front in a short period of time.

However, I believe that with the arrival of the pit stop window, this situation will definitely be broken.

Qin Miao used the same tactics and overtaking method as when he just overtook Sainz. After exiting the corner, he absorbed Leclerc's wake. After entering the DRS area, he turned on DRS and turned on ERS at the same time.

Sainz's pit stop took a total of 12.7 seconds.

This statement cannot be said to be very similar to what Binotto said at the beginning of the Ferrari season, but it can be said to be exactly the same.

Qin Miao's process of overtaking Leclerc was not complicated, because he followed Leclerc for two laps, during which Qin Miao continued to put pressure on Leclerc.

And if your car is not fast enough, you can only wait for DRS.

Coincidentally, the four drivers of the two teams attacked each other from almost exactly the same position.

But it's different from Qin Miao's simple and easy way to the second place.

Naturally, Leclerc did not save his ERS battery because he had to defend Qin Miao's attack.

At this time, Qin Miao had reached the position 1.4 seconds behind Verstappen, and Leclerc was 1.5 seconds behind Qin Miao.

On lap 13, the drivers behind opened their pit stops.

Under triple acceleration, even though Qin Miao had 95KG of fuel in the car, he overtook Leclerc and ran a speed of 327/kh at the end of the straight.

And as the race came to the 10th lap, the tires of Verstappen's car began to fail uncontrollably, and Qin Miao began to shorten the time gap between himself and Verstappen at a rate of 0.1 seconds per lap.

On lap 15, Ferrari also opened its own one-stop pit stop window.

Naturally, Qin Miao directly achieved the fastest lap on the track after crossing the line in this lap.

After seeing this, many fans who knew Qin Miao's abilities were all refreshed. They knew that with Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, as long as the difference in lap time between Qin Miao and the driver in front did not exceed 0.7 seconds, Qin Miao would be very good. He may once again rely on his tire protection ability to win the race championship.

The final junction of laps 7 and 8.

Red Bull naturally knew this, so after discovering that Qin Miao was a bit fast in this race and was likely to threaten Verstappen's position, he immediately began to analyze what tactics to use. Let Verstappen keep his current position.

Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton was caught in a struggle with Sainz at the rear, and it even gave people the feeling that Hamilton was in a quagmire at this time.

The reason it took so long was because the team was not ready at all before Sainz pitted.

Sainz's pit stop was because Ferrari saw Red Bull next door preparing to call Perez into the pit. At this time, Sainz was in front of Perez. In order to prevent Sainz from being undercut by Perez, So Ferrari also copied Red Bull's tactics.

According to Ferrari's strategy team, Sainz is three seconds ahead of Perez at this time. Even if a mistake is made when changing tires, as long as the tire changing time does not exceed 5 seconds, Sainz does not have to worry about himself on the track. The position was surpassed by Perez.

It's just that the pit stop was announced too hastily. When Sainz parked the car at the tire changing position, the Ferrari tire changers didn't even put the tires they were going to put on Sainz. , taken out from the P room of the team.

However, Ferrari is a professional F1 team after all, and it still has plans in this regard.

So after Sainz parked the car at his place, the team's technicians had already taken out three brand-new tires from the team's P room, and after the technician in charge of the wind cannon removed the tires, it was successful and smooth The tire was installed.

The tire changing speed this time is even faster than some previous tire changing speeds where Ferrari had prepared the tires in advance.

But some attentive fans should have noticed some unusual details. For example, Ferrari technicians only moved three tires out of the P room of the Ferrari team.

There is also a left rear wheel that has not yet appeared.

The left rear wheel of Sainz's car was not installed, so it was impossible for the team to put him down, so Sainz was stuck there.

So much so that Perez, who had been behind Sainz, had already changed his tires and came out of the parking position. Ferrari's tire changer was still standing there looking at each other with a bewildered face.

It is worth mentioning that Perez only took 2 seconds to change the tire this time.

When Perez came out of his pit pit, he also hit Sainz's left rear tire rotation man's spare wind cannon.

The wind cannon of the F1 car is very expensive. Although the F1 car is not heavy, even less than a ton, it is a high-pressure tool after all. Even after being pressed by the F1 car, the appearance of this wind cannon will not be deformed. It also needs to be returned to the factory for overhaul.

In fact, under normal circumstances, Perez's tire change would definitely receive a lot of praise. After all, his tire change time was only two seconds. If nothing else, this may be the fastest tire change in the Dutch Grand Prix. This is a tire change, and this is achieved under the premise of increasing the diameter of the racing tires in the new season.

But Ferrari's mistake was a bit too explosive. Everyone focused on Ferrari's mistake. On the contrary, no one paid attention to Red Bull's perfect tire change, and no one cared about Ferrari's blockage. The time it took for Ens to change a tire was enough for Red Bull to change Perez's tires six times.

In the end, naturally, it was Ferrari's left rear tire man who rushed out of the team's P room holding Sainz's tire and installed it on Sainz's car.

There were no accidents this time. Sainz was successfully let down by Ferrari and drove out of the pit area.

But Ferrari still gave a huge blow to all the Tiefu temples on the scene.

But fortunately, this is not the Italian Grand Prix next week after all, Ferrari is home.

If Ferrari dared to play like this at home, I believe Binotto would have been fired on the spot.

However, there is one thing to say. Binotto does have two skills in the development of racing engines, but in terms of team management and personnel appointments, Binotto is indeed a bit laughable. On lap 18, Leclerc pitted.

Because Sainz was acting as a cushion for Leclerc in front of him, Leclerc did not encounter Ferrari to help him when he pitted for tire changes.

Changing soft tires to medium tires takes 2.5 seconds.

It's a bit slow compared to Red Bull, but compared with Ferrari's own glorious record in the past, Leclerc should feel lucky and grateful to change tires in 2.5 seconds.

On lap 18, Verstappen also chose to pit for tire changes.

However, Verstappen's tire change was a little slower this time, taking 3.8 seconds.

After changing the tires, everyone at Red Bull became nervous.

Because before Verstappen came into the pits to change tires, Qin Miao was following 1.1 seconds behind Verstappen.

If Qin Miao takes advantage of Verstappen's slow tire change speed at this time, and pushes it full circle on the track, and then pits to change tires, Qin Miao will most likely complete the overcut of Verstappen.

Everyone knows that Qin Miao who appears behind you is not scary, because if you are fast enough, you will not be able to catch up.

But if Qin Miao appears in front of your car, then you will start to have a headache, because if you can't pass him, you can't pass him.

But it turned out that Red Bull Racing's strategy team was worried for nothing because they were worried about being in the wrong position.

After Verstappen came out with the medium tires on, his lap speed was not as fast as Qin Miao's old soft tires.

The speed of the two people is still the same.

In other words, even if Qin Miao didn't push that lap, if there were no mistakes in changing tires after entering the pit area, Qin Miao could still be ranked in front of Verstappen.

The upgrade of the Mercedes-Benz team obviously played a very positive role in this game. In addition to Qin Miao's impressive speed on the track, Hamilton's speed was also very fast. Now Hamilton has reached the actual third place, and he The time gap between him and Qin Miao is only 7 seconds.

You must know that Hamilton used medium tires in this race.

But after twenty laps, everyone at Red Bull heaved a sigh of relief, because Qin Miao's speed began to drop due to tire wear.

But despite this, Qin Miao did not choose to pit for tire changes, so Verstappen returned to the leading position at this time.

No matter how durable Qin Miao's soft tires are, Qin Miao will always use only a set of soft tires.

After driving for a long time, Qin Miao's lap speed will inevitably decline.

Finally, on the 27th lap, Qin Miao came into the pits.

Seeing that Qin Miao ran nearly 30 laps on the track before stopping to change tires, all the teams had already determined Qin Miao's pit stop strategy for today's game.

Red and yellow ran directly to the end as soon as they stopped.

It was just his normal operation. Ferrari and Red Bull, who regarded Qin Miao as their main rivals, were already used to this.

At this time, there were 45 laps left before the end of the race. With Qin Miao's ability to protect tires, it was not too difficult to finish the rest of the race on a set of soft tires.

Red Bull is now starting to have some headaches.

In this race, the speed of Mercedes' car was a bit beyond their expectations, and Qin Miao's one-stop pit-stop strategy brought a time advantage of nearly 24 seconds.

In these 24 seconds, Verstappen needs to use his own speed to pursue, or avoid entering the pit area once.

Red Bull, who originally planned to put Verstappen on medium tires for the last stop of the race, could only change their tactics after discussion and let Verstappen run the middle stop for a while, and then give Weiss the tires later in the race. Tappan switched to soft tires.

Otherwise, Verstappen may not be able to catch up with Qin Miao in the later stages of the race.

At this time, the Red Bull strategy team really felt a little overwhelmed. Why is Qin Miao so good at protecting the fetus? !

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After Qin Miao came out of the pit area, he fell 3 seconds behind Verstappen.

The main reason is that Qin Miao's speed dropped a bit too much in the later stages due to tire wear, otherwise he could have fallen directly into the DRS area behind Verstappen.

After coming out of the pit area and raising the temperature of his tires to the appropriate working temperature, Qin Miao's lap speed was slower than Verstappen's, but not much slower, only 0.3 seconds per lap. Within the acceptable range.

And I believe that as the game progresses, Qin Miao's advantage will become greater and greater in the later stages of the game.

On lap 30, Hamilton pitted.

In fact, before the start of the race, Hamilton's pit stop strategy was to stop twice.

But after the race started, Alonso, the first driver to change to hard tires, showed good long-distance speed and speed consistency on the track.

Therefore, Hamilton's pit stop strategy was changed to Huang Bai Ying Pavilion. He wanted to run a long stint to see if he could use the number of pit stops to get a better ranking like his teammates.

After coming out of the pit lane, Hamilton fell 2 seconds ahead of Leclerc.

Whether he can keep his podium next depends on Hamilton's own ability.

For the rest of the time, Verstappen and Qin Miao quietly ran their own pace on the track.

And Hamilton gradually moved away from Leclerc behind him after his tire temperature came up.

Hamilton was quite fast on the hard tires in this race, at least faster than Ferrari's Leclerc.

On lap 44, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen has been expanded to 3.4 seconds, and the time gap between the two has remained at 3.4 seconds for four laps. It can be seen that at this time, Vestapan Pan's tires were already a little weak.

Just when Qin Miao was expecting Verstappen to pit to change tires, an accident occurred on the track.

A yellow flag suddenly appeared in the first timing segment.

When the camera cut away, Yuki Tsunoda's Toro Rosso was found parked on the cement floor at the edge of the track.

Tsunoda Yuki reported to the team in the team TR: "There is a problem with the racing tires and they are not locked!"

Although the parking spot of Tsunoda looks like a Matthew entrance, in fact, the Matthew entrance is directly blocked, so if there is a problem like Tsunoda's reaction, the race will definitely dispatch a safety car to deal with Tsunoda Yuyi's racing car.

The Toro Rosso team is also confused. From the telemetry data, it seems that there is no problem with the tires of Yuki Tsunoda's car! All data is accurate.

After another urgent inspection, the Toro Rosso team, which still found no problem, could only respond in the team TR: "There is no problem with the tires, you can continue the race."

Since the team said so, Yuki Kakuta, who just relied on his own feeling to discover that something was wrong with the car, was not sure for a moment whether he was wrong.

But then I thought about it, it was really not good to just park the car on the track, so Yuki Tsunoda also restarted his car.

The yellow flag was canceled on the track.

During this period, Leclerc, who had been unable to catch up with Qin Miao in front, pitted and put on hard tires.

There were still 26 laps to go before the end of the race. Leclerc pitted and put on hard tires at this time. This was a change of direction and he gave up today's race.

On the same lap, Tsunoda entered the pit again, probably because he was worried that there was really something wrong with the car. After all, sometimes the driver's first feeling is indeed more reliable than the telemetry data of the car.

Tsunoda changed a set of tires in the team's maintenance area, and refastened the seat belt with the help of the team's technicians, and was finally released by the team.

However, just after coming out of the pit area, Tsunoda Yuki reported in the team TR: "No, no, there is still a problem. I feel that the brake disc of the car has cracked."

In the end, under the instructions of the team, Tsunoda parked his car on the lawn of the track and retired from the race.

Different from where he parked the first time, Tsunoda parked his car right at the Matthew Exit this time.

But despite this, Tsunoda's car was less than one meter away from the track, so after seeing the broadcast, Franky immediately asked Qin Miao through the team's TR: "Qin Miao, we expect that the race will give Safety car, how do you feel about the condition of the tires now? Do you need to pit to change them?”

At this time, Qin Miao also has a new set of soft tires and a new set of medium tires in his tire reserves. Stopping in to change tires at this time is definitely a profitable business, and there is still time before the end of the race. 24 laps, plus Qin Miao now has at least 60KG less fuel in the car than at the beginning of the race. The overall load of the car is much less than at the beginning of the race. A set of soft tires is enough for Qin Miao to take over. Come down and finish the whole race.

Qin Miao also thought about pitting after knowing that there might be a safety car.

However, what the race finally provided was not a safety car, but a virtual safety car.

In the case of a safety car, pitting to change tires can save 12 seconds of time lost, but if it is just a virtual safety car, pitting to change tires may only lose 6 seconds.

In addition, the virtual safety car period will not shorten the time gap between the front and rear drivers, and Qin Miao feels that his speed on the track today is not bad, so after weighing it, Qin Miao did not choose to pit. Change tires, but stay on the track. (End of chapter)