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Qin Miao felt that he could keep his position by taking advantage of the time gained from one less stop.

"Are you sure you don't want to change the tires? Verstappen is going to pit to change the soft tires." French looked back at the Red Bull Racing tire changers who were filing out of the Red Bull Racing P room and the cars they were holding. The same set of old soft tires that we did two laps of in qualifying.

Qin Miao actually struggled a little in his heart when he heard Franky say this, but this struggle only lasted for a moment.

"Believe me, I think I can defend all Verstappen's attacks." This is the confidence that 100-point defensive ability brings to Qin Miao, plus Qin Miao's battle with Verstappen on the track in today's game The speed gap is not as exaggerated as before the summer break. Even if Verstappen uses soft tires late in the race, Qin Miao is confident that he can lock Verstappen on the track.

In the end, Verstappen came into the pits to change tires, but Qin Miao stayed outside. So after Verstappen came out to change tires, he fell 10 seconds behind Qin Miao.

However, Red Bull's strategy team is quite satisfied with this pit stop strategy. Because of the virtual safety car, Verstappen's soft tire consumption will not be as serious as they imagined, and with Verstappen's Given his strength, it is not a big problem to use the soft tires to catch up with Qin Miao and run the entire race at the same time.

However, unlike his teammate Qin Miao's extreme confidence, Hamilton still chose to pit for tire changes during the virtual safety car period in this game.

After all, he doesn't have Qin Miao's incredible ability to protect tires. If everyone stops to change tires during the virtual safety car period, your best choice is to stop and change tires like them.

Because there is an offset between pit stops and tire changes, although you do not make any profit compared to other drivers, you will not suffer any loss.

On lap 50, the race restarts.

The team also expected this situation to occur, but there was still the problem, the drivers' positions would be pressed together by the safety car.

A 5-second penalty is relatively light.

As for what Zhou Haoran said, the safety car will take the drivers through the pit area...

The location where Bottas parked his car was only separated by a wall from the exit channel of the pit area, and what stood out about that place was a village with no front and no shop at the back. Unlike where Yuki Tsunoda parked his car, there were horses next to it. Building entrances allows for quick exit from the track.

Qin Miao started to lead.

In other words, Verstappen can catch up with Qin Miao in just 12 laps.

But then, what made all Red Bull fans jump, was the scene where a Dutch fan suffered a myocardial infarction.

[Bottas repays evil with kindness]

[This is really the first emperor of Qin who touched the switch and won.]

[I am in Aluo and my heart is in Mercedes-Benz! 】

If Bottas' car breaks down at this point, there will definitely be a physical safety car on the track.

After seeing this time gap, everyone could predict that when Verstappen caught up with Qin Miao, there would definitely be more than 10 laps before the end of the race.

Under such a premise, Qin Miao may lose more than one or two positions if he pits for a tire change, and may even be blamed for an unsafe release.

[Bottas: Toto...this is my last ripple]

This person is Qin Miao.

On lap 55, Verstappen had already caught up with Qin Miao in 4.9 seconds.

At this time, it was only 9 laps before the virtual safety car appeared.

And the smaller the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen, the more nervous they become.

[I never thought I would be so happy one day when Arrow's car retires]

Presumably with the speed that Verstappen is showing now, it is not too troublesome to catch up and complete the overtake of Qin Miao in the later stages of the game.

"Bottas! Bottas has retired! Safety car! There must be a safety car when retiring from this position! Qin Miao has made a lot of money, and he hasn't even pitted yet!" Brother Bing's face changed after seeing this scene. The smile on his face was completely unbearable.

The drivers in the front row who were likely to compete for the championship were basically in the virtual safety car just now and chose to pit for tire changes.

At that time, if Qin Miao follows the safety car for one more lap outside, and when the safety car leads the drivers around the track to prepare to pass through the pit area, and let Matthew on the scene remove Bottas' car, The car formation was all pressed together.

Although the competition did not immediately issue a safety car prompt after the comments of several Five Star Sports commentators, yellow flags appeared on the track at the same time in the first and third timing segments.

Although they knew what Qin Miao's intention was for not pitting at that time, seeing Verstappen getting closer and closer to Qin Miao, the three commentators from Five Star Sports became more and more nervous and worried.

And Brother Bing had just finished what he said, Zhou Haoran immediately added: "According to FIA rules, the location where Bottas parked is in the maintenance area, so there will be a safety car to take all the drivers through the maintenance area. In the zone link, Qin Miao now has enough space in front of him, and he can complete a pit stop and change tires in a very short time!”

Originally, Brother Bing was quite worried watching today's race, because they could also see that Qin Miao's speed was pretty good in this race, but Qin Miao's rhythm on the track was never as good as Verstappen's, and they were also worried. Qin Miao couldn't get a good result today.

Just now I saw that Qin Miao did not stop to change tires during the virtual safety car period.

Then Bottas came to the rescue.

……

On lap 51, all the Mercedes fans were worried about Qin Miao on the field, because after one lap, Verstappen chased Qin Miao for 0.8 seconds.

And as the race came to the 56th lap, the tournament dispatched a physical safety car.

[Just because you retired this time, 77 you will always be my big brother! 】

By the time the broadcast camera passed, Bottas' car had already stopped at the inside entrance of T1.

Bottas, who suddenly stopped on the track, was undoubtedly Qin Miao's biggest savior in this game.

Here, there is only one person who did not enter the station...

Halfway through the 55th lap, when Bottas passed the main straight in the pit area, the speed of the car slowed down, and by the time he reached T1, the power of the car had completely disappeared.

【Brother! 】

Verstappen's pursuit was faster than anyone expected.

Moreover, there was no slow train between Qin Miao and Verstappen at this time, not even a buffer. It was naturally impossible for Qin Miao to wait until then to change tires.

Qin Miao and Verstappen both entered the pit area immediately and replaced new soft tires.

So Qin Miao and Verstappen pitted one after another to change tires.

Qin Miao put on new soft tires, while Verstappen still put on an old set of soft tires because there were no new soft tires to use.

And because of Qin Miao's presence, this was Verstappen's third pit stop to change tires.

In short, this sudden safety car relieved Qin Miao's pressure and also put Qin Miao on a new set of soft tires. However, after all, both of them had pitted to change tires, and the previous virtual safety car had narrowed the gap between the driver behind them and the two. Therefore, when the two came out of the pit area, they were both beaten by Hamilton. Beyond the.

Qin Miao fell to second place, and Verstappen fell to third place.

When he saw two Mercedes Benzes appearing in front of him, Verstappen couldn't help but twitch in the corners of his eyes, and suddenly he had an extremely ominous premonition.

Qin Miao and Hamilton suddenly thought of a tactic at the same time.

DRS train!
The safety car lasted until the 60th lap, and Bottas' car was more difficult to clean than expected.

It took a total of 4 laps from the time Bottas' car stayed on the track until Bottas' car was cleared and removed by the safety car.

At this time, there were still 12 laps to go before the end of the race, and Qin Miao's tires were wearing a brand new set of soft tires. This also meant that Qin Miao could use his set of soft tires unscrupulously in the next 12 laps without any restrictions. savings.

However, I believe that by then most of the durability of Qin Miao's set of soft tires will be used to defend Verstappen behind him.

Before the race restarted, the team connected Qin Miao and Hamilton's team TR.

Although during the race, the two drivers' team TR communicated separately, the communication between the two drivers can actually be connected, but this function is rarely used.

And today is the best time to use this feature.

When Hamilton waited for the safety car to withdraw and prepared to start, he notified Qin Miao in the team TR: "3.2.1, go!"

The two Mercedes stepped on the accelerator at the same time and accelerated, starting at the same time with a tacit understanding that could go to the Pacific Rim to drive a mecha, and instantly opened up a section of the Red Bull car behind them.

In fact, Red Bull immediately monitored the team TR of the two Mercedes drivers, but they could only stand firm and had no way to convey the communication between the two Mercedes drivers to Verstappen immediately.

In an instant, the two Mercedes cars opened up a time gap of 0.5 seconds over Verstappen.

Mainly, Verstappen did not expect that the two Mercedes' acceleration positions were so tricky, and the synchronization rate between the two was particularly high.

Hamilton and Qin Miao suddenly started to accelerate at the DRS detection point of T13.

But Verstappen just had some accidents. After so many laps with the safety car, Verstappen's DRS already had enough power.

In addition, Verstappen was in a state of concentration during this period. Even if he did not react immediately like Qin Miao, he could still keep up after Verstappen reacted. The two cars Mercedes speed.

At the same time, the Red Bull car has very little air resistance this season and can be said to be the fastest car in the entire paddock in terms of straight-line acceleration and straight-line tail speed.

Therefore, although Red Bull Racing lost the advantage on the track, it was almost thrown out of the DRS zone at the start.

But Red Bull caught up in the later stages, and on lap 62, Verstappen caught up in the DRS area behind Qin Miao.

Without even waiting for the race to turn on DRS, after T13 came out of the corner, Verstappen was in a position where he could threaten Qin Miao.

Qin Miao naturally noticed Verstappen's actions.

However, Qin Miao was not in a hurry. Although Qin Miao was blocked by his teammate Hamilton, Qin Miao, whose single lap speed was not much slower than Verstappen, could not maintain the time gap between himself and Verstappen.

But if you lose your horse, you will never know it is not a blessing.

In Qin Miao's view, teammate Hamilton is his best defensive prop at this time.

On the other side, after Verstappen came out of T13 and came to T14, there was only a 0.4 second time gap with Qin Miao. Everyone can see that under such a time gap, Verstappen will definitely You can also launch an attack on Qin Miao.

Even those who know a little bit about racing know that Qin Miao may not be able to defend Verstappen's attack.

So all the Dutch audiences at the scene burst into warm and excited cheers, and all began to expect Verstappen to surpass Qin Miao.

On the track, Qin Miao was not affected by the cheers at all.

After adjusting the brake settings of the car in T1, Qin Miao then began to focus all his attention on the Verstappen car behind him after making sure that Hamilton would not change his position casually.

Qin Miao guarded the inside of the track after exiting T14.

Although the inner lane of the starting straight will be dirtier than the normal driving lane because there are not often racing cars passing by here, there will be tire rubber, dust, and other very small debris.

The existence of these things will affect the grip transmission of the car, which will further affect the acceleration of the car.

But Qin Miao still ran here. At this time, holding on to his position was obviously more important than accelerating.

Although the starting straight of the Zandvoort circuit is spacious enough, Qin Miao did not give Verstappen any space or opportunity to force his way inside. If Verstappen dared to make his way inside, Qin Miao would dare to draw a dragon.

So even though Verstappen knew that forming abreast with Qin Miao from the outside would be locked on the track by Qin Miao and Hamilton.

But Verstappen also knows that he still has a chance of survival. As long as he accelerates fast enough and exits corners accurately and quickly, it is possible to rush out of the two Mercedes before Qin Miao and Hamilton join forces to close the door on themselves. Ben's blockade.

Of course, Verstappen came up with this idea mainly because Mercedes' car performance was not good this season, and Qin Miao did not put too much pressure on him, so that Verstappen forgot about Qin Miao last season. The suppressive power it brought to him, as well as the feeling of powerlessness when facing Qin Miao's defense.

In the end, Verstappen took the outside line and slowly accelerated to pass Qin Miao.

Qin Miao felt happy when he saw Verstappen taking the lead on his outside line. He stopped guarding the outside line and moved a little closer to the driving lane, squeezing in next to Verstappen.

"Verstappen was tapped from the outside. To be honest, I think Verstappen's choice is not very good. How will Qin Miao deal with Verstappen? It's closed! Qin Miao closed the door on Verstappen." , the two Mercedes cars were in trouble for Verstappen.”

As the commentary said, on the track, Verstappen originally thought that because Qin Miao was not accelerating fast enough on the inside, he could take this opportunity to pass through the gap between Qin Miao and Hamilton.

If you operate it well, you will enter the inside of the track before the braking point of T1.

It is possible that a double kill against the Mercedes team was staged directly on the track.

But Verstappen never expected that Hamilton in front of him would actually slow down! Slowed down! Slow the fuck down!

There is no competitive spirit left!

Because of this, Verstappen was locked together by Qin Miao and Hamilton.

The Mercedes racing car in front blocked all overtaking routes on the outside. If you overtook, you had to go to the grass outside.

Qin Miao, who was on the inside, very insidiously stuck his left front wheel in Verstappen's right rear wheel, as if holding a dagger to Verstappen's throat.

"Come on! Come and hit me! As long as you dare to hit me, I will let you take off on the spot!"

PS. The company is still busy today and only wrote out 4,000. (End of chapter)