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While some were happy and some were sad, while Mercedes and Qin Miao's fans were happily opening champagne, Verstappen was a little confused.

Not buddy.

The DRS train was torn apart just like that?

Mercedes has also learned to cheat the engine? How come it is so fast? ? ?

In fact, even with a new engine, Qin Miao couldn't reach this kind of speed under the medium and high downforce settings.

The reason for such a terrifying speed is that Mercedes knew that there were only three Grand Prix weekends left this season, so they overclocked Qin Miao's engine.

Although doing so will significantly shorten the service life of the engine, under this condition, Qin Miao will have no problem at all running the Brazilian Grand Prix and then the remaining two Grands Prix on the weekend.

The overclocked Mercedes engine has 20 more horsepower than the normal one, and a brand new engine has around 25 more horsepower than one that is near the end of its life.

That’s why Qin Miao’s straight-line speed is so terrifying.

Looking at Qin Miao walking away, Verstappen felt a sense of frustration.

Sometimes you have to admire the W14's design department.

After entering the ground effect era, if we find that we have taken the wrong path and turn back to redevelop a racing car that suits the current era, we will take a big detour.

Therefore, Mercedes-Benz chose to go all the way.

The W14 has therefore been transformed into a muscle car in a Martian rover. Basically, on all Grand Prix weekends throughout the year, Mercedes's finishing speed can be more than 5 kilometers per hour faster than that of other teams.

Only after turning on DRS can the RB18 compete with Mercedes in terms of final speed. Other teams really cannot see the taillights of the Mercedes car.

To be honest, if all the aerodynamic components of Qin Miao's current W14 were replaced with those with the lowest resistance, he could even go to the United States to race NASCAR.

After Qin Miao passed the first and second place, Verstappen began to take advantage of the confused period after the driver in front was overtaken by Qin Miao and prepared to take action.

In fact, Verstappen has also been charging his racing battery during this period, but not as much as Qin Miao.

But the current power was sufficient, so he began to accelerate and try to overtake.

He didn't want to be pulled too far away from Qin Miao.

After overtaking Stroll, the driver in front of Qin Miao changed to Perez.

It goes without saying that the Red Bull team gave Perez a death order at this time, requiring him to defend Qin Miao at all costs on the track.

This is not only to curb Qin Miao's racing pace, but also for Perez's driver seat in the team for the 24th season.

Therefore, Perez was particularly wary of Qin Miao. In addition, Alonso in front of Perez had also noticed Qin Miao who was approaching quickly from behind.

So he also slowed down his pace on the track, with the aim of providing DRS to Perez.

Sometimes you have to admire how sharp these guys are on the track.

They can catch the slightest movement.

I'm just a little confused, why hasn't Stroll learned any of the good qualities that the boss has?

However, Zhou Guanyu learned a lot of useful skills from Bottas.

Faced with the two people who were on high alert, Qin Miao, whose battery had almost run out, really had no better solution in the short term.

But this does not mean that Qin Miao has nothing to do on the track.

He also slowed down his race pace on the track and began to provide DRS to Stroll behind him.

Anyway, Qin Miao knew that his main goal for the current season was to defeat Verstappen. Since he couldn't move forward at this moment and there was no pit stop window ahead, he would slow down Verstappen's race pace as much as possible on the track to make the opponent score fewer points.

It became very difficult for Verstappen to overtake at this time, and he had to wait until the 48th lap to overtake Sainz in front of him.

Sainz pitted in the next lap after being overtaken by Verstappen, which opened the third pit stop window for the drivers ahead.

On the 49th lap, several drivers including Alonso, Stroll and Perez chose to pit for tire changes due to tire problems.

But Perez in front of Qin Miao still stayed on the track and refused to pit.

Qin Miao sucked his back teeth with some pain.

Sometimes having teammates who are too strong may not necessarily be a good thing.

Just like now, the not-so-strong Perez can just help Verstappen block himself, and his teammate the old man.

At this time, the gap between him and Norris, who was in second place, was almost 2 seconds.

There is no reason for the team to let Hamilton slow down to help Qin Miao overtake other drivers, not to mention that even if Hamilton's speed in this race is not fast enough and he has been wandering slowly in front, the team wants Hamilton to help Qin Miao on the track, but it depends on whether Hamilton himself is willing to do so.

If he doesn't agree, the team can't do anything.

This may be the frustration of having two world champion-level drivers on a team.

This also caused Qin Miao to start thinking about the same problems he might encounter after he went to Ferrari next season...

Although the fourth brother is not a world champion yet, it is undeniable that his talent is also top-notch. He just lacks a little luck compared to Qin Miao.

But now they are in the game after all, and Qin Miao knows that now is not the time to think about this.

I just kept this matter deep in my heart and planned to find time to have a good chat with Leclerc about this matter after the race.

Qin Miao showed no mercy when facing Perez who was struggling to death in front of him.

Even though you were annoyed by Perez for a few laps, Alonso in front of you had already entered the pit. Why didn't you do that at this time but instead stood in front of me? What's the difference between this and seeking death?
Perez, whose tire condition had already deteriorated, was kicked to death by Qin Miao like a wild dog on the side of the road in the DRS area after leaving T3 without even waiting for the starting straight.

Even during the entire process, Perez did not put up any decent resistance.

It’s not that Perez doesn’t want to, but the car’s complete crushing in terms of speed and performance.

The straight-line characteristics of the W14 coupled with a brand-new power unit is truly a dimensionality-reducing attack.

It is also worth mentioning that after the time reached this point, Qin Miao's lap speed was already able to match Verstappen's lap speed.

Red Bull also gave Verstappen a P plate on lap 50, telling him that he needed to pit on the next lap.

This is done mainly for the sake of secrecy. Not letting the driver enter the pit through the team TR will naturally prevent being discovered by Mercedes-Benz to the greatest extent possible.

But Mercedes also knew that Verstappen's tires were no longer working, so they kept an eye on Red Bull. Therefore, Mercedes saw through all of Red Bull's tricks.

Qin Miao and Verstappen both pitted on lap 51.

It is worth mentioning that both drivers changed to brand new soft tires in the maintenance area.

Qin Miao changed to new tires because he had the habit of keeping an extra set of tires for himself, while Pan Zi changed to new soft tires because he was well prepared.

After coming out of the maintenance area, Pan Zi's lap was 0.3 seconds faster than Qin Miao.

But what made Verstappen couldn't help but burst into curse was.

After Qin Miao came out of the maintenance area, he relied on the team's 2.1-second tire change to overtake Alonso.

Even Qin Miao, who rarely praised the team for changing tires during the race, couldn't help but say, "Wow, that's awesome!"

After Verstappen came out of the pit area after changing tires in 2.4 seconds, he got stuck right behind Stroll.

It made him feel sick.

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Although Verstappen overtook Stroll on the second lap after coming out, it also wasted some time.

After coming out of the maintenance area, the driver in front of Verstappen became Perez.

Of course, Verstappen didn't take his team's No. 2 driver too seriously. After all, whether Perez was willing or not, the team would definitely give Perez the order to give way to the car.

What really made Verstappen feel uncomfortable was that there was an Alonso in front of Perez.

Overtaking Perez will basically not affect Verstappen's rhythm on the track, but overtaking Alonso is not so easy.

Although the boss has no grudges against Red Bull, at most there are some minor frictions with Red Bull's engine supplier.

But for Verstappen these are actually minor issues that are not a big deal.

What really gives Verstappen a headache is that the boss basically treats all drivers on the track equally. If you undercut him, the boss won't say anything, but if you catch up with him, he will definitely not let you pass so easily.

After all, as long as he can get more points, the boss won’t mind.

Verstappen just happened to run into the gun of the leader.

The only thing Verstappen could expect at this time was that Alonso's car was not in such good condition.

After all, we have been running for such a long time, and everyone's power unit components are definitely not as good as at the beginning of the season, and the power has inevitably declined.

There will definitely not be a case like Qin Miao, where the engine durability is as good as that of a civilian car engine.

But the opposite happened. After Perez let Verstappen pass and Verstappen got behind Alonso, Alonso still did not let Verstappen pass easily.

Although Pan Zi surpassed Alonso after one lap, Qin Miao had already run away by the time he surpassed Alonso.

At this time, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen reached 3 seconds.

At this time, there were only 17 laps left to the end of the race.

If it was a normal race, Verstappen might have been able to catch up with Qin Miao, and then rely on his ERS to kill Qin Miao directly on the field.

But this Grand Prix weekend was somewhat different. Qin Miao's single lap speed was indeed not as good as Verstappen, but the problem was that Qin Miao's speed at the end of the straight was fast enough.

This means that even if Verstappen catches up to the DRS zone behind Qin Miao in the later stages of this Grand Prix weekend, it will be difficult for Verstappen to overtake Qin Miao without enough power.

And this was indeed the case. With 10 laps left in the race, Verstappen caught up with Qin Miao. However, Qin Miao no longer had the possibility of catching up with Norris, who was 11 seconds behind him, so Qin Miao's main attention was on defending Verstappen behind him.

Then Qin Miao used his car's terrifying tail speed and defensive ability even without DRS to defend Verstappen for ten laps in the later stage of the track.

During the broadcast, the camera never left them for too long.

After all, they are fighting in almost every lap, so who else should we look at if not them?

During this process, Pan Zi also tried to fully charge his car before attacking, but it was useless. His energy storage unit was frequently charged and discharged on the track, so the total power of the car battery was 30% lower than the power of the car battery in normal conditions. 70% of the power was simply not enough for Verstappen to overtake the W14, which was now full of energy, by relying on the speed at the end of the straight.

Finally, Qin Miao crossed the finish line amid the laughter and cheers of everyone in the Mercedes team.

Before Qin Miao crossed the finish line, even though the old man had already won the race, everyone in the team was still suppressing their emotions on the track and did not completely explode.

But as Qin Miao crossed the finish line, the ownership of the 2023 Constructors' World Championship came to an end, and everyone exploded like a lit firecracker.

Qin Miao, who finished third, brought back 15 points for the Mercedes team, widening the points gap between Mercedes and Red Bull to 157 points.

And there are two games left in the season, and there are no sprints in these two games.

In other words, in these two races, a team can only bring back 88 points at most.

Therefore, even if both Mercedes drivers retire from the remaining two races, Mercedes will still be able to win the 2023 world championship.

Therefore, the Mercedes team has staged a comeback and returned to the top since losing the Constructors' World Championship last season.

Although basically at the end of every season the Mercedes team celebrates winning the Constructors' World Championship again this year.

But this year is different.

It was only natural that Mercedes won the championship in the previous seasons.

After all, the Mercedes team at that time wanted racing performance, and it had racing performance, and it wanted driver ability, and it had driver ability.

Winning the championship is a natural thing.

But this season, all the Mercedes team has left is the personal abilities of its drivers, and the performance of its cars is visibly far worse than that of Red Bull.

At the beginning of the season, they were even beaten by Red Bull and had a hard time.

In fact, Mercedes' board of directors felt in the first half of the season that their team would not be able to retain the team's world championship this year, but Perez gave them a chance, and the two Mercedes drivers also worked really hard.

In the end, with the joint efforts of Qin Miao and Hamilton, the Mercedes team won this hard-earned team world championship.

Everyone at Mercedes had even gotten used to this constructors' world championship, but the feeling of losing and regaining it is always so exciting.

Sometimes, you don’t know how much you value something until you lose it, and now Mercedes has returned to the position they once disdained but dreamed of last season. (End of this chapter)