Psychics don't die from gunfire

Although Qin Miao felt a little uncomfortable after having so much more distance to chase for no reason, he still stabilized his mentality and started chasing while protecting the tires.

On the 6th lap, Qin Miao caught up with Alonso and took advantage of the DRS to overtake Alonso.

The boss had no intention of defending Qin Miao at all, and let Qin Miao pass before the braking point of T17.

Qin Miao came to second place.

At the same time, Hamilton surpassed Sainz and came to fourth place, and Verstappen had surpassed Magnussen and came to sixth place.

The three drivers were chasing each other frantically.

However, according to the data given by the FIA, Verstappen's average lap speed is about 0.2 faster than the two Mercedes drivers.

This is the state when Verstappen has never had the opportunity to run a normal lap time without anyone blocking him.

On the 13th lap, Qin Miao finally caught up with Perez in the DRS zone.

The Red Bull in today's race was actually upgraded, but before the start of the race, no one knew how much the upgrade of Red Bull would improve their car performance.

However, judging from Perez's performance today, the upgrade of Red Bull is extremely huge.

Because in the first four games, Perez's speed could not only not match his teammates, but also Qin Miao and Hamilton. Judging from Perez's state in today's game, he at least had the strength to fight Qin Miao on the track.

In the same lap, Hamilton also surpassed Alonso.

Compared with the direct release when facing Qin Miao, the old man Alonso was obviously more interested in another old man.

Alonso put all his attention and energy on defending Hamilton, as if he had returned to the Hungaroring that year.

In fact, with the performance of Mercedes-Benz, it is not too difficult for Hamilton to surpass Alonso on the track.

But Alonso was really serious in defending Hamilton in this game today, and he blocked many good opportunities for Hamilton to overtake.

In addition, the deliberate braking test and rhythm changes before entering the straight made Hamilton very sick, and also limited the performance of W14 on the straight.

After all, before entering the straight, Alonso would deliberately reduce the 0.3 second time gap between Hamilton and Alonso to 0.5 or 0.6 seconds.

With such a large time gap, no matter how powerful the Mercedes-Benz car is, it can't catch up with Alonso's car and surpass him at the same time.

It was also because Alonso and Hamilton were entangled on the track that Verstappen, who started ninth, finally surpassed Sainz and came behind Hamilton.

This process took only 13 laps.

Verstappen was still a little happy when he saw the two people fighting in front of him, at least Alonso helped him delay Hamilton for a long time, but when Verstappen saw the time gap between Qin Miao and Alonso, Verstappen was no longer happy.

Although Qin Miao caught up with Perez, he had no good way to deal with Perez for a while. Looking at Qin Miao's lap speed and the time gap between him and Perez, Verstappen judged that Qin Miao was charging his car at this time, waiting for a chance to succeed in one fell swoop.

That's fine, but how did Qin Miao get the 5-second time gap between him and Alonso?

After Verstappen was surprised, it was Qin Miao's turn to be surprised.

Because as the race came to the 18th lap, Qin Miao still didn't surpass Perez when he was about to enter the pit window.

It's not that Qin Miao didn't want to, nor did Qin Miao have any defensive strategy.

It's just that Qin Miao didn't find a way to surpass Perez for a while.

During this process, Qin Miao fully charged his car twice, and thought about succeeding in one fell swoop many times, but none of them succeeded.

Perez's Red Bull car's tail speed was also amazing, and it was unknown where Perez learned it, and he began to sell all kinds of flaws when defending.

Even many times Qin Miao couldn't help himself.

However, Qin Miao soon regained his inner peace.

Because Qin Miao knew that he would surpass Sainz sooner or later, after all, the pressure value hanging on Sainz's head at this time was [71%].

Now all he needed to do was wait for Perez to make a mistake.

And the driver behind him was still Alonso.

Although Miami is not a track that is easy to defend.

But with Verstappen appearing behind Hamilton and Hamilton's tires beginning to fail, it will be easier for Alonso to defend Hamilton.

And Verstappen also provided DRS to Hamilton at all times because of Alonso's presence in front of Hamilton.

It is not so easy for Verstappen to overtake Hamilton.

So in general, the advantage is on his side.

Now he only needs to run the rhythm he is most familiar with and wait for Perez to make a mistake.

However, on the track, Qin Miao did not wait for Perez to make a mistake on his own initiative, but waited for the pit window to open.

At the end of the 18th lap, Sainz was the first to sound the horn for the leading group of drivers to pit.

The drivers in front also pitted to change tires under the pressure of Sainz.

Even Perez, who was ahead of Qin Miao, chose to pit to change tires.

In fact, with the time gap between Perez and Verstappen, and the Red Bull team's strong tire changing ability, there would be no problem even if both of them pitted.

But in today's race, Verstappen used hard tires at the start. After all, he started from such a backward position. If he used soft tires like other drivers' pit stop strategies, it would be easy to waste time on overtaking. It would be better to start with hard tires and directly undercut most of the drivers who were slower than him.

So Verstappen's tires still had enough margin at this time, and pitting at this time was completely unwise.

Soon, as the race came to the 20th lap, after the drivers in front pitted, Qin Miao became the driver in the leading position.

And he actually completed the undercut of Perez on the track.

After all, Qin Miao came behind Perez and had no way to surpass Perez. In addition to the upgrade of Red Bull Racing brought by this Grand Prix, which greatly increased the straight tail speed of Red Bull Racing, Perez also created a lot of turbulence in front.

This makes the downforce of Qin Miao's car, which was not very effective in the cornering stage, even more ineffective.

Therefore, Qin Miao could not catch up with Perez before the DRS zone in the middle of the second and third periods to pose a threat to Perez.

This is a vicious cycle, and it can even be said that this is the characteristic of the Miami track.

Because there is always a winding curve before the DRS zone of the Miami track, and it will enter the DRS zone after the curve.

This makes it easier for the car that is not used to the straight road to defend in the DRS zone.

Now that Qin Miao is no longer blocked by Perez in front of him, Qin Miao is using neutral tires. With Qin Miao's tire protection ability, Qin Miao's current single-lap speed is even faster than Perez's new hard tires, although it is only 0.09 seconds faster per lap.

At this time, some people will be curious. Why didn't Red Bull let Perez stay in front of Qin Miao to slow down Qin Miao's race rhythm, and wait until Verstappen caught up to a position that threatened Qin Miao, or when Perez's tires were really bad, and then let Perez pit?

Let's put it this way, Perez is also a human being, and now Red Bull is barely satisfied with Perez's performance this season, and has no intention of giving up Perez directly.

They can't let Perez seamlessly switch to the second driver's position.

On the other hand, Red Bull thinks that Perez can compete for the championship in this race today, while Verstappen is trapped in the DRS train.

Although there is indeed a certain gap in strength between the two drivers, under the circumstances at the time, Perez's probability of winning the championship is still greater than Verstappen.

In the following time, Qin Miao took the lead smoothly, and after no obstacles, he began to slowly widen the time gap between himself and Verstappen.

However, the expansion speed is very slow, about 0.1 seconds per lap.

On the 25th lap, the time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen was fixed at 5.2 seconds.

Qin Miao was first, Verstappen was second, Perez was third, Hamilton was fourth, and the boss had gone to fifth.

The time gap between Qin Miao and Verstappen during this period remained unchanged, and Verstappen sometimes even had a faster lap speed than Qin Miao.

Obviously, even for someone as strong as Qin Miao, his tires had already begun to fail.

If he pitted in this lap, Qin Miao would be 17 seconds behind Verstappen and 1.7 seconds ahead of Perez.

This was considered a suitable pit stop window for Qin Miao on the track.

If there were no mistakes in the tire change and the tire change was completed within 3 seconds, Qin Miao would be about 1.3 seconds ahead of Perez after he came out.

But if it exceeded 3 seconds, it would be hard to say where Qin Miao would appear.

After all, when Qin Miao just came out of the maintenance area, the temperature of Qin Miao's tires did not reach the most suitable working temperature, which would be a disadvantage on both offense and defense.

If he was blocked by Perez, Qin Miao would be in trouble.

"Okay, we see that Qin Miao is going to pit."

"A set of soft tires lasted for 25 laps, which is a normal pit stop for Qin Miao." Zhou Haoran said.

"Let's see how long it takes for Mercedes to change tires this time..."

Last week's race actually had a lot of coincidences in the studio of Five Star Sports.

For example, after the commentators of Five Star Sports had just praised the performance of Guanyu and Qin Miao on the track last week, the two Chinese drivers retired one after another.

Although it is obvious that this matter has nothing to do with the commentators of Five Star Sports, the key is that this matter is too coincidental.

Although it is not as big as Norris's killing, Norris had an accident before he finished speaking, and the wreckage of the McLaren car was scattered all over the ground.

But it is almost the same. It can be regarded as a problem between the two drivers after they finished speaking.

Therefore, many domestic fans who believe in this aspect have criticized several commentators of Five Star Sports.

Although the three commentators did not want to believe these things subjectively, the pragmatism in the Chinese people's bones still made the three commentators cautious when explaining Qin Miao's game.

So at this critical moment, the commentators of Five Star Sports did not dare to make a decisive judgment in the live broadcast room as before.

Slowing down, entering the maintenance area, turning on the speed limit button, Qin Miao slowly drove his car into the tire changing position at the door of the Mercedes team's P room.

At this time, the team's technicians were all ready, waiting for Qin Miao to park the car.

Qin Miao's parking position was still so perfect.

It just happened to deliver his tires and front nose wings to the hands of the team's tire changer.

Therefore, Qin Miao's car was not parked yet, and the car was lifted up, and the bolts and tires were removed almost at the same time.

After the four tires were removed and taken away, four new hard tires were installed on the car.

At the moment the four tires were installed, the front and rear jack technicians loosened their jacks at the same time.

And on the way down the car, the four technicians responsible for locking the bolts had also tightened the bolts of Qin Miao's car.

After completing this series of operations, the four wind gunners raised their wind guns to indicate that the tire change was completed.

Then Reyes gave the signal to release the car, and Qin Miao stepped on the accelerator and left the parking position for tire change.

At the same time, the total time Qin Miao spent on changing tires popped up in the upper right corner of the broadcast screen, which had been closely watching Qin Miao's tire change.

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"Beautiful!"

"This pit stop is perfect. Qin Miao successfully overcut Perez. Next is the stage where Qin Miao can use his long-distance speed advantage!"

...

After seeing the tire change time, the five-star sports commentators who were originally hesitant opened the champagne with confidence.

Because the Miami track does not consume a lot of tires, and Pirelli gave three tires of medium hardness for this race, the durability is also sufficient. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the drivers all adopt a one-stop pit stop strategy.

And Qin Miao changed to hard tires, which is obvious. Qin Miao prepared a set of hard tires to run the entire race and would not enter the pit area to change tires.

There is no risk of them getting into trouble in the pit area, so the three commentators can naturally open champagne in the studio.

On the track, Qin Miao also felt that the tire change was very fast this time. When he came out of the maintenance area, he praised the team TR: "Awesome."

Frankie smiled and said: "It's up to you next."

"Just wait and see!"

Because the team's perfect tire change this time, Qin Miao not only got ahead of Perez after coming out of the maintenance area, but also the originally expected 1.7 seconds between him and Perez increased to 2.0 seconds because of this excellent tire change.

Perez sighed slightly when he looked at the Mercedes car in front of him. It's over. The championship of the race is gone...

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