After a long illness, Qin Miao became a good doctor. After all, Qin Miao is a ruthless person with full defensive ability. Naturally, he saw Verstappen's thoughts immediately.
You don't want me to get comfortable, do you? OK!
Qin Miao didn't hide either. What stood out was that he was barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
Entering the corner directly wheel-to-wheel with Verstappen.
Verstappen braked early and prepared to cross the line just like Qin Miao overtook Leclerc.
As for Qin Miao, he directly adjusted the brake balance backward to ensure that the front wheels had sufficient steering force when braking. He braked close to Verstappen, and then leaned to the right in line with Verstappen's cornering rhythm. to get a better entry line.
During this process, the two cars remained wheel-to-wheel as they entered the corner.
Verstappen, who was planning to brake late and take the crossing line, was stunned when he realized that Qin Miao had not passed him.
He just watched helplessly as his best entry line was blocked by Qin Miao.
Qin Miao can walk on the shoulder when exiting the corner, while Verstappen, who is located on the inside of T3, can only eat the speed bump on the road shoulder.
As for not giving up the best route, but crashing out with Qin Miao?
Why, Qin Miao is Mercedes' No. 2 driver, and Verstappen is Red Bull's No. 1 driver no matter what. It is Verstappen and Red Bull who lose in exchange with Qin Miao, but Mercedes is definitely the winner.
Although Verstappen seems to be unsmart on the field, and his defensive and offensive methods are also very torpedoed, he can still distinguish between interests and success or failure.
Moreover, it only takes less than two seconds from braking into the corner to exiting the corner. There is basically no extra time for the drivers to think and weigh the pros and cons.
So after seeing that Qin Miao didn't leave any space for him, Verstappen, who knew that this game was very important to him, immediately chose to avoid Qin Miao.
Because Verstappen directly hit the speed bump on the shoulder when entering the corner this time, the car was directly bounced by the speed bump under the influence of the suspension, and Verstappen's exiting rhythm was inevitably affected. .
Leclerc also picked up a wallet during the attack and defense between Qin Miao and Verstappen. When Verstappen was still bouncing on the shoulder of the road, Leclerc found a way to get behind Qin Miao and grabbed it. A second position.
When Verstappen returned to the track again, he was surrounded by two Ferraris.
After Qin Miao completed this overtaking, whether it was intentional or unintentional, the on-site director confirmed that there were no other overtaking scenes on the track, and immediately showed the camera to the perspective of Toto Wolff, the team leader of the Mercedes team.
Although Hamilton fell out of the title race due to a mistake at this time, Qin Miao's sudden outburst gave all Mercedes fans a reassurance.
After Toto saw this scene, he clenched his fist with his right hand and shouted: "Nice!"
The audience can clearly see the bulging veins between Toto's neck.
Although the audience couldn't hear exactly what Toto shouted, it could be seen from his performance and actions that Qin Miao's performance just now made Toto very satisfied.
Of course, Qin Miao's overtaking in this controversial way naturally brought about complaints from Red Bull team staff at the race, verbal criticism from Red Bull fans on Twitter, and crazy telegrams sent by Verstappen during TR. .
Verstappen: "****!************!**********!"
But if you insist, Qin Miao's operation is really fine.
Because Qin Miao braked late when entering T2. Although the two were wheel-to-wheel, Qin Miao's front was more or less ahead of Verstappen, so his front was actually in front of Verstappen. Qin Miao It has the rights to the line.
Moreover, Verstappen has used this method to squeeze his opponents out of the track many times. Therefore, except for Red Bull fans who will be extremely angry after seeing Qin Miao's approach, most of the passers-by and spectators who know Verstappen I can only sigh with emotion for Qin Miao's behavior: "Top defense!"
After hearing what Verstappen said in TR, Verstappen's track engineer could only persuade Verstappen to calm down, stabilize his mentality and continue the race.
As for fans of Qin Miao and Mercedes-Benz, after seeing Qin Miao’s operation:
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Awesome!"
"Yes! This is how to guard against Verstappen!"
"Defend Verstappen with Verstappen-style defense!"
"hard!"
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After exiting the corner, Qin Miao came to the leading position, and behind him was still Ferrari's Leclerc. Behind Leclerc was Verstappen, behind Verstappen was Sainz, followed by Hamilton and Norris.
Yes, after Qin Miao passed Verstappen in T2, Hamilton also relied on a better starting speed than Norris to obtain faster straight-line speed, surpassing Norris on the straight before T2.
Norris also knew that his start was not very good, so he did not make any extra moves when facing Hamilton's attack and directly let Hamilton pass.
After all, he also has to watch out for Ricciardo, the driver behind Hamilton. If he gets into a fight with Hamilton at this time, Ricciardo behind him may take advantage of him.
So after weighing the pros and cons, he did not choose to defend Hamilton.
After Hamilton passed Norris in front of him, both Mercedes drivers completed overtaking the driver in front of them in T2 at the starting stage.
In the following section of the journey, the rankings of the top six did not change much, and there were no good overtaking points in the next two timing sections. At this time, the track conditions also improved, so no driver appeared to be stuck after hitting the wet ground. Mistakes.
On lap 48, after this lap, the race will turn on DRS. However, the DRS of this circle has little to do with the top ten drivers, because they have already passed the DRS monitoring point after DRS is turned on. , and there is only one DRS monitoring point on the Imola track, so this lap is basically like this.
However, Leclerc still found something wrong, that is, Qin Miao in front of him had been running the race at a tire-preserving pace, and his ERS usage time was very short.
Based on Leclerc's racing experience, he could tell at a glance that Qin Miao was recharging his battery.
The most important thing is that his lap speed is still about 0.3 faster than Qin Miao, but he just can't surpass his opponent...
Qin Miao could always use some non-violating methods to jam the car at a key point in Leclerc's progress when Leclerc had an idea, making Leclerc extremely uncomfortable. He was frustrated and missed a great opportunity to overtake.
Leclerc couldn't figure it out. What was Qin Miao doing for this?
Shouldn't the first thing you do after you have an advantage be to open up some distance between you and the car behind you? What are you doing swaying slowly? Aren't you afraid that I will eat you alive on the straightaway with DRS and ERS after this lap?
But Leclerc soon had no such unnecessary thoughts, because Verstappen behind him launched an attack on him.
In the V-shaped bend of T7, Verstappen braked late and blocked Leclerc's inside line, trying to copy Qin Miao's operation: squeezing Leclerc off the track when T7 came out of the corner.
Of course, Leclerc is not a soft persimmon. After discovering Verstappen's intention, he immediately thought of a way to solve it.
Isn't it just a cross line? Which driver has not used this method to defend the enemy's attack or overtake on the field?
Leclerc took advantage of the situation and let Verstappen pass first, while he took a crossing line, and after exiting the corner, he regained his position with faster speed.
After a fight, the gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc was 0.6 seconds, which was immediately opened to 0.9 seconds. This shows how much speed will be lost if he does not take the normal route in a corner.
On lap 49, Verstappen behind Leclerc turned on his DRS, but Leclerc also had DRS, and like Verstappen, he had the wake of the driver in front to eat, so Verstappen Although this attack narrowed the distance between himself and Leclerc, it failed to create an opportunity to surpass Leclerc.
The gap between Qin Miao and Leclerc only shrank from 0.9 to 0.3, and Leclerc failed to surpass Qin Miao, so the top three positions remained unchanged.
Same as before, in the first lap after the restart, except for the position gained by Qin Miao after squeezing Verstappen off the track, there were no ranking changes in the first group.
As the race progressed, Leclerc gradually discovered something was wrong, that is, Qin Miao's speed seemed to be a little slower.
But he couldn't think too much. Behind him, Verstappen started to attack again relying on the performance of his car.
When T15 came out of the corner, Verstappen behind him was obviously faster out of the corner than Leclerc. After Leclerc discovered it, he naturally guarded his inside line immediately. Verstappen's exit speed was faster than his own. It is no longer possible to prevent the opponent from tapping. Now all Leclerc can do is to block the inside line when entering the corner, preventing Verstappen from having a comfortable entry angle.
The best thing is when Verstappen ran off the track at the center of the corner because of the poor entry angle.
But the good news is that Qin Miao entered the corner too slowly this time, just blocking Leclerc's outside line. Verstappen was blocked inside by Leclerc, and Qin Miao's Mercedes blocked the outside line. Even if Weiss Tappan and Leclerc were side by side, and when exiting the corner, they were not as fast as Qin Miao due to the poor entry angle.
So Verstappen's attack ended in vain, while Leclerc defended the attack without any danger.
On the 50th lap, Qin Miao led the riders all the way across the finish line, then passed T1, and started a new round of fighting in T2.
Qin Miao had a fight with the two cars behind him at the T17 position. Because of their fight, Qin Miao got another chance to breathe, so when entering T2, Qin Miao still sat firmly on Diaoyutai. , pulling Leclerc and Verstappen behind him into a corner.
Verstappen lost a lot of rhythm due to his overtaking error in T17 on the previous lap. Although he was not overtaken by the car behind him, in this lap of T2, Verstappen could not get ahead of T2 even with DRS. Find an opportunity to overtake Leclerc.
However, Hamilton at the back gave everyone at Mercedes a reassurance, because he relied on DRS, ERS and wake in the T2 position to directly kill Sainz in front of him on the straight. .
Sainz also struggled, and also tried to defend and compress Hamilton's entry route.
Unfortunately, in the face of the huge speed gap of 20 kilometers per hour, all Sainz's operations were in vain.
The ranking changed again. With thirteen laps to go before the end of the race, Hamilton had already moved forward two positions on a new set of soft tires and reached the fourth position. He was locked in a fierce battle with Leclerc ahead. Verstappen.
To be honest, after Hamilton passed Sainz and looked at the three cars 2 seconds ahead, he really had an unreal feeling. Is Qin Miao really so good at blocking?
If you say you're going to block for yourself, then you're going to block for yourself. The key point is that even though he's blocking, how come he's still in first place?
And don’t the lineup at the front do lap times? Just keep fighting? The race had already started three laps before the gap was only two seconds?
Verstappen in front was also anxious, but he really had no choice.
Fortunately, the car was not damaged after he was squeezed off the track by Qin Miao, but the two attacks he attempted were blocked by Leclerc.
After two failed attacks, Verstappen watched helplessly as Hamilton caught up behind him, and the pressure gradually began to weigh on Verstappen.
On the 52nd lap, Qin Miao still maintained his own rhythm. Although Leclerc behind him wanted to get rid of Verstappen's attack, Qin Miao was blocked in front of him. He wanted to get rid of Verstappen. Pan's attack depends on Qin Miao's face.
Moreover, on T2, the corner where Qin Miao is most likely to be surpassed, Verstappen behind him will always covet his position and attack him, which makes Leclerc have to guard against him.
So after two more laps, Leclerc still didn't overturn Qin Miao. The good news is that Verstappen didn't pass Leclerc either. Instead, he still lost a lot of speed in the fight with Leclerc and was still trapped. in third position.
The bad news is that Hamilton has already run two laps in clean air and is in the DRS zone within 1 second behind Verstappen.
It's T2 again.
Behind Qin Miao, Leclerc and Verstappen were still tense, preparing for another attack and defense in this lap.
Leclerc is still guarding the inside line, but thinking of Qin Miao's defensive behavior that directly squeezes him into the track's lane, Leclerc leaves a certain distance on the inside line at this time, which is only about 0.7 car widths .
In this way, no matter how much Verstappen compresses his space, he will always have a certain angle of entry into the corner.
Moreover, the space left by Leclerc is not large, and there is no possibility of letting the car behind take advantage of the loophole.
(End of chapter)
