In fact, anyone who can become an F1 driver will have good driving skills. Even if the talent in some aspects is mediocre, after training day after day, the familiarity with the track will gradually increase. After all, practice makes perfect.
Therefore, even if the drivers are running on the Monte Carlo track, they are not so prone to track accidents.
The same is true for Giovinazzi. His mistake this time is really not his own fault, but because Qin Miao has been following him and constantly applying pressure, as if Qin Miao's tire wear is not at all. There is that.
Maybe Qin Miao himself didn't realize that the pressure he put on the driver in front of him on the track was extremely huge.
Perhaps it is only those top drivers, such as Verstappen and Hamilton, who can withstand the pressure, stabilize their mentality and avoid making mistakes on the track when facing Qin Miao's attack.
But Giovinazzi obviously did not belong to one of these people. Faced with Qin Miao's constant pressure and testing, he devoted too much attention to defending Qin Miao, which ultimately led to his poor cornering rhythm. disorder.
This time, Qin Miao's left front end plate almost wiped the billboard as hard as it did in qualifying.
If you look closely, you can also find that the end plate of Qin Miao's racing car left a black scratch on the white billboard.
Thanks to the extreme exit angle, Qin Miao was nearly 7 kilometers per hour faster than Giovinazzi after exiting T19.
Although Qin Miao's Mercedes engine had already run four grands prix at this time, the engine's durability was still good, and its overall stability and horsepower output were still more powerful than Arrow's Ferrari engine.
And when Giovinazzi knew that his rhythm in T19 was broken, he knew that he could not guard Qin Miao, so he did not forcefully defend Qin Miao, but just guarded his inside line.
And Qin Miao didn't get used to Giovinazzi. He passed directly from the outside and passed the entire car before the braking point of T1.
After surpassing Giovinazzi, Qin Miao's ranking reached eighth, which was three places higher than when he started. In front of him was Red Bull driver Perez.
After all, Perez is a Red Bull driver. When Qin Miao comes behind him, without even thinking about it, Red Bull will definitely issue team instructions to let him defend Qin Miao with all his strength.
Naturally, you can defend as long as you can.
Qin Miao also knew that it would be much easier for Perez in front of him to defend himself on the Monte Carlo track, which is difficult to overtake.
So just after surpassing Giovinazzi and still six seconds behind Perez, Qin Miao gave Perez a skill.
Next, Qin Miao naturally pushed forward with all his strength, showing no signs of saving tires.
This pursuit lasted for 10 laps, and on the 15th lap, Qin Miao caught up behind Perez.
This lap was 0.5 faster than Perez, which made Red Bull team leader Horner's eyebrows jump. Qin Miao's pursuit also received a lot of footage from the director.
Commentators at home and abroad are paying attention to the time gap between Qin Miao and Perez.
When Qin Miao came behind Perez, Perez's pressure level reached 37%.
From this we can see what a terrible experience it is to be pulled closer by Qin Miao at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As strong as Master Pei, he felt extremely stressed when he saw Qin Miao chasing after him.
Although no driver has said it publicly, drivers inside and outside the paddock have recognized Qin Miao's strength at this time. They all feel that he is Leclerc, the top driver at Hamilton's level, worthy of the position of Mercedes' second driver, and even like Drivers such as Leclerc who have a good relationship with Qin Miao believe that Qin Miao is stronger than Bottas.
So although it felt a lot of pressure to have Perez chased by Qin Miao like this, he wasn't too surprised.
The reason why Qin Miao chased so fast was mainly because Qin Miao did not protect his tires and ran the race at a slightly slower pace than the qualifying race.
Everyone else is trying to protect their tires. After all, the track in Monaco is too difficult to overtake. The later you pit, the greater your advantage.
However, thanks to Qin Miao's skills and his increasing familiarity with Qin Miao's racing car, even if he runs normally, his tire consumption is much slower than that of drivers who deliberately protect their tires.
Coming behind Perez, Qin Miao also began to put pressure on the opponent.
After the F1 car was widened, Monaco, a track that was originally difficult to overtake, has now become even more difficult to overtake. As long as the car in front does not make mistakes, the car behind will not be able to overtake unless the speed gap between the car in front and the car in front reaches more than two seconds per lap. , otherwise there is no way to overtake.
Therefore, what Qin Miao can do now is very limited, which is to constantly put pressure on Perez in front, and make mistakes by himself after his pressure value is full.
This wait is 7 laps.
On the 23rd lap, when exiting the corner before T8 and entering the tunnel, Perez was a little anxious to refuel, and the rear wheel briefly spun, losing traction for about 0.4 seconds.
Qin Miao, who had been guarded by Perez, was already feeling uncomfortable. Now after seeing Perez's mistake, Qin Miao's eyes lit up, and the depression of being stuck in place and trying to run but not being able to run quickly was gone. Then it started to accelerate violently, and ERS started to release as if it was free of charge.
The 0.4 seconds lost by Perez when exiting the corner was too fatal. Although he also wanted to change the line to block Qin Miao a little, it was too late, because by the time Perez restored the traction at the rear of the car and started to accelerate, Qin Miao's car has come to the side of him and is parallel to it. Perez has no possibility of blocking Qin Miao.
It was easy after that. Before even leaving the tunnel, Qin Miao directly surpassed Perez and reached the seventh position.
After all, the other drivers in the entire field are running at their own pace. No one has the idea of overtaking the driver in front of him. Even Hamilton can only stay 1.5 seconds behind Gasly in front to protect the tire. It is simply impossible to surpass the other party.
Qin Miao had been following Perez for a long time and was ready to make a move on him, so in these few laps the director did not show any footage to other drivers, and kept watching Qin Miao and Perez to see when Qin Miao could overtake each other.
Therefore, the entire overtaking process was witnessed by the audience.
Fei Ge even bluntly pointed out: "Although Qin Miao's overtaking seems to have a certain amount of luck, it is also the foreshadowing of Qin Miao's previous 17 laps. If it were not for the previous 17 laps of continuous confrontation, With Perez’s pressure, Perez would never have made this mistake.”
Brother Bing also said: "Whether you encounter an opportunity is determined by God, but whether you can seize the opportunity depends on the individual driver."
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"It's so beautiful Qin Miao! So beautiful! Keep pushing forward." After Qin Miao surpassed Perez, Toto's voice actually sounded in the TR.
Normally, these words are spoken by Franky, but the presence of Toto's voice in TR at this time means that Toto is really happy to see Qin Miao surpass a Red Bull.
After replying to Toto with "Roger," Qin Miao began to chase Vettel who was three seconds ahead of him.
Vettel is definitely an experienced and skilled driver, and his ability to withstand pressure is comparable to that of Perez. He will not make mistakes due to excessive pressure like Giovinazzi.
So although Qin Miao overtook Red Bull, which seemed to be faster than Aston Martin, at the Monte Carlo track, overtaking Vettel's Aston Martin was not at all easier than overtaking Perez's Red Bull.
Qin Miao was already mentally prepared to run behind Vettel for 20 minutes, waiting for his skill CD to improve before overtaking Vettel.
But sometimes, when luck comes, you really can’t stop it.
Two laps later, on lap 25, a Haas appeared in front of Vettel.
The car is driven by Russian driver Nikita Mazepin.
In fact, the gap between Mazepin and his teammate Mick in this game was not big. After 25 laps of the two Haas, the gap was only 7 seconds.
Compared with the previous situation where the time gap between Mazeping and the driver in front of him was more than one minute just after the halfway point of the game, Mazeping definitely performed at a super level in this game.
But the track in Monte Carlo is still too short. Although Mazepin's performance in today's game was pretty good compared to his previous ones, he was still lapped by Verstappen on the 22nd lap. , and by the 25th lap, they were overtaken by Vettel and Qin Miao, who were ranked sixth and seventh, and were about to complete the lap.
As for lapping Ma Zeping, Qin Miao has very rich experience in both F2 and current F1.
But unfortunately, the place where Vettel caught up with Mazepin was T19, and the DRS monitoring point at T17 was just 1.007 seconds behind Vettel and Mazepin, and did not enter the DRS zone.
When Vettel came out of the corner at T19, he was blocked by Mazepin from the best exit route.
When Qin Miao exited T19, Ma Zeping ran to the inside of the straightaway, giving Qin Miao the best exit route.
Under the circumstances, Qin Miao's exit speed from the corner was nearly 20 kilometers per hour faster than Vettel.
With such a big speed gap, and with the blessing of DRS and ERS, Qin Miao braked late at T1, and finally grabbed the sixth position from the frantically struggling Vettel at T1.
Qin Miao's overtaking naturally received cheers from all the spectators at the scene. After all, everyone knows how difficult it is to overtake on the Monte Carlo track, but Qin Miao overtook five people in only 25 laps.
At this moment, Leclerc has retired from the race. Without the home driver, the main purpose of the audience is to watch the excitement.
Seeing this, the three commentators naturally praised Qin Miao for a while, and there was even more cheers in the P room.
After passing Vettel, the driver in front of Qin Miao became Qin Miao's teammate Hamilton.
Although there was a teammate in front of him who took good care of him, Qin Miao was already overtaking in Monaco and just did it.
"Qin Miao's performance in this game is really outstanding. From the beginning of the game to now, he has reached five positions. You must know that this is Monaco." Brother Ran said with some emotion.
"Now that we are chasing the old man, do you think Toto will directly order Hamilton to make way for Qin Miao because Qin Miao's momentum is so good at this time?"
After hearing Fei Ge's outrageous statement, the other two commentators shook their heads and denied Fei Ge's statement.
"How is it possible? It's impossible no matter how you think about it."
"Yes, Hamilton made no mistakes in this race, and there was no problem with the car. There is no way he would give up this position to Qin Miao no matter how hard he thought."
"And putting aside the factors in the car, Hamilton is a seven-time champion after all, and his status in the Mercedes team is there. Unless the speed gap between the two drivers is too big, the team will not be able to give Hamilton a shot. Such a team order." Brother Ran analyzed the last sentence.
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On the field, Qin Miao didn't think about asking Hamilton to give up his position. After all, he was still chasing Hamilton, and due to excessive tire wear, Qin Miao's speed also began to drop.
On lap 28, Hamilton and Qin Miao completed lapping Mick Schumacher one after another, and the gap between them reached 2.9 seconds.
On lap 29, Qin Miao came 1.9 seconds behind Hamilton. Hamilton received the team's instruction for the driver to pit on the next lap.
On lap 30, Hamilton pitted and put on hard tires. It took 2.1 seconds. After coming out, he fell behind Perez and in front of Giovinazzi. Hamilton had a full 16 seconds of gap in front of him, so he could rest easy. The heart runs at its own pace.
Hamilton's pit stop also gave Qin Miao a gap of 4.7 seconds, and Qin Miao could still lap at his own pace.
There is no problem with the arrangement of the Mercedes team.
On lap 31, Norris and Gasly also chose to pit. Naturally, they did not want to be undercut by Hamilton.
As the two men pitted, Qin Miao's ranking immediately moved to second place, and he had more than 15 seconds of gap in front of him to set lap times comfortably.
But Hamilton was in misfortune. First of all, he failed to undercut Gasly. After Gasly came out, Hamilton still fell behind Gasly.
To be honest, the team originally asked Hamilton to pit first for the sake of Hamilton, and then Qin Miao went to put pressure on Gasly so that Hamilton could have enough space to run.
But I didn't expect that all of this would be Qin Miao's wedding dress.
Vettel pitted on lap 32, and the driver behind Qin Miao became Perez.
Unfortunately, Vettel got stuck in front of Gasly and Hamilton after leaving the station.
After receiving the news, Hamilton started to complain directly in the team TR: "This pit stop is really stupid."
All Toto could do at this time was hold his head in his hands and lean back tactically.
On lap 33, Sainz pitted and Qin Miao came to the second position, while Verstappen in front of him was 18 seconds away from him.
This gap made Qin Miao have no desire to catch up.
However, after reaching second place, Franky's voice rang out from the team's TR: "Qin Miao, the tires have begun to degrade, but we think we can still hold on for a while. There are no obstacles in front of you, so we need you to move forward as much as possible. Push forward and find a good gap.”
"Received." Qin Miao replied.
ERS, which had been stored for most of the game, began to be released without reservation, and the routing began to become aggressive.
The main reason why he couldn't run fast on the Monte Carlo track was that there was someone blocking him in front of him. Now that Qin Miao could see everything in front of him, his speed naturally improved significantly.
On lap 34, Perez, who had run 37 laps on soft tires, chose to pit.
Verstappen is still holding on on the track, because Red Bull knows that Qin Miao's defensive ability and tire protection ability are world-class. If Verstappen is allowed to pit at this time and falls behind Qin Miao after coming out, then At that time, the initiative will fall into Mercedes' hands.
So if you, Qin Miao, don't come in, I won't, and Verstappen won't come in. Everyone is waiting outside to see who can't stand it first.
The most suitable person to pit at this time is Perez.
When Perez came out of the pits to change to hard tires, he was 4 seconds behind Norris, ranking fifth.
Although he did not enter the podium position, compared with his eighth start, this ranking is already very good.
It's just that there is no harm without comparison. Qin Miao's existence proves to everyone how big the gap is between geniuses and ordinary people.
Started twelfth, currently second.
The on-site director's camera focused on a Mercedes and a Red Bull. The Red Bull was still the Red Bull's Verstappen, but the driver of the Mercedes was changed from Hamilton to Qin Miao.
ps. I was not satisfied with the writing of the following paragraph, so I deleted a lot of it. I didn’t have time to make up for it. I only have so much today, sorry. (End of chapter)
