This ti Qin Miao's overtaking line was almost identical to the one Verstappen used to push Hamilton off the track, relying on the advantage of tire and car performance to brake later than Alonso and then grab the inside line from Alonso.
The only difference was that before entering the braking point, Qin Miao had already drawn alongside Alonso's inside.
Moreover, when exiting the corner, Qin Miao wasn't as ruthless as Verstappen and left enough space for Alonso to exit the corner.
However, after exiting the corner, Qin Miao still relied on his car's more powerful tire traction to seize the inside line of T7, smoothly overtaking Alonso to reach tenth place, thus entering the points zone smoothly.
Next ahead of Qin Miao was the McLaren driver Ricardo, but after a brief tussle with Alonso, the ti gap between Qin Miao and Ricardo was 1.5 seconds.
Despite using soft tires, in the first lap, Qin Miao didn't have the speed or battery power to overtake another person.
However, after reaching tenth place, everyone at Red Bull started to get tense.
In the next two laps, although there were skirmishes between drivers on the track, there weren't any excessively dramatic position changes.
In the third lap, just when everyone thought Hamilton's behavior of cutting the track would be punished by the FIA, the race officials announced that the incident between Hamilton and Verstappen wouldn't be further investigated.
After seeing the result of the FIA's ruling, everyone at rcedes breathed a sigh of relief.
But next door at Red Bull, they started cursing right on the spot, with high resentnt.
After the anger, Red Bull staff imdiately contacted Michael Massi, who was enforcing the race, via the team's radio to argue the case.
Stating facts, reasoning, and exerting pressure on the FIA, while also venting their inner anger, this is considered a regular procedure for a team that suffers an unfavorable ruling.
Just that FIA reasoned that Hamilton had returned the advantage gained from cutting the turn back to Verstappen, and Hamilton's cutting was caused by being squeezed out by Verstappen, thereby rejecting Red Bull's appeal.
Red Bull, despite feeling helpless, had no choice but to accept the FIA's judgnt.
Nevertheless, Red Bull still needed to clearly convey their dissatisfaction with this ruling to the FIA.
The comntators at Five-Star Sports were also sowhat surprised when they saw this ruling result.
In the long ti that followed, the comntators at Five-Star Sports discussed why the FIA ruled as they did.
anwhile, in this process, Qin Miao had already approached Ricardo within 0.5 seconds.
In the third lap, without much banter with Ricardo, Qin Miao purely relied on the tail-speed of the W11 and exiting corners faster than Ricardo, directly overtaking Ricardo on the straight without the assistance of DRS.
Perhaps also due to their good relationship off-track, after Qin Miao's attack, Ricardo intended to defend but realized the speed difference between them was quite large, so he decisively gave up defending and just raced at his normal pace on the track.
Ultimately, at T1, Qin Miao overtook Ricardo, moving up one position to ninth.
Just one more person to overtake, and the dream of destroying Verstappen's championship could co true by surpassing O'Kang ahead.
It's worth ntioning that in front of O'Kang was Yuki Tsunoda.
At this mont, the ti gap between Yuki Tsunoda and Leclerc in front was 1.7 seconds, but according to the data rcedes collected on Yuki Tsunoda in practice and qualifying, there indeed was a speed difference between Lord and Leclerc, but it wasn't large enough for a 1.7-second gap after three laps.
And it's worth noting that the ti gap between Yuki Tsunoda and O'Kang was only 0.9 seconds.
It was clear this was intentionally done by Yuki Tsunoda.
Lord knew if he ran the race and defended Qin Miao normally, he alone couldn't stop Qin Miao's attack.
After a season of racing, teams like Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren that might have point conflicts with the rcedes team have all thoroughly researched Qin Miao.
Then they discovered that regardless of attacking ability, defensive ability, or race intuition, Qin Miao's qualities on-track were extrely terrifying, truly deserving of the rcedes team's attention towards him.
Even so teams, repeatedly studying the traits Qin Miao exhibited on-track this season, have more than once regretted not recruiting this talented driver like Toto did, when Qin Miao lost his driver seat at Ferrari.
Regret forever, regret forever.
Of course, the most distressed must be Ferrari. Although it's been talked about for a whole season how they let Qin Miao slip away, as long as Qin Miao hasn't retired and Ferrari hasn't risen, Iron Buddha Temple will forever criticize them for this matter.
Ahem, got off track.
Investigations and research by many teams revealed Qin Miao is indeed a very versatile driver, but he is ultimately human, and he has a weakness, which is his ability to break the DRS train is slightly lacking.
Thus such a scene appeared before Qin Miao, as AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda shalessly ford a DRS train with O'Kang.
O'Kang's personality can't be described as very bad, but calling him self-centered wouldn't be an exaggeration.
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