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Therefore, the team expects the W14 to continue to perform well on the Las Vegas circuit.

Qin Miao also wanted to try if he could get the pole position he hadn't had for a long time.

When the first practice just started, Qin Miao was just getting used to his car on the track and asked the team staff to check the car's various data.

Qin Miao was ready to start work only after running a warm-up lap on the track.

As soon as he started the first lap, Qin Miao took the first place directly.

This shows that the current W14 is indeed very suitable for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

However, Qin Miao's happiness didn't last long as an accident occurred on the track.

Less than 20 minutes into the race, unlucky Sainz was doing a practice run on the track when the huge suction force on the ground-effect racing car's floor on the longest straight sucked a small manhole cover that was not sealed particularly tightly out of the asphalt on the track.

The manhole cover that was sucked up from the ground continued to move upward with unabated force and directly penetrated the floor of Sainz's Ferrari.

After suffering a heavy blow from under the skirt, Sainz's racing engine stopped working, the car completely lost power and began to slide on the track.

Post-race inspections revealed that the heavy impact from the track had directly destroyed Sainz's floor, and collateral damage also destroyed Sainz's engine and battery.

Therefore, the Ferrari car with special edition paint was parked on the track.

Although the Ferrari was parked on a long straight road, it could be seen from a long distance.

But it is a street after all, and if Matthew enters and wants to push the track back to Matthew's entrance, it needs to be pushed to the rear of the car.

This poses a safety hazard.

Therefore, the race directly issued a red flag.

But the red flag during the practice session will not stop the countdown for the first practice session, and the reason for Sainz's accident was that the huge suction force of the SF23 ground effect floor sucked up the manhole cover on the track.

As a result, a pit appeared at the original manhole cover location on the track.

If the track is damaged, it is naturally impossible for the practice session to proceed normally.

We can only continue after the track is repaired.

So more than ten minutes later, the FIA ​​announced that the first practice session was cancelled.

And that’s not all. Since a manhole cover that was checked before the race and found to be fine could be sucked up, is it possible that manhole covers in other locations on the track could also be sucked up?

Therefore, the second practice session, which was originally supposed to start at 12 o'clock, was postponed to 2:30 in the morning because the track organizer needed to repair the damaged manhole cover and reinforce all other manhole covers on the track.

To be honest, after hearing the time when the race would be restarted, Qin Miao really wanted to set an alarm and go back to the team’s home to have some sleep.

But Qin Miao was stopped by Barber, because he had obtained some useful data from the laps he had just run, and could also optimize the tuning of Qin Miao's car.

Therefore, Qin Miao still has to devote most of his energy to tuning the racing car.

Time flies and it is 2:30 in the morning of the second practice.

To be honest, Qin Miao really feels a little sleepy now.

After all, Qin Miao woke up early today because of his biological clock.

But there is no way, work is work, there is no way to compromise.

And Qin Miao didn't want to lose his world championship.

Therefore, Qin Miao still did not give himself any discounts in his second practice.

It is worth mentioning that during the second training session, Zhou Guanyu ran particularly slowly in one timed section.

When Lao Si caught up with Zhou Guanyu, he complained directly: "Poor little Zhou almost fell asleep on the track."

Nothing unexpected happened during the second practice.

At least that's the case for Mercedes.

Qin Miao completed most of the tuning work on his car in one hour of the second practice, but the test data was a little bit less.

But it’s not a big deal, I can just make up for it in the three training sessions tomorrow.

After sending a copy of his in-car video and route map to the old man, Qin Miao went straight to complete Thursday's post-match interview and fell asleep after returning to the hotel.

Time quickly came to Friday, the day of the third practice and qualifying.

I won’t go into detail about the process of the third practice session here, and will focus directly on the qualifying round.

Q1 stage.

In fact, the wake effect of this track is very good. After all, there is a 1.6-kilometer-long straight road here. As long as there is someone in front of you to pull your wake, the tail speed of your car can be greatly improved.

But the two Mercedes drivers did not have any thoughts in this regard. They just ran at their own pace on the track.

Of course, what was learned during the practice session played its due role at this moment, and the two drivers also found their own comfortable ways to warm up their tires on the track.

However, the temperature at the Las Vegas racetrack is in the single digits. In order to get the tires of the car to reach the optimal operating temperature, given the characteristics of the W14 low-drag car, Qin Miao and the old man would have to run two laps on the track to achieve this.

After running two warm-up laps, Qin Miao started his first flying lap on this unfamiliar track.

After all, it was his first time running, so Qin Miao held back a bit and didn't run too hard. He also ran relatively gently through some bends close to the guardrails of the track.

During the first flying circle, Qin Miao left at least 3cm of room for error in these bends.

Although Qin Miao came first directly after the race, Qin Miao still felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in his performance.

In fact, after achieving this result, Qin Miao felt that his result would definitely be surpassed by other drivers in a short time. However, to Qin Miao's surprise, when other drivers finished their second flying lap, Qin Miao's own ranking was still high at second on the list.

Even the one pressing above him is his teammate Hamilton.

After seeing this, Qin Miao instinctively wanted to be lazy and just slack off in the team's P room during the remaining time of P1.

However, thinking that his familiarity with this track was not so perfect and still did not meet his inner expectations, Qin Miao still came out obediently and ran two flying laps.

Of course, the tires used are relatively old soft tires.

However, as Qin Miao became more familiar with the track, even if he used old soft tires, his results were still 0.1 seconds better than his original results.

In the end, amidst the countless Qin Miao fans who were following the race exclaiming, [My youth is over again], Qin Miao advanced to Q1 with the second place in Q2.

"Qin Miao probably doesn't have a deep understanding of this track, so he wants to run a few more laps to familiarize himself with the track." This is the analysis of the soldier who is aware of Qin Miao's bad habits in the qualifying stage.

"Well, this should be just as Brother Bing said." Zhou Haoran also nodded and said: "Qin Miao's last flying lap was even done on a set of old soft tires that had been run for 5 laps."

"This also strengthens our confidence. Judging from the performance of the two Mercedes drivers in this Grand Prix weekend, the W14 is indeed very adapted to this new track. We also hope that Qin Miao will have a good result in the next two qualifying sessions." Fei Ge said: "Okay, let's go to a commercial."

...After returning to the team's P room, Qin Miao waited for the display screen to be set up on the flip-flops in front of him and took a look at the in-car screen of his single lap.

To be honest, Qin Miao himself didn't know why he ran so fast, and even needed to watch the replay to confirm what had just happened.

Q2.

After Qin Miao digested his own Q1 qualifying results and the old man's qualifying car video, his lap time for the first flying lap in Q2 improved slightly.

But this time, after Qin Miao achieved a suitable result using the soft tires, he did not run in the second lap.

Finally, the seventh lowest altitude advanced to Q3.

[My youth has returned so soon? ]

In the Q3 stage, Qin Miao first made a base circle, but after seeing Qin Miao's base circle, Red Bull and Ferrari became chaotic.

Because they found that Qin Miao's base lap result was only about 0.05 slower than their estimated results of Leclerc and Verstappen.

If Qin Miao did not make a mistake in the last flying lap, the suspense of the pole position in this race would only be between Qin Miao and Hamilton.
Therefore, Ferrari began to give Sainz team instructions, asking him to help Leclerc pull the slipstream on the track.

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As for why Sainz was allowed to pull the tail…

Sainz won’t even have a place next season. This season, Sainz is just a discarded pawn for Ferrari. If he is not allowed to do the dirty and tiring work, who will do it?
As for why Red Bull didn't let Verstappen's teammates help him pull the slipstream, maybe they didn't want to...

Perez was eliminated in Q2...

Therefore, Verstappen fought alone on the track.

Mercedes actually thought about letting the two drivers pull each other's slipstream in Q3.

However, considering the delicate balance between the two drivers within the team, and the adaptability of Mercedes' W14 to this track at this time, Mercedes did not issue any team instructions in this regard, but let the two drivers make their own decisions on the track.

Then the two drivers looked at their own results in Q1 and Q2, and then at their opponents' results. In the end, they did not choose to let their teammates help them pull the slipstream, but decided to run on their own.

Qin Miao's last flying lap in Q3 was very extreme.

Basically, all the walls that could be stuck were stuck during the exit and entry stages.

At its closest point, it was less than 0.05cm from the track guardrail.

From the perspective of the camera next to the guardrail of the track, Qin Miao's car was completely brushing against the guardrail. The only difference was that although Qin Miao was brushing against the guardrail, he did not bring anything down from the guardrail.

At the end of Q3, Qin Miao ranked first with a score of 1:31.995.

He was also the only driver to finish within 1 minute and 31 seconds in the qualifying session, with the others finishing within 1 minute and 32 seconds.

The old man's result was 1:32.009, 0.014 seconds slower than Qin Miao.

The results of the two Mercedes drivers were really just a matter of millimeters apart.

However, after seeing Hamilton's result, Mercedes people were even happier than when they saw Qin Miao's pole position.

It is obvious that the old man performed particularly well in this Grand Prix weekend. It is not difficult to see from Hamilton's performance that after winning the last Brazilian Grand Prix, the successful crowning of the home race champion allowed Hamilton to pick up the self-confidence that was beaten to pieces by Qin Miao in the early and middle stages of this season.

The seven-time champion familiar to Mercedes has found his form again

Qin Miao once again took pole position in the qualifying round after a long absence.

What makes Qin Miao's fans excited is.

Verstappen's performance in qualifying was not very good this Grand Prix weekend, and he only finished fifth.

Of course, Verstappen cannot be blamed. After all, Verstappen's performance has always been very stable, and he is considered a driver of Qin Miao's level.

But the problem is that the Las Vegas Grand Prix track is relatively unsuitable for the RB19.

You should know that with DRS turned on, the W14's rear speed is 19 kilometers per hour faster than the RB14.

Mercedes' W14 even reached a top speed of 358 kilometers per hour without any wake.

Are you asking Red Bull to compete with Mercedes?
Finally, after qualifying, the drivers' rankings are as follows:

1: Qin Miao (1:31.995)

2: Hamilton

3: Leclerc

4: Sainz
5: Verstappen

6: Gasly
7: Russell
8: Albon
9: Bottas
10: Magnussen

There is no need to say much about the performance of Qin Miao and the old man in today's race. The two Mercedes drivers naturally achieved a good result on this track where their cars were extremely comfortable to run.

Apart from the two of them, Leclerc, who defeated Verstappen, really surprised many people today.

But the fourth child’s performance today was indeed unexpected but reasonable.

On the one hand, the fourth car did run well in the qualifying stage, but it is undeniable that the Ferrari is more adapted to tracks like Las Vegas than the RB19.

What was really surprising was that Williams, who usually could easily get into Q2, not only had both cars enter Q3 today, but they were not even at the bottom of Q3.

To be honest, seeing these two drivers achieve such results is more surprising than Qin Miao winning the pole position for this race.

Both of them reaped the benefits of the track by relying on the muscle car concept inherited from Williams and Mercedes.

Of course, this is not appropriate, because strictly speaking, Williams proposed the muscle car concept earlier than Mercedes-Benz.

All in all, this is America after all, and it is natural for muscle cars to achieve better results in the US Grand Prix.

After the game.

Qin Miao cheered excitedly when he knew he had taken the pole position.

After thanking the team staff, Qin Miao took his car back to the maintenance area.

After briefly completing the post-race interview and gaining exposure for the qualifying pole position, Qin Miao signed the small tire and returned to the team's P room.

However, after returning, Qin Miao did not rest, but watched the old man's in-car video of the game.

In this game, Pan Zi posed basically no threat to him, and therefore, Qin Miao's main opponent became the old man.

Since Mercedes is unlikely to order the old man to give up his position to him, Qin Miao must find a way to defeat him on the track.

There is an old Chinese saying that goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles." (End of this chapter)