Chapter 1209: Chapter 457: Watch My Backup Hidden Energy!
Even if the championship trophy isn’t mine, isn’t it nice to see all the trophies from an entire F2 season neatly lined up together?
So at this moment, Qin Miao doesn’t intend to back down. Right now, Hamilton hasn’t pulled away to a point where Qin Miao can’t attack. Qin Miao is naturally going to give it a shot.
However, as time gradually passed, even giving it his all, Qin Miao could only barely chase Hamilton to within 1.4 seconds behind.
Qin Miao even had a strong feeling that this position wasn’t something he caught up to, but rather Hamilton slowing down on purpose, letting him catch up.
Not to mention that the rain race hasn’t even opened the DRS, even if they had opened it, Qin Miao currently has no chance of getting into Hamilton’s DRS zone.
After realizing this, Qin Miao was already prepared to give up. Since he can’t catch up now, let this race end as it is. Second place isn’t bad either.
But he had mentioned before, this season, he has no points conflict with Hamilton on the driver standings.
Thinking of this, Qin Miao naturally slightly slowed down and started to conserve fuel and tires.
Hamilton in front also naturally adopted the same conservation strategy as Qin Miao.
Qin Miao started to pace himself, but Hamilton didn’t know that. He thought Qin Miao slowed down to conserve, waiting for a chance later in the race when Hamilton’s tires might lose grip.
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The race gradually calmed down until there were 15 minutes left when Zhou Guanyu pitted for new tires.
After switching to brand new intermediate rain tires, Zhou Guanyu grabbed the fastest lap of the race on his first lap out of the pit lane.
Zhou Guanyu was just 1 second faster than everyone else in the second sector alone.
There’s no doubt that Zhou Guanyu’s speed after pitting will certainly prompt many drivers to pit for new tires, as Zhou Guanyu’s speed on the new intermediate rain tires was too fast.
Under the catfish effect, almost all drivers at the back would be pitting for new tires.
Qin Miao and Hamilton were also informed of this news.
But for whether or not to pit, Qin Miao wasn’t really bothered.
After all, Qin Miao at present has a 10-second advantage over Verstappen behind him. Pitting now would certainly put him behind Verstappen, but even if Qin Miao isn’t used to rain racing, his lap time would still be at least 1.5 seconds faster per lap than Verstappen. It wouldn’t be too hard to catch up to Verstappen and overtake him again.
Moreover, whether Hamilton and Qin Miao pit or not, Verstappen and Leclerc behind them will surely have to pit for new tires to avoid being caught up by the speed advantage of new tires from drivers even further back. So the time gap between Qin Miao, Hamilton, and Verstappen will directly widen to 30 seconds.
With such a huge time gap, even if Verstappen is fast, he can’t catch up in 13 minutes left in the race.
You could say that when the race restarted, with both Qin Miao and Hamilton switching to intermediate tires, they were already in an invincible position.
And just as Qin Miao was peacefully prepared to secure this podium second place in the race, he suddenly saw a flash of red waving on the stands when passing through the main straight.
It was a flag that Qin Miao was immensely familiar with.
And next to that flag, as if in a duel of grandeur, there was also a waving flag painted with ointment symbolizing another nation.
Seeing this scene, throughout the race, always expressionless, Qin Miao was suddenly amused.
It seems that without obtaining the race win, there are still some people who are dissatisfied.
Qin Miao didn’t know who the audience waving his national flag at the stands was, but he had a feeling, seeing someone waving the flag of ointment next to him, they must be quite pissed off.
In that case, I, Qin Miao, have to stand my ground!
But when he shifted his attention back to the track and looked towards Hamilton ahead, Qin Miao found himself in a bind.
At the restart of the race, Qin Miao had already targeted his skill on Hamilton, but because he hadn’t put too much pressure on Hamilton, Hamilton had pressure data of only [24%] on him, which wasn’t enough to make Hamilton commit some critical or irreparable mistakes on track.
Qin Miao really felt how uncomfortable rain racing was.
Despite having top-notch talent in racing, without proper nurturing and education from an early age, he still had an unfixable shortfall.
This naturally referred to Qin Miao’s Rain Combat Ability.
However, Qin Miao did have some after-the-fact remedies.
As of the 2022 season now in the ongoing Japanese Grand Prix, 18 races have been completed.
Throughout these 18 races, Qin Miao’s system has given him tasks of varying difficulty. However, because the system this season didn’t provide many skills, mostly offering attribute points and various small tools Qin Miao already received, he didn’t pay much attention to the specific tasks given by the system.
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