At this moment, Qin Miao suddenly realized a problem: he had been pushing too hard, and the tire wear was indeed beyond expectations.
The team must have already known this, but they didn't tell Qin Miao.
Qin Miao could roughly guess the reason, after all, TR is shared.
So all Qin Miao could do at this moment was to remain calm, but his speed was noticeably starting to drop.
Behind the two, Perez was defending Hamilton with great difficulty.
In this race, Mercedes had two different rear wings: one with high downforce and one with low downforce. Both Qin Miao and Hamilton opted for the low downforce rear wing but set the angle higher.
Even so, Hamilton behind Perez was struggling to keep up, let alone find an opportunity to overtake Perez.
As the race settled into a calm state, after receiving the bad news, Qin Miao naturally couldn't widen the gap with Verstappen as he wished.
