Lap 25, Qin Miao was called in by the team for a tire change.
However, to everyone's surprise, Qin Miao changed to a set of soft tires after entering.
Qin Miao became the only driver in the race to use soft tires during the main stage.
The main reason was that after Qin Miao had run for so long, the team calculated based on Qin Miao's tire wear curve and found that a yellow-red-yellow two-stop strategy was feasible.
In fact, the yellow-red-yellow two-stop speed was even faster than a one-stop, the only issue being failing to overtake the drivers ahead after a pit stop, being blocked, thus causing the tires to miss the optimal operating window.
However, judging from Qin Miao's recent performance in the past two races, the team chose to trust Qin Miao.
They also believed Qin Miao could take on the responsibility.
