Of course, Sainz, who was stabbed in the back by the team, naturally complained on the team radio, but what he was truly cursing inside, no one knows.
After changing his tires, Leclerc came out 37 seconds behind Qin Miao.
The most critical point was that Qin Miao showcased Pirelli's special tuning on the track once again.
At this moment, the set of medium tires on Qin Miao's car had not been changed during the red flag like the other frontrunners. Qin Miao's tires were the same old ones used since the race started, running one lap more on average than Hamilton's.
Yet even so, Qin Miao maintained a lap speed of 1:31.7 with these tires, which had raced 31 laps, virtually without any drop-off.
Real Pirelli.
There were 22 laps remaining till the end of the race, and the three commentators from Five-Star Sports speculated whether Qin Miao would perform the extreme yellow-soft one-stop again.
Meanwhile, the Mercedes strategy team was somewhat puzzled.
