Chapter 1545 - 565: Dramatic One vs. Two Overtake

Chapter 1545: Chapter 565: Dramatic One vs. Two Overtake

But who could have thought that Red Bull gave such a good opportunity, and to their delight, Qin Miao did not disappoint their expectations and seized this opportunity.

After Qin Miao completed the overtaking of Verstappen and Perez, the scene shifted.

The director, seeing nothing unexpected or any crashes after the start, quickly switched the camera to the Mercedes team’s pit wall.

Before this happened, the staff at the Mercedes pit wall were all sitting in their positions watching the race. Since this sprint race was likely not requiring drivers to pit for tire changes, because a light drizzle was continuously falling on the track.

And this was a short race, pitting for tire changes would mean losing a lot of time, making it hard to catch up with the drivers ahead with the remaining laps.

And seeing Qin Miao’s overtaking, the team staff who were originally sitting in their positions all jumped up, cheering loudly with fist pumps.

Toto also stood up from his seat to cheer.

After watching the reaction from the Mercedes side, the director knowingly switched the camera to the Red Bull side immediately.

After all, strictly speaking, the Red Bull drivers became mere background in this overtaking scene.

So Horner’s expression at this moment was visibly bad.

If such an overtake happened on another track, Horner wouldn’t have looked so sour.

But this is Red Bull’s home track.

The overtaking wasn’t due to an error on the track by either driver, or any other reason, it was purely due to these two idiots fighting each other.

Playing out such a scene at this time was undoubtedly a slap in Horner’s face, it was no wonder his expression was bad.

If we were to pinpoint responsibility, the main culprit for getting overtaken by one was Verstappen.

Because before the braking point at T3, Verstappen was in no position to brake late in wet conditions to force Perez.

You could say his late braking was entirely aimed at squeezing Perez off the track.

It was also because of Verstappen’s reckless actions that Qin Miao had the opportunity to benefit from the chaos.

Before the race started, Horner had everything planned out perfectly, with Verstappen leading in front, while Perez defended Qin Miao from behind.

Without DRS, it would be difficult for Qin Miao to overtake Perez on track, and even if he did manage it, during the time Perez was defending against Qin Miao, Verstappen would surely have pulled away.

So in Red Bull’s planned race, the minimum goal was to allow Verstappen to extend his lead over Qin Miao by one point in the standings. If Perez performed well, Verstappen could pull away by two points. In that case, Red Bull could even tie with Mercedes in the constructors’ standings.

But now?

It’s all over, completely over!

Next to him, Horner’s face appeared gloomy, Marco remained silent as he looked down at something, while Newey simply shook his head and left the Red Bull command post with his drafting board.

Newey knew that without DRS, even if Verstappen fully charged his car’s battery, he wouldn’t be able to make a move on Qin Miao’s defense.

The outcome of this race was already destined, there’s nothing more to see here in Newey’s eyes, might as well call it a day.

And the live director also faithfully captured this scene entirely, transmitting the footage to all the audience watching the race.

[Hahaha]

[Horner must be furious]

[Newey just stormed off]

[The clams fought, and the fisherman profited]

[Qin Miao absolutely profited, never thought overtaking Verstappen could be so easy]

[I bet Qin Miao’s grin has split his face by now]

[Pan is fully responsible]

[Ricardo: I’m familiar with this!]

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On the track, although Qin Miao didn’t have the grin that the fans described in the barrage, that would indeed be a bit too exaggerated.

However, having picked up a position practically for free from the Red Bull duo, Qin Miao was in a very good mood now.

After all, his current lead was practically gifted to him.

The two Red Bull drivers directly handed the lead advantage into his mouth.

But Qin Miao was also aware of the saying about being too happy and inviting misfortune, it’s best not to boast after gaining an advantage.

So after overtaking the two Red Bulls, Qin Miao only said one thing over the team’s TR: "easy."

In Qin Miao’s view, this "easy" was really just as simple at face value.

But when this statement reached the ears of the Red Bull staff, it completely changed in meaning, wasn’t this a blatant mockery?

The Red Bull team was even more furious.

But nothing they did would help.

Because Qin Miao’s sprint race was concluding at that point.

Although the rain on the track gradually lessened towards the end of the race and had completely stopped before it ended, and visible driving lines became apparent on the track.

Neither Qin Miao, Verstappen, Perez, nor Sainz opted to pit for a tire change in the later stages of the sprint race.

After all, the total length of the race was only 24 laps, 100 kilometers, pitting for dry tires at this time would mean not having enough laps to catch up with the cars ahead.

Thus doing so would be counterproductive and entirely not worth it.

Compared to the drivers sitting firmly in the points, the drivers on the cusp of the points area were in quite a disarray.