Chapter 224 - 130: Another Championship

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Zhou Guanyu was also very cunning. He knew that Qin Miao had a better start than him, so he didn’t think about gaining a position through the start. He just honestly followed behind Qin Miao’s car. After Qin Miao overtook Yuki Tsunoda, Zhou Guanyu completed a wheel-to-wheel with Tsunoda along with Qin Miao. Zhou Guanyu understood that Qin Miao, caught in a tight pack of cars, couldn’t quickly shake him off. As long as he stayed behind Qin Miao’s car, there were plenty of opportunities to pick up positions. Before entering T1, Qin Miao once again used his excellent start to overtake his teammate Mick Schumacher. There was no choice; Mick’s start was even worse than Tsunoda’s. Being overtaken by Qin Miao was just a matter of time. Even while entering T1, Qin Miao forcefully dived into Ilott’s inside line with a brutal late braking move. After that, there wasn’t much to say. After entering Ilott’s inside line, Qin Miao left about 0.9 car lengths of space for Ilott on the exit. If Ilott wanted to exit the corner side by side with Qin Miao, he would have to ride the yellow sausage curb at T1. If Ilott’s driving skills were good enough, he could ride the curb and exit the corner alongside Qin Miao, using the wider track width to gain a faster relative speed and take advantage on the following straight. But if Ilott’s driving skills weren’t good enough and his control of distance wasn’t precise, he would subconsciously leave more room to avoid colliding with Qin Miao or letting Qin Miao collide with him. The consequence of this operation was that Ilott’s left tires would drop onto the yellow sausage curb. Scraping the curb with the chassis wasn’t the big deal. The real problem was that this driving style would make Ilott lose a lot of speed and could cause instability in power output to the rear wheels, which could severely lead to a loss of control on the spot. Of course, all this depends on the driver’s control over the car. Ilott, although not an F1 driver without that terrifying adaptability and reaction speed, was still one of the top drivers among the F2 field. Feeling that he was out of position, he directly resorted to driving off the track and entering the escape road. Originally, for forcing someone off the track like Qin Miao did, he could have been penalized for time, but once Ilott left the track, anyone could see that the space Qin Miao left was actually enough for one car to pass. Therefore, after a brief investigation, the stewards remained silent. And with Ilott abandoning the wheel-to-wheel with Qin Miao and entering the escape road, he naturally wasted a lot of time and couldn’t keep fighting with Qin Miao. All of Qin Miao’s operations were witnessed by Zhou Guanyu, who was closely following behind him. Seeing Qin Miao’s maneuvers, Zhou Guanyu couldn’t help but secretly click his tongue: "Damn, Qin Miao’s control over spacing is really beyond belief..." It’s like a replay of last week’s sprint race, where Qin Miao overtook three cars at the start, moving from seventh to fourth. And because Zhou Guanyu was clearly aware of the gap in strength between him and Qin Miao, he just honestly followed Qin Miao, picking up places and also gaining three positions, moving from eighth to fifth. But then there was an incident on the track. Mick Schumacher’s car veered off track, and a yellow flag appeared at T1. According to the replay, he had oversteered when applying throttle out of T1. The reason for the skid was evidently giving too much throttle too soon on the exit, causing the rear wheels to spin without traction and failing to regain control in time, spinning right there in place. After spinning, Mick Schumacher’s car came to a stop on track and stalled, leaving him no choice but to retire. On the fourth lap, the stewards opened the DRS, and Qin Miao also got close to Armstrong ahead. Original third-place starter Long Jia De executed a beautiful overtake of his teammate and Ticktum in the T5 series of high-speed corners, taking the lead. It was clear his form today was excellent. At the end of the fourth lap, using a better corner exit and DRS, Qin Miao easily overtook Armstrong. Armstrong was under significant pressure at the time, realizing that with Qin Miao’s better corner exit, he would likely be overtaken on the main straight. But he was unwilling to give up, so he chose to defend by changing lines when Qin Miao nosed into the inside line. But he switched too early. When he turned right to defend, Qin Miao naturally moved to the outer line on the left. Without even needing to battle on brakes, using DRS and faster corner exit speed, Qin Miao overtook the entire car mid-main straight. And at that moment, Zhou Guanyu also used his consistent trailing of Qin Miao, with DRS and slipstream, although unable to overtake Armstrong before the corner, to brake and take advantage of the outer line and exit trajectory, also overtaking Armstrong on the main straight after the corner. But initially, once Zhou Guanyu got into long runs, it was already a bit challenging to follow Qin Miao on soft tires, and now delayed by Armstrong, Qin Miao decisively left Zhou Guanyu behind out of the DRS zone. Ticktum and Long Jia De were respectively overtaken by Qin Miao on the sixth and ninth laps on the main straight using DRS. Overtaking six people in nine laps, Qin Miao once again demonstrated his terrifying strength on track. Once Qin Miao overtook Long Jia De to take first, Fei, the commentator for Five-Star Sports, remarked: "I feel like I’ll never tire of seeing Qin Miao’s overtaking maneuvers in F2 races. I only wish we could see Qin Miao’s overtakes more often during sprint races, though most of the time there are only seven cars for him to overtake..."

Chapter 224 - 130: Another Championship

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