Throughout the race, Qin Miao was mainly defending against Leclerc's attacks, and being able to perform like this could certainly be considered relaxed.

In fact, Qin Miao didn't feel too much pressure defending against Leclerc.

For one thing, they often raced together on simulators, so Qin Miao is quite familiar with Leclerc's driving habits.

Moreover, Qin Miao had just mentioned to Leclerc that Leclerc's tendency to become impatient when clearly at a disadvantage makes his maneuvers more aggressive and urgent.

Therefore, as long as you give Leclerc the slightest opportunity, he will desperately try to seize it, making defending against Leclerc at least more comfortable than defending against those old hands like Perez.

The experience of those old-timers is just too vast; when their cars are performing better than yours, they can see through most of your defensive maneuvers at a glance.

To lock them out, not only must your car not perform much worse, but you also have to make long-term strategic arrangements.

But after all, this is Leclerc's home, he even lives here himself.

So at times like this, you certainly can't tell the truth, instead, you have to praise Leclerc, even lavishly so.

"No, of course not, Leclerc's attacks were very fierce, there were several times during which I almost couldn't fend him off, it was the two red flags that gave me some breathing room. If today's race hadn't been interrupted and had continued to run the full course, I might not have been able to fend off Leclerc's attacks.

As for the race victory today, my personal skill accounts for maybe only 30% of this victory, another 30% is the team's effort, and the remaining 40% is purely luck."

"In the latter part of the race, Sainz also tried to overtake Leclerc, but I noticed that every time Sainz was preparing to attack Leclerc in the DRS zone and was threatening Leclerc, you would always appear in front of Leclerc's DRS zone, was this intentional on your part?"

How could this be said at this moment?

"Coincidence!"

Unlike the lengthy discourse just now, when the post-race interviewer asked this question, Qin Miao replied with these two words, absolutely righteous and serious.

But the contrast became apparent at this moment—when talking about Leclerc just now, Qin Miao had said such a lengthy piece, going as far as to praise Leclerc's attacking ability as if it was stronger than his own.

Yet when faced with the interviewer's question, Qin Miao uttered only a single word, making it clear to anyone that there must be an intentional aspect by Qin Miao involved.

Though Qin Miao maintained a righteously dignified expression.

One has to admit the show effect was superb.

Seeing Qin Miao's response, Bing and the others burst into laughter in the studio.

Even the interviewer was momentarily stunned.

However, being a professional, they quickly switched topics: "So Qin Miao, will the impressive performance of Mercedes this week carry over to the next race? From your team's performance today, it seems like the car's performance is showing signs of revival."

This time Qin Miao didn't dodge the question; after all, fans might not know, but both the Mercedes team and its competitors are aware that Mercedes' cars are not doing well this season.

So Qin Miao spoke candidly: "It's hard to say, actually, the team didn't even upgrade for this race. So far, the team still has no good solution to the porpoising issue of the car, and the overall balance and predictability of the car are not particularly good. What troubles me and Hamilton the most is that the setup window of the car is not very large.

Therefore, I believe the team still needs to invest more effort and resources into car development, at least for a year, at most two years. I believe by then, the team's car will regain its previous competitiveness."

Even though there are still many questions I want to ask Qin Miao, considering his outstanding performance today, I had already asked three questions; thus, the interviewer could only smile and bid farewell to Qin Miao, "Alright, congratulations again on winning the Monaco Grand Prix race of the 2022 season. Looking forward to seeing better performances from you this season."

Qin Miao smiled, nodded, and put down the microphone, then waved to the fans on-site, and went off the track.

After the Monaco Grand Prix, the podium is just inside the building next to the track, so now Qin Miao needs to go to the waiting area to prepare.

But after all, it's a street race, there are people in every window beside the track, so as Qin Miao walked past, many people on the floors above were calling out his name and whistling at him.

Qin Miao naturally smiled and waved back in acknowledgment.

As Qin Miao left, Toto stood with arms crossed among the Mercedes crowd, still pondering Qin Miao's last words.

He then turned to look at Elliott beside him.

"Mike, when can the simulator modifications be completed?"

Elliott felt a bit caught off guard looking at his boss. Isn't this supposed to be a time for happy celebrations? Why suddenly bring up this matter?

But, in any case, he is still in work mode, so after pondering Toto's question for a moment, Elliott provided his answer, "According to the reports from the simulator department, the earliest would be by the British Grand Prix."

"And the car development?"

"Are you referring to the current W13 or the redesigned W13B?" Without waiting for Toto to answer, Elliott directly updated him on the progress of the two different concept cars: "The redesigned W13B has already started component manufacturing, with the chassis still using the new one I designed.