After overtaking Verstappen, Leclerc quickly widened the time gap between himself and Verstappen, which soon reached 1.5 seconds.

This shows that Ferrari’s speed in this race is obviously faster than Red Bull’s.

Since he was already overtaken, Verstappen decided to pit on lap 13 and switched to a set of hard tires.

On one hand, Verstappen had been defending against Leclerc for so long that the tires couldn’t hold out any longer, and on the other hand, he wanted to prevent Qin Miao, who was behind him, from undercutting him.

However, sometimes things don’t go as planned. Despite Qin Miao having to pit once more due to team orders earlier and having drivers blocking ahead of him,

Qin Miao’s speed on the medium tires was very fast on this track, and Verstappen’s battle with Leclerc took quite some time from him.

So when Verstappen came out, he directly ended up behind Qin Miao.

And he hadn’t even had a chance to attack Qin Miao yet.

On the starting straight DRS zone on lap 13, after Qin Miao brought his medium tires up to temperature, he directly overtook Mick Schumacher in front of him.

Even though Mick Schumacher had DRS from his teammate Magelsen in front, Mick Schumacher was on a set of medium tires that had already run for 13 laps, with a lap time difference of about 0.3 seconds compared to Qin Miao’s new mediums.

Additionally, Qin Miao’s car was generally faster than the Haas car.

So overtaking Mick Schumacher was just a matter of course for Qin Miao.

Now, if Verstappen wants to regain his position, he first has to find a way to overtake Mick in front of him.

In the same lap, at the position where Leclerc overtook Verstappen, Qin Miao also used the same method and the same cornering line to overtake Magelsen in front of him.

Now, there was only O’Kang left in front of Qin Miao.

As long as he overtakes O’Kang, there’s a clear 7 seconds of clean air ahead for Qin Miao to run at lap speed without any worries.

Unlike the double Haas drivers, O’Kang had a strong desire to resist Qin Miao.

Qin Miao was forced to waste a lap’s time on him before he overtook at the braking point of T3.

Sometimes Qin Miao couldn’t understand why, considering there was no conflict of position or ranking with O’Kang, he didn’t just let him through. Why block for a whole lap?

Having run this race for so long without pressure, are you bored?

This is really a lose-lose situation!

After overtaking O’Kang, at the exit of T3, Qin Miao didn’t run so fast. After straightening the car, he started to accelerate, then slowly but firmly pushed O’Kang toward the edge of the track.

At this point, O’Kang had only two choices: either slow down and give up his position to let Qin Miao exit normally,

or not slow down, stay on Qin Miao’s inside line, and get directly pushed off the track by Qin Miao.

O’Kang is mean, but he’s not stupid.

Fools can’t drive F1 cars and can’t be F1 drivers.

So, upon seeing Qin Miao’s move, O’Kang decisively gave up his position.

"Brother, you’re awesome, you go first."

Looking at O’Kang giving up his position in the rearview mirror,

Qin Miao clicked his tongue in slight regret, thinking he should have slowed down even more, as it would waste more time for O’Kang if he voluntarily gave up.

However, now that I’ve overtaken O’Kang, this matter is over, and there’s no need to intentionally slow down to mess with O’Kang out of spite; he’s not worth it.

After overtaking O’Kang, there’s over 7 seconds of empty space in front of Qin Miao, allowing him to comfortably run a long-distance pace.

Such opportunities are rare during the main race stage.