Very soon, the two practice races on Friday were over. Although Qin Miao ran a set of new soft tire flying laps in both practice races, Qin Miao held back throughout the entire race, and additionally loaded 20 liters of fuel on the car, so the final results of the two practice races were not particularly outstanding, just hovering around fifth and seventh place.

Time quickly moved to Saturday.

The last practice race, Qin Miao continued to proceed routinely with the work during the practice race phase, nothing unexpected happened during this process.

However, after the third practice, something unexpected occurred for Qin Miao.

Hamilton found Qin Miao after the third practice and exchanged the car setup settings planned to be used in qualifying and the main race stages.

Qin Miao wants to extract all the performance from the car, and Hamilton, who hasn't been on the podium this season, surely wants the same?

This type of exchange does not imply any loss or gain for either driver.

Since they are all top drivers, they can learn a little from each other's car settings; it all depends on their comprehension ability and understanding of the car.

But Qin Miao has found the setup that feels most comfortable in today's race, even though he saw Hamilton's alternative setup approach, Qin Miao does not intend to borrow anything from Hamilton, just sticking to his current setup, not planning to change.

During the time between the third practice and qualifying, Qin Miao's car switched to the engine dedicated to the main race and qualifying stage, and everything was ready for the qualifying time.

Unusually, in Q1, Qin Miao's first flying lap was unexpectedly not his fastest lap.

Furthermore, Qin Miao's fastest flying lap in the Q1 stage just barely placed him in seventh.

Actually, given the Mercedes car's performance, there's really no need to run so conservatively at this point.

The reason for Qin Miao's slow speed is primarily due to the Monte Carlo circuit being too short, and there are 20 drivers running flying laps in Q1.

It was unavoidable for Qin Miao to encounter slight obstructions in his flying lap in Q1, preventing him from running the lines as extremely.

Therefore, Qin Miao's results in Q1 weren't very ideal.

The drivers eliminated in Q1 were: Albon, Russell, Gasly, Zhou Guanyu, Stroll.

Seeing Zhou Guanyu eliminated in Q1, Qin Miao was really surprised but not shocked.

The surprise lies in that during Zhou Guanyu's F2 period, especially in the season after Qin Miao left, he took first place twice in Monaco.

This shows Zhou Guanyu's adaptability to the Monaco circuit is still quite good.

Not shocked because Zhou Guanyu's luck is really too bad.

The reason for his elimination in Q1 was because Zhou Guanyu got screwed by his team again, the timing of releasing Zhou Guanyu for the last flying lap in Q1 by Alfa Romeo was too late, resulting in Zhou Guanyu getting stuck directly at the pit exit.

By the time he got on the track to start the warm-up lap, there was only 1 minute 11 seconds left before the end of the race.

Just starting the warm-up lap, let alone Zhou Guanyu, even Leclerc and Verstappen, the fastest this season, couldn't complete the warm-up and start the final flying lap.

As a result, Zhou Guanyu was just released and his qualifying session was effectively over.

This was already the second time the team screwed Zhou Guanyu with car release problems during the qualifying stage.

Even Qin Miao felt that Alfa Romeo was treating Zhou Guanyu and Bottas differently.

Although Alfa Romeo can't monitor two drivers like Mercedes and put more resources on Bottas, they shouldn't keep making such repeated low-level mistakes.

Zhou Guanyu's own strength is not bad, at least he steadily brings back one or two points in each race.

Despite Zhou Guanyu's temper, encountering such situations led him to send several reports over the team TR.

At the same time, Qin Miao had no choice but to admire Zhou Guanyu, Leclerc, and Sainz, these Ferrari-affiliated drivers, for their misfortunes.

As for Qin Miao?

He actually counts as Ferrari's discard, since besides the F2 period, Qin Miao has not joined any Ferrari-affiliated F1 team.

Strictly speaking, Qin Miao is only Ferrari's youth training product, but after entering F1, he hasn't had any relationship with Ferrari.

In Q2, with five fewer cars on the trail, the congestion situation on the track was greatly relieved, and Qin Miao did not encounter any obstructions in his two flying laps.

Moreover, in the last flying lap of Q2, Qin Miao set a good time of 1:11.912, outperforming Verstappen and Perez, securing second place in advancing to Q2.

The drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Tsunoda, Bottas, Magelsen, Ricardo, Mick.

However, after achieving such a result, Qin Miao wasn't exactly happy.

Because in his last flying lap in Q2, Qin Miao was already running with all his strength, yet, despite this, there was still a 0.1-second gap between himself and Leclerc.

This was still in Q2, when Leclerc wasn't running with full effort in this flying lap. If they reach Q3, where everyone begins to unleash all the car's performance without reservation, Qin Miao doesn't feel there's a chance to contend for the pole position in this qualifying session.