Therefore, during all three qualifying sessions, all drivers can use soft tires for lap times, and during the race, they can also use new tires.
Finally, no more such constraints, which is good news for Qin Miao.
Soon, time moved on to qualifying Q1.
After the 15-minute countdown began, all the teams' drivers gradually left their pits and went onto the track.
However, on the Mercedes side, both Hamilton and Qin Miao didn't go out immediately; they stayed in the team's pitroom until there were 9 minutes left in Q1 before being released.
An old Mercedes tradition.
By that time, the two Red Bull drivers had already occupied the first and second places.
It's worth mentioning that when Qin Miao and Hamilton were running warm-up laps, Bottas, who hadn't touched a race car for a year, hit the track and on his second flying lap, reached second place, surpassing Perez and trailing Verstappen.
