As Perez's car stopped, the cheers at the venue, which had calmed down, erupted again, even louder than when Qin Miao attacked Perez.
Hamilton's rhythm was also disrupted by Perez suddenly stopping on the track, and by the time he bypassed Perez and returned to the track, the time gap between him and Qin Miao had reached 3 seconds.
With only one lap left before the race ends, Qin Miao just needs to safely complete the race to secure a podium finish.
In this race, Qin Miao found success in unexpected ways; the original strategy didn't work, yet inexplicably achieved good results which neither Qin Miao nor the team had envisaged before the race began.
In fact, the car's sudden halt on the track wasn't a personal mistake by Perez.
Having raced in F1 for nearly 10 years, Perez couldn't possibly make such a basic error due to pressure.
For every F1 driver, such mistakes are considered humiliating.
