During the time Qin Miao was in the pit, Perez was already accelerating hard, but, unfortunately, the time gap remained quite large, and the Mercedes tire change did not fail.
Meanwhile, everyone in the Red Bull team was hoping for Qin Miao to make a mistake on the track.
But, as it happened, the Mercedes tire change not only avoided any errors but was executed in two seconds, a speed Red Bull itself might not frequently achieve.
There it was, Qin Miao leading; completely unbeatable now.
On the track, after leading for two laps, Qin Miao's lap time was revealed.
Just 0.3 seconds faster than Perez's lap.
Meanwhile, Qin Miao's lap time matched Verstappen's.
This was actually not good news.
Because it showed that Red Bull's car was still a super machine, with its 25-lap old hard tires on par with Qin Miao.
If it switched to medium tires, it was hard to imagine how much faster its lap time would be compared to Qin Miao.
