"At that time, all that's left is a mouth shouting from your ashes that it's not hot."

"Damn it." Zhou Guanyu laughed and gave Qin Miao a push.

After that, Qin Miao drove off in the Maybach given by the team, while Zhou Guanyu stayed beside an Alfa Romeo in the parking lot, watching Qin Miao's Maybach disappear into the distance, a look of determination and resolve flashing in his eyes.

"Can't let you leave me too far behind," Zhou Guanyu murmured.

After returning to the hotel, Qin Miao deleted the memo on his phone that reminded him to call Li Shufu.

In the following days, Qin Miao still deliberately paid attention to the news of the Martin Team, but strangely, it was as if President Li was just playing with Qin Miao, everything remained calm.

Of course, this might also be the calm before the storm.

After closely monitoring for several days without any news coming out, Qin Miao eventually gave up and started focusing on preparing for the Canadian Grand Prix.

On Thursday, Qin Miao arrived at the paddock, walked the track, and studied the terrain.

Having run two consecutive street races, Qin Miao indeed missed the traditional tracks.

At least these tracks don't feel as dangerous as street races, where it feels like the guardrails at the track's edges are about to come at you.

It feels like dancing on the tip of a knife.

Even though Qin Miao raced particularly well in Monaco, with many people calling the last lap of Qin Miao's Monaco Grand Prix qualifying a lap of the gods.

But at that time, Qin Miao actually didn't feel confident inside.

On Thursday, all of Qin Miao's workflow proceeded normally.

This week, the Mercedes Team didn't bring any upgrades to the car. In fact, the factory had prepared an upgrade for the front wing, but due to time and transportation issues, it wouldn't arrive at the paddock until Saturday. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

So this week, the car did not have any upgrades, and the team plans to save these upgrades for the next British Grand Prix. Meanwhile, the development of the new rear suspension is already on the agenda.

This rear suspension was scheduled after the end of last week's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Its main purpose is to increase the rigidity of the car's rear suspension, to ensure that the porpoising effect doesn't occur easily during high-speed driving.

The development of this rear suspension was expedited mainly because, after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Hamilton protested strongly about the porpoising issue during the post-race meeting.

This was understandable, given that on the track, Hamilton's old bones were nearly shaken apart by the car's porpoising.

After the race, Hamilton almost couldn't climb out of the car on his own.

The team couldn't let its seven-time champion be killed by their car, so they urgently started this development.

Meanwhile, the team also pressured the FIA.

Attacking from both fronts, they are determined to solve the porpoising issue.

Luckily, the rear suspension issue is relatively easy to solve, as the main design objective is to reduce the porpoising phenomenon.

Thus, the upgrade should be applied before the British Grand Prix at the latest.

Consequently, the team's performance at next week's Mercedes home race can be anticipated a little.

Not saying that Qin Miao and Hamilton will compete for the race win, but at least they can aim for the podium.

During the first practice session, since there was already a track to get familiar with this car, Qin Miao's practice returned to its usual ease.

The Gilles Villeneuve Circuit may also be a high-speed circuit, but it doesn't have the extremely long straightaways like Baku's Azerbaijan circuit, so during the first practice session, the car's porpoising phenomenon wasn't very severe when Qin Miao raced.

This level of porpoising doesn't cause much impact for Hamilton either.

The second and third practices also completed smoothly. Both Qin Miao and Hamilton found their most comfortable car settings, but Hamilton still requested an adjustment to the monocoque position during the post-session meeting after the third practice.

Although Hamilton is now trying his best to adapt, he is older now, having driven with a certain habit for so many years, wanting to change is truly difficult for the old man.

Additionally, Qin Miao doesn't rely on car characteristics, so in next season's car, the team indeed moved the cockpit position backward.

Due to these reasons, Hamilton couldn't fully unleash the performance of the W13.

Therefore, in this season, neither in the race nor in qualifying did Hamilton ever defeat his teammate Qin Miao.

Even though neither Hamilton's fans nor the Mercedes team's high-level executives think Hamilton is incapable.

Hamilton still feels urgency and anxiety because of it.

Throughout the practice sessions, everyone in the Mercedes team fairly smoothly completed their work.

The only thing that made Qin Miao uncomfortable was that during the third practice, it was raining lightly throughout the track.

Moreover, this rain continued for three and a half hours into the qualifying session.

And it persisted throughout the entire qualifying session.

During the Q1 phase of qualifying, because the rain on the track was relatively heavy, everyone switched to full rain tires and kept running on the track.

Since the track conditions would improve as the drivers continued to run, the speed of the cars naturally got faster.

The Q1 phase proceeded fairly steadily, although some drivers slipped while racing flying laps, they managed to stabilize their cars.