Seeing this, whether it's the domestic commentators or the Mercedes team fans, or even the staff on the Mercedes team's command post, everyone is showing a heartfelt smile.

However, just when everyone at the Mercedes command post thought they had figured out everything possible, feeling confident about victory.

A yellow flag suddenly appeared on the track.

Seeing this, everyone in the Mercedes team was startled, but upon closer inspection, they realized the yellow flag was in the first sector, which wouldn't affect Qin Miao and Hamilton, who had already reached the second sector.

They then felt slightly relieved, but soon began silently urging the broadcast staff to pull up footage of the incident causing the yellow flag on the track.

Then, the chilling footage quickly appeared on the broadcast.

Mick Schumacher's Haas car was now parked on the grass outside the track, and the location of Mick Schumacher's accident was identical to Perez's.

The barrier that Perez had just hit was bumped again by Mick Schumacher.

The difference was that Mick Schumacher's car was using a set of soft tires at the time, and compared to Perez's quick decision in the blink of an eye, Mick Schumacher was clearly flustered after realizing the car couldn't stop, instinctively trying to steer right to save the car.

The consequence of such a wrong decision was Mick Schumacher's car losing control on the spot, crashing sideways into the track's barrier.

Luckily, it was a braking point, so Mick's car wasn't very fast, and as he slid sideways into the grass, the four tires slowed him down a bit.

Thus, the collision, like Perez's incident, didn't leave any debris on the track, and even the damage to Mick Schumacher's car wasn't severe.

But the fatal issue was that, like Perez, Mick's car was stuck in the cushioning with impact marks.

Although the positions of the cars were different, the nature of Mick Schumacher's accident was almost identical to Perez's.

Toto immediately realized that the car would need a crane to be removed.

Ever since Bianqi's accident, whenever a crane enters the track, a red flag will inevitably be shown.

Realizing this, a thought flashed in Toto's mind instantly, which was to have Qin Miao finish this lap quickly.

Hamilton was still about ten seconds behind Qin Miao, with this situation, he definitely wouldn't be able to finish the lap.

At this moment, Qin Miao had already completed the second sector, setting a purple time, she even took a second off Verstappen's fastest lap.

It's a pity; sometimes things just don't go as planned.

As Qin Miao prepared to brake into T12, the race committee showed the red flag.

As long as a red flag is shown before crossing the line, even if you're just 0.001 seconds away from the finish line, appearing a red flag means your time will be canceled.

At this moment, only 1 minute and 30 seconds were remaining until the end of Q3.

This time isn't enough for the red flag to be lifted and for drivers to come out of the pits for another flying lap.

Even if there were 1 minute and 50 seconds, by then the track would be dry enough for Red Bull and Ferrari drivers to come out and run a clean flying lap.

Mercedes' strategy was ruined by Mick alone.

Director Mi, well done!

Red Bull and Ferrari fans, seeing this, wished they could drag Mick Schumacher out of the car and give him a big kiss.

Savior!

Faced with this unexpected incident, everyone on the Mercedes side could only helplessly sigh.

They've done everything humanly possible to the extreme, but unfortunately, fate wasn't on their side.

The qualifying ended like this, and the starting positions for the top ten in tomorrow's race are as follows:

1: Verstappen

2: Alonso

3: Sainz

4: Qin Miao

5: Hamilton

6: Magelsen

7: Zhou Guanyu

8: O'Kang

9: Ricardo 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

10: Mick Schumacher

It's unexpected for everyone that the experienced veteran Alonso appeared in the top three of the qualifiers.

Mainly because Alonso ran very well on that flying lap before the red flag, and the track was indeed quite dry at that time, so Brother Tou's performance was quite good.

And Qin Miao and Hamilton could only settle for fourth and fifth.

Of course, what made all domestic fans happy was Zhou Guanyu living up to his name, performing brilliantly in the rain battle, taking seventh place.

Many people believe that Zhou Guanyu's current seventh place isn't his limit, but the limit of Alfa Romeo's car.

Especially with Zhou Guanyu's teammate Bottas not even making it into Q3, Zhou Guanyu's performance today can be seen at a glance.

After driving back to the inspection area, Qin Miao and Hamilton, the two Mercedes drivers, felt a bit melancholic, with the two weighing in together side by side.

In the post-qualifying interview, the two drivers' helplessness was evident.

After the race, someone announced Mick's car damage, which wasn't severe—just a front wing damaged, with a direct economic loss of about 200,000 US Dollars.

Compared to Mick's crash in Monaco, it was much cheaper.

In the post-race analysis at the Mercedes team, they were also quite helpless; how did Mick crash under such good conditions? There wasn't even any water at T3.