This isn't because Qin Miao is fast enough to see Hamilton and Verstappen battling ahead; it's because he sees Mazepin in front.
When he was in F2, Qin Miao lapped half the drivers on the F2 circuit, but never had the chance to lap the Russian oligarch's son Mazepin.
As for Bahrain... Mazepin crashed himself out of that race, so overtaking him didn't count.
What's even more ridiculous is that Mazepin is currently the slowest driver in the field, and his teammate Mick Schumacher, after hitting something and spending over twenty seconds in the pits to fix his front wing, still emerged ahead of him by more than twenty seconds.
This guy really came here just to experience life...
By the seventeenth lap, there's at least a five-second gap between Qin Miao and Mazepin. Despite Qin Miao being about 1.2 seconds faster per lap than Mazepin, he can't catch him in the short term.
