Qin Miao can attempt to use his advantage in tire preservation to attack Sainz in the later stages of the race.
And now, this is the time point when Qin Miao can make a move against Sainz.
The live broadcast cameras no longer focused on the leading Verstappen, being fixated instead on Sainz and Qin Miao.
After all, everyone knew they were about to battle it out.
However, the duel between Qin Miao and Sainz ultimately did not commence.
Because on lap 47, an incident occurred on the track, and this incident quickly turned into a yellow flag, then a safety car.
On lap 47, Ricardo, who was in seventh, retired due to an oil leak on the car at the lawn area of the second time sector.
Since there was no pit entrance near Ricardo's retirement spot and to prevent fire from causing secondary damage to the car, Ricardo directly shut off the engine and couldn't move the car to the pit entrance before retiring.
So after a brief consideration, the race officials deployed the safety car.
