Although in a normal Grand Prix qualifying session, as long as Qin Miao completes a flying lap and confirms that this lap's result can advance him to the next stage, he'll call it a day right on the spot.
But today is different, as this sprint race weekend is missing a practice session, and the Mercedes team still has a lot of data that hasn't been collected.
Therefore, Qin Miao decided to stay on the track for a longer period, also serving to help the team gather more data.
Qin Miao did not waste his brand-new soft tires, instead opting to run long distances on the track with a set of old soft tires.
Then at the end of Q1, Qin Miao received bad news.
Which is that the C5 soft tires are completely unusable on the Baku circuit.
Using this soft compound tire for a qualifying session is fine; this softest tire can indeed bring terrifying single-lap speed to the car.
But the problem is that the durability of this tire compound is too poor.
