Besides Qin Miao, another Chinese driver, Zhou Guanyu, also adopted a one-stop strategy using yellow and red tires to complete the race.
However, compared to Qin Miao, Zhou Guanyu's pace on the medium tires dropped significantly in the later stages.
Moreover, during Zhou Guanyu's tire change, Alfa Romeo's tire change crew maintained stable performance, but a 4.5-second tire change directly placed Zhou Guanyu behind Albon when exiting the pit lane.
If the straight-line speed of this season's Mercedes cars often made slower teams feel desperate as they couldn't catch up,
then the Williams cars this season made teams with faster lap speeds but slower straight-line speeds feel extremely frustrated.
Albon often relied on his car's straight-line speed to form a long DRS train behind him. Due to the muscle car characteristics, even if the trailing drivers had DRS, their top speed at the end of the straight wasn't as fast as the Williams cars.
