Q2, Qin Miao and Hamilton both switched to medium tires.
In tomorrow's race, Qin Miao and Hamilton are both planning to start on medium tires.
Apart from them, the Red Bull team shares the same strategy, with Verstappen and Perez also opting for medium tires in Q2.
At the end of Q2, Hamilton led with a time of 1:27.750.
Hamilton's time on the medium tires was faster than Qin Miao's flying lap in Q1 with soft tires.
The drivers eliminated in Q2 were: Ricardo, Kimi, Alonso, Russell, and Sainz.
In the Q3 stage, there were fewer cars on track, eliminating issues with traffic and encountering slow cars during flying laps.
At the start of Q3, Qin Miao noticed that the car had a problem with tire warming.
Since it was completely dark, the lack of sunlight caused the track temperature to drop rapidly. After Q1 and Q2, any daytime warmth left on the track had completely dissipated.
So just in the warm-up lap, Qin Miao clearly felt that his tires had almost no grip.
