In fact, the impact of Perez's crash was much greater than imagined.
Basically, all the mid-to-upper echelon teams started to busy themselves in their factories at this moment.
Mercedes directly prepared to replicate the structure of Red Bull's car floor from the on-site pictures in a 1:1 scale, and then install it on their W14 for wind tunnel testing.
Mercedes wanted to quickly analyze the purpose of Red Bull designing the floor this way and the effect of such a design.
And they prepared to quickly apply the upgrades to their own car.
Other slightly wealthier teams were doing similar things.
As Perez's car was cleared away, the qualifying practice resumed, but Qin Miao still did not go out to run.
After the end of Q1, Bottas became the biggest beneficiary after Perez retired, just managing to qualify for Q2 ahead of De Vries by 0.03 seconds.
Without the vacancy left by Perez, Bottas would definitely have been eliminated in Q1.
