Unfortunately for Mercedes, Red Bull's RB19 this season happens to be an exceptionally well‑balanced car.
You could say the RB19 is the single car best suited to the Catalonia circuit.
So it's easy to foresee that this Grand Prix weekend won't be too pleasant for Mercedes' two drivers.
The only good news is that the team will be bringing upgrades this week, though nobody knows yet how effective they'll be.
And right after landing in Spain, Qin Miao got a call from his agency.
They told him that his contract with Ferrari had been fully drafted.
All that was left was to find a time to sign.
Once he signed, Qin Miao would officially become a full‑time Ferrari driver next season.
Besides informing him of this, the call also had a bit of a sounding‑out tone: did this need to be locked in as soon as possible, or should they wait until the end of the year, at the other Italian Grand Prix, to go to Ferrari's headquarters and sign?
