4. New fleet, new drivers

When he woke up again, Liu Hongyu found himself still in the same house where he had lived in London for a long time. The one in his hand is still holding his own handle, but the computer in front of him has long been turned off.

"Is it a dream..."After confirming that the computer he had used for several years and was too lazy to change was still normal, Liu Hongyu washed his face and lay down on the bed to sleep.

"Sleep, sleep! There is everything in the dream," Liu Hongyu thought

The next day, Liu Hongyu was woken up in a daze.

"Get up, two goods! Have you forgotten that you still have to sign the contract today? What the hell are you kids! A girl suddenly yelled in Liu Hongyu's ear.

"Sister, sister, are you crazy? What kind of official announcement? It's only six o'clock in the bed of a fart? Liu Hongyu picked up the mobile phone next to him and looked at the time, and said in a daze.

The person who urged him to get up next to him was his sister Lin Xi, who was six years older than him, and the different surnames were because one followed his mother's surname and the other had his father's surname.

"Why did you sleep? After winning the F2 championship, you floated? Get up and wash up! I won't see you downstairs in twenty minutes, and I promise not to cut you! After Lin Xi finished speaking, he picked up a pillow and threw it in Liu Hongyu's face.

After hearing this, Liu Hongyu instantly fell asleep. He picked up his phone and got up straight to watch what was happening.

I don't know when I see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. Liu Hongyu was really reborn back to 18 years old, but he had more identity as a racing driver than the previous highly educated rich second generation.

At the same time, Liu Hongyu felt that his body was a little different, and when he looked in the mirror, he realized that his current muscles were not 108,000 miles different from the waste wood student when he was 18 years old.

After all, as a formula driver, the first thing to fight is centrifugal force, which is not an ordinary thing...

Liu Hongyu checked his own information and found out that he came from the Meiben system and became the 2021 F2 champion at the age of 17 with a winning record, the kind that won the championship, and he was also a 21-year F2 rookie, driving the car of the Taichung team to carry the team forward.

"Is this rebirth like this?" Liu Hongyu couldn't help but complain. After all, F2 won the championship in his impression, but it was a no...

While washing up and checking the information, I found that today is 12/13/21, which happens to be the second day of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Yesterday's race was the same as his run last night, with Hamilton retaining the title and finishing the line with a doughnut in his bearings. It's just that... Unlike the original, former F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkkonen, who played for Alfa Romeo, finished in the points zone. And the previous 10th was Aucon.

However, Kimi, whose contract with Arrow expired at the end of the season, did not announce his retirement at all. Moreover, the FIA officially announced a few months ago that the Italian team Pagani (but the team is based in the UK) will join F1 in 2022, and Liu Hongyu is going to sign with Pagani today.

Although new teams have come in, the rules for qualifying and scoring points in races remain the same (in short, F1 22 becomes a reality)

While washing up and digesting the memory of the part of the car that appeared in his mind just now, Liu Hongyu was still a little shocked.

"If you come, you will be safe," Liu Hongyu thought to himself.

The new F2 World Champion joins hands with the former F1 World Champion to join the Pagani team! 》

In the afternoon, a piece of news caused an uproar. Even though it was still the middle of the night in China, there were a bunch of fans who stayed up late frantically forwarding the news.

Since Liu Hongyu became the F2 World Champion, there have been many people looking forward to when he will enter F1.

After a few months of scandals with Alfa Romeo and Alpine, Liu Hongyu officially signed with Pagani to participate in F1 as one of the drivers of the new season. And his teammate is still Kimi, who still has the strength to fight.

Let's talk about Liu Hongyu's annual salary, as a paid driver with his own 50 million sponsorship. The salary level is still modest for F1 drivers, and the salary is around $3.5 million when you count some of the bonuses that are basically required (such as getting a certain number of points and qualifying for the top few places).

By the way, if the year-end ranking is high enough or the number of podiums is enough, there can be hundreds of thousands.

What happened in the next few months... Except for Abu Dhabi, basically everything is the same as Liu Hongyu's original memory, during the winter test, a certain red tractor suddenly became a fast horse, but at the same time, Mercedes's speed did not go down, although the performance was not as spicy as the original, but at least it was not the level of the king of dolphin jumps in the paddock, and the speed was occasionally in the top four.

Although the winter test is generally for reference only, Liu Hongyu caught a glimpse of some details on the Mercedes during the test, which was basically the same as the W13 shown before the Mercedes race at the Silverstone Grand Prix.

"Looks like... Meiben may regain its competitiveness in a few games... Choose to sacrifice downforce in advance to suppress the dolphin jump, and then take one step at a time," Liu Hongyu thought to himself as he looked at the lap time.

Speaking of Pagani, the team designed a car that is somewhat competitive. In terms of dolphin jumping, it is one of the less serious teams in the paddock, and Liu Hongyu feels good when driving after adapting.

Although Liu Hongyu and Kimi occasionally understeer while driving, after all, it was a winter test, and the team still had plenty of time to improve.

Speaking of which, the Mercedes engine carried by the team is really not as weak as Liu Hongyu originally thought. Lap times were often in the top 10, with Kimi even third overall.

At least the lap speed is there, but the consistency will have to wait until the main race to find out.

After a series of improvements, Pagani finally held a new car launch, two or three days earlier than Alfa Romeo.

The overall design is still decent, and the black and silver deepening blue painting is more or less W12 Youth Edition, but the color is relatively not so black.

After the final adjustments and tests, the team welcomed the Australian Grand Prix, the opening race of the new season