7. "Top" tire change, offensive and defensive battles

After seeing Sainz running directly on the gravel ground and hitting the wall, he directly dispatched the virtual safety car after retiring from the race.

"The engine lost power and hit the wall, and the damage to the car couldn't be repaired anytime soon, so Sainz didn't try to drive back to the pits." Marcus and Liu Hongyu talked about the reason for Sainz's withdrawal

Alonso: "Come on, boy, shout to me, GP2 Grace!" GP2! Yes! ”

"Wofa's luck... The pressure on Lockton is suddenly getting higher now..."Liu Hongyu thought to himself

At this time, countless beautiful boys hit the public screen on the "nest ethane".

After four laps, the virtual safety car was lifted and the race resumed. Leclerc in front of him was still habitually pressing, and he started to accelerate directly in the last few corners.

Because there was no DRS in the first two laps and Liu Hongyu had the wake of Verstappen in front of him, Pérez and Hamilton behind him could not successfully surpass Liu Hongyu.

On lap 19, Hamilton took a straight outside tap on the starting straight, and Pérez behind him also tried to tap the outside line, but Liu Hongyu blocked the line one step ahead of him.

After following the car for a while, Liu Hongyu's tires also began to decay, and seeing this, he could only be the locomotive to drag some time for Kimi, who had finished changing the tires behind.

“Louis,box right now.” Marcus motioned for Liu Hongyu to pit stop.

"Control your speed and don't exceed the pit limit."

This white tire... It's changed, but it's ......

"You got a Ferrari from the right front tyretor?" Liu Hongyu watched that everyone had finished changing the tires, and the right front wheel had just put the new tires on it, and he was just about to put on the bolts, and his mentality was a little explosive.

It took 5.3 seconds to change the tyres and dropped straight to 17th place, followed by Sebastian Vettel, Stroll and Latifi.

After the tires warmed up, Liu Hongyu relied on the advantage of racing performance to surpass Gasly in a row, and Tsunoda and Albon rose to 16th place.

On the 34th lap, a yellow flag suddenly appeared on the sidelines, Liu Hongyu glanced at the big screen on the sidelines, good guys, Verstappen is on the wall.

"Slow down, the race showed a physical safety car, reduce the speed. Verstappen must have been out of the corner with the amount of oil he was not properly controlled, and he hit the spinning top behind the shoulder of the sausage. ”

Hearing this, Liu Hongyu changed the mode of the car and followed behind Pérez in front of him, waiting for the safety car to be lifted.

After Matthew cleaned up the debris from the track and lifted the car away. On lap 37, the safety roof light went out, and the race chose to remove the safety car and let the lapped car return to the back of the line.

Liu Hongyu pinched the right time and directly accelerated past Perez when the sixth child accelerated. Perez also quickly sucked Liu Hongyu's wake and began to overtake on the big straight, most of the vehicles of the geocentric group and the earth group couldn't stop the two at all, so they could only choose to let them pass.

Liu Hongyu went straight to eighth after the second straight, ahead of Alonso and Ocon.

After successive corners, Alonso tried to take the lead, but Ocon changed lanes ahead of time to block Alonso's lane. Liu Hongyu and Pérez took the opportunity to overtake from the inside.

Alonso: "Tell Estban to defend (me)like a lion."

Next up were Norris, Russell, Kimi, Hamilton and Leclerc.

After T7, Perez sucked Liu Hongyu's wake on the straight and directly pulled his head to overtake Liu Hongyu, and Liu Hongyu did not suck the wake and followed Perez when he saw this.

At T9, Norris's left front wheel locked and rushed straight off the track, and the two quickly overtook it.

"Kimi will defend Russell and Pérez in front, and now the car has enough fuel for you to do about ten laps in qualifying at the end. In the past few laps, I will slowly follow Pérez to find an opportunity to overtake, and take the time to adjust the position of the microphone, there is a little problem with the sound of TR coming from you just now. Marcus said.

After following a lap, Pérez sucked Russell's wake on the straight and went to the outside line to overtake Russell, Liu Hongyu just wanted to brake late on the inside line to try to overtake Russell, but Russell blocked the line in advance, Liu Hongyu saw this and braked early to take the cross line, and the fight was out of the corner.

Liu Hongyu and Russell came out of the corner side by side, but at this time, how could the customer team beat the factory team? Russell relied on the aerodynamic advantage of the car to retain 5th place.

Liu Hongyu didn't panic when he saw this, anyway, he was fighting with you in offensive and defensive battles and other DRS, after all, the current Pérez had already thrown Russell out of a second.

On lap 41, Liu Hongyu turned on the DRS and directly tapped after sucking the wake on the starting straight, overtaking Russell from the outside. Although Russell has an advantage in the straights, Liu Hongyu has DRS, and he can only choose to give up his position and follow the car first.

"Try to hurry, Kimi can't stop Pérez for too long. The difference to the previous car was 2.3 seconds. Marcus's voice came, but Liu Hongyu didn't bother to reply. After all, at this time, Russell braked directly from the inside line late to try to overtake him, but Liu Hongyu braked early and relied on the advantage of cornering to get back fifth.