Before the "Radio Check" competition, Liu Hongyu conducted daily inspections.

"It's clear, try to move up the position today, and if necessary, the team will delay your pit stop and focus on the race."

After checking the tactics, the warm-up lap is ready to begin. Liu Hongyu started with two laps of old soft tyres in qualifying.

"Red, red, yellow, red..."Liu Hongyu thought about the three-stop strategy that Marcus had just put out, and he was inexplicably worried.

If the new soft tires do not hold enough laps after a stop, then the lost time is not ordinary, and the new soft tires with three stops will have to run a few more laps, and the luck is almost after the new soft tires are durable, there is a high probability that they will go down a few places.

After the warm-up lap, Liu Hongyu returned to the grid to prepare for the start.

"Don't go wrong," Liu Hongyu prayed in his heart

The five red lights lit up one after another, and after the lights went out, Zhou Haoran in the five-star sports studio was suddenly dumbfounded.

"Liu Hongyu's start made people faint!" The soldier on the side exclaimed.

"There's a problem with the clutch," Liu Hongyu said, looking at Mick and Vettel, who had passed him on the right.

"Roger, you're in P15 now, try to get it back. Leave the tires alone, we can pit early to change the tire formula. Marcus was a little confused when he saw this.

After following two corners, Liu Hongyu came to the big straight to open the ERS and directly added raw Albon and Stroll to move up to 13th place, and in front of him was Gasly and Tsunoda, who were fighting inside.

"It's good that the car has an advantage in performance... Otherwise, you will fall into the slow train formation," Marcus thought to himself as he watched Liu Hongyu forcibly pass through two on the straight

After a few high-speed corners, Liu Hongyu followed Tsunoda past T10, forced his head over Tsunoda from the outside on the big straight, and then braked a little bit early to take the inside line to pass Gasly at T11.

"Compared to these Earth group cars, Pagani is really fast and has no friends... Sometimes you can fight with the six of the Mars group. Zhou Haoran said.

"It's super beautiful, try again in the next two laps. If that doesn't work, change the battery mode to save some power. Marcus said.

On the third lap, DRS turned on. Liu Hongyu opened the DRS behind Vettel and directly pulled to 10th place and returned to the points area, but Zhou Guanyu in front of him had already thrown off for two or three seconds.

On lap 6, Liu Hongyu bit Zhou Guanyu's DRS in front of him before the starting straight, turned on the overtaking mode on the straight, and braked late to rush into the limit of Turn 1 to surpass Zhou Guanyu. The crowd on the sidelines exclaimed.

"Beautiful! But Bottas and Kimi in front have opened up a certain gap, let's see how Pagani chooses on his side. Fei Ge said as he looked at the situation on the field.

"A few last laps, if you feel like the tires are almost off, you can pit and Kimi can help you out for a while if necessary."

On the 12th lap, Liu Hongyu made a pit stop and changed to yellow tires, and came out of the pit to 19th place.

Liu Hongyu was just about to warm up the tires, but the VSC logo on the sidelines suddenly came out.

"What's going on?" Liu Hongyu asked

"Gasly's engine caught fire and stopped the buffer zone, and it is not ruled out that the race will change the virtual safety car to a physical one. It's all about making a pit stop, and the car in front of you that started on soft tires is basically starting to wear out. ”

A lap later, the race saw that it would take a little time to get Gasly's car out, so they called out a physical safety car, while a number of cars made a pit stop, and Liu Hongyu took the opportunity to move up to 11th in front of the unfinished duo of McLaren and Alpine. It's still relatively easy to overtake.

On lap 14, the race restarted, Leclerc accelerated on the straight after pressing the car to shake off Verstappen behind him, and Liu Hongyu in the middle chose to suck the wake and eat Ocon raw, and then passed Alonso and Ricciardo at the end of the night brake at Turn 1, and then followed closely behind Norris and waited for the opportunity to overtake.

On the big straight, Liu Hongyu's tail speed was still a little insufficient, and he failed to pull past Norris. You can only look for opportunities slowly.

At the same time, the Martian cars in front of them have begun to widen the gap with the cars behind. Marcus also signaled Liu Hongyu to hurry up and overtake Norris.

After Turn 10, Liu Hongyu drove ERS to suck the wake and then tapped to overtake Norris, and then Russell was next.

"How's it going up ahead?" 'The top three are already starting to widen apart, with Pérez Hamilton Russell battling in the middle and taking advantage of the opportunity to overtake.

After two laps, Liu Hongyu took advantage of Russell's exit speed after the three-car corner, and then followed Hamilton on the straight to wait for the DRS to turn on.

"The good news is that the Hamilton tyres in front of him are starting to wear out, so if you can get past him sooner, Pérez will be about the same."

Two laps later, Pérez pitted at the same time as Hamilton and Russell, and Liu Hongyu had a clean enough window to do the lap.

"Push as hard as you can, you're about three or four seconds away from the Ferrari in front of you, you can try to do the fastest lap. Kimi is one place behind you. ”

On lap 30, Liu Hongyu finally caught up with Sainz, but at this time, the tires of both of them were almost worn out, and Liu Hongyu tried to overtake and received instructions from the team to signal to enter the pit.