"So... What exactly are we going to do? A few hours before qualifying, Liu Hongyu looked at the hesitant Marcus in the conference room and said.

"At present, the strategy team has decided to let you save running, just enter Q2, and try to see if you can get points in the main race. Because our focus is on Imola in the next game, where Kimi will take advantage of the loopholes in the rules to directly switch to the fourth set of power units and other parts to the bottom of the team. So this time we chose to give up tactically. Grant, who was next to him, pointed the computer screen at Liu Hongyu, and the weather forecast for tomorrow's race was displayed.

"Again? When the heavy rain turns sunny, the timing of the bet on dry tires is right? Liu Hongyu also guessed what strategy the team was going to use.

"There's no way, this ghost weather is like this, and it's over. If it's a big deal, just keep the engine. Grant said, pointing to the sky.

At the beginning of the qualifying session, because it was still dry land, most of the cars went out to do flying laps with soft tires a few minutes later, but there was only one strange man surnamed Liu Hongyu who went out to run laps with a set of neutral tires.

After running a few laps to find the best running method, Liu Hongyu made a pit stop and changed into soft tires to go out for a flying lap.

"After taking so long for so long, it's really unaccustomed to suddenly switching to Mercedes-style racing tuning with high drag and high downforce...", Liu Hongyu thought to himself as he made the lap.

“WowWowWow！ P2！ You've exceeded your goal, so come back first. ”

When Liu Hongyu finished the second flight lap, Marcus motioned for Liu Hongyu to pit stop.

Hearing this, Liu Hongyu glanced at the big screen.

"I'll go—" Liu Hongyu himself was startled when he caught a glimpse of his results in the first two stages. S1S2 was purple at the same time, followed by Verstappen, who was driving a rocket car, in second place.

Of course, it was said that Verstappen drove a rocket car, so he must not be much slower. Not long after Liu Hongyu entered the pit stop, Verstappen took the whole flight lap before his pit stop without mistakes, and brushed purple at the same time to open Liu Hongyu by 0.4 seconds, and the lap times of Leclerc and Sainz behind him were also slightly faster than Liu Hongyu's 0.05 to 0.01, barely surpassing Liu Hongyu in second or third place.

"Next, don't always run the engine at full power, save a little use. Of course, if you want to finish in the top six, we'll try to find a way to do it. ”

As soon as Liu Hongyu left the car and was about to drink some water, Grant next to him came over and said to him in a low voice. Liu Hongyu nodded slightly.

At the beginning of Q2, Liu Hongyu chose to change to a new set of soft tires when the window was still clean, and followed six Mercedes cars out to brush up on laps.

Three laps later, when Liu Hongyu rubbed his hand on the starting straight and Hamilton's wake passed the inspection point, Marcus signaled Liu Hongyu to pit in the TR.

"P4, basically keep Q3, you pulled the car behind the earth group around 1.1-1.3. Advanced station. ”

After Liu Hongyu entered the station, the team did not signal him to go out again, a few minutes later Q2 ended, Liu Hongyu, who left the car, looked at his qualifying results and also thought about the next Q3 to push a hand to grab a good ranking, and then start the train tomorrow.

"Old man, I may have to ask you for some help this time." Liu Hongyu walked out of room P to find Kimi and started to discuss Q3 with him.

A few minutes later, Q3 began, and unlike the three Plum Cow Method, Pagani immediately released Kimi and Liu Hongyu out to do flying circles.

"Push with all your might, don't worry about the tires." Marcus said.

Towards the end of the lap, Kimi begins to pick up speed. Liu Hongyu also quickly began to accelerate to keep up before entering the starting straight.

"Wow! Pagani wants Kimi to give Xiao Liu a wake. Fei Ge said in the studio.

After a few corners, Liu Hongyu was basically following behind Kimi's car, so Kimi chose to let Liu Hongyu suck the wake for a while on a slightly wider straight and then drive the car to the side to let Liu Hongyu pass.

Coming to the starting straight, Liu Hongyu turned on the DRS and rushed through the testing point to wait for Marcus to report the results, and brought Kimi to the tail by the way.

"It's 0.2 faster than Q2 just now, and I made a pit stop after two laps." Marcus said.

After helping Kimi pull a wake lap, Liu Hongyu went straight back to the pit lane and waited for the other cars to go out and do lap times.

Three minutes later, Verstappen again brushed purple in three stages to set the fastest lap, Leclerc and Pérez also barely surpassed Liu Hongyu in second and third place, Sainz tried several times but finally slower Liu Hongyu 0.1 behind Kimi in sixth.

In the final stage, Liu Hongyu chose to go out and make two last laps to see if he could improve the lap time. But the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. Liu Hongyu's final ranking was still fixed and fourth, creating the best result in the season's qualifying.

The final starting order were: Verstappen, Pérez, Leclerc, Liu Hongyu, Kimi, Sainz, Hamilton, Russell, Gasly, Bottas, Ricciardo, Norris, Vettel, Tsunoda, Stroll, Alonso, Ocon, Magnussen, Schumacher, Zhou Guanyu, Albon, Latifi.

"To be honest, I thought it was quite difficult in the final stage of qualifying, especially Q3, because the tyres were too hot and the brakes were a bit problematic. Fortunately, with the help of Kimi, we finished fourth and saw if we had a chance to finish on the podium in tomorrow's race, after all, it is very difficult for Monaco to overtake. After the game, Liu Hongyu said in an interview with reporters. Then when he returned to room P, he was ridiculed by Grant as the first person to learn from Versailles.

"You call it difficult?" Grant smiled as he pointed to Liu Hongyu's lap on the screen.