37.The Hunter Is Coming For You

No one knows what Pagani's crowd said to Michael Marcy after storming the conning tower. But it is not difficult to see from the fact that everyone walked out with black faces that the end of this reply was unhappy, and Pagani's side did not get the result they wanted.

“F**king idiots!”

Back in room P, Pavard couldn't help but scold directly.

"Again and again, again and again, how many white coils did Marcy put out today?! Drivers can't control these subtle things, but isn't this blatantly doing things? "Marcus, for his part, is clearly not convinced by the double standards of the tournament.

After everyone scolded wildly for a while, Liu Hongyu suddenly said, "How many sets of tires do we have?" ”

"Three sets of soft tyres, three sets of medium tyres, four sets of hard tyres. What's wrong? ”

"Since this tournament is all having brain cramps, do you think that our incompetence here and scolding can change the outcome of my double standard treatment by the tournament?"

After calming himself down as much as he could, Grant said, "It's also... Louis, let's go back and prepare for tomorrow's race, the team's strategic focus will be on your side. Let's get the grievances done first, Pagani is never something to mess with. It's time for the world to know who our real number one driver is..."

An hour later, the Pagani F1 team officially posted.

"In this race, our drivers have been treated extremely unfairly and we have complained to the FIA. We Race As One, don't let this race get dirty. ”

In the early morning in Catalonia, Liu Hongyu gets up early every day and goes out for a jog every day, and then chooses to go to the track to prepare for the afternoon race.

"Good evening and welcome to the live broadcast of the 7th round of the Spanish Grand Prix of Formula 1 brought to you by Five Star Sports. I'm Brother Bing", "I'm Brother Fei", "I'm Brother Ran"

After the daily opening remarks of the trio of Five Star Sports (Poisoned Milk), the three began to analyze the situation of the game.

"Yesterday the Pagani team made a splash after the race. Yesterday, Liu Hongyu basically wanted to take pole position in the final moment of Q3, but the controversial penalty of the race can be said to completely ruin the lap. So Liu Hongyu finally stopped in fourth place and failed to get the first pole position of his career. ”

"For this penalty, the main point of controversy is still the double standard of the game, I personally think that Liu Hongyu should... It should be effective, and the official Pagani team also released a slow-motion replay after the race, and Liu Hongyu's right front wheel was actually a small part of the white line at that time. ”

After a while, the cars on the track finished their warm-up laps and were ready to start.

"Okay, starting in 22nd was Williams driver Nicolas Latifi. The twenty-first was his teammate Albon. Twenty-one was Aston Martin's Stroll and nineteenth was Haas' Mick Schumacher. Eighteenth Ricciardo, seventeenth Ocon and sixteenth Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu. Fifteenth, Stroll's teammate, four-time world champion Wattel (Vettel). The fourteenth is Schumacher Jr.'s teammate Kevin Magnussen. In thirteenth place is Red Bull driver Tsunoda, and in twelfth place is Fernando Alonso, who is playing at home. Eleventh, McLaren driver Norris. In tenth place was Gasly, Tsunoda's teammate, and in ninth place was Bottas. In eighth place, the 2007 world champion, Kimi Raikkonen, in seventh place was Ferrari driver Sainz and in sixth place was Mercedes-Benz Russell. In fifth place is Red Bull driver Sergio Pérez, and in fourth place, China's Liu Hongyu from Pagani Racing, who suffered a rather controversial penalty yesterday. 3rd place. Ferrari driver Leclerc, second, Mercedes-Benz seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. Starting from pole position is Dutch driver Verstappen, who is leading the Drivers' Championship this year. ”

After stopping on the grid, Liu Hongyu, who chose to start with heavy oil, put his left hand on the steering wheel and quietly waited for the race to start.

"Five red lights go out, the game officially begins!"

The lights went out and the car started, Liu Hongyu's start was quite good, but Leclerc next to him seemed to have triggered the anti-flameout program, and the position was constantly falling, and Liu Hongyu rose to third place. The two cars in the front row also started quite normally.

After successive corners, Liu Hongyu took the outside at Turn 3 to try to watch Pagani's downforce advantage and try to eat Hamilton raw. But Mercedes' cars are not vegetarians either, and Hamilton's stubborn position did not allow Liu Hongyu to successfully overtake the past.

"This way... Liu Hongyu pushed very hard at the beginning, did he want to push the tires as much as possible and make an early pit stop to undercut Hamilton? Zhou Haoran looked at the screen and said.

In fact, Pagani's strategy before the race was just as Zhou Haoran had guessed, and the strategy team chose to let Liu Hongyu finish the old soft tires that had been used for two laps in qualifying as much as possible. They still have three new sets of soft tyres anyway.

After following a few corners, before coming to the big straight, Liu Hongyu tried to overtake Hamilton on the outside, but Hamilton drew a dragon in advance to block Liu Hongyu's overtaking line, and he had to follow Hamilton into the big straight.

On the big straight, because there was no DRS and there was not much difference in the tail speed of the two cars, Hamilton in front thought that Liu Hongyu should not choose to overtake at the end of the straight.

But bar...

“There is some dangerous driving.”

When Hamilton saw Liu Hongyu's front wing in the left rearview mirror, Liu Hongyu was officially "Jazz Affirmation" (I am a Han fan, not black)

Liu Hongyu controlled the car to go inside and tried to brake late to overtake Hamilton, but the braking point was slightly not selected, Liu Hongyu's car went slightly bigger and slower in the low-speed corner, and Liu Hongyu just passed Hamilton and was caught by him and overtook back.

After following a few corners, Liu Hongyu chose to step on the brakes earlier and cross the line to spell out the corners with Hamilton before entering the final consecutive corners.

At Turn 16, the pair entered the corner almost side by side, but Liu's downforce advantage allowed him to dare to fuel a little more in the corner, and he was significantly faster than Hamilton when he came out of the corner.

After exiting the corner, Liu Hongyu glanced at Hamilton on his right in the rearview mirror, and directly chose to press the accelerator to the end while increasing the power output. Hamilton had no choice but to follow him in search of opportunities.

Grant reminded Liu Hongyu after passing the lap time detection point: "Max is already a second and a half in front of you, if you still want to fight for the championship, don't fight." Adjust the racing mode to Combo 10 and speed up the pursuit. ”

After a few corners, Liu Hongyu, who started to push directly, gradually began to shake off Hamilton.

"Save on this set of tires, our strategy doesn't allow us to run at his pace." Hamilton's strategist Bobo hurriedly reminded.

"Understood. They have a new set of soft tires than we do, don't they?" Hamilton asked.

"Yes, concentrate on the game. Pérez, who started behind you on medium tyres, will probably try to overcut you."

“Emmmmm Watch out Max.The hunter is coming for you.”

Seeing that the gap between Liu Hongyu and Verstappen was getting smaller and smaller, Christian Horner, the leader of Red Bull Racing, hurriedly reminded.

"It's 1.4 seconds." Marcus reported to Liu Hongyu the gap between him and Verstappen.

"Hunting time...", Liu Hongyu pressed a button near the upshift paddle behind the steering wheel to choose to let the car run at full power.