"Louis, there's something I'd like to talk to you about."

After the Baku race, when Liu Hongyu returned to the hotel and drove the simulator to run the Canadian Grand Prix in advance, Kimi suddenly called him.

"What?" Liu Hongyu asked after pausing the game in his hand.

"In a few days before the Canadian Grand Prix, I... I want to announce my retirement at the end of the season. ”

As she spoke, Kimi's voice suddenly choked up.

"Huh? Retire? ”

Listening to the voice of Kimi on the other end of the phone, Liu Hongyu suddenly didn't know what to say.

"If you want... Go ahead. After retiring, it is better to enjoy life with your family, go on vacation, and so on, than to suffer the sin of dolphin jumping in the paddock. ”

After a few seconds of silence, Kimi responded, "Hmm... Seb (Sebastian) thinks the same way, and we both have the idea of retiring. ”

After chatting with Kimi on the other end of the phone for a while, Liu Hongyu said helplessly: "Man, let's go if you want to... This paddock has been gradually ruined by Marcy's brain-pumping stuff..."

After a few days of rest, Liu Hongyu followed the convoy to board a plane to Canada.

"Angry, it's really not good, you better go back and make up for sleep. If I'm not mistaken... You usually haven't gotten up yet. ”

In the afternoon in Montreal, listening to Liu Zhimin's somewhat tired voice on the other end of the phone, Liu Hongyu couldn't help but say.

Thinking of the time difference between Seoul and Montreal, Liu Hongyu couldn't help but wonder why Yoo Jimin got up so early. If he's not mistaken... She usually seems to wake up at ten o'clock.

After rubbing his eyes, Liu Zhimin said to Liu Hongyu: "It's hard to sleep if you want to... There have been a lot of trips in the past few days, and the dark circles under my eyes are almost boiled out. By the way, we have a platter concert in London in a few days, it seems to be on the 27th, do you want to come? ”

Hearing this, Liu Hongyu quickly glanced at the schedule and gave Liu Zhimin a positive answer after making sure that he didn't have to go to shoot magazines or go to the team headquarters for a meeting in those days.

"Okay, I'll find a way to leave you a ticket. Anyway, I washed up and got ready to run the trip. ”

After hanging up the phone, Liu Hongyu suddenly felt that someone seemed to be staring at him, and when he turned his head, he found that team designer Francisco Pavard had arrived beside him and stared at him with his claws.

"You kid walks silently?"

After receiving the mineral water from Pavard, Liu Hongyu said to him.

"I didn't say anything when I saw you on the phone. Saying... Are you and her really just ordinary friends? With no less than three or four phone calls a day, you won't be really interesting to her, will you? ”

After listening to Pavard's words, Liu Hongyu didn't know how to answer him for a while.

You're going to say he's not interesting to her... Whose ordinary friends do this kind of work all day long? But you have to say he means that...

People themselves are not sure, how can they answer?

After trying to get away from the topic and chatting with Pavard for a while, Liu Hongyu took things from the staff and drove to the hotel.

"After three years, F1 is back in Canada to host the Grand Prix!"

In the Sky Sports studio before qualifying, David Croft was briefing the audience on the basics of the Montreal circuit.

It is worth mentioning that this is also where eight-time champion Hamilton won the first title of his career. On June 10, 2007, Hamilton, then a rookie in the paddock, won the Grand Prix after a shocking crash by Kubica, thus beginning his 100-title career.

During the practice session, because the conditions of the track have been changing, Liu Hongyu is still shunting with the team most of the time. On the way, there was also a bit of a mistake in the corner, and I accidentally hit the last corner of the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, which is the "Wall of Champions" with the words "Bienvenue au Québec" (Welcome to Quebec)

At the start of qualifying, because it gradually began to rain on the track, Liu Hongyu and Kimi chose to go out first, taking advantage of the fact that the track was not particularly wet and used dry tires to make flight laps.

After passing the final successive corners, Liu Hongyu stepped on the throttle and opened the DRS to start his flight lap.

Since Liu Hongyu's car has chosen to be tuned with high downforce, his current speed is still slightly better than that of Kimi with mid-downforce when the track grip gradually decreases.

After the flight lap, as the rain gradually increased, they had almost skidded and spun while straightening the car on the straight, so they drove slowly to ensure that the car was brought back to the pit lane undamaged and then went straight to the P-room to eat the dragon.

Since they were the only two to do a flying lap in the dry ground, Q1 ended and the two of them occupied one or two places into Q2, followed by Verstappen, Pérez and others. Sebastian Vettel blasted out of the knockout zone and kicked Stroll into the knockout zone to knock him out. Albon, Gasly, Magnussen, Latifi, Schumacher Jr. were eliminated.

In Q2, Pagani chose to wait until the rain was moderate before letting the duo out, while avoiding the pile of cars that were ready to do lap times. So the lap times of the duo were not bad, and they entered Q3 steadily. Sebastian Vettel, Alonso, Ocon, Tsunoda, Norris and Ricardo were eliminated, and Zhou Guanyu rushed into Q3.

Q3, Pagani also had the same normal strategy to bring back seventh (Liu Hongyu) and eighth (Kimi) in qualifying, Alfa Romeo ninth (Zhou Guanyu) and tenth (Bottas)

As for the front row...

Hamilton opted for the most risky line of the course and took pole position on the half-wet tyres, with Sainz close behind. Then there are Verstappen, Leclerc, Pérez and Russell.

"We're probably going to run the whole race on all dry tyres and there's a small chance of rain tomorrow."

In the post-race meeting, Marcus showed the weather forecast to the two drivers and then began to discuss the problems that had arisen in qualifying.