"Our speed in this race is not bad, and we are not very bad with the three in qualifying, so we should be able to try to hit the top five in the main race. Of course, the first goal is to finish the race safely. ”

At the pre-match press conference, Liu Hongyu told reporters.

He was present at the press conference alongside Kimi, Sebastian Vettel, Alonso and Hamilton.

Towards the end of the press conference, Vettel brushed his already small hair, adjusted the position of the headband, picked up the microphone, and decided to make the decision he made a few days ago public.

"Before the end of the launch, I would like to make an announcement."

Hearing this, the eyes of the audience turned to Vettel, who was dressed in green.

"It was a difficult decision, and after a few days of ideological battles... I, Sebastian Vettel, have decided to retire officially at the end of this season. ”

When the reporters and Hamilton and Alonso on stage were in shock. Kimi picked up the microphone as well.

"I... I'll be retiring at the end of the season. ”

An hour later, before the race.

"This could be bad news... The probability of rain at the time of the game is increasing wildly, and today is estimated to be a rain battle"

Liu Hongyu had just put on his helmet and was about to enter the cockpit, and Marcus said to Liu Hongyu after the Radio Check.

The track gradually became cloudy, but since the track was still dry, all the drivers started on dry tyres. It is worth mentioning that except for Liu Hongyu, Gasly and Hamilton, who chose to start on soft tyres, the other drivers started on medium tyres.

After warming up the tires, Liu Hongyu stopped on the grid and prepared to start.

“Lights out and here we go! Louis Lau got off to a great start! Surpassing Pérez and Russell in a row! Hamilton is in the front row! ”

Five red lights went out, and the game officially began.

At the start, Liu Hongyu relied on the stronger grip of the tires and his dream start to directly surpass Pérez and Russell, who had an average start and used colder neutral tires.

Before entering Turn 1, Liu Hongyu made a gesture to cut to the outside line to overtake the car in front, and Verstappen, who was in front of him, saw this and hurriedly drew a dragon to block Liu Hongyu.

In fact, Liu Hongyu suddenly cut to the inside line again, relying on the advantage of tires to choose a very late braking point, and overtook Verstappen to rise to fourth place with a late brake.

Sainz's start was still a bit worse than that of team-mate Leclerc, and he was overtaken by Leclerc before he entered Turn 1. Entering the corner, being blocked by his teammates also affected his rhythm. After passing through the hairpin bend, he has been followed by Liu Hongyu.

But Liu Hongyu was not in a hurry. After following a few corners, Liu Hongyu made a move before entering Turn 10, after all, Ferrari was much faster than Pagani after being upgraded.

After a late brake, Liu Hongyu jammed Sainz's line and pinned him behind him.

After passing Turn 11, Sainz sucked his wake at the end of the big straight in an attempt to overtake Liu. But Pagani's tail speed is still slightly faster than that of Ferrari after all, not to mention that Liu Hongyu is still using soft tires with stronger grip, and Sainz has nothing to do with him for a while, so he can only follow his body and wait for the opportunity slowly.

After two laps, DRS is allowed. When it came to the starting straight, although Liu Hongyu was still within a second behind Leclerc, after all, he couldn't rub much Leclerc's wake. At the end of the straight, he could only watch as Sainz passed him and ate it raw.

Fortunately, it will be easier to follow the car under the ground effect, so Sainz can't get too far behind Liu Hongyu.

After two laps, Liu Hongyu received the team's instructions and signaled him to speed up and polish this set of tires, because there is a high probability that it will rain after a while, and there is no point in keeping this set of soft tires.

After confirming the command, Liu Hongyu pressed the button behind the steering wheel to start the engine running at full power to pass Sainz faster.

"Is it going to rain in a moment?"

Sensing that Liu Hongyu behind him was obviously starting to get faster, Sainz noticed that Liu Hongyu should have let the engine run at full power, and the sky was gradually darkening, and he speculated that it might rain on the track after a while, so Liu Hongyu decided to accelerate past him, polish the tires and then pit for rain tires.

"His tires can't hold up the rain, let him go. This stint we try to run as long as we can, he's not our main competitor, don't waste time defending him, follow him to increase the speed, he's a little bit faster on the soft tyres than you are. ”

After the Ferrari strategy team confirmed the weather, Ferrari principal Mattia Binotto spoke to him.

At this time, in the live broadcast room of Five Star Sports, countless netizens brushed up together to "take Binotto down on the spot!" "Maranello Joker plays steadily" and other barrages.

After surpassing Sainz, Liu Hongyu basically started to brush the lap with the running method of the flying circle. Of course, lap times weren't as fast as Hamilton, who was completely in clean air ahead and had less tyre wear.

By the end of lap 11, Liu Hongyu had chased within two seconds of Leclerc. Hamilton's tail could even be glimpsed.

On lap 13, it began to rain on the track, and the rain accumulated quickly, and Pagani also asked Liu Hongyu to choose to make a pit stop.

“WOW！ Charles didn't make a pit stop? ”

Seeing that the Ferrari in front of him directly missed the pit stop, Liu Hongyu asked out loud.

"I guess Lewis was called in, too." Marcus replied, but he spoke more or less... I feel like I'm smiling.

"Maranello Joker continues to play steadily..."

Seeing that there was no tire changer at the door of Ferrari's P room to move tires out, Liu Hongyu stopped at the door of Pagani's P room after mocking Ferrari's "top" strategy group 10,000 times in his heart.

After changing to semi-rainy tires in 2.1 seconds, Liu Hongyu immediately drove away from the pit station.

Before exiting the pit station, Liu Hongyu expected that he would have room in the clean air to chase Hamilton in front of him, but a green Aston Martin car suddenly drove in front of him.

"Stroll didn't make a pit stop?"

Looking at the "18" on the Martin, Liu Hongyu was drinking water and almost burst out laughing.

Liu Hongyu: "Mr. Stroll, I am a professionally trained person, and under normal circumstances, I will not laugh unless I can't help it. ”

After easily overtaking Stroll, Liu Hongyu began to chase Hamilton in front of him.