Endgame (Spoilers)

"After the controversial Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, this season's F1 season has come to a finale – the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix! Before the race, three drivers entered the closing race with the same number of points: George Russell from Mercedes, Max Verstappen from Red Bull and Louis Lau from Pagani!

In qualifying, Russell took the shot strongly, followed by Verstappen, Liu Hongyu was third, and Hamilton was fourth. Pérez and Visty were fifth and sixth, Piastri was seventh and Norris eighth. Leclerc ninth, Sainz tenth. Zhou Guanyu eleventh, Alonso twelve. Stroll XIII, Gasly XIV. Ocon fifteenth, De Vries sixteen, Tsunoda seventeen, Bottas eighteen, Magnussen nineteen, Sargent twenty, Hulkenberg twenty-one, Albon twenty-two. Among the top 10 drivers in the race, except for Pagani duo Liu Hongyu and Hamilton on medium tyres, all the cars started on soft tyres.

After the warm-up lap, Liu Hongyu parked his black and white car on the grid and waited for the lights to go out.

"Lights out and here we go! Surpassing Verstappen and Russell in a row! Russell is right behind him! Verstappen overtaken by Hamilton! ”

Five red lights go out and the game begins.

At the beginning, Liu Hongyu successfully stuck points, and surpassed Verstappen and Russell in a row with a dream start. Russell got up well and followed Liu Hongyu closely.

Verstappen's side was overtaken by Pagani's two drivers and was almost overtaken by Russell before entering Turn 1, but Russell, who was forced into the corner with a torpedo in one hand, went a little bigger and held on to fourth.

After following a few corners, before coming to Turn 5, Russell took the inside line and chose to do it directly, Liu Hongyu saw in the rearview mirror that the Silver Wing came from the inside line and was not in a hurry, and pulled the line to spell out the corner directly with him.

Leaving Turn 5, although Russell has a certain position advantage, Liu Hongyu's exit is obviously better. So it didn't take long for the two to be side by side.

On the big straight, Liu Hongyu's car after the final upgrade was still faster than Mercedes on the straight, and he came out of the corner better, Liu Hongyu easily surpassed Russell and rose to the first place again.

Before entering Turn 6, Liu Hongyu speculated that Russell would most likely take the inside line in the next consecutive turns to try to overtake him, so he cut slightly to the outside line and took a line that he felt more comfortable with.

Entering the continuous corner, although Russell walked into the inside line to occupy the position advantage, Liu Hongyu, who took the cross line, went out of the corner faster, so after passing the 8th turn at full throttle, Liu Hongyu rose to the first place.

"Do you need Lewis to wait a moment to help you block it?"

Passing Turn 8, Marcus asked in TR.

"If you want me to run long on my mediums, I'll try to slow down in Sector 3 after a few laps to let him come over."

After passing the hairpin bend, Liu Hongyu started the engine running at full power to shake off the pile of slow cars behind him.

In the fourth lap, Liu Hongyu continued to take the lead. And the defensive experience accumulated over the past three years has also allowed him to block Russell's attacks on the championship position again and again. At this point, the only ones who could follow him were Russell, Hamilton, Verstappen and Pérez.

After the S3 frantically pressed the car, Hamilton gradually caught up.

After following the car, when he came to the big straight, Hamilton turned on the DRS and walked the inside line, Liu Hongyu also chose to go inside to pull Hamilton after leaving Turn 5, Russell was quickly made a choice between chasing Liu Hongyu and keeping the second two things after being sandwiched with cheese by two breads, he chose to go outside and start fighting with Hamilton.

Russell knew very well in his heart that as long as he was surpassed by Hamilton, what awaited him was that he was frantically blocked by Hamilton and completely lost the opportunity to compete for the first world title of his career. Even if he is pulled away by Liu Hongyu to a certain gap, he can rely on more rich driving experience and the advantages of the comprehensive performance of the car to catch up. What's more, the race is still long, and there is no telling when the safety car will be released, everything is possible.

Taking advantage of Russell's kung fu in the struggle with Hamilton, Liu Hongyu quickly widened the gap between him and the championship group behind him, 2.3 seconds, 3.1 seconds, 5.8 seconds...

As the gap between him and Russell grew, Mercedes couldn't sit still.

"George, get rid of Hamilton as soon as possible, Louis is closing the gap with the car behind him, and Verstappen is catching up."

On lap 11, Russell deliberately let Hamilton pass the DRS inspection point first and then let the engine run at full power on the second big straight, relying on the DRS advantage to eat Hamilton raw. After Sector 3, Russell was able to get rid of Hamilton behind him.

After three laps, Russell and Verstappen, who had passed Hamilton, had both run out of soft tyres, so both opted to pit for medium tyres in an attempt to catch up with Liu Hongyu with the newer, faster tyres. But bar...

Guess what? Hamilton made a pit stop on the next lap! Although he was on medium tyres, he did not hesitate to ask the team in TR at the end of lap 14 to prevent Liu Hongyu from being undercut by the two cars behind him, and after receiving an affirmative answer, Hamilton pushed full speed for a lap and plunged headlong into the pits, switching to faster soft tyres.

After the pit stop, Hamilton was stuck just in front of the two championship cars. But because he wanted to help Liu Hongyu block for a while, he went to Sector 3 and directly began to slow down and frantically block Russell and Verstappen behind.

On lap 20, Liu Hongyu polished the tires after a few rounds of full throttle and then pitted for soft tyres, and continued to stay in first place after the pit stop, with 2.3 seconds to go before Hamilton.

"There seems to be a bit of a problem with the level of wear and tear on this set of soft tyres."

After five laps, Liu Hongyu vaguely felt that the set of soft tyres provided by Pirelli on his car had returned to the "Pirelli" mode of a few seasons ago, and the wear was a little serious.

"Then polish them, Lewis has been holding them off for eight seconds, running out of the pit stop window as much as he can."

“Lewis is a legend.”

On lap 30, Liu Hongyu chose to make a pit stop.

“Well... Louis chose to switch to... Wait, soft tires? Is Pagani crazy! In this way, the team only has one set of soft tires left for Liu Hongyu to use! ”

After the pit stop for soft tyres, Hamilton's tyres also began to fail. So he didn't defend Russell and Verstappen as well. Therefore, by the time Liu came out, he had already dropped to fourth, but fortunately he was only 1.5 seconds behind Russell.

Looking at Aokang, who was ranked nineteenth in front of him and was about to be lapped by himself, Liu Hongyu unexpectedly found that Aokang's speed was not bad, and he seemed to be able to rub DRS, anyway, he was still a little far from the front. Thereupon...

"Wow! Liu Hongyu is actually rubbing Aokang's wake???"

In the studio of Five Star Sports, Zhou Haoran said in surprise.

rubbing and rubbing, Liu Hongyu also chased behind Russell within a second. After passing O'Conon, Hamilton was also frantically helping Liu Hongyu to chase him in Sector 3.

On the straight, Liu Hongyu took out Verstappen in three shots and five by two, and then went after Russell in the clean air in front of him (Hamilton finished grinding his tires)

Coming to Turn 5, Liu Hongyu did not immediately choose to attack Russell because he wanted to use the tires as long as possible. At the same time, he also caught a glimpse of Verstappen in the left rearview mirror as if he were a fucking torpedo rushing through the inside line, so he cut slightly to the outside line to avoid being knocked off the track by the Red Bull.

On the big straight, Liu Hongyu opened DRS and directly ate Russell and Verstappen. Verstappen took the opportunity to suck Liu Hongyu's wake past Russell.

After a few corners, there are big straights. Liu Hongyu is in front of his old enemies Lance Stroll and Pierre Gasly, who are about to be trapped. So he has DRS, and Verstappen can only follow him and wait for his chance.

On lap 45, after battling with Russell and Verstappen in front of him for a while, Liu Hongyu lapped Bottas, who was in fifteenth place, and Verstappen suddenly rushed over to Turn 1 like a fucking torpedo from the side. Because Liu Hongyu was keeping an eye on Bottas, and this happened completely between lightning and flint. So after the wheelset happened, Liu Hongyu was directly pushed into the top. But some of Pagani's "vibranium" cars have only minor injuries and need to be replaced with front wings. As for Bottas....

Bottas went straight to the wall and retired from the race, and the race showed a safety car. Liu Hongyu followed the team's instructions to adjust the mode and let the car resume work, and then hurriedly drove to continue the race. But he had already been overtaken by Hamilton and dropped to fourth place at this time, not to mention that he would have to go in and change the front wing later.

After pitting for the last set of new soft tires and front wings, Liu Hongyu hurriedly drove out of the pit area. After the pit stop, he was lucky enough to get stuck just seconds in front of Pérez and continued to hold on for fourth. As for the front...

Verstappen got a five-second time penalty. It just stands to reason that it's your racing line. "Marcus informed Liu Hongyu in TR of the penalty just now.

“He shows who he really is again.”

After a lap, the top three drivers also pitted for their last tyres and prepared to fight to the death. Hamilton hinted in TR that the team slowed down moderately during the one-handed tyre change, and moved up to fourth place after the pit stop, behind Liu Hongyu.

Now the top five are: Russell, Verstappen, Liu Hongyu, Hamilton, Pérez.

On lap 52, the safety roof lights went out and the ringed cars returned to the back of the line. All the drivers were frantically warming up the tyres and waiting for the race to restart.

"New hatred and old hatred, it's time to settle the score." Liu Hongyu said in TR, and this sentence was also released in front of the world.

"God has fallen asleep, and the end will be all created by mankind! All the controversy will be over in these five laps! This season started in controversy, and it will definitely end in controversy! Let's witness the birth of this year's World Champion before dawn at Yas Marina! Looking at the three cars speeding past the track, David Croft said excitedly.

For the third year in a row, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will be decided in the final stages! And who the world championship will ultimately belong to, everything is still unknown.

After the press, Russell rushed out like an arrow from a string, followed by Verstappen. Liu Hongyu deliberately did not rush forward immediately, and chose to follow behind the two cars and wait for an opportunity.

“Come on...”

Looking at the Pagani speeding by on the track not far away, all Grant could do was pray for Liu Hongyu in their hearts.

Since Liu Hongyu was still working as a war correspondent at this time, the front row was completely a stage for two Martians to fight.

Coming to Turn 5, Verstappen took the inside line to try to overtake, and Russell did not panic when he saw this, and took the outside line to retake Verstappen by exiting the corner.

On the big straight, Russell closed the door slightly before entering the corner to avoid Verstappen rushing over as a torpedo, but lost some speed out of the corner. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Verstappen crossed two lines in succession in the following corners.

After two laps, with the opening of DRS, Liu Hongyu also decided to do something to the two cars in front of him.

Coming to Turn 6, Liu Hongyu took the inside line past Russell, and after passing Turn 7, he also decided to learn from the original history of 2021 Abu Dhabi's Perez late refueling and letting Russell pass the DRS inspection point one step ahead of him, thus earning a DRS.

After overtaking Russell again, Liu Hongyu chose to accelerate to chase Verstappen in front of him.

On lap 56, Grant's voice suddenly came from the TR.

"Louis, adjust the mode of the car to Combo 0. Push with all your might. ”

“Are you sure about that?” Hearing this, Liu Hongyu was a little surprised.

About this Combo 0 bar... Liu Hongyu has not experienced it before, during the winter test in Spain, the team asked him to try to use the Combo 0 setting to run laps, and then...

At that time, the car had not yet been weighted and upgraded, Liu Hongyu directly brushed to the first place and pulled Verstappen behind for 3 seconds. And then... There was no then, he directly burst the cylinder, the engine power was too high and Pagani didn't count the laps well, and ran too much.

"Whatever... Take a gamble. ”

After quickly adjusting the racing mode, Liu Hongyu obviously felt that the speed of the car was much faster, and it was rare for the gearbox not to pull across.

After setting a new track record for the fastest lap, the gap between Liu Hongyu and Verstappen has gone from 1.1 seconds to 0.4 seconds, but...

“Oh! Louis cut the bend! And now, George Russell has risen to second place! ”

After quickly returning to the track and starting to accelerate, Liu Hongyu opened the DRS on the big straight and walked the outside line to try to pass Russell, but Russell blocked him with one hand.

Entering Turn 6, Liu Hongyu took the crossing line to pass Russell directly, and then opened the DRS to chase Verstappen desperately.

By the final lap of the race, Liu Hongyu had already chased behind Verstappen's body.

After two big straights, Liu Hongyu, who has DRS, was only 0.1 to 0.2 seconds away from overtaking Verstappen. Marcus: They could only be anxious when they watched from the P room.

Coming to Sector 3, Liu Hongyu followed closely behind Verstappen. Suddenly, he was jumping back and forth between cutting to the outside and going inside, and Verstappen was also extremely puzzled when he saw this, unsure of how to defend him.

Entering the penultimate corner, Liu Hongyu cut to the outside, and Verstappen quickly cut over to block him.

Suddenly, Liu Hongyu cut to the inside again, and after rushing into the corner, he basically entered the final corner side by side with Verstappen.

"Coming to the last corner, Liu Hongyu took the inside line and stuck the line, Verstappen took the outside line, and had a better corner! The two cars drove off the corner and headed for the finish line! Let's see how it turns out! ”

After the final high-speed corner, Liu Hongyu stepped on the throttle to the end and used all his energy to overtake Verstappen. After crossing the finish line, the gap between the two cars was so small that it was only possible to determine who had passed the lap check point first through slow-motion replays.

“So emmmmm. Louis,after 3 years of driving,we'll know the winner soon... Just give me a second.” Grant said in TR.

When Liu Hongyu drove through Turn 1, TR heard again, it was Marcus.

“Louis Lau,we won the f**king champion!!! Well done! You're the world champion! Enjoy the win! Guys! Be! Crown! Army! ”