"Do you need to change to neutral tires later?"

After chatting with a pig and snake sitting on the sidelines watching the game on the phone, the debris on the track was basically cleaned up. After thinking about it, Liu Hongyu went to Pit Wall to find Marcus and asked him if he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the red flag to change into neutral tires.

"Let's change, the second Stint will use the current set of soft tires. Wait a little longer to warm up the tyres so you don't become the next Verstappen. ”

After a few minutes, the track debris was largely cleared and the race team signaled for the pit cars to leave the pit lane and warm up their tyres.

Five red lights went out and the game resumed. Liu Hongyu's start was okay, he was able to maintain his position after the start, and Kimi behind him also moderately helped him block the riders behind him. Not much has changed ahead, except that Hamilton has overtaken Sainz to move up to third.

"Protect the tire, protect the tire. Don't push too hard. ”

When Liu Hongyu came to the big straight, Marcus also reminded Liu Hongyu in TR to make this set of tires run as long as possible.

After following a few corners, Liu Hongyu decided to make a move before the Copse corner, but the tire grip was still slightly inferior to Sainz.

Entering the Copse corner, Liu Hongyu was bold enough to keep a certain distance from Sainz while walking outside. After the corner, he also took a certain lead.

Sainz certainly won't let it. After leaving the Copse corner, Sainz turned on the overtaking mode and stepped on the accelerator to the end, and directly started wheel-to-wheel with Liu Hongyu.

After all, the Ferrari was faster than Pagani's after the corner. Sainz closed the door slightly as he passed Turn 11 to defend Liu Hongyu, and Liu Hongyu could only follow him and wait for his opportunity.

After two corners, Liu Hongyu took the inside line through Turn 13 and got slightly stuck in Sainz's driving lane. After passing Turn 14 at full throttle, Liu Hongyu turned on the rear wing's stall system on the big straight, and at the same time let the changed racing mode start the engine to run at full power.

"Mode 10, Mode 10. Marcus motioned to Liu Hongyu to speed up to get rid of Sainz.

After two laps at full speed, Liu Hongyu and Sainz also opened up a certain gap. In addition, Kimi also followed behind Sainz and tried to attack, Liu Hongyu didn't push for too long, and the tire slowly chased after the three cars that were fighting in front of him.

By lap 10, Liu had already caught up with Hamilton within 0.4 seconds.

After passing Turn 8, Liu Hongyu increased his power output to try to overtake Hamilton, but Hamilton's tail speed, which was sucking the double wake brought by Pérez and Leclerc in front, was quite terrifying, so Liu Hongyu couldn't surpass it for a while.

"Don't worry, protect the car, finish first." Grant reminds Liu Hongyu not to be so reckless in TR and wait for the opportunity to take his time.

On the starting straight, Liu Hongyu sucked Hamilton's wake and waited for an opportunity. After following a few corners, Liu Hongyu took the inside line in the combination of turns 4 & 5, and after the corner, he turned on the DRS and Hamilton wheelset wheels on the big straight.

A late brake jammed the inside line at Turn 6, and Hamilton noticed this and opted to brake early to cross the line.

After Liu Hongyu slightly overtook Hamilton, Hamilton relied on a better exit to overtake him.

"Wonderful wheelset wheel! Please note that Louis is on medium tyres with worse grip! And based on the telemetry of his car, his line is perfect! The lap times were on par with Charles Leclerc, who was leading the race on soft tyres and in clean air! Croft commented in the studio.

"I still don't have enough experience..."

Looking at the black-and-blue PG-01 in the rearview mirror, Hamilton sighed in his heart. Team engineer Bonnington also told him in TR that Liu Hongyu's car probably doesn't have much power left. In fact, Liu Hongyu can be a sixth man for a while, and then do it when Hamilton is blocked by the car in front of him, which affects the rhythm of cornering.

Hamilton was also prepared to defend Liu Hongyu after the soft tyres began to fail. But Liu Hongyu was a little anxious at this moment, and naturally lost this psychological game.

After the failure of this wheel-to-wheel game, Liu Hongyu decided to calm down and wait for the opportunity slowly, anyway, their soft tires will fail sooner or later, and their neutral tire durability is definitely better than the three cars in front, he only needs to maintain the gap with the car in front of him and try to steal a position from time to time.

On lap 15, Marcus informed Liu Hongyu that the three cars in front of him had all shown varying degrees of attenuation, and the more serious ones were Leclerc and Pérez, whose tires were more severely worn during the fight. Hamilton and Liu Hongyu in the back are also about to take advantage of the fishermen and start to try to overcut the two.

On lap 16, Leclerc and Pérez made a pit stop, with Hamilton and Liu Hongyu taking the opportunity to move up to first or second place.

"It's coming, it's going to be a repeat of the first two weeks of the Canadian Grand Prix!"

In the audience behind Yoo Jimin, a British fan said excitedly to the fan next to him.

Grant hurriedly said to Liu Hongyu in TR: "Accelerate, accelerate." Hamilton doesn't have the DRS and wake advantage anymore, so don't waste time in front of him and overtake him. ”

After following a few corners, Liu Hongyu did not choose to do it immediately. After all, Mercedes' racing performance is there, so it's better to brush up on the fastest lap of a few corners and then go to the big straights to overtake head-on.

After leaving Turn 5, Liu Hongyu turned on the DRS and only followed Hamilton closely, without going to the outside line to tap in an attempt to overtake. Seeing this, Hamilton also understood what Liu Hongyu wanted to do, and quickly changed the driving route so as not to let Liu Hongyu continue to suck his wake.

After passing the No. 14 turn, Liu Hongyu turned on the DRS and went outside to overtake Hamilton, and Hamilton did not make a senseless struggle when he saw this, and directly turned the steering wheel to let Liu Hongyu pass. After all, his soft tires are already worn out badly. It's better to follow Liu Hongyu and rub the wake around.

On lap 18, Hamilton chose to pit after following Liu Hongyu to push with all his might, and Liu Hongyu also received instructions from the team to signal him to start accelerating and directly finish grinding this set of neutral tires.

Hamilton spent 2.1 seconds switching to the medium tyres, and came out of the pit stop just ahead of Leclerc on the hard tyres and Pérez on the medium tyres, just enough to complete an overcut for the two. Neither man's tyre temperature was fully up, so Hamilton could run a little longer in the clean air before starting to wrestle with the cars behind him.

Liu Hongyu, who returned to the front, pushed a few laps at full speed to refresh the fastest lap in the field, and suddenly showed a yellow flag on the sidelines. A sign with "VSC" written on it was also unfurled.

“Box now box.” Grant motioned for Liu Hongyu to enter the pit stop.

After diving headlong into the pits, Liu Hongyu also caught a glimpse of what the team was ready to change him into, only running one lap at the start and helping him pass Verstappen's old soft tyres at that time. But bar...

"Oh! The tire changer on the right rear tire came out with a neutral tire! What the hell is this! ”

In the studio of Five Star Sports, Brother Bing looked at the right rear tire that Liu Hongyu's car had just been replaced and said in surprise.

"Take the one you should take!"

After discovering that the tire changer had become an idiot, Liu Hongyu hurriedly shouted.

"Oops... Here, Hamilton is over, Leclerc and Pérez are over... Ricardo in the back also passed! And now, Pagani has just changed Liu Hongyu's tires. ”

"Should... The tire changer should be taken down on the spot! ”

Due to the mistake of the tire changer, Liu Hongyu's original 29-second advantage was wiped out in an instant. After the pit stop, he was overtaken by several cars, and fell directly from first place to seventh place.

“F**king beautiful... How many more times do we make this mistake? Liu Hongyu complained in TR.