克里斯蒂安·霍纳透露2021年阿布扎比大奖赛争议细节
克里斯蒂安·霍纳在其回忆录《Drive》中首次透露，他在尼古拉斯·拉蒂菲发生事故后，故意对迈克尔·马西施加压力，要求重新开始比赛。
基督教·霍纳揭示了2021年阿布扎比大奖赛争议性事件的细节
基督教·霍纳透露，他故意向赛事总监迈克尔·马西施压，要求重新开始备受争议的2021年阿布扎比大奖赛
刘易斯·汉密尔顿，梅赛德斯车队，第二名，在维修区祝贺马克斯·维斯塔潘，红牛车队，第一名
基督教·霍纳的回忆录《驾驶》以有争议的2021年阿布扎比大奖赛开始 - 这场一级方程式赛车比赛至今仍令许多人感到分歧。英国人首次透露，他故意向迈克尔·马西施压，要求在尼古拉斯·拉蒂菲驾驶威廉姆斯赛车发生碰撞后，安全车出动后重新开始比赛。
红牛车队的马克斯·维斯塔潘和当时的梅赛德斯车手刘易斯·汉密尔顿在2021赛季的最后一场比赛中以相同的积分进入。在比赛的最后几圈，汉密尔顿领先，但刚刚进站维修的维斯塔潘拥有新的轮胎，他们之间只有五辆被套圈的赛车，他们驾驶着赛车在安全车后面行驶。对于这位年轻的荷兰人来说，超越这五辆赛车是一项艰巨的任务。
“我的心情沉重，”霍纳写道，“这意味着马克斯必须先超越所有五辆赛车才能追上刘易斯，这在一次赛车圈中是不可能的。”
“我决定对赛事控制施加更多压力。‘快点，迈克尔，我们需要让这场比赛继续进行；为什么我们不把这些被套圈的赛车清理出去？’”
“马西做出了一项极具争议的决定，只取消了两人之间的赛车，并在只剩下最后一圈的情况下重新开始比赛。这一举措最终帮助维斯塔潘赢得了冠军，他能够轻松地用新轮胎超越汉密尔顿。马西在2022赛季被替换。”
霍纳在《高性能播客》中解释说，直到那年，当他开始听到向赛事总监的无线电信息被广播时，他才意识到托托·沃尔夫一直在直接与马西交谈。
“等等，这没问题吗？你在这里给裁判施加压力了，”霍纳说。“所以我对我们的车队经理说，‘让我接电话’，因为我15年来从未和查理·惠丁说过话。”"
他坚持认为红牛在最后什么都没做错。
“他做出了决定，这是在他的职责范围内，根据规定可以做的，但这是第一次这样做，允许在马克斯和刘易斯之间的车辆解开赛道的圈数，”霍纳说。“这不是我们的错，但我们现在有机会尝试这个圈数，如果有人能在这样的圈数上给你带来胜利，那就是马克斯。发生了什么，就发生了。”"
英文原文
Christian Horner reveals new details of controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi GP
Christian Horner has revealed that he deliberately pressured race director Michael Masi to restart the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 2nd position, congratulates Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, 1st position, in Parc Ferme
Christian Horner's memoir, Drive, begins with the contentious 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - a Formula 1 race that many still find divisive to this day. For the first time, the Briton revealed that he deliberately put pressure on Michael Masi to restart the race after Nicholas Latifi crashed his Williams, causing a safety car.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen and then-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the last race of the 2021 season on even points. And in the final laps of the race, Hamilton was ahead, but a freshly pitted Verstappen had new rubber with just five lapped cars between them as they drove the circuit behind the safety car. Overtaking all five cars would be a tough ask for the young Dutchman.
“My heart sank,” Horner wrote. “That meant that Max would have to pass all five cars before getting to Lewis, which was impossible in one racing lap.
“I decided to apply some more pressure on race control. ‘Come on, Michael, we need to get this race going; why aren’t we getting these lapped cars out the way?’”
Masi, in what became a highly controversial move, unlapped only the cars between the pair and restarted the race with just one lap left. This move ultimately gave Verstappen the championship win with him able to easily dispatch Hamilton on his new tyres. Masi was replaced for the 2022 season.
Horner explained on the High Performance Podcast that he only realised that year, once radio messages to the race director began to be broadcast, that Toto Wolff had been speaking directly to Masi.
“Hang on, that’s not on? You’re putting pressure on the referee here,” Horner said. “So I was like to our team manager, ‘Get me on the line’, because I never spoke to Charlie Whiting in 15 years that he was there.”
He insisted Red Bull had done nothing wrong at the end.
“He made the decision, which was within his remit, as per the regulations to be able to do, but it had never been done before, to allow the cars between Max and Lewis to unlap,” Horner said. “It wasn’t our fault but we’re in a position where we’ve got this one lap to have a crack at it, and if anyone is going to deliver you on a lap like that, it’s Max. What happened, happened.”
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