瓦塞尔：法拉利车手墨西哥内斗越界
墨西哥大奖赛首圈，汉密尔顿与勒克莱尔为争胜互相缠斗，葬送了法拉利包揽前二的大好局面，将胜利拱手让给维斯塔潘和红牛。瓦塞尔表示，这次内斗与赞德沃特和蒙扎不同，已经越过了此前未曾触碰的底线。
墨西哥大奖赛首圈，刘易斯·汉密尔顿与夏尔·勒克莱尔之间的冲突，并不是法拉利F1车队领队弗雷德里克·瓦塞尔今年第一次处理手下两位车手之间的摩擦。
但与赞德沃特和蒙扎不同，这一次越过了瓦塞尔此前未曾被触碰的底线。
在一条超车极其困难的赛道上，法拉利首圈便有两辆赛车占据前列，完全有能力取得本赛季最佳成绩。
然而，它的车手搞砸了，把胜利拱手让给了马克斯·维斯塔潘和红牛。
瓦塞尔事后哀叹道：“我们在4号弯时处于1-2的位置。我不记得墨西哥上一次超车是什么时候了，也许是70年代末。当你在4号弯处于1-2时，你不会想到自己会赢不了比赛。”
对于瓦塞尔来说，他对失去胜利的沮丧并不在于车手们在通过前几个弯道时谁对谁错，最终导致勒克莱尔在4号弯和5号弯之间横穿赛道，而汉密尔顿则跑宽了。
相反，问题要深得多——车手们为了争夺胜利而如此激烈地互相争斗的自身利益，最终浪费了马拉内罗所有人在最近几场比赛中为提高赛车竞争力所付出的努力，而正是这些努力才让赛车首先来到前列。
而在这个问题上，瓦塞尔说这变成了一个尊重的问题。
正如他在方格旗挥动后对Canal+所说：“我很难咽下这口气。这是对所有工作人员的不尊重。浪费一场胜利很难受。它卡在我的喉咙里。他们不是在为自己比赛。”
对于不愿卷入事件具体细节的瓦塞尔来说，这是车手将个人利益置于车队利益之上的情况之一。
在法拉利的赛后新闻稿中，他说：“我一直期望每个人都能尊重品牌、车队、我们的合作伙伴，最重要的是，尊重为我们在家乡工作的2000名员工。”
“他们为我们的工作投入了难以置信的努力，在工厂日夜工作以改进赛车并为赛道带来升级。这就是为什么以这种方式错失胜利难以接受。”
强调团队合作精神这一点也得到了汉密尔顿本人的呼应——他认为自己和勒克莱尔并没有像他们本应做到的那样良好协作。
“需要记住的核心一点，也许随着年龄增长才会明白，就是你在车里做出的每一个决定都会影响整个车队在幕后工作的所有人，”汉密尔顿在赛后说道。
“我们合同的一部分就是我们必须作为一个团队协作，今天我们本可以轻松做到这一点。所以看到我们像那样输掉比赛，真的很遗憾。
“而且除非采取行动、进行真正深入严肃的对话，否则这种情况还会继续下去，所以这种事不应该再在未来发生。”
瓦塞尔表示，他需要一些时间来“消化”第一圈发生的情况，但他清楚，绝不能让类似事件重演。
正因如此，他认为墨西哥站发生的事情值得与车手们坐下来谈一谈，以便在下周末巴西站比赛恢复前“澄清局面”。
在分别与汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔沟通之前，瓦塞尔不愿就他认为谁的责任更大发表看法。
但他觉得，距离注意力转向英特拉格斯赛道比赛只剩几天反而是件好事，这样就不会留出空隙让问题发酵。
“优势在于我们四天后还有一场比赛，”瓦塞尔说。“我们今晚会讨论，明天会解决，然后我们会专注于这一场。”
勒克莱尔在赛后表示，他认为没有必要就发生的事情进行任何重大对话，而汉密尔顿则表示他不确定理想的结果是什么。
汉密尔顿过去曾谈到需要制定交战规则，但他并不认为引入这些规则会有多大区别。
“我不知道现在需要发生什么，”他说。“我们回去后如何讨论事情，我不太确定我想如何参与其中。”
他补充道：“当你的队友与你作对，然后你就那样丢掉位置时，这绝对很难受。所以我们会在私下里谈这件事，多说其实也没什么意义。”
“我们没有交战规则，至于这是否会改变查尔斯那边的任何情况，我不知道。我们得把这件事弄清楚，但肯定需要有所改变。”
勒克莱尔觉得汉密尔顿在那次事件中和他一样激进。
“我们显然会谈这件事，”他说。“我不知道他是否对我的做法很不满，因为我觉得他做的事也相当接近极限。”
“我认为他可能对整个情况更生气，对4-5号弯的情况处理方式、罚时等等更生气。这肯定是我们会讨论的事情。”
但是，无论瓦塞尔在巴西大奖赛前如何立下规矩让他的车手们守规矩，很明显两人之间的紧张关系已经升级，而且似乎没有多少信任。
虽然汉密尔顿并非完全无辜，因为他在4/5号弯事故中刹车过晚并跑宽，帮助维斯塔潘通过，但他认为整件事最终是由勒克莱尔不必要地攻击他引发的。
“如果我从后面来，承担所有风险，最终我们作为车队输了，那我认为我得做出一些交代，因为这会影响很多人，”这位七届冠军说道。
“但反过来，我处于领先位置，这完全没有必要。我认为我们本可以轻松拿到那个第一和第二名，这对车队以及工厂里所有为给我们带来这些升级而辛勤工作的人来说，都会是巨大的成就。”
“所以我真的不知道会采取什么措施，因为到目前为止，实际上什么都没有做。”
而且，这明显是在暗讽队友的态度，汉密尔顿认为勒克莱尔对待比赛的方式是错误的，同时他否认是缺乏经验或年龄导致了这些情况。
“这家伙已经28岁了，所以我不认为这是年龄的问题，”他说。“我认为这是心态问题。就像是‘要么做要么死——要么我赢，要么我们谁都别赢’，不应该这样。应该是我们拿到那个第一和第二名。”
“在银石赛道，我本可以对他采取那种玩命式的动作，把他撞出赛道，从而让我们丢掉冠军，但最终我们拿到了第一和第三。我很高兴车队经历了那样的时刻。”
“但我希望我们能在未来朝着更好的方向努力，营造一个更好的工作环境。”
英文原文
The Mexican Grand Prix first lap run-in between Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc is not the first time Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Fred Vasseur has had to deal with fallout between his drivers this year.
But unlike Zandvoort and Monza, this one crossed a line for Vasseur that had not been transgressed before.
With two cars at the front of the field on the opening lap at a track where overtaking is super difficult, Ferrari had everything in its power to achieve its best result of the season.
Instead, its drivers blew it and gifted Max Verstappen and Red Bull the victory.
Vasseur lamented afterwards: "We were 1-2 at Turn 4. I don't remember the last overtaking in Mexico, perhaps at the end of the '70s. When you are 1-2 in Turn 4, you don't imagine that you won't win the race."
For Vasseur, his frustration about losing the win was not about who was in the right or wrong with their positioning through the first corners, which ultimately ended up with Leclerc cutting across the track between Turns 4 and 5 and Hamilton running wide.
Instead, the issue ran much deeper - in that the self interest of the drivers to battle each other so hard for the win ended up wasting the efforts of everyone at Maranello who had worked to lift the competitiveness of the car over recent races to get it to the front in the first place.
And on that matter, Vasseur said it became a question of respect.
As he told Canal+ after the chequered flag: "I'm having trouble swallowing it. It's a lack of respect for all the people who work. Wasting a victory is hard. It's stuck in my throat. They're not racing for themselves."
For Vasseur, who did not want to get involved in the specifics of the incident, this was one of those cases of drivers putting their own interests in front of those of the team.
In Ferrari's post-race press release he said: "I always expect everyone to show respect for the brand, the team, our partners and, above all, the 2000 people working for us back home.
"They put an incredible amount of effort into what we do, working day and night at the factory to improve the car and bring upgrades to the track. That's why missing out on a win in this way is difficult to accept."
The emphasis of being a team player was something echoed by Hamilton himself - who reckoned that he and Leclerc had not worked together as well as they should have done.
"The core thing to remember, which maybe comes with age, is that every decision you make in the car impacts all the people that work in the background for the whole team," Hamilton said after the race.
"A part of our contract is we have to work as a team, which we could have easily done today. So it's a shame to see us lose as we did.
"And that will continue unless action is taken, and a real deep, serious conversation is had, so it shouldn't happen moving forward."
While Vasseur said that he needed some time to "digest" what had happened on the first lap, he knows that a repeat cannot be allowed.
That is why he thought what happened in Mexico warrants a sit down with his drivers to "clear the situation" ahead of action resuming in Brazil next weekend.
Vasseur did not want to get drawn into his views on who he felt was more at fault until he had spoken to both Hamilton and Leclerc.
But he felt that there only being a few days to go before attention shifted to the Interlagos race was a benefit in terms of there not being a gap where things could fester.
"The advantage is that we have another one in four days," said Vasseur. "We'll discuss tonight, we'll fix it tomorrow, and then we'll do this one."
Leclerc suggested post-race that he did not see the need for any major conversation over what happened, while Hamilton said he was unsure of an ideal outcome.
Hamilton has talked in the past of the need for rules of engagement, but he is not convinced introducing them will make much of a difference.
"I don't know what needs to happen now," he said. "How we discuss things when we go back, I'm not quite sure how I want to engage in that."
He added: "When your team-mate works against you and then you lose positions like that, it's definitely tough. So we'll just talk about it offline, and it's not really worth saying too much more.
"We don't have rules of engagement, and whether or not that will change anything from Charles' side, I don't know. We've just got to figure it out, but something needs to change for sure."
Leclerc felt that Hamilton had been just as aggressive as he was in the incident.
"We will talk about it, obviously," he said. "I don't know if he was very unhappy with what I did, because I felt like it was very much on the limit, also, what he did.
"I think he was maybe more angry with the whole situation, how the situation was dealt in [Turns] 4-5, with the penalty, etc. This is something we'll talk about for sure."
But however much Vasseur lays down the law ahead of the Brazilian GP to get his drivers in line, it is clear that tensions have escalated between the pair of them and that there does not seem to be much trust.
While Hamilton was not totally innocent because he braked late and ran wide in the Turn 4/5 incident to help Verstappen come through, he thought the whole thing was ultimately triggered by Leclerc unnecessarily attacking him.
"If I'm coming from behind and I'm taking all the risk, and it ends up we lose as a team, then I think I would have some answering to do because it impacts a lot of people," said the seven-time champion.
"But the other way round, I'm in the lead, and it was just unnecessary. I think we could have easily had that 1-2, which would have been huge for the team and for everyone back at the factory who's worked so hard to bring us these upgrades.
"So I don't really know what will be done because up until now nothing really has been done."
And in a clear dig at his team-mate's attitude, Hamilton reckoned Leclerc was approaching racing wrongly, as he denied it was inexperience or age that was causing these situations.
"The guy's 28 years old, so I don't think it's an age thing," he said. "I think it's a mentality thing. It's like 'do or die - either I win or none of us do', and it shouldn't be that. It should be us getting that 1-2.
"At Silverstone, I could have gone all kamikaze on him and taken him off, and lost us the win, but instead it was a 1-3. I'm happy for the team to have experienced that.
"But I'm hopeful we'll work towards a better place, a better working place in future."
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