博塔斯美国站再度退赛，凯迪拉克难解技术故障
博塔斯在美国大奖赛再次退赛，这是他本赛季第九次未能完赛，其中八次与机械故障有关。他表示凯迪拉克车队有时也难以理解问题所在。
博塔斯美国站再度退赛，凯迪拉克难解技术故障
凯迪拉克在美国大奖赛的速度比平时更好，但博塔斯未能完赛
博塔斯在美国大奖赛周日退赛后表示，凯迪拉克F1车队正艰难地理解自身的问题。
博塔斯在美洲赛道遭遇本赛季第九次退赛，对于一位在2026年之前退赛率为11%的车手来说，这个数字高得令人意外。
在这九次中，有八次与机械故障有关，而在奥斯汀疑似动力单元问题再次导致了这种情况。“无法完赛总是令人失望，但引擎那边听起来确实不太妙，像是物理层面的问题，”这位芬兰人评论道。
凯迪拉克仍然需要解决其各种小毛病，无论是在可靠性还是性能方面，但这可能要等到明年的挑战者赛车驶上赛道时才会发生。
“我想说，在这样问题频出的一年里，根本无法做出准确判断，”博塔斯补充道。“而且问题在于，有时我们并不太理解这些问题。所以前面真的还有很陡峭的学习曲线要走。
“幕后有很多事情，也许不是每个人都能看到，比如刹车管理，需要应对的量以及所有这些事情。但与此同时，就像我说的，有时我们一直难以发现一些问题。”
尽管如此，两辆车在奥斯汀比赛中曾短暂地与阿斯顿·马丁和威廉姆斯缠斗，但最终都落后了。佩雷兹以落后费尔南多·阿隆索、亚历山大·阿尔本和卡洛斯·塞恩斯约20秒的成绩完赛，这实际上已是显著进步；博塔斯退赛时仅落后队友五秒。
“有时看到我们在速度上相当接近其他一些赛车，这相当积极，”博塔斯说，而佩雷兹则认为自己的策略受到了阻碍。“不幸的是，我认为由于蓝旗的时机，我们损失了大量比赛时间，因为当我们进站时，基本上直接进入了蓝旗状态，”这位墨西哥人声称。数据显示，他在第23圈进站后，于第28圈被套圈。
至于凯迪拉克为何在得克萨斯比平时更具竞争力，两人有不同的理论。
“我认为这非常非常取决于赛道，”佩雷兹认为。“在比赛中，我很惊讶我们在这方面更接近了一些。”
博塔斯指出：“我认为今天云层覆盖帮了忙。今天稍微凉快一些，我们知道在高温下我们表现不佳，所以这有点帮助。但说实话，我原以为我们在这里会更困难。所以这就是为什么这算是个积极信号，希望墨西哥对我们来说会更好一些。”
虽然凯迪拉克在罗德里格斯兄弟赛道不会像在其他地方那样因缺乏下压力而受到同等程度的阻碍，但目前的预报显示，排位赛和正赛期间都将天气温暖——环境温度约26摄氏度——且阳光充足。
英文原文
Yet another DNF for Cadillac’s Valtteri Bottas: ‘Sometimes we don’t quite understand it’
Cadillac’s pace was better than usual in the US GP, but Bottas failed to finish the race
Valtteri Bottas described the Cadillac Formula 1 team as struggling to understand its issues, after he retired from Sunday’s United States Grand Prix.
Bottas suffered his ninth retirement of the season at the Circuit of The Americas, a surprisingly high number for a driver whose pre-2026 DNF rate was 11%.
Of those nine, eight were linked to technical problems, and that was the case again with a suspected power-unit issue in Austin. “It's always disappointing not to finish, but it didn't sound great from the engine side, like physically,” the Finn commented.
Cadillac still needs to iron out its gremlins, in terms of both reliability and performance, but this may not occur until next year’s challenger takes to the track.
“I would say it's impossible to get a read on a year like this with so many issues,” Bottas added. “And the problem is sometimes we don't quite understand them. So it's really still a steep learning curve to go.
“There's been lots of things in the background that maybe not everyone sees, like the brake management, the amount of having to deal with that and all these things. But at the same time, like I said, sometimes there's been some issues that we're struggling to see.”
Still, both cars briefly mingled with the Aston Martins and Williams in the Austin race, though they eventually fell adrift. Perez finished the race some 20 seconds behind Fernando Alonso, Alexander Albon and Carlos Sainz, which actually was a marked improvement; Bottas was just five seconds shy of his team-mate when he retired.
“It was at times quite positive to see that we were pretty close to some other cars on pace,” Bottas said, while Perez felt hindered by his strategy. “Unfortunately I think with the timing of the blue flags we lost a lot of race time, because as we pitted we basically went straight into the blue flags,” the Mexican claimed. Data shows he was lapped on lap 28 after pitting on lap 23.
As for why Cadillac was more competitive than usual in Texas, the pair had different theories.
“I think it's very, very track-dependent,” Perez reckoned. “In the race I was surprised that we were a bit closer in that regard.”
“I think today what helped was the cloud cover,” Bottas pointed out. “It was a bit cooler today, we know we are not great when it's high temperatures, so that helped a bit. But I thought it was going to be more difficult for us here, honestly. So that's why it's kind of positive, and Mexico should be hopefully a bit better for us.”
While Cadillac won’t be hindered by its lack of downforce to the same extent at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, warm temperatures – some 26C ambient – and sunshine are currently forecast for both qualifying and the race.
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