迈凯伦解释美国大奖赛让皮亚斯特里让车原因
迈凯伦车队领队安德烈亚·斯特拉解释了在美国大奖赛中要求奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里让兰多·诺里斯超越的原因。皮亚斯特里和诺里斯在美洲赛道排位赛第三节未能挑战梅赛德斯、红牛和法拉利，最终占据第四排发车位。
迈凯伦为何在美国大奖赛向奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里下达车队指令
奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在奥斯汀比赛早期让兰多·诺里斯通过，安德烈亚·斯特拉说明这完全合理
迈凯伦车队领队安德烈亚·斯特拉解释了在美国大奖赛要求奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里让兰多·诺里斯超越的原因。
皮亚斯特里和诺里斯在美洲赛道排位赛第三节未能挑战梅赛德斯、红牛和法拉利，最终占据第四排发车位。
然而，在比赛的前七圈中，皮亚斯特里每圈比领跑者安东内利慢一秒——除去第一圈，平均恰好慢0.997秒——甚至跟不上苦苦挣扎的拉塞尔，后者每圈还能拉开零点二秒。
诺里斯在无线电中抱怨被队友“挡住”；迈凯伦要求这位澳大利亚车手让队友通过，他在第八圈一号弯照做了。诺里斯随后在七圈内拉开了四秒。
“我们在周末期间看到，兰多比奥斯卡稍快一些，”斯特拉详细说道。“这是一条兰多擅长的赛道，也是奥斯卡相对更吃力一些的赛道之一。
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“今年对奥斯卡来说尤其棘手，因为奥斯卡的超能力是逐步建立参照；一旦他建立起参照，他就能真正高效地一圈接一圈地跑。但在这里每一圈都不同，所以这些条件对奥斯卡构成了挑战，实际上也正是兰多发挥自己超能力的条件——那就是对条件极强的适应能力，尤其是在赛车打滑的时候。”
“所以，鉴于这种情况，我们在赛前讨论过，如果兰多跟在奥斯卡后面，而奥斯卡跟不上前面的赛车，那我们就可以给兰多一个机会或可能性，看看我们能否向前面的赛车发起攻击——我们就是这么做的。”
这对迈凯伦意义重大，此前其车手在新加坡冲刺赛中相撞。“这是一种展示，表明作为一支车队，并且与车手们一起，我们关心车队的利益，这一直是我们之间的对话，”斯特拉补充道。
“尤其是在新加坡之后，我们进一步强调了大家齐心协力帮助迈凯伦回到我们想要的位置有多么重要，那就是奥斯卡和兰多在排位赛中占据头排，为胜利而战，然后我们再管理内部竞争。但在此之前，大家必须齐心协力，维持迈凯伦重返前列的轨迹。”
迈凯伦在周日选择了进站一次的策略，试图挑战其他顶尖车队，而法拉利双雄刘易斯·汉密尔顿和查尔斯·勒克莱尔，以及马克斯·维斯塔潘则采用进站两次的策略。诺里斯因此一直保持第二名直到第46圈，随后被这三位车手超越——但他在升至第五名的过程中仍然成功对伊萨克·哈贾尔和拉塞尔实施了提前进站，皮亚斯特里同样击败了银箭车队车手升至第七。
“我们尝试使用硬胎，这在练习中似乎很有竞争力，而且我们知道其他车队会使用更软配方的轮胎，”斯特拉解释道。“当我们看到第一阶段（stint）的情况，以及他们有些挣扎的事实时，我们得到了一些鼓励，认为使用硬胎可能是追赶的好方法。
“所以，在第二阶段我们实际上相比两辆法拉利和维斯塔潘在追赶。在某个阶段，我们决定采用进站一次的策略，因为如果进站两次，我们总会落在后面。进站一次让你有可能利用安全车的机会，但安全车没有出现。我们仍在等待对马德里发生事情的补偿——它会来的，”这位意大利人补充道，指的是诺里斯在马德里赛道因不合时宜的虚拟安全车时段而失去了潜在的胜利。
“我们也尝试看看硬胎还剩多少性能，但老实说，我们知道我们极不可能将维斯塔潘，尤其是勒克莱尔挡在身后。对于汉密尔顿，我们认为这更多取决于硬胎最后阶段的表现。没人能预知，但值得一试。”
“我们对策略执行感到满意；我们对今天基本弄清了该用哪些轮胎感到满意；对赛车似乎因升级而有所提升感到满意。但我们需要提升排位赛表现，而且如果想持续争夺领奖台、尤其是争夺胜利，我们还需要继续改进赛车。”
迈凯伦已连续四轮无缘领奖台，按这一指标衡量，这是自2023赛季最后两轮以及2024夺冠赛季前两轮以来，他们最差的一段状态。
英文原文
Why McLaren gave team order to Oscar Piastri in F1 US GP
Oscar Piastri let Lando Norris through early on in Austin, and it made perfect sense, Andrea Stella demonstrates
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has explained the reasoning behind asking Oscar Piastri to wave Lando Norris past in Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix.
Piastri and Norris locked out the fourth row of the grid at the Circuit of The Americas, having failed to challenge the Mercedes, Red Bulls and Ferraris in Q3.
However, over the first seven laps of the race, Piastri lost one second per lap to race leader Kimi Antonelli – precisely 0.997s on average, discounting lap one – and couldn’t even keep up with a struggling George Russell, who was pulling away by two tenths a lap.
Norris complained on the radio he was “being held up” by his team-mate; McLaren asked the Australian to let his team-mate through, which he duly did in Turn 1 on lap eight. Norris went on to pull away by four seconds in seven laps.
“We had seen during the weekend that Lando was a little bit faster than Oscar,” Stella detailed. “This is a track in which Lando excels and is one of the tracks in which Oscar instead struggles a little bit more.
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“This year, in particular for Oscar, is tricky because Oscar's superpower is to build; once he creates references, he can really effectively build lap after lap. But here every lap is different, so these are the conditions that challenge Oscar and actually are the conditions where Lando uses his own superpower, which is being very adaptive to the conditions, especially as the car slides.
“So, given this context, we discussed before the race that if Lando was behind Oscar, and Oscar could not keep up with the cars ahead, then we could have given Lando a chance or an opportunity to see if we could attack the cars ahead – and that's what we did.”
This meant a lot to McLaren after its drivers collided in the Singapore sprint race. “It's a way of demonstrating that as a team and together with the drivers, we care about the interests of the team, which was always the conversation that we have had,” Stella added.
“And especially after Singapore, we reinforced how much it's important that we all together help McLaren go back to the position that we want to have, which is Oscar and Lando, first row in qualifying, fighting for the win, and then we manage the internal competition. But up to then, all together, we need to sustain the trajectory of McLaren back to the front.”
McLaren picked a one-stop strategy in a bid to challenge the other top teams on Sunday, with Ferrari duo Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, plus Max Verstappen on two stops. Norris consequently held second place until lap 46, before succumbing to those three drivers – but he still managed to undercut Isack Hadjar and Russell on his way to fifth place, with Piastri likewise beating the Silver Arrow to seventh.
“We tried to deploy the hard tyres, which in practice seemed to be competitive, and we knew that the others were going for the softer side of the tyre allocation,” Stella explained. “Once we saw the first stint and the fact that they were struggling a bit, we got some encouragement that using the hard tyres could have been a good way of catching up.
“So, we were actually catching up compared to the two Ferraris and Verstappen in the second stint. At some stage, we just decided to go for the one-stop, because if we go for a two, we are always going to stay behind. The one-stop gives you the possibility to take advantage of a safety car, which didn't come. We are still waiting for a compensation for what happened in Madrid – it will come,” the Italian added, referring to Norris losing a potential win to an untimely VSC period at Madring.
“We also attempted to see what's left in the hard tyres, but honestly, we knew that it was very, very unlikely that we could have kept Verstappen and in particular Leclerc behind. With Hamilton, we thought it was more dependent on the final tail of the hard tyres. Nobody could have known, but worthwhile giving it a go.
“We are happy with the strategy execution; we are happy with the fact that we kind of understood which tyres needed to be used today; happy with the fact that the car seems to have improved thanks to the upgrades. But we need to improve our qualifying performance, and we also need to keep improving the car if we want to consistently compete for podiums, but above all for victories.”
McLaren is on a four-round podiumless streak, its worst spell of form by that metric since the last two rounds of the 2023 season and the first two of its title-winning 2024 campaign.
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