维斯塔潘2027过渡首步：哈特首次全程执掌比赛工程师
红牛开始让汤姆·哈特在比赛中承担更多比赛工程师职责，为兰比亚塞最迟2028年转投迈凯伦做准备；哈特在美国大奖赛首次全程负责维斯塔潘的比赛工程师工作，但无线电故障和策略问题让这个周末并不顺利。
马克斯·维斯塔潘告别长期F1比赛工程师詹皮耶罗·兰比亚塞的第一步并不顺利，原因是一场混乱的美国大奖赛。
然而，起步表现平平、被形容为“灾难”的无线电通讯问题，以及对策略的不满，都与他的未来工程师汤姆·哈特首次在他身边工作无关。
作为红牛为兰比亚塞最迟2028年转投迈凯伦而逐步让其退出的准备工作的一部分，车队已开始把更多职责交给他的接替者哈特。
哈特自夏休期以来已在几节练习中代班，在奥斯汀则首次整个周末上岗，兰比亚塞在幕后观察。
这不是一个轻松的周末，尤其是因为车队至今仍对无线电问题感到困惑，但考虑到这是哈特与维斯塔潘首次合作参赛，红牛对事情进展感到乐观。
车队领队洛朗·梅基斯表示：“我认为他（哈特）做得非常出色，你看到我微笑是因为我当然记得第一次担任比赛工程师是什么感觉——而他选择了一场相当复杂的比赛来完成这个首秀。”
红牛知道车手与工程师之间的强大默契无法一夜之间建立，所以即使哈特与维斯塔潘彼此非常了解，他们也需要时间才能达到维斯塔潘与兰比亚塞之间那种默契水平。
梅基斯表示，他在这个周末的印象是，这种默契已经尽可能地稳定下来了。
梅基斯在谈到哈特时表示：“第一次参加排位赛、第一场正赛，他很好地承接了身后工程团队为维斯塔潘所做的工作。”
“这场比赛是一场复杂的比赛，我们可能对第三名有些沮丧，但这是好消息。不过我真的认为他做得非常出色，而且他在幕后也得到了兰比亚塞的很好支持。”
“我确信你无法在短时间内重建一段关系，但我完全相信我们会看到他逐步加强并与维斯塔潘建立那种关系。”
红牛计划在本赛季剩余时间里继续发展这段关系，哈特和兰比亚塞将在余下的比赛中轮流担任该角色。
从更长远来看，尽管哈特将从2027年初开始全面接手，但兰比亚塞将继续承担多少指导角色尚不清楚。这在很大程度上取决于他还会在红牛参与多久。
兰比亚塞何时加入迈凯伦担任其新任首席竞赛官，目前尚未商定日期，而他在红牛的合同要到明年年底才到期。
红牛并不急于提前放他走，而迈凯伦则希望尽可能早地得到他——理想情况下是在2027年的某个时候。
在上个月于马德里举行的西班牙大奖赛上，迈凯伦首席执行官扎克·布朗在围场与兰比亚塞举行了一次毫不掩饰的公开会面，以在与红牛继续讨论的同时引起人们对这一事的关注。
红牛的首要任务是尽可能长时间地留住兰比亚塞，以确保向新架构平稳过渡，这一新架构还包括阿斯顿·马丁的汤姆·麦卡洛的到来，他将担任新的赛事主管。
尽管哈特已在新岗位上开始熟悉工作，但麦卡洛要到明年一月才开始在米尔顿凯恩斯工作——这意味着如果兰比亚塞要协助那里的交接，他至少得留任到明年年初。
英文原文
Max Verstappen's first step towards life away from long-serving Formula 1 race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase was not straightforward, thanks to a messy United States Grand Prix.
A middling start, radio communication problems that were labelled a "disaster", and annoyance over the strategy had, however, nothing to do with his future engineer Tom Hart being at his side for the first time.
As part of Red Bull's preparations to phase Lambiase out ahead of his switch to McLaren, by 2028 at the latest, the team has begun handing his replacement Hart more responsibilities.
Hart had already filled in during a few practice sessions since the summer break and at Austin he stepped up for the entire weekend, with Lambiase keeping a watching brief in the background.
It was not an easy weekend, especially because of the radio problems that the team remains baffled by, but Red Bull was upbeat about how things went considering it was Hart and Verstappen's first race together.
Team principal Laurent Mekies said: "I think he [Hart] did an excellent job, and you see me smiling because I certainly remember what it is to be on your first race as a race engineer - and he picked a fairly complicated race to do that."
Red Bull knows that a strong dynamic between driver and engineer cannot be built overnight, so even though Hart and Verstappen know each other very well it is going to take time for them to reach the level of understanding that Verstappen has enjoyed with Lambiase.
Mekies said that his impression over the weekend was that the dynamic had bedded down as well as could be expected.
"First qualifying, first race, he has managed to channel very well the work of the engineering teams behind him, to Max," said Mekies of Hart.
"The race was a complicated race, and we are probably a bit frustrated with the P3, which is good news. But I really think he did an excellent job, and he was very well supported by GP [Lambiase] as well in the background.
"I'm sure you cannot recreate a relationship in no time, but I have every confidence that we are going to see him ramping up and building that relationship with Max."
Red Bull plans to continue evolving that relationship throughout the rest of this season, with Hart and Lambiase set to alternate the role over the remaining races.
Longer term, while Hart is set to take over fully from the beginning of 2027, it is not clear how much of a mentoring role Lambiase will continue to have. That will very much depend on how long he remains involved at Red Bull.
No date has yet been agreed for when Lambiase will join McLaren as its new chief racing officer, and his contract at Red Bull does not run out until the end of next year.
Red Bull is not eager to let him go early, while McLaren wants to get hold of him as early as possible - ideally at some point in 2027.
At the Spanish GP in Madrid last month, McLaren CEO Zak Brown held a brazen public meeting with Lambiase in the paddock to help draw attention to the matter as discussions continue with Red Bull.
The priority for Red Bull is to hold on to Lambiase for as long as it needs to ensure that there is a smooth transition to a new structure, which also includes the arrival of Aston Martin's Tom McCullough as its new head of racing.
And while Hart has started to get his feet under the desk in his new role, McCullough does not begin work at Milton Keynes until January - which means Lambiase will have to remain on board at least until the early part of next year if he is to assist in the handover there.
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