法拉利为何屈服于汉密尔顿新加坡F1失败赌博
法拉利车队主管弗雷德·瓦瑟尔在新加坡大奖赛赛后面对媒体，热门话题是刘易斯·汉密尔顿。大部分问题围绕着他因选择错误策略，从第三位跌至第六位，在滨海湾赛道上坚持使用软胎完成44圈长距离赛段。
法拉利车队主管弗雷德·瓦瑟尔在新加坡大奖赛赛后面对媒体，热门话题是刘易斯·汉密尔顿。
大部分问题围绕着他因选择错误策略，从第三位跌至第六位，在滨海湾赛道上坚持使用软胎完成44圈长距离赛段。
作为法拉利车队主管，弗雷德·瓦瑟尔在新加坡大奖赛赛后面对媒体，讨论的焦点是刘易斯·汉密尔顿。
大多数问题都集中在汉密尔顿因选择错误策略，从第三位跌至第六位，他在滨海湾赛道上坚持使用软胎完成了44圈的长距离赛段。
在过去的22场比赛中，经过中和后，汉密尔顿相对于法拉利车队队友查尔斯·勒克莱尔，平均每圈损失了2.5秒。这就是他最终排在基米·安东内利和迈凯轮车队之后的第六位。
由于生病的英国人免除了赛后媒体承诺前往医疗中心，瓦瑟尔面临记者的审查，他们渴望了解这一决定是如何做出的，细节到了最高水平。而且法国人并不享受这种前景；他甚至打断第一个问题，暗示这并不一定是“周末的大事件”。
无论如何，汉密尔顿赛后的无线电道歉清楚地表明，他在VSC期间做出了留在赛道上的决定——那么这场讨论究竟是如何进行的呢？
“[它]非常清楚，”瓦瑟尔坚持说。“我们在赛道上是第二到第三位。我们叫了两辆车，‘伙计们，你们在VSC后面进站’。我的一个家伙说，‘不，我更喜欢留在赛道上’。或者说他没有说——他说，‘我错过了进站入口’。
“不要责怪车队。”
瓦瑟尔，他还没有和他的车手交谈，表示汉密尔顿的决定是“显然是一个错误”，强化了他之前对广播员的说法。
但是，如果车手没有像工程师那样拥有详尽的数据和全局视角，他是否可以推翻车队的策略？
“当你看到结果时，这显然不是一个好的决定，”瓦瑟尔承认。“但另一方面，你也很经常告诉我们，我们必须听从车手，因为他们坐在车里，他们对轮胎有感觉等等。”
“但是我认为在这件事上对我来说很清楚。但我也要尊重他们在车内时的感受。”
法拉利随后发布了一份汉密尔顿的声明——弥补了他在赛后媒体区的缺席——在这份声明中，这位七届世界冠军将这次挫折描述为“痛苦的教训”。
“今天的结果并不是我们想要的，这责任在我，”汉密尔顿被引用说。“在一个难以超车的赛道上，你需要尝试不同的方法，我选择使用新的中等硬度轮胎，尝试长距离行驶并尝试一次停站策略。不幸的是，中等硬度轮胎的表现并没有像软胎那样好。
“我在第二段比赛中表现不错，速度也回来了，但我没有取得我需要的进步。在虚拟安全车期间，车队叫我进站，但我错过了入口。之后，我决定留在赛道上，试图保持到最后，但在最后几圈，我因为轮胎磨损严重而挣扎，失去了三个位置，最终排名第6，这并不反映我们今天在车上的速度。”
“今天是一个痛苦的教训，但我对所做的决定承担全部责任。并不是每个决定都会成功，我可以接受犯错，但我为今天失去的积分向车队道歉。他们每个周末都投入了这么多，我想为他们做得更多。”
“我将继续努力，并在下一场比赛中战斗回来。”
英文原文
Why Ferrari caved in to Lewis Hamilton’s failed Singapore F1 gamble
Lewis Hamilton lost three places to a poor strategy he picked himself at Marina Bay; Fred Vasseur explains how it happened
As Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur faced the media following Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix, the hot topic was Lewis Hamilton.
Most of the questions revolved around the unsuccessful strategy that saw Hamilton collapse from third to sixth in the Marina Bay race, as he stayed out under the VSC to complete a mammoth 44-lap stint on soft tyres.
Across the last 22 of those, following the neutralisation, Hamilton haemorrhaged 2.5s a lap on average relative to Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc. That is how he ended up sixth behind Kimi Antonelli and the McLarens.
With the unwell Briton exempted from his post-race media commitments to visit the medical centre instead, Vasseur faced scrutiny from journalists keen to establish how that decision was made to the highest level of detail. And the Frenchman wasn’t enjoying that prospect; he even interrupted the first question, suggesting it wasn’t necessarily “the big event of the weekend”.
Regardless, Hamilton’s post-race radio apology made it clear that he had made the call to stay out during the VSC – so how exactly did that discussion pan out?
“[It] was very clear,” Vasseur insisted. “We were P2-P3 on the track. We called two cars, ‘Guys, you pit behind the VSC’. One of my guys said, ‘No, I prefer to stay on track’. Or he didn’t say – he said, ‘I missed the pit entry’.
“Don't blame the team.”
Vasseur, who was yet to speak to his driver, said Hamilton’s decision was “clearly a mistake”, doubling down on what he previously told broadcasters.
But is it OK for a driver to override the team’s strategy, given he does not have the same exhaustive data and global view as engineers do?
“When you see the outcome, it was not a good call,” Vasseur admitted. “But on the other hand, quite often you are also telling us that we have to listen to the drivers, because they are into the car, they have the feeling with their tyres and so on.
“But I think on this one it was clear for me. But I have also to respect their feeling when they are into the car.”
Ferrari subsequently provided a statement from Hamilton – making up for his absence in the post-race media pen – in which the seven-time world champion described the setback as a “painful lesson”.
“Today wasn’t the result we were looking for and it was on me,” Hamilton was quoted as saying. “At a track that’s difficult to overtake, you need to try something different and I chose to start on a new medium tyre, to go long and try to make a one-stop work. Unfortunately, the medium didn’t perform as well as the soft.
“I had a good second stint and the pace was back, but I couldn’t make the progress I needed. Under the VSC, the team called me in but I missed the entry. After that, I decided to stay out and try to hold track position to the end but, in the closing laps, I was struggling massively with tyre degradation and lost three places, finishing P6, which doesn't reflect the pace we had in the car today.
“A painful lesson today, but I take full responsibility for the decisions I made. Not every call will work out, and I can accept getting it wrong but I’m sorry for the team for the points we lost today. They put so much into every weekend, and I wanted to deliver more for them.
“I’ll continue to put the work in and come back fighting at the next race.”
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