红牛解释维斯塔潘巴西练习赛提前收工原因
维斯塔潘在圣保罗两节练习赛中均列第三，红牛因长距离数据不一致而让他提前结束练习。
红牛解释维斯塔潘为何在巴西提前结束F1练习
车队在长距离数据中看到太多不一致之处，这意味着红牛比赛策略主管汉娜·施密茨认为，继续留在赛道上能学到的东西已经不多
维斯塔潘在圣保罗周五的F1练习赛中位列第三。事实上，这位荷兰车手在两节练习赛中都占据这个位置，且每节都落后最快车手约零点二五秒，兰多·诺里斯在第一节最快，基米·安东内利在第二节最快。
红牛总结称，赛车再次具备"足够潜力"在前方竞争，不过在英特拉格斯，维斯塔潘并非一切顺利。在当天第一节练习赛中，他照例抱怨了降挡问题，而动力转向的故障让他在该节末段经历了一番"真正的锻炼"。
在第二节练习赛中，维斯塔潘贡献了本赛季F1迄今为止最有趣的队内无线电对话之一，当时他没有立即理解汤姆·哈特（本周末他再次代替詹皮耶罗·兰比亚塞担任比赛工程师）关于动力单元和变速箱的信息。
“所以我们在开关上没有任何信息，但他们正在适应你，”哈特在队内无线电中说道。这促使维斯塔潘用近乎唱歌的语调回应：“那是什么意思？我得自己跟引擎说话吗？我觉得我应该像‘哦，离合器，我正在切换！否则你会受到惩罚！’”
更值得注意的是，维斯塔潘提前结束了第二节练习赛。在时钟还剩六分多钟时，这位四届世界冠军已经驶入维修区，从队内无线电交流来看，这显然是他自己的建议。
维斯塔潘建议进站，哈特回答说：“好的，马克斯。如果你想进站，那就在这一圈结束时进来。无线电信号变差了，供参考。”
在圣保罗练习日结束时，红牛车队比赛策略主管汉娜·施密茨解释了维斯塔潘为何提前返回维修区：“所以这只是因为我们在长距离跑动中发现了许多不一致之处，我们觉得它不再有帮助了。”
“我们没有获得所需的数据。我们知道我们想要关注和在一夜之间改变的事情，所以我们直接进入了那个阶段。”
这一点尤其值得注意，因为提前进入也意味着维斯塔潘放弃了在发车格上进行练习起步的机会。鉴于何塞·卡洛斯·帕塞赛道（Autodromo José Carlos Pace）的发车格相当陡峭地向上倾斜，而红牛今年的起步并不总是特别好，这一点非常引人注目。
维斯塔潘下车后，可以看到机械师在他的小红牛22下方工作。
至于竞争格局，施米茨总结道，在维斯塔潘赢下最近四场大奖赛中的三场之后，本周末应该再次拥有充足的潜力。
“我认为每个人都同意赛车内部有很大的潜力，但两位车手都有一些他们想要研究并在夜间做出改变的地方。不过从某种意义上说这是好事，因为这意味着我们知道赛车上正在发生什么，以及我们可以解决什么。
“本周末剩余时间里有很大的潜力和乐观情绪。”
然而，天气预报也需要纳入考虑。按照施米茨的测试计划，红牛试图全面了解三种轮胎配方，尽管鉴于气温变化和可能下雨，这些数据的价值仍存疑问。
“我认为今天在哪些节练习用硬胎、哪些节练习用中性胎，是一个非常接近的抉择，”施米茨说道。
“我认为所有顶级车队都测试了全部三种配方，因为它们太相似了。这在很大程度上取决于车手偏好、车队倾向和偏好，而这些正是我们试图弄清楚的事情。
“今天显然条件与周日预报的相当不同，所以现在我们必须研究我们认为这将如何转化为周日发生的情况。我认为这就是困难之处。”
英文原文
Why Max Verstappen ended F1 practice early in Brazil – Red Bull explains
The team saw too many inconsistencies in the long-run data, meaning Red Bull's head of race strategy Hannah Schmitz felt there was little more to learn by staying out longer
Max Verstappen finished Friday's Formula 1 practice sessions in Sao Paulo in third place. The Dutchman occupied that position in both sessions, in fact, and was also around two and a half tenths off the fastest driver in each session, with Lando Norris topping the first one and Kimi Antonelli the second.
Red Bull concludes that there is once again "enough potential" in the car to fight at the front, although not everything went smoothly for Verstappen at Interlagos. During the first practice session of the day, he complained – as usual – about the downshifts, while a problem with the power steering gave him a "proper workout" towards the end of the session.
In second practice, Verstappen provided one of the most entertaining team radio exchanges of the F1 season so far when he did not immediately understand a message from Tom Hart – who is once again replacing Gianpiero Lambiase as his race engineer this weekend – about the power unit and gearbox.
"So we have nothing on the switch, but they are adapting to you", Hart said over the team radio. It prompted Verstappen to respond in an almost sing-song voice: "What does that mean? I have to speak to the engine myself? I think I should be like 'oh, clutch, I’m switching! You’ll be punished otherwise!'"
More noteworthy was the fact that Verstappen ended the second practice session early. With just over six minutes remaining on the clock, the four-time world champion was already heading into the pitlane, apparently at his own suggestion, judging by the team radio exchanges.
Verstappen suggested coming in, to which Hart replied: "Okay, Max. If you want to box, then come in at the end of this lap. Radio has gone poor, for info."
At the end of the practice day in Sao Paulo, Red Bull's head of race strategy Hannah Schmitz explained why Verstappen had returned to the pits early: "So it was just [because of] finding a lot of inconsistencies in the long run and we didn't feel like it was helpful anymore.
"We weren't getting the data we needed. We knew the things that we wanted to be looking at and changing overnight, so we just went straight into that."
That is particularly noteworthy, as coming in early also meant Verstappen gave up the opportunity to carry out a practice start on the grid. Given that the grid at the Autodromo José Carlos Pace slopes quite steeply uphill and Red Bull's starts have not always been particularly good this year, that is remarkable.
After Verstappen got out of the car, mechanics were seen working underneath his RB22.
As for the competitive picture, Schmitz concludes that there should once again be plenty of potential for this weekend, after Verstappen won three of the last four Grands Prix.
"I think everyone agrees that there's a lot of potential within the car, but with both drivers there are things that they want to look into and change overnight. But in a way that's a good thing because that means we know what's happening on the car and what we can address.
"There's a lot of potential and optimism for the rest of the weekend."
However, the weather forecast also needs to be taken into account. With Schmitz's run plan, Red Bull tried to get a good understanding of all three tyre compounds, although the question remains how valuable that data will be given the changing temperatures and the possibility of rain.
"I think it was a very close call on which sessions you ran the hard and which session you ran the medium today", Schmitz said.
"I think all of the top teams kind of tested all three compounds because they are so similar. It comes down a lot to driver preference, team tendency and preference, and those are the kind of things we're trying to get to the bottom of.
"Today, obviously the conditions are quite different to what's forecast for Sunday, so now we have to look at how we think that's going to translate to what happens on Sunday. And I think that's the difficult thing."
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