拉塞尔因更换内燃机将在巴西站被罚退五位
梅赛德斯车手拉塞尔将在巴西大奖赛正赛中被罚退五个发车位，因为他将使用本赛季第六台内燃机。
“精疲力竭”的乔治·拉塞尔将在巴西站被罚退发车位
乔治·拉塞尔正面临最新的挫折，他和梅赛德斯选择在本周末的巴西大奖赛接受计划中的发车位处罚
梅赛德斯车手乔治·拉塞尔将在周日巴西大奖赛的发车位上失去五个位置，因为他将使用本赛季第六台内燃机。
今年早些时候动力单元多次出现问题，最近一次是在马来西亚的巴林大奖赛出现故障后，拉塞尔在年底前必然需要第六台内燃机。
考虑到刘易斯·汉密尔顿在2021年与梅赛德斯合作时，在冲刺赛中从第20位惊人地追至第五位，车队认为英特拉格斯赛道和其他任何地方一样适合接受处罚。
由于拉塞尔在新加坡站已经超出了赛季初的四台动力单元配额，他额外的引擎只会带来五个发车位的罚退。
“我们总得在新加坡站到年底之间的某个时候接受发车位罚退，我们觉得这是一个好地方，”拉塞尔在梅赛德斯的社交媒体频道上说。“显然，刘易斯几年前在这里接受了非常大的罚退，而且表现得相当不错。五个位置还不算太糟。”
乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯，安德烈亚·基米·安东内利，梅赛德斯
无论是否计划之中，这都是拉塞尔在噩梦般的2026赛季后的最新挫折，他始终未能积累起势头，最终被新加冕的世界冠军基米·安东内利超越。
在周四的发言中，拉塞尔承认，在经历令人失望的周末后他不得不振作起来的次数——这样的周末有很多——已经让他疲惫不堪。
“这个赛季我可能只是感到有点精疲力竭，不断地重新振作。当你被击倒在地，你爬起来，然后你又被击倒，你再爬起来。我本希望一个赛季里也许只这样两次，而不是每隔一个周末就来一次，”他苦笑着说。
拉塞尔在积分榜上已跌至第四，落后于马克斯·维斯塔潘和刘易斯·汉密尔顿，他一直坚称2026年的动力单元规则惩罚了他的自然驾驶风格，整个赛季他都在追逐自己的尾巴，试图适应。但随着规则明年降低电力占比，以及其他调整，拉塞尔相信自己能够克服这个低迷的年份。
“动力单元明年会更换。轮胎明年也会有细微变化。”他说，“我经历的好年份比坏年份多得多。我不认为世界上有哪个运动员或哪个人（每年都）只经历辉煌的年份。
“关键在于你如何从那些年份中反弹，继续保有信念和勇气回到积极的状态，以及那种心理韧性。今年教会我的是，我依然相信自己，明年我们会再次战斗。”
英文原文
"Exhausted" George Russell set for Brazilian F1 grid penalty
George Russell is facing his latest setback as he and Mercedes opt to take a scheduled grid penalty at this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix
Mercedes driver George Russell will lose five places on Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix grid as he takes his sixth internal combustion engine of the season.
Following a brace of power unit related issues earlier this year, the latest arriving after a failure at the Bahrain GP in Malaysia, Russell was always going to require a sixth ICE before the end of the year.
With Lewis Hamilton's spectacular sprint recovery from 20th to fifth in mind, which he pulled off at the 2021 edition with Mercedes, the team felt Interlagos was as good a place as any to take it.
As Russell had already exceeded his initial allowance of four units for the season in Singapore, his additional engine only costs a five-place grid penalty.
"We always had to take a grid penalty at some point between Singapore and the end of the year and we felt like a good place to take it," Russell said on Mercedes' social media channels. "Obviously, Lewis took a very big penalty here a number of years ago and did pretty well. Five places isn't that bad."
George Russell, Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
Planned or not, it's Russell's latest setback after a nightmarish 2026 campaign in which he was never able to build up momentum and ended up being outperformed by newly crowned world champion Kimi Antonelli.
Speaking on Thursday, Russell admitted that the number of times he has had to bounce back after a disappointing weekend, of which there were many, had been wearing on him.
"I probably just feel a bit exhausted this season of constantly picking myself back up. When you get kicked to the ground you pick yourself back up, then you get kicked down again, you pick yourself back up. I was hoping to do that maybe twice in the season, not every other weekend," he said with a wry smile."
Russell, who has dropped to fourth in the standings behind Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, always insisted the 2026 power unit regulations punished his natural driving style, having chased his tail across the season to try and adapt. But with the rules reducing the share of electric power next year, amid other tweaks, Russell backed himself to overcome his down year.
"The power unit changes next year. The tyres are changing slightly for next year." he said. "I've had a lot more good years than bad years. I don't think there's a single athlete or just individual in the world that [only] goes through great years every single year.
"It's the way you bounce back from those years to continue having the belief and courage to return to those positive ways, and that mental resilience. What this year has taught me is that I still believe in myself and next year we fight again."
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