诺里斯直言 迈凯伦 F1 困境：从领跑者跌至第四快车队
诺里斯承认 迈凯伦 在美国大奖赛的表现不佳，从冠军领跑者跌至第四快车队。
兰多·诺里斯直言不讳，麦凯轮的F1赛车困境持续
兰多·诺里斯承认，麦凯轮现在在一级方程式赛车中仅排名第四快
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现任冠军兰多·诺里斯承认，他在美国大奖赛中获得第五名后，麦凯轮已经从冠军领跑者滑落到一级方程式赛车中第四快的车队，这是‘相当明显’的
他在这场美洲赛车场的比赛中，落后于基米·安东内利、查尔斯·勒克莱尔、马克斯·维斯塔潘和刘易斯·汉密尔顿，队友奥斯卡·皮亚斯蒂在第七位，落后他两个位置。虽然这对一支一年前还在为冠军而战的团队来说是一个令人失望的结果，但诺里斯确认升级正在发挥作用。
“是的，我只希望你能穿上一些东西，然后它变得神奇，你突然跑得很快，开始争夺领奖台。一切都在按计划进行，但你知道，所有的车队，法拉利带来了升级，所有的车队都在带来升级，所以它们正在交付。只是，我想，并不是在所有我们需要它们的地方，比如低速弯角，我们离我们需要的水平还差得很远。
“我们需要更多的后部和低速性能。这是我们长期存在的问题。这似乎非常难以解决。”
当被问及这使麦克拉伦成为第四快的车时，诺里斯迅速回答。
“是的，我觉得这很明显。”
没有足够的速度去争夺领奖台，麦凯轮车队采取了单停策略，希望虚拟安全车或安全车能够帮助到他们。
“是的，我们尝试了。我的意思是，我们在速度上并不占优势，所以我们不得不冒险一试，如果有任何虚拟安全车或安全车，我们就有机会争夺一个好的领奖台位置。甚至大部分时间都有可能获得第二。我觉得今天的比赛很棒。我觉得速度很强。我觉得我已经从比赛中得到了所有我能得到的，所以即使第五名听起来并不那么令人兴奋，我也必须感到高兴。”
这个策略让诺里斯在比赛后期使用了老化的轮胎，他在那里坚持了几圈才被已经停站两次的红牛车手韦斯塔潘超越。
“不可避免地，当他开启超车模式，而我不得不使用加速模式来防守时，他很容易就会超过我。所以他那样做了，然后当我轮胎磨损时，游戏就结束了，对其他人来说也很容易。”
迈凯轮也在比赛中更换了车手，诺里斯表示他整个周末都比皮亚斯特里快得多，所以更换车手是‘显然的事情’。”
这个结果对车队锦标赛有很大的影响。迈凯轮在奥斯汀以七分领先红牛进入第三名的争夺。现在，车队们将带着五轮剩余的积分离开奥斯汀。
英文原文
Lando Norris delivers harsh reality check as McLaren's F1 struggles continue
Lando Norris has conceded that McLaren is now only the fourth-fastest team in Formula 1
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Reigning champion Lando Norris has admitted it's "pretty obvious" that McLaren has slipped from championship leaders to being the fourth-fastest team in Formula 1 after he finished fifth at the United States Grand Prix.
He finished the race behind Kimi Antonelli, Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton at the Circuit of the Americas, with team-mate Oscar Piastri finishing two places behind him in seventh. While this is a disappointing result for a team that less than a year ago was fighting for titles, Norris confirmed that the upgrades are working.
“Yeah, I’m just hoping you put something on and it’s magical and you go a lot quicker and you’re fighting for a podium all of a sudden. Things are all working as they should, but you know, all the teams, Ferrari brought upgrades and all the teams are still bringing upgrades, so they’re delivering. Just not, I guess, just not really in all the places that we need them to, like the slow speed corners, we’re just nowhere near at the level we need to be.
"We need a lot more rear and slow speed. It’s been our issue for a long time now. It seems to be very hard to tackle.”
Asked if that made McLaren the fourth-quickest car, Norris was quick to answer.
“Yeah, I think it’s pretty obvious.”
Without the pace to fight at the front, McLaren gambled on a one-stop strategy, hoping a virtual safety car or safety car would play into its hands.
“Yeah, we tried. I mean, we were not there on pace or anything, so we had to give it a shot and if there’s any VSC or safety car, we were right in contention for a good podium. Even a P2 for a lot of it. I feel like it was a good race today. I feel like the pace was strong. I feel like I got everything out of it, so I have to be happy even though a P5 doesn’t sound amazing.”
The strategy left Norris on ageing hard tyres late in the race, where he held off Verstappen for several laps before the Red Bull driver, who had already stopped twice, found a way past.
“Inevitably as soon as he had Overtake [mode] and I had to use Boost [mode] to defend, he was going to come past quite easily. So he did that and as soon as I then have traffic on old tyres, then it’s kind of game over and it’s easy for everyone else.”
McLaren also swapped its drivers during the race, with Norris saying he had been “a lot quicker all weekend” than Piastri, so the swap was “just the obvious thing to do”.
The result has big implications in the constructors’ championship. McLaren arrived in Austin seven points ahead of Red Bull in the fight for third. The teams will now leave Austin level with five rounds remaining.
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