平川亮称墨西哥站排位若无末段交通可轻松进Q2
哈斯替补车手平川亮认为，若不是排位赛最后一圈遇到交通，他本可轻松进入墨西哥城大奖赛排位赛第二节。
平川亮称墨西哥站排位若无末段交通可轻松进Q2
顶替埃斯特班·奥康出战的车手在他的首场F1大奖赛中排位第19，但他觉得自己本可以取得更好的成绩。
哈斯F1车队车手平川亮，哈斯F1车队的劳拉·穆勒。
哈斯替补车手平川亮认为，若不是在排位赛最后一圈遇到交通，他本可以“轻松”进入墨西哥城大奖赛排位赛的第二部分。
平川亮在F1首秀中代表哈斯车队出场，因为埃斯特班·奥康被暂停了驾驶职责；他跑出了个人最佳的第一赛段成绩，并试图挤掉卡洛斯·塞恩斯进入Q3。
这位日本车手曾两度获得世界耐力锦标赛冠军，随后在第二赛段的连续弯道中遇到亚历克斯·阿尔本而损失了时间，接着又在单圈最后部分遇到了弗兰科·科拉平托。
回顾自己的首次F1排位赛，平川亮称这一圈“很遗憾”，因为他觉得赛道演变已经足够好，本可以让他进入排位赛的中间阶段。
“我在6号弯以及高速路段都遇到了交通状况，所以损失了很多下压力，”平川亮说。
“我本来可以轻松进入Q2，我得说这对我来说是非常非常大的遗憾，但能在这里仍然很好，所以我不能抱怨太多。”
“像这样的环境条件，一旦你打滑，你就能在第三赛段感受到代价。你需要推进，但同时你也需要稍微管理一下。”
平川亮在第一次练习赛中驾驶了赛车，在代替奥康参加周六的各节练习与排位之前，他解释说不得不放弃通常的晨跑，为这个周末做准备。他的第三次练习赛安排大部分都是为了准备周六的排位赛，这使得周日多少有些未知。
他说他的注意力只是放在取得好的起步并干净地通过第一个弯道上——并且不愿透露他是否会在下周蒙扎的决赛中放弃他的世界耐力锦标赛冠军争夺。
平川亮与丰田8号车队的队友塞巴斯蒂安·布埃米和布伦登·哈特利一起，以25分的优势领先于姊妹车7号丰田车组的迈克·康威（这是他退役前的最后一场比赛）、小林可梦伟和尼克·德弗里斯。这意味着7号车组需要获胜并拿下杆位可得的积分。
"我只专注于明天，下周的事情没什么好讨论的。看看明天我们能做些什么。[计划是]一个好的起步、一个好的第一个弯角，还有很多新东西，所以就是执行好并尽我所能。
"我甚至在第三次练习赛开始时尝试在维修区（pit 进站）停下，但比赛情况下会有所不同，不过我认为我应该为此做好了准备。
"我在第一次练习赛中驾驶过，所以经验帮助很大。在第三次练习赛中我并不是从零开始，所以我认为我的情况并非如此。"
英文原文
Ryo Hirakawa could have "easily" made Q2 in F1 Mexico GP without late traffic
Esteban Ocon's replacement qualified 19th for his first F1 grand prix - but feels he could have achieved more
Ryo Hirakawa, Haas F1 Team, Laura Mueller, Haas F1 Team
Haas stand-in Ryo Hirakawa believes he'd have "easily" reached the second part of qualifying for the Mexico City Grand Prix, had he not encountered traffic on his final lap of the session.
Hirakawa, making his Formula 1 debut with Haas as Esteban Ocon was stood down from his driving duties, had set a personal-best first sector and was angling to make the Q3 cut at the expense of Carlos Sainz.
The Japanese driver, a two-time World Endurance Championship winner, then encountered Alex Albon and lost time in the sweeping corners of sector two, then Franco Colapinto in the final part of the lap.
Reflecting on his first F1 qualifying session, Hirakawa labelled the lap as "a shame" as he felt the track evolution had been good enough to grant him an appearance in the intermediate stage of the session.
"I had traffic from Turn 6 and also high-speed sections, so I lost a lot of downforce," Hirakawa said.
"I could have been, I'll say easily to Q2, which is a very, very big shame for me, but still it's nice to be here, so I can't complain much.
"The ambient conditions like this, as soon as you slide you feel the price in sector 3. You need to push, but at the same time you need to manage a bit."
Hirakawa had been in the car for FP1 and, before getting the call-up to drive in Saturday's sessions in lieu of Ocon, explained that he had to abort his usual morning run to prepare for the weekend. Most of his FP3 schedule was done in preparation for Saturday qualifying, which makes Sunday something of an unknown.
He said that his focus was simply on getting a good start and making it through the opening corner cleanly - and would not be drawn on whether he would drop his WEC title tilt next week at the Monza finale.
Hirakawa, along with Toyota #8 team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley, leads the championship by 25 points over the sister #7 Toyota trio of Mike Conway (in his final outing before retiring), Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries. This means the #7 would need to win and secure the point available for pole.
"I'm just focused on tomorrow, nothing to discuss for next week. Let's see what we can do for tomorrow. [The plan is] a good start, a good first corner and a lot of new things, so just execute and do my best.
"I even tried stopping at the [pit]box at the FP3 at the start, but it's going to be different in the race circumstances, but I think I should be ready for it.
"I drove in FP1 so the experience helped a lot. I was not starting from zero in FP3, so I don't think it was like that for my case."
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