凯迪拉克F1车队负责人谈基础设施建设：边飞边造飞机
凯迪拉克F1车队负责人格雷姆·洛登介绍了车队当前的基础设施建设进展，车队运营于多个地点，正在建设新设施，洛登形容这一过程为“边飞边造飞机”。
凯迪拉克如何在F1中“边飞边造飞机”
车队位于美国的新基地仍在印第安纳州建设中
凯迪拉克F1车队负责人格雷姆·洛登在发车格上注视前方。
凯迪拉克F1车队负责人格雷姆·洛登介绍了车队当前仍在建设中的基础设施情况。
这支F1最新加入的车队运营于多个地点，主要是其银石基地，同时充分利用通用汽车在北卡罗来纳州和密歇根州的设施，并使用丰田在科隆的风洞。
凯迪拉克一直在印第安纳波利斯郊区的费舍尔斯建设新的F1工厂，而其动力单元部门将设在夏洛特地区，母公司已在该地区设有基地。
与此同时，车队仍在追逐首次进入Q2和首个世界锦标赛积分。
“我们仍在建设，”洛登说。“这就像边飞边造飞机，或者边航行边造船。我们仍在做这些。我们仍在建设工厂。”
“我办公桌旁边放着一些钢头靴和安全帽，我们会去查看建筑工地。一个在印第安纳波利斯非常非常大的工地，然后还有一个在银石较小的工地。显然，动力单元公司也在夏洛特建设工厂。”
凯迪拉克F1车队银石车间
“我们还在疯狂招聘，所以仍有大量建设工作在进行。然后今年Q2让我们开始了解MAC-26的优缺点，以及车队运营上的优缺点。”
“我们喜欢说每天都是上学日。如果哪一天我们没有学到东西，那就是浪费了一天。所以我们只是试图找到每一个可以改进的领域，并不断、不断地改进。”
“目前，改进的幅度很大，因为要做的事情太多，新东西也太多。所以我们还远未到那种只是微调事情的阶段，我认为很多其他车队可能更处于那种模式。”
就费舍尔斯工厂而言，洛登暗示“很快会有更多关于各种设施何时投入使用的公告”，新模拟器“正在安装中”。
“目前仍在建设中，”这位英国人解释道。“这将分阶段进行，因为面积有45万平方英尺。这可不小。”
当被问及费舍尔斯工厂是否会在明年开始运作时，洛登回答说：“大体而言，是的。那里的整个建设已经非常先进，但这是一个巨大的项目。”
“有很多事情正在发生，银石也有许多设施即将投入使用。”
英文原文
How Cadillac is ‘building its plane while flying in it’ in F1
The team’s new American base is still taking shape in Indiana
Graeme Lowdon, Team Principal, Cadillac F1 Team, looks on from the grid.
Cadillac Formula 1 team principal Graeme Lowdon has given an update on the outfit’s current infrastructure, which is still being developed.
F1’s newest squad operates from several locations, mainly its Silverstone hub, while it makes the most of General Motors facilities in North Carolina and Michigan, and uses Toyota’s wind tunnel in Cologne.
Cadillac has been building a new F1 factory in Fishers, in the Indianapolis suburbs, while its power unit department will be based in the Charlotte area where the parent company is already based.
Meanwhile, the team keeps chasing its first Q2 appearance and maiden world championship points.
“We're still building,” Lowdon said. “It's building the plane while flying in it, or the ship while we're sailing in it. We are still doing that. We're still building factories.
“Next to my desk are some steel toecap boots and a hard hat, and we go and look at construction sites. A very, very big one in Indianapolis, and then a smaller one in Silverstone. And obviously the PU company is building the factory down in Charlotte as well.
Cadillac F1 Team works shop in Silverstone
“We're still recruiting like mad as well, and so there's still an awful lot of building going on. And then Q2 of this year has kind of allowed us to start understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the MAC-26 as well, and also the strengths and weaknesses of the team operationally.
“We like to say every day is a school day. If it's a day where we haven't learned something, it's a day we've wasted. And so we're just trying to find every area that we can improve and constantly, constantly improve.
“And at the minute, it's big chunks because there's just so much to do and there's so much that's new as well. And so we're somewhere off that area where you're just refining things, where I think a lot of the other teams are probably more in that mode.”
As far as the Fishers factory is concerned, Lowdon hinted at “more announcements soon about when various things will come online”, with the new simulator “going in as we speak”.
“It's still in construction at the moment,” the Briton explained. “It'll be phased, because it's 450,000 square feet. It's not small.”
Asked if things would start next year at Fishers, Lowdon replied: “In broad terms, yes. It's very well advanced, the whole construction there, but it's a huge project.
“There's a lot happening and coming online at Silverstone as well.”
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