梅赛德斯调查巴西站车手打转原因
梅赛德斯正试图弄清安东内利和拉塞尔在2026年巴西大奖赛报告赛车“异常表现”的原因，这是车队该赛季首次无缘领奖台。拉塞尔在软胎驶出维修区时打转，安东内利随后在领先时被诺里斯紧逼下打转，两人最终分列第四、第五。
梅赛德斯正试图弄清，为何基米·安东内利和乔治·拉塞尔在2026年巴西大奖赛上都报告赛车出现“异常表现”，这是车队该赛季首次无缘领奖台的大奖赛。
车队在还剩三站时已锁定车队总冠军，但梅赛德斯内部强烈认为，在巴西丢掉了一场胜利。
拉塞尔在软胎驶出维修区时打转，而安东内利随后在领先时被兰多·诺里斯紧逼下打转。他起初回到第二位，但随后很快被两位红牛车手超越。
拉塞尔和安东内利最终分列第四和第五，世界冠军安东内利“对这场比赛非常失望”。
“说实话，我非常生气……非常失望，因为在那之前我们本来有望获胜。”
“而且在干胎状态下，当我能让轮胎达到一定温度后，我逐渐找到了节奏。但打滑还是发生了，这仍然是我需要研究的问题，因为我也不知道为什么后轮会那么快地失去抓地力。”
“就像，没有任何预警，什么都没有。但说实话，在我换上软胎时，我就感觉赛车有些不对劲，所以我们需要检查发生了什么。很遗憾，因为我们就是在那里输掉了比赛。”
拉塞尔表示，对于自己在维修区打滑一事，他“不太确定发生了什么”，因为他“冒了相当大的风险，因为我嗅到了一个机会，并付出了代价”。
“就是在这些时刻，你要么收获很多，要么损失很多。这一次对我们不利。讽刺的是，正因为如此，我没有进站（像大多数车手那样换上第二套软胎），反而让自己重新回到了比赛中。”
“我在软胎上展现了非常强劲的速度。我想说，在软胎上，我们拥有最快的比赛节奏。而且我已经有相当长一段时间没有拥有过最快的比赛节奏了，所以我会从中看到积极的一面。”
梅赛德斯在软胎上的速度很强，但拉塞尔和安东内利在最后一段使用半雨胎时都遇到了困难。
“我们不知道，”当被 The Race 问及出了什么问题时，拉塞尔说道。
“我们真的不知道。下雨的时候我本来挺兴奋的，但后来基米和我完全没有速度。我们需要弄清楚为什么会这样。
“也许有个小推测，因为我们是第一批换上中性胎的，即便只是在最干赛道的那个出场圈，你也会损伤轮胎，温度上升，然后陷入这种恶性循环。目前，这是唯一的解释。”
拉塞尔还说他“在这里感觉更像自己了”，而自巴库以来他首次击败安东内利的比赛表现数据也支持这一点，每圈谁更快的对比为52%对48%，安东内利略占优势。
梅赛德斯对五年来首次赢得车队总冠军感到宽慰——而且在巴西的表现确实比最接近的对手法拉利更好——但它会想确切了解是什么导致了在巴西的速度下滑，而拉斯维加斯预计会有更冷的天气。
“我认为有时候两位车手都被给到了一辆非常棘手的赛车，”车队领队托托·沃尔夫在赛后说道。
“乔治不是那种会在维修区出口打转的人，基米也一样。两人都报告赛车有非常非常奇怪的表现，就像悬挂里有什么东西断了，或者轮胎胎压过高。
“虽然不只是他们，马克斯·维斯塔潘也说了同样的话，但我相信我们在胎压或调校上弄错了什么，因为现在看这些赛车，后轮完全磨损了，前轮却像新的一样。
“所以有些东西我们还没发现。但比赛中有些时候我们绝对是在飞驰。”
“因此，我们带着一项有趣的练习离开，去弄清楚那到底是什么，但在赢得车队总冠军后，我们保持着积极的心态。”
正如赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林所说：“第四和第五名并不是我们想要锁定总冠军的方式，但我们做了需要做的事，而且基础性能中出现了令人鼓舞的迹象。”
英文原文
Mercedes is trying to understand why both Kimi Antonelli and George Russell were reporting “strange behaviour” in its first podium-less grand prix of 2026 in Brazil.
The team sealed the constructors’ championship with three rounds to spare, but there's a strong feeling within Mercedes that a victory was lost in Brazil.
Russell spun when he was exiting the pitlane on soft tyres, while Antonelli spun out of the lead while being hounded by Lando Norris shortly afterwards. He recovered initially to second place, but he then quickly fell behind both Red Bull drivers.
Russell and Antonelli ultimately finished fourth and fifth, with world champion Antonelli “very disappointed [with] the race.
“I’m very angry, to be fair…very disappointing, because we were on for the win up to that point.
“Also on the slick, once I was able to get some temperature, I was getting into the rhythm. But the spin came, which is still something I need to look at, because I don’t know why I lost the rear so quickly as well.
“Like, no warning, nothing. But already, to be fair, when I put the soft on, I felt something weird with the car, so we need to check what happened. Shame, because we lost the race there.”
Russell said he was “not really too sure what happened” with his pitlane spin as he “went quite high risk because I smelt an opportunity and paid the price”.
“It's in those moments where you either gain a lot or you lose a lot. This time it went against us. Ironically, because of that, I didn't pit [for a second set of softs like most drivers] and brought myself back into the race.
“I showed a really strong pace on the soft. I'd say on the soft tyre, we had the fastest race pace. And it's been quite a while since I've had the fastest race pace, so I would take the positives of that.”
Mercedes’ pace on the soft tyres was strong, but both Russell and Antonelli struggled on the intermediate tyres in the final stint.
“We don't know,” Russell said when asked by The Race what went wrong.
“We really don't know. I was quite excited when the rain was coming, but then Kimi and I had absolutely no pace. We need to understand why that was.
“Maybe it's a small theory because we were the first ones onto the inters, even just on that outlap on the driest track, you damage the tyres and the temps go up and you're in this negative spiral. As of now, that's the only explanation.”
Russell also said he’s “felt much more like myself here” and the data from his first Antonelli-beating race performance since Baku, supports that, with a narrow 52-48% split of who is faster each lap in favour of Antonelli.
Mercedes is relieved to have won its first constructors’ title in five years - and it certainly fared better than closest rival Ferrari in Brazil - but it will want to understand exactly what caused its Brazil drop-off, with even colder conditions expected for Las Vegas.
“I think both have been given a very tricky car at times,” team boss Toto Wolff said after the race.
“George is not someone who spins in the pitlane on the exit, and Kimi the same. And both reported a very, very strange behaviour of the car, like something's broken in the suspension or too much pressure in the tyres.
“Whilst it was not only them, Max [Verstappen] said the same thing, [but] I believe that we've gotten something wrong on pressures or on the set-up, because also now looking at the cars, the rear tyres are completely worn, the fronts are like new.
“So there's something which we haven't spotted. But there were times in the race where we were absolutely flying.
“So we are walking away with an interesting exercise to find out what it was, but with a positive mindset after winning the constructors’ championship.”
As trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin put it: “P4 and P5 isn’t quite the way we would have wanted to secure the championship, but we did what we needed to do and there were encouraging signs in the underlying performance”.
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