维斯塔潘指出小红牛两大问题："我们应该使用手语！"
维斯塔潘在奥斯汀的2026赛季F1中获得了第十个领奖台位置，这是自赞德福特事故以来的第六次连续领奖台。尽管这是一个令人印象深刻的统计数据，但在美洲赛车场，这并没有让他感到满意。
维斯塔潘指出了两处常见的红牛问题："我们应该使用手语！"
维斯塔潘总结说，在奥斯汀发生了很多小错误，他将红牛的发车形容为"一直很糟糕"，而他和伊萨克·哈德贾再次遇到了无线电问题
维斯塔潘在奥斯汀赢得了2026赛季F1的第10个领奖台位置，这是自他在赞德福特撞车以来连续第6次获得领奖台，这是一个令人印象深刻的统计数据，尽管这并没有在美洲赛车场让他感到满意
周六，速度看起来足以夺得杆位——至少从维斯塔潘令人印象深刻的Q2圈速来看是这样——但在Q3中他却不可思议地失去了抓地力。根据练习赛的表现，他的比赛速度仍然足够快，可以争夺胜利，但根据维斯塔潘的说法，在比赛中出现了太多小错误
“说实话，这场比赛对我们来说相当令人沮丧，并不是一场很好的比赛，”维斯塔潘在赛后新闻发布会上说。
为什么红牛最近的优势在奥斯汀变成了劣势
这种沮丧感部分源于困扰红牛一段时间的问题，部分源于这次比赛的具体决定，最终导致了失败。
当然，事后看来很容易说，但无论什么原因，今天软胎并没有发挥出应有的效果。然后，我认为我们使用轮胎的方式也是错误的，各节练习的顺序也有问题。
“我认为在某个时刻，使用更硬复合材料的那些人确实找到了很多抓地力，所以我想我们并没有真正对此做出反应。我们可能过于坚持在最后两场比赛中的信念，即软复合材料的轮胎速度最快。但显然，在这里这并不奏效。”
“在最近的赛车周末，这曾是红牛区别于其他车队的一个领域。小红牛22在管理软轮胎并保持它们在正确的操作窗口内非常出色，但在奥斯汀，情况正好相反，这也是车队负责人劳伦特·梅基斯在赛后承认的。”
“维斯塔潘也在车队无线电中抱怨了与动力单元相关的问题，车队对此提出了一些发动机制动建议。”
“除了策略之外，我们在动力单元上遇到了太多问题，它在弯道周围的性能非常不稳定。每一圈，每一个弯道，性能都不同，”维斯塔潘说。
“你无法建立节奏，无法在车上建立任何一致性。而且我还有一个慢的维修区停车，所以是的，今天有很多事情都不顺利。”
两个持续存在的问题继续困扰着小红牛
虽然策略和动力单元问题仅限于这次比赛，但还有两个其他因素让小红牛在整个赛季中都感到困扰：无线电通信和起跑不佳。关于后者，维斯塔潘解释说，他在奥斯汀的起跑并没有那么糟糕，只是符合今年红牛的平均水平——这个水平一直低于平均水平。
“我没有丢掉位置，所以并没有那么糟糕。这是正常的。我的起跑很正常，只是持续很糟糕”，维斯塔潘说，在FIA新闻发布会上为了避免说脏话而未完成最后一个词。"
安东内利, 梅赛德斯, 维斯塔潘, 红牛车队
无线电通讯也成了反复出现的问题。在新加坡，他的常规赛车工程师Gianpiero Lambiase无法听到维斯塔潘，迫使他们不得不切换到编码通讯。Mekies随后表示红牛非常重视这个问题，并希望找到‘强有力的解决方案’，但这个解决方案显然在奥斯汀还没有实现。
在极其颠簸的美国赛车场，哈贾尔和维斯塔潘都遇到了与车队通讯的问题。在维斯塔潘的情况下，他无法听到Tom Hart，这位本周周末担任他的赛车工程师，以开始建立他们未来的合作关系。
“这不是第二次了。今年已经不知道多少次了。也许我们应该开始用手语交流！可能还更便宜呢”，维斯塔潘开玩笑说。
“但是，是的，这是一场灾难。说实话，真的很让人沮丧。”
综合来看，所有这些挫折意味着红牛车队在德克萨斯州无法充分发挥小红牛22的全部潜力。团队成员承认，基米·安东内利在纯速度方面也占据优势，尽管维斯塔潘的沮丧主要源于红牛车队甚至没有达到他们所设定的目标水平。
英文原文
Max Verstappen pinpoints two recurring Red Bull problems: "We should use sign language!"
Verstappen concludes that too many small things went wrong in Austin, describing Red Bull's starts as "consistently s**t", while both he and Isack Hadjar once again encountered radio problems
Max Verstappen secured his tenth podium finish of the 2026 Formula 1 season in Austin, his sixth in succession since his crash at Zandvoort. It is an impressive statistic, although it did little to satisfy him at the Circuit of the Americas.
On Saturday, the pace appeared to be there to take pole position – at least judging by Verstappen's impressive Q2 lap – but he inexplicably lost grip in Q3. Based on the practice sessions, his race pace still appeared good enough to challenge for the win, but according to Verstappen, too many small things went wrong during the race.
"It was pretty frustrating, to be honest, just not a really good race for us", Verstappen said in the post-race press conference.
Why Red Bull's recent strength turned into a weakness in Austin
That frustration stems partly from problems that have been troubling Red Bull for some time and partly from decisions specific to this race that ultimately backfired.
"In hindsight, of course, it’s very easy to say, but for whatever reason, the softer compounds were not really working that well today. Then also, I think the way that we used our tyres was wrong, the order of the stints.
"I think at one point, it was quite clear that the people on the harder compounds were finding a lot of grip, so I guess we didn't really react to that. We were probably sticking a bit too much to our belief from the last two races, where the softer compounds were the fastest. But clearly here, that didn't work."
In recent race weekends, that had been one of the areas where Red Bull made the difference. The RB22 had been particularly good at managing the softer tyres and keeping them alive in the right operating window, but in Austin the opposite proved to be the case, as team principal Laurent Mekies also admitted after the race.
Verstappen also complained over the team radio about issues related to the power unit, to which the team responded with some engine braking suggestions.
"Besides the strategy, we had too many issues with the power unit, where it was just very inconsistent behaviour around the corners. Every lap and every corner, the behaviour was different", Verstappen said.
"You can't build up a rhythm, you can't build any kind of consistency in the car. And then I had a slow pit stop as well, so yeah, too many things today that just didn't go well."
Two recurring problems continue to trouble Red Bull
While the strategy and power unit problems were specific to this race, there are two other factors Red Bull has been struggling with throughout the year: radio communication and poor starts. Regarding the latter, Verstappen explained that his start in Austin was not so much bad as simply in line with Red Bull's average this year – which has been consistently below par.
"I didn't lose a position, so it wasn't that bad. It's normal. My start was normal, just consistently sh**", Verstappen said, stopping short of finishing the final word to avoid swearing during the FIA press conference.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
Radio communication has also become a recurring problem. In Singapore, his regular race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase could not hear Verstappen, forcing them to switch to coded communication. Mekies subsequently said Red Bull was taking the problem very seriously and wanted to come up with a "strong solution", but that solution had evidently not yet materialised in Austin.
At the extremely bumpy Circuit of the Americas, both Hadjar and Verstappen experienced communication problems with the team. In Verstappen's case, he could not hear Tom Hart, who was standing in as his race engineer this weekend to begin building their working relationship for the future.
"It's not the second time. It's already, I don't know how many times this year. Maybe we should just start communicating in sign language! It's probably cheaper as well", Verstappen joked.
"But yeah, it’s a disaster. It's really frustrating, to be honest."
Taken together, all these setbacks meant Red Bull was unable to extract the full potential of the RB22 in Texas. Team members acknowledge that Kimi Antonelli also had the upper hand in terms of outright pace, although Verstappen's frustration mainly stems from the fact that Red Bull did not even reach the level it had been aiming for.
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