瓦塞尔与汉密尔顿、勒克莱尔会面复盘墨西哥首圈事件
法拉利领队瓦塞尔抵达圣保罗后，与汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔在酒店会面，复盘墨西哥大奖赛首圈事件并商定未来避免类似冲突。
法拉利领队弗雷德·瓦塞尔周四晚抵达圣保罗后，迅速召集他的F1车手们，就广为人知的墨西哥大奖赛复盘进行会面。
他刚从意大利抵达，而查尔斯·勒克莱尔也从摩纳哥飞回——他此前回国迎接第一个孩子出生——两人与刘易斯·汉密尔顿在他们市中心的酒店会合。
避开记者和镜头，三人梳理了墨西哥首圈的事件，瓦塞尔向他们表达了自己对事件的看法，随后商定了一条前进路径，希望避免未来再次发生冲突。
在周五的车队领队新闻发布会上，瓦塞尔面对媒体时保持了他一贯希望将事情“私密”处理的语气。
他全程回答的语气，很大程度上是把细节藏在心里，因为他现在认为这件事已经了结。
“进展顺利，”他谈到这次会面时说。“能够讨论、澄清我的立场和他们的立场，这很好。这么做是有益的。现在我们翻过这一页，专注于下一件事。”
但尽管瓦塞尔在会面细节上并未展开，仍有一些明确迹象显示墨西哥站之后局势的现状。
最主要的一点是，瓦塞尔在让两位车手全力相互竞争这一做法上，并没有重大改变。
瓦塞尔长期以来一直回避任何干预赛道争斗的意愿——这有时对他的两位车手之一或两人都同样令人沮丧。
但瓦塞尔确实表示，他的车队所遵循的比赛指导方针——即使没有正式的接触规则——并未改变。
“指导方针仍然相同，”瓦塞尔说。“我认为他们或许积累了一些挫败感，因为他们每个周末都并肩起步，你会有一种事实的累积。但归根结底，指导方针始终相同。”
瓦塞尔反复提到，遵循指导方针的关键是不让个人利益凌驾于车队利益之上，而且这一“信息对汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔都很明确”。
后来他提到这件事时说：“他们是在为车队工作，车队必须放在第一位。在这种情况下，我们集体失败了，因为我们当时是1-2，最终却没有赢得比赛。很明显我们失败了，我们必须做出反应。”
“昨晚会议的结论很明确。这是一个明确的提醒：法拉利永远排在第一位。为了品牌、为了员工、为了铁杆车迷（tifosi），它都排在第一位，这一点我们必须牢记。”
瓦塞尔在新闻发布会上与梅赛德斯车队负责人托托·沃尔夫同席，沃尔夫一度插话提到，法拉利现在经历的情况，感觉就像他在2014至2016年汉密尔顿与尼科·罗斯伯格争夺冠军期间所面对的头痛问题的重演。
沃尔夫表示，像墨西哥站对法拉利这样的艰难时刻，对于暴露体系中的弱点很重要，并且往往像2016年西班牙大奖赛对梅赛德斯那样，成为促成改变发生的催化剂。
他解释道：“我认为有时候需要那些真正艰难的时刻，比如最近的那一次，才能表明立场。”
“以前我在的时候，无论是尼科还是刘易斯，一旦发生事故，大家就都明白那就是底线，不能再这样继续下去。”
“所以也许正因如此，才需要升级到那个地步，因为这关乎对车队和成千上万人的尊重，关乎品牌，大家在一起工作，这才是他们需要牢记在心的。”
然而，沃尔夫在那几年里相当公开地表示他如何对车手立规矩——其中还包括他曾一度声称，如果他的车手不能干净地相互竞争，他就会解雇其中一人——而瓦塞尔的处事方式则要隐秘得多。
瓦塞尔表示：“我不确定托托在10年前是否向你们透露过与尼科和刘易斯讨论的确切内容，而我会完全照做。”他或许没有回想起沃尔夫当时的坦率。
“我们进行了一次讨论。这必须保密，这也是对他们和车队的尊重。再说一次，最重要的是传达的信息。”
“这个信息是，我们为一个品牌工作，为赞助商工作，也为——但我想说主要也是为车队的员工工作。”
瓦塞尔没有从两位车手目前的关系中看到任何值得警惕的迹象，但可能暗示了他对汉密尔顿在墨西哥站后言辞激烈的方式并不欣赏。
当被问及汉密尔顿根据墨西哥站后的言论表示自己“不会被噤声”是否引发任何担忧时，瓦塞尔说：“不，不——但这一点我已经和路易斯说清楚了，我会把它保留在我和路易斯之间。”
瓦塞尔当然反驳了汉密尔顿的说法，即勒克莱尔比发车区上任何其他车手都更用力地与这位七届世界冠军竞争——他引用勒克莱尔在奥斯汀对马克斯·维斯塔潘的首圈动作作为证据，证明他对其他车队超级激进。
“如果你看看查尔斯在奥斯汀第一节的表现，每个人都说那是魔法，而两者之间的界线很微妙，”瓦塞尔说。
然而，他承认他的车手之间的竞争是意料之中的，认为他们俩可以像那样战斗并且成为最好的朋友是天真的。
瓦塞尔表示：“我不是要求他们成为最好的朋友。我认为那样甚至可能有点负面。我只是要求他们以职业球员的身份行事和工作，仅此而已。”
尽管关于这个话题的问题一再被提出，而瓦塞尔本希望这个话题根本不会出现，但他承认，在同一支车队中拥有两位顶级车手相互竞争是有缺点的。
然而，他认为，要想享受像汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔这样的组合所带来的好处，就很难不预期会有任何负面影响。
他解释道：“我认为这可能是这个体系的缺点，那就是我们每个比赛周末都有两个有竞争力的家伙并排起步。”
"但我认为，如果我们今天能排在车队积分榜第二，也是因为我们有两位非常非常接近的车手，我们必须处理好这一点。
"但这是一个选择，是阵容上的选择，我有积极的一面，也有消极的一面。我会处理消极的一面。"
英文原文
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur wasted little time following his arrival into Sao Paulo on Thursday night in getting his Formula 1 drivers together for their well-publicised Mexican Grand Prix postmortem.
Fresh off his own arrival from Italy, and with Charles Leclerc having also flown in from Monaco where he had returned for the birth of his first child, the pair of them got together with Lewis Hamilton at their downtown hotel.
Away from the prying eyes of journalists and photographs, the three of them ran through the events of that opening lap in Mexico, were Vasseur told them his views on events and then agreed a path going forward that it is hoped will avoid a repeat clash in the future.
Speaking in the team principals' press conference on Friday, Vasseur adopting his usual tone of wanting to keep things "private" when he appeared in front of the media.
His tone of answering throughout was very much of keeping details close to his chest for what he now considers a closed matter.
"It went well," he said about the meeting. "It was good to discuss, good to clarify my position and their position. It was good to do. Now we turn the page and we are focused on the next one."
But while Vasseur was not expansive in terms of details from the meetings, there were still some clear hints about where the situation stands now after Mexico.
The major one is that there has been no significant change of approach from Vasseur in terms of the capacity for both his drivers to race each other hard.
Vasseur has long shied away from any desire to interfere in the on-track battles – which has sometimes been equally frustrating for one or both of his drivers.
But Vasseur did state that the racing guidelines that his team operate to – even without formal rules of engagement – were unchanged.
"The guidelines are still the same," said Vasseur. "I think they accumulated perhaps a bit of frustration because they are starting each weekend side by side and you have a kind of accumulation of facts. But at the end of the day, the guidelines are always the same."
Vasseur repeatedly referenced that key to the guidelines being followed was not letting personal interests overtake those of the team and that this "message was clear" for both Hamilton and Leclerc.
Referencing this later he said: "They are working for the team and the team has to come first. In this situation, we failed collectively because we were 1-2 and we didn't win the race in the end. It's clear that we failed and we have to react.
"The conclusion of the meeting yesterday evening was clear. It was a clear reminder that Ferrari is coming first. It's coming first for the brand, for the employees, for the tifosi and this we have to keep in mind."
Vasseur sat in the press conference alongside Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who interrupted at one point to reference that what Ferrari was living through now felt like a repeat of the headaches he faced with Hamilton and Nico Rosberg during their title fight years of 2014 to 2016.
Wolff suggested that difficult moments like Mexico for Ferrari were important in exposing weaknesses in the system, and, like the 2016 Spanish GP for Mercedes, often became a catalyst for allowing change to happen.
He explained: "I think sometimes it needs the really tough ones, like the last one, to make a point.
"It was always when I was there with Nico and Lewis, when there was an accident, it was understood that that was now the limit and it wouldn't continue like this.
"That's why maybe it needed to escalate to the point, because it's a respect to the team and many, many thousand people, the brand, that work together and that's what they need to keep in their heads."
But while Wolff was quite open during those years about how he was laying down the law with his drivers – which included him stating at one point that he would sack one of his drivers if they could not race each other cleanly - Vasseur’s approach is much more secretive.
"I'm not sure that Toto, 10 years ago, told you exactly the content of the discussion with Nico and Lewis and I will do exactly the same," said Vasseur, who perhaps had not recalled Wolff’s openness at the time.
"We had a discussion. It has to stay private, it's a matter of respect also for them and for the team. And once again the most important is the message.
"The message is that we are working for a brand, we are working for sponsors, we are working for, but I would say mainly also the employees of the team."
Vasseur did not see any cause for alarm in how the relationship of his two drivers stands, but may have offered a hint that he was not impressed with how Hamilton had spoken strongly after Mexico.
Asked about any concerns in Hamilton saying he would "not be silenced" based on what was said after Mexico, Vasseur said: "No, no – but this I was clear with Lewis and I will keep it between Lewis and me."
Vasseur certainly countered Hamilton’s suggestion that Leclerc races the seven-time champion harder than any other drivers on the grid – citing his opening lap move on Max Verstappen in Austin as proof of him being super aggressive with other teams.
"If you have a look at what Charles did in Austin in the first section, everybody said that it was magic and the line is fine between the two," said Vasseur.
However, he acknowledged that a rivalry between his drivers was to be expected and it was naïve to think the pair of them could battle like they did and be best buddies.
"I'm not asking them to be best friends," said Vasseur. "I think it would be even probably a bit negative. I'm just asking them to act and to work as professionals and this is it."
Despite repeated questions over a topic that Vasseur would have loved not to have cropped up in the first place, he acknowledged that there were downsides to having two top line drivers battling each other in the same team.
However, he felt that it would be hard to enjoy the benefits that come from having a pairing like Hamilton and Leclerc without expecting there to be any negatives.
"I think it’s probably the downside of the system is that we have two competitive guys starting each weekend next to each other," he explained.
"But I think if we are P2 [in the constructors’ championship] today, it’s also because we have two guys very, very close and we have to manage it.
"But it’s a choice, it’s a choice in the line-up and I have the positive and the negative. I will deal with the negative."
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