F1巴西大奖赛混乱之战的赢家与输家
在一场受雨水影响的英特拉格斯比赛中，诺里斯赢得本赛季第三胜，梅赛德斯整体失误，维斯塔潘再次展现巴西大奖赛大师级表现。
F1巴西大奖赛混乱之战的赢家与输家
英特拉格斯受雨水影响的一个比赛周末又奉献了一场令人难忘的F1比赛，但也留下了大量犯错空间……
你们还不过瘾吗？诺里斯赢得了一场当之无愧的赛季第三胜，梅赛德斯整体失误，而维斯塔潘再次上演巴西大奖赛大师级表现。
迈凯伦车队负责人安德烈亚·斯特拉喜欢把兰多·诺里斯称为低抓地力大师。当条件困难时，诺里斯是最擅长适应并充分发挥赛车性能的车手之一。
斯特拉说：“他对可用抓地力的感知非常敏锐，而且我会说，作为一名车手他甚至非常全面。在混合多变的条件下，他往往是最快找到极限的人之一，这已经不是第一次了。”
诺里斯确实在关键时刻挺身而出，在一场激动人心的排位对决中夺得杆位——无论梅赛德斯是否存在沟通失误，这已是共识——随后以稳健的方式赢下正赛。
诺里斯还得益于马克斯·维斯塔潘的挑战在换上干胎后因赛车平衡受影响而停滞，红牛仍在调查此事。但诺里斯从未显得有输掉比赛的可能，而当他拥有能赢的赛车时，他四场赢了三场，只有马德里赛道因安全车时机的坏运气与他擦肩而过。
那么，这几乎是一场完美的表现，直到颁奖仪式上诺里斯砸碎香槟瓶并被烟火波及。所幸没有造成伤害。
巴西大奖赛是梅赛德斯庆祝双料冠军的地方，但单独来看，这是一场值得遗忘的比赛。在新晋世界冠军基米·安东内利的手中，梅赛德斯在练习赛中看起来像是难以击败的车队，长距离表现令人印象深刻。然而，在正赛中，这位意大利车手和乔治·拉塞尔都出现了失误，安东内利在遇到操控问题后从领先位置打滑退赛，拉塞尔则在维修区出口处掉头。
尽管如此，银箭车队还是做足了功夫，锁定了他们的第九个车队总冠军，也是自命运多舛的2021赛季以来的首个车队冠军，因此托托·沃尔夫和他的团队根本不会在意巴西站的个人成绩。当一支车队像梅赛德斯这样始终具有竞争力时，这不过是凯旋赛季末的一个脚注。
马克斯·维斯塔潘和圣保罗史诗级逆转比赛之间到底有什么渊源？这已经是维斯塔潘连续第三年不得不从后方起步，却不知怎么地能够登上领奖台，合计提升了51个位置。
一位当地记者提出，赛道命名所依据的湖泊水里一定有什么玄机。我们的巴西朋友可能说对了一半。但也许问题不在于英特拉格斯“湖泊”里的水，而在于那场倾向于打乱计划、激发维斯塔潘等人最佳状态的雨。
当这位四届世界冠军追到距离诺里斯仅九秒时，甚至看起来从第21位发车夺冠都有可能，但他的胜利挑战也就此消退。“我一换上干胎，赛车在高速弯就出现了极度的转向过度，这让驾驶变得极其困难，”他说。“我们需要弄清楚赛车是不是有什么东西坏了，某种空气动力学损失之类的，因为这并不正常。”
维斯塔潘展现了他惯常的英雄表现，而法拉利则要艰难得多地弥补勒克莱尔和汉密尔顿各自的发车位罚退。不过对于第20位发车的汉密尔顿来说，比赛开局堪称壮观。他在1号弯从外道绕开一堆车流，随后在通往4号弯的路段又超掉了几辆车，一圈之内就升到了第11位。
但随着赛道变干，汉密尔顿和队友勒克莱尔成了最早在 半雨胎上开始衰退的赛车之一，看起来后轮磨损过度，这让两辆车都陷入了被动。
汉密尔顿后来在天空再次下起大雨时，在进入直道时打滑，紧接着就换上了半雨胎；而勒克莱尔则在比赛末段因与劳森的一次轻微接触，被相当严厉地罚了五秒。
两位车手之间短暂的轮对轮较量引发了一些兴奋，而背景正是上周墨西哥站的戏剧性事件。尽管所有相关人士的言论都表明，汉密尔顿、勒克莱尔和车队领队弗雷德·瓦塞尔之间已经彻底解决了墨西哥站的问题，但时间会证明事实是否真的如此。
伊萨克·哈贾尔在他所经历过的最恶劣条件下比赛，奉献了很可能是他职业生涯最好的一场比赛。这正是维斯塔潘需要一名后援车手的那种比赛，而哈贾尔愿意尝试不同策略的态度，本可以在红牛试图向诺里斯施压时对红牛有利。
最终这并不重要，哈贾尔留在了第三的位置。但在追赶诺里斯的过程中让维斯塔潘过去之后，这位年轻的法国人还大胆地向红牛询问，万一维斯塔潘没能取得领先，是否可以再把位置换回来。他可不是那种温顺恭顺的二号车手。
对于一支原本很有希望争夺年度第五的车队来说，赛季下半程对阿尔派恩而言令人极度失望。当小红牛稳步迈向中游车队最佳位置时，阿尔派恩却难以连续跑出得分周末。而当它做到时，又因处罚自毁前程，比如在墨西哥站。
在这方面，巴西站的情况有所不同，因为阿尔派在雨天的整个周末都毫无竞争力，所有迹象都指向其当前套件在雨天条件下存在空气动力学缺陷。在落后队友科拉平托一位、以第14名完赛后，加斯利表示：“我们有很多需要复盘的地方，尤其是本周末雨天的表现，因为半雨胎和全雨胎的抓地力都非常差。”
“在昨天排位赛的沮丧之后，我们在雨天的赛车空气动力学数据中看到了一些奇怪的现象，我知道我们需要时间复盘并进一步理解。”
啊，劳森的奇特案例。勒克莱尔的罚时让这位新西兰人升至第七，尽管他仍在为留在发车格而战，但他的积分已是队友的两倍。
劳森在雨天排位赛中的英勇表现之后，又奉献了惊人的起步，跟随安东内利穿过塞纳S弯超越诺里斯，在早期守住第二。但随着车手们将半雨胎带入工作窗口，他的表现趋于正常，随后因后轮过热而开始滑回车阵中。
尽管如此，劳森展现出了更多的斗志，也为红牛和小红牛（小红牛）的各位高层提供了更多留下他的理由：“目前我只是努力享受驾驶这辆车，因为其他事情纷扰不断，我真不知道自己还该做些什么。”
当雨意弥漫时，你可以笃定费尔南多·阿隆索会成为焦点。这位狡黠的西班牙老将果然在排位赛中兑现了表现，晋级Q3，并在巴西站罚退大乱局之后正赛从第八位发车。
夏尔·勒克莱尔，法拉利；费尔南多·阿隆索，阿斯顿·马丁车队
阿隆索的起步是一场灾难，在第3弯被奥利弗·贝尔曼碰到后掉了六个位置。但他在中游集团聪明而强悍的表现，让车迷们再次有了欢呼的理由，尤其是他在内场从外道超越了状态下滑的汉密尔顿。
阿隆索以第12名完赛未能获得积分，但至少他又在战斗了。又在竞争了。而不只是倒数着2027年开始的日子。
“今天赛车太棒了，”他说。“我认为这是最具竞争力的一场比赛。比赛中我们一度与法拉利并驾齐驱，最后几圈又与梅赛德斯缠斗。考虑到我们在直道上损失那么多，这意味着我们本可以比他们快将近一秒……”
在墨西哥大奖赛因悬挂故障退赛七天后，瓦尔特利·博塔斯在巴西甚至没能起步，原因是发车格上轮毂螺母螺纹错位，导致车队无法拆下他的右后轮。
拜托，老兄。
英文原文
Winners and losers from F1's chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix
A rain-affected weekend in Interlagos produced another memorable Formula 1 race, but there was plenty of room for error too...
Are you not entertained? While Lando Norris took a well-deserved third win of the campaign, Mercedes collectively slipped up and Max Verstappen produced yet another Brazilian Grand Prix masterclass.
McLaren team boss Andrea Stella loves describing Lando Norris as the low-grip master. When conditions are difficult, Norris is one the very best at adapting and getting the most out of his equipment.
"He's very sensitive in understanding how much grip is available and very, I would say, even complete as a driver," Stella said. "It's not the first time that when you have mixed variable conditions, he kind of is one of the fastest in finding the limit."
Norris certainly delivered when it mattered, taking pole in a thrilling qualifying shootout - with or without Mercedes' miscommunication, is the consensus - before going on to win the race in a controlled fashion.
Norris's cause was helped by Max Verstappen's challenge stalling after the switch to slicks affected his car balance, which Red Bull is still looking into. But Norris never looked like losing the race, and when he's had a car to win he has taken three out of four wins, only Madrid eluding him due to bad luck with the safety car timing.
It was almost a flawless performance, then, right until the podium ceremony when Norris smashed a champagne bottle and got caught in the pyrotechnics. Thankfully there was no harm done.
The Brazilian GP is where Mercedes celebrated the double, but in isolation it was a race to forget. In the hands of newly minted world champion Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes looked like the team to beat in practice with impressive looking long runs. However, in the race both the Italian and George Russell slipped up, with Antonelli spinning out of the lead after encountering handling issues and Russell doing an about-face at pit exit.
Nevertheless, the Silver Arrows did enough to seal their ninth constructors' crown and their first since the fateful 2021 season, so Toto Wolff and his troops won't care one bit about the individual Brazil result. When you're as consistently competitive as Mercedes has been, it is but a footnote at the end of a triumphant campaign.
What is it with Max Verstappen and epic comeback races in Sao Paulo? This is now the third consecutive year Verstappen had to start at the rear and is somehow able to make the podium, gaining a combined 51 positions.
One local journalist suggested there must be something in the water in the lake the circuit is named after. Our Brazilian friend may be half-right. But perhaps it's not about the water from the 'lagos' in Interlagos, but the rain that tends to throw a spanner in the works and brings out the best in the likes of Verstappen.
When the four-time world champion got to within nine seconds of Norris, it even looked like a win from 21st on the grid was on the cards, but that's where his victory challenge faded. "As soon as I switched to the slicks, I had an extreme amount of oversteer in the car in the high-speed corners, which made it super difficult to drive," he said. "We need to understand if something broke on the car, some kind of aero loss or whatever, because this was not normal."
While Verstappen put his usual heroics on display, Ferrari had a much tougher time undoing its respective grid penalties for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. The race started in spectacular fashion for 20th-placed Hamilton, though. He worked his way around the outside of a bunch of traffic at Turn 1 and then picked off a few more cars on the run to Turn 4 to move up to 11th in the space of one lap.
But Hamilton and team-mate Leclerc were among the first cars to start fading on the intermediates with what appeared to be excessive rear tyre wear as the track dried up, and that put both cars on the back foot.
Hamilton later suffered a spin coming onto the straight as the heavens opened up again, right before collecting intermediates, while Leclerc was rather harshly punished with a five-second for a tiny touch blow with Lawson at the end.
Both drivers caused some excitement with a brief wheel-to-wheel battle, coming against the backdrop of last weeks' drama in Mexico. But despite quotes from all involved suggesting the Mexico issue has been fully resolved between Hamilton, Leclerc and team principal Fred Vasseur, time will tell if that's really the case.
Racing in the worst conditions he ever experienced, Isack Hadjar delivered what is likely his best-ever race. This is the type of race where Verstappen needed a rear gunner, and Hadjar's willingness to entertain alternate strategies could have played in Red Bull's favour as it tried to put pressure on Norris.
In the end it didn't really matter, and Hadjar stayed where he was in third. But after waving Verstappen past in the chase on Norris, the young Frenchman was also bold enough to ask Red Bull about reverting the positions again in case Verstappen didn't manage to take the lead. A meek and deferential number two driver he is not.
For a team that was well in the hunt for fifth in the championship, the second half of the season has been bitterly disappointing for Alpine. While Racing Bulls has marched towards the best of the rest spot at a canter, Alpine has struggled to string points-scoring weekends together. And when it did, it shot itself in the foot with penalties, like in Mexico.
Brazil was different in that regard, as Alpine was simply nowhere all weekend in the wet, with all signs pointing towards an aerodynamic deficiency with its current package in rainy conditions. After finishing one spot behind team-mate Franco Colapinto in 14th, Pierre Gasly said: "We have a lot to review especially with our performance in the wet this weekend as the grip was very poor on both the intermediates and the extreme wets.
"After yesterday's frustration in qualifying, we saw some odd things in the aerodynamic data with the car in the wet which I know we are going to take time to review and further understand."
Ah, the curious case of Liam Lawson. Leclerc's penalty promoted the New Zealander to seventh as his fight to stay on the grid goes on, despite amassing twice the number of points as his team-mate.
Lawson followed up his heroics in a wet qualifying session with a blistering start, following Antonelli past Norris through the Senna S to hold second early on. But as drivers got their intermediates into the operating window, his performance normalised and he later started slipping back into the pack with rear tyre overheating.
Nevertheless, Lawson showed more fight and more reasons for the various Red Bull and Racing Bulls chiefs to keep him: "At the moment I'm just trying to enjoy driving the car because with everything else going on I don't really know what else I'm meant to do."
When rain is in the air, you can bet on Fernando Alonso being box office. The wily old Spaniard duly delivered in qualifying, advancing to Q3 which became eighth on the grid after Brazil's grid penalty bonanza.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing
Alonso's start was a disaster, dropping six places after a touch from Oliver Bearman in Turn 3. But his smart and brawny display in the midfield gave his fans a reason to cheer again, in particular the pass around the outside of a fading Hamilton through the infield.
Alonso wasn't rewarded with points in 12th, but at least he was fighting again. Competing again. And not just counting down the days until the start of 2027.
"The car was phenomenal today," he said. "I think it has been the most competitive race. We were running with the Ferraris at one point in the race, now with the Mercedes in the last few laps. With much we lose on the straights, that means that we could be nearly one second faster than them..."
Seven days after shunting out of the Mexico Grand Prix with a suspension failure, Valtteri Bottas didn't even make the start of the race in Brazil due to a cross-threaded wheel nut on the grid, which meant the team couldn't remove his right-rear wheel.
Come on, man.
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