勒克莱尔质疑法拉利荷兰站进站策略
在荷兰大奖赛上，勒克莱尔质疑法拉利在第43圈末的进站决定，认为这让他失去了争夺领奖台的机会，最终仅获第五名。
勒克莱尔“没搞懂”法拉利在赞德福特F1策略上的什么问题
这位摩纳哥车手认为他本有机会在荷兰大奖赛登上领奖台，但最终只获得第五名
夏尔·勒克莱尔质疑了法拉利在荷兰大奖赛期间的一个策略决定，这个决定可能让他失去了在赞德福特登上领奖台的机会。争议所在是他在第43圈末的进站，这让这位摩纳哥车手在F1比赛末段没有任何真正的武器去争夺与乔治·拉塞尔之间的第三名。
“我真的不太理解为什么我们必须在这么接近拉塞尔进站的时机进站，”勒克莱尔赛后接受天空体育采访时说。“因为这基本上就等于宣告了我会排在拉塞尔后面完赛，因为如果进站时机相差两三圈，在我看来我本来也做不了什么，而且我觉得我的轮胎还有更多潜力可挖。”
勒克莱尔在拉塞尔之前时差距不到一秒，随后这位梅赛德斯车手在第40圈结束时冲进维修区——勒克莱尔本可以延长自己的 阶段（ segment：一个赛段）来尝试在轮胎寿命上与对手拉开足够的差距。事实证明这一策略在比赛中是成功的，因为这正是让兰多·诺里斯获胜的策略。在几乎整场比赛都被基米·安东内利挡在身后之后，这位迈凯伦车手比这位意大利车手晚了七圈才完成最后一次进站——随后迅速缩小差距并超越了梅赛德斯赛车夺得领先。
而法拉利在拉塞尔进站后仅三圈就让勒克莱尔进站了。
赛后接受媒体采访时，这位摩纳哥车手表示，他觉得这样做实际上等于在与梅赛德斯的较量中提前认输。
“当我们完全按照自己想要的方式执行时，这么早进站让我非常惊讶，”他说。“乔治进站了，所以那正是我们多跑五到十圈、建立轮胎差距、最后再追回乔治的时机。
“很遗憾，两圈之后我被叫进维修区，我记得我是在大概三圈之后才进去的。”
夏尔·勒克莱尔，法拉利；乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯
法拉利之所以在勒克莱尔还不想进站时提前叫他进站，其中一个因素也许是刘易斯·汉密尔顿。由于使用不同的策略，这位七届世界冠军恰好在勒克莱尔比赛的关键时刻追上了他——并要求车队让两辆赛车互换位置。车队决定召回勒克莱尔是否是为了避免拖慢汉密尔顿，目前尚不清楚——但勒克莱尔确认自己本想继续留在赛道上。
“我需要回顾一下当时局势的具体情况，”当被问到他是否愿意与汉密尔顿互换位置并延长自己的一个赛段（阶段）时，他说道，“但我本来很乐意跑得更久一些。”
法拉利最初召唤进站的指令出现在第42圈，但勒克莱尔用一个问题回应他的工程师：“你什么意思？如果我在拉塞尔进站两圈之后才停站，我的比赛就毁了。”由于没有听到任何回应，勒克莱尔几秒后又补了一句：“喂？”。
“是的，马上回复你”，他的工程师答道，随后确认：“夏尔，我们要你进站”——但车手驶过了维修区入口，似乎仍然不同意这个指令——结果在下一圈又听到了进站命令：“所以进站，夏尔，进站，会换硬胎。”.replace
进站之后，他驶出维修区时与拉塞尔的差距约为六秒——十几圈后他把差距缩小到不到两秒。不过，这个速度差距还是太小，不足以指望在赛道上完成超越，因为赞德沃特需要更大的时间差才行。
到那时，他本仍有机会争夺第四名，因为法拉利让汉密尔顿留在赛道上，试图把那一站坚持到比赛结束，但考虑到速度差距，这位英国车手很可能仍然会落到拉塞尔和勒克莱尔两人之后。然而第55圈的虚拟安全车给了法拉利召唤汉密尔顿进站的机会——车队用了这个机会。勒克莱尔也进站了，这让他锁定了第五名。他追上了自己的队友，后者在比赛最后阶段正在追赶拉塞尔，但两台法拉利最终还是以梅赛德斯之后的名次完赛。
这场证明是一站法拉利因为多重因素而无法充分发挥其强劲速度的比赛。
如果勒克莱尔没有在比赛重启时把位置丢给奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里，他的比赛本可能朝着完全不同的方向发展。但在第一段 阶段（比赛阶段）中他被困在这位澳大利亚车手身后，无法用法拉利的速度去挑战领先者。
车队推迟了他的第一次进站，然后选择了中性胎——相对于皮亚斯特里的硬胎——以帮助他超越这位迈凯伦车手，但一次缓慢的进站意味着他出维修区时已经落后澳大利亚人六秒。勒克莱尔只用了六圈就追近了皮亚斯特里，并最终在第 34 圈完成超越。
到那时，拉塞尔只在他前方三秒——而勒克莱尔及时追近了这段差距，让法拉利得以尝试对梅赛德斯使用提前进站战术。正如法拉利车队领队弗雷德·瓦塞尔在赛后透露的那样，这原本是计划，但车队的策略师们犹豫了。
“我认为这很大程度上在于执行，”瓦塞尔在接受天空体育德国频道采访时承认。“ 配速……速度不错，甚至可以说很强劲，至少与梅赛德斯相比是这样。问题在于第二次起步时我们输给了皮亚斯特里一个位置。我们一直被堵在他身后，损失了大量时间——后来当我们终于能跑到前面时，有一段时间我们离对拉塞尔提前进站的机会已经很接近了。但当时有一群车挤在一起，局面有些混乱——我们就没有执行进站。
“这是我们的失误，是我的失误。但总的来说，这更多是一个执行层面的问题。”
在第40圈结束时，法拉利告诉勒克莱尔“与拉塞尔相反的时机进站”，但当梅赛德斯车手先进站时，提前进站的机会已经消失。尽管瓦塞尔表示没有让勒克莱尔提前一圈进站是个失误，但那样做也未必有效，因为夏尔出站后会正好落在一圈被套慢车后面——那批车由卡洛斯·塞恩斯、佛朗哥·科拉平托和阿维德·林德布拉德组成——他们可能会让夏尔无法在出站圈充分发挥新胎的优势。
在那之后，勒克莱尔争夺第三名的唯一真正机会就是推迟第二次进站，并试图在与拉塞尔之间拉开足够的轮胎差距——但法拉利最终没有采用这个方案。结果，尽管瓦塞尔说法拉利在周日的速度比梅赛德斯更强，最终站上领奖台的却是安东内利和拉塞尔，汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔紧随其后。
正如这位摩纳哥车手在赛后指出的那样，尽管法拉利可能没有把策略发挥到极致，但车队在赞德沃特面临的最大问题是，周日它根本无法发挥自己的比赛节奏，主要原因是发车位置太靠后——因为车队在排位赛中难以匹敌对手。汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔最终只能从第三排发车，而在一条超车困难的赛道上，法拉利只能指望用策略来击败对手。
“说实话，这是一场令人沮丧的比赛，”勒克莱尔在完赛后表示，“因为有些事情朝着不利的方向发展，而这些是我们无法真正控制的，比如虚拟安全车出现的时机，这对我们不太有利。但归根结底，我认为我们的速度不错，我们对奥斯卡完成了一次漂亮的超车，轮胎管理也做得很好。
“我们需要弄清楚的问题是我们的排位赛速度。这正是我们目前欠缺的地方。”
英文原文
What Charles Leclerc 'didn't understand' about Ferrari's Zandvoort F1 strategy
The Monegasque driver reckons he had a shot at ending up on the podium in the Dutch GP, which he ultimately finished fifth in
Charles Leclerc questioned a Ferrari strategy decision during the Dutch Grand Prix that potentially cost him a podium finish at Zandvoort. The call in question was his pitstop at the end of lap 43, which left the Monegasque with no real weapons to battle George Russell for third in the closing stages of the Formula 1 race.
“I didn't really understand why we had to box so close to George's pitstop,” Leclerc said after the race, speaking to Sky Sports. “Because that really was kind of signing to finishing behind George, because with a two or three laps difference, for me there wasn't much I could have done, and I felt like there was a bit more in my tyres.”
Leclerc was within a second of Russell before the Mercedes driver dived into the pitlane at the end of lap 40 - and could potentially have extended his stint to try to create enough of an offset in tyre life compared to his rival. That tactic proved successful in the race, as this was exactly the strategy that allowed Lando Norris to win. After being stuck behind Kimi Antonelli for almost the entire race, the McLaren driver made his last stop seven laps later than the Italian - and then quickly closed the gap and overtook the Mercedes for the lead.
Ferrari, instead, pitted Leclerc just three laps after Russell.
Speaking to the media after the race, the Monegasque driver said he felt that by doing so he was effectively throwing in the towel in the battle with the Mercedes.
“I was very surprised to box so early when we had done exactly what we wanted,” he said. “George was pitting and so that was the time for us to do five, ten laps longer to build a tyre delta and to come back at the end on George.
“Unfortunately, two laps later I was told to box, which I did I think three laps later.”
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, George Russell, Mercedes
One contributing factor to Ferrari asking Leclerc to box earlier than he wanted was, perhaps, Lewis Hamilton. Being on a different strategy, the seven-time world champion caught up with Leclerc right at a crucial moment in his race - and demanded that the team swap the cars around. Whether the team decided to call Leclerc in to avoid slowing Hamilton down is unclear - but Leclerc confirmed he wanted to stay out.
“I need to review the way the situation was looking,” he said, when asked whether he’d been willing to swap positions with Hamilton and extend his stint, “but I was happy to go longer.”
The initial call from Ferrari to box came on lap 42, but Leclerc responded to his engineer with a question: “What do you mean? This fucks my race if I stop two laps after Russell.” Having heard nothing in response, Leclerc added a few seconds later: “Hello?”.
“Yeah coming back to you”, replied his engineer and then later confirmed: “Charles, we want to box” - but the driver drove past the pitlane entry, seemingly still disagreeing with the call - only to hear the command again to pit on the next lap: “So box Charles box, will be for hard.”
After his stop, he emerged from the pits with a gap to Russell of around six seconds - and closed it down to less than two seconds a dozen laps later. Still, the pace difference was too small to count on an overtake on track, as Zandvoort requires a bigger delta.
At that point, he could still have been in contention for a fourth-place finish, as Ferrari left Hamilton on track trying to extend his stint to the end of the race, but given the pace difference, the Briton would likely still have fallen behind both Russell and Leclerc. Yet the VSC on lap 55 offered Ferrari an opportunity to box Hamilton - which the team used. Leclerc pitted too, which locked him into fifth. He caught up with his team-mate, who was chasing Russell at the very end of the race, but both Ferrari drivers ultimately finished behind the Mercedes.
The race proved to be one in which Ferrari couldn’t capitalise on its very strong pace due to several factors.
Leclerc’s race could have unfolded very differently had he not lost the position to Oscar Piastri at the restart. But stuck behind the Australian during his first stint, Leclerc couldn’t use his Ferrari’s pace to challenge the leaders.
The team delayed his first stop and then opted for the medium compound - compared to Piastri’s hard - to help him get past the McLaren driver, but a slow stop meant he exited the pits six seconds behind the Australian. It took Leclerc only six laps to close in on Piastri and he eventually passed him on lap 34.
By that time Russell was only three seconds up the road - and Leclerc closed that gap just in time for Ferrari to try to undercut the Mercedes. As Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur revealed after the race, that was the initial plan, but the Scuderia strategists hesitated.
“I think it's a lot about execution,” admitted Vasseur, speaking to Sky Germany. “Pace was good and even strong, I think, compared to Mercedes. The issue is that at the second start we lost position on Piastri. We were stuck behind him. We lost a lot of time - and then when we were able to be in front, at one stage we were quite close to the undercut on Russell. But there was a group of cars, a bit of confusion - and we didn't do it.
“It's our mistake, my mistake. But overall it's more a matter of execution.”
At the end of lap 40, Ferrari told Leclerc, “Box opposite to Russell”, but as the Mercedes driver came in, the undercut opportunity was gone. Despite Vasseur saying it was a mistake not to box Leclerc a lap earlier, that might not have worked either, as Charles would have emerged on track right behind a group of lapped cars comprising Carlos Sainz, Franco Colapinto and Arvid Lindblad - and they could have prevented him from fully exploiting the opportunity on the outlap.
After that, the only real chance for Leclerc to fight for third was to delay his second stop and try to create enough of a tyre delta compared to Russell - but Ferrari ultimately didn’t use it. As a result, despite Vasseur saying Ferrari’s pace was stronger on Sunday than Mercedes’, it was Antonelli and Russell who finished on the podium, with Hamilton and Leclerc right behind.
As the Monegasque pointed out after the race, despite Ferrari probably not maximising its strategy, the biggest issue for the Scuderia at Zandvoort was that it couldn’t use its race pace on Sunday, mainly because of its lowly grid positions - as the team struggled to match its rivals in qualifying. With Hamilton and Leclerc ending up on the third row at a track where overtaking is difficult, Ferrari was left trying to beat its rivals with strategy.
“I mean a frustrating race to be honest,” Leclerc said after the finish, “because things went the wrong way for things we cannot really control, with the virtual safety car timing, it wasn't so great for us. But at the end of the day I think the pace was strong, we had a good overtake on Oscar, I think good tyre management.
“The thing we need to understand is our qualifying pace. This is truly where we are lacking at the moment.”
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