托托·沃尔夫：为安东内利解决赛道线问题，‘我要在他屁股下放个枕头’
梅赛德斯一级方程式车队负责人托托·沃尔夫在新加坡大奖赛之后开玩笑说，基米·安东内利需要‘在他屁股下放个枕头’来更好地看到赛道上的白线。
“我在他屁股下面放个枕头”——托托·沃尔夫想如何解决基米·安东内利的赛道限制问题
安东内利一直难以遵守赛道限制，但梅赛德斯车队老板沃尔夫有一个解决的办法
梅赛德斯一级方程式车队负责人托托·沃尔夫在新加坡大奖赛上开玩笑说，基米·安东内利需要“在屁股下面放个枕头”才能更好地看到赛道上的白线
在滨海湾赛道比赛中，安东内利四次越过了赛道限制；第四次违规的理论惩罚是五秒罚时，但他因为其中一次是由于刹车问题导致失控而逃脱了惩罚。
这样的处罚并没有让车手积分榜领跑者损失任何东西——他以16秒的领先优势排在第三位，领先兰多·诺里斯——但这个危险仍然让沃尔夫感到有些不安。
当Motorsport.com问及，鉴于安东内利最近用不那么占优势的银箭赛车限制损失，我们是否看到了他进步的不同阶段时，沃尔夫承认：“我认为这是一个好的阶段，因为正如你所说，我们在一开始有一段时间赛车表现非常出色，他从中受益最大。
“但后来我们在吉隆坡赛道上推出了一辆不那么容易驾驶、速度较慢的赛车，我认为周末两位车手的工作使得今天的赛车表现并不差。
“它是否像应该的那样快？升级后并不快。但我认为他管理了自己的比赛，保持了冷静——除了几个超车线限制，我有一个很好的策略，我打算在他的屁股下面放一个酒店里的枕头，这样他实际上可以看到道路。因为我认为他看不到道路。
“这让我们感到压力。比赛的一半时间我们已经有三次违规，但也显示了他正在大量挑战极限。”
“我认为他驾驶的方式很成熟，很好。我们讨论了这件事，他说，‘我必须保持冷静，确保我完成比赛’。所以，在那个阶段处理一辆困难的赛车，并试图发展和学习，这是很好的。”
在第32圈时，安东内利报告说“我感觉到我的脚之间有东西在漏”，这短暂地引发了可靠性担忧，但梅赛德斯在数据中并没有发现任何异常。”
在比赛结束后不久接受媒体采访时，沃尔夫并没有得到任何线索。
“这个液体，我们不知道，”奥地利人说道。 “我们怀疑是那个饮料瓶出了问题，或者他有泄漏，但他应该知道如果是这样的话。”
然而，对于安东内利抱怨他的刹车踏板“太长”以至于“没有刹车”的解释是……
“另外一件事是他在刹车中出现了热衰减，我认为是在停车后，这就是为什么踏板变长，然后在他得到更多空气冷却后立即恢复，”沃尔夫详细解释道。
安东内利的领奖台成绩，加上乔治·拉塞尔最新的挫折，意味着这位年轻人下周在美国大奖赛上赢得世界冠军的机会虽然渺茫。
英文原文
‘I’ll put a pillow under his butt’ – How Toto Wolff wants to solve Kimi Antonelli’s track limits problem
Antonelli has been struggling to stick to track limits, but Mercedes team boss Wolff has an idea how to solve it
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff has joked Kimi Antonelli needs “a pillow under his butt” to better see the white lines on track, following the Singapore Grand Prix.
In the Marina Bay race, Antonelli breached track limits on four occasions; the theoretical punishment for a fourth strike is a five-second penalty, but he escaped it given one of those was down to a loss of control amid brake issues.
Such a sanction wouldn’t have cost the championship leader anything – he finished third with a comfortable 16-second gap to Lando Norris – but the jeopardy still left Wolff a little too uneasy to his taste.
Asked by Motorsport.com if we were seeing a different phase in Antonelli’s progress, given the Italian has been limiting the damage with a less dominant Silver Arrow lately, Wolff acknowledged: “I think it's a good phase because, exactly like you say, we had a car that was dominant for long spells at the beginning, and he did the best out of it.
“But then we put a car on the track in Kuala Lumpur that wasn't easy, that was slower, and I think the work over the weekend from the two drivers led to a point that the car in the race today was not bad.
“Was it as quick as it should have been? With the upgrade, it wasn't. But I think he managed his race, he kept his cool – other than a few of the track limits, where I have a good strategy, I'm going to put a pillow from the hotel under his butt, so he can actually see the road. Because I think he can't see it.
“That stresses us. Half the race we already have three strikes, but it also shows that he's pushing the limits a lot.
“I think how he's driven that is mature and good. We talked about it and he said, ‘I've just got to keep my calm here and make sure that I finish the race’. So, handling a difficult car at that stage and trying to develop it and learn, it's good.”
On lap 32, Antonelli reported “I feel something leaking between my feet”, briefly sparking reliability concerns, but Mercedes couldn’t see anything of note on the data.
When addressing the media moments after the race, Wolff was none the wiser.
“The liquid, we don't know,” the Austrian said. “We suspect it was the drink bottle that went there, or he had a leak, but he should have known that if it was the case.”
However, there was an explanation to Antonelli’s complaint about his brake pedal being “so long” that he had “no brakes”.
“The other thing is that he had a heat soak in the brakes, I think it was after the stop, and that is why the pedal went long and then recovered immediately after when he got more air cooling it again,” Wolff detailed.
Antonelli’s podium finish, on top of George Russell’s latest setback, means the youngster has an outside chance of clinching the world title at the United States Grand Prix next week.
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