兰多·诺里斯新赛车团队收到“数百份求职申请”
兰多·诺里斯周三宣布组建单座车队LN4 Fusion和车手发展计划LN4 Legacy，希望帮助缺乏资金支持的天才车手一路走向F1。他的新团队已收到数百份求职申请。
兰多·诺里斯的新车队收到了"几百份工作申请"
兰多·诺里斯解释了建立自己单人座赛车队以及青训车手计划的原因
兰多·诺里斯表示，他希望建立自己的青训车队和车手计划，能够帮助那些缺乏资金支持的天才车手一路走向一级方程式。
周三，诺里斯宣布了两个独立的项目；一支名为 LN4 Fusion 的单人座赛车队，以及旨在通过国际汽联（FIA）的晋级体系支持年轻车手职业生涯的 LN4 Legacy 计划。
LN4 Fusion将由前Prema车队长期领队Rene Rosin执掌，Dan Hazlewood负责车队的英国分部，目前正致力于在F2、F3和英国F4中派车参赛。
LN4 Legacy Programme由前阿尔派体育总监Julian Rouse领导，是一个全额资助的项目，旨在一路支持年轻天才直至最高级别。Norris表示，面对单座赛车赛事不断飙升的成本，他热衷于回馈这项运动。
“Legacy Programme更多的是挑选出我们相信能够进入F1的个人，并尝试一次帮助一个人。这是我们最初的目标，”Norris解释道，“车手们必须付出额外的努力才能做到这一点，我认为这恰恰承认了这件事有多难。”
考虑到所涉及的资金，LN4 Legacy Programme初期将赞助一名尚未公布姓名的年轻车手，但Norris希望未来能够筹集更多资金来扩大该计划的规模。
“我们所说的规模，是指启动这样的项目需要数千万起步。而且你需要来自众多投资者的有力支持之类的东西。这很容易成为，而且将会是一个长期项目，”他说。
“我们总得从某处开始。我很高兴我正在努力先帮助一个起步，然后我们会做第二个，然后第三个、第四个和第五个。”
在车队方面，诺里斯表示，前Prema掌门人罗辛是与这支意大利豪门车队竞争多年后，担任LN4 Fusion掌门的理想人选，而罗辛在去年冬天交出家族车队控制权后，出人意料地变得可以加盟。
“我认识雷内很多年了，从我开始进入方程式赛车的时候就认识了，”诺里斯解释道。“我们想组建一个有经验、懂得如何领导车队的团队，而不仅仅是打造一支好车队——不管那只是在F3还是只在F2——而是能够组建一个项目和一些长期的东西。
"在过去七年里，我也得以体验到什么才能造就一个好的领导者、一支好的团队。很多东西都始于最顶层的那个人，而他就是那个人。他是必然的选择。"
诺里斯透露，罗辛收到了来自各方的浓厚兴趣，希望加入LN4 Fusion车队，该项目从行业内各处都获得了积极的反响。
多里安·平（Doriane Pin），PREMA车队；PREMA车队的雷内·罗辛（Rene Rosin）
"各方面的反应都非常棒。雷内说，在消息公布后的大约一个小时内，他就收到了好几百份求职申请，" 诺里斯说。"所以，无论是车手，还是机械师、工程师，以及所有构成车队的人员，都有着广泛的吸引力。我很自豪我们能够打造出一些非常特别的东西。"
诺里斯感谢他身边组建的团队帮助他承担像这样的项目，这意味着他仍然可以专注于自己在迈凯伦的本职工作，并在有空的时候参与其中。
但他也清醒地认识到，仅靠他的项目，或者同为世界冠军的维斯塔潘的GT3赛车队，还不足以产生持久的影响，因此他呼吁国际汽联（FIA）和F1管理层帮助降低初级方程式赛车的过高成本。
"如果你想帮助那些起步条件更差、更难以开始赛车运动、让人们得以追求梦想的更大范围的经济体，这远不止是我做好本职工作并尽力帮忙那么简单，"他说，"这需要这项运动本身的努力。这需要F1、国际汽联以及卡丁车公司做更多的工作。"
"费用实在太高了，所以你不能指望人们仅仅去资助更多人。你必须找到其他方法，让人们更容易开始赛车，尤其是在经济方面。你必须设法降低车队的成本、参加测试的费用，甚至报名参加F2的费用。F2的起步费用超过200万欧元，我想。
"你总得从某个地方起步。我的能力就是先从一个开始，而这本身已经是一个很大的项目了。希望随着时间推移，有更多的合作伙伴加入，带来更多的资金和支持，我们能把它变成一种帮助来自世界各地更多人的方式。"
英文原文
Lando Norris' new race team received "a few hundred job requests"
Lando Norris explains the reasoning behind establishing his own single-seater team and junior driver programme
Lando Norris says he hopes establishing his own junior team and driver programme can help guide underfunded talent all the way to the Formula 1.
On Wednesday Norris announced two separate projects; a single-seater race team called LN4 Fusion and the LN4 Legacy programme which aims to support a young driver's career through the FIA's ladder.
LN4 Fusion will be run by former long-time Prema team boss Rene Rosin, with Dan Hazlewood running the team's UK arm, and is working on fielding cars in F2, F3 and British F4.
LN4 Legacy Programme, led by former Alpine sporting director Julian Rouse, is a fully-funded programme aimed at supporting young talents all the way to the top. Norris says he was keen to give back to the sport in the face of the spiralling costs of single-seater racing.
"The legacy programme is more to pick out individuals, people that we believe can get to Formula 1 and try and help them one at a time. That's our initial goal," Norris explained. "The fact that drivers have to kind of go out of their way to do it is, I think, an acknowledgement of how difficult it is."
Given the finances involved, LN4 Legacy Programme is starting by backing one yet-to-be-named junior driver, but Norris is hoping he can raise the backing to scale up the programme in the future.
"The scale we're talking about, you're talking tens of millions to start projects like this. And you need good backing from a lot of investors, things like that. And that can easily be and will be a longer-term project," he said.
"We've got to start somewhere. And I'm happy that I'm trying to help at least one to begin with, and then we'll work on two and then three and then four and five."
On the team side, Norris said former Prema chief Rosin was the ideal candidate to lead LN4 Fusion after racing against the Italian's powerhouse team for years, and Rosin surprisingly became available after ceding control of the family-owned team last winter.
"I've known Rene for many years, since I started to go into single-seaters," Norris explained. "We wanted to put together a group that is experienced and knows how to lead a team and not just create one good team, whether that's just in F3 or just in F2, but be able to put together a project and something long term.
"I've also been able to experience over the course of the last seven years what makes a good leader, what makes a good team. A lot of it starts with the person at the very top and he is that person. He was the inevitable choice."
Norris revealed Rosin had received plenty of interest from various corners to join LN4 Fusion, with the project getting a positive reception from around the industry.
Doriane Pin, PREMA Racing, Rene Rosin of PREMA
"The reactions have been great. Rene said he got over a few hundred job requests within the space of an hour or so of the announcement," Norris said. "So, there's a lot of attraction from a range of drivers, but also mechanics, engineers, all the people that make a team. I'm proud that we've been able to put something very special together."
Norris credited the team he had built around him for helping him take on projects like this, meaning he can still focus on his day job at McLaren and pitch in whenever he is available.
But he was also conscious that it will take much more than his project, or fellow world champion Max Verstappen's GT3 race team, to make a lasting impact, as he called upon the FIA and on F1 management to help bring the exorbitant costs on the single-seater ladder.
"If you want to help bigger areas and economies that are just worse to kind of start racing and allow people to start their dream, it's much bigger than just me doing my job and trying to help out on that," he said. "That takes the sport itself. That takes a lot more work from F1, from FIA, from karting companies.
"It's just simply too expensive, so you cannot rely on people just to fund more people. You have to find other ways to make it more friendly for people to start racing and especially financially. You've got to lower the costs somehow of teams, of the ability to go testing, of just signing up to do Formula 2. F2 is over €2million euros, I think, to start.
"You've got to start somewhere. My ability is starting with one and that's already a big project. Hopefully, over time and with more partners coming on board and more money, more support, we can turn it into a way of helping more people from around the world."
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