沃尔夫透露安东内利美国大奖赛赛前所言
安东内利在美国大奖赛从杆位起步并夺冠，梅赛德斯车队领队沃尔夫赛后向天空体育F1透露了这位车手赛前在他办公室说的话。
沃尔夫透露安东内利在美国大奖赛夺冠前对他说了什么
沃尔夫透露了安东内利在美国大奖赛开始前片刻对他说的话，这位梅赛德斯车手表现得异常镇定
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在安东内利赢得美国大奖赛后，梅赛德斯车队领队沃尔夫接受天空体育F1采访时，透露了这位车手在赛前对他说的话。
这位意大利车手在美洲赛道从杆位发车，以压倒性优势赢得比赛，拿下本赛季第九场胜利。沃尔夫表示安东内利没有表现出任何紧张迹象。
“是啊，多棒的小伙子。我之前还被问到赛前他是否紧张，我说不紧张。他只是在准备前悄悄溜进我的办公室说：‘我现在就要好好享受这一刻。说来奇怪，我完全没在想总冠军的事。’是不是很有趣？
“所以他在那里也像是在探索自己情感上正在经历什么，然后你知道，他从头到尾都发挥出色，任何时候都表现得非同寻常。”
安东内利起步后守住领先，尽管使用的是中性胎，还受益于维斯塔潘车轮打滑，成功压制住了马克斯·维斯塔潘。
“是的，没错，而且用的是中性胎，起步稍慢一些，相比软胎会损失一米，但我觉得看起来马克斯（维斯塔潘）有很多车轮打滑，所以那很好，”沃尔夫说。
当维斯塔潘改用两停策略时，梅赛德斯拒绝做出回应，让安东内利保持一停。
“策略团队今天做得非常好。我们讨论过，你知道，马克斯可能会提前进站超越我们，我们坚持决定，认为一停看起来是最快的策略。诺里斯换上硬胎后看起来非常好，所以我们保持坚定，最终结果基本和发生的情况一致。理论上它快了八秒，最终还稍微多一点。”
这位奥地利人承认这不是一个容易的决定。
“是的，我们绝对信任这些信息。我们不想因为其他人做出反应就跟着反应，这有点，你知道，目前这是一个可怕的决定，但坚持数据并相信你的数据。”
刘易斯·汉密尔顿的第四名和乔治·拉塞尔的第八名让冠军争夺得以延续，但安东内利现在领先拉塞尔123分，领先汉密尔顿124分。下周末在墨西哥城进入前九名就将锁定冠军，无论他的直接竞争对手做什么。
梅赛德斯此前曾在墨西哥庆祝过，汉密尔顿在2017年和2018年在那里锁定了他的第四个和第五个世界冠军。但沃尔夫没有得意忘形。
“我想我们有一天也有刘易斯在那里。那肯定会是很多龙舌兰酒加冰。但你知道，他仍然需要在墨西哥完成比赛。”
英文原文
Toto Wolff reveals what Kimi Antonelli told him in his office before US GP win
Toto Wolff has revealed what Kimi Antonelli told him moments before the United States Grand Prix, with the Mercedes driver showing remarkable composure
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Talking to Sky Sports F1 after Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff revealed what his driver told him before the race.
The Italian driver started on pole at the Circuit of the Americas and drove a commanding race to take his ninth victory of the season. Wolff said Antonelli showed no signs of nerves.
“Yeah, what a boy, you know. I was just saying before I got a question whether he was nervous before the race and I said no, he just sneaked into my office before getting ready and said ‘I’m just going to enjoy this right now. And it’s weird, I’m not thinking about the championship at all.’ Isn’t that funny?
“So he’s on a discovery mission there also in terms of what’s happening to him emotionally and then you know he just delivered from the beginning to the end, it was exceptional at any time.”
Antonelli kept the lead from Max Verstappen at the start, despite being on the medium tyre, helped by Verstappen getting wheelspin.
“Yeah, exactly and on the medium tyre which is a little bit slower off the line, you lose a metre against the soft but I think it looked like Max had a lot of wheelspin so that was good,” Wolff said.
When Verstappen switched to a two-stop, Mercedes refused to respond and kept Antonelli on a one-stop.
“Strategy has really done a good job today. We discussed it, you know, that Max could undercut us and we stayed firm with the decision saying the one-stop looks like the fastest strategy. Norris hit the hard and looked very good, so we stayed solid and at the end it came out pretty much what happened. In theory it was eight seconds quicker and at the end it was a little bit more.”
The Austrian admitted it was not an easy call.
“Yeah, we absolutely trusted the information. We didn’t want to react because the others did, which is a little bit, you know, at the moment it’s a scary call, but stick to the data and trust your data.”
Lewis Hamilton’s fourth place and George Russell’s eighth kept the title fight alive, but Antonelli now leads Russell by 123 points and Hamilton by 124. A top-nine finish in Mexico City next weekend will seal the title, whatever his direct rivals do.
Mercedes has celebrated in Mexico before, with Hamilton clinching his fourth and fifth world titles there in 2017 and 2018. But Wolff was not getting ahead of himself.
“I think we had Lewis there one day also. It would definitely be a lot of tequila on ice. But you know, he still needs to finish the race in Mexico.”
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