拉塞尔因罚退无缘杆位，放弃最快圈仍感刺痛
拉塞尔在因罚退五位而无法从杆位起步的情况下，仍在雨中的英特拉格斯排位赛中放弃了一圈本可能最快的圈速，这让他感到格外受伤。
乔治·拉塞尔知道自己因罚退无法从2026年巴西大奖赛的杆位起步，但即便如此，错失最快圈速仍让他感到格外受伤。
拉塞尔在延迟的雨中英特拉格斯排位赛结束后确信，他的梅赛德斯F1车队让他放弃了一圈“肯定”会是最快的圈速。
这种确信可以理解，但可能过于乐观。由于五位罚退，他本来就不会从杆位起步；但即便他不放弃，他也注定会错失最快圈，因为那一圈几乎肯定会被他的好友亚历山大·阿尔本无意中影响。
然而，真正让拉塞尔如此受伤的，是更深层东西的失去——在一个曾寄予厚望却令人失望的赛季中，一次罕见的明显优势时刻。
拉塞尔的比赛工程师马库斯·达德利建议他收油的唯一原因是，拉塞尔已经追上了阿尔本的威廉姆斯赛车——拉塞尔甚至抱怨阿尔本在单圈中途挡了他的路。
虽然拉塞尔看起来确实有望完成一个比最终杆位得主兰多·诺里斯更快的单圈，因为他在放弃该圈时至少快了百分之几秒，但这依赖于他在完成该圈时拥有畅通无阻的赛道，而拉塞尔本不会拥有这样的条件。
拉塞尔与阿尔本的距离足够近，以至于他已经连续三个迷你赛段比上一圈更慢。他可能会在中段末尾的左手11号弯受到干扰，随后是通往终点线长上坡的容桑左弯，以及进入起终点直道的弯角。
梅赛德斯车队负责人托托·沃尔夫表示，拉塞尔“当时比诺里斯略快一点，但正在追上阿尔本，我们认为他即将损失时间”。而这一威胁是真实存在的。
即使阿尔本以比第一轮通过最后赛段更快的速度完成了那一圈，他也会比拉塞尔和诺里斯能做出的成绩慢上零点几秒。
实际情况是，阿尔本在进入茹桑库弯时严重锁死，损失了大量时间，但没有冲出赛道，这意味着他最好的情况是在出弯时挡住拉塞尔，让梅赛德斯赛车通过，或者更可能的是，完全挡住拉塞尔的路线。
无论哪种情况，拉塞尔都会被限制在阿尔本的峰值速度或他降低后的速度之内——这两种情况都无法让拉塞尔足够快地完成那一圈以击败诺里斯。
同样值得指出的是，拉塞尔那句“移动啊阿尔博诺！”的无线电消息，才是促使达德利开始讨论放弃该圈的关键触发点。
也许梅赛德斯无论如何都会介入。但拉塞尔一定知道阿尔本极有可能毁掉这一圈，否则他就不会表达自己的不满。
所以，在某种程度上，他会意识到那一圈非常好的成绩正在溜走。正如赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林所指出的，如果拉塞尔完成该圈并被阻挡，继续行驶会“有风险危及那一圈和下一圈”。
沃尔夫表示，“事后看来，考虑到下一圈会下雨，我们应该继续跑，但事后说这话很容易”——这在一定程度上适用，因为他们至少可以或应该尝试完成该圈，但这可能并未改变结果。
真正的不幸最终是与阿尔本距离过近，而不是梅赛德斯如何处理此事。
从拉塞尔的无线电通话、他在赛后封闭区接受电视采访时的初步评论，到最后的官方新闻发布会，他的沮丧程度已经完整地展现出来。
当沃尔夫试图在无线电中安抚拉塞尔不断上升的怒火，说“乔治，你是第二名”时，你几乎能听到拉塞尔在回复时努力消化自己的懊恼：“是啊，但是……第二名。我不想当第二名，我想当第一名。那一圈本该是第一名的圈速。”
“天哪！”
在输给安东内利、无缘冠军的过程中，拉塞尔有过不少出色的排位赛表现，即便在较弱的周末，他也常常能把自己拉回竞争行列。
拉塞尔在2026款赛车上常常缺乏自然的感觉，有时就是对它信心不足。即便他曾经接近安东内利或略微领先，对他来说也从来不像安东内利状态好时那样轻松。
在巴西的干地练习中，他似乎又一次落后于安东内利，但下雨之后情况就变了。这正变成少数几次他干脆利落地成为更快的梅赛德斯车手的情况之一，看起来他拥有澳大利亚、西班牙、阿塞拜疆那种掌控力。
所以，尽管他本来保不住杆位，尽管这仅仅改变了他从第六还是第七位起步，拉塞尔真的很想要这个。
无论这是为了他自己、为了向外界展示些什么，或许甚至是为了某种内在的东西，这都会是他自身出色巅峰状态的有力信号——而此时此刻，所有焦点都集中在安东内利的冠军、安东内利的才华，以及拉塞尔那种坏运气与短板交织的处境上。
拉塞尔说：“显然，从车队方面来说，我们本周末有一个目标，那就是赢得总冠军，这非常符合车队每个人的目标。”
“对我个人而言，考虑到上周的情况，今天拿到杆位对我来说意义重大。”
“上周我以九毫秒之差错过了杆位，但那真是一个惊喜。今天，我真的感觉我跑的每一圈，在我完成的大多数圈数里我都排在榜首。”
“所以，我对最终的结果真的非常非常失望。”
英文原文
George Russell knew he would not start the 2026 Brazilian Grand Prix from pole position due to a grid penalty, yet missing out on being quickest left him feeling unusually hurt regardless.
Russell ended the delayed, wet Interlagos qualifying session convinced his Mercedes Formula 1 team had made him abandon a lap that was “definitely” going to be quickest.
That certainty was understandable, but probably overzealous. He would never have started from pole anyway, thanks to his five-place grid drop, but he was poised to miss out regardless of backing off because the lap was almost certainly about to be inadvertently compromised by Russell’s good friend Alex Albon.
What hurt Russell so much, though, was the loss of something deeper – a rare moment of obvious superiority in a season that promised so much and yet has been so disappointing.
The only reason Russell’s race engineer Marcus Dudley advised him to back off was because Russell had caught Alex Albon’s Williams – and Russell had even complained about Albon being in his way in the middle of the lap.
While Russell did seem to be on his way to completing a faster lap than eventual polesitter Lando Norris, as he was at least a few hundredths quicker at the moment he aborted, that relies on a clear run to end the lap that Russell would not have had.
Russell was close enough to Albon that he had already posted three mini-sectors in a row slower than his previous lap. He would have potentially been disturbed through the left-hand Turn 11 at the end of the middle sector, then the Juncao left-hander that leads to the long, uphill run to the finish line, and the kink onto the start-finish straight.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said Russell was “very slightly up on Norris at that point but was catching Albon and we thought was about to lose time”. And the threat was real.
Even if Albon completed the lap he was on at an improved pace compared to his first run through the final sector, he would be several tenths slower than what Russell and Norris could do.
As it was, Albon had a major lock-up into Juncao that cost him a load of time, but did not send him off-track, making it likely he would have at best held Russell up on the exit as the Mercedes went by or, probably more likely, got in Russell’s way completely.
Either way, Russell would have been contained at Albon’s peak pace or his reduced pace – neither of which would have let Russell finish the lap quickly enough to beat Norris.
It’s also worth pointing out that Russell’s “move Albono!” radio message was the trigger for Dudley to even initiate talk of aborting the lap in question.
Perhaps Mercedes would have interjected anyway. But Russell must have known that Albon was at serious risk of ruining the lap otherwise he would not have expressed his frustration.
So, on some level, he would have known that very good lap was slipping away. And as trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin pointed out, continuing would “risk compromising both that lap and the next” if Russell had completed the lap and been baulked.
Wolff said that “in hindsight, with the rain coming on the next lap, we should have kept going but it is very easy to say this after the event” – which applies insofar as they could or should have at least tried to finish the lap, but it probably did not change the outcome.
The real misfortune was ultimately the proximity to Albon, rather than how Mercedes handled it.
Between Russell’s in-car radio messages, his initial comments on television during the parc ferme interviews post-session, and finally the official press conference, the magnitude of his frustration became fully formed.
When Wolff tried to soothe Russell’s rising anger over the radio with “George you’re P2”, you could almost hear Russell trying to process his own annoyance as he replied: ““Yeah but…P2. I don’t wanna be P2, I want to be P1. That was a P1 lap.
“F*****g hell!”
Russell’s had plenty of good qualifying performances through his championship defeat to Kimi Antonelli, as even on weaker weekends he’s often been able to haul himself into contention.
Russell has often lacked a natural feeling in the 2026 car, and sometimes just not had enough confidence in it. Even when he’s been close to Antonelli or marginally ahead, it has never looked as easy for him as when Antonelli’s on form.
He also seemed to be trailing Antonelli yet again in the dry in practice in Brazil, but when the rain came the situation changed. This was turning into one of the few occasions where he has just been emphatically the faster Mercedes driver and looked like he had an Australia/Spain/Azerbaijan-type control.
So, regardless of the fact he would not have kept pole, regardless of how it only changed whether he starts sixth or seventh, Russell really wanted this.
Whether it was for himself, something to show the outside world, or maybe even something internal, it would have been a strong signal of his own brilliant peak, at a time when all the focus has been on Antonelli’s title, Antonelli’s brilliance, and Russell’s mix of bad luck and shortcomings.
“Obviously, from the team side, we've got one goal this weekend, which is to win the championship, and that's very much the goal of everyone within the team,” Russell said.
“For me personally, given the circumstances of last week, it would have meant a lot to me to take pole today.
“I missed it last week by nine milliseconds, but that was a real surprise. Today, I really felt every lap I was doing, I was top of the leaderboard most laps I completed.
“So, I'm really, really disappointed with how that panned out.”
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