维斯塔潘承认红牛在奥斯汀表现“只是平均水平”
尽管在美式大奖赛中获得第三名，维斯塔潘对红牛车队的表现感到失望。他在赛后表示，车队在轮胎选择、动力单元问题和无线电问题上表现“只是平均水平”。
维斯塔潘承认红牛在奥斯汀表现“只是平均水平”
维斯塔潘批评了红牛车队的轮胎策略和整体表现
尽管在美式大奖赛中获得第三名，维斯塔潘在赛后表示，车队在轮胎选择、动力单元问题和无线电问题上表现“只是平均水平”。
维斯塔潘在美式大奖赛中获得第三名，落后于基米·安东内利17.5秒，此前他在马来西亚和新加坡的比赛中赢得了前两场比赛。
维斯塔潘将比赛描述为“相当令人沮丧”，并表示米尔顿凯恩斯的赛车队过度依赖了最近周末行之有效的方法。
“事后看来，当然很容易说，但无论什么原因，今天的软胎并没有真正发挥出应有的效果。所以，是的，我想我们使用轮胎的顺序也是错误的。
“此外，我想在某个时刻，使用更硬胎的车手们显然找到了很多抓地力，所以我想我们也没有真正对此做出反应。可能只是过于坚持了我们从上一两场比赛中得出的信念，即软胎是最快的，但显然在这里这并不奏效，”他在赛后新闻发布会上说。
梅赛德斯车手基米·安东内利将一个令人印象深刻的杆位成绩转化为一场胜利，他在硬胎上采用了一站式策略。红牛和法拉利都选择了两站式策略。
问及为什么与最近几场比赛相比，红牛的速度有所下降，维斯塔潘表示小红牛22在奥斯汀没有明显的优势可以依赖。
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“因为我认为我们的赛车平衡得很好。我们既不是高速最快的，也不是低速最快的，我认为也许在这里你需要要么在高速中非常快，要么在低速中是最快的。当你两者都不是时，你只是稍微平庸一点，我认为我们在比赛中就是稍微平庸一点。”
他认为通过不同的策略可以获得第二名，但表示动力单元使得生活更加艰难。
“当然，如果我们选择了不同的轮胎，可能我们能够获得第二名，但事后说这些总是很容易。此外，当你动力单元的稳定性问题太多时，这已经让你损失了自由圈数。所以，你不能做到尽善尽美，或者至少达到最佳状态，这是正常的。我们还有很多事情需要检查和改进。”
他说这场比赛让红牛车队留下了更多需要回答的问题。
“有几个问题需要分析：为什么这些轮胎没有达到我们的预期，或者为什么其他轮胎的表现比预期更好。所以，是的，有一些东西可以从中学习。”"
英文原文
Max Verstappen admits Red Bull was “just a little average” in Austin
Max Verstappen has criticised Red Bull's tyre strategy and overall performance after finishing third at the United States Grand Prix
Despite finishing on the podium, Max Verstappen was disappointed after the United States Grand Prix. Talking after the race, the Dutchman said his Red Bull team was "just a little average" as he faced the wrong tyre choice, power unit problems as well as radio issues.
The Dutchman finished third at the Circuit of the Americas, 17.5 seconds behind Kimi Antonelli, after winning the previous two races in Malaysia and Singapore.
Verstappen described the race as “pretty frustrating” and said the Milton Keynes outfit had relied too heavily on what had worked for it in recent weekends.
“In hindsight, of course, it’s very easy to say, but for whatever reason, the softer compounds today were not really working that well. So, yeah, then also I think the way that we used our tyres in the order was wrong.
"Plus, I think at one point it was quite clear that the people on the harder compounds were finding a lot of grip, so I guess we also didn’t really react to that. Just probably sticking too much to our belief from the last two races, where the softer compounds were the fastest, and clearly here that didn’t work,” he said in the post-race press conference.
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli converted an impressive pole position into a race win with a one-stop strategy on a hard tyre. Red Bull and Ferrari had both chosen the two-stop.
Asked why Red Bull’s pace had dropped off compared to recent races, Verstappen said the RB22 had no standout strength to lean on in Austin.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing
“Because I think we are balanced as a car. We are not the fastest in high speed, we’re not the fastest in low speed, and I think maybe here you either need to be very fast in high speed or you need to be the quickest in low speed. When you’re none of it, you’re just a little bit average, and I think we were just a little bit average in the race.”
He believed second place was possible with a different strategy, but said the power unit had made life harder.
“Of course, if we chose different tyres, probably we could have maybe been second, but that’s always easy to say afterwards. Plus, when you have too many issues with the consistency of your power unit, then that already costs you free lap time. So it’s normal that you can’t execute everything to the limit or at least be at your best. There are still a lot of things that we need to look at and do better.”
He said the race had left Red Bull with more questions to answer.
“That’s a few things to analyse: why these tyres didn’t work as we expected, or why the other tyres performed better than expected. So, yeah, something to learn from.”
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