乔治·拉塞尔承认新加坡大奖赛事故：‘因我自己的错误，非常糟糕的一天’
梅赛德斯一级方程式车手乔治·拉塞尔承认，是他自己的错误导致他在新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛中发生撞车退赛，这可能会影响他在排位赛中的表现。
乔治·拉塞尔承认新加坡大奖赛事故：‘因我自己的错误，非常糟糕的一天’
拉塞尔在冲刺赛中发生撞车退赛，并且这可能会影响他在排位赛中的表现
梅赛德斯一级方程式车手乔治·拉塞尔承认，是他自己的错误导致他在新加坡大奖赛冲刺赛中发生撞车退赛——这一事故可能影响了他排位赛的表现
作为发车第一排的起跑者，拉塞尔在湿滑的滨海湾赛道上以比杆位车手马克斯·维斯塔潘更好的起步冲到了领先位置，但在最后弯道出口略微跑偏后失去了控制。这位英国车手在撞上内墙后退出了比赛。
正如他在发车线的第二位所展示的那样，拉塞尔在冲刺排位赛中表现迅速，但在主排位赛中他最好的成绩只能排在第六位，他认为这归因于他的机械师不得不匆忙地重建他的银箭赛车。
“显然，这是一整天都非常糟糕，而且起因于我自己的错误，”拉塞尔评论道。
“赛车感觉不太一样。我在后部挣扎，然后我又过热了轮胎，这就像是一个下滑的螺旋，而昨天一切都很顺利，所以我们需要看看为什么会有这样的变化。
“有时候，当整个团队都在快速重建赛车，并且显然已经撞到墙时，这并不令人惊讶。昨天我们每圈都很有竞争力，而今天并非如此。”
这是一个梅赛德斯车队负责人Toto Wolff可以支持的理论，尽管车队仍然需要深入研究。
“与乔治一起，赛车直到最后一分钟才完成，”Wolff对天空体育德国频道说，“地板可能并不完全符合要求。所以总的来说，这是一次不错的表现。”
当被问及他在比赛中能有什么目标时，拉塞尔犹豫不决，由于他在雪邦的引擎故障导致的动力单元处罚，他被降级到最后一排发车位置。
28岁的车手意识到，虽然基米·安东内利在意大利大奖赛中从第19位发车一路冲到胜利，但在阿塞拜疆，他用了17圈的时间从第16位发车位爬升到前十；诚然，这位年轻人‘在巴库的街道上开车像他的祖母一样’。
所以，拉塞尔认为新加坡大奖赛的主要比赛有什么是现实的，Motorsport.com问道？到目前为止，梅赛德斯在本周末被红牛和法拉利挑战得非常艰难，这位英格兰人只是希望获得积分。“这将是非常具有挑战性的，”他补充道。
“基米显然有一场比赛从第19位起步并获胜，另一场比赛从第16位起步，但在最后10圈或 whatever 时只排名第10。同一个车手，同一辆车，但结果却非常不同。所以回答你的问题，我真的不知道。
英文原文
George Russell owns up to Singapore F1 crash: ‘A very bad day because of my own mistake’
Russell crashed out of the sprint as he was leading the race, and it may have impacted his qualifying performance
Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell conceded it was his own mistake that led to him crashing out of the Singapore Grand Prix sprint race – an accident which may have hindered his performance in qualifying.
Front-row starter Russell surged into the lead on a wet Marina Bay track with a much better getaway than polesitter Max Verstappen, but lost control as he ran ever so slightly wide on the exit of the last corner. The Briton spun into the inside wall and retired from the race.
As shown by his second place on the grid, Russell had been quick in sprint qualifying, but he couldn’t do better than sixth in the main qualifying session, which he believes is down to his mechanics having to hastily rebuild his Silver Arrow.
“Obviously a very bad day all in all, and stemming from my own mistake,” Russell commented.
“The car didn't feel quite the same. I was struggling with the rear end and then I was overheating the tyres and it was just a bit of a downward spiral, whereas yesterday it all just clicked and it was all working well, so we need to see why that was.
“[This] is not, sometimes, a surprise when the whole team is putting it back together so quickly and it's obviously been in the wall. Yesterday we were competitive every lap we did, and today it was not the case.”
That’s a theory that Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff can get behind, even though the squad still needs to look into it.
“With George, the car was only finished at the very last minute,” Wolff told Sky Germany. “The floor is probably not quite as it should be. So all in all, it was a good performance.”
Asked what he could aim for in the race, Russell was indecisive, with a power unit penalty – ensuing from his Sepang engine failure – relegating him to the back of the grid.
The 28-year-old is aware that while Kimi Antonelli stormed to victory from 19th in the Italian Grand Prix, in Azerbaijan it took him 17 laps to climb from 16th on the grid back into the top 10; admittedly the youngster was ‘driving like his grandmother’ in the streets of Baku.
So what does Russell think is realistic for the main race in Singapore, Motorsport.com asked? With Mercedes more than challenged by Red Bull and Ferrari so far this weekend, the Englishman is merely hoping for points. “It's going to be very challenging,” he added.
“Kimi obviously had one race starting in 19th and won, and another race in 16th and was only up to P10 with 10 laps remaining or whatever. Same driver, same car, but very different outcomes. So to answer your question, I really don't know.”
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