诺里斯解释创办自己车队的原因
F1世界冠军兰多·诺里斯阐述了创办自己的赛车队和车手发展计划背后的逻辑。
F1世界冠军兰多·诺里斯解释了创办自己车队和车手培养计划的逻辑——前者在宣布后一小时内就收到了“几百份以上”的工作申请。
在意大利大奖赛之前，诺里斯推出了LN4 Fusion——一支将参加F4、F3以及（待批准的）F2赛事的单座方程式车队——同时还推出了独立的LN4 Legacy车手培养计划，该人才计划由前阿尔卑斯体育总监朱利安·劳斯（Julian Rouse）领导。
周四在蒙扎，诺里斯解释了这件事如何发生在他职业生涯中比他预想更早的阶段。
“我不会说我们（诺里斯和他的个人团队）曾经认真谈论过这件事，但我们一直觉得在某个时候做这件事会是一个很酷的主意，”诺里斯解释道。
“我可能没想到自己会这么早就做这件事。一些事情凑到了一起，一些团队也走到了一起，机会由此而来。
从我们开始谈论这件事，也就是去年，到今年把它变成现实，这是一个相当漫长的过程。所以我不知道就打造这样的东西来说，这算不算很长时间。
但我觉得最主要的是，我们从各个方向聚集了一批非常有经验的人。我想说，我们已经能够相当快地把各种事情拼凑起来。这是一件很棒的事。
诺里斯的新车队已经收到了强烈的关注，因为车队正希望迅速组建队伍，参加一级方程式（F1）下级赛事阶梯的竞争。
"反响非常好。我知道[诺里斯Fusion车队领队]雷内·罗辛说，在宣布之后的短短一个多小时里，他就收到了几百份求职申请。"诺里斯补充道。
"不仅有很多车手对我们很感兴趣，还有机械师、工程师，以及所有能让一支车队、一支大军运转起来的人。作为个人我感到自豪，同时我也为我们能凝聚起如此特别的东西而感到骄傲。"
诺里斯已经迎来了一位强劲的加盟者——领队罗辛。他曾带领他父亲参与创办的Prema车队夺得了该队四十多个冠军中的绝大多数，之后该家族在去年突然退出了这支车队。
在此之前，Prema一直是各级方程式赛事中的标杆车队，而诺里斯在进入F1之前的职业生涯中曾与它多次交锋——他在2017年效力于卡林车队时，终结了Prema连续六年蝉联F3冠军的历史。
“很多家伙都是我认识很久的人。我认识勒内很多年了，而且从F4时代，也就是2015年起，我就一直和普雷马车队比赛，”诺里斯回忆道。
“我对他的情况非常了解，我个人也和他相当熟，我的团队里的人也是如此。
“所以我们想组建一个有经验、懂得如何领导车队的团队——不只是打造一支只在F3或只在F2表现好的车队，而是能够搭建一个长期的项目，知道如何把人们凝聚在一起。
“在过去七年里，我也有机会体会到什么样的领导者才是好的领导者、什么样的团队才是好的团队，而其中很多都要取决于处在最顶层的那个人，而他正是那样的人。
“就是一个非常好的人，一个你可以很享受和他愉快聊天的人，同时也是一个热爱自己所做之事的人，也就是赢得比赛、打造一支成功的车队、把人们凝聚在一起、把一切发挥到极致。
“所以归根结底他是必然的选择。他有空档，而且他正是我们想要的车手。”
诺里斯在迈凯伦的队友皮亚斯特里曾随普雷马车队赢得F3和F2冠军，他说：“我和勒内、以及普雷马的罗辛家族都有一段美好的回忆。
"无论作为个人还是就他们所取得的成功而言，我对那个家庭的评价再高都不为过。"
“我当然不指望那支车队会很慢，这是肯定的。”
另一位从普雷马F2毕业的车手奥利·比尔曼称这是一个“很棒的举措”，并表示：“他选了一位非常出色的人来管理车队，那就是雷内。
他曾经领导过历史上最成功的青训车队。所以真的很高兴看到他回归。
“我为此感到非常高兴，我也希望他能延续这份传承，为了他自己，也为了他的父亲，为了他的家族。这真的是一件非常非常了不起的事。”
威廉姆斯车手亚历克斯·阿尔本表示惊讶，诺里斯在比赛之余竟然还能投入到如此庞大的项目中。
当《The 比赛》问阿尔本是否也想做类似的事情时，他说：“是的，我愿意。”
“这在很多方面都令人佩服，因为我觉得光是专注于这项运动，我手头的事情就已经多得忙不过来了，更别说还要参加其他锦标赛了。”
“但这样做真的很酷。我认为看到他把工作回馈到这一切的根源上，是很高尚的。”
“至于这是不是会尽早到来，我不知道，但我很想做一些事情——也许不是去经营车队，而是想办法帮助孩子们在赛车运动中变得更强，或者获得机会。”
对诺里斯来说，关键在于他身边强大的团队——正是这支团队让他成功在英国大奖赛上搞出了“Landostand”（看台助威活动），以及其他赛场之外的活动。
他们确保诺里斯仍然能够专注于他的本职工作，同时将他的品牌价值最大化——那醒目的荧光黄——以及让他成为一个能吸引投资方入场的招牌人物。
“很多事情都是在幕后进行的，”诺里斯说，“我也能真正专注于做好我自己的工作，专注于把车开快。
"所以我很高兴它可以作为与我完全分开运作的项目。
"我们有很优秀的人在管理整个项目，但我在有能力的时候也可以参与其中。这非常棒。"
与车队并行的是LN4传承计划（LN4 Legacy Programme），这个计划更侧重于挑选年轻车手，并一路培养他们进入F1。
诺里斯说："传承计划更多是为了挑选出个人，那些我相信能够进入F1的人，我们相信能够进入F1的人，并尝试一次帮助他们一个人。"
"这是我们的初步目标，当你说到几十万的时候，你其实已经是在谈论数百万美元去帮助一个人了。
"而当你说要帮助一个大得多的群体时，那需要的钱就要多得多。我们总得从某处开始，我很高兴自己正在尝试先帮助至少一个人，然后我们会去做两个、三个、四个、五个。
"但更大的项目并不只是一个车手能做点什么的问题。如果你想帮助那些起步条件更差的更大地区和经济体，让更多人开始赛车、开始追逐梦想，那比我只是做好自己的工作并试图出一份力要宏大得多。
"这需要这项运动本身的努力，需要国际汽联（F1）和国际汽车联合会（FIA）、卡丁车公司付出更多的工作。现在的成本实在太高了，所以你不能指望靠个人去资助越来越多的人。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。
英文原文
Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris has explained the logic for creating his own racing team and driver development scheme - the first of which had "over a few hundred job requests" within an hour of being announced.
Ahead of the Italian GP, Norris launched LN4 Fusion - a single-seater racing team that will compete in Formula 4, Formula 3 and (pending approval) Formula 2 - as well as the separate LN4 Legacy Programme, a talent scheme led by ex-Alpine sporting director Julian Rouse.
On Thursday at Monza, Norris explained how it had happened earlier in his career than he thought was possible.
"I wouldn't say we've [Norris and his personal team] ever spoken about it properly, but we've always kind of thought it would be a cool idea to do at some point," Norris explained.
"I probably didn't think it'd be something I'd do this early on. Certain things came together, and certain groups came together. Opportunities arose from that.
"It's been a lengthy process from when we started to speak about it, which was already last year, into turning it into a thing this year. So I don't know if that's a long time or not in terms of creating something like this.
"But I think the main thing is, we've just got a lot of pretty experienced people from kind of all directions. We've been able to piece things together pretty quickly, I would say. That's been a great thing."
Norris's new racing team has already received strong interest, as it looks to rapidly build up teams to compete across F1's junior ladder.
"The reactions have been great. I know [LN4 Fusion team principal] Rene [Rosin] said he got over a few hundred job requests within an hour or so of the announcement," Norris added.
"There's a lot of attraction from a range of drivers, but also mechanics, engineers, all the people that make a team, a big team. I'm proud as an individual, but also proud that we've been able to put something very special together."
Norris already has a strong recruit in team principal Rosin, who took the Prema team that his father co-founded to the majority of its 40-plus championship titles, before the family's sudden exit last year.
Prior to that, Prema was the benchmark team on the ladder, and one which Norris spent a lot of his pre-F1 career racing against - breaking Prema's six-year F3 title streak with Carlin in 2017.
"A lot of the guys are people I've known for a long time. I've known Rene for many years, and I have raced against Prema since F4, so back in 2015," Norris recalled.
"I've known of him very well, and I know him personally reasonably well, and so do my team around me.
"So 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, know how to bring people together.
"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, and a lot of it starts with the person at the very top, and he is that person.
"Just a very nice guy, a guy you can just enjoy having a good chat with, but a guy who also loves doing what he does, which is winning and creating a successful team, bringing people together, maximising things.
"So he was the inevitable choice at the end of the day. He was available, and he was the guy we wanted."
Norris's McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, who won his F3 and F2 titles with Prema, said: "I've got great memories with Rene, the Rosin family at Prema as well.
"I can't really speak highly enough of that family as people and also the success they're able to have.
"I'm certainly not expecting that team to be slow, that's for sure."
Another Prema F1 graduate, Ollie Bearman, called it a "cool initiative" and said: "He's picked a very good person to run the team in Rene.
"He led the most successful junior team in history. So really nice to see him back.
"I'm really happy about that, and I hope he can also continue that legacy for himself, for his father as well, for his family. It's something really, really cool."
Williams driver Alex Albon expressed surprise at how Norris is able to fit in such a big project while racing.
"Yes, I would," Albon said when The Race asked him if he'd like to do something similar.
"It's impressive in many ways, because I feel like I've got way too much on my plate, just trying to do this sport, never mind other championships as well.
"But it's very cool to do. I think it's noble to see his work being put back into the roots of it all.
"Whether that's sooner rather than later, I don't know, but I'd love to do something - maybe not race teams, but working out a way to help kids either get better or get their chances in motorsports."
For Norris, it's all about the strong team that he has around him - the same team that enabled him to pull off a successful 'Landostand' at the British Grand Prix and other off-track activities.
They ensure Norris can still focus on his day job while maximising his branding - the striking dayglow yellow - and him being a big draw which can bring investors to the table.
"A lot of this stuff goes on in the background," Norris said. "I've also been able to really focus on just doing my own job and focus on driving fast.
"So I'm pleased that it can be something that can run very separately to me.
"We have great people running the whole thing, but I can also just be part of it when I'm able to. It's been great."
Alongside the racing team is the LN4 Legacy Programme that is more focused on picking out young drivers and taking them all the way to F1.
"The Legacy Programme is more to pick out individuals, people that I believe can get to F1, and we believe can get to F1, and try and help them one at a time," Norris said.
"That's our initial goal, when you say hundreds of thousands, you're still talking about millions of dollars to help one person.
"When you say to help a much bigger group, you're talking about needing a lot more money. 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.
"But the bigger project is not just what one thing can one driver do? If you want to help bigger areas and economies that are just worse to 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.
"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, especially financially.
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