梅赛德斯：荷兰大奖赛晚段车队指令旨在帮助拉塞尔
梅赛德斯赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林表示，车队在荷兰大奖赛中使用车队指令，要求拉塞尔让队友安东内利通过，以帮助拉塞尔最终守住赞德沃特第三名。
梅赛德斯：荷兰大奖赛末段的车队指令是为了帮助乔治·拉塞尔
安德鲁·肖夫林表示，拉塞尔能够在赞德沃特守住第三名，是因为在比赛尾声阶段顶住了刘易斯·汉密尔顿的进攻——但也要归功于车队要求他让基米·安东内利通过
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梅赛德斯赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林表示，在上周末的荷兰大奖赛期间，梅赛德斯使用了车队指令来帮助乔治·拉塞尔在赞德沃特获得第三名。
让拉塞尔给队友基米·安东内利让车的指令在比赛后期才下达，即在72圈比赛的第55圈虚拟安全车（VSC）阶段之后。这位意大利车手在比赛大部分时间里领先，随后进站换上一套新轮胎，而拉塞尔则留在赛道上，试图守住第三名，抵挡身后追赶的法拉利赛车。
当安东内利从维修站出来后落在队友身后时，梅赛德斯在第65圈命令拉塞尔让出位置，让他的冠军竞争对手通过——但正如肖夫林所解释的，这个指令主要是为了帮助乔治避免损失太多时间。
由于安东内利使用更新的轮胎，反正很可能轻松完成超越，梅赛德斯不希望拉塞尔与队友的赛车纠缠，这样可以让他有更好的机会防守法拉利车手，因为法拉利车手也已经进站换上了新轮胎。
拉塞尔最终服从了指令，并在赛后表示这是指挥墙做出的正确决定，随后他防守住了身后迅速逼近的刘易斯·汉密尔顿。
“虚拟安全车在第55圈出动，两辆法拉利都在此时进站，所以在重启时它们将会用上全新的轮胎，”Shovlin在梅赛德斯发布的荷兰大奖赛总结视频中解释道，该视频通过车队的社交媒体渠道发布。“在第56圈，我们还有机会让Kimi进站并把他置于两辆法拉利之前，这让他处于一个很好的位置，可以在它们之前完赛。而George当时正在跑第4位。
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“在进站之后，Kimi落到了George身后。至于我们为什么要调换两车的位置——那主要是为了节省George的比赛时间。Kimi有足够的抓地力超越，但如果我们让两车互相竞争，George就会在法拉利身上损失时间，而法拉利也会有更多时间去发起进攻并尝试超越。
“事实证明，George的防守非常出色，很高兴看到他登上领奖台。这个结果他完全配得上。”
在这场迈凯伦（至少在诺里斯手中）和法拉利看起来速度更快的比赛中，梅赛德斯还是拿下了双领奖台。尽管如此，Russell仍然以领先Hamilton 0.8秒的成绩冲线，勒克莱尔位列第五，又落后0.5秒。
“这场比赛的亮点之一就是看到George在防守那些法拉利时表现得如此出色，”Shovlin说。“他并不一定能保住那些位置，而且有几次，Lewis看起来都能从内侧超过去。
“George恰到好处地阻止了这种情况发生。所以，真的令人印象深刻，说实话，他从头到尾都度过了一个非常出色的周末：冲刺赛杆位、冲刺赛胜利，排位赛非常稳健，比赛策略也非常聪明。很高兴看到George重回状态。”
Russell在赛后随即表示，他从未打算违抗车队指令，尽管他在比赛中曾向梅赛德斯的维修墙询问这道指令背后的意图。
“我们全队一直都有个共识：当我们采用不同策略时，我们绝不会互相争斗，而且总是会互换位置，”他说，“这一直就是我们内部的一种规则。事实是，在虚拟安全车出现之前，Kimi排在我前面，而且他尝试了一些不同的做法，你知道吗，是为了保护我们车队。他基本上是照搬了法拉利那两辆车的做法。
安东内利（梅赛德斯）、拉塞尔（梅赛德斯）
“是啊，我能把他压在身后吗？也许可以。但同样的，结果也可能是我掉到第五。所以归根结底，你知道的，他配得上第二名。我觉得第三名对我来说是个公平的结果，是的，这是个漫长的赛季。”
整个周末拿到23分之后，Russell在积分榜上对Antonelli的优势与赞德沃特站之前相比没有变化，这要归功于这位英国车手赢得了冲刺赛。他仍然在积分上超越了Hamilton，尽管与这位法拉利车手积分相同，但他仍升至积分榜第二位。
英文原文
Mercedes: Late Dutch GP team orders were to help George Russell
Russell was able to hang on to third at Zandvoort by defending from Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages of the race - but also thanks to the team asking him to let Kimi Antonelli through, says Andrew Shovlin
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
Mercedes used team orders during the Dutch GP last weekend to help George Russell secure third at Zandvoort, says Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin.
The call for Russell to let his team-mate Kimi Antonelli through came late in the race, after the VSC period on lap 55 of 72. The Italian, who led for the majority of the distance, came in for a fresh set of rubber, while Russell stayed out on track in an attempt to hold on to third place from the chasing Ferraris.
With Antonelli emerging from the pits behind his team-mate, Mercedes ordered Russell to move aside and let his championship rival through on lap 65 - but as Shovlin explained, the call came mainly to help George avoid losing too much time.
With Antonelli on fresher rubber and potentially able to come through easily anyway, Mercedes did not want Russell to engage in a fight with the sister car, giving him a better chance of defending against the Ferrari drivers, who had also pitted for new tyres.
Russell ultimately obeyed the order, saying after the race it was the right decision from the pit wall, and then defended from the fast-approaching Lewis Hamilton behind.
“The VSC came out on lap 55, [and] both Ferraris took it, so they were going to be on fresh rubber by the restart,” Shovlin explained in Mercedes’ Dutch GP debrief video, distributed via the team’s social media channels. “On lap 56, we still had a window where we could get Kimi in and put him ahead of both of those Ferraris, which put him in a great position to finish ahead of them. And George was running P4 prior to that.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
“Kimi dropped behind George after the stop. Now, why did we invert the cars? Well, that was really about saving George race time. Kimi had the grip to get through, but if we'd allowed them to race each other, George would have lost time to the Ferraris and the Ferraris would have had more time to attack and try and get through.
“Now, as it happened, George defended brilliantly and it was great to see him on the podium. He really deserved that result.”
Mercedes secured a double podium finish in a race where McLaren - at least in Lando Norris’ hands - and Ferrari appeared to have better pace. Still, Russell managed to cross the line 0.8s ahead of Hamilton, with Charles Leclerc finishing fifth another 0.5s behind.
“One of the highlights of the race was just seeing how brilliantly George defended against those Ferraris,” Shovlin said. “There was no guarantee he was going to be able to hold those positions and on a couple of occasions, Lewis looked like he was going to get down the inside.
“George did just enough to prevent it happening. So, really impressive and honestly, he's put together a really impressive weekend, start to finish, sprint pole, sprint victory and very solid qualifying and really smart racing. So good to see George getting back into it.”
Speaking right after the race, Russell himself said he’d never intended to disobey the order, despite quizzing the Mercedes pit wall during the race about the intention behind the call.
“We’ve always said as a team, when we’re on different strategies, we’re never going to fight and we’re always going to invert,” he said, “and that’s always just been our sort of rules. And the fact is, Kimi was ahead of me before the VSC and he tried something different to, you know, protect us as a team. He kind of copy-pasted what the Ferraris did.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
“Yeah, could I have kept him behind? Maybe. But equally, you know, it could have been a P5 as well. So, in the end, you know, he deserved to be P2. I think P3 was a fair result for me and, yes, a long season.”
Having scored 23 points across the weekend, Russell’s gap to Antonelli in the championship remained unchanged compared to pre-Zandvoort, thanks to the Briton winning the sprint. He still gained a position on Hamilton, moving up to second in the standings despite having the same number of points as the Ferrari driver.
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