梅赛德斯解释为何未在虚拟安全车下召回拉塞尔进站
意大利大奖赛中，安东内利从队尾发车并夺冠，他是梅赛德斯唯一进站的车手，最终击败队友拉塞尔。梅赛德斯表示，在虚拟安全车出现时车队并不确定哪种策略更好，因此未让拉塞尔进站。
为什么梅赛德斯没有在意大利大奖赛虚拟安全车出动时让乔治·拉塞尔进站："我们不知道哪种策略更好"
托托·沃尔夫透露，梅赛德斯的软件预测乔治·拉塞尔凭借自己的策略仍然会赢得比赛
基米·安东内利在意大利大奖赛上从发车区末位惊人夺冠，这要归功于出色的驾驶表现，但或许也得益于策略上的一点帮助以及一次及时出动的虚拟安全车。
这位意大利车手是比赛中唯一进站的梅赛德斯车手——并最终击败了他的队友和总冠军竞争对手乔治·拉塞尔。
梅赛德斯为两位车手制定了不同的策略，在早段的红旗之后让安东内利换上了中性胎。这位意大利车手起步时使用的是硬胎，这是他能够不进站跑完全程的唯一选择。而拉塞尔起步时使用中性胎，在夏尔·勒克莱尔撞车导致比赛暂停后换上了硬胎，并在剩余的赛程中一直使用这款轮胎。
对于安东内利，梅赛德斯利用了第27圈兰斯·斯特罗尔停车引发虚拟安全车的机会，让他换上了一套全新的中性胎。
到那时为止，安东内利已经完成了场上的超车，并与拉塞尔争夺领先位置——不过梅赛德斯要求他在对抗的初始阶段之后不要攻击自己的队友，以便让两人尝试拉开与马克斯·维斯塔潘的差距。
随后车队召唤安东内利进站。尽管这位意大利车手最终凭借更新的轮胎追回来并超越了队友，但梅赛德斯车队负责人托托·沃尔夫表示，车队自己也不清楚哪种策略最终会证明更为有效。
“我们当时不知道哪种策略更好，”他在赛后接受包括Motorsport.com在内的媒体采访时说。“在那个阶段，系统显示一次停站（针对拉塞尔）会更有优势。两次停站到比赛尾声会追近一些，但追不上。所以软件是这么说的。
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“把两种策略分开也是正确的做法，因为不知道哪种更好。在早上的会议上我们就说过硬胎可以撑很久。你可以用它起步再用它完赛，你可以看到拉塞尔的情况，那是一条能撑到底的轮胎，但它的性能不如中性胎。”
尽管安东内利报告说他的轮胎状态良好，车队还是做出了让他进站的决定。
“我们没有和基米谈论进站的事，”沃尔夫确认道。“我们询问了轮胎的状况，他说‘嗯，其实状态不错’，但很明显我们看到了轮胎磨损，而且我记得是在刘易斯的车上看到的。我们也在一辆迈凯伦上看到了一些磨损。所以这样做是正确的。也正因如此，这不需要什么大的讨论。
“但话虽如此，安东内利能够以稳定的方式从那条轮胎上跑出35圈甚至40圈，这确实是他的本事。”
拉塞尔本人相信，如果安东内利当时采用同样的策略，他有足够的速度赢得这场比赛。
“我本来很希望继续使用同一套策略，”他在赛后新闻发布会上说道。“因为我觉得自己在这场缠斗中处于有利位置。我很清楚在能量管理方面需要怎么做来防守，也知道什么时候该进攻、完成那些超越动作，为此我在赛前做了大量准备。
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"然后当然，当虚拟安全车出动的时候，它正好出现在让车手们可以果断行动、进站换胎的完美时机。"
当被问到他当时是否考虑过进站换上新轮胎时，拉塞尔说："我没有。我当时其实以为我身后的车手们也会留在赛道上不进站，不过我相信车队在维修区控制墙上看着我们的缠斗时一定相当紧张，他们大概也很乐意让我们采用不同的策略。"
"从车队的角度来看，当马克斯也混在战局之中的时候，你需要同时应对两种情况。所以，今天基米做得非常出色。"
"我当时用的是硬胎，而基米用的是中性胎。所以如果我们俩中有人要进站的话，那也只会是基米。这就是为什么我对虚拟安全车（VSC）出现的时机有点恼火，因为我认为用中性胎的那些车手想和任何用硬胎的车手抗衡都会很困难。"
"但是，这丝毫不能抹杀基米整场比赛的表现。如果没有虚拟安全车（VSC），比赛会如何发展本来会非常有意思。"
在蒙扎的比赛结束后，拉塞尔在积分榜上落后安东内利66分。
英文原文
Why Mercedes didn't pit George Russell under virtual safety car in Italian GP: "We didn't know which strategy was better"
Toto Wolff revealed Mercedes' software predicted George Russell would still win the race on his strategy
Kimi Antonelli's sensational win from the back of the grid in the Italian Grand Prix was thanks to a great drive, but perhaps also a little help from strategy and a timely virtual safety car.
The Italian was the only Mercedes driver to make a pitstop during the race - and ultimately defeated his team-mate and championship rival George Russell.
Mercedes split the strategies between its drivers, putting Antonelli on mediums after the early red flag. That was the only option for the Italian to go to the end without stopping, having started the race on hards. Russell, on the other hand, started on mediums and switched to hards after the race was stopped following Charles Leclerc's crash - and stayed on that tyre for the rest of the distance.
For Antonelli, Mercedes used the opportunity to put him on a new set of mediums when Lance Stroll's stoppage caused a virtual safety car on lap 27.
By that point, Antonelli had already made his way through the field and was battling Russell for the lead - although Mercedes asked him not to attack his team-mate after the initial phase of the fight, allowing them to try to build a gap to Max Verstappen.
Then came the call for Antonelli to pit. And although the Italian was able to come back and overtake his team-mate on fresher tyres, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said the team itself didn't know which strategy would ultimately prove better.
“We didn't know what was the better strategy," he told the media, including Motorsport.com, after the race. "At that stage, the system said that the one-stop [for Russell] comes out ahead. That two-stop was coming close to the end, but wouldn't catch. So that's what the software said.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
“It was also the right thing to split the strategies because it was unknown what the better one would be. In the morning meeting we said the hard tyre is going to go forever. You can start on it and finish on it and you can see with George it was a forever tyre but it didn't have the performance that of the medium.”
The decision to stop Antonelli was made despite him reporting that his tyres were in good shape.
“We didn't talk to Kimi about the stop," Wolff confirmed. "We asked for the state of the tyre and he said, 'Well it's actually good' but it was clear that we saw abrasion and I think it was on Lewis' car. We saw some abrasion on a McLaren. So it was the right thing to do. And that's why it didn't need any big discussion.
“But then having said that, Kimi was able to extract 35 laps or 40 laps from that tyre in a consistent way and that's certainly his skill.”
Russell himself believes he had enough pace to win the race had Antonelli stayed on the same strategy.
"I would have loved to have continued on the same strategy," he said during the post-race press conference. "Because I felt in a good position in that battle. I knew exactly what I needed to do with the energy management to defend but also when to attack and make those moves and I put a lot of preparation into this race in that regard.
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"Then of course when the VSC came out, it came out at that perfect point for the drivers to pull the trigger and take the pitstop."
Asked whether he had considered stopping for fresh rubber at that point, Russell said: "I didn't. I actually thought the guys behind me were going to stay out as well but I'm sure the team were quite nervous on the pitwall watching our battle and were probably quite happy to send us on different strategies.
"When we had Max in the mix as well from a team perspective, you're covering off both scenarios. So, today Kimi did a great job.
"I was on the hard tyre and Kimi was on the medium tyre. So if either of us were to pit, it was going to be Kimi. And that's why I was just a little bit annoyed with the timing of that VSC, because I think it would have been tough for those guys on the medium to have competed with anybody on the hard tyre.
"But, it takes nothing away from Kimi's drive altogether. It would have been very interesting to see how the race would have panned out if there was no VSC."
After the race at Monza, Russell trails Antonelli by 66 points in the championship.
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