红牛承认无线电与起步问题，称可修复
红牛领队梅基斯回应车队在无线电通讯和起步环节的弱点，并说明这些问题何时能够解决。此前哈贾尔在美国大奖赛后称红牛能解决F1中最复杂的问题，却总在“愚蠢”的小问题上挣扎。
红牛披露影响马克斯·维斯塔潘和伊萨克·哈贾尔的“愚蠢”问题何时能够解决
美国大奖赛后，哈贾尔表示红牛能解决F1中最复杂的问题，却总在“愚蠢”的问题上挣扎。洛朗·梅基斯回应了车队在无线电通讯和起步方面的弱点，并说明这些问题何时能够解决
马克斯·维斯塔潘，红牛车队，伊萨克·哈贾尔，红牛车队
尽管马克斯·维斯塔潘再次登上领奖台——在本赛季大部分时间里，这似乎已是能够达到的上限——但周日晚上红牛的接待区里显然没有多少满意情绪。多名车队成员在围场承认，基米·安东内利的正赛速度无法匹敌，尽管两位红牛车手都对车队未能在奥斯汀发挥出赛车套件的全部潜力感到沮丧。
这在一定程度上是由于本场比赛特有的问题，比如维斯塔潘不满意的策略决定——尤其是坚持使用较软配方轮胎，而较硬配方似乎效果更好——以及动力单元表现不稳定。但美洲赛道这个艰难的周日下午，也是由今年反复出现的两个问题造成的：起步不佳和车队无线电的技术故障。
这一切都让伊萨克·哈贾尔感到沮丧，他在媒体区接受包括 Motorsport.com 在内的媒体采访时总结道：“目前，我们连小事都做不好。”
“我的无线电很差，我甚至不知道发生了什么。而且每次我松离合，都会变成一场噩梦。如果我们解决这两个问题，我们可能已经登上领奖台了。看起来我们能做最难的事，却做不了愚蠢的事。”
他所说的“最难的事”，自然是指红牛已经成功扭转了与领先集团之间的巨大差距。在澳大利亚、中国和日本，比赛节奏的平均差距是每圈1.2秒，而在一个赛季中弥补这样的差距绝非易事。
与此同时，解决起步问题并控制住无线电问题已被证明比预期更为复杂。当Motorsport.com将这些观察结果转述给梅基斯，并提及哈贾尔的评论时，这位车队领队澄清说，这两个方面需要分开处理。是的，无线电问题对于一支顶级车队来说是不可接受的，必须在今年年底前解决，但起步问题更为复杂，并将一直成为障碍，直到2027年。
当被本网站问及此事时，梅基斯表示：“我想回答你的问题有两种不同的方式。”
“我认为伊萨克所说的话有一定道理，意思是连续第二场比赛因无线电问题而挣扎，我们都感到沮丧。这让每个人的日子都非常难过，所以确实，这是我们希望尽快解决的问题，因为这是一个本应正常工作、不应耗费我们太多精力的事项。
“所以他在这一点上是对的。起步是一个解决起来稍微更复杂的问题。”
至于无线电问题，两位车手在奥斯汀都受到了影响，这对哈贾尔来说是今年的第一次。维斯塔潘则更频繁地受到这些问题困扰。在新加坡，他的比赛工程师詹皮耶罗·兰比亚塞听不到他的声音，迫使“GP”改用暗语沟通。在奥斯汀，维斯塔潘听不到代班比赛工程师汤姆·哈特的声音——据梅基斯说，哈特做得很好——这再次让沟通变得困难。
红牛承认，他们尚未完全理解这些无线电问题，尽管梅基斯认为解决起来应该不会过于复杂。
“如果我们理解了，早就解决了。我们并不完全明白为什么会被这些问题击中。我必须承认，竞争对手做得比我们好，因为所有人的无线电我们都能听到，而我们一直比我们希望的要更挣扎。”
起步可以改进，但真正解决需要硬件改动
起步问题要复杂得多。奥斯汀站比赛后，哈贾尔表示红牛需要重新设计离合器，他辩称自己正确遵循了所有程序，但离合器仍然过于敏感。
然而，梅基斯澄清说事情并没有那么简单，起步问题实际上与多种不同因素相关。
“起步是一个解决起来稍微更复杂的问题，这意味着起步表现几乎涉及公司的所有部门，可能除了空气动力学部门之外。
“这涉及发动机、变速箱、离合器，涉及很多东西。而且我们当然从赛季初就看到了，我们在起步表现方面并不是标杆。”
因此，一个合适的解决方案将需要在2027年F1赛季进行多项硬件改动，涉及离合器、变速箱、动力单元和涡轮之间的相互作用。
话虽如此，红牛承认，凭借其当前的软件和硬件，应该有可能比目前表现得稍好一些，并且它也在这一方面关注姊妹车队小红牛。平均而言，小红牛的起步更好，尽管维斯塔潘表示一切完全相同，差异只能通过程序来体现。
梅基斯承认，在该领域仍应释放更多性能，尽管他强调红牛与墨尔本相比已经取得了显著进步。
“尽管我们已经缩小了差距，因为你可能还记得我们年初的起步有多糟糕，但我们仍然不是标杆”，梅基斯说。
“而且没错，赛车在此期间大幅改进、竞争力更接近前列，这让当前的差距更加令人痛苦，因为我们周围的竞争非常激烈。
“所以正如你所说，一方面我有信心从现在到年底我们会继续缩小与竞争对手的差距，因为每场比赛我们都在学习。每场比赛我们都会想出缩小差距的小办法。”
但真正长期的解决方案只能等到明年。
“另一方面，我同样清楚在赛季结束前我们不会成为标杆。那需要一些重大的设计和硬件改动，而这只有明年才能看到。”
英文原文
Red Bull reveals when 'silly' problems affecting Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar can be fixed
After the US Grand Prix, Hadjar suggested that Red Bull can solve the most complex problems in F1 but keeps struggling with 'silly' issues. Laurent Mekies addresses the team's radio and start weaknessess and explains when they can be resolved
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, Isack Hadjar, Red Bull Racing
Although Max Verstappen once again secured a podium finish, something that seemed to be the maximum achievable for much of this Formula 1 season, there was certainly little satisfaction in the Red Bull hospitality on Sunday evening. Several team members acknowledged in the paddock that Kimi Antonelli's race pace was impossible to match, although both Red Bull drivers were frustrated that the team had failed to extract the full potential from its package in Austin.
This was partly due to problems specific to this race, such as strategic decisions Verstappen was unhappy with – particularly the insistence on sticking with the softer compounds while the harder ones seemed to work better – and inconsistent behaviour from the power unit. But the difficult Sunday afternoon at the Circuit of the Americas was also caused by two problems that have repeatedly cropped up this year: poor starts and technical issues with the team radio.
All of this led to frustration for Isack Hadjar, who summed it up as follows in the media pen, speaking to media including Motorsport.com:“At the moment, it's the little things we can’t do.
"I have poor radio, I don't even know what's happening. And whenever I drop the clutch, it's going into a nightmare. If we fix these two issues, we might already be on the podium. It seems like we can do the hardest things, but we can’t do the silly things.”
By 'the hardest things', he was naturally referring to the fact that Red Bull has managed to overturn its enormous gap to the front of the field. In Australia, China and Japan, the average deficit in race pace was 1.2 seconds per lap, and making up that kind of ground over the course of a season is certainly no small feat.
At the same time, tackling the start problem and getting the radio issues under control has proved more complicated than expected. When Motorsport.com put those observations to Mekies, referring to Hadjar's comments, the team principal clarified that the two aspects needed to be treated separately. Yes, the radio problem is unacceptable for a top team and must be resolved before the end of this year, but the start issue is more complex and will remain an obstacle until 2027.
“I guess there are two different ways to answer your question”, Mekies said when asked by this website.
“I think there is some truth in what Isack is saying, meaning that we are all frustrated to struggle with radio issues for the second race in a row. It's making everyone's lives very difficult, so it is true that it's something that we would like to fix quite quickly, because it's an item that should be working without using too much of our energy.
“So he's right on that one. The start is a slightly more complex issue to solve.”
As for the radio problems, both drivers were affected in Austin, which was the first time this year for Hadjar. Verstappen has been troubled by them more frequently. In Singapore, his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase could not hear him, forcing ‘GP’ to resort to coded communication. In Austin, Verstappen could not hear stand-in race engineer Tom Hart – who, according to Mekies, did a great job – which once again made communication difficult.
Red Bull acknowledges that it does not yet fully understand these radio problems, although Mekies believes they should not be overly complex to resolve.
“If we were understanding it, we would have solved it. We don't fully understand why we are being hit by these issues. I have to admit that the competition is doing a better job than us because we can hear everyone's radio and we have been struggling more than what we would have liked to.”
Starts can improve, but hardware changes needed for a proper solution
The start problem is considerably more complex. After the race in Austin, Hadjar said that Red Bull needs to redesign the clutch, arguing that he follows all the procedures correctly but that the clutch is still too sensitive.
Mekies clarified, however, that it is not as simple as that and that the start problem is actually linked to a wide range of different factors.
“The start is a slightly more complex issue to solve, meaning that the start performance is going across pretty much all departments of the company, probably except the aerodynamic department.
“It's engine, it's gearbox, it's clutch, it's many things. And we certainly have seen from the beginning of the season that we are not the benchmark in terms of launch performance.”
A proper solution will therefore require several hardware changes for the 2027 F1 season, involving the interaction between the clutch, gearbox, power unit and turbo.
That said, Red Bull acknowledges that it should be possible to perform somewhat better with its current software and hardware than it is doing at present, and it is also looking at sister team Racing Bulls in that regard. On average, Racing Bulls has made better starts, although Verstappen has said that everything is identical and that the difference can only be made with the procedures.
Mekies acknowledged that there should still be more performance to unlock in that area, although he stressed that Red Bull has already made significant progress compared with Melbourne.
“As much as we have reduced the gap, because you may remember how bad our starts were at the beginning of the year, we are still not the benchmark”, Mekies said.
“And yes, the fact that the car improved a lot in the meantime improved and is fighting closer to the front, makes that deficit even more painful now, because the competition around us is very strong.
“So to your point, on one side I'm confident that we will continue to reduce the gap to the competition from now to the end of the year, because every race we learn. Every race we come up with small ways to close the gap.”
But a genuine, long-term solution will have to wait until next year.
“On the other side, I equally know that we will not be the benchmark before the end of the season. That will require some significant design and hardware changes, and this is something that we will only see next year.”
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