塞恩斯:难以确信中东两站会如期举行
塞恩斯表示,目前“很难确信”F1卡塔尔站和阿布扎比站一定会如期举行,尽管国际汽联主席本·苏拉耶姆坚称比赛将按计划进行。
卡洛斯·塞恩斯表示,目前“很难确信”F1卡塔尔站和阿布扎比站一定会如期举行。
F1正推进在卡塔尔和阿布扎比结束2026赛季,国际汽联主席穆罕默德·本·苏拉耶姆本周早些时候坚称,尽管以色列/美国-伊朗紧张局势持续、该地区还有其它冲突,比赛仍将按计划进行。
这已成为部分F1车手之间一个令人不安的话题,当出现在国际汽联美国大奖赛首场新闻发布会的三位车手——卡洛斯·塞恩斯、奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里和伊萨克·哈贾尔——被问及是否担心在当地比赛时,无人作答。
大奖赛车手协会理事塞恩斯被告知“话筒在你手里”,但他开玩笑地把话筒扔下后回答:“我觉得他们似乎非常确信比赛会如期举行。”
“就我个人而言,我不是以大奖赛车手协会(GPDA)代表的身份说话,现在很难被说服,因为仍有事情在发生,中东有很多事情在发生,而且显然美国即将举行选举(中期选举将于11月3日举行),世界政治层面即将发生的事情可能会在接下来的一个月、一个半月里非常突然地影响局势。”
“所以我认为现在就如此确信相对为时过早,但就目前而言,我们会去卡塔尔和阿布扎比,如果国际汽联和一级方程式决定这仍然安全且是个好方案,我认为我们作为车手必须遵从他们的说法。”
“并不是说……我们肯定没有他们那么多政治信息、那么多内部信息,所以我们需要跟随他们的引导并信任他们的决策,但仅限于目前的情况。”
“世界在接下来的一个月、一个半月里可能发生很大变化,我们需要保持勤勉并对任何发生的情况保持反应,而不是仅仅因为我们现在想去就去。”
皮亚斯特里表示,他“信任国际汽联和F1,过去曾出现过困难局面,经历冲突和各种事情,所以是的,我们信任F1和国际汽联,并听取他们的建议”。
哈贾尔只是说:“我不确定,这不在我的控制范围内,所以我就在我需要跑的赛道上驾驶,就这样。”
当被The Race问及大奖赛车手协会(GPDA)是否觉得有必要向国际汽联提出任何关切时,塞恩斯回答说:“GPDA,尽管我们很团结,但我们并不掌握F1和国际汽联所拥有的一半信息,尤其是在世界上正在发生的各种政治博弈方面。
“GPDA可以在帮助理解这项运动方面发挥很大作用,或者让国际汽联和F1理解这项运动,什么能让比赛更好,什么能让赛道更好,需要改变什么才能获得更多安全,但关于政治事务,现实地说,我们中没有人拥有F1和国际汽联所拥有的信息和联系人。
“和你们媒体一样,你们需要在某种程度上信任F1和FIA在这个问题上做出的决定,但正如我之前所说,我们需要保持灵活应对,观察情况如何变化,我认为他们会这样做,并会在适当的时候做出正确的决定。”
英文原文
Carlos Sainz says it's "very difficult to be convinced right now" that Formula 1's Qatar and Abu Dhabi weekends will definitely take place.
F1 is pressing on with ending its 2026 season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem adamant earlier this week that the races will go ahead as planned despite continuing Israel/US-Iran tensions and additional conflict in the region.
It has become an uncomfortable topic among some F1 drivers and when the three who appeared in the FIA's first United States Grand Prix press conference - Carlos Sainz, Oscar Piastri and Isack Hadjar - were asked if they had any concerns about racing there, nobody moved to answer.
Grand Prix Drivers' Association director Sainz was told "you have the mic" but jokingly threw it down before answering: "I think they seem very convinced that it's going to go ahead.
"On my personal side, I'm not speaking as a GPDA [representative], it's very difficult to be convinced right now, because there are still things happening, plenty of things happening in the Middle East, and also there is obviously an election that is going to happen in the US [midterms will take place on November 3], and things that are going to happen in the political side of the world that could affect the next month, month and a half, very suddenly.
"So I think it's relatively premature to be so convinced, but as it stands, we will go to Qatar and Abu Dhabi, and if the FIA and Formula 1 decide that it's still safe and a good scenario, I think we, as drivers, have to go with whatever they say.
"It's not like...we don't have as much political information, as much inside information as they have, for sure, so we need to follow their lead and trust in their decision-making, but only as it stands.
"The world can change a lot in the next month, month and a half, and we need to stay diligent and reactive to whatever happens, and not just go because we want to go right now."
Piastri said he was "putting the trust in the FIA and F1, there's been difficult situations in the past, through conflicts and all kinds of things, so yeah, put our trust in F1 and the FIA, and listen to their advice".
Hadjar simply said: "I'm not sure, it's out of my control, so I drive on the track I need to drive, that's it."
Asked by The Race whether the GPDA felt compelled to raise any concerns with the FIA, Sainz replied: "The GPDA, as united as we are, we don't have half of the information that Formula 1 and FIA have with all the political battles that are happening in the world.
"The GPDA can help a lot to understand the sport, or make the FIA and F1 understand the sport, what makes racing better, what makes a racetrack better, what needs to be changed in order to get more safety, but about political matters, realistically none of us have the information and the contacts that F1 and FIA have.
"Similar to you guys [the media], you need to trust in a way the decision that F1 and FIA take about that matter, but as I said before, we need to stay reactive and see how situations change, I think they will do that and they will take the right decision when it comes."
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