拉塞尔称多带一圈燃油致墨西哥站排位赛憾失杆位
拉塞尔认为，在墨西哥大奖赛排位赛中多带一圈燃油的決定让他以0.009秒之差负于前队友汉密尔顿，错失杆位。他将在正赛从头排第二位发车，勒克莱尔位列第三。
乔治·拉塞尔指出了墨西哥大奖赛排位赛险情背后代价高昂的决定
乔治·拉塞尔认为，为准备圈多载燃油让他错失了墨西哥大奖赛的杆位
乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯，夏尔·勒克莱尔，法拉利
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乔治·拉塞尔认为，多带一圈的燃油让他错失了墨西哥大奖赛的杆位，他以仅0.009秒之差输给了前队友、七届世界冠军刘易斯·汉密尔顿。
这位梅赛德斯车手将与汉密尔顿一同从头排发车，夏尔·勒克莱尔位列第三。拉塞尔解释说，对手在第三节排位的最后一圈前没有做暖胎圈，而梅赛德斯则坚持做了一圈暖胎圈来让轮胎达到温度。
“说实话，一点也不轻松，”拉塞尔在排位赛后的新闻发布会上被问及那一圈跑得有多轻松时解释道。
“这有点像我本赛季的缩影。我觉得自己好像从来没跑过一圈中规中矩的圈速。要么是糟糕的一圈，要么是非常强劲的一圈，这挺让人沮丧的。
“我认为整个周末在Q3之前，没有一圈我看起来能进入前三的争夺，更不用说杆位了。但最后一圈真的配合得非常好。我很想知道确切原因，但我没有那些答案。”
他补充道：“我看到了刘易斯[汉密尔顿]、查尔斯[勒克莱尔]以及马克斯[维斯塔潘]。他们没有做准备圈。我们做了准备圈，只是为了让轮胎达到温度。这相当有挑战性。
“我的直觉告诉我，我们可以在第一圈不做准备就完成，但车队想要做准备，所以我们最终多携带了一圈的燃油。这个数字很小，但它比到杆位的差距还要大。
“所以，很明显……你总是会事后回想，要是我们只有一圈的燃油而不是我们多出来的那一圈燃油，我们本可以拿到杆位。但我非常感激能处于这个位置，因为这是一段艰难的时期。而且，就像我刚下车时说的，我知道它就在那里。我从未怀疑过它就在那里。只是要理解为什么这个赛季我们不能像过去那样稳定地实现它。”
拉塞尔目前在车手积分榜上排名第二，落后队友、领跑车手总冠军的安东内利123分，后者有机会在本周末锁定总冠军。但这位28岁的车手正面临保住第二名的压力，因为汉密尔顿仅落后他1分，而第二名到第五名之间只相差9分。
英文原文
George Russell identifies costly decision behind Mexican GP qualifying near-miss
George Russell believes carrying extra fuel for a preparation lap cost him pole position at the Mexican Grand Prix
George Russell, Mercedes, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
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George Russell believes an extra lap of fuel cost him pole position for the Mexican Grand Prix after he missed out to his former team-mate and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton by just 0.009 seconds.
The Mercedes driver will start alongside Hamilton on the front row, with Charles Leclerc in third. Russell explained that his rivals had not done preparation laps on their final Q3 runs, while Mercedes had stuck with a preparation lap to get temperature into the tyres.
"Not easily at all, to be honest," Russell explained during the post-qualifying press conference when asked how easily the lap came together for him.
"It's a little bit of a story of my season. I think this kind of feels like I've never done an average lap. It's either a terrible lap or a very strong lap, and this is quite frustrating.
"I don't think there was a single lap this whole weekend ahead of Q3 that I looked in the mix to even fight for the top three, let alone pole position. But that last lap just came together really nicely. I'd love to know exactly why, but I don't have those answers."
He added: "I saw Lewis [Hamilton] and Charles [Leclerc] and Max [Verstappen] as well. They weren't doing the prep lap. We were doing prep laps, just getting the temperature of the tyre. It's quite challenging.
"My gut told me we could do it on lap one without the preparation, but the team wanted to do the prep, so we ended up carrying the fuel for an extra lap. It's such a small number, but it's bigger than the gap to pole.
"So, it's obviously... you always think retrospectively, if only we had the one lap of fuel rather than the extra lap of fuel that we had, we could have been on pole. But I'm very grateful to be in this position because it's been a tough run. And, like I said straight out of the car, I know it's in there. I've never doubted that it's in there. It's just understanding why this season we can't achieve it as consistently as I have done in the past."
Russell currently sits second in the drivers' standings, 123 points behind his team-mate and championship leader Kimi Antonelli, who has the opportunity to claim the title this weekend. But the 28-year-old is under pressure to retain P2 as Hamilton sits just one point behind, and only nine points separate P2 and P5.
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