法拉利车手将在巴西会面讨论墨西哥首圈争斗
法拉利车队负责人瓦塞尔将在巴西召集勒克莱尔和汉密尔顿会面,讨论两人在墨西哥首圈激烈争斗导致维斯塔潘抢走可能胜利一事。汉密尔顿坚持批评勒克莱尔,并誓言“我永远不会被噤声”。
法拉利车队负责人弗雷德·瓦塞尔将在巴西召集他的F1车手们开会,讨论他们在墨西哥首圈代价高昂的争斗,同时刘易斯·汉密尔顿誓言“我永远不会被噤声”。
查尔斯·勒克莱尔和汉密尔顿在墨西哥首圈激烈对抗,让马克斯·维斯塔潘抢走了法拉利认为很可能到手的胜利。
汉密尔顿赛后质疑勒克莱尔的比赛技巧,称他有一种“不成功便成仁”的心态,并且长期以来对队友拼得太凶。
法拉利认为他们的争斗越界了,车队负责人瓦塞尔周日晚上对Canal+表示,这是对法拉利员工“缺乏尊重”的表现。
据《The Race》了解,瓦塞尔计划周五在巴西让汉密尔顿和勒克莱尔坐在一起讨论此事。
墨西哥站比赛结束后,瓦塞尔分别与两位车手进行了单独交谈,但他计划在巴西所有人都在同一地点时安排一次正式的面对面会谈。
勒克莱尔周三宣布他与妻子亚历山德拉的孩子出生后,缺席了巴西周四的媒体日,因此无法在巴西大奖赛周末早些时候安排会议。
由于勒克莱尔缺席,周四只有汉密尔顿面对媒体,他在会上进一步强化了对勒克莱尔的批评。
当被问及是否同意勒克莱尔对他比对其他车手更狠时,汉密尔顿以勒克莱尔在新加坡站起步阶段放弃超越马克斯·维斯塔潘为例作对比,他回答说:“是的。”
他补充道:“我可以把你们看到的说出来。新加坡站,他完全轮对轮,完全在内线,在新加坡第一弯已经抢到领先,然后收油了。
“(对他们)肯定是不一样的。如果你看看队友之间的情况,和塞巴斯蒂安(维特尔)也是这样,和卡洛斯(塞恩斯)也是这样。”
汉密尔顿明确表示,他不会改变自己直言不讳的方式,包括在车队无线电里询问勒克莱尔是否因第一圈切弯而被处罚。
“我的评论被如何看待?我不知道。我真的不在乎每个人对我所说的话有什么感受,”汉密尔顿补充道。
“我喜怒形于色,当下有什么感受就说什么。我想有一件事我希望能……我确实看到有人说过,我说的那些话是经过算计的。
“我只想用这个事实来反驳:当你在比赛中时,你的心率大约在170(次/分钟)。你以每小时200英里的速度驾驶。你没有时间去算计自己说的话,去思考自己对媒体说的话。你不会想那些。
“通常你的沮丧会向车队里的人发泄,尤其是就决策向老板们发泄。而且赛事干事也一直要求我们在有……比如说,赛道上出现问题时发声。你被耽误了,被阻挡了,他们要求你把这件事说出来。”
举个例子,如果你看墨西哥站的一节练习赛,[伊萨克] 哈贾尔在1号弯的赛车线上减速让行,我当时什么都没说。他们也没有调查。如果当时我开口了,比如举起双手示意,他们就会调查,他就会因为阻挡而受罚。
所以重要的是确保自己保持开放。当然,有时候你说了些话,事后可能会后悔,但我不会。我永远不会为做真实、真诚的自己而道歉。我永远不会被噤声。
没有人要求我什么都不要说。事情就是这样。
汉密尔顿表示,他“非常努力地与夏尔建立良好的关系”,因为他知道勒克莱尔在为法拉利效力八年后“已经深深融入了车队”。
“我一直努力保持尊重,”汉密尔顿说。
“自然,像我这样的人加入一支车队并不容易,因为我非常直言不讳,我不断推动、推动、再推动,推动如此多的改变。而且我还会推动更多。只要我在这里,就会是这样。我来这里是为了赢。为了能够赢,你必须与身边的每个人合作。”
汉密尔顿坚称他“完全理解自己对车队的责任”,并表示他“一直努力表达对他们的感激,并竭尽全力帮助推动车队前进,我觉得自己是车队今天所处位置的重要一部分,这是积极的”。
他说他们“还没有时间坐下来全部面对面交流,因为弗雷德回到了马拉内罗,查尔斯回到了摩纳哥。
“但我们会坐下来谈一谈。我不认为所有问题都能在一次会议里解决。但这很重要。”
“我们现在打造的东西会让我们在明年处于正确的位置。从某些方面来说,我很高兴我们有过那样的经历。当然,我更希望赢下比赛并拿到一二名。但从那之中,你可以学到东西。”
“我真的相信明年我们能够为世界冠军而战。这是唯一的目标。所以现在,在幕后,我的重点是继续保持在最近几场比赛中在执行方面所取得的性能表现,然后致力于明年的赛车。”
“显然,除了推动他们之外,我对引擎无能为力,而他们会继续在幕后推动,我相信他们正在这样做。至于赛车,就是驾驭它,确保我们把它引向正确的方向。确保我们以正确的姿态迎接明年。然后弗雷德的工作就是确保我们所有人都朝着同一个方向前进。”
“当然,我们会奋力比赛。但要公平,并确保我们从中获得最大收益。”
汉密尔顿支持瓦塞尔,表示“我仍然相信弗雷德是带领我们夺得冠军的合适人选”。
当被问及他接下来想要什么时:“我认为关键在于沟通。关键在于理解。
“我还不太清楚。我试着想象过会议会是什么样子,会如何进行。我从来都不知道。”
“但我会做的是,确保我始终做真实的自己。对于我参与的任何部分以及我为车队做出的任何决定,我都不会回避责任。并且会继续努力推进。”
英文原文
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur will get his Formula 1 drivers together in Brazil to discuss their costly opening-lap dice in Mexico, as Lewis Hamilton vows "I'll never be silenced".
Charles Leclerc and Hamilton fought each other hard on the opening lap in Mexico, allowing Max Verstappen to steal away what Ferrari believed was a likely victory.
Hamilton called into question Leclerc's racecraft after the race, saying he has a "do or die" mentality and a long history of fighting his team-mates too hard.
Ferrari felt that their battle crossed a line with team boss Vasseur telling Canal+ on Sunday evening that it was evidence of a "lack of respect" to Ferrari's employees.
The Race understands Vasseur is planning to sit Hamilton and Leclerc down together on Friday in Brazil to discuss the matter.
Vasseur spoke to both drivers individually after the race in Mexico, but he's planned a proper sit-down for Brazil when they're all in the same place.
Leclerc missed Thursday media day in Brazil after announcing the birth of his and his wife Alexandra's child on Wednesday, so a meeting earlier in the Brazil weekend wasn't possible.
With Leclerc absent, only Hamilton faced the media on Thursday, where he doubled down on his criticism of Leclerc.
Asked whether he agreed that Leclerc races him harder than other drivers, with the example of Leclerc backing out of passing Max Verstappen at the start in Singapore used as a comparison, Hamilton replied "Yes."
He added: "I can say what you see. Singapore, he was fully wheel to wheel, fully on the inside, had won the lead in Turn 1 in Singapore and backed off.
"Definitely [races them] different. If you look at the team-mates, it's the same with Sebastian [Vettel], it's the same with Carlos [Sainz]."
Hamilton made it clear he isn't going to change his outspoken approach, including over the team radio when he was asking if Leclerc had been penalised on lap one for cutting the track.
"How have my comments have been taken? I don't know. I don't really care how everyone feels about what I've said," Hamilton added.
"I wear my heart on my sleeve and I say how I feel in the moment. I think one thing that I would like to...I did see something that someone was saying that it's calculated, the things that I'm saying.
"I just want to combat that with the fact that when you're in the race, your heart rate is like 170[beats per minute]. You're driving at 200 miles an hour. You don't have time to be calculating what you're saying and thinking [what] you're saying to the media. You don't think about that.
"Usually your frustration comes out towards the people in the team, particularly the bosses about decisions. And also the stewards have always asked us to voice when we have…If there's an issue on the track, for example. You get held up, you get blocked, they ask you to voice it.
"An example is, if you look in Mexico, one of the practice sessions, [Isack] Hadjar, backed off on the racing line into Turn 1, I didn't say anything. They didn't look into it. If I had spoken, like throwing my hands up, for example, they would have investigated and he would have got a penalty, because it was impeding.
"So it is important to make sure you're open. Of course, there's some times you say things and maybe you might regret it afterwards, but I don't. I'm never going to apologise for being authentic and real. I'm never going to be silenced.
"I've not been asked to not say anything. And that's just the way it is."
Hamilton says he's "really worked hard to build a good relationship with Charles", knowing Leclerc is "very much embedded within the team" after eight years driving for Ferrari.
"I've always tried to be respectful," Hamilton said.
"Naturally, it's not so easy having someone like me come into a team because I'm very outspoken and I push and push and push, push for so many changes. And I'm going to be pushing for more. And as long as I'm here, that's how it's going to be. I'm here to win. To be able to win, you have to work with everyone around you."
Hamilton insists he "fully understands my responsibility to the team" and said he's "always trying to show my appreciation for them and my absolute utmost to help push the team forwards and I feel like I've been a big part of where we are today as a team, which is positive".
He said they "haven't had a time to sit down all face-to-face because Fred's been back in Maranello and Charles has been back in Monaco.
"But we will have a sit-down. I don't think everything's going to get squashed and sorted out in one meeting. But it is important.
"What we build now will put us in the right position for next year. And in some ways, I'm glad we've had that experience. Of course I'd rather have won and had a 1-2. But from that, you can learn.
"I really do believe that next year we can be fighting for world championships. That is the sole goal. So right now, in the background, my focus is on continuing to hold on to the performance we've picked up in the last few races in terms of execution and then working on next year's car.
"I obviously can't do anything about the engine, except for just push them and they'll continue to push in the background, I believe they are. With the car, it's steering it, making sure we steer it in the right direction. Making sure we arrive next year on the right foot. Then Fred's job is to make sure that we are all in the same direction.
"Of course, we're going to race hard. But fair and making sure that we get the maximum out of it."
Hamilton backed Vasseur, saying "I still believe Fred is the right guy to lead us to the championship".
Asked what he wants moving forward: "I think it's about communication. It's about understanding.
"I don't really know yet. I've tried to think of what the meeting will be like, how it's going to go. I never ever know.
"But what I will do is I'll make sure I'm always just authentically me. I won't back down from taking responsibility for any part that I play and any decisions that I make for the team. And just continue to push."
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