兰多·诺里斯：希望梅赛德斯在拉斯维加斯被双取消资格，并在卡塔尔忘记进站
卫冕冠军兰多·诺里斯目前仅列车手积分榜第五，他开玩笑表示保住冠军的希望在于梅赛德斯车手在赛季后半段遭遇意外。他还引用传奇评论员穆雷·沃克名言“F1是‘如果’倒过来拼”来形容F1充满意外结果。
兰多·诺里斯：我希望梅赛德斯在拉斯维加斯被双双取消资格，然后在卡塔尔忘记进站
这位卫冕世界冠军开玩笑说，他卫冕冠军的机会取决于梅赛德斯车手在赛季下半程遭遇“香蕉皮”（倒霉事）
兰多·诺里斯，迈凯伦；乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯
正如传奇的英国一级方程式电视解说员默里·沃克曾说过的：“F1 是‘如果’的倒写”。虽然这一修辞手法的语法细节或许经不起仔细推敲，但事实仍然是，一级方程式运动常常会出现意想不到的结果。
这就是卫冕冠军诺里斯所指望的，因为在赛季第11轮比赛之前，他在车手积分榜上以112分远远落后于冠军领跑者安东内利的224分，仅列第五。上赛季11轮过后，他排名第二，落后于他的迈凯伦队友皮亚斯特里——后者当时已赢下五场大奖赛并另外四次登上领奖台，而四届世界冠军维斯塔潘则看起来已无缘争冠。
但在赞德沃特之后，Piastri仅再赢过一场大奖赛，Norris随即反超登上榜首，然而在赛季末的几轮中，两人都几乎被Verstappen追上——在拉斯维加斯和卡塔尔的灾难性比赛使得冠军之争直到最后一刻才见分晓。
正因如此，这位英国车手并没有把自己排除在本赛季争冠之外，尽管他明白梅赛德斯的统治格局需要类似2025年那样的剧情反转才能被打破。这也解释了他在荷兰大奖赛排位赛夺得杆位后，被问及夺冠前景时那番略显轻描淡写的回答。
“显然，去年我们就是那种局面的受害者，”他说，“但现在去想这些没有意义。”
“说实话，我根本不在乎下周末或下下周末我要做什么。知道这是一种可能性很不错，当然，我希望梅赛德斯在拉斯维加斯像我们一样被双重取消资格，然后在卡塔尔决定不进站，好让我们免费进站一次。所以只要他们犯同样的错误，事情大概就会一样轻松。
“不过是的，每一年都不一样。对我来说，我们仍然在某些方面努力追赶，但目前我已经把车子的每一分性能都发挥出来了，这就是我唯一能感到欣慰的。所以，我很开心。前面还有很长的路要走。
“我是乐观的，我仍然相信这是有可能的，这就是我现在所需要的。”
诺里斯，迈凯伦；拉塞尔，梅赛德斯
在诺里斯（Norris）赢得去年圣保罗大奖赛——24站比赛中的第21站——之后，香槟实际上已经冰镇待庆，因为他以390分领先皮亚斯特里（Piastri）的366分，维斯塔潘（Verstappen）则以341分位居第三。但随后迈凯伦在接下来两站比赛中表现得非常吃力。诺里斯和皮亚斯特里在拉斯维加斯分别以第二名和第四名完赛，却因赛车底板过度磨损而被取消资格。
在下一个周末的卡塔尔站，F1轮胎供应商倍耐力（Pirelli）规定大奖赛中每套轮胎最多使用25圈，以防范该赛道锋利路缘石造成损伤的影响。鉴于比赛全长57圈，这意味着至少需要两次进站。
比赛中，皮亚斯特里和诺里斯分别处于第一和第三位，当第7圈安全车出动时，一个显而易见的首次进站机会出现了。所谓显而易见，是对场上大多数车手而言，唯独迈凯伦例外——它让自己的车手留在了赛道上。
不得不在绿旗条件下两次进站使两辆迈凯伦损失了赛道位置，最终分别以第二和第四名完赛，维斯塔潘赢得比赛。这使得阿布扎比的收官战变得悬念重重，而诺里斯本应在离开卡塔尔之前就将总冠军收入囊中。
英文原文
Lando Norris: I hope Mercedes gets a double disqualification in Las Vegas and forgets to pit in Qatar
The defending world champion joked that the chances of retaining his title rely on the Mercedes drivers encountering banana skins in the second half of the season
Lando Norris, McLaren, George Russell, Mercedes
As the legendary British Formula 1 TV commentator Murray Walker once said “F1 is ‘if’ backwards”. While the grammatical details of this rhetorical flourish perhaps don’t stand up to close examination, the fact remains that Formula 1 is prone to unexpected outcomes.
This is what defending champion Lando Norris is relying upon since he now lies a distant fifth in the drivers’ standings ahead of the 11th round of the season, with 112 points to championship leader Kimi Antonelli’s 224. After 11 rounds last season, he was lying second to his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, who had won five grands prix and claimed four other podium finishes, while four-time world champion Max Verstappen looked to be out of the picture.
But Piastri then won just one other grand prix after Zandvoort as Norris moved into the lead, only for them both to be almost overtaken by Verstappen in the final rounds, where disastrous races in Las Vegas and Qatar meant the championship battle went down to the wire.
For that reason, the Briton isn’t counting himself out this season, though he knows the pattern of Mercedes dominance needs to be bent out of shape by a similar turn of events to those in 2025. Hence his somewhat flippant answer to a question about his championship chances after qualifying on pole position for the Dutch GP.
“Obviously, we were on the not-so-good end of it last year,” he said. “But there’s no point thinking about it.
“I honestly don’t care what I’m doing next weekend or the weekend after. It’s nice to know that it’s a possibility, and of course I’m hoping Mercedes get a double DSQ in Vegas like we did and decide not to box in Qatar for a free pitstop. So as long as they make the same mistakes, it’ll probably be just as easy.
“But yeah, every year is different. For me, we’re still trying to play catch-up with certain things, but I’m getting everything out of it for now, and that’s all I can be pleased about. So, I’m happy. It’s still a very long way to go.
“I’m optimistic, I still believe that it’s possible, and that’s all I need for now.”
Lando Norris, McLaren, George Russell, Mercedes
After Norris won last year’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix, round 21 of 24, the champagne was practically on ice since he led by 390 points to Piastri’s 366, with Verstappen on 341. But McLaren then made very heavy weather of the following two rounds. Norris and Piastri finished second and fourth on the road in Las Vegas but were then disqualified for excessive plank wear on the underfloor of their cars.
At the next weekend, in Qatar, F1 tyre supplier Pirelli mandated a maximum limit of 25 laps for each set of tyres in the grand prix, to protect against the effect of damage from that circuit’s sharp kerb edges. Given the 57-lap duration of the race, this meant a minimum of two stops.
During the race, Piastri and Norris were running first and third when a safety car deployment on lap seven created a very obvious opportunity to make the first of these stops. Obvious, that is, to the majority of the field except McLaren, which left its drivers out.
Having to make two stops under green-flag conditions cost the McLarens track position and they finished second and fourth as Verstappen won, setting up a dramatic finale in Abu Dhabi when Norris should have put the championship beyond reach before leaving Qatar.
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