维斯塔潘打破新加坡大奖赛冠军荒 汉密尔顿策略失误
维斯塔潘赢得新加坡大奖赛冠军,法拉利因策略失误错失双料领奖台。
周六的短道赛冠军维斯塔潘在整个周末都表现出色,他在起跑线和开场几圈中成功抵御了查尔斯·勒克莱尔的挑战,并逐渐扩大了领先优势,尤其是在第一次进站的时间点上。
随着维斯塔潘延长了他的第一圈,注意力转向了已经进站的法拉利。
勒克莱尔在维修区中保持了位置,但这让他转到了中胎,而此时汉密尔顿则在后面紧追不舍,使用的是更快的高速胎。
汉密尔顿首先在车队无线电中抱怨在单圈中失去了两秒,然后坚持说“我需要用这个速度,伙计。”
但法拉利没有下令改变位置,勒克莱尔最终开始缩小差距,直到第62圈的第39圈虚拟安全车给了领先车辆一个停下的机会。
勒克莱尔利用了这个机会,换上了用过的软胎,但汉密尔顿继续使用他的软胎,获得了赛道位置,但最终在轮胎年龄上处于21圈的劣势。
当法拉利犹豫是否要为汉密尔顿进站时——这位七届冠军询问他是否可以延长到C计划,这是一个单站策略时——它这样做的时间窗口很快就消失了。勒克莱尔要求法拉利不要浪费时间,因为他追上了姐妹车,汉密尔顿也相应地遵守了,在第48圈的5号弯道处让车。
勒克莱尔在最后几圈将差距缩短了一半,但最终还是以7.335秒的差距落后于维斯塔潘,维斯塔潘在最后时刻最大的麻烦是车手与车队无线电通信失败,以及从最后一个弯道出来的一个失误。
因此,在最后几圈,人们的注意力转向了汉密尔顿会跌落到什么位置。
到第54圈时,他已经落后于兰多·诺里斯和基米·安东内利,在下一圈开始时,汉密尔顿试图在诺里斯的外侧坚持到底,进入第一个弯道,结果开到了跑道上,破坏了麦克拉伦的线路,这也导致了它偏离了赛道。
这给了安东内利超过诺里斯的机会,在那一圈结束前,世界冠军领跑者也超过了汉密尔顿,夺得了第三名,诺里斯在下一圈的10号弯左转处最终超过了汉密尔顿。
汉密尔顿的低迷在比赛最后三分之一时达到顶峰,当时奥斯卡·皮亚斯蒂里因为慢漏气而落后,在倒数第二圈超越了他,赛后汉密尔顿向法拉利道歉,为自己的坚持留在赛道上的请求表示歉意。
“对不起,孩子们,今天是我那个策略让你们失望了。我的决定,”他说。
皮亚斯蒂里以第五名的成绩完成比赛,比队友诺里斯慢了九秒,诺里斯在最后几圈被要求谨慎驾驶,因为麦凯轮车队发现了一个潜在的传感器问题。
利安姆·劳森为小红牛车队又完成了一场出色的比赛,以第七名的成绩结束,比奥迪车队的尼科·胡肯伯格快了1.7秒,胡肯伯格在最后几圈阻止了乔治·拉塞尔的梅赛德斯赛车,而拉塞尔是从第19位起步的。
哈贾尔是另一位处于恢复状态的驾驶员。从赛道后部 - 在比赛开始时,他是维修区最后一排三辆车中的最后一辆 - 红牛车手一路冲到了第10位,在最后五圈中超过了阿尔卑斯车队第七位发车的皮埃尔·加斯利,获得了最后一个积分。
DNS:兰斯·斯特罗尔(阿斯顿·马丁)、弗朗哥·科拉平托(阿尔卑斯)、加布里埃尔·博托莱托(奥迪)
英文原文
Max Verstappen claimed his first Singapore Grand Prix win as Ferrari squandered a double-podium by fumbling Lewis Hamilton's strategy.
Saturday's sprint race winner Verstappen had been the class of the field through the weekend and, having resisted Charles Leclerc off the line and through the opening laps, steadily increased his advantage - particularly around the timing of the first pitstops.
As Verstappen extended his first stint, attention instead turned to the Ferraris once both of them had pitted.
Leclerc retained position through these stops, but that took him onto the medium compound tyre - with Hamilton then in hot pursuit and on the faster soft tyre.
Hamilton complained over the team radio first of losing two seconds on one lap and then insisting "I need to use this speed, mate".
But Ferrari did not order a change of positions and Leclerc did eventually begin to eke out a gap until a virtual safety car on lap 39 of 62 afforded the leading cars a chance to stop.
Leclerc did take advantage of that by swapping onto a used set of soft tyres but Hamilton stayed out on his soft tyres, gaining track position but ending up at a 21-lap tyre-age disadvantage.
As Ferrari dithered over whether to pit Hamilton - with the seven-time champion asking whether he could extend onto Plan C, considered to be a one-stop strategy - its window to do so soon disappeared. Leclerc asked Ferrari not to lose time as he caught the sister car and Hamilton duly obliged, moving over at Turn 5 on lap 48.
Leclerc did halve the gap to Verstappen in the closing laps but still ended up 7.335s down at the flag, with Verstappen's biggest dramas late on being a failure of his driver-to-team radio and a wide moment out of the final corner.
Attention in the final laps therefore turned to how far down the order Hamilton would tumble.
By lap 54 he had Lando Norris and Kimi Antonelli on his tail, and at the start of the following lap Hamilton tried to stick it out around the outside of Norris into the first corner, taking to the run-off as a result and compromising the line of the McLaren, which also ran off-track.
That allowed Antonelli to sweep past Norris and before the end of the lap the world championship leader had also cleared Hamilton to claim third place, with Norris finally working his way past Hamilton at the Turn 10 left-hander the following lap.
Hamilton's slump was completed when Oscar Piastri - who'd suffered a slow-puncture in the final third of the race - passed him on the penultimate lap, with Hamilton apologising to Ferrari post-race for his request to stay out.
"Sorry boys I let you down today with that strategy. My call," he said.
Piastri was fifth, nine seconds behind team-mate Norris, who was asked to drive with caution in the final laps after McLaren spotted a potential sensor issue.
Liam Lawson drove another exemplary race to seventh for Racing Bulls, finishing 1.7s ahead of Audi's Nico Hulkenberg - who held the second Mercedes of George Russell off in the closing laps, Russell having started 19th.
Isack Hadjar was another driver on a recovery charge. From the back of the field - he was last in line of the three cars at the end of the pitlane at the start of the race - the Red Bull driver made it through to 10th, passing Alpine's seventh-place starter Pierre Gasly for the final point inside the final five laps.
DNF: Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Franco Colapinto (Alpine), Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi)
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