梅赛德斯领队盛赞安东内利加冕，承认拉塞尔遭遇机械故障
梅赛德斯工程主管安德鲁·肖夫林盛赞安东内利夺冠表现，同时为电池故障毁掉拉塞尔的周日公开道歉。
梅赛德斯领队盛赞安东内利的大师级表现，同时承认他们辜负了乔治·拉塞尔
安德鲁·肖夫林盛赞安东内利的夺冠之路，同时为毁掉拉塞尔周日的电池故障道歉
乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯，安德烈亚·基米·安东内利，梅赛德斯
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在罗德里格斯兄弟赛道的布拉克利车库，见证了赛车运动的绝对极端。周日，车队成功加冕了F1历史上最年轻的世界车手冠军，但与此同时，工程部门高层却被迫因机械故障向车库另一侧公开道歉。
墨西哥城大奖赛后，赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林迅速赞扬了这位新晋冠军，并强调了极为有效的轮胎策略。这位20岁的意大利车手执行了超长的首段赛程，将软胎坚持到40圈以上，从而对场上其他车手形成了显著的战略错位。
“恭喜基米赢得他的首个世界冠军，”肖夫林赛后表示。“这是一场相当多事的比赛，但他在第一段对软胎的管理做得非常出色，能够坚持超过40圈。”
尽管第45圈的红旗抹去了这来之不易的轮胎优势，这位年轻天才在重启后并未退缩。他从第四位全力推进，干净利落地超越了法拉利的查尔斯·勒克莱尔，抢下季军，排在分站冠军马克斯·维斯塔潘和刘易斯·汉密尔顿之后，锁定了2026年的总冠军。
这位工程主管解释道：“他重新起步时排在第4位，但对勒克莱尔完成了一次非常漂亮的超越，重新回到领奖台位置，此后他跑了一场控制得非常好的比赛，拿下第3名和总冠军。整个赛季他的驾驶都非常出色，今天在一切悬而未决的情况下处理比赛的方式，再次证明了他取得的进步。”
当冠军庆祝活动在围场一侧拉开帷幕时，肖夫林对毁掉乔治·拉塞尔下午的机械失误给出了直率的评价。
这位英国车手从发车格第2位起步，却在到达第一个刹车区之前就遭遇了电池输出故障。电能的突然缺失让他在巨大的主直道上不断丢位置，彻底毁掉了他的比赛策略，最终导致他在6号弯撞转红牛的伊萨克·哈贾尔，被处以一次绝望而笨拙的10秒罚时。
肖夫林承认：“乔治这个下午很艰难，但这并非他自己的过错。在通往1号弯的路段上出现的输出问题让他丢了好几个位置，从一开始就让他陷入被动。从那以后，他不得不在车流中追赶，而与哈贾尔的接触以及随后的罚时让这项任务更加艰难。”
尽管早早打转、被罚时，又遭遇严重车流，这位老将依然保持冷静，奋力拼下一个来之不易的第六名完赛。不过，梅赛德斯维修区墙（pitwall）拒绝为电气故障找借口。
“这很令人沮丧，因为我们没给他所需要的比赛起步，这是我们车队的责任，”赛道总监坦言。
车手总冠军已稳稳收入囊中，但这家德国制造商毫无松油门的打算，围场即将收拾行装前往英特拉格斯。
“前往巴西之前，我们还有很多要专注的事情，”肖夫林总结道。“我们希望把车队总冠军也加到车手总冠军之上，我们知道仍必须拿出相应的表现才能做到。今天我们会好好享受，然后很快把注意力转向下一场比赛。”
英文原文
Mercedes boss praises Antonelli’s masterclass while admitting they failed George Russell
Andrew Shovlin praises Antonelli's title run while apologising for the battery failure that ruined Russell's Sunday
George Russell, Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
For Mercedes fans. All the latest from the Silver Arrows, with F1 news, driver updates, car development and race analysis from Brackley and Brixworth.
The Brackley garage experienced the absolute extremes of motorsport at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez. While the team successfully crowned the youngest world drivers' champion in Formula 1 history on Sunday, the engineering brass was simultaneously forced to publicly apologise to the other side of the garage for a mechanical failure.
Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin was quick to praise his newly minted champion following the Mexico City Grand Prix, highlighting a brutally effective tyre strategy. The 20-year-old Italian executed a massive opening stint, nursing the soft compound rubber well past the 40-lap mark to create a significant strategic offset against the rest of the grid.
"Congratulations to Kimi on his first world championship," Shovlin remarked after the race. "It was quite an eventful race, but he did a really good job managing the Soft tyre in the first stint and was able to run it beyond 40 laps."
While the Lap 45 red flag wiped out that hard-earned tyre advantage, the young prodigy did not flinch on the restart. Dropping the hammer from fourth place, he executed a clinical pass on Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to snatch a podium finish behind race winner Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, sealing the 2026 crown.
"He restarted P4 but made a very good move on Leclerc to get back into the podium positions and drove a very controlled race from there to take P3 and the title," the engineering boss explained. "He has driven superbly across the season and the way he handled the race today, with everything that was at stake, was another demonstration of the progress he has made."
While the championship celebrations kicked off on one side of the paddock, Shovlin offered a blunt assessment of the mechanical blunder that ruined George Russell's afternoon.
Launching from second on the grid, the British driver suffered a battery deployment failure before ever reaching the first braking zone. The sudden lack of electrical energy caused him to bleed positions on the massive main straight, completely destroying his race strategy and ultimately leading to a desperate, clumsy 10-second penalty for spinning Red Bull's Isack Hadjar at Turn 6.
"George had a difficult afternoon through no fault of his own," Shovlin admitted. "The deployment issue on the run to Turn 1 cost him several positions and put him on the back foot from the very start. From there, he was having to recover in traffic, and the contact with Hadjar and subsequent penalty made that task harder."
Despite the early spin, the time penalty, and the heavy traffic, the veteran charger kept his composure to salvage a hard-fought sixth-place finish. Still, the Mercedes pitwall refused to make excuses for the electrical glitch.
"It’s frustrating because we didn’t give him the start to the race that he needed, and that is on us as a team," the trackside director confessed.
With the drivers' crown firmly secured, the German manufacturer has zero intention of lifting off the throttle as the paddock packs up for Interlagos.
"We have plenty to focus on as we head to Brazil," Shovlin concluded. "We want to add the Constructors’ Championship to the Drivers’ title, and we know we still must deliver the performances to do that. We’ll enjoy today, then turn our attention very quickly to the next race."
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