梅赛德斯解释拉塞尔西班牙站VSC下进站原因
梅赛德斯副领队布拉德利·洛德解释了乔治·拉塞尔在F1西班牙大奖赛中为何在虚拟安全车（VSC）下进站，尽管他是以硬胎起步。拉塞尔是顶级车队中唯一没有坚持一停策略的车手，这主要与VSC介入的时机有关。
梅赛德斯解释乔治·拉塞尔在马德里为何在VSC下进站
VSC的时机对拉塞尔在马德里的比赛极为不利，他当时进站或许令人意外；梅赛德斯已详细说明其策略决定
梅赛德斯副领队布拉德利·洛德解释了乔治·拉塞尔在F1西班牙大奖赛中为何在虚拟安全车下进站，尽管他是以硬胎起步。
拉塞尔是顶级车队中唯一没有在马德里这条超车极其困难的赛道上坚持一停策略的车手，这主要与VSC介入的时机有关。
赛会控制中心在第14圈结束时中和了比赛，这有利于以中性胎或软胎起步的前四名车手——除了兰多·诺里斯，他在VSC宣布时已经通过了维修区入口。
然而，查尔斯·勒克莱尔和拉塞尔等人以硬胎起步。勒克莱尔留在赛道上并领跑至第45圈进站，而梅赛德斯车手在VSC下换上了中性胎，然后在第28圈换回硬胎。
与此同时，梅赛德斯队友兼积分榜领先者基米·安东内利在VSC时机有利、杆位得主诺里斯被排除后获胜。
“VSC对乔治的作用非常不同，它出现在对他最糟糕的时刻，因为他以硬胎起步，本打算跑长距离并利用比赛后期的任何事件，”洛德详细说道。
“他以第6位硬胎起步进入比赛，计划一停。当VSC出动时，他是硬胎中仅次于勒克莱尔法拉利的第二辆车。因此我们叫乔治‘与勒克莱尔相反地进站’。
“为什么？因为如果我们不这样做，他就会简单地跟随勒克莱尔到终点。提前进站的机会非常非常有限，而对于轮胎年龄相近的赛车来说，超车的机会几乎不存在。
“所以我们让乔治换上了中性胎。我们知道中性胎无法跑完剩余的43圈，但通过做一些不同的事情——乔治跑了20圈，然后我们换回硬胎，因为你希望尽可能多地在比赛中使用硬胎。
“乔治随后展现了非常令人印象深刻的表现。他足够快，实际上把勒克莱尔拖进了维修区，可能比法拉利希望的要早，这样把勒克莱尔拖了进来，给了基米前方的干净空气，但随后乔治在最后几圈用相当脆弱的软胎向勒克莱尔施压，最终以仅落后0.7秒完赛。
“赛后乔治非常务实，他说他并不认为我们做什么会有区别，无论是让他留在外面还是进站，鉴于在马德里超车的难度，他很可能总是以第5名完赛。”
尽管以0.4秒的优势做出最快圈速，拉塞尔的低排名结果再次打击了他的冠军希望。这位英国人现在落后安东内利81分，并公开表示他“极不可能”甚至争夺冠军。
英文原文
Mercedes explains why George Russell pitted under VSC at Madring
The timing of the VSC was highly detrimental to Russell’s race in Madrid, and it was perhaps surprising for him to pit then; Mercedes has expanded on its strategy call
Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has explained why George Russell pitted under the virtual safety car despite starting on hard tyres in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.
Russell was the only driver from the top teams not to stick to a one-stop on a Madring track where overtaking was at a premium, which was largely down to the timing of the VSC intervention.
Race control neutralised the race at the end of lap 14, which played into the hands of the top four drivers, who started on medium or soft tyres – except Lando Norris, who was already past the pitlane entry when the VSC was announced.
The likes of Charles Leclerc and Russell, however, started the race on the hard compound. Leclerc stayed out and led the race until his lap-45 pitstop, while the Mercedes driver switched to mediums under the VSC and then back to hards on lap 28.
Meanwhile, Mercedes team-mate and championship leader Kimi Antonelli triumphed after the fortunate timing of the neutralisation took polesitter Norris out of his way.
“The VSC worked very differently for George, it fell at the worst possible time for him given that he'd started the race on hards and was looking to run long and capitalise on any events later in the race,” Lord detailed.
“He headed into the race starting on the hard tyre from P6 with a plan to do a one-stop. When the VSC came out he was the second car running on the hard tyre behind Leclerc's Ferrari. Therefore we called for George to do a ‘box opposite to Leclerc’.
“Why? Because had we not done so he would have simply followed Leclerc to the finish. The opportunity to undercut was very, very limited, and the opportunity to overtake was almost non-existent for cars on similar age tyres.
“So we put George onto the medium. We knew that medium wasn't going to be able to do 43 laps to the end, but in doing something different – so George did a 20-lap stint, and then we jumped back onto the hard tyre, because you wanted to be on that hard tyre for as much of the race as possible.
“George then unleashed some really impressive performance. He was going quick enough that he actually pulled Leclerc into the pits probably earlier than Ferrari had wanted to and so that pulled Leclerc in, gave Kimi the free air up front but also then George was pressuring Leclerc in those final laps on that soft tyre that was quite fragile, and actually ended the race only 0.7 seconds behind.
“After the race George was very pragmatic, he said he didn't really think it mattered what we'd have done, whether we'd have left him out or boxed him, he was always likely to finish in P5 given the difficulty of overtaking at the Madring.”
Despite setting the fastest lap by four tenths, Russell’s lowly result was another blow to his championship hopes. The Briton now lies 81 points adrift of Antonelli and openly feels “exceptionally unlikely” to even fight for the title.
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