美国大奖赛后维斯塔潘与哈贾尔对红牛表达不满
美国大奖赛后，维斯塔潘和哈贾尔因起步不佳、无线电通讯问题以及两停策略选择对红牛表达强烈不满，维斯塔潘认为两停策略让一停的安东内利拿下胜利。
美国大奖赛后，马克斯·维斯塔潘和伊萨克·哈贾尔因一系列本可避免的问题对红牛表达强烈不满，这些问题让他们无法充分发挥赛车的潜力。
起步阶段就出了问题，维斯塔潘和哈贾尔分别从第二位和第三位发车，但起步表现不佳。
随后两人在整场比赛中都受到无线电问题的困扰，与维修区墙的沟通变得困难；同时维斯塔潘对两停策略的选择感到恼火，这一选择让一停的基米·安东内利得以拿下统治性胜利。
尽管车队领队洛朗·梅基斯在冲线后立即通过无线电承认车队有"几件事需要整理"，但驾驶舱内的沮丧情绪显然十分强烈。
在拿下第三名冲过终点线后，维斯塔潘在赛后一段语气低沉的无线电信息中说：“太糟糕了：速度、错误的轮胎、糟糕的进站、糟糕的发动机制动。什么都不管用。”
赛后接受Viaplay采访时，被问及是否同意在第二段 stint 中改用软胎、而当时看起来更应该使用更硬配方轮胎的策略决定，维斯塔潘说：“不，并没有达成一致。这就是我不理解的原因。那样的话，所有人都会知道我们要执行两停。”
随后，在提到平衡和发动机制动方面的挣扎——而持续的无线电问题让情况雪上加霜——维斯塔潘讽刺地对媒体说：“也许我们干脆开始用手语交流算了。那样可能还更便宜。”
“这是一场灾难。说实话，真的非常令人沮丧。”
哈贾尔更加愤怒，他暗示红牛需要重新设计离合器，因为起步多次乏力。
“需要重新设计，因为目前它太脆弱了，”最终以第六名完赛的哈贾尔说道。“它无法很好地应对温度。这真的很艰难。”
随后，他对车队无线电这样相对简单的事情为何会成为如此令人沮丧的问题表示困惑。
“目前我们连小事都做不好，”他说。“我的无线电很差，我甚至不知道发生了什么。我松开离合器，结果就变成了一场噩梦。
“我们把这两个问题解决掉，可能就能登上领奖台了。看起来最难的事情我们能做到，而那些愚蠢的小事却做不到。”
梅基斯很清楚这些问题，它们让原本可能的胜利挑战变成了车手们一个令人沮丧的下午。
关于维斯塔潘的策略决定，红牛表示需要分析为什么第二段 stint（ stint）的轮胎退化如此严重，考虑到比赛开局阶段与安东内利的对抗看起来相当势均力敌。
被问及维斯塔潘的抱怨时，梅基斯说：“我不确定他指的是什么，因为我没有听到他说的话，但我觉得可能让他感到意外的一件事是，我们选择给他装上第二套软胎，这当然不是我们的基准选项。”
“不幸的是，正如你在第二阶段看到的那样，我们也遭遇了相当高的轮胎磨损，所以这可能是我们需要一起复盘的事情之一，为什么我们在第二阶段磨损得那么厉害。”
不过，梅基斯认为，无论选择什么策略，安东内利的速度优势都意味着他无论如何都会赢——而红牛传统上在较软配方上表现更好。
“可以说，与竞争对手相比，我们通常在较软配方上享有一点优势，但今天我们很难利用这一优势，”他说。
“我们为马克斯使用了两套较软配方，磨损相当高，这当然无助于我们落实第二次进站。”
维斯塔潘确实认为，红牛被拖入了一个基于其赛车在最近几场比赛中使用软胎表现良好而做出的决定。
他说：“有一刻很明显，使用更硬配方轮胎的人找到了很多抓地力，所以我想我们也没有真正对此做出反应。”
“可能只是过于坚持我们过去两场比赛的信念，当时更软的配方是最快的，而显然在这里那没有奏效。”
关于无线电问题，梅基斯表示，红牛对于为何连续第二场比赛遭遇这个问题感到困惑，但表示现在修复它是优先事项。
他说：“如果我们真的弄明白了，那问题早就解决了。所以我们并不完全清楚为什么会受到这些问题的影响。”
“当然，我必须承认竞争对手比我们做得更好，因为我们显然能听到所有人的无线电，而我们一直挣扎得比我们希望的要更多。”
他补充道：“这让每个人的日子都非常难过，所以这确实是我们希望尽快解决的问题，因为这是一个本应正常工作、不应耗费我们太多精力的事项。”
关于起步不佳以及哈贾尔提出需要重新设计离合器的建议，梅基斯认为这更像是2027年的项目，而非短期内的任务。
起步依赖于包括发动机、变速箱和离合器在内的多种元素的组合，因此这不是能够快速解决的问题。
因此，尽管可以继续改进以尽量减少问题，但在明年年初之前不太可能有更大的修复。
梅基斯补充道：“尽管我们已经缩小了与竞争对手的差距，你可能还记得我们年初的起步有多糟糕，但我们仍然不是标杆。”
“事实上，赛车在此期间有了很大改进，并且更接近前排竞争，这使得现在的这一劣势更加痛苦，因为我们周围的竞争非常激烈。
"一方面，我有信心从现在到年底我们会继续缩小与竞争对手的差距，因为每一场比赛我们都在学习，每一场比赛我们都能找到缩小差距的小方法。
"另一方面，我同样清楚，在赛季结束前我们不会成为标杆，这需要一些重大的设计和硬件改动，而这是我们只有到明年才会看到的事情。"
英文原文
Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar let rip at Red Bull after Formula 1's United States Grand Prix for a series of avoidable problems that left them unable to fully capitalise on the potential of their car.
Things went wrong at the start as Verstappen and Hadjar in particular made poor getaways from second and third on the grid.
The pair were then hampered throughout the race by radio problems that made communication with the pitwall difficult, while Verstappen was annoyed about the choice of a two-stop strategy that left the door open for the one-stopping Kimi Antonelli to take a dominant win.
Despite a radio message from team principal Laurent Mekies immediately after the chequered flag confessing the team had "a few things to tidy up", it was clear that frustrations were high in the cockpit.
In a bleak post-race radio message after taking the chequered flag in third, Verstappen said: "Terrible: the pace, the wrong tyre, sh** pitstop, sh** engine braking. Nothing worked."
Speaking to Viaplay after the race about whether he agreed on the strategy call in committing to softs for the second stint when the harder compounds appeared to be in play, Verstappen said: "No, it wasn't agreed upon. That's why I don't get it. Then everyone would know we're doing a two-stop."
Later on, referencing struggles with balance and engine braking that were not helped by the ongoing radio problems, Verstappen sarcastically told the media: "Maybe we just start communicating in sign language. It's probably cheaper as well.
"It's a disaster. It's really frustrating, to be honest."
Hadjar was even angrier, as he suggested that Red Bull needed a new clutch design because of the repeated weak starts.
"It needs a redesign because at the moment it's too fragile," said Hadjar, who eventually came home sixth. "It's not coping well with temperatures. It's a real struggle."
And then he expressed bafflement about why a relatively simple thing such as the team radio was such a frustrating issue.
"At the moment it's the little things we can't do," he said. "I have a poor radio, I don't even know what's happening. I dropped the clutch, it's going into a nightmare.
"We fix these two already, we might be on the podium. The hardest things it seems like we can do, and the silly things we can't."
Mekies was well aware of the issues that turned a possible victory challenge into a frustrating afternoon for his drivers.
On Verstappen's strategy call, Red Bull said it needed to analyse why the degradation on that second stint had been so poor, considering that the opening part of the race against Antonelli had appeared to be quite evenly matched.
Asked about Verstappen's complaints, Mekies said: "I'm not sure what he was referring to, because I didn't hear what he said, but I think one thing that may have surprised him is the fact that we elected to put him in the second set on softs, [it] was certainly not the baseline option for us.
"Unfortunately, as you have seen in that second stint, we also suffered a fairly high degradation, so it was probably one of the things we will review together, on why we degraded that much in that second stint."
Mekies felt, however, that whatever strategy was chosen Antonelli’s pace advantage meant he would have won anyway - and Red Bull has traditionally gone better on the softer compounds.
"It's probably fair to say that we normally enjoy a bit of an advantage compared to competition with the softer compounds, and today we have struggled to use that advantage," he said.
"We have suffered some fairly high deg with Max on the two sets of softer compounds that we had, and that certainly didn't help materialising the second stop."
Verstappen certainly thought Red Bull had got sucked into a call based on how well its car had run on softs in recent races.
"At one point it was quite clear that the people on the harder compounds were finding a lot of grip, so I guess we also didn't really react to that," he said.
"Just probably sticking too much to our belief from the last two races, where the softer compounds were the fastest, and clearly here that didn't work."
On the radio issue, Mekies said that Red Bull was confused about why it had been hit with this problem for the second race running, but said it was now a priority to fix.
"If we were understanding it, we would have solved it," he said. "So we don't fully understand why we are being hit by these issues.
"Certainly, I have to admit that the competition is doing a better job than us, because we can obviously hear everyone's radio, and we have been struggling more than what we would have liked to."
He added: "It's making everyone's lives very difficult, so it is true that it's something that we would like to fix quite quickly, because it's an item that should be working without using too much of our energy."
In terms of the poor starts and Hadjar's suggestion of the need for a clutch redesign, Mekies thought this was more a project for 2027 than the short term.
With starts reliant on a combination of elements - including engine, gearbox and clutch - it is not something that can be quickly addressed.
So while improvements could continue to be made to minimise the problems, a bigger fix is unlikely before the start of next year.
Mekies added: "As much as we have reduced the gap to competition, and you may remember how bad our starts were at the beginning of the year, we are still not the benchmark.
"The fact that the car in the meantime improved a lot, and is fighting closer to the front, makes that deficit even more painful now, because competition around us is very strong.
"On one side I'm confident that we will continue to reduce the gap to the competition from now to the end of the year, because every race we learn, every race we come up with small ways to close the gap.
"On the other side, I equally know that we will not be the benchmark before the end of the season, that it will require some significant design and hardware changes, and that this is something that we will see only next year."
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