乔治·拉塞尔回应刘易斯·汉密尔顿的梅赛德斯升级评论

乔治·拉塞尔在摩纳哥大奖赛上澄清了梅赛德斯的升级戏剧，声称刘易斯·汉密尔顿在冷落了一次抛硬币后“很高兴”让他运行更新的前翼。

George Russell has clarified the situation surrounding Mercedes' upgrade drama at the Monaco Grand Prix, revealing that Lewis Hamilton was "happy" to let him use the updated front wing after declining a coin toss to decide.

乔治·拉塞尔澄清了围绕梅赛德斯在摩纳哥大奖赛上的升级戏剧的情况，透露刘易斯·汉密尔顿在拒绝掷硬币决定后“很高兴”让他使用更新的前翼。

Russell outqualified Hamilton for the seventh time in eight races in F1 2024, claiming fifth on the grid in Monaco, with Max Verstappen's Red Bull splitting the Mercedes team-mates.

拉塞尔在 2024 年 F1 八场比赛中第七次在排位赛中击败汉密尔顿，在摩纳哥发车时获得第五名，马克斯·维斯塔潘的红牛车队则将梅赛德斯队友平分秋色。

George Russell responds to Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes upgrade comments

乔治·拉塞尔回应刘易斯·汉密尔顿的梅赛德斯升级评论

After the session, Hamilton, who had been a fixture in the top three throughout practice at the principality before fading to seventh in Q3, revealed that Russell was running the only upgraded front wing available to Mercedes in Monaco.

赛后，汉密尔顿在公国的训练中一直稳居前三，但在第三季度跌至第七位。他透露，拉塞尔正在摩纳哥使用梅赛德斯唯一升级的前翼。

The seven-time World Champion claimed he was “automatically” two tenths down on Russell heading into qualifying as a result, before suggesting that he does not “anticipate” being ahead of his team-mate in qualifying very often in F1 2024.

这位七届世界冠军声称，他在进入排位赛时“自动”落后拉塞尔十分之二，然后表示他不会“预计”在 2024 年 F1 排位赛中经常领先于队友。

Hamilton's comments sparked suggestions that Russell may now be receiving upgrade priority as the former prepares to leave Mercedes for Ferrari in F1 2025.

汉密尔顿的言论引发了人们的猜测，即拉塞尔现在可能会获得升级优先权，因为前者准备在 2025 年 F1 比赛中离开梅赛德斯前往法拉利。

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However, appearing on Channel 4's coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix, Russell revealed that Hamilton was happy for him to use the new front wing, having sampled the upgrade in the simulator in the build-up to the race weekend.

然而，拉塞尔在第 4 频道对摩纳哥大奖赛的报道中透露，汉密尔顿很高兴他能使用新的前翼，并在比赛周末的准备阶段在模拟器中试用了升级版本。

And he claimed that Hamilton's decision to pass over the upgrade stemmed from concerns that damage to the front wing in Monaco would force him to revert to a previous specification and therefore trigger a pit-lane start.

他声称汉密尔顿决定放弃升级的原因是担心摩纳哥前翼的损坏将迫使他恢复到之前的规格，从而触发维修站起步。

He said: “There was one front wing this weekend and it was agreed on Tuesday that we’d do a coin toss and see who got it.

他说：“这个周末有一个前翼，周二我们同意掷硬币，看看谁得到了它。

“Lewis said he’d tried it on the sim and was happy for me to use it this weekend, because it doesn’t go without risk.

“刘易斯说他已经在 SIM 卡上尝试过，并且很高兴我这个周末使用它，因为它并非没有风险。

“If we made a mistake in qualifying and damaged it, obviously that’s one front wing that we won’t ever be able to use again and you’d have to start from the pit lane.

“如果我们在排位赛中犯了错误并损坏了它，显然我们将永远无法再次使用那个前翼，你必须从维修区开始。

“I was happy to take that risk using it and I thought it was a belated birthday present he gave me, saying I could use it.”

“我很高兴冒着使用它的风险，我认为这是他送给我的一份迟来的生日礼物，说我可以使用它。”

Put to him that Hamilton did not even want to take the coin toss, Russell replied: “No, we didn’t do the coin toss.”

当汉密尔顿问他甚至不想掷硬币时，拉塞尔回答说：“不，我们没有掷硬币。”

It is not the first time in F1 2024 that Russell and Hamilton have offered contrasting views over Mercedes' procedures, with Hamilton claiming at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix that he had settled on a set-up more suited to the race after lagging behind Russell in qualifying.

这并不是 F1 2024 中拉塞尔和汉密尔顿第一次对梅赛德斯的程序提出截然不同的看法，汉密尔顿在赛季揭幕战巴林大奖赛上声称，在落后之后，他已经选择了更适合比赛的设置拉塞尔在排位赛中。

That claim was disputed by Russell, who told media including PlanetF1.com that he and Hamilton had “pretty similar” set-up with “no big differences.”

这一说法遭到了拉塞尔的质疑，他告诉包括 PlanetF1.com 在内的媒体，他和汉密尔顿的设置“非常相似”，“没有太大差异”。

Speaking to media including PlanetF1.com the morning Hamilton's move to Ferrari was confirmed in February, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff insisted that the team would remain “transparent and fair” ahead of Hamilton's impending switch to the Scuderia.

汉密尔顿于二月份确认转会法拉利的早晨，梅赛德斯车队领队托托·沃尔夫在接受包括 PlanetF1.com 在内的媒体采访时坚称，在汉密尔顿即将转投法拉利车队之前，车队将保持“透明和公平”。

But he conceded that team and driver were both likely to face “new and challenging situations” over the course of F1 2024.

但他承认，在 2024 年 F1 比赛中，车队和车手都可能面临“新的、具有挑战性的情况”。

He said: “I think what I’ve always tried to do as a team principal, and all of us at Mercedes, is to be transparent and fair – and nothing's going to change in that respect in 2024.

他说：“我认为，作为车队负责人，以及梅赛德斯的所有人，我一直努力做的就是保持透明和公平——到 2024 年，这方面不会有任何改变。

“We owe it to our principles and our racing intent, how we go about [racing], and we will respect that. And I will [ensure] that the drivers will respect that.

“我们应该尊重我们的原则和我们的比赛意图，以及我们如何进行[比赛]，我们会尊重这一点。我将[确保]司机们会尊重这一点。

“In terms of the development going forward, I think this is something which we need to look at.

“就未来的发展而言，我认为这是我们需要关注的事情。

“The regulations stay pretty much the same and when it comes to 2025, we will evaluate later in the season what it means in terms of technical information.

“规则几乎保持不变，到了 2025 年，我们将在赛季晚些时候评估它对技术信息的意义。

“But that’s not something that bothers me at all. We have engineers that leave us and go to other teams, and the notice periods are sometimes as short as six months, so I don’t have any doubt about Lewis's integrity in terms of sharing information in that respect.

“但这根本不是什么让我烦恼的事情。我们有工程师离开我们，去了其他团队，通知期有时短至六个月，所以我对刘易斯在这方面共享信息的诚信没有任何怀疑。

“I just want to make sure – we want to make sure – that this is a successful season – a successful season for both drivers and a successful season for Mercedes all of us will give our utmost to achieve that.

“我只是想确保——我们想确保——这是一个成功的赛季——对于两位车手来说都是一个成功的赛季，对于梅赛德斯来说也是一个成功的赛季，我们所有人都将竭尽全力实现这一目标。

“It’s definitely a new situation to manage, for Lewis and the team, but it is something that when you focus on the really short term – and this is the racing team that’s been deployed to run the product

“对于刘易斯和团队来说，这绝对是一个需要管理的新情况，但当你专注于真正的短期时，这就是被部署来运行该产品的赛车团队