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扎克布朗--迈凯伦担当不起同时使用两位年轻车手 Experience is a priority for McLaren’s 2019 Formula 1 driver line-up because it would need a better car to “take a risk with two younger drivers”, according to CEO Zak Brown. Fernando Alonso is yet to confirm whether he wants to stay in F1 beyond 2018 and McLaren is deciding whether to continue with Stoffel Vandoorne, who has struggled to realise the potential shown in his junior single-seater career. McLaren has Formula 2 title contender and reserve driver Lando Norris waiting in the wings, but has been linked with multiple drivers including Kimi Raikkonen and Carlos Sainz in F1’s summer silly season. Asked if McLaren was prioritising A-list drivers or those it fell were more realistic, Brown, speaking in Hungary prior to F1’s summer break, said he was looking at “all of the above”. “It's difficult to get set in any one particular direction because so many pieces move,” he said. “In situations like this you need to keep every door and every avenue open and wait for some dominoes to fall. Sometimes it's in your control, sometimes it's not. “We know our situation with Stoffel. We’re seeing what other opportunities may or may not be available, seeing what ultimately Fernando wants to do. “It's also about the package – experience and youth – especially in the situation we're in. “Because we're rebuilding, to have two young drivers in our car wouldn't be a great place to be. “If we had a better racecar then you might take a risk with two younger drivers because you've given them good racecars.” While Alonso’s future is in his hands, Vandoorne is actively fighting to keep his seat. Brown said McLaren still backs Vandoorne and said it has given him “a ton of support”, pointing to the chassis change prior to the Hungarian GP weekend after an apparent downforce abnormality compared with Alonso’s car. “The reality is we have two open seats, and it's our job to get the best driver situation possible and that requires talking to other drivers up and down pitlane,” said Brown. “Every racing driver knows that they need to perform at the highest level because teams are always looking for the best solution at that moment. “We're very much behind Stoffel. It's one of the main reasons why Gil joined us, to help with the driver situation. “I feel very comfortable with giving him all the support we possibly can while we're in the Formula 1 silly season and of course having a look around at what the various opportunities are.” Brown had indicated that Force India’s situation would be a key catalyst in the driver market. Force India has now been saved by a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, which will have a knock-on effect on the driver market because his son Lance is expected to move from Williams and deny either Esteban Ocon or Sergio Perez a race seat.
阿隆索:范多恩比KIMI更接近与我 Fernando Alonso believes the struggling Stoffel Vandoorne is closer to his level than some of his previous Formula 1 teammates, including Kimi Raikkonen. Vandoorne was the slowest qualifier at Hockenheim for this weekend’s German Grand Prix, following on form a a forgettable race last time out at Silverstone. While McLaren believes the data shows Vandoorne’s car is suffering from a loss of performance compared to Alonso’s, it has yet to find the specific cause of the problems. Alonso joked that Vandoorne will “always be a little bit behind” because “it’s difficult to beat me!”, but he believes his teammate will get back on terms with him when the car problems are solved. “If you see previous teammates, they were a lot further [behind] than Stoffel,” Alonso said. “In 2014 it was six or seven tenths to Kimi every race. It’s less than that now. “He arrived [in F1] in a difficult car with some difficulties last year and this year as well. But he’s OK, and he will be very close in performance as soon as the car is delivering normal performance. “[There’s] nothing really to say to him. And for his reputation, you just need to wait and see, or see the results before Silverstone, or last year, in terms of qualifying." Vandoorne's average qualifying deficit to Alonso this year is 0.3 seconds, although over the last two weekends it has been 0.8s. Alonso outqualified Raikkonen 16 times out of 19 in 2014 when they were paired at Ferrari, with the average gap between them half a second. When asked about the damage the situation is doing to the Belgian’s reputation, Alonso added: “I don’t think [his reputation] is going down. “We just heard, and in Silverstone it was the same case, that the car is underperforming. “We, as a team, are trying to find the problem, and to have both cars in the same condition with the same performance. He has shown the talent already, there’s no need to prove anything.” Vandoorne: McLaren needs more time Vandoorne’s car problems have prompted suggestions McLaren needs to give him a new chassis, but he believes the team needs more time to find the cause of his struggles. “The team is more than capable of finding what is going on,” he said. “We need to give them a little bit of time now to dig deeper into the data. “We see some differences across the cars on the data, we’ve put a lot of effort already into solving what’s going on. “I wish I could give an answer. We’ve changed a lot of parts on the car, we’ve done nearly everything and we’ve come out with the same kind of problems. “Since Silverstone we’ve been almost last in every session by quite a big margin. I don’t think we’ve touched the point [on the car] yet where things are not working, so that’s the main priority now. “It’s just a lack of general grip, less downforce, a very tricky car to drive.”
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