Motorsport.com的文章，就舉的車跑到一半發現漏冷卻液
車隊判斷可能無法撐完比賽，但是選擇不告訴車手繼續跑
最後車子也成功拿下分站冠軍
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標題:
Russell unaware of F1 water leak that Mercedes feared would cost Brazil win
內文:
Mercedes feared a water leak on George Russell’s car could have denied him
Formula 1 victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix, but opted not to inform him of
the issue.
Russell scored his maiden grand prix win at Interlagos on Sunday after
controlling proceedings to lead home a 1-2 finish ahead of Mercedes teammate
Lewis Hamilton.
It ended Mercedes’ winless season with one race to spare, and came two years
after Russell was cruelly denied a likely victory at the Sakhir Grand Prix
when he made a stand-in appearance for the team.
But it emerged after the race that an issue on Russell’s car left Mercedes
sweating on him actually getting to the chequered flag, revealing there had
been a water leak that emerged at half distance.
“We had a water leak on the car throughout the race, and it wasn’t clear
that we could actually make it to the end,” said team principal Toto Wolff.
The team explained that it had concerns at one stage the water leak would
leave Russell a handful of laps short of reaching the finish, only for the
car to hold on and make the chequered flag.
Russell was not informed there was the issue on his car as Wolff said the
team members “all agreed we’re going to let him drive to the end even
without water, on whatever was there to cool it, and just try to finish the
race.”
Russell defeated Max Verstappen in a wheel-to-wheel fight in the sprint race
on Saturday to gain P1 on the grid, and then managed to keep the sister Red
Bull of Sergio Perez at bay in the opening stint.
A late threat came courtesy of Hamilton, who was free to race Russell on the
last safety car restart and had tyres that were two laps fresher than his
younger team-mate’s set of softs.
Russell was heard asking at one stage if the team was going to let the
drivers race, but Wolff said team orders was never something that was
considered.
“As a team, we always stood for free racing, and we have never done
otherwise, unless a driver is mathematically not in contention any more for a
championship and the other one is,” said Wolff.
“We were actually looking forward to them racing on par with the same tyre,
and we discussed it this morning in the strategy meeting.”
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unaware-water-leak-mercedes-brazil-win/10399599/