麥隊召開緊急危機會議 - 一級方程式賽車 Formula One

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/03/13/mclaren-in-emergency-talks-over-performance/
http://tinyurl.com/darr5x

The McLaren team held a crisis meeting at their base in Woking yesterday,
it has been revealed.

根據披露的消息，麥拉崙昨天在沃金的基地召開了危機會議

Lewis Hamilton joined the meeting after returning from the Barcelona
test to join team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, Team Principal Martin
Whitmarsh and senior members of the team's technical crew.

會議的成員有科科，車隊總監馬丁惠特馬什以及技術團隊高層，
614火腿從巴塞隆納測試回英國後加入了這個陣容

Having introduced a new scheduled aerodynamic update for this week's
Barcelona test - featuring modifications to the car's floor -
the MP4-24 was significantly off the pace for both drivers,
with Hamilton's final time of Thursday almost two full seconds
slower than the fastest from Rubens Barrichello's Brawn entry.

在西班牙麥隊使用了包括改造底板的新空力套件，
但不管是科科還是614去開，MP4/24都顯然慢的可以，
比最快的布朗車隊老巴慢了幾乎兩秒

Despite one more four-day test still to come in Jerez next week,
Whitmarsh was pessimistic when describing the car's on-track displays so far:

儘管還有四天在Jerez的測試，惠特馬什在提到新車表現時至今還是很悲觀

"I don't think we have done a good enough job, there is no point hiding
from that face - we just have to get our heads down and work hard to
fix it. We will rectify the problem as quickly as we can, even though
that might not be as quickly as we would like," he is quoted as saying by
The Guardian

The Guardian引述惠特馬什的話：
『我想我們搞砸了，我們得面對現實，我們只能埋頭給他苦幹的去修正問題
我們會盡我們所能的快速解決這問題，但可能不會如我們希望的即時"

（譯按：你就直接說什麼時候打算推出MP4/24B就算了，04年的時候是在法國站...）

The lack of pace of the 'silver arrows' was only emphasised this week by
the lap times of the two Brawn cars, as Button and Barrichello are powered
by identical Mercedes engines to those in the McLarens.

對比用一樣引擎的布朗GP車隊表現，銀箭車隊的龜速是商當的刺眼，

"For the moment we must assume that the Brawn is as quick as it looks
and that the McLaren is as slow as we are," Whitmarsh continued.

惠特馬什繼續說：
『我們必需假設布朗車隊就是看起來這麼快，而我們麥隊就是像你看到的這麼慢』

"We believe we do not have the aerodynamic performance that we need,
but teasing more speed out of a Formula 1 car very seldom involves
a silver bullet. We have to be realistic and pragmatic about this
and it will take time to rectify the problem.

『我想這是因為我們並沒有獲得預期中所需要的的空力效率，但事實是
在F1的車子上榨速度很少有任何單純一項的特效藥，我們得面對這個
問題可能需要一段時間去解決的現實...........................』


"However, Lewis won the World Championship with us last year and
knows we have the potential to do it again."

『但614贏得了去年世界冠軍而且也相信我們有潛力再來一次』


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版大要不要開賭盤看麥隊開幕站會被頭車套幾圈？
或者，會被第幾名以前的套圈？
（苦笑+搖頭....又來了......）

幾年內損失了紐伊跟考夫蘭兩個重量級的老設計師終於今年嚐到苦果了
換上早期當以上兩人下屬的Pat Fry掌大旗馬上就包了，真是頭痛阿～～
（另一個設計團隊是由Tim Goss帶領，設計出了去年裝上軟胎就整組
不行的MP4/23，今年另一個團隊更進一步，直接慢頭車兩秒......）

今年我還是把希望放在興農牛身上好了～～呵呵
～～反正同一個週末開始季賽嘛～～






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