莫名其妙的世界冠軍？嬌生慣養(yǎng)的混球？杰里米?克拉克森銳評(píng)維斯塔潘
? ? ? ?以下兩篇文章均節(jié)選自杰里米·克拉克森在《太陽報(bào)》（The Sun）上發(fā)表的專欄，不代表本人觀點(diǎn)。
? ? ? ?兩篇文章均由ZN個(gè)人翻譯。水平有限，恐有失誤，敬請(qǐng)指教。
特拉斯的10號(hào)？就像F1……沒有人知道他們到底在搞什么飛機(jī)
Liz Truss’s No10? It’s just like F1… no one knows what they are doing
去年，緊張刺激的F1賽季在一片謬論中結(jié)束了，錯(cuò)誤的人加冕了那個(gè)世界冠軍頭銜。
LAST year, the nail-biting Formula One season ended in a blizzard of nonsense, with the wrong man being crowned world champion.
我不想把所有的細(xì)節(jié)再講一遍了——我們都知道發(fā)生了些什么。
?I won’t bother going over all the details again because we all know what happened.
賽事總監(jiān)有點(diǎn)驚慌失措，決定引入他剛剛想到的一項(xiàng)新規(guī)則。
The Race Director had a bit of a panic and decided to introduce a new rule that he’d just thought of.
所以就是這樣。這場比賽原本的勝利者劉易斯·漢密爾頓只能拿到第二。
And that was that.?Lewis Hamilton, the rightful winner of the race, came second.
不過，至少我們知道所有問題都會(huì)得以矯正并且不會(huì)再次出現(xiàn)。
Still, at least we all knew that everything would be straightened out and that it would never happen again.
而現(xiàn)在，問題又出現(xiàn)了。因?yàn)?strong>麥克斯·維斯塔潘上周在日本贏得了世界冠軍。
And now it has. Because?Max Verstappen?won the?World Championship?in Japan last weekend.
事實(shí)就是這樣。毫無爭議。
That’s a fact. No arguments there.
或者說并非如此？
Or are there?
在潘子以完美的表現(xiàn)以第一名沖過終點(diǎn)線的時(shí)候，他還并沒有加冕世界冠軍。大家都同意這一點(diǎn)。
When he crossed the line, in first place after a truly brilliant drive, he hadn’t won the world crown. Everyone agreed on that.
但隨后，因?yàn)橄铝藘蓚€(gè)小時(shí)的雨，所有人又突然同意他拿下了WDC。
But then, because it had rained for two hours, everyone suddenly agreed he had.
他真的贏得了這座冠軍獎(jiǎng)杯嗎？因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在，這項(xiàng)運(yùn)動(dòng)的管理層又稱潘子所在的紅牛車隊(duì)超了預(yù)算帽。
Or has he? Because now, the sport’s governing body says that his team, Red Bull, spent too much money building his car.
這么說的話，到時(shí)候肯定會(huì)有處罰的。
And that there must be a punishment.
所以說懲罰是什么呢？他們還沒決定捏。
So what is the punishment? Ah, well, they haven’t decided that yet.
潘子可能會(huì)損失一些車手積分（不過最后我們知道這并沒有發(fā)生——譯者注），但損失的又會(huì)是哪一年的積分呢？沒錯(cuò)，這個(gè)他們也還沒確定。
He may have some champion-ship points deducted. But from which year? Nope. They haven’t decided that either.
所以當(dāng)潘子下周抵達(dá)得克薩斯州參與美國大獎(jiǎng)賽的時(shí)候，沒有人知道他到底是還在為拿下WDC而奮斗還是已經(jīng)將WDC攬入懷中了。
So when he turns up in Texas next weekend to compete in the Austin Grand Prix, no one will know whether he’s competing for the world crown or whether he’s already won it.
寵愛拉滿（這個(gè)只是文章里的小標(biāo)題——譯者注）
SPOILT TO THE MAX
發(fā)表于2022年11月18日
Published: 18 Nov 2022
當(dāng)麥克斯·維斯塔潘首次在F1亮相的時(shí)候，我們都喜歡他那活力四射的風(fēng)格和那股“給爺爬”的流氓勁兒。
WHEN?Max Verstappen?first burst on to the?Formula One?scene, we all loved his exuberant style and his get-out-of-my-way yobbery.
所以盡管他身上存在著爭議，當(dāng)他拿下他的第一個(gè)WDC的時(shí)候我們還是蠻激動(dòng)的。
So despite the controversy, we were all thrilled when he won his first world championship.
而且當(dāng)他拿下第二座WDC的時(shí)候我們更激動(dòng)了。
And even more thrilled when he won his second.
但之后，在上周巴西大獎(jiǎng)賽末段的一段簡短TR中，所有人突然發(fā)現(xiàn)潘子就是個(gè)混蛋。
But then, during one brief radio message in the closing stages of last weekend’s?Brazilian Grand Prix, everyone suddenly decided that actually he was a bastard.
在馬拉多納的“上帝之手”事件之后，還沒有誰能夠如此迅速地從英雄變成狗熊。
Not since?Maradona’s hand of God?has anyone gone from hero to zero quite so quickly.
潘子當(dāng)時(shí)被車隊(duì)要求減速給隊(duì)友讓車。也算不上什么大事兒。
He was asked to slow down and let his team-mate past. No big deal.
潘子已經(jīng)提前拿下了WDC，所以說他以第幾名完賽都沒那么重要了。
He was already world champion so it didn’t matter whether he came fourth or 14th.
但對(duì)于潘子的隊(duì)友塞爾吉奧·佩雷茲來說這真的非常重要，因?yàn)樗陨硖幰粓龀掷m(xù)到收官戰(zhàn)的第二名爭奪戰(zhàn)。
But it REALLY mattered to his team-mate,?Sergio Perez, because he’s still involved in a down-to-the-wire battle for the runner-up slot.
而潘子說了那么多，歸根結(jié)底就仨字兒：“我不讓”。
And what Max said, in so many words was: “No”.
雖說有一次在摩納哥佩大師確實(shí)沒有幫到潘子，但在其它許多場合中佩大師實(shí)打?qū)嵉貛偷搅司S斯塔潘。而這一切都并不重要。
Now, there was one time – in Monaco – when Sergio really didn’t help Max but there have been plenty of other occasions when he actively did. And that’s not important.
真正重要的是潘子違背了上級(jí)的指令，并在公眾眼里成了一個(gè)嬌生慣養(yǎng)、不知善良為何物的小比崽子。
What is important is that Max disobeyed his boss and publicly came across as a?spoiled, entitled brat?who simply doesn’t understand the concept of kindness.
他可能自認(rèn)為自己是業(yè)內(nèi)最牛B的人——也的確可能是。
He may think he’s the best in the business and he probably is.
但他那輛車可比圍場里其它車都要快得多得多——你即使把蕾切爾·萊利（英國益智節(jié)目Countdown主持人與數(shù)學(xué)家——譯者注）塞進(jìn)駕駛艙里，她也能以半小時(shí)的優(yōu)勢奪冠。
But that car of his is so much faster than everyone else’s you could put?Rachel Riley?in it and she’d still win most Grand Prix by half an hour.
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