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I'm the CEO and team principal of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula one team and I'm here to answer your questions.

我是 Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula one車隊的執行長兼車隊領隊，今天來回答大家的問題。

How do you make decisions when the data says one thing but your instinct says another?

當資料跟你說一回事，但你的直覺卻是另一回事時，你是怎麼做決定的？

Formula one is the only real sport where you have that interaction between engineering and the human.

Formula one是唯一一個真正能看到工程和人類之間互動的運動。

So we have all of these data channels that provide us information around what the car does.

所以我們有這麼多資料通道，提供關於汽車表現的資訊。

And then you have a human in the car that's driving it.

You can't really map that human because what does it mean to have a good and a bad day?

你沒辦法真的去映射這個人，因為什麼叫做好與壞的一天呢？

And the engineer saying, I can't see that.

然後工程師會說：「我看不到那個。」

You know, the driver will say, well, I think the car moves on.

你知道，駕駛會說：「嗯，我覺得這輛車有在動。」

Braking, the engineer says, doesn't do that really much.

煞車方面，工程師說：「其實沒有什麼作用。」

So I am a little bit of the translator between the driver feedback and what the engineers see in the data.

所以我有點像是駕駛回饋和工程師在資料中看到的資訊之間的翻譯者。

I've been a racer myself, but I'm realistic.

我自己也曾是賽車手，但我很務實。

So instinct plays a role when it comes about judging how a driver feels and judging about whether strategy is realistic from the driver's point of view.

所以當要判斷駕駛的感覺，以及從駕駛的角度判斷策略是否實際時，直覺就扮演了角色。

And in that context, I'm helping the engineers that actually run the operation with the kind of more common sense approach.

在這種情況下，我會用比較貼近常識的方法，來協助實際營運的工程師。

But it's that interaction, data and instinct that hopefully makes a team successful.

但就是這種資料和直覺的互動，希望能讓車隊成功。

What happened to F1 team principal is accusing everyone and their mother of cheating.

F1 車隊領隊怎麼會指控所有人作弊。

You know, I've been very angry, very emotional at times because when we are being taken for a ride, I see this as my tribe.

你知道，我曾非常生氣，有時候情緒也很激動，因為當我們被欺騙時，我會覺得這是我的團隊。

I want to protect the organization and the people and this is where I can emotionally react.

我想保護組織和人們，這就是我會情緒反應的地方。

Now as a leader of the team, I should be also balanced and not oscillate between exuberance and depression.

作為車隊的領導者，我也應該保持平衡，而不是在興奮和沮喪之間搖擺。

So I'm trying to get better over the years and have less of that rage managers and trainers need.

所以我試著這些年來讓自己變得更好，減少那種需要管理者和訓練師的憤怒。

Coaches are very emotional about it in order to motivate their players, motivate the organization.

教練們對此情緒都很激動，目的是激勵他們的隊員、激勵組織。

So we are a little bit all from the same cloth.

所以我們大家都是差不多一樣的。

We are sports people and we want the best for our organizations and for the team.

我們都是熱愛運動的人，我們都希望我們的組織和車隊能有最好的表現。

我們現在也處於一個不同的時代了。

I think the team principals of the past were the ones running the organizations.

我認為過去的車隊領隊才是真正經營組織的人。

Being co owners stems from the Frank Williams days and Ron Dennis where it was smaller organizations and probably I'm the last dinosaur left of that old generation.

共同擁有的概念源自於 Frank Williams 和 Ron Dennis 的時代，那時候的組織比較小，我大概是那個老一代裡最後一隻恐龍了。

Today's more common sense balanced engineers that run some of the the next one up is Wheel with Wobby, who is currently the most underrated driver in F1.

現在更常見的是由有常識、平衡的工程師來經營，下一個是 Wheel with Wobby，他目前是 F1 中最被低估的車手。

對我來說，很明顯是 George Russell。

He's won everything in go karting, in Formula 3, Formula 2.

他在卡丁車、Formula 3、Formula 2 中贏得了所有比賽。

He came into the team next to Lewis Hamilton, the biggest sports star in our industry, if not one of the biggest overall.

他進到車隊，旁邊是 Lewis Hamilton，我們這行最大的運動明星，如果不是整體最大的話。

But George has grown so much as a driver, in his skills and as a personality, and

但 George 作為一個駕駛，在技巧和個性上都成長了很多，而且

I think today he's definitely right up there and someone that leads the team going forward.

我覺得今天他絕對是名列前茅，也是帶領車隊向前發展的人。

By Brendan White do you think we've reached the ceiling of F1's global growth or is this just the beginning?

Brendan White，你認為我們 F1 的全球成長已經到頂了嗎，還是這才剛開始？

I think neither of the two because the sport has grown over more than 70 years now and there were episodes where the incremental was huge and other phases where it kind of leveled off.

我覺得兩者都不是，因為這項運動已經發展了超過 70 年，有時成長幅度很大，其他時期則有點停滯不前。

I think what we see now is that we had great racing, great rivalries, good personalities coming up, polarizing and controversial people.

我覺得我們現在看到的是，我們有很棒的比賽、很棒的競爭對手，有很棒的個人冒出來，有引起爭議和備受矚目的人。

Also Netflix certainly had a big part in the success, particularly in the United States.

Netflix 也絕對在成功中扮演了重要角色，尤其是在美國。

The social media activities of the drivers are much more than they used to be in the past and I think all of that kind of made us grow very strong.

駕駛們的社群媒體活動比過去多很多，我認為這一切都讓我們成長得非常強勁。

Our strongest growing audience base is young females 15 to 24.

我們成長最快的觀眾群是 15 到 24 歲的年輕女性。

Total female fan base is 42%, believe it or not.

總體女性粉絲比例是 42%，信不信由你。

And I think that it's quite balanced between the hardcore fans of the past that love the loud roaring engines and all of the new generation, the Gen Zs that follow it with great interest from the free practice sessions all the way to the race.

我覺得這在過去熱愛引擎轟鳴聲的硬核粉絲和現在對從自由練習到正賽都充滿興趣的新世代 Z 世代之間，取得了很好的平衡。

Now I'm always seeing the world in a half empty glass perspective rather than half full.

我總是從杯子剩一半的角度看世界，而不是看還有另一半。

And we need to be continuing to handle the sport with great care.

我們需要繼續非常謹慎地經營這項運動。

We must never believe that this is the real deal.

我們絕不能相信這就是真正的交易。

This is so successful and it's going to continue forever.

這太成功了，而且會永遠持續下去。

The Apple deal, taking the rights in the US which is fantastic for the sport.

Apple 的交易，在美國取得轉播權，這對這項運動太棒了。

So we need to be really aware that we have a great thing at our hands and it needs to be entertaining, it needs to be unpredictable and that's what we always try to calibrate in the right way.

所以我們必須非常清楚，我們手握著一個很棒的東西，它需要引人入勝，需要難以預測，這也是我們一直努力正確調校的。

So the next question, Yogi V88 asks how is a typical Formula One team setup?

下一個問題，Yogi V88 問，一個典型的 Formula One 車隊是如何組成的？

The typical setup is that we are divided into three entities.

典型的組建方式是我們被抽成三個實體。

One is producing the engines, that's about 1,200 people.

一個是負責生產引擎，大約有 1,200 人。

The other one which is all chassis related items, it's in principle the same size.

另一個是負責所有底盤相關的項目，原則上規模也差不多。

And then there is the race team itself which is around 150 people that travel to the races and are basically deploying the product and that includes the drivers.

然後是賽事團隊本身，大約有 150 人會到賽場，負責實際運用產品，這也包括了駕駛。

So what you see on television is only the race team.

所以你在電視上看到的，只是賽事團隊。

So it's literally the tip of the iceberg.

And most of the performance is being done in the factories.

大部分的性能表現都是在工廠裡完成的。

Next up, Rayo Garden asks what does an F1 team principal actually do?

下一個問題，Rayo Garden 問，F1 車隊領隊實際上是做什麼的？

So as a team principal, I have responsibility not only for the racing team, but

所以身為車隊領隊，我不僅要對賽事團隊負責，

還要對整個更廣泛的組織負責。

We have about 1,200 people and it's not only technical, it is also the commercial side, legal, finance, hr, it.

我們大約有 1,200 人，而且不只是技術方面，也包括商業、法務、財務、人資、IT。

And obviously I'm in charge of doing that in a way around people that run racing cars.

當然，我的職責就是以某種方式帶領一群駕駛賽車的人。

Josh Hamilton, a question for the F1 geeks.

Josh Hamilton，這是給 F1 鐵粉的問題。

Is Team principal the same thing as crew chief?

車隊領隊跟總調度長是同一件事嗎？

Formula one is a bit weird in that sense because a team principal is what you would see in American sports as the president, the CEO, the coach, the trainer and the crew chief.

Formula one 在這方面有點特別，因為車隊領隊就像你在美國運動裡看到的總裁、執行長、教練、訓練師和總調度長一樣。

所以這些現在都包含在我們的職責裡了。

Obviously our organizations have grown from back in the day 100 people to 2000 people that are dedicated to these roles.

很明顯，我們的組織規模從以前的 100 人成長到現在有 2,000 人，他們都專注於這些職責。

But fundamentally the responsibility of the team principal is to look after all of these.

但基本上，車隊領隊的責任就是照顧好這一切。

So there is no clear, let's say cut between a CEO, US style sports team and the sporting director or the coach is what we do as team principals.

所以，執行長、美式運動隊伍和運動總監或教練之間，並沒有明確的界線，這就是我們車隊領隊所做的。

Why do Mercedes race engineers, strategists and toto sit inside the garage during races?

為什麼 Mercedes 的賽事工程師、策略師和 Toto 在比賽期間會待在維修站裡？

So this is a little bit of a legacy situation.

所以這有點像是歷史遺留下來的情況。

In the previous setups of teams, the team principal would sit on the pit wall to oversee the the pit lane to oversee what's happening on the main straight.

在過去的車隊編制裡，車隊領隊會坐在維修站牆邊，監管維修區，監管直道上發生的事情。

We don't use stopwatches and we don't look at cars that are passing by.

我們不用碼錶，也不看經過的汽車。

Not to sit on the pit wall but to be in the garage.

不坐在維修站牆邊，而是待在車庫裡。

So you can see me standing in the middle island center console.

所以你可以看到我站在中間島的中央控制檯。

So I can see the left and the right side of the garage.

這樣我就可以看到車庫的左邊和右邊。

And that gives me the best possible overview.

The mechanics refer to it as the fantasy island because engineers and myself, we dream stuff up there rather than doing the hard work.

機工們稱那裡為「夢幻島」，因為工程師和我和我們會在上面構思點子，而不是做實際的苦工。

So where I sit I basically have a few data chann that I look at.

所以我的位置可以看到幾個我會看的資料通道。

I can follow all timing, the comparison to the other drivers.

我可以追蹤所有計時、跟其他車手的比較。

I have charts and overlays that I look at what our cornering speeds looking like compared to the opposition.

我有圖表和疊加畫面，可以看我們的過彎速度跟對手比起來怎麼樣。

I'm seeing GPS data, how the cars zoom around the track.

我看到GPS資料，還有汽車在賽道上飛馳的樣子。

I am also speaking to many engineers My intercom channel has about 30 people that I listen to and it's a little bit like an airplane.

我也跟很多工程師在通話，我的內部通話頻道大約有30個人要聽，有點像在開飛機。

So you get used to hearing voices out of the chaos.

所以你會習慣在混亂中聽見不同的聲音。

That is a big part of deciding what the strategy needs to do.

這對決定策略該怎麼做是很重要的一環。

Being a partner for some of of the engineers and challenging them.

跟一些工程師當夥伴，並且挑戰他們。

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