Sometimes it’s the little things, the small but significant details both in and out of the car, that mark the potential greatness of a Formula 1 driver.
The finest example of that in recent times came in Azerbaijan in 2019, when after his crash in Q2 Charles Leclerc returned not to his driver room to beat himself up in private, but to the Ferrari garage.
As qualifying continued without him, there Leclerc stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder – in full view of the cameras – with his team to watch the remainder of the session.
A likely candidate for pole position until his error entering Baku’s castle section, Leclerc only had himself to blame and his mistake, as he repeatedly told himself over the radio after hitting the barrier, was stupid.
但是，在输掉勒克莱克（Leclerc）时，他的团结和团结表现出了胜利，使他陷入了团队的魅力，因为他从他的四届世界冠军队友塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔（Sebastian Vettel）偷走了Scuderia的心。
The little things can reveal a lot about a driver’s character and outlook, and so it seemed in the immediate aftermath of Lando Norris’s race-ending collision with Pierre Gasly in last weekend’sMiami Grand Prix.
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- 迈凯轮（@mclarenf1）May 9, 2022
在他的Alphatauri的右手弯曲从Fernando Alonso击中（在他浮躁的日子之一）中，在上一圈中，Gasly仍在检查40圈的全部损失范围由米克·舒马赫（Mick Schumacher），凯文·马格努森（Kevin Magnussen）和诺里斯（Norris）通过。
As Gasly, visibly struggling to keep his car on the road, ran wide through two consecutive corners, he was passed by the Haas drivers into Turn 8 before colliding with Norris at the start of the following straight.
For all the safety improvements to F1 over recent years, accidents on the straight remain an ever-present yet occasionally overlooked danger with the risk level not eased by the long, kinked straights – built to breed misunderstandings and misjudgements and lined with hard and unforgiving walls – now a feature of F1 street circuits from Miami and Jeddah to Baku and beyond.
值得庆幸的是，诺里斯和加斯利之间的坠机事故发生在直线上足够早，以至于避免了潜在的灾难，迈凯轮 - 在最初的碰撞中失去了右轮胎 - 避免了墙壁上的严重撞击，因为它旋转到了停止。
It was a sudden, dramatic and most of all utterly avoidable incident, forcing Norris to retire for only the third time since the start of the 2020 season.
In such circumstances it is not difficult to imagine some drivers on the current grid, with the adrenaline soaring after having their race ended by a slow-moving car in an unexpected and unnecessary manner, needing no invitation to turn the air 50 shades of blue.
Common convention is to get the ‘what an idiot’ routine out of one’s system at the earliest possible opportunity, immediately apportion blame to the other driver and only worry (or not) about whether you were right to do so later.
Yet Norris, it is clear by now, is unique among his peers, and his handling of the collision was wonderfully disarming.
“Ah, I’m out boys,” he simply reported over the radio before apologising to the team for his involvement in the incident. “F*ck, sorry about that. I don’t know what happened…”
当安全车散发时，电视图片显示诺里斯返回迈凯轮车库，在那里他静静而安静地移走，放下以篮球为主题的头盔，然后走开。这里没有刺手神经学。
“It’s tough,” he told Sky Sports after the race. “I’ve looked at it a few times now but it’s tricky. I don’t know if he had damage or something.
“显然，我离开了空间。我知道他在我的右边，但是右边的曲折曲折，我沿着巡回赛的流动，看起来不像他。我以为我做了我通常会做的事情，但最终只是一个愚蠢的事故。
“I’m quite annoyed, I guess. We could have scored maybe one or two points today, maybe not anything more, but it happens. We’re lucky we didn’t lose out on too much.”
He would be even more annoyed later when he realised Gasly was destined to DNF all along, the AlphaTauri driver taking a little too long to accept the damage from Alonso’s Turn 1 attack was terminal and taking someone else down with him.
但是诺里斯在当下的热烈，广播和电视笔中的衡量反应令人耳目一新，并洞悉了他的赛车方式。
Norris has won many admirers over the last three seasons for his plucky performances in an ever-improving McLaren, his six podium finishes and regular overachievement in qualifying – not least his pole at Sochi, where he was unlucky not to win in 2021 – creating the aura of a potential future World Champion.
我们dded to that talent is not only a boy-next-door charm, but a maturity, a certain spirit and a sense of responsibility. LikeLeclerc，它承诺确实将他带到很远。
Sometimes it’s the little things…