维斯塔潘强调红牛2026下半赛季首要任务
维斯塔潘表示红牛急需弄清赛车为何有时会在一个F1周末中越跑越差，技术总监瓦什则指出小红牛22还存在入弯稳定性和弯中转向不足两大弱点。
维斯塔潘强调红牛在2026赛季F1下半程的“首要任务”
马克斯·维斯塔潘表示，红牛迫切需要弄清为什么其赛车有时会在一个F1周末的进程中越跑越差。技术总监皮埃尔·瓦什则指出了另一个弱点。
在F1夏休期间，马克斯·维斯塔潘落后积分榜领先者基米·安东内利多达110分。
上赛季，这位四届世界冠军从赞德沃特开始发起惊人反击，下半赛季每场大奖赛都登上领奖台，但这次他完全不期待那种情况。
红牛这次的问题更为复杂。车队赛季初就带着明显劣势起步，这在意料之中，尽管原因不同。赛季前，其自家动力单元是最大的问号，不过DM01已被证明出人意料地有竞争力。
然而在底盘方面，短板更大。再加上小红牛22的超重问题，就能明白为何根据Paceteq的数据，红牛在澳大利亚和中国纯比赛节奏上落后超过1.3秒。
在比利时和匈牙利，这一差距已缩小到每圈两成，不过维斯塔潘认为这些数字并不能说明全部情况。
在布达佩斯，这位荷兰人表示红牛似乎每个周末都会冒出一个新问题，此前他还开玩笑说，今年的种种挫折会让他在冬休期去西藏当个佛陀。
维斯塔潘表示，在匈牙利他受“赛车退化”的影响比轮胎退化更大，这是红牛需要解决的问题。
更严肃地说，维斯塔潘表示红牛需要控制住这类问题，尤其是在他在匈牙利经历了他所说的“赛车退化”之后——赛车在一个周末的进程中、甚至在一节练习中越跑越差。
“我们首先需要找到更多整体性能。然后我们需要解决我们的问题，也就是我们有时会在一个周末中损失性能，甚至从比赛开始到结束都在损失，”维斯塔潘说。
“所以，是的，那实际上是一个首要任务。”
维斯塔潘可以用一个词来概括2026赛季上半程：“艰难。”
“总的来说，非常艰难。有一些好时刻，一些我想是闪亮的时刻，但总体而言，一直很艰难。所以，我认为我们需要努力变得更稳定、更全面一些，让周末更顺利。此外，我们还需要找到更多性能。
“归根结底就这么简单。然后，除了找到更多性能之外，就是不要让现有套件出现这些问题。”
红牛也仍在与入弯不稳定和弯中转向不足作斗争。
皮埃尔·瓦什指出小红牛22的两个弱点
虽然维斯塔潘强调红牛需要防止这些负面意外，但技术总监皮埃尔·瓦什承认，小红牛22还存在几位车手都抱怨过的几个具体问题。
“我认为，就像每辆赛车一样，你会看到车手使用赛车的方式、其载荷，以及在平衡和尝试重新平衡赛车方面所能做的特性上存在一些局限。
“显然，我们像每辆赛车一样，在入弯稳定性和弯中转向不足方面存在一些局限。我们尝试通过使用一些机械手段来避免这些方面，”瓦什在接受Autosport采访时说。
维斯塔潘非常不喜欢弯中转向不足，不过红牛两位车手在这方面的反馈相当相似。
当Autosport问哈贾尔他认为最大的局限是什么时，他指出了与瓦什相同的方面。
“入弯稳定性需要解决，然后我们才能改进其余部分，”这位21岁的法国车手说。
尽管存在这些问题，红牛自赛季初的艰难阶段以来已取得显著进步。瓦什在回顾2026赛季开局那几个痛苦的比赛周末时也得出了同样的结论。
“关于赛车一开始的问题，显然相比其他一些人我们缺少一些载荷。而且我们赛车上还有一些机械小毛病，导致车手通过方向盘感觉不到赛车。我们在初期纠正了这一点。
“这花了一点时间，但它叠加在整体性能[不足]和赛车潜力之上。所以是的，我们在车手感觉方面有一些问题，这不是秘密。”
英文原文
Verstappen highlights "big priority" for Red Bull in second half of F1 2026
Max Verstappen says Red Bull urgently needs to understand why its car sometimes gets worse over the course of an F1 weekend. Technical director Pierre Wache points to another weakness
During Formula 1's summer break, Max Verstappen finds himself no fewer than 110 points behind championship leader Kimi Antonelli.
Last season, the four-time world champion launched a spectacular comeback from Zandvoort onwards and finished on the podium in every grand prix during the second half of the season, but this time he is absolutely not expecting that scenario.
Red Bull's problems are more complex this time around. The team started the season with a significant deficit, which had been expected, albeit for different reasons. Before the season, its own power unit was the biggest question mark, although the DM01 has proved surprisingly competitive.
On the chassis side, however, the shortcomings were greater. Add the RB22's excess weight to the equation and it becomes clear why Red Bull was more than 1.3 seconds off in terms of pure race pace in Australia and China, according to figures from Paceteq.
That gap had been reduced to two tenths per lap in Belgium and Hungary, although Verstappen believes those figures do not tell the whole story.
In Budapest, the Dutchman said that a new problem seems to emerge at Red Bull every weekend, having previously joked that all the setbacks this year would lead him to spend the winter break as a Buddha in Tibet.
Verstappen says that in Hungary he was more affected by "car degradation" than tyre degradation, an issue Red Bull needs to address
On a more serious note, Verstappen says Red Bull needs to get these kinds of issues under control, particularly after he experienced what he described as "car degradation" in Hungary, with the car getting worse over the course of the weekend and even during a session.
"We need to first find more overall performance. And then we need to fix our problems, where we sometimes just lose performance over a weekend, or even from the start of the race to the end,” Verstappen said.
"So, yeah, that is actually a big priority."
Verstappen can sum up the first half of the 2026 season in one word: "Tough."
"In general, it’s been very tough. Some good moments, some bright and shining moments, I guess, but in overall, it has been tough. So, I think we need to try and be more solid, a bit more all-round, to have more straightforward weekends. Plus, we need to find more performance.
"It’s as simple as that at the end of the day. Then, besides finding more performance, just not having these issues with the current package."
Red Bull is also still struggling with corner entry instability and mid-corner understeer
Pierre Wache identifies two weaknesses of the RB22
While Verstappen stresses that Red Bull needs to prevent these negative surprises, technical director Pierre Wache acknowledges that the RB22 also has several specific problems that both drivers have complained about.
"I think, as with every racing car, you see some limitations in how the drivers can use the car, the load of it, and the characteristics of what you can do in terms of balance and trying to rebalance the car.
"Clearly, we have some limitations, like every racing car, in terms of stability on [corner] entry and mid-corner understeer. And we try to avoid those aspects by using some mechanical tools to achieve it," Wache said when asked by Autosport.
Verstappen strongly dislikes mid-corner understeer, although the feedback from both Red Bull drivers is fairly similar in that respect.
When Autosport asked Hadjar what he considers the biggest limitation, he pointed to the same areas as Wache.
"Entry stability needs to be solved, and then we can improve the rest," the 21-year-old French driver said.
Despite these problems, Red Bull has made significant progress since the difficult opening phase of the season. Wache reaches the same conclusion when reflecting on the painful opening race weekends of 2026.
"Regarding the issues with the car at the beginning, clearly we were missing some load compared to some others. And we also had some mechanical gremlins on the car, which meant the driver didn’t feel the car through the steering. We corrected that at the beginning.
"It took a little bit of time, but it came on top of the overall performance [deficit] and the potential of the car. So yeah, we had some issues with the drivers’ feeling, that is not a secret."
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