劳森重返红牛首日排位表现意味深长
利亚姆·劳森在荷兰大奖赛冲刺排位中仅落后队友维斯塔潘0.365秒，虽在SQ2遭淘汰，但其回归红牛首日的状态明显好于去年的短暂效力期。
对于劳森来说，在荷兰大奖赛冲刺赛排位赛中仅比队友维斯塔潘慢0.365秒——这本是一个相当不错的成绩——却令他感到沮丧，这很能说明问题。
Lawson仅进行了一次自由练习，再加上一天模拟器训练，他驾驶红牛赛车的适应程度看起来明显好于去年他在F1车队那段波折的两站比赛期间的任何时候——但即便这个差距远小于去年他三次与Verstappen同场排位赛中最好一次的差距，也未能完全反映他的真实速度。
Lawson在SQ2中被淘汰，将在明天的冲刺赛中从第11位发车，这令人非常失望，因为这与之前的表现不相符。他在该节的两次快圈之后通过无线电明确表达了这一点，说“我不知道Q2发生了什么”。下车后他也没能给出更清楚的解释。
“说实话，我真的不知道，”Lawson谈到SQ2中出现的问题时说。“这是很有意思的一天，但通常你在排位赛中会不断进步，我们在SQ1开局相当强势，但之后没有像其他所有人那样取得同样的进步。显然我们会去研究这个问题，今天有很多需要学习的地方，但到目前为止我在赛车里的感觉相当好。说实话，整个排位赛过程中我感觉还不错，我以为我们能晋级，所以很遗憾。”
在赛车里感觉“舒服”才是最重要的。在自由练习赛中，你可以看到他在3号弯（有坡度的弯道）旁观看时相对放松。是的，他在攻击这个弯角时比队友马克斯·维斯塔潘更为保守，这也是可以预料的，但劳森至少看起来对赛车掌控自如。
主要的问题在于，他在练习赛末尾的两个快速圈中跑宽，导致赛车底板蹭过了出弯路肩。
我上次近距离观看他驾驶红牛赛车是在去年的中国大奖赛上，当时他在那场最终被证明是他（直到现在之前）为车队出战的最后一站比赛里显得完全无所适从。在那场比赛中，他小心翼翼，第一个飞驰圈就冲进了砂石区，而且始终没能适应赛车，但在这里他看起来完全不是那样。今天他不可避免地没有达到维斯塔潘的水平，但考虑到具体情况，这是一个良好的开端。
同样的情况也适用于第一节排位赛（SQ1）。他的三个飞驰圈中第一个很慢，但那是因为圈上遇到了交通状况。他的最后两个飞驰圈则更有说服力，让他以比维斯塔潘快0.165秒的成绩排名第六，结束了排位赛的第一阶段。
这提升了人们对SQ2的期待，因为即使在红牛车队陷入困境的一天，Lawson看起来也有进入前十的速度。所以最终错失晋级，而且只比接替他通常座驾的车手角田裕毅快了千分之几秒，这对他来说无疑是一个打击。
随着赛道条件的变化而调整是排位赛的技巧之一，但对于一位对赛车还不熟悉的车手来说，没有掌握这一点是可以理解的。SQ1末尾就提醒了这一点，当他回到车库时，他提到了小红牛通常使用的前翼襟翼角度。他报告说自己对平衡感到满意，由于无线电对外界静音，目前还不清楚红牛最终朝哪个方向调整，但随着赛道抓地力提升，理解赛车对增加一点前翼下压力会有什么反应，这需要通过熟悉赛车来积累经验。考虑到Lawson缺乏这种经验，今天的情况如何发展对周末剩余时间来说是个好兆头。
“确实是这样，”Lawson说。“我们显然会努力解决这个问题，并在排位赛中把它整合起来。但我们今天确实有潜力排在很靠前的位置，所以这很令人沮丧。”
重要的是，综合考虑之下，这对Lawson来说是一个好的开始。而这比去年发生的情况要好得多。
英文原文
For Liam Lawson to be frustrated after lapping a respectable 0.365s off team-mate Max Verstappen in sprint qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix is revealing.
With just one free practice and a day in the simulator under his belt, Lawson looks significantly more comfortable with the Red Bull than he did at any point in his troubled two-event stint with the Formula 1 team last year - but even a margin well under half the deficit of the best of his three qualifying outings alongside Verstappen last year didn't do his underlying pace justice.
Lawson's elimination in SQ2, leaving him 11th on the grid for tomorrow’s sprint race, was so disappointing given it was out of kilter with what came before. He made that clear over the radio after the second of his two quick laps in that session, saying “I’ve no idea what happened in Q2”. He didn't have a clearer explanation after he got out of the car.
“Honestly, I don’t really know,” said Lawson of what went wrong in SQ2. “It's been an interesting day, but normally you'd improve through quali and we started SQ1 quite strong and then we didn't make the same step that everybody else did. Obviously we'll look into it, there's a lot to learn today, but so far I feel quite good in the car. I was honestly feeling OK through quali, I thought we'd get through, so it's a shame.”
Feeling “OK” in the car is what matters. You could see he was relatively at ease watching trackside in free practice at the banked Turn 3. Yes, he was a little more conservative than team-mate Max Verstappen in how he attacked the corner, as you would expect, but Lawson at least looked like he was on top of the machinery.
The main concern was that two of his quick laps at the end of the session resulted in him running wide and dragging the floor of the car across the exit kerb.
The last time I watched him in a Red Bull up close was in China last year, where he looked all at sea on what proved to be his final outing - until now - for the team. There, he was tentative, taking a trip through the gravel on his first push lap and never getting to grips with it, but here he looked nothing like that. He was not at Verstappen’s level today, inevitably, but in the circumstances it was a good start.
The same applies to SQ1. The first of his three push laps was slow, but that was down to traffic on the lap. His final two efforts were much more convincing, allowing him to end the first segment of qualifying 0.165s ahead of Verstappen in sixth place.
This raised expectations for SQ2, as even on a day when Red Bull was struggling Lawson appeared to have the pace to make the top 10. So to miss out, and only be a few thousandths ahead of the man who took over his usual car, Yuki Tsunoda, was understandably a blow.
Moving with the evolving track is one of the skills of qualifying, but it’s excusable not to have mastery of it for a driver who is unfamiliar with the car. There was a reminder of that at the end of SQ1, when he returned to the garage and referenced what Racing Bulls normally does with the front wing flap angle. He reported he was happy with the balance, and it’s not clear what direction Red Bull went in because the radio feed fell silent to the outside world, but understanding how a car might react to adding in a little more front wing as the track grip improves is something that comes with experience of the machinery. Given Lawson lacks that, the way today played out bodes well for the rest of the weekend.
“It definitely does,” said Lawson. “We'll obviously try and fix it and put it together for quali. But we definitely had the potential to be right up there today, so it's frustrating.”
What matters is that this was, all things considered, a good start for Lawson. And that's much better than what happened last year.
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