皮亚斯特里2026赛季正赛速度困境解析
皮亚斯特里在2026赛季与诺里斯的正赛速度差距明显，奥斯汀站同策略下平均每圈慢半秒、最终落后22秒，他坦言目前还无法解释原因。
奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在2026赛季的迈凯伦赛车上正经历与队友兰多·诺里斯相比的新困难，其中包括一个让车队领队安德烈亚·斯特拉所称的他的“超能力”失效的周末。
排位赛中诺里斯占据上风，以16比8领先皮亚斯特里，但两人之间的实际平均差距仅为0.040秒。
更明显的差距出现在不少大奖赛中，包括奥斯汀站。同策略下，皮亚斯特里（绿线）在正赛中平均每圈比诺里斯（橙线）慢半秒，最终落后22秒。此前还有巴塞罗那站（落后35秒）和赞德沃特站（落后32秒）这样差距巨大的周末，他承认“现在有太多比赛差距真的很大”。
被问及正赛速度的问题所在时，皮亚斯特里回答：“很慢。目前我没有更多可说的。”
“当伊萨克·哈贾尔从维修区出来时，看起来他遇到了某种问题，他的能量部署有点混乱。所以我在一些尴尬的位置追近了他，在那里损失了不少时间。
“从那之后，我在比赛剩余时间里基本上都在防守乔治·拉塞尔。但我觉得除此之外，速度显然不够好。所以有很多东西需要去弄明白。”
这对皮亚斯特里来说是一个挣扎的周末，因为虽然纸面上他在排位赛中击败了诺里斯——而且皮亚斯特里确实值得一些肯定，因为他做出了一个更快的合法圈——但他实际上比诺里斯最快的（因超出赛道限制被删除的）第三节排位赛圈速慢了0.424秒。
到周六时，皮亚斯特里的速度劣势已经非常明显，以至于迈凯伦在赛前会议上已经考虑到了可能需要交换两辆车的顺序，因为——正如车队领队斯特拉所说——“我们在周末期间看到兰多比奥斯卡稍快一些”。
皮亚斯特里在周五称奥斯汀站“从第一圈起就很艰难”，并补充道：“仅仅想让赛车发挥出性能就已经非常、非常具有挑战性了。”
“在排位赛的某些阶段，至少对兰多来说，赛车看起来是有潜力的，我觉得我们俩都感觉它确实有潜力。但能否把这份潜力挖掘出来，差距大概有半秒之多。”
“要从这辆赛车里榨出那个圈速真的非常、非常困难。我完全没能做到，但我觉得当我们俩中任何一人真正去推到极限时，就没法把车留在赛道上了。这确实是非常具有挑战性的一站。”
2026年的迈凯伦赛车确实具有刀锋般的特性，但诺里斯今年无疑更好地应对了这些。
最明显的对比是迈凯伦在夏休期前后的强势表现，如果没有马德里那次时机不佳的虚拟安全车，诺里斯本可以赢下四场比赛中的三场，而皮亚斯特里甚至没有登上领奖台（自五月初迈阿密以来也再未登台）。布达佩斯是皮亚斯特里最好的机会——在套圈卡洛斯·塞恩斯时的不幸接触让他错失了机会——但即便在那里，他在速度上也明显落后诺里斯一步。
但皮亚斯特里和迈凯伦认为他在最近几轮取得了进步，迈凯伦F1首席执行官扎克·布朗在新加坡表示，他“喜欢我在奥斯卡身上看到的一切，他感觉自信多了，完全掌控局面”。
皮亚斯特里相信自己已经解决了赛季初的一些弱点——但新的问题正在出现，这意味着结果看起来是一样的。
“这远没有我想要的那么有竞争力，”皮亚斯特里在奥斯汀说。
在我原本以为会很挣扎的弯道，以及今年一直很吃力的那类弯道，这个周末其实相当不错，但更多只是关于如何把整圈的所有环节拼在一起。
这才是真正的挑战。我不觉得情况与赛季早些时候完全相同，但最终结果仍然一样。
有点遗憾，但我对此并不太失望，因为我觉得自己一直在努力的方面仍然在展现出进步。
“超能力”被废掉了？
皮亚斯特里去年在奥斯汀也确实表现挣扎，最终获得第五名，而诺里斯则领先超过20秒获得第二名。
因此，这条赛道对皮亚斯特里来说相对不利，正如斯特拉在赛后所指出的那样。
“这是一条兰多擅长的赛道，也是奥斯卡相对更挣扎的赛道之一，”斯特拉说道。
“所以今年，我认为对奥斯卡来说尤其棘手，因为奥斯卡的超能力是逐步建立。一旦他建立起参照点，他就能真正高效地一圈接一圈地推进。但在这里，每一圈都不同。所以这些条件对奥斯卡构成了挑战。
“实际上，这些正是兰多发挥自己超能力的条件，那就是对条件极具适应性，尤其是在赛车打滑的时候。”
正是这种困难，皮亚斯特里整个赛季都在努力克服。他在2025年初展现出的状态，今年对他来说几乎完全遥不可及。在奥斯汀，这是因为不断变化的条件，而在此之前，则是试图重复那种与2026款动力单元契合良好的驾驶输入。
“这辆车需要付出相当大的努力才能做出圈速，并且需要驾驶输入达到比去年高得多的强度，”斯特拉在新加坡解释道——当时人们还希望皮亚斯特里在2026年的挣扎已经过去。
“这是车手们花了一些时间才适应[的]——好吧，‘适应’这个词不对，应该是理解。这也是奥斯卡在某个阶段几乎失去与兰多相比的部分竞争力的原因之一。
奥斯卡只需要明白如何迫使赛车做出一些事情，并接受开得快不一定意味着开得干净。
相反，这大概是奥斯卡的标志性特点，过去我们看到他快的时候，他开得很干净，那是非常好的数据，非常可重复，而且他很快。
“用这辆车，所有这些事情加在一起，似乎并不经常同时发生，所以对车手来说工作量很大。”
皮亚斯特里不得不适应，因为迈凯伦带来的升级都没有让赛车的最佳工作窗口变得更宽。
皮亚斯特里表示：“这些升级实际上都没有让赛车更容易驾驶，而这正是我们最大的问题。”
因此，本赛季这辆赛车不会变得适合皮亚斯特里，而且也不能保证迈凯伦能在2027年为赛车消除这种刀锋般的敏感特性。
车队希望拓宽性能窗口，让两位车手都能更容易地发挥出圈速，但归根结底，迈凯伦的首要任务是打造一辆快车。
而皮亚斯特里很可能要度过一个漫长的冬天，努力寻找答案，弄清楚如何在这些新规则下持续重新追平诺里斯。
英文原文
Oscar Piastri is experiencing new difficulties with the 2026 McLaren compared to team-mate Lando Norris, including a weekend that neutered what team boss Andrea Stella calls his ‘superpower’.
In qualifying, Norris has had the upper hand as he leads Piastri 16-8, but the actual average gap between them has only been 0.040s.
The more stark gap has been in a good number of grands prix, including Austin. Piastri (green line) is on average half a second slower than Norris (orange line), through the race on the same strategy, and ends up 22 seconds behind. This follows other weekends with big deficits like Barcelona (35 seconds) and Zandvoort (32 seconds), where he admitted there were “too many [races] now that have been really a long way off”.
Asked what the issue with his race pace was, Piastri replied: "It was slow. I don't have any more than that at the moment.
“When [Isack] Hadjar came out of the pits, it looked like he had some kind of issue and his deployment was a bit all over the place. So I was kind of catching him in awkward places and lost a fair bit of time there.
“Then I was kind of defending from George [Russell] for the rest of the race from that. But I think on top of that the pace just clearly wasn't very good. So plenty to try and understand.”
It was a weekend-long struggle for Piastri, as while on paper he outqualified Norris - and Piastri does deserve some credit for setting a faster legal lap - he was actually 0.424s behind Norris’s fastest (track limits-deleted) Q3 lap.
Piastri’s pace deficit was so clear by Saturday that McLaren had factored in the potential need to swap the cars' order in their pre-race meetings, because - as per team boss Stella - "we had seen during the weekend that Lando was a little bit faster than Oscar”.
Piastri called Austin “tough from lap one” on Friday, adding, "Just trying to get performance out of the car has been very, very challenging.
“At points in qualifying, for Lando at least, it looked like there was potential in it and I think we both felt there is potential in it. But the difference of extracting that potential or not is like half a second different.
"It's been very, very tough to get that laptime out of the car. I've not managed it at all, but I think when either of us have really pushed the boundaries, we can't keep it on the track. It's been a very challenging one, for sure.”
The 2026 McLaren does have knife-edge qualities, but Norris has undoubtedly dealt with those better this year.
The clearest contrast was McLaren’s purple patch either side of the summer break, where Norris would have won three out of four races without a poorly timed virtual safety car in Madrid, while Piastri didn’t even feature on the podium (and hasn’t since Miami in early May). Budapest was Piastri’s best chance - unfortunate contact while lapping Carlos Sainz robbed him of it - but even there, he was a clear step behind Norris on pace.
But Piastri and McLaren feel he’s made progress in recent rounds, with McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown saying in Singapore that he was “liking everything I see out of Oscar, he's feeling much more confident, on top of things”.
Piastri believes he has fixed some of his weaknesses from earlier in the season - but new ones are appearing, meaning the outcome looks the same.
“It’s not been anywhere near as competitive as what I wanted it to be,” Piastri said in Austin.
“In the corners that I thought would be a struggle and the types of corners that have been a struggle this year, it's been pretty good this weekend, but it's more just been about trying to get everything in the lap together.
"That's been the real challenge. I don't think it's quite the same picture as what it has been earlier in the season, but the end result is still the same.
“It's a bit of a shame, but I'm not too disappointed in that because I feel like the areas I've been working on are still showing progress.”
'Superpower' neutered?
Piastri did also struggle at Austin last year, finishing fifth while Norris was over 20 seconds up the road in second.
So there is an element of this being a less favourable track for Piastri, as Stella pointed out after the race.
"This is a track in which Lando excels, and is one of the tracks in which Oscar instead struggles a little bit more,” Stella said.
"So this year, I think in particular for Oscar, it's tricky because Oscar's superpower is to build. Once he creates references, he can really effectively build lap after lap. But here, every lap is different. So these are the conditions that challenge Oscar.
“Actually, [these] are the conditions where Lando uses his own superpower, which is being very adaptive to the conditions, especially as the car slides.”
It’s that difficulty that Piastri has been fighting to overcome all season. His early-2025 form has looked almost completely inaccessible to him this year. At Austin it was because of the changing conditions, whereas previously it’s been trying to repeat the kind of driving inputs that mesh well with the 2026 power units.
“The car needs quite a lot of effort to deliver laptime and it requires a level of intensity in the driving input which is much superior to last year,” Stella explained in Singapore - when there were hopes Piastri’s 2026 struggles were behind him.
"This is something that took some time for the drivers to get comfortable [with] - well, 'comfortable' is wrong, but to understand. And it's also one of the reasons why Oscar, at some stage, he almost lost some of the competitiveness compared to Lando.
"Oscar just needed to understand how to force the car to do some things and [accept] the fact that driving fast will not necessarily mean driving clean.
“Instead, probably the signature of Oscar, when we have seen him fast in the past, [is] he was clean, it was really good data to see, it was very repeatable and he was fast.
"With this car, all these things together, they don't seem to happen very often, so it's a lot of work for the drivers.”
Piastri’s had to adapt because none of the upgrades McLaren has brought has made the car’s optimal operating window any wider.
“None of these upgrades are really making the car easier to drive, which is kind of our biggest problem,” Piastri said.
So the car isn’t going to come to Piastri this season, and there’s no guarantee that McLaren will be able to eliminate this knife-edge trait from its car for 2027.
The team wants to open up the window of performance so the laptime can be more easily accessed by both drivers, but ultimately McLaren’s number one priority is making a fast car.
And Piastri is likely to have a long winter trying to find the answer to how to consistently get back on terms with Norris in these new regulations.
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