威廉姆斯巴库升级：为时已晚？
威廉姆斯为阿塞拜疆大奖赛带来以减重为主、兼有空气动力学改动的大型升级包，但车队本赛季表现远低于预期，目前仅列第九。The 比赛播客嘉宾认为，这次升级只能让车队回到本应更早达到的位置，难以改变竞争格局。
威廉姆斯长期以来一直宣称其重建计划的主要焦点是为抓住F1 2026年重大规则变化做好准备，但在它曾承诺要向前跃进的这个赛季，它却倒退了。
去年车队获得车队积分榜第五并登上领奖台，如今却仅以11分位列积分榜第九（比2025年同期14轮后少59分），今年平均只是第九快的赛车，单圈速度平均落后2.8%。
本周末它为阿塞拜疆大奖赛带来一套重大升级包，主要聚焦于减重，同时也包含空气动力学改动。
Edd Straw、Ben Anderson和Samarth Kanal在最新一期The 比赛 F1播客中讨论了威廉姆斯在巴库的这个重要周末。
Ben Anderson：我们知道，多携带重量就像白白送掉圈速，对吧？所以他们应该会有所进步，但我不认为这会是彻底改变命运的一步——除非他们减掉了40公斤或50公斤这种离谱的数字。我不认为这会完全改变他们的世界。我倒愿意认为他们或许能回到那个区间，即在某个周末与哈斯中最好的那辆车较量，与那两辆车中试图留在Q2底部的那一辆竞争。
我认为威廉姆斯实际上是第十好的车，拥有梅赛德斯动力单元这件事美化了它，也真正暴露了他们作为一支车队的问题。所以他们迫切需要在底盘方面看到重大进步。
Edd Straw：归根结底，他们为巴库所做的很多事情，我会称之为标准的日常事务，因为你想要达到、甚至低于重量限制。据说这会让它们低于重量限制。这样就能留出一点压舱物，这很有用，可以确保压舱物处于允许的窗口内、放在你想要的位置。
但归根结底，虽然那能带来大量性能，那实际上只是让他们回到本赛季早得多就该处于的位置。所以无论他们今年做什么，他们实际上仍在追赶，只是在消除一些负面因素。
这真的只是一步，不是吗？你只需要看到性能提升。无论如何想象，它都不会突然变成前六名的车，甚至不会变成Q3的车。
Samarth Kanal：他们现在落后太多了，这一切都是在追赶。中游对手车队已经完全在研发上超越了他们，让他们原地踏步。现在威廉姆斯落后太多，我认为这次升级只能让他们处于那个中游集团的底部。
赛车平衡存在如此根本性的问题，整个空气动力学图谱可能都需要重做。那将需要一次极其剧烈的更新——那更多是2027年而非2026年的事。
BA：实际上，自从阿斯顿·马丁把他们B版赛车带到匈牙利、并让威廉姆斯和哈斯都为那里的进步感到惊叹之后，他们就一直在给预期降温。
我认为在阿斯顿·马丁做出那样的举动之前，威廉姆斯对巴库的预期还比较乐观。现在则做了很多预期管理。我认为这是合理的，因为与今年对威廉姆斯的期望相比，他们的表现几乎可以说是令人难堪。
这非常像是2023年到2024年那个循环的重演。而这正是我真正担心威廉姆斯的地方。就像我们以前已经经历过这一幕。
他们在2025年从中走出来得非常好，但2025年的一切都是关于‘我们很早就用风洞测试2026年赛车，我们现在的基准是成为中游集团之首，然后寻求缩小差距’。而他们刚刚远远偏离了那条轨道。
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ES：车队领队James Vowles在赛季初表示，他们新的基准是去年获得的第五名。所以按照他们自己的标准，他们没有达到，原因各种各样。赛车交付晚了。显然它超重，下压力不足，高斜率概念没有奏效，还有操控麻烦，这种多年来持续存在的三轮行驶问题，他们仍在与之斗争。
ES：要评判他们，我们需要看看他们明年年初会做什么。对我来说那才是关键，因为他们必须消除交付延迟的问题。他们必须达到重量要求。他们必须有正确的空气动力学套件，并且至少在中游集团中表现不错。
因为如果他们做不到，那才是真正该敲响警钟的时候。
英文原文
After declaring for so long that the main focus of its rebuilding programme was being ready to capitalise on Formula 1's major 2026 regulation changes, Williams has tumbled backwards in the season when it had promised to leap forwards.
Fifth in the constructors' championship and a podium finisher last year, now it's ninth in the standings on only 11 points (59 fewer than at this stage, after 14 rounds, in 2025), and has been only the ninth-fastest car on average this year, an average of 2.8% down on single-lap pace.
This weekend it's bringing a major upgrade package to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, focused largely on weight reduction but also featuring aerodynamic changes.
Edd Straw, Ben Anderson and Samarth Kanal debated Williams's big Baku weekend on the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast.
Ben Anderson: We know that carrying excess weight is like giving away free laptime, isn't it? So they should make a step but I don't think it will make an absolutely life-changing one - unless they're taking out something like 40kg or 50kg, some nonsensical amount. I don't think it's going to completely change their world. I'd like to think they might get back into that zone of kind of fighting with whichever is the best of the Haases on a given weekend, whichever one of those cars is trying to be at the bottom of Q2.
I think the Williams is actually the 10th-best car and the fact it's got the Mercedes power unit flatters it and really exposes them as a team. So they desperately need to see a big step on the chassis side.
Edd Straw: Ultimately, a lot of what they're doing for Baku is what I'd sort of call the standard housekeeping stuff because you want to be on or in fact under the weight limit. And apparently this will put them under the weight limit. So that'll allow them a little bit of ballast, which is useful to have for making sure you've got the ballast within the allowed window where you want it to be.
But ultimately, while that's a load of performance, that's really only getting them back to where they should have been much earlier in the season. So whatever they do this year, they're still really playing catch-up and just eliminating some of the negatives.
It's just one step really, isn't it? You just need to see the performance improvement. It's not going to suddenly turn into a top-six car by any stretch of the imagination or even a Q3 car.
Samarth Kanal: They are so far behind now that this is all catching up. Rival midfield teams have completely outdeveloped them, left them standing still. and now Williams is so far behind that I think this upgrade can only put them at the bottom of that midfield set.
There's such a fundamental issue in car balance, the whole aero map needs to probably be redone. That's going to need an incredibly drastic update - that's more for 2027 than 2026.
BA: They've been talking it down actually since Aston Martin bought their B-spec car to Hungary and kind of wowed certainly Williams and Haas with the step they took there.
I think before Aston Martin did what they did, Williams were a bit more bullish about what they were expecting from Baku. Now there's been a lot of expectation management. I think that's a reasonable thing to do because compared to expectations of Williams this year, they've been pretty much embarrassing.
This is very much the 2023 into 2024 cycle repeating. And that's the thing I really worry about with Williams. It's like we've been here before.
They came out of it really well in 2025, but then 2025 was all about 'we're in the windtunnel with the 2026 car really early, our baseline now is to be top of the midfield and then look to bridge the gap'. And they've just fallen way off that track.
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ES: James Vowles, the team principal, said at the start of the season that their new baseline is the fifth place they got last year. So they've fallen short by their own standards and there's all sorts of reasons for that. The car was late. Obviously it's overweight, downforce isn't there and the high rake concept didn't work, there are handling troubles, this sort of three-wheeling problem that's been persistent over a number of years that they're still battling.
ES: To judge them, we need to see what they do at the start of next year. That for me is the critical thing because they've got to eliminate the problems with being late. They've got to be on the weight. They've got to have the right aero package and be performing decently in that midfield at the very least.
Because if they're not there, then that's when you really start to sound the alarm bells.
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