博塔斯解释巴库站大幅落后佩雷兹的原因
博塔斯透露，在阿塞拜疆大奖赛上他平均每圈比凯迪拉克队友佩雷兹慢超过1.7秒，是2026赛季迄今正赛中最大的队内差距，他对此表示在直道和弯角都无法跟上节奏。
瓦尔特里·博塔斯透露了上一站巴库比赛中，他相比凯迪拉克F1队友塞尔吉奥·佩雷兹速度严重不足的一些原因。
在阿塞拜疆大奖赛上，博塔斯平均每圈比佩雷兹慢超过1.7秒之多，这是2026赛季迄今正赛中最大的队内差距。甚至他的最快单圈也比佩雷兹慢1.489秒。
博塔斯在最后一圈撞上护墙，因为他在驶过1号弯逃生通道后，赛车的能量输出模式“有点混乱”，而由于多跑了距离，他在进入15号弯左弯时后刹车失效，车头撞上了护墙。
但更令人担忧的是此前惊人的速度差距，在博塔斯撞车之前，佩雷兹几乎已经套了他一圈。
“我理解从外面看起来情况很糟糕，坐在车里感觉也很糟糕，”博塔斯周四在马来西亚说。
“当时根本没办法跟上大部队。我在比赛中尝试了所有办法，也得到了很多关于我在哪里损失时间的反馈。很大一部分是在直道上，但也有相当大的一部分是在整圈的弯道中损失掉的。
“所以我一直在坚持推进直到最后，这也是为什么我在最后一圈进一号弯时锁死了轮胎。
“不过是的，关键问题是在练习中我们就已经看到我的速度不够。我无法像佩雷兹那样以同样的速度过弯，所以我们在排位赛前做了很多改动，包括一些减震器和底板，结果感觉确实好多了。
“但在正赛中，行驶品质又明显衰减了很多……我们这次改动了很多东西，所以我觉得问题在于减震器随温度衰减，还有底板……我们在某些地方仍然缺少一些压力测量点，所以对于气动部件，我还拿不到过去习惯获得的完整信息。
“通过数据你马上就能看出性能是提升还是下降，但现在底板有一些区域我们完全看不见。不过就我个人的感觉而言，更多问题出在行驶品质上——再加上动力转向整个周末都在不断衰减。所以我在整场比赛中真的很难去感受赛车。
“这些因素叠加在一起。而且动力单元的差距可能比我们预想的要大，至少从数据上看是这样。
“理论上我们有一个数字，但那是新引擎对全新引擎，也就是新规格对旧规格的对比。所以，我想就是这些因素叠加的结果。我当时确实相当慢。”
动力单元方面的差异指的是佩雷兹在巴库已经用上了升级版 ADUO 2 法拉利引擎，而博塔斯还没有。
此前这被描述为“细微差别”，但正如博塔斯所说，这次升级的效果可能比最初想象的更大。
博塔斯表示，他的 ADUO 2 引擎能否及时送到、让他能在雪邦赛道使用，可能性是“五五开”；如果赶不上，他就得等到下周的新加坡大奖赛。
他的队友佩雷兹本周末不会使用这套引擎，而是换用自己引擎池中的另一套动力单元，以便把升级版留到更能发挥作用的比赛周末再使用。
佩雷斯解释说：“我们做出了一个我们认为胜算最大的决定。”
“这就是为什么我们会在这里承受一些损失。但我们希望这会有所回报。”
“我们对这个周末并不太乐观。所以我们决定把它省下来。”
正如佩雷斯所暗示的，凯迪拉克的车手们已经为艰难的周末做好了准备，因为雪邦赛道带来了两个凯迪拉克尤其难以应对的挑战：轮胎过热和高速弯角。
正如佩雷兹所解释的，凯迪拉克目前“赛车的下压力严重不足，而且阻力很大”。
“在巴库，我基本上整场比赛都保持在超车模式上，所以才能跟住其他车手，”佩雷兹说。
“但当我超过他们之后，我就只能像个乘客一样，因为我没有直道速度。所以我们有两大问题：下压力不足和很大的阻力。”
“但我们一直都知道，第一年会很艰难。”
英文原文
Valtteri Bottas has revealed some of the reasons behind his woeful lack of pace compared to Cadillac Formula 1 team-mate Sergio Perez last time out in Baku.
Bottas was on average over a whopping 1.7 seconds slower than Perez per lap at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the largest race day intra-team deficit of 2026 so far. Even his single fastest lap was 1.489s slower than Perez.
Bottas ended up in the wall on the final lap as his car’s deployment pattern “got a bit confused” because he went down the Turn 1 escape road, then because of the extra distance travelled his rear brakes didn’t work going into the Turn 15 left-hander, where he nosed into the barriers.
But what was more worrying was the alarming lack of pace before then, with Perez close to lapping Bottas before the latter's crash.
“I understand it looked pretty bad from the outside and felt pretty bad in the car as well,” Bottas said on Thursday in Malaysia.
“There was just no way to keep up with the pack. I tried everything during the race, and got lots of feedback on where I am losing the time. A lot of it was on the straights, but also a big chunk was just all around the lap in the corners.
“That's why I just kept pushing until the end and that's why I had to lock up on the last lap into Turn 1.
“But yeah, the main thing was we saw already in practice that I was lacking pace. I couldn't carry the same speed through the corners as Checo, so we changed a lot for the qualifying, including some dampers and the floor, and it actually felt a lot better.
“But then the ride again during the race degraded quite a lot... Again, we've changed a lot of things, so I think it's something to do with dampers degging with heat, the floor... We are still lacking a bit of pressure tappings here and there, so we still don't have the full information on aero parts that I'm used to from the past.
“You can immediately see if you're down or up, but now there are some bits of the floor where we are blind. But for me, feeling-wise, it was more the ride - that, in combination with the power steering that was degging throughout the weekend. So I was really then also struggling to feel the car throughout the race.
“So those things combined. And then the [power unit] difference was probably bigger than we thought, at least from the data.
“We've got a number in theory, but that's new engine versus new one, of the new and old spec. So yeah, I think those combined. I was pretty slow.”
The power unit difference is in reference to Perez having the upgraded ADUO 2 Ferrari engine in Baku while Bottas doesn’t yet have it.
This was previously described as a “small difference”, but as Bottas says the upgrade may be more powerful than first thought.
Bottas says it’s “50/50” if his ADUO 2 engine arrives in time for him to run it at Sepang; if not, he’ll have to wait until next week in Singapore.
Team-mate Perez won’t be running it this weekend, swapping to a different power unit in his pool in order to save it for a weekend when it will be more beneficial.
“We took a decision where we feel we got the best shot at it,” Perez explained.
“That's why we're taking a bit of a hit here. But we hope that it will pay us back.
“We are not too optimistic about this weekend. So we decided to save it.”
As Perez alluded, the Cadillac drivers are braced for a difficult weekend because Sepang poses two challenges the Cadillac struggles with in particular: tyre overheating and high-speed corners.
As Perez explains, the Cadillac has “a massive lack of load in the car and a lot of drag” right now.
“In Baku, I basically stayed on the overtake mode for the entire race and therefore I was able to stay with the others,” Perez said.
“But when I overtook them, I was just a passenger because I had no straightline speed. So we have two big issues: load and a lot of drag.
“But we always knew this first year was going to be tricky.”
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