F1荷兰大奖赛混乱中的赢家与输家
周六冲刺赛表现平淡令人担忧荷兰大奖赛会沉闷收场,但周日赛前一场突如其来的阵雨在赞德沃特赛道制造混乱,为比赛增添了戏剧性。
F1混乱的荷兰大奖赛:赢家与输家
F1荷兰大奖赛以轰动的方式落幕,成为近年来最精彩纷呈的比赛之一,诞生了多位引人注目的赢家和输家
如果在周六那场令人昏昏欲睡的冲刺赛之后,还有人担心荷兰会以一场无聊的比赛为自己的F1复兴之旅送别,那么这种担心在周日正赛开始前一小时的一场突然降雨中被一扫而空,当时发车区刚开始向观众开放
雨没有持续到正赛期间,但恰好造成了足够的混乱,使赞德沃特的沙丘赛道变得湿滑,导致第一圈结束时发生了多车相撞的混乱局面
在所有人当中,偏偏是本土英雄维斯塔潘在这种条件下栽了跟头,他犯了一个罕见的错误,在驶入主直道时右脚踩得太急。本应全油门通过的Luyendyk弯特别湿滑,Verstappen在内侧压到白线后直接滑向了外侧护墙。
最终的结果是一场严重撞车,不过这位荷兰车手幸运地没有被随后驶来的车流撞上。在这项赛事的告别之战上,这不是他或大批身穿橙色服装的车迷所期望的结局,但这位四届世界冠军和赞德沃特赛道都曾有过一段美好时光——Verstappen赢得了前三次比赛的胜利。Verstappen的续约合同——据称将让他在F1留到2030年——也应该能缓解这次失利的打击。
周六的冲刺赛并没有让迈凯伦有多少信心,车队在比赛节奏和中性胎管理上的劣势使其无法跟上冠军拉塞尔,而法拉利看起来也明显更快。
但到了周日,在Norris的手中,搭载升级套件的迈凯伦就是另一番景象了。虽然Norris未能在静止重新起步时挡住Antonelli,但在倍耐力硬胎上,这位卫冕世界冠军简直是势不可挡,他超越了当时的领跑者,并在同一圈又超掉了汉密尔顿。
他的车队领队安德里亚·斯特拉将好成绩归功于车队在冲刺赛表现糟糕得多之后对赛车调校所做的调整,但同时也特别称赞了诺里斯,因为奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在另一辆车上挣扎得要多得多。
"我认为兰多在理解如何使用这种(硬胎)配方方面多了一挡,"斯特拉说。"在这样的条件下,我想这正是他能够展现自己天然驾驶风格的地方。"
正如他最近在布达佩斯和赞德沃特的大奖赛胜利所表明的那样,诺里斯可以说正处于他的巅峰状态。
不同的赛车,不同的角色,不同的车队领导层。利亚姆·劳森这次重返红牛的一次性机会,与他2025年初在那支车队灾难性的首秀相比,所处的环境可谓天壤之别——那次经历仅仅持续了两站比赛。
任何与他共事过或曾经共事过的人交谈,都能明显看出Lawson也发生了变化——这段磨炼性格的经历让他更加成熟,作为一名大奖赛车手也更加全面。
说出来容易,但在荷兰站,Lawson实际上得到了一个意想不到的机会,用事实来证明这一点。他顶替受伤的哈贾尔出赛,在这一场临时代打的周末中镇定自若地坚持了下来,尽管除了动力单元之外,他所驾驶的这辆赛车对他来说“完全是不同的”。
周日能拿到的只有遥远的第一名开外的第七位,因为红牛车队以不小的差距排在速度第四快的车队之列。这就是红牛对替补车手所能要求的全部。
又一个周末过去了,法拉利拥有一辆很快的赛车,却不知怎的没能把它带上领奖台。从排位赛中不太理想的车迷圈计时圈,到进站,再到比赛策略,比赛周末的执行依然是这支车队(Scuderia)的痛点。
刘易斯·汉密尔顿(汉密尔顿)在周日做出了一个敏锐的观察,此前他对法拉利在是否与夏尔·勒克莱尔(勒克莱尔)交换位置或让队友进站这一决定上磨磨蹭蹭感到厌烦,最终法拉利选择了让队友进站。当乔治·拉塞尔(拉塞尔)被要求与基米·安东内利(安东内利)交换位置时,这位英国车手并不太情愿,但还是立即执行了,两位车手在过程中都没有损失太多时间。
“梅赛德斯就是这样执行的,”汉密尔顿说。“他们有车在领跑,正在争夺总冠军,他们立刻就做了。而在这里,我只能坐在后面干等,损失了好几秒。有些事情我们需要私下里讨论。”
如果没有最后阶段的虚拟安全车,情况本可能有所不同——虚拟安全车很可能帮助拉塞尔守住了领奖台位置,免受汉密尔顿的威胁。但随着这位七届世界冠军和法拉利试图凭借动力不足的引擎继续参与争夺,所有这些小问题正开始不断累积。
在周五,由于本田升级版引擎的驾驶性问题,费尔南多·阿隆索(阿隆索)和队友兰斯·斯特罗尔(斯特罗尔)连留在赛道上都很困难,更不用说延续车队在匈牙利站的进步了,赞德福特周末对阿斯顿·马丁来说原本前景相当黯淡。
周日的比赛依然没有出现奇迹,但AMR26赛车的表现足以让阿隆索大胆的一停策略奏效,压过了阿尔派的加斯利和小红牛的两名车手。
“F1不是一项神秘的运动,”阿隆索说,他是自1974年以来首位45岁及以上还能拿分的车手。“你必须带来性能并超越竞争对手才能拿分,而我们正在做的就是这个。所以,祝贺银石站的每一个人,希望我们能带来更多。”
你可以大做文章地谈论塞恩斯与阿尔本在比赛结束时的碰撞。但比这场威廉姆斯内斗本身更糟糕的是,这次碰撞——由塞恩斯的旧硬胎在1号弯锁死引发——完全没有意义,因为这两位车手争的只是他们自己之间的第15名。
在进展不足的赛车套件在阿塞拜疆获得急需的升级之前,威廉姆斯将处于挣扎求生的状态。但在阿斯顿·马丁取得重大进步之后,威廉姆斯现在只能和凯迪拉克竞争,状态好的时候还能和哈斯争一争。
本周的好消息是,两位车手都已承诺明年继续留队,这消除了近几周来笼罩着车队的种种噪音和干扰。但正如车队领队James Vowles周五承认的那样,威廉姆斯不会有任何短期解决办法。
正如劳森在成功重返红牛后完成了圆满轮回、值得称赞一样,YukI Tsunoda也同样值得称赞。这位日本车手在2026年整年坐冷板凳后,在一次临时出场中表现抢眼,他全身心投入其中,细细品味着这段他原本不确定还能否再次拥有的经历。
通过角田裕毅与Honda精心培养的关系,IndyCar的未来或许正在等待着他。但在上个周末,这位26岁的车手可以再次称自己为F1车手,而且他整周末都紧紧咬住正式车手Arvid Lindblad,做得相当不错。
"说实话,我很怀念这种感觉,追逐那最后几毫秒的感觉,"Tsunoda在排位赛后说,"我非常享受。"
在周日刚刚与积分失之交臂后,他补充道:“我知道自己能做到什么,而且我认为我基本上已经向围场里的大多数人展示了我能做到什么。
“现在就看我的经纪人以及其他还没有决定明年车手阵容的车队了,看他们想不想要我。请给我打电话吧!”Tsunoda 开玩笑说完后便被匆匆带走了。
你怎么能不为 霍肯伯格 欢呼呢?他在第 1 圈结束时凭借出色的反应能力,救了他的 奥迪 队友 博托莱托,使其免于一场可怕的事故?你不能不,所以为他的表现点赞。
英文原文
Winners and losers from F1's chaotic Dutch Grand Prix
Formula 1's Dutch Grand Prix went out with a bang, producing one of the more eventful editions in recent memory which yielded several high-profile winners and losers
If there were any fears after Saturday's mind-numbing sprint display that the Netherlands would send off its Formula 1 revival with a dud, then those fears were washed away in a sudden shower one hour before Sunday's race, around the time the starting grid started opening for business.
The rain didn't persist into the race itself, but caused just enough havoc to make Zandvoort's dune loop slippery, leading to carnage at the end of lap 1.
Of all people, it was home hero Max Verstappen who tripped up in the conditions, making a rare mistake by being too eager with his right foot coming onto the main straight. The otherwise flat-out Luyendyk corner was particularly damp, with Verstappen veering straight into the outside wall after tapping the white line on the inside.
The end result was a huge crash, though the Dutchman was fortunate not to be collected by oncoming traffic. It's not the end result he or the army of orange clad fans were hoping for on the event's swansong, but both the four-time world champion and Zandvoort have had a good run, with Verstappen winning the first three editions. Verstappen's contract extension, which is supposed to keep him in F1 until 2030, should soften the blow too.
Saturday's sprint didn't particularly fill McLaren with confidence, with the team's inferior race pace and tyre management on the medium compound making it unable to keep up with winner George Russell, while Ferrari also looked intrinsically quicker.
But in the hands of Norris, Sunday was a different story for the upgraded McLaren. While Norris was unable to hold off Antonelli on the standing restart, on Pirelli's hard tyre the reigning world champion was an absolute demon as he swept past the erstwhile leader and then picked off Lewis Hamilton on the same lap.
His team boss Andrea Stella credited the team's set-up adjustments after a much poorer sprint, but also reserved special praise for Norris as Oscar Piastri struggled much more aboard the other car.
"I think Lando had an extra [gear] in terms of understanding how to use this [hard] compound," Stella said. "These conditions, I think this is where he can express his natural driving style."
As his most recent grand prix wins in Budapest and Zandvoort have shown, Norris is arguably operating at his peak right now.
Different car, different role, different team leadership. The circumstances around Liam Lawson's one-off Red Bull return couldn't have been more different than his first calamitous adventure with the squad at the start of 2025, which lasted all of two rounds.
Speak to anyone who works or has worked with him, and it is clear Lawson has changed too - more mature for the character-building experience, and more well-rounded as a grand prix driver.
That's all very easy to say, but in the Netherlands Lawson was actually handed a surprise opportunity to back that up with facts. Subbing for the injured Isack Hadjar, he soldiered on through his one-off weekend with aplomb, despite driving what he experienced as an "entirely different" car other than the power unit.
A distant seventh-place was all that was on offer on Sunday as Red Bull was the fourth-fastest team by some distance. This is all Red Bull could have asked for from its stand-in.
Yet another weekend goes by where Ferrari has a quick car but somehow manages not to bring it to the podium. Race weekend execution remains a sore topic for the Scuderia, between sub-optimal out-laps in qualifying to pitstops to race strategy.
Lewis Hamilton made an astute observation on Sunday, after getting fed up with Ferrari dilly-dallying on its decision to either swap positions with Charles Leclerc or pit his team-mate, as ended up happening. When George Russell was asked to swap with Kimi Antonelli, the Briton didn't particularly like it but immediately acted, with neither driver losing much time in the process.
"Mercedes execute like that," Hamilton said. "They've got the car that's fighting for the championship in the lead, and they did it straight away. Here I'm sitting back, losing seconds. Something that we need to discuss offline."
Things could have been different without the late virtual safety car, which likely saved Russell's podium spot from Hamilton. But all those little things are starting to add up as the seven-time world champion and Ferrari are trying to stay in the fight with an under-powered engine.
The Zandvoort weekend was shaping up to be quite bleak for Aston Martin on Friday when driveability issues with Honda's upgraded engine made it hard enough for Fernando Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll to stay on the black stuff, never mind build on the team's Hungary progress.
There still weren't any miracles on Sunday, but there was enough performance in the AMR26 to make a bold one-stop strategy work for Alonso, getting one over Alpine's Pierre Gasly and the Racing Bulls drivers.
"Formula 1 is not a mysterious sport," said Alonso, the first driver aged 45 or older to score points since 1974. "You have to bring performance and outperform competitors to score points and it's what we are doing. So, congratulations everyone in Silverstone and hopefully we can bring more."
You could make a big deal about the contact between Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon at the end of the race. But much more damning than the Williams-on-Williams violence itself is the fact that the collision, triggered by Sainz locking up his old hard tyres in Turn 1, was utterly meaningless, as the two drivers were racing nobody but themselves for 15th.
Williams is stuck in survival mode until its underdeveloped package receives some much-needed upgrades in Azerbaijan. But following Aston Martin's significant step forward, it's now just racing Cadillac and - on a good day - Haas.
The good news of this week is that both drivers have committed their future to the team for next year, removing some of the noise and distractions that were clouding the picture in recent weeks. But, as team principal James Vowles admitted on Friday, there won't be any short-term fixes for Williams.
As Liam Lawson deserves praise for coming full circle on his successful Red Bull return, so does YukI Tsunoda. The Japanese driver was a spark plug on his one-off outing after spending 2026 on the sidelines, soaking it all in as he savoured an experience he wasn't sure he would ever be granted again.
A future in IndyCar may well await, through Yuki Tsunoda's carefully cultivated Honda connections. But last weekend, the 26-year-old could call himself an F1 driver again, and he did a decent job sticking close to regular driver Arvid Lindblad throughout the weekend.
"Honestly, I missed this kind of feeling, chasing those last few milliseconds," Tsunoda said after qualifying. "I am super enjoying it."
After just missing out on a point on Sunday, he added: "I know what I can do and I think I pretty much showed what I can do to most of the paddock.
"Now it's up to my manager and other teams, who haven't decided yet about next year's line-up, if they want to have me or not. Call me, please!" Tsunoda joked before being whisked away.
How can you not give Nico Hulkenberg a shout-out for his outstanding reflexes at the end of lap 1, which saved his Audi team-mate Gabriel Bortoleto from an awful accident? You can't, so fair play.
Motorsport.com ·
内容来自公开信源,聚合内容版权归原作者与来源所有。