梅赛德斯解析安东内利2026赛季新高度的关键特质
梅赛德斯副领队布拉德利·洛德解释了基米·安东内利本赛季晋升为F1冠军争夺者的几个原因。安东内利去年作为F1历史上第三年轻的车手经历了艰难的新秀赛季。
梅赛德斯解释了基米·安东内利（安东内利）在2026年F1达到新水平背后的关键特质
梅赛德斯副领队布拉德利·洛德（Bradley Lord）深入探讨了安东内利在2026赛季F1中为何进步如此显著
梅赛德斯副领队布拉德利·洛德（Bradley Lord）给出了几个原因，解释基米·安东内利本赛季为何能崛起成为一级方程式的冠军争夺者。
安东内利去年度过了艰难的新秀赛季，他是F1历史上第三年轻的车手，跳过了F3，仅在F2待了一年便加入了这项世界锦标赛中最成功的车队之一——这得益于刘易斯·汉密尔顿（汉密尔顿）离开梅赛德斯转投法拉利。
这位意大利小将过去曾长期被队友乔治·拉塞尔（拉塞尔）大幅压制，但随着F1切换到新的技术规则，他扭转了这一局面——以至于在夏休期时，他以11场大奖赛中赢得6场（包括连续5场胜利）的战绩领跑2026年车手积分榜。
“有人问过我好几次，我是否感到惊讶，”洛德评论道。“我想答案既是也不是。
布拉德利·洛德（Bradley Lord），梅赛德斯AMG F1车队副领队
“我们签下基米并决定把他带进车队，是因为我们相信他的潜力。但不可否认的是，看到一名仅仅处于F1第二个赛季的车手表现得如此稳定，并展现出真正沉稳的成熟，实在令人印象极其深刻。”
“经历了那个艰难的首个赛季后，他几乎相当于在一个赛季里完成了多个赛季的学习量，而这些都在冬季得到了巩固。
“我确信在某种程度上还有新规则带来的重置因素，这意味着每位车手都在新赛车和新动力单元上面临陡峭的学习曲线，而且从整个围场来看，这似乎让这项运动中的新秀车手与老将车手之间，在那些可以看到这种搭档组合的车队里，重新达到了一种平衡。
“Kimi显然已经并且正在继续做着非常出色的工作，你能看到他的信心和自信一周一周地增强，但不是那种得意忘形的方式——他非常脚踏实地，而且他的家人以及车队内部也让他保持脚踏实地。你可以看到他的自信在增长，这真的非常、非常令人印象深刻。”
在进一步谈到Antonelli是如何从艰难的2025赛季中走出来时，Lord继续说道：“我认为他找到了一种对他行之有效的方法，以便从车队身上获得最大的收获，明白为了做好赛前准备需要付出哪些努力——因为赛道时间是非常稀缺和宝贵的资源，尤其是在赛历中冲刺赛越来越多的当下，这样一来，只有一次自由练习赛（FP1），然后你就直接进入计时赛段、竞技性质的赛段，而不是自由练习赛段。
“在巴库前后，对他来说这是一次非常有用的重置，让他真正加倍努力，与比赛工程师以及他周围的车队其他成员一起，增加去模拟器练习的频率以及那里工作的强度和深度，让他看到摆在他面前、等待他去抓住和把握的机会。而他正用双手牢牢抓住它。”
促成这种好转的另一个因素，是梅赛德斯采取了尽可能让安东内利远离压力和媒体狂热的做法，吸取了2024年蒙扎一练的教训——当时这位非常热切的年轻人在他的第一个飞驰圈就撞毁了F1赛车——他当时显然完全没有收敛。
“在支持基米进入F1这件事上，我们一直非常谨慎和审慎，”洛德补充道。“对任何车手来说这都是巨大的一步，尤其是驾驶梅赛德斯赛车所带来的期望，所以我们要帮助他不被营销任务或赛道及其他活动的公关事务弄得过度劳累、不堪重负，而是以尽可能平稳的方式来管理这些事情。
“我们经常对车手们说：‘听着，这些东西没法让你变快，但如果我们处理不好，它们绝对会拖慢你的速度。’”
然而，当有人提出年轻的安东内利（Antonelli）可能比拉塞尔（Russell）更“容易适应”，从而能更好地发挥F1新赛车的性能时，勋爵迅速驳斥了这种观点。
“不，我认为两位车手都没有固守自己的方式，或者说他们都对如何发挥这些赛车的最佳性能保持完全开放的心态，”他坚称，“适应能力、敏捷性和多面性一直是任何顶尖车手的关键优势，基米（Kimi）和乔治（George）都具备这种能力和素质。
安东内利, 梅赛德斯, 拉塞尔, 梅赛德斯
“对于这些赛车——在这个方程式里，你有时可能会迷失在一些复杂细节之中——我们的建议一直是保持简单，专注于驾驶，让轮胎进入正确的工作状态，做好每一位车手始终需要做好的那些事情，至于系统方面，然后再进行他们需要的学习，并以最佳的方式提供支持和发挥表现。”
“显然，当情况不太对劲时，事情会变得相当复杂，但我认为Kimi实际上已经能够剥离掉很多干扰因素，真正专注于本质，专注于他需要做的核心部分，这就为工程师们留出了空间，让他们能够专注于调校以及其他所有系统的优化，所以在这些不同的事情之间达到了非常好的精力平衡。”
Oleg Karpov 和 Roberto Chinchero 补充报道
英文原文
Mercedes explains key attributes behind Kimi Antonelli’s new 2026 F1 level
Mercedes deputy team boss Bradley Lord delves into how Antonelli has improved so dramatically in F1 2026
Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has given several reasons behind Kimi Antonelli’s rise into a Formula 1 title contender this season.
Antonelli endured a tough rookie campaign last year as F1’s third-youngest driver in history, having bypassed F3 to spend just one year in F2 before joining one of the most successful teams in the world championship – courtesy of Lewis Hamilton leaving Mercedes for Ferrari.
The Italian youngster used to be vastly outperformed by team-mate George Russell but has reversed that dynamic as F1 switched to new technical regulations – to the extent that he’s leading the 2026 drivers’ standings at the summer break, having won six out of 11 grands prix, including five in a row.
“I've been asked a few times if I'd been surprised,” Lord commented. “And I guess no and yes is the answer.
Bradley Lord, Deputy Team Principal, Mercedes AMG F1 Team
“We signed Kimi and we took the decision to bring Kimi into the team because we believed in his potential. But it's also undeniable to see a driver in just his second season in Formula 1 performing with so much consistency and with a real, calm maturity is incredibly impressive.
“Through that difficult first season, it's almost like he managed to do multiple seasons’ worth of learning in one, and then that's all consolidated over the winter.
“I'm sure there's also to some extent the reset factor of new regulations, that means every driver is on a steep learning curve with new cars and new power units and that seems over the field to have seen a re-balancing between newer drivers in the sport and older drivers as well in the teams where you can see those pairings.
“Kimi's obviously done and continues to do an incredible job, and you see his confidence and his self-confidence building from weekend to weekend, not in a way that he's getting carried away with anything, his feet are very firmly on the ground and kept very firmly on the ground by his family and inside the team as well. You can just see his self-belief growing and that's really, really impressive.”
Expanding on how Antonelli bounced back from that difficult 2025 season, Lord continued: “I think he found the method that worked for him in order to get the most from the team, understand the effort that is needed ahead of the weekend in order to arrive prepared – because track time is such a scarce and valuable commodity, particularly in a calendar where we're seeing ever more sprint races, and therefore it's an FP1 and then you're straight into a timed session, a competitive session and such rather than a free practice session.
“It was a really useful reset around Baku time for him to really redouble his efforts with Bono [race engineer Peter Bonnington] and the rest of the team around him, with the regularity of the visits to the sim and the intensity and depth of the work there, for him to see the opportunity that was there for him to grab and to take. And he's taking it with both hands.”
What also contributed to this upturn was Mercedes’ approach to shelter Antonelli from pressure and media frenzy as much as possible, with lessons learned from a 2024 Monza FP1 outing where the very keen youngster crashed the F1 car on his first flying lap – he definitely wasn’t holding back.
“We've been very careful and very judicious with how we've tried to support Kimi's introduction to Formula 1,” Lord added. “It's a huge step for any driver, particularly with the expectation that comes with driving for Mercedes, and so helping him not be overworked and overloaded with marketing commitments or PR stuff at the track and other events but managing that in as smooth a way as possible.
“We often say to the drivers, ‘Look, we can't make you faster with this stuff, but if we get it wrong we can definitely slow you down’.”
However, when it was suggested that a youthful Antonelli might have been ‘more adaptable’ than Russell to get the most of F1’s new machinery, Lord swiftly dismissed that view.
“No, I don't think either of the drivers has been set in their ways or anything other than completely open-minded about how to get the best out of these cars,” he insisted. “The ability to adapt and to be agile and versatile is always a key strength of any top driver, and both Kimi and George have that ability and capability as well.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
“These are cars where – and this is a formula where you can get a little bit lost sometimes in some of the complexities of it – the input and the advice has been just to keep it simple, concentrate on the driving, getting the tyres in the right place, doing the bits that every racing driver always needs to do well and the systems, then do the learning they need to do and support and deliver in an optimal way as well.
“Obviously when things aren't quite working right, that can get pretty complex and pretty complicated, but I think Kimi's been able to strip away a lot of the noise actually and really focus on the essentials, focus on the core parts of what he needs to do, and then that creates the space for the engineers to focus on the set-up and the optimisation of all the other systems as well, so it's been a really good balance of effort between those different things.”
Additional reporting by Oleg Karpov and Roberto Chinchero
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