科尔顿·赫塔2026赛季雪上加霜——蒙扎两度失控一次故障
科尔顿·赫塔的F2赛季持续恶化，蒙扎周末的表现为其困境提供了最清晰的例证。这位前IndyCar领先车手已被凯迪拉克F1车队签为2026赛季测试与开发车手，并在可能晋升世界锦标赛前转战F2。
科尔顿·赫塔（Colton Herta）的2026赛季从糟糕变得更糟——两次冲出赛道，还在蒙扎遭遇一次赛车故障
在意大利的这个周末，赫塔可能经历了整个赛季最艰难的比赛，而他的F1梦想也随之脱轨
科尔顿·赫塔（Colton Herta）的F2赛季正从糟糕变得更糟，而他在蒙扎的这个周末最能说明这一点。
曾几何时是IndyCar领先车手的赫塔，被凯迪拉克F1车队聘为2026年的测试与发展车手，并转战F2，为可能晋级世界锦标赛做准备。
不过，虽然F2本来就注定充满挑战——他没有倍耐力轮胎的使用经验，也不熟悉这些赛道——但Herta目前在积分榜上仅排在第17位，成绩令人失望。
在10轮比赛中，这位Hitech车手只有一次排位赛进入前12名，而蒙扎更是他的新低谷：仅列第20位，落后领先者超过一秒。
但问题不仅仅在于速度。Herta在唯一一节F2练习赛中冲出赛道退赛，他在Lesmo 2弯出口处把两个车轮压进了砂石区，随后打旋转入内侧护栏。之后他参加了F1的一练，以满足凯迪拉克的新秀出场要求，但他的MAC-赛车在仅完成一个飞驰圈后就因疑似液压故障而抛锚。F2排位赛第20名的成绩更是让他这一天雪上加霜。
这是Herta第三次参加一练，他在凯迪拉克赛车里已经感觉“舒服得多”。“你知道的，就是对赛车需要什么、想要怎样被驾驶多了一点点了解，”他解释道。
“所有这些赛车都有一些微小的差异，正是这些差异让它们变得合拍。我在驾驶时努力去找到这种感觉，所以对赛车喜欢什么样的特性多一分了解就是很大的帮助，这让我感觉更自在。
“当你只有一个小时的时候，就好像，真的，当你坐在车里、一切都发生的时候，一切都进展得飞快。感觉你在车里只待了五分钟，所以你一下车就立刻会想，‘哦，我本该做这个’或者‘我本该做那个’。
“我想每个人都会说，如果在驾驶中任何事情上得到第二次机会，他们都会做得更好，对我来说肯定也是这样，那可能会是一个相当大的进步。
随后在周六的F2冲刺赛中，Herta仅获得第15名，而他的主赛在第11圈就结束了——他在Parabolica弯出口冲进了砂石区；当时他正排在第21位。
结果，他在积分榜上卡在了26分，过去10场比赛只拿到过一次前12名的完赛成绩。他与总冠军领跑者Nikola Tsolov之间相差151分，而剩下四轮总共只有156分可争，这意味着他在数学上几乎已经无缘总冠军。就连目前相差37分的前十名，现在看来也是一项艰巨的任务。
“我想做的是进入F1，而且我想尽快到达那里，”Herta说，“这有多现实，我还没有被告知，也不知道。”但2027年的F1席位几乎已经不再是一个选择了。
英文原文
Colton Herta’s 2026 season goes from bad to worse – two offs, one breakdown at Monza
Herta probably endured his toughest weekend of the campaign in Italy, as his F1 dream gets derailed
Colton Herta’s Formula 2 season has been going from bad to worse, which nothing illustrates more clearly than his Monza weekend.
Former IndyCar frontrunner Herta was hired by the Cadillac Formula 1 team as a test and development driver for 2026, and he switched to F2 ahead of a potential graduation to the world championship.
But while F2 was always going to be a challenge, given he had no experience of the Pirelli rubber and wasn’t familiar with the tracks, Herta lies an underwhelming 17th in the standings.
Over 10 rounds, the Hitech driver has qualified in the top 12 just once, and Monza was a new low for him with 20th place, more than a second off the pace.
It wasn’t just about pace, though. Herta crashed out of the only F2 practice session when he put two wheels in the gravel at the exit of Lesmo 2 and spun into the inside wall. He then partook in Formula 1 FP1 as Cadillac fulfilled its rookie requirements, but his MAC-26 broke down after just one push lap with a suspected hydraulic issue. That 20th position in F2 qualifying compounded his troubled day.
This was Herta’s third FP1 outing, and he had been feeling “a lot more” comfortable in the Cadillac. “You know, just kind of having that little bit of knowledge about what the car wants, or what the car needs, how it wants to be driven,” he explained.
“All these cars have tiny differences that make them click. I'm driving and trying to find that, so having a bit more knowledge of what the car likes to do is a big help, it makes me feel more comfortable.
“When you only have an hour, it seems like, literally when you're inside the car and everything's happening, everything's happening so quick. It seems like you're in there for five minutes, so you get out and you're instantly like, ‘Oh I should have done this’ or ‘I should have done that’.
“I think everybody would say if they get a second chance at anything when they're driving they would do better, and for sure for me it probably would have been a pretty big step.”
Herta then progressed to just 15th place in the F2 sprint race on Saturday, and his feature race ended on lap 11, in the gravel at the exit of Parabolica; he was running 21st.
As a consequence, he’s stuck on 26 points in the standings, having taken just one top 12 finish in the last 10 races. His 151-point deficit to championship leader Nikola Tsolov, with 156 available in the remaining four rounds, means he’s all but mathematically out of contention for the title. Even the top 10, now 37 points away, currently seems like a tall order.
“What I want to do is I want to get to Formula 1 and I want to get there as fast as possible,” Herta said. “How realistic that is, I have yet to be told or know.” But a 2027 F1 drive can hardly be an option anymore.
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