梅赛德斯高层承认车队对2026年F1升级失败感到困惑
梅赛德斯在新加坡大奖赛冲刺周末尝试通过激进的车库划分来收集数据，以理解为何他们的期待已久的空气动力学升级在马来西亚失败，但这一做法反而让车队更加困惑。
梅赛德斯高层承认车队对2026年F1升级失败感到困惑
梅赛德斯工程师在乔治·拉塞尔将较老的车队规格车开到新加坡排位赛的前排后感到困惑
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当梅赛德斯车队在新加坡大奖赛冲刺周末选择采用激进的车库划分策略时，目标很简单：收集足够的并排数据，最终了解为什么他们备受期待的空气动力学升级在马来西亚失败了。然而，这种激进的分规格测试反而让工厂陷入了深深的困惑。
在周五的滨海湾街道赛道冲刺排位赛中，乔治·拉塞尔驾驶着较旧的、之前的空气动力学套件成功获得了第一排的起跑位置，与杆位车手马克斯·维斯塔潘并肩。与此同时，他的队友安德烈亚·基米·安东内利——他继续使用新的、据称更快的升级——在车辆平衡方面遇到了严重困难，最终在第七位完成了排位赛。
对于梅赛德斯-AMG佩特拉拉斯F1车队赛道工程总监安德鲁·肖夫林来说，旧车显著优于大规模工厂更新是一个令人极其担忧的信号，这对其2026年冠军希望来说是一个警钟。
“在马来西亚的一个艰难周末之后，我们决定在本周末的新加坡使用分规格的赛车，”肖夫林向媒体解释说。“这不是最容易做到的，或者有冲刺赛制，因为这通常需要一些时间来调整赛车设置。”
尽管拉塞尔在前排展现出了令人印象深刻的速度，但梅赛德斯维修区远未庆祝。事实上，较老车型的更快速度基本上证实了车队的风洞相关性存在根本性的缺陷。
"我们今天看到了这一点，虽然我们很高兴看到乔治站在前排，但这让我们有些摸不着头脑，不明白为什么这次升级没有带来我们预期的性能提升。" 安德鲁·肖夫林坦白道。
虽然拉塞尔能够自信地从较老、经过验证的规格中提取最大速度，但安东内利在整个新加坡街道赛道的狭窄、苛刻的90度弯角中，一直在积极对抗新的空气动力学套件。
"两辆车都没有很好的平衡，虽然基米在刹车和进入阶段缺乏更多信心，而这正是你需要在这里攻击排位赛圈速的。" 肖夫林在谈到锦标赛领头的车手所面临的挑战时说道。
随着严格的 parc fermé 规则在周六的 Sprint 赛车之前严重限制了主要机械变更，梅赛德斯工程师将不得不依靠软件调整和轻微的前翼襟翼调整来尝试挽救更新的套件。
"我们将继续努力了解这是为什么，" Shovlin 表示。"我们周围有大量数据来尝试取得一些进展，希望我们明天能够把基米的车调整到更好的位置进行主排位赛。
英文原文
Mercedes boss admits team is baffled by failed 2026 F1 upgrades
Mercedes engineers are left "head scratching" after George Russell puts the older car specification on the front row in Singapore
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, George Russell, Mercedes
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When the Mercedes opted to run an aggressively divided garage for the Singapore Grand Prix Sprint weekend, the goal was simple: gather enough side-by-side data to finally understand why their highly anticipated aerodynamic upgrade failed in Malaysia. Instead, the radical split-specification test has only plunged the factory deeper into utter confusion.
Following Friday’s Sprint qualifying shootout at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, George Russell successfully secured a front-row starting position alongside polesitter Max Verstappen while driving the older, previous-specification aerodynamic package. Meanwhile, his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli - who continued to run the new, supposedly faster upgrades - heavily struggled with vehicle balance and qualified down in seventh place.
For Andrew Shovlin, the trackside engineering director for the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team, the fact that the older car is significantly outperforming the massive factory update is an incredibly alarming sign for its 2026 championship hopes.
"After a difficult weekend in Malaysia, we decided to run our cars in split specification this weekend here in Singapore," Shovlin explained to the media. "It is not the easiest track to do that at, or have the Sprint format, as it often takes a bit of time to get the car set-up dialled in."
Despite Russell's impressive pace on the front row, the Mercedes pitwall is far from celebrating. The fact that the older car is faster essentially confirms that the team's wind tunnel correlation is fundamentally flawed.
"We’ve seen that today as while we're pleased to see George on the front row, it has left us with a bit of head scratching to do to understand why the update is not bringing the performance step we expect," Andrew Shovlin confessed.
While Russell was able to confidently extract maximum pace from the older, proven specification, Antonelli was actively fighting the new aerodynamic package throughout the tight, unforgiving 90-degree corners of the Singapore street circuit.
"Neither car had a great balance, although Kimi was lacking more confidence on the braking and entry phase, and that's what you need to attack a qualifying lap here," Shovlin noted regarding the championship leader's struggles.
With rigid parc fermé regulations heavily restricting major mechanical changes before Saturday's Sprint race, the Mercedes engineers will have to rely on software tweaks and minor front-wing flap adjustments to try and salvage the updated package.
"We'll keep working to understand why that's the case," Shovlin stated. "We've got plenty of data around us to try and make some progress, and hopefully we'll be able to get Kimi's car in a better place for main qualifying tomorrow."
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