2026年F1车手对决一边倒 但并非总是公平竞争
奥利·比尔曼在2026赛季全面压制哈斯队友埃斯特班·奥康，但比尔曼坦言由于赛车部件一致性问题，这并非总是公平的较量。
到目前为止，2026年F1赛季某支车队内部的这场对决，其原始统计数据对车库一侧来说相当惨淡：积分18比3，排位赛正面交锋11比4，正赛正面交锋9比3。
这就是哈斯车队的奥利·贝尔曼和埃斯特班·奥孔目前的差距。但按照明显占优的一方贝尔曼的说法，这“并不总是一场公平的较量”，因为哈斯今年遇到了一个大问题。
这个问题是令人沮丧的零件不一致性，领队小松礼雄早已公开谈及，而且全年不同阶段都影响到过两位车手。
事实上，贝尔曼正是在匈牙利大奖赛之前发表了那些“并不总是一场公平较量”的言论，而在那站比赛中他自己恰恰深受该问题困扰，而奥孔则度过了相对于贝尔曼而言他全年最强的周末之一。
Ocon总的来说是那位在公开场合表达更多不满的车手，他认为在匈牙利大奖赛之前，他只在铃鹿和银石赛道上体验过“赛车的正常性能”。
当被要求总结赛季上半程时，Ocon周四在匈牙利表示：“困难实在太多了。太多问题，太多阻碍我们发挥的东西。”
“就赛车在一场比赛与另一场比赛之间的稳定性，以及我今年遇到的问题数量而言，这大概是我经历过的最艰难的赛季上半程。”
这导致哈斯车队的两辆赛车之间频繁交换零部件，试图绕开部件性能的不一致性，包括在练习赛之间进行调换。据Komatsu说，例如，Bearman的赛车在巴塞罗那第三次自由练习中感觉“非常糟糕”，原因是部件的不一致，这让他在这场比赛中“严重受限”，而Ocon则在奥地利的练习赛中受限，之后才进行了部件更换。
“这段时间确实很艰难，因为你总是希望周末来到这里时一切顺利，正常地调试赛车、进行微调并把它的性能发挥到极致，但实际情况一直不是这样，”奥孔解释道。
“我会继续和车队一起工作，尽我所能帮助他们找出这些问题，并尽力为我们选择最好的结果。
“只要大家齐心协力，我相信我们一定能走出困境。确实，这个问题已经持续了一段时间，这很不好受，但我们团结在一起，我们一定能解决它。”
在匈牙利周五练习赛之前，奥孔从哈斯（哈斯）的零件库中更换了不同的底板和尾翼，并立刻感到这些改动让他备受鼓舞。
他还受益于在匈牙利实现了自己的愿望，获得了一个更轻的转向机。
“他一直想要这辆车的转向更轻一些，”哈斯车队车辆工程主管Hoagy Nidd解释道。
“我们成功为他做到了这一点，所以他从一开始就非常开心。”
尽管如此，他仍对斯帕的情况重演保持警惕——在那里他周五还很满意，但周六赛用引擎装车后，突然出现了“后部下压力损失以及前后失衡”的情况。
然而，这股势头延续到了匈牙利的排位赛——在Q1中，Ocon比Bearman快了0.2秒，Ocon晋级而Bearman被淘汰——并延续到了正赛中，在两位车手都完赛的情况下，Ocon今年第二次成为哈斯车队排名更高的车手。
“我们找回了稳定性，”Ocon在比赛后兴奋地说。
“整个周末赛车状态都很好。我们成功地把同样的表现从周五保持到周六再到周日，赛车的平衡等等也保持一致。所以这很不错。”
零部件一致性问题意味着哈斯难以让两辆赛车在每个周末都能让车手发挥出赛车理论潜能的最大值。
这意味着Bearman和Ocon在每个比赛周末来临前都只能祈祷自己不是那个倒霉的一方。
“这是一个糟糕透顶、非常糟糕的周末，这恰恰说明我们在一致性方面有多差，因为如果不是我——这个周末就是我，可能还有一两个人的车有问题——那就是Esteban的车突然损失了10到15点的下压力，”Bearman周日站匈牙利时说道。
“所以你只能盼着自己能站在好的一面，如果运气好，你就能度过一个还不错的周末，如果运气不好，那这个周末就会特别、特别漫长。我们遇到的就是漫长的那种。”
正因如此，在匈牙利大奖赛前夜，当被问及是否对自己目前大幅领先队友感到惊讶时，Bearman拒绝借此强调自己在队内的巨大优势。
他回答说：“我们车队目前正处在一个艰难的境地。我们各个部件之间的一致性一直很不稳定。我既吃过这问题的亏，也从中得到过好处，但很遗憾的是，这意味着你总是在追逐一个不断变化的目标。一夜之间，我们的赛车平衡就可能发生变化，这是始料未及的。
“这一切都是想说，我们正在经历的这场较量并不总是公平的，有时我们感觉就像双手几乎被反绑在背后在战斗。
“当然，我觉得我现在的表现处于非常高的水平，我真的看到自己的表现比12个月前有了一个进步，甚至比本赛季开始时也有进步。这是我能做的一切。
“这对我们来说一直是一个挑战。我对自己正在做的事情感到满意，但故事未必就像你在头条标题里看到的那样。”
究竟是什么导致了这个问题尚不清楚。小松说：“我们发现了一些问题，解决了一部分，但仍然有需要解决的问题。”
‘很难掌握真实情况’
由于2026年F1动力单元本身的种种特性，要准确判断今年哪些车手表现最佳已经很困难，而哈斯车队零部件不一致的问题又给局势增添了额外一层迷雾。
此外，18比3的积分差也存在一定误导性，因为早期几场比赛的走势对此有影响：当时哈斯的车在上海甚至能与红牛抗衡，但随后它滑落至中游腹地，连续最后六场比赛未能得分。
“从外部很难看出队友之间的差距，”小松说。
"如果你看积分差距，其中一些积分差距也是因为安全车造成的。在上海，奥利充分受益于[在]虚拟安全车或安全车[下进站并最终获得第五名]。而埃斯特班没有[他与弗朗哥·科拉平托发生了碰撞，最终名列第14]。
"然后[在斯帕]周五，当他[奥孔]对赛车感到满意时，他与奥利的差距相当接近。他在百分之二秒之内。然后从周六开始，他就对赛车不满意了。但老实说，我们几乎没有做任何改动。我们至今仍不明白这是为什么。
"但很明显，当他满意的时候，这与圈速无关。他显然对赛车有很好的感觉。所以，不用看他的圈速，他就说：'是的，我对这辆赛车很满意'。你猜怎么着？他和奥利很接近。但在第三次自由练习赛，他一出赛道，立刻就说稳定性没了。我们不明白为什么。他完全无法接近奥利。
“所以是的，我认为要了解真实情况是非常、非常困难的。”
这种特殊性在决定未来的车手阵容时，自然会成为一个严重的复杂因素。但当这一点被摆到小松面前时，他说：“至少我清楚地知道发生了什么。所以，是的。可以说，我能把所有事情都放到相应的背景中去理解。”
即便有上海站那些需要注意的情况，毫无疑问，贝尔曼显然是哈斯车队今年表现更强的车手。而如果哈斯保持了它的研发速度，没有理由认为贝尔曼不会仍然对奥康保有可观的积分优势。
之所以受到如此多猜测的是奥康的席位，这是有充分理由的，而贝尔曼未来唯一的问题则是哈斯能否留住他。
英文原文
The raw statistics of one intra-team fight so far in Formula 1 2026 make for pretty grim reading for one side of the garage: 18-3 on points, 11-4 head-to-head in qualifying, 9-3 head-to-head in races.
That's the current difference between Haas drivers Ollie Bearman and Esteban Ocon. But in the words of the clear winner, Bearman, it's "not always [been] a fair fight" because of a big issue Haas has encountered this year.
That problem is a frustrating parts inconsistency that team principal Ayao Komatsu has long been open about and that has affected both drivers at different stages throughout the year.
In fact, Bearman made those "not always a fair fight" comments just before the Hungarian GP, where he would end up suffering with that issue, while Ocon had one of his strongest weekends of the year relative to Bearman.
Ocon has generally been the more publicly frustrated driver, believing that prior to Hungary he'd only had "normal car performance" at Suzuka and Silverstone.
Asked to sum up his first half of the season, Ocon said on Thursday in Hungary: "Too many difficulties really. Too many issues, too many things that prevented us from performing.
"Probably the most difficult first half of the season that I've ever had in terms of how consistent the car was from one race to another and how many problems I had this year."
That's led to a lot of parts swapping between the Haas cars to try to work around that inconsistency in part performance, including between practice sessions. For example, Bearman's car felt "terrible" in FP3 at Barcelona because of parts inconsistencies and it left him "heavily compromised" for that event, according to Komatsu, while Ocon was compromised in practice in Austria before parts were swapped.
"It has been tough, definitely, because you always want to come in the weekend and everything to be smooth, just work on the car normally, fine-tune it and get the maximum out of it, but that is how it has been," Ocon explained.
"I keep working with the team to help them as much as I can to figure out those issues and try and choose what is the best outcome for us.
"All together, I am sure we will come out of this. It is true that it has been persisting for some time now, which is difficult, but we are sticking together and we will fix it."
Ocon swapped to a different floor and rear wing within Haas's parts pool ahead of Friday practice in Hungary and felt immediately buoyed by the changes.
He also benefitted from being granted his wish of a lighter steering rack in Hungary.
"He's always wanted lighter steering on this car," Haas's head of car engineering Hoagy Nidd explained.
"We managed to get that for him, so he was pretty happy right from the get-go.”
Despite this, he was wary of a repeat of Spa - where he had been happy on Friday only for the race engine to go in the car on Saturday and suddenly be accompanied by a "rear downforce loss and an imbalance between front and rear".
However, the momentum continued into qualifying in Hungary - where Ocon was two tenths quicker than Bearman in Q1, advancing while Bearman was knocked out - and into the grand prix, where Ocon finished as the lead Haas for only the second time this year when both drivers have finished.
"We had the consistency back," Ocon enthused after the race.
"The car was healthy all weekend. We managed to keep the same performance from Friday to Saturday to Sunday and the same car balance, etc. So that was good."
The parts inconsistency issue means Haas is struggling to field two cars that allow the drivers to extract the maximum of the car's theoretical potential each weekend.
It's leaving Bearman and Ocon heading into every weekend hoping they're not the one on the wrong side of it.
"It's been a horrible, horrible weekend and it's just a sign of how poor we are in terms of consistencies, because if it's not me, which it has been this weekend, and maybe one or two others, it's Esteban's car that is suddenly missing 10-15 points of load," Bearman said on Sunday in Hungary.
"So you're kind of just hoping you're going to be on the good side and if you are, you're going to have a decent weekend, and if you're not, you're going to have a really, really long one. We had the long one."
It's why on the eve of the Hungarian GP Bearman declined the chance to talk up his big intra-team advantage so far when he was asked if he was surprised to be so far ahead of Ocon.
He replied: "It's a tough situation that is happening at our team. The inconsistency between our parts has been quite high. I've been on the bad side of that and I've also been on the good side of that, but it's a shame because it means that you're always chasing a moving target. Overnight, we can have changes to our car balance without expecting that.
"All of that is to say that it's not always a fair fight, the one that we are having, and sometimes we feel like we're fighting with our hands almost tied behind our backs.
"Of course, I feel like I'm performing at a really high level, and I really see a step in my performances from 12 months ago, even from the start of the season. That's all I can do.
"It's been a challenge for us. I'm happy with what I'm doing, but the story is not necessarily what you see in the headline."
Exactly what is causing the issue is unclear. Komatsu said "certain things we identified, we solved [them], but we still have issues" to resolve.
'Very difficult to get the true picture'
It's already difficult with the quirks of the F1 2026 power units to get a proper read of which drivers are doing the best job this year, but Haas's parts inconsistencies have added an extra layer of murkiness.
Then there's also an element of the 18-3 points difference being skewed by how the early races played out when Haas had a car capable of even challenging Red Bull in Shanghai, before it slipped into the middle of the midfield, failing to score points in the last six events running.
"It's very difficult from outside to see the gap between team-mates," Komatsu said.
"If you look at the points difference, some of the points difference happened because of the safety car as well. In Shanghai, Ollie got the full benefit of [pitting under the] VSC or safety car [and finishing fifth]. Esteban didn't [and collided with Franco Colapinto and finished 14th].
"Then [at Spa] on Friday, when he [Ocon] was happy with the car, he was reasonably close to Ollie. He was within two tenths. Then Saturday onwards, he just wasn't happy with the car. But honestly, we didn't change much at all. We still don't understand it.
"But clearly, when he was happy, it's not about laptime. He's obviously got a good feel to the car. So, without looking at his laptime, he said, 'Yeah, I'm happy with this car'. Guess what? He's close to Ollie. But FP3, he goes out, straight away, he said stability is gone. We don't understand why. He's absolutely nowhere close to Ollie.
"So yeah, I think it's very, very difficult to get the true picture."
This kind of quirk could naturally be a serious complication when deciding your driver line-up going forward. But when that was put to Komatsu, he said: "At least I know exactly what's happening. So, yeah. I can put everything into context, if you like."
Even with those Shanghai caveats, there's still no doubt that Bearman has clearly been the stronger Haas driver this year. And had Haas kept up its development pace, there's little reason to think Bearman wouldn't still have a healthy points margin over Ocon.
There's good reason why it's Ocon's seat that's the subject of so much speculation, and the only question mark over Bearman's future is whether Haas can hang on to him.
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