数据揭示梅赛德斯在F1 2026赛季失去统治力
梅赛德斯对2026赛季能再次获胜抱有信心，但也清楚自己正面临来自其他顶级车队前所未有的挑战。
数据揭示梅赛德斯在F1 2026赛季失去统治力
梅赛德斯车队高层指出，竞争对手车队已跃居前列，稳定表现不再是理所当然
安德烈亚·基米·安东内利，梅赛德斯；刘易斯·汉密尔顿，法拉利；伊萨克·哈贾尔，红牛车队
在本赛季前六场大奖赛中，随着F1切换至新技术规则，银箭车队取得了胜利。随后，竞争对手的升级使法拉利在奥地利和英国赢得两场胜利，接着迈凯伦的兰多·诺里斯在匈牙利和荷兰背靠背夺冠，而红牛的马克斯·维斯塔潘最近在马来西亚和新加坡获胜。
梅赛德斯也没有停止对赛车的升级，但车队很清楚其性能优势已被大幅削减。尽管在两届锦标赛中都拥有健康的领先优势，基米·安东内利在奥斯汀有望夺得首个世界冠军。
“说实话，我觉得我们一整年听起来都有点像破唱片，因为我们一直在说这个赛季有多么接近和激烈，即使我们在赛季初能够取得一连串的胜利，”副车队领队布拉德利·洛德在Nu Silver Arrows电台节目中评论道。“这一点正在得到证实。
“我们看到法拉利在巴库之前或直到巴库都在升级他们的赛车，红牛也是如此。我们显然在马来西亚带来了升级，我想，这些升级在落地见效方面呈现出不同程度的效果。最近两场比赛，红牛和法拉利都比之前那些赛事中更具竞争力。”
“我们知道我们面临一场真正的战斗，”洛德继续说道，“重要的是我们要继续学习如何从赛车中榨取性能，这样我们也能带着信心进入接下来的比赛，相信自己能够为胜利而战，并继续保持两辆车都能得分的状态，这正是我们将今年迄今为止的所有努力转化为我们共同追求的结果所需要的，因为那是上一个三连赛的问题之一——从结果来看，那是一个相当混乱的三连赛。”
马克斯·维斯塔潘，红牛车队，乔治·拉塞尔，梅赛德斯
那确实是一个‘混乱的三连赛’，安东内利在巴库排位赛中撞墙，乔治·拉塞尔在马来西亚遭遇动力单元故障，这意味着他在新加坡超出了配额，从那场比赛的队尾起步；这位英国车手随后在领跑冲刺赛时撞车退赛。
更让梅赛德斯雪上加霜的是，其最新的W17升级相对于竞争对手并未带来预期的提升——因此顶级车队之间性能非常均衡，红牛也重返胜利。2026年仅仅是自1990年以来第二次出现四支车队各自拿下多场胜利的情况（梅赛德斯11场，法拉利、迈凯伦和红牛各2场），此前同样的车队在2024年也有过这样的表现。
因此，当被问及在奥斯汀谁将是那支难以击败的车队时，副技术总监西蒙娜·雷斯塔思索道：“很有意思的是，每到一个比赛周末，你永远无法确定谁会是场上最强的那个。”
“从我们目前看到红牛的表现来看，他们肯定会为最高位置而战。他们在最近几场比赛中一直相当强劲，而且他们会继续保持强势。”
“我们看到法拉利在几乎所有条件下都表现强劲。也许他们差了一点，可以说，去争夺最高位置，但他们非常有竞争力。”
“而且我们需要尊重迈凯伦。迈凯伦，他们是世界冠军车队，而且他们在今年的一些比赛中已经展示出他们可以是场上最强的，甚至还有一定的余量。”
英文原文
The figures that show Mercedes has lost its supremacy in F1 2026
Mercedes chiefs point out rival teams have leapt to the front of the pack and decent form is no longer a guarantee
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari, Isack Hadjar, Red Bull Racing
Mercedes is confident it can win again in the 2026 Formula 1 season, but is aware it has been facing a bigger challenge than ever from the other top teams.
The Silver Arrows triumphed in the opening six grands prix of the campaign, as F1 switched to new technical regulations. Later on, rival upgrades meant Ferrari claimed two victories in Austria and Great Britain, then McLaren’s Lando Norris took back-to-back wins in Hungary and the Netherlands, and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen prevailed most recently in Malaysia and Singapore.
Mercedes didn’t hold off from updating its car either, but the team is well aware its performance advantage has been slashed. That’s despite a healthy lead in both championships, with a maiden world title within reach of Kimi Antonelli in Austin.
“I think we've sounded like a bit of a broken record all year, to be honest, because we've been saying how close and competitive this season is, even if we were able to put a good run of wins together earlier in the season,” deputy team principal Bradley Lord commented on the Nu Silver Arrows Radio Show. “That is being borne out.
“We saw Ferrari upgrading their car either prior to or up to Baku, Red Bull doing the same. We obviously brought our update to Malaysia and we've seen different levels of hitting the ground running, I guess, with those updates. Last two races, both Red Bull and Ferrari have been more competitive than they had been in the events up to then.”
“We know we've got a real fight on our hands,” Lord continued, “and it's important that we carry on doing that learning to pull the performance out of the car, so that also we can go into the next races sort of confident that we can fight for wins and continue the sort of two-car points-scoring that we need in order to turn all the hard work so far this year into the result that we're all aiming for, because that was one of the things of the last triple-header – it was quite a messy triple-header in terms of results.”
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing, George Russell, Mercedes
It was a ‘messy triple-header’ indeed, with Antonelli hitting the wall in qualifying in Baku and George Russell suffering a power unit failure in Malaysia, which meant he exceeded his quota in Singapore and started that race from the back of the grid; the Briton went on to crash out of the sprint as he was leading.
To compound Mercedes’ issues, its latest W17 update has not delivered as much as it was hoping for relative to its rivals – hence very balanced performance among top teams and Red Bull’s return to victory. 2026 marks only the second time four outfits have taken several wins each (Mercedes 11, Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull two) since 1990, after the same outfits shone in 2024.
So when asked who will be the team to beat in Austin, deputy technical director Simone Resta pondered: “It's quite interesting to see that in every weekend you go in, you are never sure about who's going to be the strongest one out there.
“With what we've seen so far with Red Bull, they'll be there fighting for the top position for sure. They've been quite strong now in a few races and they will be strong.
“We've seen a strong Ferrari more or less in all the conditions. Maybe they miss a little bit, let's say, to be in the top position, but they're very competitive.
“And we need to respect McLaren. McLaren, they are the world champion team and they've shown in some races this year that they can be the strongest out there, even with some margin.
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