F1 2026赛季中期评分：红牛开局不利但夏季反弹显进步
Motorsport.com对2026赛季F1上半程各车队进行评分，红牛因底盘自赛季初即落后于主要对手而开局艰难，但赛季末段的反弹使其评分勉强从更差成绩拉回到C-。
F1 2026赛季中期评分：红牛磕磕绊绊，但夏季前的回升显现出一丝进步的希望
Motorsport.com对2026年F1赛季上半程的全部11支车队进行评分。接下来是红牛车队，他们在新规则时代的开局一直令人沮丧。
红牛作为一家真正的动力单元制造商的起步令人钦佩，但在底盘方面，车队从一开始就落后于顶级对手。临近夏季的奋力追赶使其勉强拿到C-的成绩，而不是更令人不满意的分数。
红牛在墨尔本以F1第四快的车队身份开启了2026年。起初，这一差距中的很大一部分被归因于能量释放问题以及其动力单元缺乏可驾驭性——尽管该动力单元本身的实力值得称道——还有非常糟糕的起步表现。
但与此同时，红牛也陷入了一个熟悉的困境：赛车难以调校、难以找到最佳平衡点并保持住，维斯塔潘 和队友 哈贾尔 在大多数分站都受到不可预测的操控特性的困扰。
这些麻烦重新点燃了关于 Verstappen 未来去向的老一套传闻，这几乎已经成为红牛的夏季传统。平息这些质疑的最好办法就是拿出一辆有竞争力的赛车。这或许仍会发生，但在总冠军争夺中损害已经造成，红牛注定将留在第四位，而 Verstappen 在夏休期前位列第六。
对红牛更加不利的是，其V6引擎已被认定为围场中的标杆，这实际上使红牛-福特动力部门无法为其增加升级。
好消息是，红牛一直在取得巨大进步，即使赛车的表现并不总是听话。从澳大利亚站落后超过一秒，到米尔顿凯恩斯车队向小红牛22投入了大量空气动力学升级，这让 Verstappen 拿下了四次登台，其中包括最近四场比赛中的三次。红牛能否维持这样的研发速度则是另一回事。
另一个积极因素是红牛二号车的表现，这历来是车队的痛点。Hadjar在加入大车队的首个赛季表现出色，排位赛中紧咬Verstappen，同时成为稳定的前六名完赛者。
Laurent Mekies：“别指望我来说我们对现状满意，因为我们并不满意。除非我们重新拥有一辆凭真实实力就有取胜速度的赛车，否则我们不会满意。
"在某个阶段，我们需要在今年和明年之间做出权衡决定，而且我预计这个决定会比去年做出得更早。我们已经为赛车带来了大量的研发升级，试图尽快纠正我们最初存在的巨大差距，虽然很难想象我们能继续保持这种节奏，但我们仍然需要找出缩小这最后零点三秒差距的最佳方式。"
红牛一度受挫，但夏季的奋起直追展现出一丝进步的曙光
阿尔派 取得长足进步，却难以保持势头
哈斯 开局强劲之后被甩在后面
奥迪 在厂商车队首秀中开局稳健
阿斯顿·马丁 在糟糕的开局后寻求救赎
英文原文
F1 2026 mid-season grades: Red Bull stumbles but summer rally shows glimmer of progress
Motorsport.com grades all 11 teams after the first half of the 2026 Formula 1 season. Next in line is Red Bull Racing, which has endured a frustrating start to the new era
Red Bull made an admirable start to life as a bona fide power unit manufacturer, but on the chassis side the team has been lagging behind its top rivals since day one. A late push towards the summer is salvaging a C- grade rather than a less satisfactory score.
Red Bull started 2026 as F1's fourth-fastest team in Melbourne. Initially, a lot of that deficit was attributed to the energy deployment and lack of driveability of its otherwise admirably strong unit, as well as very poor starts.
But along the way, Red Bull has also fallen into a familiar hole of having a car that is hard to set up and get into the sweet spot and then stay there, with both Max Verstappen and team-mate Isack Hadjar suffering from unpredictable handling traits at most events.
Those troubles reignited the usual rumours about Verstappen's future, which has almost become a summer tradition for Red Bull. The best way to quell those doubts is to simply produce a competitive car. That may still happen, but in the championship the damage is already done with Red Bull now destined to stay fourth as Verstappen holds sixth place going into the summer break.
What isn't helping Red Bull is that its V6 engine has been determined to be the benchmark on the grid, effectively locking Red Bull-Ford Powertrains out of adding upgrades to it.
The good news is that Red Bull has been making big steps, even if the car's behaviour isn't always compliant. From being over a second behind in Australia, the Milton Keynes squad has been throwing a huge number of aerodynamic upgrades at the RB22, which has allowed Verstappen to grab four podiums, including three in the last four races. Whether or not Red Bull will be able to sustain that development pace is a different matter.
Another positive is the performance of Red Bull's second car, which has historically been a pain point for the squad. Hadjar has acquitted himself well in his first season with the big team, sticking close to Verstappen in qualifying while becoming a reliable top six finisher.
Laurent Mekies: "Don't count on me to say that we are satisfied, because we are not. We will not be satisfied until we go back to have a race car that has the pace to win on merit.
"At some stage, we'll need to make a call on the balance between this year and next year, and I expect that to happen earlier than what we did last year. We have brought a huge amount of development to the car to try to correct as soon as possible the large deficit we had initially, and it's probably difficult to imagine that we will continue at that rhythm, but we nonetheless need to see what is the best way to try and close these last three tenths."
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