乔治·拉塞尔：2026赛季是性格和韧性的考验
乔治·拉塞尔认为2026赛季对他的决心是一次考验，尽管他的冠军希望几乎破灭，但他在整年的自我探索中找到了如何驾驶当前车型的突破。
乔治·拉塞尔：2026赛季是‘性格和韧性’的考验
随着他成为冠军的希望似乎化为泡影，乔治·拉塞尔解释了他为何认为2026年的‘艰难’课程不会对他的发展造成损害
乔治·拉塞尔认为，2026赛季的F1对他意志的考验几乎让他所有的冠军希望都破灭了，但他感觉这一年来的自我反省让他对如何驾驶当前车型有了突破
尽管拉塞尔以胜利开始了这一年，作为梅赛德斯车队以最快的赛车开始赛季，他被标记为早期冠军的有力竞争者，但他的队友基米·安东内利并不需要很长时间就能在他的资深队友身上找到优势，并凭借强劲的早期势头建立起自己的冠军领先优势。
安东内利的成功和拉塞尔今年上半年的表现下滑，让车队英国一侧的人们感到困惑。拉塞尔将他的积分差距部分归因于运气不佳，但也承认自己的表现并未达到预期。
在寻求结果的过程中，拉塞尔觉得自己现在已经理解了2026年车型的要求。他的理论是，安东内利在后期应用油门踏板，以及专注于弯道的早期阶段——与拉塞尔自然倾向于攻击弯道的中后段并提前调校动力——更容易与2026年车型产生共鸣。
“就我本赛季的心态和对锦标赛的看法来说，我认为它是起伏不定的。在年初我积分差距很大的时候，让我夜不能寐的事情是我的表现不足，”拉塞尔说。
“我在想，‘我该如何提高我的表现？我从汽车那里需要什么？汽车需要我从驾驶中获取什么？’，而不是我的机会可能错失。”
“我从70分落后到银石站后的25分，然后差距又扩大了，然后，你知道的，巴库发生了。这让我再次的机会感觉很大。然后，当然，一周后，它又下降了，新加坡的网格处罚让伤口更加痛苦。”
“这个赛季本来就不应该这样。但我对它并不怨恨。我会回顾我本可以做得更好和应该做得更好的领域，而不是那些我无法控制且对我不利的事情。”
““我认为，在运气不好的方面，和我表现不佳的方面一样多，我知道我能够做到的极限。所以，是的，这就是现实。”"
“拉塞尔表示，在赛季开始之前，他已经确信如何应对锦标赛，因为他年轻时通过一场又一场的比赛方法赢得了GP3和二级方程式冠军，而追求整体性能的提升正是这一点。”"
他说，关于这一点，锦标赛的竞争并没有给他带来任何新的东西，但他觉得在2026年所面临的困难最终会使他成为一个更强的车手。
"在我的青训车队时期，我为了锦标赛而战斗过，我知道我想要如何去应对，那就是一场比赛一场比赛地来。"
"但是，正如我今年早些时候说的那样，当表现不在那里时，我没有考虑锦标赛。我唯一关注的是表现。"
"今年对我来说是一次真正的性格和韧性的考验，通过艰难的比赛、不幸的事件，以及不得不照镜子审视自己，思考如何从这些时刻中反弹回来？我是想要为此哭泣并让它对我产生负面影响，还是想要反弹回来并战斗以纠正它？"
“我认为这将会帮助我在接下来的10-15年职业生涯中成为一个更好的人和更好的车手。”
英文原文
George Russell: F1 2026 season a test of "character and resilience"
As his bid to be champion looks to come to nought, George Russell explained why his "tough" 2026 lessons won't be to his detriment
George Russell feels that the 2026 Formula 1 season has been a test of his resolve as his championship hopes have all but slipped away, but feels his soul-searching across the year has led him to a breakthrough in how to drive with the current cars.
Although Russell opened the year with victory, having been marked as the early championship favourite as Mercedes started the season with the fastest car, his team-mate Kimi Antonelli did not need long to find an advantage over his more senior team-mate and build his championship lead with strong early momentum.
Antonelli's successes and Russell's dwindling performances over the first half of the year led to much head-scratching on the Briton's side of the garage. Russell partly attributes his points deficit to bad luck, but also conceded that his performances were not up to scratch.
In his search for results, Russell feels he now understands the demands of the 2026 cars. His theory is that Antonelli's later application of the throttle pedal, and focus on the early phase of the corners – as opposed to Russell's natural stance to attack the mid-to-late section and dial in the power early – has chimed more easily with the 2026 cars.
"In terms of my mentality this season and my view of the championship as being up and down, early in the year when I had a big points deficit, the thing that was keeping me up at night was my lack of performance," Russell said.
"[I was] thinking like, 'How am I going to improve my performance? What do I need from the car? What does the car need from my driving?', rather than my opportunity maybe going amiss.
"I came from 70 points down to within 25 points post-Silverstone and then the gap extended and then, you know, Baku happened. That felt pretty big in terms of my chances again. And then, of course, one week later, it sort of kicked down again, and salt added to the wound with the grid penalty in Singapore.
"This season just hasn't meant to be. But I'm not bitter about it. I'll look back on the areas I could have done better and should have done better as opposed to things that have been out of my control that have gone against me.
"And I'd say as much has gone against me in terms of bad luck, there's been as much of my performances that haven't been to the scratch that I know I'm capable of. So, yeah, that's the reality of it."
Russell says that he was already sure of how to tackle the championship ahead of the season, having pursued the race-by-race approach that carried him to GP3 and Formula 2 titles in his younger years, and that the quest for improved performance overall played into that.
He says the championship battle hasn't unveiled anything new to him in that regard, but feels the difficulties faced over 2026 will make him a stronger driver in the long run.
"I fought for championships in my junior days, I knew how I wanted to approach it, and that was more by a race-by-race basis," he added.
"But, as I said earlier in the year when the performance wasn't there, I wasn't thinking about the championship. I was solely focused on the performance.
"This year has been a real test of my character and resilience through the tough races, the misfortune, and having to look at myself in the mirror and think, how do I want to bounce back from these moments? Do I want to cry about it and let it impact me negatively, or do I want to bounce back and fight and rectify it?
"And I think that's going to help me be a better person and better driver over the course of the next 10-15 years of my career."
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