阿尔本称2026新规削弱其最大优势
续约威廉姆斯的阿尔本认为，2026年F1新规削弱了他的关键优势，这或许可以部分解释他本赛季的挣扎表现。
重新与威廉姆斯一级方程式车队续约的亚历克斯·阿尔本认为，2026年的规则削弱了他的核心优势，这或许可以部分解释他这个赛季的艰难处境。
威廉姆斯本赛季的表现远低于人们的殷切期望，这意味着阿尔本和他的队友卡洛斯·塞恩斯几乎没有机会为积分而战。
但阿尔本的挣扎尤为明显，他在排位赛中被塞恩斯以12比1全面压制，平均差距接近0.3秒。正赛中的差距要小一些，阿尔本也为威廉姆斯拿到了车队11个积分中的5个，但毫无疑问，塞恩斯是本赛季威廉姆斯阵营中更强的车手，而去年两人合作的首个赛季中，他还与阿尔本实力相当。
不过，要弄清其中的确切原因并不容易，因为威廉姆斯车队遇到了无数可靠性问题以及性能稳定性问题，加上赛车速度也不如预期。
再加上2026年的新规以及动力单元的一些特殊问题，让人很难有把握地判断哪些车手表现最好，尤其是像梅赛德斯上个月在斯帕赛后透露的那种能量部署问题，它一直在影响拉塞尔。
“说实话，真的很难说清楚，”当The 比赛在匈牙利问阿尔本，他2026年至今的表现有多少在自己掌控范围内时，他这样回答。
“正在发生的事情太多了。我认为有很多因素。就拿乔治和基米[安东内利]遇到的情况来说，那不是某一辆车、某一支车队的问题。
“你可以想象，如果厂商车队都在为此挣扎，那客户车队肯定也会遇到同样的问题。
“我在排位赛中的表现相当稳定，即使是在斯帕，那里你本应排在前面却没能做到。这背后有一些原因。”
“这些原因也和我们自身有关。我认为威廉姆斯车队目前正在逐步弄明白，但塞恩斯也遇到过同样的问题，这让我们很难理解。”
“性能方面的差异会因场次不同、周末不同而变化，我们有时能解释清楚，有时则不能。”
“对我来说，今年的开局并不算最顺利。”
阿尔本现在已与威廉姆斯续约至2027年底，他感觉自己仍在摸索在这些赛车中要跑得快需要什么。而且他担心新规则可能削弱了他的关键优势。
“在某些方面，我确实认为这些规则偏离了我的优势，”阿尔本说。
“比如说，现在已经没有真正的高速弯了。我一直把高速弯视为我的强项之一，但每当遇到高速弯时，它现在要么本身就全油门通过，就像在斯帕的普松弯那样，要么我们现在进弯的速度太慢，以至于根本算不上高速弯。
“另外，还需要时间去理解这些规则。这些赛车和轮胎都非常敏感。
“目前，我还没有真正找到它们的最佳状态。有时候我可以表现还行，但总体来说很棘手。这肯定是一种不同的驾驶风格。”
确实如此，2026年的赛车已经改变了车手在常规参数之外发挥作用的领域，比如晚刹车、对高速弯的投入和接近方式。
你只需看看遥测数据曲线就能发现，队友之间在银石和斯帕等赛道上赢得和损失的时间，主要来自直道末端和出弯时的能量部署差异，而不是入弯表现。
而对于阿尔本、拉塞尔和勒克莱尔这样的车手来说，厘清哪些可以归因于动力单元的怪癖、哪些可以归因于驾驶操作，一直是让许多人头疼不已的大难题。
阿尔本说：“从某种意义上说，今年非常考验心理，因为没有任何事情是轻松的。”
“作为一支车队，我们还在和灭火器搏斗。我们有许多小火苗要扑灭，所以很难分清哪些是你自己的问题，哪些是赛车的问题，以及到底是什么问题。”
“所以，你能做的——这也是我过去三四场比赛的做法——就是纯粹专注于驾驶，把工程的事情交给工程团队。如果你觉得自己干得不错，那就是干得不错，就这样放下。”
“这是一种非常简单的备战比赛周末的方式，但实际上，我觉得在过去几个周末，正是因为这样做，我的表现变得强了很多。我认为随着赛季推进，这就像一张待办清单。我们只是逐项划掉，解决问题，然后进入下一个问题。”
这种“专注于驾驶本身”的说法也让人想起拉塞尔本赛季早些时候的言论，当时他感到沮丧，因为自己整个F1生涯一直使用的驾驶风格在2026年的赛车上并不奏效。
“每一位车手都非常愿意配合，如果有什么原因，比如你为什么在直道上慢，或者别的什么，告诉我，我就会去适应，我会想办法绕过它来驾驶，”阿尔本解释道。
“但有时候，这非常复杂。我甚至还记得银石赛道。你在两轮排位赛飞行圈之间，尝试各种不同的东西、不同的驾驶风格。我觉得这会让你的注意力从纯粹的驾驶上分散开。
“我以前说过，你这一生学到的只有如何把车开快。你知道什么是快的。突然之间，多出了一层东西，就像你脑海深处的一个灰盒子，它会让你想：‘如果我用不同的方式做这个动作，会不会以另一种方式帮助圈速？’之类的问题。这完全不是本能或自然的。”
“再说，这又回到了之前的问题：专心开车，让工程团队去做工程工作。”
英文原文
Newly recommitted Williams Formula 1 driver Alex Albon believes the 2026 regulations have neutered his key strengths in a way that might partly explain his tricky season.
Williams’s season so far has fallen well short of lofty expectations, meaning Albon and his team-mate Carlos Sainz have rarely had a chance of fighting for points.
But Albon in particular has struggled, having been outqualified 12-1 by Sainz with an average margin of nearly three tenths of a second. Things have been closer in the races and Albon has scored five of Williams’s 11 points, but there’s little doubt Sainz has been the stronger Williams driver this season, having been closely matched with Albon in their first year together last season.
Unpicking exactly why isn’t easy though, given Williams has had myriad reliability issues and performance consistency problems as well as a slower-than-expected car.
Plus the 2026 regulations and the power unit quirks that make it difficult to confidently assess which drivers are doing the best job, especially with the emergence of deployment issues like the one Mercedes revealed after Spa last month that had been affecting George Russell.
“Honestly, it's really hard to pinpoint,” Albon replied when The Race asked him in Hungary how much of his 2026 performances so far have been within his control.
“There's so much going on. I think there's multiple factors. If you just take what's happening to George and Kimi [Antonelli], that's not a single car, single team issue.
“You can imagine if the works team was struggling with it, it definitely happens to the customer teams as well.
“I can count quite consistently on qualifying sessions, even in Spa, where you should be in front and you're not. There are elements to that.
“There's elements also to ourselves as well. I think Williams, we are in the process now of understanding, but Carlos has had this issue too, where it's hard for us to understand.
“There's differences performance-wise, session to session, weekend to weekend, which we've sometimes accounted for, sometimes not.
“It's not been the cleanest of starts of the year for me.”
Albon, now recommitted to Williams until the end of 2027, feels he’s still getting to grips with what’s needed to be quick in these cars. And he fears they may have neutered key strengths of his.
“There are elements where I do think these regs are away from my strengths,” Albon said.
“Things like, there is no high speed [corners] anymore. I always consider high speed as one of my strengths, but whenever a corner is high speed, it's now either flat itself, like it was in Pouhon [at Spa], or we're just arriving so slowly now that they're not high speed.
“Then there's also just trying to understand these regs. Cars, these tyres, they're quite sensitive.
“At the moment, I haven't really found the sweet spot with them. Sometimes I can do OK, but generally speaking, it is tricky. It's a different driving style, for sure.”
It’s true that the 2026 cars have shifted in where a driver can make a difference outside of the usual parameters, like late braking or commitment and approach to high-speed corners.
You only have to look at telemetry traces to see the time won and lost between team-mates at places such as Silverstone and Spa, is due to deployment differences at the end of straights and out of corners, rather than corner entries.
And unpicking what can be explained by the quirks of the power unit and what can be explained by the driving inputs has been a big headache for many for the likes of Albon, Russell and Charles Leclerc.
“It's very psychological this year, in that sense, because there is no easy thing,” Albon said.
“As a team, we're also fighting [with] extinguishers. We have little fires that we're trying to put out, so it's hard to differentiate what's you and what's the car and what's what.
“So, all you can do, which is my approach for the last three or four races, is just purely focus on the driving and let engineering do engineering. If you think you've done a good job, you've done a good job, and leave it like that.
“It's a very simple approach to going into a race weekend, but it's actually something which I feel like my last few weekends, my performance has got a lot stronger because of doing that. I think as the year goes on, it's almost like a cross list. We just cross out, fix problems, and get to the next one.”
The ‘focus on the driving’ also has echoes of Russell’s comments earlier this season when he was frustrated that the driving style he’d used for his entire F1 career so far didn’t work with the 2026 cars.
“Every driver is very open to, if there's a reason why, for example, why you're slow on a straight or whatever, tell me and I'll adapt to it, and I'll figure out a way to drive around it,” Albon explained.
“Sometimes, though, it's very complicated. I can even remember Silverstone. You're in between qualifying runs, trying loads of different things, different styles. I think that it takes the mind away from just driving.
“I've said this before, but you've only been taught to drive quickly your whole life. You know what is quick. Suddenly, there's a layer that's this grey box in the back of your head that's like, ‘well, if I do this differently, does this help the laptime in a different way?’ kind of thing. It's not instinctive or natural.
“Then, again, it goes back to the question before of just drive and let engineering do engineering.”
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