法拉利意大利大奖赛启用第二次引擎升级 领队确认仍有差距
法拉利在意大利大奖赛启用本赛季第二次引擎升级，领队瓦塞尔确认动力单元有进步，但仍承认在直线动力上与对手存在差距。
法拉利车队领队弗雷德·瓦塞尔总是淡化特定升级套件的影响，所以按照他的标准，升级版F1动力单元首秀后他的评价可以说是令人鼓舞的，尽管他确认在动力方面仍存在差距。
夏尔·勒克莱尔在二练中排名第二，比做出最快圈速的梅赛德斯车手乔治·拉塞尔慢0.120秒，并且长距离节奏令人看好，因此周五没有任何迹象表明法拉利已经向前迈出了一大步。但确实有证据表明，根据国际汽联的额外开发与升级机会（ADUO）规则引入的第二次引擎升级带来了进步，第一次升级已于6月底在奥地利站推出。
"你必须记住，直线性能取决于空气阻力、车重，取决于所有因素，而不仅仅是引擎，"瓦塞尔说。"我们确实取得了一个进步，我们带来ADUO 2可不是白来的，但我认为我们仍然有一个不小的差距。"
刘易斯·汉密尔顿所说的对梅赛德斯的"相当大的"差距在直道上非常明显。对比勒克莱尔在二练中的最快圈与拉塞尔的圈速，可以清楚地看到一个模式：法拉利在直道上损失时间，但在刹车和过弯时弥补了差距。
他在圈速的前三分之二损失了大约0.6秒，然后在最后一条直道上追回了其中一部分，而Russell在驶向Parabolica的路上遇到了更多的擦墙。与许多车队和车手的评论一致，在这条电量匮乏的赛道上，能量回收和部署策略仍有很大的优化空间。
虽然Hamilton在二练进行了一些调校改动后抱怨赛车的平衡让他“很难把单圈从车里拉出来”而且“不好驾驶”，但他仍寄希望于调校和能量管理方面都能有所提升。
当被问及减少下压力从而降低阻力是否可能带来提升时，Hamilton说：“这正是我们需要研究的，看是这个问题[还是]部署的问题。”
“但引擎确实有提升，我非常感谢工厂里的伙计们为此所做的努力。不过我们的部署方案与对手们不同。看起来他们在直道上可能阻力更小，所以我们肯定需要研究这个。”
汉密尔顿还形容这台引擎"在低速下开起来真的很不错"。但为法拉利领跑的却是勒克莱尔，不仅在单圈速度上领先，长距离测试也是如此。
他的长距离测试平均每圈只比基米·安东内利慢百分之三秒，尽管有一个重要的前提条件：勒克莱尔用的是软胎，而梅赛德斯用的是硬胎。尽管存在这种轮胎差异，这仍可能使法拉利成为最接近的挑战者，不过大多数人认为梅赛德斯会占据优势，具体取决于隔夜调校如何改变实力平衡。
其中最大的变数是红牛，马克斯·维斯塔潘抱怨赛车平衡有问题，并且因为缺席一练让岩佐步梦上场而在追赶进度。
"很明显我们的赛车存在平衡问题,"红牛技术总监皮埃尔·瓦谢说。"说实话，有点像赞德福特站的情况，我们正试图弄清问题所在，尝试通过调校和赛车部件以不同的方式来解决它。
"这是我们目前正在努力的主要工作。不利的是，Max 在自由练习赛第一节（FP1）没有上场，而是在那时才坐进赛车，这让我们反应的时间更少，现在我们必须为FP3做出反应。"
然而，在另一辆红牛赛车上，劳森——由于 哈贾尔 的身体状况不明，他不得不在周末前同时为现车队和小红牛做准备工作，这使得他的备战变得复杂——做出了令人印象深刻的快速且稳定的长距离硬胎节，与Antonelli相当。不过，Leclerc和Antonelli在他们的长距离测试中都遇到了慢车，这可能让红牛的数据略显好看。
至于迈凯伦，诺里斯在长距离测试中落后0.443秒，他使用的是硬胎，而在整体单圈速度上也仅稍微接近一些，落后0.384秒。他把这一天形容为"比过去几个周五要棘手得多"。
"老实说，时间损失在各个地方都有一点，"诺里斯说，他是过去两场大奖赛的冠军，谈到时间差距时说，"没有一个弯角我们比前面的人更快。"
“在直道上我们比梅赛德斯慢一点，这多少在预料之中，但在高速弯我们损失的圈速最多，而那通常是我们擅长的环节。所以我们得想办法解决几个问题，但目前我们在各个方面都跟不上节奏。”
在中游集团的竞争中，Arvid Lindblad领跑，这对小红牛来说是强势的一天，但不同寻常的是，哈斯的Ollie Bearman仅落后0.021秒。哈斯在长距离测试中的速度落后于小红牛和阿尔派（科拉平托在一练对赛车很满意，但在二练发现赛车“脱节”），不过这仍然令人鼓舞。
两辆哈斯VF-26都搭载了重要的空气动力学升级套件，但只有Bearman换装了升级版法拉利引擎（本周末哈斯只有一台可用），领队小松礼雄确认“它在特性方面确实有效果”。对于一支在过去六场比赛中未能得分的车队来说，这是令人鼓舞的，但不太乐观的是，近来两辆赛车时不时遭遇的“一致性问题”，其中奥康也遇到了麻烦。
奥迪周五没有引入空气动力学升级，但打出了允许更改认证齿比/尾传动的王牌，其表现比预期更落后于中游领跑者一些，预计周六会有所提升。这使得他们在单圈速度上仅勉强领先于塞恩斯使用软胎的威廉姆斯，在长距离速度上还略逊一筹。威廉姆斯度过了一个实验性的周五，同时在本月下旬阿塞拜疆站重大升级到来之前充分利用练习时间。
在后方，一个引人关注的赛季初期戏码再次上演：阿斯顿·马丁如预期般陷入挣扎，尽管两周前在赞德沃特引入了升级版本田引擎。
至少动力响应方面如预期有所改善，兰斯·斯特罗尔形容为“好了一点”，但瓦尔特利·博塔斯认为凯迪拉克“在直道上占据上风”，这意味着费尔南多·阿隆索在赞德沃特抢分壮举的重演似乎不太可能。
英文原文
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur always downplays the impact of specific upgrade packages, so by his standards his verdict after the debut of the upgraded Formula 1 power unit was encouraging despite confirming it's still at a deficit on power.
With Charles Leclerc second fastest in FP2, 0.120s slower than pacesetting Mercedes driver George Russell, and showing promising long-run pace, there was nothing on Friday to suggest that Ferrari had taken a giant leap to the front. What there was is proof of gains with the second engine upgrade introduced under the FIA’s Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities (ADUO) regulations, the first having arrived in Austria in late June.
"You have to keep in mind the performance in the straight line is the drag, the weight of the car, it's everything, it's not just the engine," said Vasseur. "We did a step for sure, and we didn't bring ADUO 2 for nothing, but I think we still have a decent gap."
What Lewis Hamilton calls a "considerable" deficit to Mercedes was evident on the straights. Comparing Leclerc's fastest FP2 lap to Russell's, there is a clear pattern of the Ferrari losing ground on the straights but making gains on the brakes and through the corners.
He loses around six tenths in the first two-thirds of the lap before clawing back a couple of those on the final straight, with Russell suffering more clipping on the run to Parabolica. In line with the comments of many teams and drivers, there's still plenty of room for optimisation of the harvesting and deployment strategies on this energy-starved track.
While Hamilton complained about the balance that made it "really hard to pull the lap out of the car" and "not an easy one to drive" after some set-up changes in FP2, he was hopeful that there are gains to come both in terms of set-up and the energy management.
"That's what we need to look into, if it's that [or] if it's the deployment," said Hamilton when asked if there could be gains in trimming back the downforce and therefore drag.
"But the engine is an improvement, which I'm really grateful for the guys back at the factory for working on. But our deployment schedule is different to the others, our competitors. It seems like they maybe have less drag for the straights, so that's something we need to definitely look at."
Hamilton also described the engine as "really nice to drive in the low speed". But it was Leclerc who led the way for Ferrari not only on single-lap pace but the long runs.
His long run was just three hundredths a lap on average off Kimi Antonelli's, albeit with the significant caveat that Leclerc was on the softs and the Mercedes on the hards. Despite that offset, that potentially puts Ferrari as the closest challenger, albeit with most expecting Mercedes to have the edge depending on how overnight changes shift the balance of power.
The wildcard in this is Red Bull, with Max Verstappen complaining of balance problems and playing catch-up after sitting out FP1 to allow Ayumu Iwasa to run.
"Clearly we have a balance issue on the car," said Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache. "A little bit like Zandvoort, to be honest, and we try to understand what the issue is, try to fix it in a different way by setup and car components.
"It's the main thing we are working on. What doesn't help is when Max didn’t drive during FP1 and he jumped in the car there, we have less time to react and now we have to react for FP3."
And yet, in the other Red Bull, Liam Lawson - whose preparation was complicated by having to put in the pre-weekend legwork both for his current team and Racing Bulls amid uncertainty about Isack Hadjar's fitness - produced an impressively quick and consistent hard stint that matched Antonelli's. However, both Leclerc and Antonelli encountered traffic during their stint, potentially slightly flattering Red Bull.
As for McLaren, Lando Norris was 0.443s off on the long runs, with his completed on hards, and only a little closer at 0.384s off on overall pace on a day he called "much trickier than the last few Fridays".
"It's a bit everywhere, honestly," said Norris, winner of the previous two grands prix, of the time loss. "There's not one corner we're quicker than anyone else ahead of us.
"We're losing a bit in the straights compared to Mercedes, which we kind of expect, but also the high speed is where we lose most of our laptime, which is normally where we're quick. So we have to try and figure out a few things, but we're just off the pace everywhere at the minute."
In the midfield battle, Arvid Lindblad led the way on a strong day for Racing Bulls, but unusually with Haas's Ollie Bearman just 0.021s behind. The Haas pace slipped behind Racing Bulls and Alpine (with Franco Colapinto delighted with the car in FP1 but finding the car "disconnected" in FP2) on the long runs, but this was nonetheless encouraging.
Both Haas VF-26s are running a major aerodynamic upgrade, but only Bearman has the upgraded Ferrari engine (Haas just has one available this weekend), with team principal Ayao Komatsu confirming "it's delivering in terms of characteristics". That's encouraging for a team that has not scored in the last six events, but less positive is the ongoing "inconsistency issues" that have hit both cars at times recently with Esteban Ocon having problems.
Audi, which introduced no aerodynamic upgrades on Friday but played the joker allowing changes to the homologated gear ratios/final drive, struggled compared to the midfield leaders a little more than expected, with an improvement expected on Saturday. That left it only just ahead of on single-lap pace, and a fraction behind on long-run pace, Carlos Sainz's soft-shod Williams, which had an experimental Friday while making the most of its time before the major upgrade due in Azerbaijan later this month.
At the back, an intriguing early-season subplot returned with Aston Martin struggling as anticipated despite the introduction of the upgraded Honda engine at Zandvoort two weeks ago.
There were at least driveability improvements as hoped, something Lance Stroll described as "a little bit better", but the fact that Valtteri Bottas reckoned Cadillac "have the upper hand on the straights" means a repeat of Fernando Alonso's Zandvoort points-scoring heroics seems unlikely.
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