F1荷兰大奖赛首日:周四发布会要点汇总
F1夏休期结束后在赞德沃特迎来荷兰大奖赛,周四发布会上维斯塔潘、塞恩斯、阿隆索等车手及新任车队负责人首次发声,透露多项重要信息。
F1在夏休期后强势回归。
今天是首次有机会听到那些发表过重大言论的车手的声音,比如维斯塔潘和塞恩斯,还有那些没有做到的,比如阿隆索,以及新任车队领队和那些需要利用夏休期加以改进的车队。
幸运的是,我们在赞德沃特现场和后方基地的团队对周四的媒体日进行了梳理,为您带来最重要的要点。
Verstappen离退役比转投对手车队更近一步
马克斯·维斯塔潘将他在红牛的合同延长至2030年底,这是赞德沃特周四最大的新闻。
这对红牛来说是一场重大胜利,也证明维斯塔潘确实希望在这支车队结束自己的F1职业生涯。
关于他的经纪团队与迈凯伦及其他竞争对手洽谈的传闻是真的,但红牛显然成功说服了维斯塔潘,让他相信没有必要另寻他处。
或许更重要的是,维斯塔潘认为F1的规则正在慢慢完善,所以他基本上是容忍了这些规则中的缺陷。
“这些规则正在慢慢变得好一些,我愿意接受它,”维斯塔潘说。
“而且希望到2030年它会带来另一个机会,可能随着V8引擎的引入,可以再次审视这个问题。”
这些V8引擎目前定于2031年启用,因此,在曾经考虑过彻底离开之后,维斯塔潘现在甚至已经开始谈论他在2030年代更远的F1生涯了……—— Josh Suttill
费尔南多·阿隆索在夏休期之前曾明确表示,他的“计划”是在假期期间决定自己在F1的未来。
事实上,在英国大奖赛期间,他曾表示,顿悟时刻可能出现在八月中旬的年度英仙座流星雨期间。
但当他周四回到赞德沃特的F1围场时,很明显夜空并没有给阿隆索答案。
相反,他似乎对自己内心到底想要什么并不确定,也不清楚车队老板劳伦斯·斯特罗尔(Lawrence Stroll)或领队阿德里安·纽维(Adrian Newey)是否真的希望他继续车手生涯,还是转向车队管理角色。
“和劳伦斯以及阿德里安坐在一起谈,如果车队的需要是我继续开车,我会考虑,”他说。
“如果我能在另一个位置上更有价值,我会很乐意,我会考虑,我也会很开心。”
在调侃明年肯定会参加其他比赛的想法时——无论是F1、达喀尔拉力赛还是印地500——阿隆索似乎在暗示,这些事情并不由他决定。
“我认为这更多是车队的需要,而不是我自己的需要,”他说。“我很高兴留在这里,我也是来帮助Aston的。我觉得自己速度很快,也很有动力。让我们看看会发生什么吧。”
在接下来几周他与Stroll和Newey进行交谈时,双方届时都将更清楚本田是否已经扭转了2026年初的困境,因此也更有资格判断2027年的局面究竟会如何。
这个问题的答案对阿隆索(Alonso)未来的影响,远比任何流言蜚语重要得多。—— Jon Noble
“连锁反应”是凯迪拉克(凯迪拉克)刹车问题的罪魁祸首
马尔钦·布德科夫斯基(Marcin Budkowski)在凯迪拉克位于银石(Silverstone)的基地度过了“漫长”的三天,直到昨天深夜才飞往赞德福特(Zandvoort),这是他被任命为车队领队以来第一次到访那里。
他对基地设施之完善给予了积极评价,但在近距离考察这支车队后,他表示“在什么是重点这件事上,可能需要做一些重新排序”。
虽然他没有具体说明这意味着什么,但他指出一直困扰车队的刹车过热问题是一个需要解决的领域。
布德科夫斯基说:“在设计理念和材料方面出现了一些失误,这些都将得到解决。”
“从某种意义上说,这是一连串不幸的事件,因为刹车故障——我不想深入细节,但它们不是单一的原因,而是一系列不同问题的连锁反应。”
“这就是那种你修好了一件事,结果另一件事又出了问题的情况,你是在做的过程中不断学习的。”
当The 比赛询问刹车问题是空气动力学还是机械方面的刹车冷却问题时,他将其描述为“两者都有一点”。关键是,在承认冷却气流不足的同时,他还透露“一些密封件之类的东西一直不可靠”。
因此,改进制造和装配质量很可能是Budkowski将着手解决的领域之一,尽管他表示“我现在各方面都在关注”。- Edd Straw
角田裕毅因大量TPC测试里程而感觉已做好准备
角田裕毅表示,在赞德沃特意外回归F1加盟小红牛之前,他在身体和精神上都感觉很“敏锐”,这主要归功于今年为红牛进行的大量TPC测试,让他跑了“五个比赛距离”。
“无论是身体上还是头脑方面,我觉得自己的状态都足够敏锐,”他说。“很长一段时间以来,我几乎每天都在训练。我有大量时间可以训练,因为除了这件事之外我没有什么其他事情可做。
“此外,我已经参加了四次旧车测试,期间跑了五种不同的比赛距离。感觉非常敏锐。在这些TPC测试中我获得了很好的经验,也跑出了不错的圈速。我现在唯一需要做的就是适应这台赛车。”
角田在那里要完成的工作将比在常规F1比赛周末更加困难,因为他只有一节练习赛来熟悉赛车,此外他昨天(周三)与小红牛完成了一节模拟器训练——他周二在希腊的海滩上放松时接到了晋升参赛的通知。
他认为两支红牛车队在方向盘和按键布局上的相似之处,加上这些与去年他为红牛车队比赛时的配置非常接近,应该会有助于这个适应过程,并使之成为“一次相当顺利的过渡”,尽管如此,赛道时间的缺乏意味着角田“不设定任何预期”。
“现在,我只是享受并玩得开心,这是我渴望了很久的。”—— Ben Anderson
在阿斯顿·马丁于匈牙利的升级带来了承诺的进步之后,发动机合作伙伴本田知道,所有人的目光都聚焦在其升级后的动力单元本周末在赞德沃特所能带来的贡献上。
但这家日本制造商在被问及预期会有多大进步时,对给出明确答案这件事讳莫如深。
事实上,本田总工程师折原慎太郎在周四的例行媒体活动上开玩笑地举起一块牌子,上面写着:“什么都可以问我……除了功率(千瓦)和圈速。”
英文原文
F1 is back from the summer break with a bang.
Today was the first chance to hear from drivers who made big statements like Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz, ones who haven't, like Fernando Alonso, new team bosses and teams which needed to use the summer break to capitalise and improve.
Luckily, our team on the ground in Zandvoort and back at base were on hand to sift through Thursday's media day to bring you the most important nuggets.
Verstappen was closer to retiring than joining rivals
Max Verstappen extending his stay at Red Bull until the end of 2030 was the biggest news from Thursday at Zandvoort.
It’s a big win for Red Bull and evidence that Verstappen really does want to end his F1 career with the team.
Rumours of his management talking with McLaren and other rivals were real, but Red Bull’s clearly managed to convince Verstappen that there’s no need to look elsewhere.
And perhaps even more importantly, Verstappen feels F1’s regulations are slowly getting there, so he basically put up with the flaws in them.
“The rules are slowly getting a bit better and I'm willing to live with it,” Verstappen said.
“And hopefully, by 2030 it opens up another opportunity, potentially with V8 engines coming in, to look again.”
Those V8 engines are currently set for 2031, so, having previously considered walking away completely, Verstappen’s now even started talking about his F1 career further into the 2030s…- Josh Suttill
Fernando Alonso had been definitive before the summer break that his ‘plan’ was to decide on his future in Formula 1 during the holidays.
In fact, at the British Grand Prix, he suggested that a potential epiphany moment could come during the annual Perseids meteor shower in the middle of August.
But as he returned to the F1 paddock in Zandvoort on Thursday, it became clear that the night sky had not given Alonso his answer.
Instead, he seemed unsure about what he wanted in his own head, and whether or not team owner Lawrence Stroll or boss Adrian Newey would even want him to continue driving or move into a team management role.
“Sitting with Lawrence and Adrian, if the need for the team is for me to drive, I will consider,” he said.
“I will be happy if I can be more valuable in another position, I will consider and I will be happy as well.”
While teasing the idea of definitely racing something else next year – whether it was F1, the Dakar Rally or the Indy 500 – Alonso seemed to suggest that things were out of his hands.
“I think it's more a team need, more than myself,” he said. “I'm happy to be here, I'm here to help Aston as well. I feel fast, I feel motivated. Let's see what happens.”
By the time he gets around to chat with Stroll and Newey over the next few weeks, both parties will have more knowledge about whether or not Honda has turned the corner on its early 2026 struggles, so will be more qualified to judge what 2027 could really look like.
The answer to that matters much more to Alonso's future than any shooting star. - Jon Noble
‘Cascade’ to blame for Cadillac brake troubles
Marcin Budkowski spent three “long” days at Cadillac’s Silverstone base before flying to Zandvoort late last night, his first look at it since being appointed team principal.
He talked positively about how well-equipped it is, but looking at the team up close, he suggested that “there’s potentially some reprioritisation to be done in terms of what’s important”.
While he wasn’t precise in terms of what that meant, he pointed to the brake overheating problems that have dogged the team as an area to be addressed.
“There’s been some mistakes made in terms of design and materials that will be addressed,” said Budkowski.
“It's an unlucky chain of events in a way because the brake failures - I don't want to go into details, but they're not a single source of failure, there's a cascade of different things.
“It's one of these situations when you fix one thing and something else goes wrong and you learn as you do it.”
When asked by The Race whether the brake problems were aerodynamic or mechanical in terms of the brake cooling problems, described it as “a little bit of both”. Crucially, while accepting the cooling airflow is inadequate, he also revealed “some of the sealings and stuff has been unreliable”.
Improving the build and assembly quality is therefore likely to be one of the areas Budkowski will attempt to address, although he says “I’m focused everywhere at the moment”. - Edd Straw
Tsunoda feels ready thanks to extensive TPC running
Yuki Tsunoda says he feels physically and mentally “sharp” ahead of his unexpected return to F1 with Racing Bulls at Zandvoort, thanks mainly to extensive TPC running with Red Bull this year that allowed him to cover “five race distances”.
“Physically and in terms of my mind, I think it's sharp enough,” he said. “I was training for almost every day for a long time. I had a lot of time to train because I didn't have anything to do other than that.
“Also, I've done four TPCs and within that I was doing five race distances. Feeling sharp. I had a good experience and good laps in those TPCs. All I just need to do is to get used to this car.”
Tsunoda’s job there will be more difficult than on a conventional F1 weekend, as he only has a single practice session to familiarise himself, on top of a single simulator session he completed with Racing Bulls yesterday (Wednesday), after getting the call up to race on Tuesday, while he was relaxing on a beach in Greece.
He feels the similarities in steering wheel and button configurations between the two Red Bull teams, plus how similar those things are compared to last year when he was racing for Red Bull, should aid that process of assimilation and make it “a pretty smooth transition”, but nevertheless the lack of track time means Tsunoda is “not setting any expectations”.
“For now, I just enjoy and have fun, which I wanted to have for a long time.” - Ben Anderson
After Aston Martin’s Hungary upgrade delivered its promised step forward, engine partner Honda knows that all eyes are on the contribution its upgraded power unit will bring at Zandvoort this weekend.
But the Japanese manufacturer is playing things very close to its chest when it comes to being definitive about what kind of step it is anticipating.
So much so in fact that Honda chief engineer Shintaro Orihara jokingly held up a sign at his regular media event on Thursday saying: “Ask me anything…except the kW (Kilowatt) and laptime.”
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