拉塞尔2026年F1争冠希望愈发渺茫
在西班牙大奖赛上，拉塞尔连续第五次被梅赛德斯队友安东内利击败，他赢得2026年F1年度冠军的可能性被形容为“极其渺茫”。
乔治·拉塞尔比以往任何时候都更接近放弃2026年F1总冠军的希望
拉塞尔目前落后队友安东内利81分，他明白除非出现奇迹，否则他的争冠希望已无可能挽回
乔治·拉塞尔目前“极不可能”赢得2026年一级方程式总冠军，在西班牙大奖赛上，他已经是连续第五次败给梅赛德斯队友安东内利了。
拉塞尔在F1全新的马德里赛道上仅排位第六，他解释说他“在11号弯尝试全力推进”，但“轮胎承受不住”。
他和奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在比赛起步时发生了接触，这位英国车手似乎毫发无损，但他却在早段虚拟安全车出现时吃了亏——当时他正从硬胎换成中性胎，而他的大多数对手都在理想时机从软胎或中性胎换成了硬胎。
“安全车的时机实在太让人沮丧了，”拉塞尔说。“我们原本希望能撑到第40圈，我们知道基米以及用中性胎和软胎的车手大概会在第15圈左右进站，结果安全车在第14圈就出现了，所以……”
在12位以硬胎起跑的车手中，只有两人在虚拟安全车期间进站，那就是拉塞尔和阿隆索；前者最终又再次进站，换回了他偏好的硬胎配方。
夏尔·勒克莱尔在比赛前段一直跑在这辆梅赛德斯的正前方，他选择留在外面，直到第48圈才进站。尽管这辆银箭多进了一次站，而法拉利换上了新的软胎，勒克莱尔在比赛尾声仍然受到了这辆梅赛德斯的压力。勒克莱尔勉强守住了第四名，拉塞尔获得第五。
“硬胎绝对是我表现最好的轮胎，”这位英国车手解释道。“如果继续用中性胎留在场上，那会是一场很大的赌博。我当时觉得反正也没什么可输的。到最后，我想结果其实也不会有什么不同。所以，有点遗憾。这条赛道超车非常困难，我想这让所有人都挺郁闷的。”
不过，拉塞尔坚持认为，在马德里赛道上“实际表现远好于最终成绩”。“但这有点像摩纳哥那种感觉，排位赛几乎决定了一切，”他补充道。
与此同时，安东内利拿下了他本赛季的第八场胜利，这也是他在14场大奖赛中的第12次登上领奖台。这位意大利二年级车手对拉塞尔的积分领先优势，在最近五轮比赛中已经从25分扩大到了81分。
拉塞尔痛切地意识到，这位年轻车手的稳定发挥让他在理论上仅剩的九轮比赛里，几乎没有什么余地来实质性缩小争夺总冠军的差距。
“我不会说已经结束了，但我参与这场争夺的可能性极低，”这位28岁的车手承认道。“我甚至没有去想自己还在争夺之中，因为我不认为我还在其中。这几乎反而让我可以专注于每一场比赛，尽力去赢得尽可能多的胜利。该怎样就怎样吧，不过……是的，这就是我们现在的处境。”
英文原文
George Russell closer than ever to giving up on 2026 F1 title
Russell is now 81 points adrift of team-mate Antonelli and is aware nothing short of a miracle can save his title bid
George Russell is now “exceptionally unlikely” to win the 2026 Formula 1 title, having been beaten by Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli for a fifth consecutive time at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Russell qualified a lowly sixth at F1’s new Madring track, explaining he “tried pushing hard in Turn 11” but “the tyres couldn’t take it”.
He and Oscar Piastri made contact at the start of the race, with the Briton seemingly unscathed, but he came off worse with the early virtual safety car as he switched from hard tyres to mediums, while most of his rivals got to move from softs or mediums to hards at an ideal time.
“Just very frustrating timing with the safety car,” Russell said. “We were hoping to make it to lap 40, we knew Kimi and the drivers on the medium and the soft would pit around lap 15, and the safety car came at lap 14, so…”
Only two of the 12 drivers who started on hards did pit under VSC, Russell and Fernando Alonso; the former ended up pitting again to switch back to his preferred hard compound.
Charles Leclerc, who was right ahead of the Mercedes in the early part of the race, stayed out and pitted on lap 48. He still came under pressure from the Mercedes late on, despite the Silver Arrow’s extra pitstop and the new soft tyres on the Ferrari. Leclerc narrowly salvaged fourth, with Russell fifth.
“The hard was by far my most superior tyre,” the Briton explained. “It would have been a big gamble to have stayed out on the medium. I thought I had nothing to lose. In the end, I think I would have ended up where I ended up anyway. So, a bit of a shame. Very tough track to overtake, which was a bit annoying, I guess, for everyone.”
However, Russell insisted that “the performance was far better than the result” in Madrid. “But this was kind of Monaco-esque, in terms of qualifying being everything,” he added.
Meanwhile, Antonelli took his eighth victory of the season and his 12th podium finish in 14 grands prix. The Italian sophomore’s championship lead over Russell has ballooned from 25 to 81 points over the latest five rounds.
Russell is painfully aware that the youngster’s consistency is leaving him with little leeway to meaningfully reduce the gap in the title race, with – theoretically – nine rounds remaining.
“I'm not going to say it's over, but it's exceptionally unlikely that I'm in this fight,” the 28-year-old admitted. “I'm not even thinking about being in the fight because I don't think I am in the fight. It almost just allows me to focus race by race and just try and win as many as possible. What will be, will be, but… Yeah, that's where we are right now.”
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