维斯塔潘：红牛在荷兰大奖赛冲刺排位赛后仍缺乏抓地力和平衡
马克斯·维斯塔潘在赞德沃特冲刺排位赛中仅列第六，此前练习阶段他抱怨换挡质量差、抓地力不足和转向过度，赛后表示赛车仍缺乏抓地力和平衡。
马克斯·维斯塔潘：F1荷兰大奖赛冲刺赛排位赛后，红牛仍然缺乏抓地力和平衡
马克斯·维斯塔潘在赞德沃特举行的F1冲刺赛排位中获得第六名，此前练习赛表现令人失望，他仅列第11快
在选定荷兰大奖赛作为宣布自己至少留队红牛至2030年的场地之后，马克斯·维斯塔潘在赞德沃特的F1赛道首日经历了喜忧参半的一天。
在唯一一次练习赛中，维斯塔潘抱怨换挡质量差——这是该车今年的常见问题——以及抓地力不足和转向过度的平衡问题，他最终以异常低的第11快完赛，落后于做出最快圈速的梅赛德斯车手基米·安东内利1.376秒。
在冲刺排位赛之前，通过调整赛车设置，情况发生了变化——他成功进入前十名决胜轮（shootout），最终排位第六，排在了刘易斯·汉密尔顿的法拉利前面。
“我想我们比一辆（领先集团的）赛车排位成绩更好，”他在排位赛结束后接受F1电视（F1 TV）采访时说，“只是有点难找到抓地力和平衡。我的意思是，相比第一次自由练习已经前进了一步。
“当然，要想排名再靠前一些，还欠缺一点点。我们需要弄清楚明天能在平衡方面做些什么。真的就是要找到更多一点的抓地力——在平衡和抓地力上有所提升，缩小（与领先车手们的）差距。”
在承诺长期效力红牛之后，维斯塔潘失去了些许向车队挥舞那根无形鞭子的能力——就像过去他常常做的那样，当时关于他可能转投其他车队的可信传闻一直悬而未决。合同是用来打破的，但不同于亚马逊（Amazon）的购物订单，合同并没有30天无理由退货期。
维斯塔潘言论的内容和他那种认命的语气表明，他只是打算继续应付下去。红牛在过往的大奖赛周末中确实有过一夜之间大幅改进调校的先例——但与往年不同的是，这次的改进幅度不足以让赛车真正具备争夺比赛胜利的实力。
考虑到部分性能提升来自赛道状态的改善——尽管这对所有车手都是一样的——维斯塔潘在第一次自由练习和冲刺赛排位赛第一节（SQ1）之间找到了刚超过0.7秒的提升，做出了1分13.585秒的成绩。在那个阶段中，他的代打车队友劳森稍微更快，做出了1分13.420秒。
但随着赛道抓地力在冲刺赛排位赛第二节（SQ2）中进一步提升，劳森的1分13.136秒成绩不足以晋级冲刺赛排位赛第三节（SQ3）。维斯塔潘的1分12.745秒排名第八，落后于迈凯伦、梅赛德斯和法拉利的车手们，以及驾驶阿尔派加斯利的身后。
尽管维斯塔潘在冲刺赛排位赛第三节（SQ3）中又找到了相当可观的一段时间，以1分12.094秒拿下冲刺赛发车位的第六名——但他落后拉塞尔的杆位成绩0.527秒，因为除了汉密尔顿之外，所有前列车手都提升了相似的幅度。对红牛来说最不祥的是，从拉塞尔到排名第四的皮亚斯特里的迈凯伦，差距仅为0.099秒。
安东内利排名第五，比梅赛德斯的队友慢了0.227秒，但他在第一个飞驰圈冲出赛道，赛车带着损伤。
至于劳森，他也无法解释为什么在短排位赛第一阶段（SQ1）和第二阶段（SQ2）之间只找到了0.3秒的差距。
“正常情况下你会在排位赛中不断提升，”他说，“而我们在短排位赛第一阶段（SQ1）开局相当强势。然后我们没有像其他人那样取得同样的进步。所以，显然我们会去研究这个问题。今天有很多需要学习的地方。”
“不过说实话，到目前为止我在车里的感觉相当不错。整个排位赛过程中我的感觉还行。我以为我们能晋级，所以很遗憾。”
英文原文
Max Verstappen: Red Bull still lacking grip and balance after F1 Dutch GP sprint qualifying
Max Verstappen qualified sixth for the Formula 1 sprint race at Zandvoort after a disappointing practice session where he was only 11th fastest
Having chosen the Dutch Grand Prix as the venue to announce his renewed commitment to Red Bull until at least 2030, Max Verstappen endured mixed fortunes on the opening day of Formula 1 track action at Zandvoort.
During practice Verstappen complained of poor gearshift quality – a regular issue with the car this year – low grip and an oversteer balance during the only practice session, in which he finished an unusually lowly 11th quickest, 1.376s off the pacesetting Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli.
That picture changed through set-up changes ahead of sprint qualifying, where he made it through to the final top-10 shootout and qualified sixth, ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari.
“I guess we out-qualified one [frontrunning] car,” he told F1 TV after the session. “Just a bit tricky to find the grip, the balance. I mean, it was already a step forward from FP1.
“But of course, still lacking a little bit to be a little bit further up the road. It’s something that we need to understand what we can do with the balance for tomorrow. To find a bit more grip, really – a bit of balance, a bit of grip to close the gap [to the frontrunners] a bit.”
In committing to Red Bull for the long haul, Verstappen has lost some of the ability to show his team the proverbial whip, as he has done in the recent past when credible threats of him moving to other teams have hung in the air. Contracts are made to be broken but, unlike Amazon purchases, they do not come with a 30-day returns window.
The nature of Verstappen’s comments and resigned tone of voice suggests he is simply going to get on with it. Red Bull has form in being able to conjure greatly improved set-ups overnight during grand prix weekends – but, unlike in previous years, not quite enough to make the car a genuine contender for race wins.
With the caveat that some performance will have come through track evolution – although it is the same for all competitors – Verstappen found just over seven tenths of a second between FP1 and SQ1 to post a 1m13.585s lap. In that session his stand-in team-mate Liam Lawson went slightly faster with a 1m13.420s.
But as track grip ramped up further in the session, Lawson’s SQ2 time of 1m13.136s wasn’t enough to make the cut for SQ3. Verstappen’s 1m12.745s was good for eighth behind the McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari drivers plus Pierre Gasly’s Alpine.
Despite finding another respectable chunk of time in SQ3 to claim sixth on the sprint grid – 1m12.094s – Verstappen fell 0.527s off George Russell’s pole position as all the frontrunners bar Hamilton improved by a similar margin. Most ominous for Red Bull is the fact that the gap from Russell to Oscar Piasrti’s McLaren in fourth place was just 0.099s.
Antonelli in fifth place was 0.227s off his Mercedes team-mate but was carrying damage from an off-track excursion on his first push lap.
For his part, Lawson was at a loss to explain why he could only find three tenths between SQ1 and SQ2.
“Normally you'd sort of improve through quali,” he said. “And we started SQ1 quite strong. Then we didn't make the same step everybody else did. So, obviously, we'll look into it. There's a lot to learn today.
“But so far, honestly, I feel quite good in the car. I was feeling OK through quali. I thought we'd get through, so it's a shame.”
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