The 比赛评马德里首场F1大奖赛：巨大错失良机
The 比赛团队评价马德里首场F1大奖赛并不精彩，认为赛道缺乏超车机会，是一次巨大的错失良机。
马德里的首场F1比赛并不精彩。以下是我们团队对它的看法。
令人费解的是缺乏超车机会
我实在无法理解，为什么在2026年，F1赛道布局在没有明显超车机会的情况下还能获批。
一条全新赛道的魅力在于它是一张白纸，而在马德里，这张白纸被用来打造一条单圈驾驶体验有趣的赛道，以及制造一些F2/F3的混乱，但令人费解的是，为什么没有对F1周日的比赛产品给予更多考虑。
你可以打造世界上最精彩的活动——极佳的粉丝体验、酷炫的地点、一些突出的弯角、便利的交通等等——但如果实际赛道不适合比赛，那这一切都毫无意义。
最糟糕的是，当布局公布时，这一切就完全可以预见，但没有任何利益相关方采取行动。
我很高兴看到F1赛历的最新成员保持了传统——一条几乎不可能超车的赛道。实际上，要如此一贯地做到这一点一定非常困难。
这条赛道对车手来说看起来很有趣，而且它并没有像一些人预测的那样成为撞车盛宴。如果发生事故，他们确实需要找到更快清理赛道的方法——Ollie Bearman在FP3的事故非常清楚地表明了这一点。把车移走没问题，但修复Tecpro护栏非常耗时。
看到几个马歇尔试图把其中一个护栏推到位，而这些护栏的设计是为了抵御一辆900公斤的F1赛车高速行驶时的冲击力，这很滑稽。
这场比赛也凸显了VSC和/或安全车给比赛结果带来的抽奖性质。正如其他车手所说，诺里斯配得上胜利，但当斯特罗尔冲出赛道引发VSC时，胜利从他手中被夺走了。
这很容易解决，那为什么当权者不采取行动呢？
至少它让经典赛道看起来不错
马德里赛道刚刚给了我们一个完美的例子，说明创建一条新赛道有多么困难。
就排位赛单圈对车手的考验而言——哇。它在这方面非常出色。它显然是以‘我们如何让这条赛道成为考验车手并榨取他们最大潜力的绝佳赛道’为前提设计的，这很重要。
但它也有一些设计特征，本不必影响驾驶挑战，却毁了比赛。
让街道赛道变宽从来都不容易，但这条赛道在所有不该窄的地方都很窄。此外，没有足够的‘干净’刹车区，让车手可以在不需要刹车和转向结合的情况下发起真正的进攻。
而且对于一条街道赛道来说，让它不适合F1真的没有借口。这条赛道和这场比赛就是为此而建的。它不是为了让F3或房车赛看起来好看而设计的。
我坐在这里，一边在我卧室里建造我那条比这好得多的史诗级Scalextric赛道，一边扔石头，这很容易。我承认这一点。只是太令人沮丧了，因为感觉这条赛道只需移动几堵墙，再加上几个更平坦、更舒适的刹车区，就能变得绝对完美。
这场比赛艰难的另一个原因？看看它被拿来比较的赛道：澳门。除了从渔人码头到R弯、以及R弯到里斯本弯的长直道外，澳门也很难超车。所以这不是新问题，尽管马德里赛道比澳门固定的道路有更大的灵活性。一次巨大的错失良机。
我倾向于对街道赛道宽容一些。我挺喜欢瓦伦西亚版本的。我喜欢任何让我想起1990年代中期温哥华CART比赛的东西，而那条赛道在比赛和驾驶挑战方面客观来说都很糟糕。我实际上并不认为每条F1赛道都需要明显的超车机会，在一个24场比赛的赛历中，有几个地方一切都必须靠策略或极端的超车创造力来完成，实际上对多样性有好处。
根据我在地同事的报道，马德里作为一项赛事有很多积极之处，从车载和赛道边镜头来看，马德里赛道作为快速单圈的奇观也有很多值得喜欢的地方。
但是……这场比赛太平淡了。像Norris的迈凯伦这样快的赛车在被延误后本应有机会穿越车阵。勒克莱尔不应该在不进站的情况下领先那么久。太多人似乎被困在他们本不必陷入的交通中，这扼杀了比赛中任何引人入胜的希望。
我不认为解决这个问题需要太多。也许甚至只是选择更具侵略性的轮胎配方，而不是调整赛道，就能解决问题。
我喜欢这条赛道，我真的很想享受这场比赛。但我大部分时间都觉得很无聊。
英文原文
Madrid’s first Formula 1 race was not a thriller. Here’s our team’s take on it.
A baffling lack of overtaking opportunities
I can't quite understand why, in 2026, F1 circuit layouts are being approved without featuring any obvious overtaking opportunities.
The beauty of a brand-new circuit is the blank sheet of paper it offers, and while in Madrid it's been used to create an interesting track for a single-lap driving experience, and some F2/F3 chaos, it's baffling why more thought wasn't given to the F1 Sunday product.
You can make the most amazing event in the world - a great fan experience, a cool location, some standout corners, great transport links, etc. - but it means absolutely nothing if the actual circuit isn't good for racing on.
And the worst thing is this was entirely predictable as soon as the layout was revealed, yet nothing was done by any of the stakeholders.
I’m glad to see that the latest addition to the F1 calendar has managed to keep with tradition - a circuit that it is almost impossible to overtake on. In reality it must be very difficult to achieve this so consistently.
The circuit looks like fun for the drivers and it wasn’t the crashfest that some had predicted. If there is an incident they do really need to find a way to clear the track quicker - Ollie Bearman’s accident in FP3 showed that very clearly. Getting the car away was no problem but repairing the Tecpro barriers was very time consuming.
To see a couple of marshals trying to push one of those barriers into place when they are designed to resist the forces of a 900kg Formula 1 car travelling at speed was comical.
This race also highlights what a lottery the VSC and/or safety car brings to the race result. As the other drivers all said, Lando Norris deserved the win but it was taken out of his grasp when Lance Stroll going off brought out the VSC.
It’s simple to fix so why don’t the powers that be do something about it?
At least it makes the classics look good
Madring just gave us the perfect example of why creating a new circuit is so hard.
In terms of a test for the drivers over a qualifying lap - phwoar. It's excellent for that. It's clearly set out with the proviso of 'how do we make this an excellent circuit to test and extract the maximum out of the drivers', and that's important.
But it also has a number of design features that needn't have impacted the driving challenge and ruined the racing.
It's never easy to make a street circuit wide, but this one is narrow in all the wrong places. Plus, there's not enough 'clean' braking zones where drivers can launch proper moves without the need for combined braking and steering.
And there's really no excuse with a street circuit for making it not good for F1. This track and race was built with that in mind. It wasn't designed to make F3 or touring cars look good.
It's easy for me to sit here, throwing stones while creating my epic Scalextrix track that's much better than this, in my bedroom. I acknowledge that. It's just so frustrating because it feels like this track is a few moved walls and a couple of flatter, more comfortable braking zones away from being absolutely mint.
And another reason this one was tough? Look at the track it was compared to: Macau. That's tough to overtake on outside of its long straights from Fishermen's to R, and R to Lisboa. So this isn't a new problem, although the Madring had more flexibility than the set roads of Macau. A big missed opportunity.
I tend to be charitable towards street circuits. I quite liked the Valencia version. I like anything that makes me think of mid-1990s Vancouver CART races and that track was objectively rubbish for both racing and a driving challenge. I don’t actually think every F1 circuit needs clear opportunities and across a 24-race calendar a few places where everything has to be done on strategy or extreme overtaking creativity are actually good for variety.
There are so many positives about Madrid as an event based on the reports from my colleagues on the ground, and watching onboards and trackside footage there was loads to like about Madring as a spectacle on a fast lap too.
But... this race was just too flat. A car as fast as Norris’s McLaren should have had shots at coming through the field once delayed. Charles Leclerc shouldn’t have been able to stay in front that long with no pitstop. Too many people just seemed to be stuck in traffic they needn’t have been in, and that squashed any hope of intrigue in the race.
I don’t think it would take much to sort this. Maybe even just a much more aggressive tyre compound choice rather than circuit tweaks would do the job.
I like this track, I really wanted to enjoy the race. But I spent most of it pretty bored.
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