赞德福特赛道完美告别:荷兰大奖赛我们学到了什么
赞德福特赛道(暂时)为F1献上了一场精彩的告别战,荷兰大奖赛在领跑集团充满真正的悬念,并出现了一些可能影响后续分站的车队积分榜意外变化。
赞德福特享受了一场盛大的F1告别仪式(至少目前如此),荷兰大奖赛在领跑集团中呈现出真正的悬念——并且总冠军争夺形势出现了一些令人意外的发展,这些可能会在接下来的比赛中持续发酵。
以下是我们在周日的比赛中总结出的主要收获。
梅赛德斯没有足够的资金与迈凯伦抗衡
尽管梅赛德斯的竞争对手们——尤其是迈凯伦——近来显得越来越强势,但F1界在很大程度上一直默认,迈凯伦相对于梅赛德斯的进步在很大程度上只是研发周期不同所致,并且很快就会被即将到来的W17升级套件所抵消。
情况可能仍然如此,但车队领队托托·沃尔夫(Toto Wolff)突然非常强硬地声明,梅赛德斯“没有钱”——即成本上限额度——来跟上迈凯伦的升级速度。
“由于可靠性问题,我们损失了50到100分,否则我们的领先优势会比现在更多一点,”沃尔夫还辩称。
“除此之外,我们只是在继续执行原定的计划,以及财务现实对我们的意义。”
也许梅赛德斯本来就打算在年初大干一场——如果是这样的话,沃尔夫提到的那些丢失的分数可能确实具有额外的意义。
过去几年里,兰多·诺里斯(诺里斯)因其比赛技术中的一些粗糙之处,尤其是在与马克斯·维斯塔潘(维斯塔潘)争夺总冠军时,受到了不少批评。
但周日他在赞德沃特表现出色,为本就非常强势的赛季再添光彩,而这个赛季可以说比他以往任何一个夺冠赛季都要更胜一筹。
他荷兰大奖赛夺冠的高光时刻,是在第一个弯道从外侧超越总冠军领跑者基米·安东内利(安东内利)的那次超越。
"毫无疑问,他现在在驾驶中展现出更强的果断性——超越安东内利的那次动作,我认为正是这一点的一个非常好的展示,"迈凯伦车队领队安德烈亚·斯特拉(Andrea Stella)说。
"他正展现出更多的自信,这很有趣,我相当喜欢这一点。"
"自信有时并不表现为最具攻击性。有时候你很自信,但你会想,比如:'你知道吗?我现在不会去争斗,因为在这场争斗中我可能会输。这是一场非常漫长的比赛,比赛结束时再见。'
"这是对你自己的手段、你的实力的信心,我很喜欢这一点,这意味着有时候当情况变得太冒险时,实际退让的那个人反而是你。"
"我们需要记住,在他赢得的最近两场比赛中,他都没有在第一圈守住杆位。第一圈结束时他实际上排在第二,但我没有听到或察觉到他的自信有任何衰减,就他更快这一点而言,他只是在准备自己的机会,而不是在挥霍他的自信。"
"从非技术、非运营的角度来看,果断和自信可能是他进步最大的两个特质。"
本田对新引擎有明确的优先事项
费尔南多·阿隆索(阿隆索)在荷兰大奖赛中获得第九名,这显示了阿斯顿·马丁(阿斯顿·马丁)和本田(Honda)通过赛季中升级所取得的进步。
尽管这是车队本赛季至今的最佳成绩,并且不再垫底,但车队离开赞德沃特(Zandvoort)时非常清楚,在开始考虑取得更好成绩之前,有一个关键领域需要掌控:引擎的可操控性。
2026年非常复杂的规则,加上Honda在新动力单元的燃烧特性方面不如竞争对手掌握得那么透彻,导致它难以提供一台能始终按车手意愿工作的发动机。
最大的(但不是唯一的)问题是入弯阶段,发动机可能在刹车时继续推动,或触发被拒绝的降挡,这让车手的工作变得极其艰难。
Honda已经启动了樱花的测试台架,以帮助在周末寻找改进方案,并在周六的荷兰大奖赛排位赛上首次推出了标定微调。蒙扎还将迎来进一步的变化。
在那里能有更多改进将是双重好消息。它们不仅会让车手的工作更轻松,还有助于释放更多动力。
这后一个因素至关重要,因为就目前而言,可驾驶性方面的种种难题给一个重大疑问蒙上了阴影:最新的Honda规格到底算得上多大的进步。
皮亚斯特里在太多场比赛中'差距还很大'
奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里(皮亚斯特里)在单圈速度上始终对诺里斯构成威胁:尽管全年战绩是4比13,但从平均差距来看,他们仍属于F1队友组合中差距最小的一对。
但他的大奖赛是一次格外令人警醒的经历,完赛时与队友相差半分钟的差距就是明证。
"兰多以相当大的优势赢得了比赛,所以我认为赛车状态不错,过去两个周末它都很快,我认为这两条赛道很适合这辆赛车——只是不知道为什么我一直无法发挥出它的速度," 皮亚斯特里承认。
"这不是今年第一场出现这种情况的比赛了——有些比赛表现不错,有些非常强势,但现在已经有太多次与预期相差甚远了。"
皮亚斯特里和斯特拉都强调说,实际上只有某一段特定的节——比赛中段用硬胎的那一段——造成了绝大部分的损失。
"我们没能让这套轮胎进入状态。它们一直处于抓地力极低极低的状态,而我们在第一段并没有看到这种情况," 斯特拉说。
小红牛毁了升级版阿尔派的首秀
在亨格罗林赛道,阿尔派在车手/车队积分榜第五名的争夺中被小红牛反超,而且从性能角度来看,它还落后于奥迪,沦为了F1第七快的赛车。
车队希望其在赞德沃特带来的升级——这套升级只装在加斯利的车上,科拉平托预计将在蒙扎用上——能够改变局面。
而冲刺赛的证据表明,Gasly领跑中游集团并以第八名拿到一个积分,这确实证明了升级起到了作用。
但Gasly在正赛中重复那一成绩的机会被Arvid Lindblad的小红牛车队毁掉了。
Lindblad为了车队利益坑了Gasly一把,因为他的比赛早已因在黄旗下超越阿尔派车手而被罚通过维修区而毁掉。
他在比赛中段对Gasly进行了非常顽强的防守,让霍肯伯格的奥迪和角田裕毅的小红牛得以趁机超越。
这限制了Gasly只能以第10名获得一个积分,但这位阿尔派车手表示他会在今年晚些时候复仇。
英文原文
Zandvoort enjoyed a great Formula 1 send-off (for now) as the Dutch Grand Prix delivered genuine intrigue at the front - and some surprising developments in the shape of the championship that could echo through the coming races.
Here are our main learnings from the Sunday race.
Mercedes doesn't have money to match McLaren
As increasingly potent as Mercedes' rivals - and specifically McLaren - have looked as of late, the F1 world has largely operated under the assumption that McLaren's gains on Mercedes are in large part a consequence of development cycles, and will be offset by a W17 upgrade package just around the corner.
That could still be the case, but team principal Toto Wolff has suddenly come out very firmly with the assertion that Mercedes "haven't got the money" - meaning cost cap allowance - to keep up with McLaren's upgrade rate.
"We left between 50 and 100 points on the table with reliability issues and that would have given us a little bit more of a gap than we have," Wolff also argued.
"Other than that, we're just continuing to execute what the plan was and what the financial realities mean for us."
Perhaps Mercedes always intended to make hay in the early part of the year - and, if that's the case, those dropped points Wolff references may indeed take on an extra significance.
Lando Norris has picked up a lot of stick over the past couple of years for some of the rougher edges of his racecraft, particularly when fighting Max Verstappen for titles.
But he was supreme on Sunday at Zandvoort, backing up a really strong season so far, which is arguably a step clear of most of his title-winning campaign.
The crowning moment of his Dutch GP victory was the move around the outside of championship leader Kimi Antonelli at the first corner.
"Definitely, he is now expressing a higher level of assertiveness, as he drives - the manoeuvre to pass Antonelli, I think is a really good demonstration of that," McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said.
"He is demonstrating more self-confidence, and this is interesting, and I quite like it.
"Self-confidence is sometimes not demonstrating by being the most aggressive. Sometimes you are self-confident, but you think, like, 'You know what? I'm not going to have a fight now, because I may lose in this fight. It's a very long race. See you at the end of the race'.
"It's confidence in your means, in your strength, that I quite like, which means that sometimes you are actually the one backing off, when the situation becomes too risky.
"We need to remember that in both of the last couple of races that he won, he didn't defend the pole position [on lap one]. He was actually second at the end of the first lap, but I did not hear or perceive any decay in his confidence, as to the fact that he was faster, he was just preparing his opportunity [rather] than cashing in on his self-confidence.
"Assertiveness and confidence are probably the two characteristics that he has improved the most from a non-technical, non-operational point of view."
Honda has a clear priority with new engine
Fernando Alonso's ninth-placed finish in the Dutch GP has shown the progress that both Aston Martin and Honda have made with their mid-season upgrades.
But despite its best result of the season so far and it no longer being adrift at the back, the team left Zandvoort well aware that there is a key area it needs to get on top of before it can start thinking of doing better: engine driveability.
A combination of the very complicated 2026 rules, plus Honda not being as on top of the combustion characteristics of the new power units as its rivals, has left it struggling to deliver an engine that does what the drivers want it to do at all times.
The biggest (but not only) problem is corner entry, where the engine can push on under braking, or trigger rejected downshifts, which then makes life super hard for the drivers.
Honda already had its Sakura dynos fired up to help find improvements over the weekend, with a first calibration tweak introduced for Dutch GP qualifying on Saturday. Further changes are coming for Monza.
More improvements there will be double good news. They will make life easier for the drivers but also help unlock more power.
That latter element is critical because, right now, the driveability headaches have left a big question mark over just how much of a step forward the latest Honda specification truly is.
Piastri 'a long way off' at too many races
Oscar Piastri remains a consistent threat to Norris over one lap: though the score is 4-13 over the year, in terms of the average gap they're still up there with the closest of F1's team-mate pairings.
But his grand prix was a particularly chastening experience, as evidenced by the half-minute gap to his team-mate at the finish.
"Lando has won the race by quite a lot so I think the car is in a good place, it's been quick the last two weekends, I think these two tracks suit the car well - it's just for whatever reason I've not been able to get the pace out of it," Piastri accepted.
"It's not the first race this year that that's been the case - some have been good, some have been very strong but there's been too many now that have been really a long way off."
Both Piastri and Stella did emphasise that it was really only one particular stint - the stint on the hards mid-race - that did the vast majority of the damage.
"We were not able to switch these tyres on. They stayed permanently in a regime of very-very low grip, which we didn't see in the first stint," Stella said.
Racing Bulls spoiled upgraded Alpine's debut
Alpine was overhauled by Racing Bulls for fifth place in the championship at the Hungaroring, and in performance terms had also slipped behind Audi to F1’s seventh-best car.
The team hoped its Zandvoort upgrade - only on Pierre Gasly’s car, with Franco Colapinto set to receive it at Monza - would change things.
And the evidence of the sprint race, where Gasly led the midfield and scored a point in eighth, certainly supported that the upgrade had changed that.
But Gasly’s chances of repeating that result in the grand prix were ruined by Arvid Lindblad’s Racing Bulls.
Lindblad played the team game by screwing over Gasly, as his race was already wrecked by picking up a drivethrough penalty for overtaking the Alpine driver under yellow flags.
He defended very hard against Gasly in the middle of the race, allowing Nico Hulkenberg's Audi and Yuki Tsunoda's Racing Bulls to slip through.
It limited Gasly to scoring one point in 10th place, but the Alpine driver suggested he'd take his revenge later in the year.
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