维斯塔潘解释红牛赛车“纸糊”言论:神秘问题困扰排位赛
马克斯·维斯塔潘在蒙扎排位赛仅列第六,落后爆冷夺杆的皮埃尔·加斯利近0.3秒,并解释了此前称小红牛22赛车“纸糊”的言论,暗示赛车存在神秘问题。
马克斯·维斯塔潘解释红牛赛车“纸糊的”言论,此前出现神秘问题
马克斯·维斯塔潘表示,小红牛22 的部件在行驶过程中会断裂,尤其是赛车后部。这位荷兰车手说,他已经为这个问题抱怨了多年,但要解决却非常困难
在周五练习赛并经历了赛车平衡的“断开”之后,马克斯·维斯塔潘已经知道在蒙扎的一级方程式排位赛会很艰难,而一天后事实也确实如此。这位红牛车手在周六做出了第六快的成绩,比爆冷夺得杆位的皮埃尔·加斯利慢了近三个十分之一秒,但这并没有反映全部情况。
当领队洛朗·梅基斯随后通过无线电为混乱的最后一圈表示歉意时,维斯塔潘回应说,小红牛22 是用纸做的。
随后在围场接受荷兰媒体采访时,这位四届世界冠军详细解释了那番评论背后的原因:"我们的赛车上有一些部件有时会损坏或卡住。整个赛季我经常有这种感觉。
"有时这种情况发生在练习赛中,那么你还有时间在第二天之前修好它。有时它发生在比赛中,就像我在奥地利遇到的那样,而这次它发生在第三节自由练习和排位赛之间。
"这样赛车就无法正常应对颠簸和路肩。我们的赛车那时会大幅弹跳,我们肯定因此损失了不少圈速。"
当被Motorsport.com问及时,维斯塔潘表示问题出在小红牛22的车尾。可以理解,他不想透露细节,但他强调车尾的某些部件"不够好",难以支撑整个比赛周末。
据这位荷兰车手表示,小红牛22后部的某些部件目前“还不够好”。
“我自己知道问题在哪里,但我不是能够解决它的工程师,”他说。“我确实有一些想法,但这个问题我已经应付好几年了。”
考虑到技术规则在2026年进行了彻底改革,今年赛车上几乎一切都是全新的,后面这句话显得格外引人注目。尽管如此,据维斯塔潘称,红牛多年来一直在与同一个问题作斗争。
“车队确实会听我的意见,他们也在努力解决这个问题,但目前他们就是没有成功,”维斯塔潘说。“有些周末你受这个问题的影响较小,因为你在路肩上行驶得更少,受到的剧烈冲击也更少。”
“在赞德沃特我连一圈都没跑完,所以你永远不知道在比赛剩下的时间里情况会如何发展。不过是啊,这种事情经常发生。”
维斯塔潘因“赛车性能衰退”而减少冒险
这甚至意味着,维斯塔潘自己承认,在某些时刻他比以往几个F1赛季更少冒险:“本赛季我已经遇到过好几次这种情况了,是的,我会刻意有所保留。”
“当然,我们本赛季已经遇到了很多问题,如果你是在为第七名而战,那也不应该那样开车。如果到时候出了什么问题……”
尽管这不像红牛尾翼问题那样属于安全隐患,但维斯塔潘表示,他在2026年不会冒一切风险
维斯塔潘确实强调,蒙扎出现的这个问题,与他早前由旋转尾翼引发的事故不同,并不是安全隐患。
"不是。你看,如果是那个尾翼,突然在某个地方失去空气动力学效果,那会非常危险。但这个只是损失圈速而已,"他解释道。
"现在你依然在极限上驾驶,但无法充分发挥赛车的潜力,因为赛车到处都在弹跳。"
在维斯塔潘通过车队无线电表示小红牛22像是用纸做成的之后,这一说法很快在社交媒体上被玩成了'纸糊瓦赫'(papier-Wache)的双关梗,把'纸浆'(papier-mâché)和红牛技术总监皮埃尔·瓦赫(Pierre Wache)的名字结合在了一起。
维斯塔潘可以一笑置之这个文字游戏,但他补充道:'是啊,我最好还是别自己用这个笑话!'
'不过不管怎么说,这真的挺遗憾的。我知道每个人都在尽力,你也不能怪某一个人,因为归根结底这是一个非常庞大的车队。'
'只是很遗憾,本赛季很多事情总是不尽如人意,或者说至少没有正常运转。'
维斯塔潘还预测周日的比赛将会非常艰难,至少如果红牛无法解决“轮胎衰退”问题的话是如此。
维斯塔潘对红牛的种种挫折已经不再感到惊讶。
维斯塔潘此前曾表示,似乎每个比赛周末都总有什么事情在跟红牛作对。周六不仅出现了轮胎衰退问题,连尾流配合的计划也泡汤了。
利亚姆·劳森在第一个减速弯被阻挡去为奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里让尾流,未能进入第三节排位赛,皮亚斯特里因此将在发车顺位上被罚退三位。
"我现在已经不惊讶了。这个赛季几乎每个周末都会出点问题,"维斯塔潘说。"我总是想发挥出最好的水平,但如果因为不断出问题而做不到,那我当然还是会感到沮丧。"
"但从另一方面来说,反正你也无法争夺总冠军,所以你只能试着稍微看开一点。"
维斯塔潘今年只能偶尔争夺一下领奖台或比赛胜利,尽管在蒙扎这也会很困难。当被问到在正常情况下比赛节奏应该能达到什么水平时,维斯塔潘总结道:"我不知道,这真的取决于明天赛车带着这个问题时感觉如何。"
"如果他们能在明天之前修好它,而且赛车的感觉有点像第三次练习赛时那样,那我当然会试着跟上前面那批车。但如果感觉像现在这样,那我就没有多少信心了。"
英文原文
Max Verstappen explains Red Bull car "made out of paper" comment after mysterious issue
Max Verstappen says components on the RB22 are breaking while driving, particularly at the rear of the car. The Dutchman says he has been complaining about the issue for years, but it is proving difficult to solve
After Friday practice and experiencing a ‘disconnect’ in the car balance, Max Verstappen already knew that Formula 1 qualifying at Monza would be difficult, and that proved to be the case a day later. The Red Bull driver set the sixth-fastest time on Saturday, almost three tenths behind surprise polesitter Pierre Gasly, but that does not tell the whole story.
When team principal Laurent Mekies came on the radio afterwards to apologise for the messy final run, Verstappen responded by saying that the RB22 is made out of paper.
Speaking to Dutch media in the paddock later, the four-time world champion explained exactly what was behind that comment: "We sometimes have components on the car that either break or get stuck. I’ve had that feeling quite often throughout the season.
"Sometimes it happens in practice and then you can still fix it for the next day. Sometimes it happens during the race, which is what I had in Austria, and now it happened between FP3 and qualifying.
"Then the car no longer takes the bumps and kerbs properly. Our car simply bounces a lot more then and we definitely gave away a lot of lap time because of that."
Asked by Motorsport.com, Verstappen says the problem is at the rear of the RB22. Understandably, he does not want to go into detail, but stresses that certain components at the rear are ‘not good enough’ to get through a race weekend.
According to the Dutchman, certain components at the rear of the RB22 are currently ‘not good enough’
"I know where it is myself, but I’m not the engineer who can then solve it," he said. "I do have some ideas, but I’ve been dealing with this for years now."
The latter comment is remarkable given that the technical regulations were completely overhauled for 2026 and essentially everything on this year’s car is new. Nevertheless, according to Verstappen, Red Bull has been struggling with the same issue for years.
"The team does listen to me and they are also trying to solve it, but at the moment they’re just not succeeding," Verstappen said. "Some weekends you suffer from it less because you drive over the kerbs less and have fewer of those hard impacts.
"In Zandvoort I didn’t complete a lap, so you never know how it would have developed over the rest of the race. But yeah, it happens very often."
Verstappen taking fewer risks due to 'car degradation'
It even means that Verstappen, by his own admission, takes fewer risks at certain moments compared to previous F1 seasons: "I’ve already had that a few times this season, yes, where I deliberately hold back a bit
"Of course, we’ve already had a lot of problems this season and if you’re fighting for seventh place, then you shouldn’t be driving like that either. If something then goes wrong…"
Although this is less of a safety issue than Red Bull's rear wing problems, Verstappen says he is not taking every risk in 2026
Verstappen does stress that the problem in Monza, unlike his earlier crashes caused by the rotating rear wing, is not a safety issue.
"No. Look, with that rear wing, if you suddenly lose aerodynamics somewhere, then that is very dangerous. But this is simply lap time that you’re giving away," he explained.
"Now you’re still driving on the limit, but you can’t make optimal use of the potential because the car is bouncing all over the place."
After Verstappen’s radio message about the RB22 being made out of paper, it was quickly turned into a 'papier-Wache' pun on social media, a play on 'paper-mache' and Red Bull's technical director Pierre Wache.
Verstappen can laugh at the wordplay, but adds: "Yeah, I’d better not use that joke myself!"
"But anyway, it’s just a shame. I know everyone is doing their best and you can’t blame one person either, because ultimately it’s a very big team.
"It’s just a shame that a lot of things this season aren’t always right, or at least aren’t working properly."
Verstappen also predicts a difficult race on Sunday, at least if Red Bull is unable to resolve the "car degradation"
Verstappen no longer even surprised by Red Bull’s many setbacks
Verstappen has previously said that something seems to go against Red Bull every race weekend. On Saturday, it was not only the car degradation, but also the slipstream plan that fell apart.
Liam Lawson failed to make Q3 after being held up at the first chicane for Oscar Piastri, who consequently has to drop three places on the grid.
"I'm not even surprised by it anymore. Almost every weekend something goes wrong throughout the season," Verstappen said. "I always want to get the best out of it and if that doesn’t happen because something goes wrong all the time, then of course I still get frustrated.
"But on the other hand, you’re not fighting for the championship anyway, so you just have to try to put it into perspective a little."
Verstappen can only fight for an occasional podium finish or race win this year, although even that will be difficult in Monza. Asked what should normally be possible in terms of race pace, Verstappen concludes: "I don’t know, it really depends on how the car feels tomorrow with this issue.
"If they can fix it for tomorrow and if the car feels a bit like it did in third practice, then of course I’ll try to go with that group at the front. But if it feels like it does now, then I don’t have much confidence."
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