平川亮临危受命完成F1首秀排位
平川亮在墨西哥站临时接替奥康驾驶哈斯赛车，尽管最后一轮排位受交通影响，仍以第19名完成F1首秀排位赛，未能进入Q2。
平川亮原本准备在墨西哥周六早上进行惯常的跑步，这时他接到电话，得知自己将获得那个“我一直准备着”的机会，参加自己F1首秀的排位赛。
尽管通知来得仓促，这位哈斯临时顶替埃斯特班·奥康的车手仍对未能以第19名进入Q2感到失望，因为他最后一轮排位赛受到交通影响。
这位32岁的丰田长期车手、勒芒24小时耐力赛冠军和两届世界耐力锦标赛冠军，得到通知的时间异常晚，他将在本周末剩余时间接管奥康的赛车。
平川亮并非冷车上阵，他此前在FP1出场，这是他自2024年末以来第九次参加F1各节练习与排位，过去两年他还在2023和2025款哈斯赛车上累计行驶了4541公里（2822英里）。但即便如此，他仍是直接进入深水区。
第三次练习赛不可避免地是一节压缩而高强度的环节，没有车手比他完成的圈数更多。工作很高效，与比赛工程师劳拉·穆勒之间的沟通清晰顺畅，他们挤进了一次迷你长距离模拟、起步练习、排位模拟，并多次抓住机会改进他进攻维修区车位的方式。其中还包括一次不换胎的进站练习，让他也打磨了释放流程。这意味着他进入排位赛时相对自信，尽管他清楚还有很多需要整理的地方。
两位哈斯车手在第一节排位赛都完成了三轮，平川在首圈比车队正式车手奥利·贝尔曼慢0.330秒——那是一次刻意干净利落的保底圈——第二圈则慢0.304秒，两人都取得了相似的进步。主要差距在包含体育场路段和最后一弯的第三计时段，正如平川所指出的，“一旦打滑，你就要付出代价”。
平川在最后一次尝试中未能提升，最终以0.875秒之差位列第19，而他的队友晋级第二节排位赛。然而，这并非因为他在环节末段榨取抓地力峰值方面缺乏优势。
他在第一和第三计时段提升了自己的个人最佳成绩，但在中间计时段有亚历克斯·阿尔本在他前方。阿尔本并没有直接阻挡他，但制造了代价高昂的空气动力学乱流，让平川感到失望。时间损失始于第二计时段开始处的4号至6号弯，他进入时落后阿尔本4.5秒，随后在连续弯中进一步恶化。
平川亮表示：“我在6号弯以及高速路段遇到了交通问题，因此损失了大量下压力。说实话，进入Q2本应是轻而易举的事，这对我来说很遗憾，但能来到这里仍然很好，所以我没什么可抱怨的。”
那么他的说法站得住脚吗？我们至少可以用第一和第三赛段作为他速度的确凿证据，因此这些数据成立——下方图表中的虚线差值线显示，差距中有多少来自中间赛段（从4号弯之前到12号弯之前）。
鉴于平川亮在第一轮和第二轮之间跟随了贝尔曼，可以合理推测，随着赛道条件改善和他对驾驶的进一步打磨，他在中间赛段可能像队友一样相比上一轮有所提升。
这使平川亮在假设的中间赛段比他在最后一圈做出的成绩快了0.537秒，这将使他升至第15位，排在阿尔派车手弗兰科·科拉平托之前，并淘汰卡洛斯·塞恩斯而非他自己——尽管优势仅为0.066秒。在这条“未曾存在”的圈中，他会比贝尔曼慢0.372秒，这也与前两轮的节奏差距相符。
这并不能确凿证明他本可以进入Q2，但至少证明他声称自己本可以晋级的说法是合理的。车队领队小松礼雄也得出了类似的结论。
“平川亮是在最后一刻被临时安排进赛车的，考虑到这一点，我认为他做得非常出色，”小松说道。“在第三节练习中，他的进步非常明显，而Q1从来都是一个非常棘手的阶段，轮胎处于极限边缘，但他保持冷静，设法发挥出了大部分性能。
“遗憾的是，他在最糟糕的位置——高速弯道——遇到了交通问题。我不知道他本能否进入Q2，但应该会很接近。那本应是对他今天出色努力的回报。”
对于平川亮来说，能够真正有机会进入Q2已经算是做得不错了，但正赛中还有更复杂的挑战在等着他。
当被 The Race 问及一个怎样的周日才算理想时，他回答得很简单：“好的起步，好的第一弯，有很多新东西，所以就是执行好并尽我所能。”
英文原文
Ryo Hirakawa was about to go for his usual run on Saturday morning in Mexico when he got the call telling him he would get the opportunity "I've always been ready for" to qualify for his Formula 1 debut.
Despite the short notice, Haas’s shock Esteban Ocon replacement was disappointed not to reach Q2 in 19th place given his final qualifying run was compromised by traffic.
The 32-year-old long-time Toyota driver, a Le Mans 24 Hours winner and two-time World Endurance champion, received unusually late notice that he would take over Ocon's car for the remainder of the weekend.
Hirakawa wasn't driving it cold having run in FP1, his ninth outing since late-2024 in F1 sessions, and having also logged a combined total of 4541km (2822 miles) in the 2023 and '25 Haas cars over the past two years. But even so he was in at the deep end.
FP3 was inevitably a compressed, intensive session in which no driver logged more laps than he did. The work was efficient, with clear communication to and from race engineer Laura Mueller as they crammed in a mini-long run, practice starts, qualifying simulations and took multiple opportunities to refine how he attacks the pit box. That included one practice pitstop without a tyre change that let him also hone the release. It meant he went into qualifying relatively confident, even if he recognised there was plenty he needed to tidy up.
Both Haas drivers completed three runs in Q1, with Hirakawa 0.330 seconds slower than team regular Ollie Bearman on the first lap - a deliberately neat and tidy banker effort - then 0.304s slower on the second as both made a similar step. The main deficit was in the final sector comprising the stadium section and last corner where, as Hirakawa pointed out, "as soon as you slide you [pay] the price]".
Hirakawa failed to improve on his final attempt and ended up 0.875s down in 19th while his team-mate advanced to Q2. However, that was not down to him not having the edge when it came to extracting the peak of grip at the end of the session.
He improved on his personal best time in sectors one and three, but had Alex Albon ahead in the middle sector. Albon wasn't directly impeding him, but he created costly aerodynamic turbulence and left Hirakawa disappointed. The time loss started with a little given away through Turn 4-6 at the start of the second sector, which he started 4.5s behind Albon, and got worse in the esses.
"I had traffic from Turn 6 and also [in the] high-speed sections, so I lost a lot of downforce," said Hirakawa. "It was, I would say, easy to [reach] Q2, which is a shame for me, but still it's nice to be here, so I can't complain much."
So does his claim stand up? We at least have sectors one and three to use as definitive proof of his pace so those stand - and the dotted delta line in the chart below shows just how much of the deficit came from that middle sector (from just before Turn 4, to just before Turn 12).
Given Hirakawa had followed Bearman between runs one and two, it's reasonable to assume he might have made the same step as his team-mate in the middle sector relative to his previous run as track conditions improved and he better honed his driving.
That gives Hirakawa a hypothetical middle sector 0.537s quicker than the one he did on the last lap, which would have put him up to 15th place, ahead of Alpine's Franco Colapinto and eliminating Carlos Sainz instead of him - albeit only by 0.066s. He would have been 0.372s slower than Bearman on this lap-that-never-was, which is also in line with the pace deficit on the first two runs.
It is not definitive proof that he would have reached Q2, but it at least proves that his claim he could have advanced is reasonable. Team principal Ayao Komatsu drew a similar conclusion.
"Ryo was drafted into the car last minute, and I think considering that, he’s done a really good job," said Komatsu. "In FP3, the progress he was making was very clear, and Q1 is always a very tricky session with the tire being on the edge, but he stayed calm and managed to extract most of the performance.
“It’s a shame that he had traffic in the worst possible place, in the high-speed corners. I don’t know if he could’ve made it to Q2, but it would’ve been close. That would’ve been his reward for his great effort today."
To have had a realistic chance of reaching Q2 represents a job well done for Hirakawa, but a more complicated challenge awaits in the race.
Asked by The Race what a good Sunday would look like, he kept it simple: "good start, good first corner, a lot of new things, so just execute and do my best.”
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