威廉姆斯模拟器车手维克多·马丁斯：对赛车影响并非直接
威廉姆斯F1车队测试与发展车手维克多·马丁斯在接受Autosport采访时表示，他对赛车有影响，但这种影响并非直接的，因为车队中有许多人和部门需要改进与分析。
作为威廉姆斯F1模拟器车手是一种什么样的体验？
作为三级方程式冠军、也是奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里在初级方程式中的主要对手之一，维克多·马丁斯还没有真正进入F1。但这位被看好将随日产转战电动方程式的阿尔派 Hypercar车手，如今担任威廉姆斯的测试与发展车手。在比利时大奖赛上，他向Autosport讲述了自己的工作
Autosport：我们来谈谈你目前在威廉姆斯的角色。你能解释一下你对赛车有怎样的影响吗？
维克多·马丁斯：“我可以对赛车产生影响，但这是直接的吗？我得说未必，因为车队里有很多人、很多部门、很多需要改进和分析的事情——所以要说‘直接’的影响，我得说没有。”
“不过，参与研发，是的——虽然主要是在模拟器上进行，在每个比赛周末之前测试即将到来的赛道的能量管理，为Alex和Carlos的到来做准备，以便他们能去处理对他们来说可能更重要的其他事情。
“我不会有像更改悬挂那样的直接影响，因为直到今天我还没有在现实中测试过赛车，但我会加快研发速度，我会尽力利用我的经验和反馈，让他们获得最准确和尽可能最好的信息。
“然后，我尽量与Carlos [Sainz]和Alex [Albon]保持相当密切的关系，以了解我们在赛车上需要改进的方面——哪些好，哪些不好，我们需要改进什么，应该专注于什么。
“对我来说，花时间在这里[比利时的赛道边]很重要，这样之后我可以回到工厂并提供良好的反馈，专注于今年FW48的正确事项。但对我的职业生涯来说，继续向F1车队学习、在几场比赛中作为储备车手保持机会，也是好事，所以我以积极的态度看待这件事。
图为2025年，Martins作为威廉姆斯的储备车手出席比利时大奖赛
AS：没有实际驾驶过真车却在模拟器里工作，这是不是让事情变得更棘手？
VM：“确实如此。但我们都知道要在真车上积累实际里程有多难——你能得到的FP1机会不多，时间也不充裕，这些对车手来说都不是容易得到的东西。所以是的，我很想跑，我想说我每天都在努力，每天都在期盼这样的机会。但我仍然有足够的反馈和经验，可以去观察和倾听赛车在赛道上发生的情况；在模拟器上复现它，感受它，理解它，并知道接下来该往哪个方向走。
“当然，如果明天我能有机会真正驾驶它，那对模拟器的整个开发、赛车、相关性验证来说都是无比宝贵的——其实对几乎所有部门来说都是如此。”
AS：车队有没有跟你说，今年某个时候你有可能上手开一开真车？
VM：“目前还没有安排我参加FP1的计划。我有几个旧车测试日，今年早些时候我已经在银石跑过一天，但用的不是现在的这款车。目前还没有给我安排什么，不过再说一次，F1里情况随时可能变化；你不能着急，也不能绝望，只需要在需要的时候做好本职工作，保持职业态度，给出正确的反馈，维持好关系，那么也许今年某个时候他们就会让我上真车。”
Martins 在去年西班牙大奖赛上参加了他的第一次（也是迄今为止唯一一次）FP1自由练习赛
AS：你还在为年轻车手学院专门开发一台模拟器。相比普通模拟器，它是如何开发的？
VM：“其实非常相似，因为我为今年的FW48所做的模拟器工作，就是试图复制赛车动态、它的问题、它的强项和弱点，以及它的感觉，以便进行研发。
“而对于年轻车手发展所用的模拟器，我们尽量让它接近赛车在赛道上的真实表现，所以它自然也是相似的。但我们还会尝试利用来自初级系列赛——F3、F2——的模型，来尽量再现年轻级别赛车可能具备的一切。总之两者是有相似之处的，最终本质上是一回事。
“我要做的就是把我驾驶F2/F3时关于倍耐力轮胎、赛车、引擎的经验带过来，包括当时的具体情况和它们的表现——就是把它们复制和再现出来。”
AS：说到底，这主要就是指拥有两台可以同时使用的模拟器吗？
VM：“是的。两者同时进行，不是在周末，而是比如在一个周二的车间里，有一台全年用于FW48研发的模拟器，几米之外还有一台用于帮助年轻车手的模拟器。
“所以这就是目标，但实际上这根本不是同一个目标，也不是同一个项目或同一个计划。一个是为F1服务的，另一个是为学院年轻车手服务的，所以这是两件非常不同的事情，但是，是的，它们可以同时运行。”
Martins一直在Grove忙于两台模拟器的工作
AS：阿尔本说很多资源正投入到明年的FW49上。你有参与其中吗？
VM：“是的，但我们是一个规模可观的车手群体，所以我们有不同的任务和目标。目前，我认为我更专注于FW48的当前开发工作，也就是比赛支持。比如，昨天[比利时大奖赛前的周四]我还在模拟器上为这个周末做准备，并对能量管理做最后的调整，所以我更专注于这方面。但今年有几次，我得以测试未来几年的新车，了解它们相对于今年赛车的表现，以及后续需要探索的方向。
“当然，我认为有很多工程师都致力于那项开发工作，但可以肯定的是，当你在F1车队工作时，你会和很多人在许多不同的课题上合作，所以很有趣的是，有时会遇到你从未见过的人，因为你从未参与过某些工作，或者昨天才认识某位刚加入的工程师。F1车队里人很多，所以人员和课题都很多，有很多东西需要分析，我们不断进化，每天都有新发现——即使在我这个模拟器测试和开发者的角色中也是如此。”
这位法国车手在威廉姆斯的角色意味着他每天都在学习
AS：之前你说过在这里工作对你的职业生涯有益。这是否意味着你仍在考虑F1，你的未来是什么样的？
VM：“我不回避这样一个事实：我仍然想着F1，但对我来说，想F1和想WEC或电动方程式一样多，因为在我看来，这三项是世界上最好的车手最看重、最受追捧的三大赛事类别，所以对我来说，在WEC有一只脚、在FE有一只脚、在F1也有一只脚，同样重要。
“所以是的，这仍然是一个目标，进入F1仍然是一个梦想，这就是为什么我在威廉姆斯保持那只脚，这个角色作为车手在个人层面给我带来很多收获，比如如何应对、如何学习工程方面和赛车方面的新东西。
“举个例子，F1的电气部分如果让我在职业生涯后期转投FE，会给我带来很好的东西，所以这些类别之间有很多关联。Hypercar的系统与F1的系统非常接近，所以我也可以把在这里学到的东西带到阿尔派的Hypercar项目中。所以无论我的职业生涯如何发展，这都是有益的，说不定哪天——谁知道呢——还能给我一个在F1开车的机会。”
英文原文
What is it like being a Williams F1 simulator driver?
As a Formula 3 champion and and one of Oscar Piastri’s main rivals in junior formulae, Victor Martins hasn’t quite made it to Formula 1. But the Alpine Hypercar driver, who has been tipped for a Formula E move with Nissan, now serves as Williams’ test and development driver. At the Belgian Grand Prix, he told Autosport all about his job
Autosport: Let’s talk about your current role at Williams. Can you explain what impact you have on the car?
Victor Martins: “I can have an impact on the car, but is it direct? Not necessarily, I’d say, because there are many people in the team, many departments, many things to improve, to analyse – so ‘direct’, I’d say no.
“However, taking part in development, yes – be it mainly on the simulator, testing energy management on the upcoming track before every weekend, preparing [for] Alex’s and Carlos’ arrivals so that they can work on other things that may be more important to them.
“I’m not going to have a direct impact on the likes of changing a suspension, because I haven’t tested the car in real life to this day, but I’m going to speed up that development, I’m going to try and use my experience and feedback for them to have the most accurate and best possible information.
“Then, I try to have quite a close relationship with Carlos [Sainz] and Alex [Albon] to understand the areas we need to work on for the car – what’s good and not good, what we need to improve, what to focus on.
“It’s important for me to spend time here [trackside in Belgium] to then go back to the factory and give good feedback, focus on the right things for this year’s FW48. But it’s also good for my career to keep learning from an F1 team, keep my foot in the door as a reserve at a few races, so I’m taking it positively.”
Pictured in 2025, Martins attended the Belgian GP as Williams' reserve driver
AS: Doesn’t it make things trickier to be in the simulator without having driven the actual car?
VM: “It does. But we know how difficult it is to get actual mileage in the car – you don’t get many FP1 opportunities, there isn’t much time, these aren’t easy things to get as a driver. So yes, I’d like to, I want to say I push every day and hope every day for such opportunities. But I still have enough feedback and experience to look at and listen to what happens on the car out on track; reproduce it on the simulator, feel it, understand it and know where to go from there.
“Of course, if tomorrow I were to have an opportunity to drive it, it would be invaluable for the whole development of the simulator, of the car, of the correlation – for pretty much everyone actually, all departments.”
AS: Has the team given you a heads-up about potentially taking the wheel sometime this year?
VM: “For now, there are no FP1 plans. I’ve got a few TPC [Testing of Previous Cars] days, I’ve already had a day at Silverstone earlier this year, but not with this car. For now, there’s nothing planned for me, but again, things can change in F1; you must not rush or be desperate, you just need to do the job when needed, be professional, give the right feedback, have the right relationship, then maybe they’ll give me the car sometime this year.”
Martins took part in his first (and so far only) FP1 session at last year's Spanish GP
AS: You’re also developing a simulator specifically for the young driver academy. How is it developed compared to a regular simulator?
VM: “It’s actually quite similar, because in the simulator I’m doing for this year’s FW48, we try and replicate the car’s movement, its problems, its strengths and weaknesses, and its feeling, in order to develop it.
“For the simulator for young driver development, we try to get as close as possible to how a car behaves on track, so it naturally is similar. But we’ll try and work on models from feeder series – F3, F2 – to try and reproduce everything they might have in junior categories. But there are similarities, it’s the same in the end.
“It’s just up to me to bring my F2/F3 experience regarding Pirelli tyres, the car, the engines, how it went, how they behaved – just to replicate them and reproduce them.”
AS: In the end, is it mainly about having two simulators that can be used simultaneously?
VM: “Yes. Simultaneously, not on the weekend, but for instance at the factory on a Tuesday, there’s the simulator that works on the FW48’s development year-round, and a few metres away, a simulator that runs to help young drivers.
“So that’s the goal, but it’s not the same target at all, nor the same programme or the same project, actually. One is for F1 and the other is for the academy’s young drivers, so these are two very different things, but yes, they can run at the same time.”
Martins has been busy working on two simulators in Grove
AS: Alex Albon said many resources were being dedicated to next year’s FW49. Have you been working on it?
VM: “Yes, but we’re a sizeable pool of drivers, so we have different tasks and targets. As of now, I think I’m more dedicated to current development with the FW48, so that’s race support. For instance, yesterday [on Thursday ahead of the Belgian GP] I was still on the simulator to prepare this weekend and have the last adjustments on energy management, so I’m focusing more on this. But a few times this year I’ve been able to test what’s coming in the next few years and how they behave relative to this year’s car, as well as the avenues to follow.
“Of course, I think many engineers are dedicated to that development, but for sure, when you’re in an F1 team, you get to work with many people on many different topics, so it’s quite funny how sometimes you have someone you might have never met before because you’d never worked on this and that, someone you met yesterday because that engineer has just joined. There are many of us in an F1 team, so that’s a lot of personnel and topics, many things to analyse, we’re constantly evolving, discovering new things every day – even in my role as a simulator tester and developer.”
The Frenchman's role at Williams means he's learning every day
AS: Earlier, you said it was good for your career to be here. Does that mean you’re still thinking about F1, and what does your future look like?
VM: “I’m not shying away from the fact I still think of F1, but I think of F1 as much as WEC or Formula E for instance, because these are in my opinion the three most important and coveted categories in motorsport for the best drivers in the world, so for me it is as important to have one foot in the door in WEC, one foot in FE and one foot in F1.
“So yes, this remains a goal, reaching F1 is still a dream, that’s why I’m keeping that foot in the door at Williams, with that role which brings me a lot as a driver on the personal side, on how to approach, learn new things on engineering, on the car.
“For instance, the electrical side of F1 can give me nice things if I move to FE later in my career, so there are many connections between all these categories. Hypercar systems are very close to F1 systems, so I can also bring things that I learn here into Hypercar with Alpine. So it’s beneficial, whatever happens for my career, and it might give me one day – you never know – a chance to drive in F1.”
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