美国大奖赛赢家与输家盘点
奥斯汀的F1赛事并非即时经典，尽管有许多因素具备。四支车队竞争激烈，三种轮胎配方均参与其中，引发了不同策略之间的较量。但美国赛车场对获胜者基米·安东内利影响不大，这位20岁的车手现在几乎无所不能。
F1美国大奖赛赢家和输家
随着他的第九场胜利让基米·安东内利接近首次夺冠，他的队友乔治·拉塞尔在美国大奖赛中更加陷入绝望
奥斯汀的F1赛事并非瞬间经典之作，这有些不幸，因为所有的元素都在那里。四支车队相对接近，三种轮胎配方都派上了用场，促使不同策略之间的较量
但美国赛车场对冠军基米·安东内利几乎没有办法让他这个20岁的年轻人动摇，因为他几乎可以保证下周日在墨西哥书写历史
随着刘易斯·汉密尔顿和乔治·罗素刚刚做到足以保持理论上的冠军争夺，没有人比安东内利在德克萨斯州做得更接近锁定交易了。
汉密尔顿和罗素下周在墨西哥都必须获胜，根据我们的数学计算这是不可能的，即使其中一人真的在墨西哥城高原获胜，安东内利也只需要挽救一分或两分，就能成为F1历史上最年轻的冠军，比塞巴斯蒂安·维特尔年轻整整三年。
托托·沃尔夫宣布安东内利在奥斯汀的胜利是他最好的，尽管从较慢的中胎开始，但他抵抗了早期的压力，然后简单地控制了局势，不受战略游戏技巧的影响，因为他和梅赛德斯坚持他们的计划进行一次进站。
在所有的兴奋中，沃尔夫可能忘记了安东内利在蒙扎的主场上的惊人反击胜利，这导致了法拉利车迷罕见地为银箭欢呼的场景。
关于安东内利的冠军庆祝活动，梅赛德斯提前准备的T恤、彩带和几加仑的香槟现在不得不移至墨西哥的首都。也许这是最好的选择。墨西哥的法定饮酒年龄是18岁而不是21岁...
比赛开始前，梅赛德斯的车库，媒体纷纷涌向即将成为冠军的安东内利
抛开玩笑不谈，拉塞尔在最近几场比赛中已经达到了新的低谷，很难弄清楚具体原因。即使你认为安东内利本质上比拉塞尔更快或更优秀，证据开始逐渐增多，但拉塞尔也不比意大利车手慢很多，所以肯定还有其他原因。
一种理论是，梅赛德斯在马来西亚的升级，使得赛车更快，但也更难发挥和进入最佳性能窗口，这 somehow 影响了拉塞尔比安东内利更多。一旦梅赛德斯W17没有按照他的意愿行事，拉塞尔似乎比他的经验较少的对手更容易跌入谷底。
“六圈好成绩，五十圈糟糕成绩。我想知道为什么第一圈的速度这么慢，”拉塞尔在完成第八名后抱怨道，他后面跟着同样挣扎的麦克拉伦车手奥斯卡·皮亚斯特里。
“有一些迹象表明，调整窗口非常小。我希望这可以解释我今天缺乏速度的原因，但我需要和我的团队深入挖掘，因为当你落后这么多时，很难理解。”
“在这个时候，拉塞尔也注定要输给汉密尔顿，对于这位英国人来说，主要任务是止血，找到一些可行的解决方案，以便在赛季结束后比现在处于更好的位置。”
“两周前，勒克莱尔因为在新加坡的谨慎起步而受到批评，当时他有机会在第一圈超越杆位车手马克斯·维斯塔潘，但他退缩了。”
无论那次错失的机会是否影响到了他的心态，奥斯汀在勒克莱尔巧妙地从荷兰人的外侧绕过COTA赛道第一个精彩弯道时，几乎没有犹豫。
“是的，那很有趣，”勒克莱尔说。“我并不真的知道结果会怎样。那很接近，但很有趣。”
他和法拉利车队用一场更加强劲的比赛弥补了另一场没有达到预期结果的排位赛，并在比赛的最后三分之一中再次超越了维斯塔潘，因为他获得了轮胎寿命的优势。
查尔斯·勒克莱尔和马克斯·维斯塔潘在奥斯汀对决的开始阶段展开了车轮战。
伊萨克·哈迪尔在排位赛中尽管之前周末一直很艰难，但还是取得了不错的成绩，但他的比赛在周日迅速崩溃。
"我只是看着我的比赛开始," 他说。"在程序方面一切都很完美，然后我出现了离合器过度供油的情况。这些我无法控制的事情，它开始……我的无线电覆盖不好，我听不到发生了什么。我带着错误的地图进入维修区，……我在那硬胎上每圈都要损失一秒。
当他从第三位发车下滑到第六位结束比赛时，哈迪尔的麻烦如此令人沮丧，以至于他逐渐在无线电中失去了冷静，让人想起了他在F2中的那个火爆脾气。
无线电的故障导致一些信息丢失，比如转向硬胎的动作让哈迪尔感到意外。最终结果是，由于各种超出法国人控制的问题，失去了登上领奖台的机会，这抵消了一些从艰难的周五恢复过来的出色工作。
“今天的节奏很好，这是最难的部分，”他总结道。“我们做到了。还有那些我们无法做到的小愚蠢的事情，我们同样需要做到。”
利亚姆·劳森是奥斯汀的出色表现者之一
利亚姆·劳森的美国大奖赛周末值得铭记，他在复杂的赛道上找到了正确的节奏，这让他离开了他的舒适区。但关于他在周四晚上作为歌手兼词曲作者的首场现场表演就足够了。他在赛道上的表现也毫不逊色。
劳森通过一场控制的驾驶将小红牛的连续积分完赛记录延长至六场，在科塔科尔奇斯赛道这一事件中，这位英意车队再次证明了自己是其他车队中的佼佼者，领先于阿尔派和奥迪。
在连续几次获得第六名之后，小红牛正朝着超越自我，确保其最佳 constructors' championship 结果迈进，目前102分领先阿尔派 33分。后者需要在2024年巴西大奖赛上重复其双领奖台奇迹才能扭转局势。
兰多·诺里斯在比赛结束前在车队无线电中的悲观、几乎苦涩的犹豫表现出了从过去两个赛季的大部分时间里拥有最快的赛车到成为第四快的赛车手的感觉。这并不有趣。'你想怎么做策略就怎么做吧'，这是诺里斯试图在磨损的硬胎上保持领奖台位置时的基本总结。
这是一次值得追求的赌注，尽管他最终获得了第五名，但并没有改变最终的结果。一旦离开赛车并恢复精力，诺里斯的态度就温和了一些。最终，迈凯伦并没有落后太多，因为F1 2026的前四名车队在全新规则的第一年里出人意料地非常接近。诺里斯甚至乐观地认为，如果他的排位赛圈速更好，他可能已经挽救了一个前排发车的位置。对于一个世界冠军来说，这并不容易接受突然的成功缺失。
与此同时，皮亚斯特里在2026款赛车上的困境仍在继续。在奥斯汀，由于赛车在他更喜欢的2025年已经是他最弱的赛道之一，因此在那里几乎没有进步的迹象，这并不令人惊讶。在海拔高度上，低抓地力赛道上也很常见打滑的墨西哥，可能对澳大利亚球迷来说又是一场艰难的比赛。
英文原文
Winners and losers from F1's United States Grand Prix
As his ninth win of the campaign brought Kimi Antonelli to the brink of a maiden crown, his team-mate George Russell was driven further to despair at Formula 1's United States Grand Prix
Austin's Formula 1 race was no instant classic, which was somewhat unfortunate because a lot of the ingredients were there. Four teams were relatively closely matched, and all three tyre compounds were in play to prompt a battle between different strategies.
But there was little the Circuit of the Americas could throw at winner Kimi Antonelli to unsettle the 20-year-old as he is now all but guaranteed to write history next Sunday in Mexico.
With both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell only just doing enough to stay in theoretical title contention, one can't get much closer to sealing the deal than Antonelli did in Texas.
Both Hamilton and Russell would have to win in Mexico next week, which according to our mathematical calculations is not possible, and even in the event that one of them does win on the Mexico City plateau, Antonelli will only need to salvage a point or two to become F1's youngest ever champion by three whole years, succeeding Sebastian Vettel.
Toto Wolff declared Antonelli's win in Austin his best, resisting early pressure despite starting on the slower medium tyre and then simply controlling affairs, unperturbed by strategic gamesmanship as he and Mercedes stuck to their planned one-stopper.
In all his euphoria, Wolff may have forgotten about Antonelli's sensational comeback win on home soil in Monza, leading to the rare scenes of Ferrari tifosi cheering on a Silver Arrow.
As far as Antonelli's title celebration is concerned, Mercedes pre-made t-shirts, confetti and gallons of bubbly will now have to be moved to Mexico's capital. Perhaps it's for the best. The drinking age in Mexico is 18 rather than 21...
Mercedes garages before the start of the race, as media gravitate towards champion-elect Antonelli
All joking aside, Russell has sunk to a new low in recent races and it's hard to figure out exactly why. Even if you believe Antonelli is intrinsically the quicker or better driver, of which evidence is starting to mount, Russell isn't miles off the Italian's pace either, so something else is going on.
One theory is that Mercedes' Malaysia upgrade, which made the car faster but also harder to exploit and get into the optimal performance window, has somehow affected Russell more than Antonelli. Once the Mercedes W17 doesn't do exactly as he pleases, Russell appears to fall off a cliff more easily than his less experienced counterpart.
"Six good laps, 50 bad laps. I want to understand why the pace was so bad on the first stint," Russell lamented after finishing eighth, stuck behind an equally struggling McLaren driver Oscar Piastri.
"There are signs that the set-up window is very small. I hope that's an explanation for my lack of pace today, but I need to dig deep with my team because it's difficult to understand when you're so far off."
With Russell also set to lose second to Hamilton at this point, the main priority for the Briton is to stop the bleeding and find some workable solutions to head into the off-season in a better place than he is now.
A fortnight ago Leclerc was criticised for his cautious start in Singapore, when he had a potentially race-defining opportunity to pass polesitter Max Verstappen into Turn 1 but backed out of it.
Whether that missed chance played on his mind or not, there was little hesitance in Austin as Leclerc deftly swooped around the outside of the Dutchman through the sweeps of COTA's magnificent first sector.
"Yeah, that was fun," Leclerc said. "I didn't really know how it would go. It was quite close, but it was fun."
He and Ferrari made up for another qualifying session that didn't yield the expected result with a stronger race, and was able to pass Verstappen again in the final third of the race as he banked a tyre life advantage.
Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen battled wheel-to-wheel at the start of the Austin showdown
Isack Hadjar snatched a great result in qualifying despite what had been a difficult weekend until that point, but his race swiftly unravelled on Sunday.
"I'm just watching my race start," he said. "Everything was perfect in terms of procedure and then I had a clutch overdelivery. And these things that are just out of my control, it's starting... I have poor radio coverage, I can't hear what's happening. And I hit the pits with the wrong map and... I'm losing a second on every lap on that hard tyre."
As he slumped to finish sixth from third on the grid, Hadjar's issues were so frustrating that he gradually lost his cool over the radio, bringing back flashes of that old hothead in F2.
The radio hiccups meant some things were lost, like the pivot to a hard tyre which caught Hadjar by surprise. The end result was a lost opportunity to be on the podium through various issues outside of the Frenchman's control, negating some of the excellent work that had been done to recover from a tough Friday.
"The pace was good today, that's the hard part of it," he summed up. "We nailed it. And all the little, stupid things we can't. We need to nail them as well."
Liam Lawson was one of the stand-out performers in Austin
Liam Lawson's United States Grand Prix weekend is one to remember, hitting the right notes on tricky terrain that left him out of his comfort zone. But enough about his live debut as a singer-songwriter on Thursday night. His on-track performance was nothing to scoff at either.
Lawson extended Racing Bulls' run of consecutive points finishes to six with a controlled drive to ninth, with COTA another event where the Anglo-Italian team proved to be best of the rest ahead of Alpine and Audi.
After several sixth-place finishes, Racing Bulls is well on its way to going one better and secure its best-ever constructors' championship result, its 102 points now leading Alpine by 33 points. The latter will need a repeat of its double podium miracle at the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix to turn the tide.
Lando Norris' cynical, almost bitter reluctance on the team radio towards the end of the race showed what it's like to go from having the fastest car for much of the past two seasons to being fourth fastest. It's no fun. 'Do whatever you want with the strategy', is a basic summary as Norris tried to hang onto a podium spot on worn hard tyres.
It was a gamble worth pursuing and didn't change much to the end result as he took fifth. Once out of the car and refreshed, Norris was a bit milder. At the end of the day, McLaren isn't miles away as F1 2026's four top teams are surprisingly closely matched during the first year of all-new regulations. Norris even optimistically felt he could have salvaged a front-row start with a better qualifying lap. For a reigning world champion, that doesn't make the sudden absence of success easier to take, though.
Meanwhile, Piastri's struggles with the 2026 car continue. It should come as no great surprise there were few signs of progress in Austin, as it had already been one of his weakest circuits in 2025 when the car was generally more to his liking. Mexico, where sliding is also very common at altitude on the low-grip track, will likely be another tough watch for Australian fans.
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