[中英][F1]法拉利是现在的佼佼者，但是关于f1 2022赛季的故事远未结束。

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Three races down and it’s Charles Leclerc and Ferrari at the head of the drivers’ and constructors’ championships. Is a pattern beginning to emerge in 2022? And can any of Leclerc and Ferrari’s rivals claw back the advantage? David Tremayne explores the opening of what looks set to be an intriguing season.

前三站比赛结束后，查尔斯 勒克莱尔 和法拉利分别在车手积分榜与车队积分榜中处于领先位置。这是否意味着一个新的王朝在2022年开始展现？其他竞争者能否从法拉利手中夺回优势？大卫·特雷梅恩（David Tremayne） 将带我们探索这一个看起来很有趣的赛季。

“It’s a great way to start the season, but we have to keep in mind that we are only three races in, so it’s difficult to think of the World Championship. But we do have a strong car, and it’s reliable too. I hope it [stays] like that, because we can’t afford to relax at any moment and have to stay on top of things, most of all on development. But if all that happens then maybe there is a chance that we can think about the World Championship after that.”

“能以这样的方式开启一个赛季，我感觉很好，但是我们时刻需要记住：这仅仅只是三场比赛。所以依现在就去畅想世界冠军，这是不切实际的。实话实说，我们确确实实有一台极具竞争力的赛车，并且也很可靠。我希望它能一直保持这样，因为我们任何时刻都不能松懈。同时，我们也需要将赛车的研发放在首位。如果这些我们都能做好，那么或许会有一个机会让我们去触及世界冠军。”

That was Charles Leclerc’s wise take on his second victory of the year in Melbourne last weekend, which boosted his lead in the World Championship, while suggesting that the Ferrari F1-75 is the car currently best suited to different types of track.

这样的想法让查尔斯·勒克莱尔上周末在墨尔本成功取得今年第二场胜利，这也扩大了他在积分榜中的领先优势，他同时表明法拉利F1-75是目前最适合不同类型赛道的赛车。

And he was quite right, too, not least because there are another 20 races still to come. Remember how well Emerson Fittipaldi started 1973 with three wins, a second and two thirds in the first six races, only to lose out eventually to Jackie Stewart as the season progressed?

他说得很对，尤其是在还有20场比赛要跑的情况下。这里不乏有前车之鉴：1973年，埃莫森·菲蒂帕尔迪（Emerson Fittipaldi）在前六场比赛中取得了三场胜利，一个第二和两个第三，但随着赛季的进行，他最终输给了杰基·斯图尔特（Jackie Stewart）。

I mention that year particularly because Emmo’s campaign was compromised by having a very fast team mate – Super Swede Ronnie Peterson – who also won races for Team Lotus, whereas Jackie was the undisputed team leader at Tyrrell and team mate Francois Cevert, though often as fast, was happy to play second fiddle in the belief that his own time would come.

我之所以特别提起那一年，是因为Emmo（埃莫森·菲蒂帕尔迪外号）与自己的队友——罗尼尔-皮特森 （Ronnie Peterson）[他是一位极具速度的车手，曾为Lotus赢下多场比赛]关系并不好。相反，杰基斯图尔特是Tyrrell无可争议的领导人，队友Francois Cevert虽然也很快，但很乐于担任一名二号车手，他总是相信属于他的时刻终将会到来。

This year, the only driver in the top three teams that I see willingly doing that is Sergio Perez. That’s one advantage that Max Verstappen carries, as Mercedes will allow Lewis Hamilton and George Russell to race one another as will Ferrari with Charles and Carlos Sainz (at least up to a point, as a title is so crucial to them).

今年，我认为前三名车队中唯一愿意这样做的车手是塞尔吉奥·佩雷斯。这是维斯塔潘所具有的一个优势，因为梅赛德斯将允许刘易斯·汉密尔顿和乔治·拉塞尔公平竞争，就像法拉利对勒克莱尔和卡洛斯·塞恩斯一样（至少在某种程度上，因为冠军对他们来说至关重要）。

But here’s something to consider. The two drivers who went to Abu Dhabi just four races ago equal on points as they fought out the finale of the 2021 World Championship are currently not only behind their respective team mates after the first three races of 2022 – Lewis has 28 points to new partner George’s 37 and Max has 25 to Sergio’s 30 – but each is way behind runaway leader Charles, who has 71. Lewis is already 43 down, Max 46…

但这里也有一些需要考虑的事情。汉密尔顿与维斯塔潘在四场比赛前，也就是2021决胜局——阿布扎比，两人在积分上是相同的，而在2022年的前三场比赛之后，他们不仅落后于各自的队友 - 汉密尔顿有28分而新搭档拉塞尔则得到37分，维斯塔潘有25分而佩雷兹拿了30分 - 但每个人都远远落后于积分榜领跑者勒克莱尔，他已经收获71分。相较于汉密尔顿与维斯塔潘分别握有43分和46分的领先优势...

After the first two races, the glitch in Bahrain notwithstanding, Red Bull could comfort themselves that they were way ahead of Mercedes and pretty much on a par with Ferrari pace-wise.

在前两场比赛之后，尽管他们的赛车在巴林出现了小故障，但红牛没必要担心，因为他们远远领先于梅赛德斯，并且在速度上几乎与法拉利相当。

But around Albert Park the Ferrari not only had better overall speed in quali, as might have been expected as Red Bull struggled to find the optimal balance, but also in the race, where traditionally Red Bull are always strong. That was a real black eye, and only the second intervention of the Safety Car put Max back into contention as he battled a grained front-left medium Pirelli tyre.

但在阿尔伯特公园周围，法拉利不仅在排位赛中拥有更好的整体速度，他们或许已预料到红牛仍在努力寻找最佳平衡，而且在比赛中也是如此，传统上红牛总是很强。但这是一个真正的黑眼圈，只有在安全车的第二次出现时才让维斯塔潘在与颗粒化的左前中性胎作斗争时重新加入到竞争中。

Now there are alarm bells ringing in Milton Keynes after the RB18’s fuel system appeared to once again let him down.

现在，在RB18的燃油系统再一次出现问题时，不仅仅让他感到失望，也让米尔顿凯恩斯的红牛总部警钟长鸣。

If only we all got a dollar every time a driver has fallen back on that politically correct adage: ‘We win as a team and we lose as a team’…

要是每当一个车手回到那个所谓政治正确的格言上时，我们都能得到一美元：“我们作为一个团队赢了，我们作为一个团队输了”......

It is, of course, the right thing to say because it’s one of racing’s truisms. No single person is responsible for a team’s success or failure on the racetrack, given that it takes more than 1,000 people in the biggest teams to design, assemble, prepare, run and develop the cars.

当然，这是正确的说法，因为这是赛车中不言而喻的真理之一。没有一个人对车队在赛道上的成功或失败负责，因为在最大的车队中，设计、组装、准备、运行和开发赛车等过程中有超过1000多人参与。

But though it’s also a truism that a championship is won over an entire season – whether there are 16 races as was once the case or the 23 we have nowadays – it’s equally true that there will always be the one that actually decides the outcome. So that the way the man at the wheel performs can ultimately decide things, as can whatever befalls him in a race.

但是，虽然冠军是在整个赛季中赢得的，这也是不言而喻的 - 无论是像以前那样有16场比赛，还是我们现在拥有的23场比赛 - 同样真实的是，总会有真正决定结果的比赛。因此，驾驶者的驾驶方式最终可以决定事情，就像在比赛中降临到他身上的任何东西一样。

We tend to expect today’s heroes to be diplomatic saints, which is naive in the extreme given the way that the adrenaline will be pulsing through their veins, especially after a sudden failure has blighted their day. Of course I get why you don’t slag off all the people that have worked so hard to get you to that point, but at the same time I can see why in tough circumstances it can be hard to match your mouth to what your brain is thinking. I quite liked that Max pulled no punches on Sunday.

我们期望今天的英雄是外交人员，鉴于肾上腺素在他们的血管中流动的方式，尤其是在突然的失败破坏了他们的一天之后，这在极端情况下是天真的。当然，我明白为什么你不把所有努力工作的人都赶走，因为是他们将你推向成功。但与此同时，我能理解为什么在这么艰难的环境下，很难让你的嘴巴与你的大脑在想什么相匹配。我非常认可维斯塔潘在周日使出他的全力。

“We are already miles behind, and I don’t even want to think about the World Championship battle,” he snapped when asked the inevitable question. “Right now it’s more important to finish races. We didn’t really have the pace, so I was just managing the tyres, trying to bring it to the end.

“我们已经落后法拉利很远，我甚至不想考虑关于世界冠军的争夺，”当被问及这个不可避免的问题时，他突然说。“现在完成比赛更为重要。我们真的没有速度，所以我只是在管理轮胎，试图把车带到回来。

“It looked like an easy P2, but we didn’t even finish the race. It’s frustrating and unacceptable. We knew there was a problem, there was always going to be a question mark over finishing the race, but if we want to fight for title, this cannot happen.”

“这看起来像是一个简单的P2，但我们甚至没有完成比赛。这是令人沮丧和不可接受的。我们知道有问题，完成比赛后总是会有一个问号，但如果我们想争夺冠军，这是不能接受的。

After all, Christian Horner wasn’t exactly dancing a jig, either. “It’s totally understandable, Max’s frustration,” he said afterwards. “It’s a really disappointing result not to finish the race, frustrating not to get points. I’d rather fix a fast car than try make a reliable but slow one fast, but we cannot accept DNFs.”

最后，克里斯蒂安·霍纳（Christian Horner）也不是很开心，并表示“马克斯的沮丧是完全可以理解的。”维斯塔潘说：“没有完成比赛是一个非常令人失望的结果，没有拿到分数同样令人沮丧。我宁愿修理一辆快车，也不愿制造一辆可靠但速度慢的汽车，但我们不能接受退赛。

“Max, it’s fair to say, was not happy all weekend and we couldn’t get the car in the window. The front tyres went pretty early in the race, which shows we don’t have the right balance. When a car is in a happy place you don’t get those problems. That all accentuated some of the issues Max had. But we have things in the pipeline which will help. We need to address it and move on.”

“马克斯，实话实说，整个周末都不开心，我们无法争夺冠军。左前与右前轮胎在比赛中很早就出现衰竭了，这表明我们没有正确的设定来保证平衡。当车辆调教在一个合适的地方时，你不会遇到这些问题。这一切都凸显了马克斯所遇到的一些问题。但是我们有一些升级在酝酿中，这将有所帮助。我们需要解决这个问题并继续前进。

So now we have two top teams on their back foot. Mercedes actually looked a bit better round Albert Park during the race, but they are still in trouble. And while the Ferrari also porpoises horribly on the straights, it does at least settle down to give good grip in the corners. I loved Lewis’s description of the W13 as “spiteful,” and how it’s like “a viper or a rattlesnake”. I have quite a lot of experience with both vipers and rattlesnakes (don’t ask!) so I get just what he means.

现在我们有两支优秀队伍在他们背后。梅奔在阿尔伯特公园赛道的表现看起来要好一些，但他们仍然有麻烦。虽然法拉利在直道末端表现出可怕的海豚跳，但它至少能在弯道中提供良好的抓地力。我喜欢刘易斯对W13的描述，称其为“使人苦恼的”，以及它如何像“毒蛇或响尾蛇“一样的。我对毒蛇和响尾蛇这两个词都有相当多的经验（不要多问！），所以我明白他的意思。

I certainly would never wish anyone ill, but the struggles of Red Bull and Mercedes, and the current supremacy of Ferrari, have injected great interest into the Championship.

我当然不希望这里面任何人退出竞争，但红牛和梅赛德斯的斗争，以及法拉利目前的霸主地位，无不为冠军留下了悬念。

But does all this really mean that patterns are becoming clear already? I suspect not necessarily. Yes, Ferrari are fast and reliable and have a car that works in most circumstances. The Red Bull is edgier yet possibly slightly quicker, but also unreliable. The Mercedes is potentially quick, but they still need to tame it to unlock that potential.

但是，所有这些真的意味着王朝即将到来了吗？我认为不一定。是的，法拉利不仅很快而且可靠，并且拥有一台在大多数情况下都能正常工作的汽车。红牛虽然可能稍微快一点，但是也并不可靠。梅赛德斯具有成为领先者的潜力，但他们仍然需要驯服这条”毒蛇“来释放这种潜力。

But what else can we really infer? The Alpine looked encouragingly fast in Melbourne, and had luck been on Fernando Alonso’s side, there could have been a much closer fight behind Charles and Max. The McLarens looked like they’d made a big jump.

除此之外，我们还能推断出什么呢？阿尔宾在墨尔本拥有令人鼓舞人心的速度女神并未眷顾费尔南多·阿隆索，查尔斯和马克斯身后可能会有一场愈发激烈的战斗。而迈凯伦看起来做了一个很大的进步。

And with better fortune, the lightweight Alfa looks quite reasonable, as does the Haas. But it was interesting that Lando Norris said that there was nothing new on his MCL36 in Australia. He was adamant it was the same as it had been in Bahrain, and that its newfound pace was “circuit-specific”.

拥有更好运气的阿尔法罗密欧与哈斯看起来相当合理。但有意思的是，兰多·诺里斯说，他的MCL36本站并没有带来任何升级。他坚持认为，这与巴林的境况相同，并且这台赛车所挖掘出来的速度是基于特定赛道的。

Now to me that was very interesting, because in the past, when teams were so familiar with their cars and the set-ups they needed, they tended to perform the same everywhere. So besides creating cars that really can follow one another much more closely, to the benefit of the dicing, the new regulations appear to also have created uncertainty in how individual teams will perform race-to-race while they are still seeking sweet spots.

对我来说，这很有趣，因为在过去，当车队非常熟悉他们的赛车和他们所需要的设置时，他们往往在任何地方都表现得一样。因此，除了打造具有竞争力的赛车之外，为了部分的利益，新规定似乎也给各个团队在获取利益的同时，如何进行比赛带来了不确定性。

I really like the idea that we cannot predict so easily who will be strong and who will struggle as we move from venue to venue. Will Ferrari still rule at Imola, or will it be their turn for a difficult weekend?

我真的很喜欢这种不确定性，也就是当我们从一个国家去到另一个国家时，我们不能轻易预测谁会很强大，谁会表现得挣扎。法拉利是否仍将延续统治，还是轮到他们度过一个艰难的周末？