迄今为止F1 2022赛季的结论：新的Regs，法拉利疼痛等等

So what have we learned from the first half-season of Formula 1’s brave new world?

The 2022 campaign was the most anticipated for years, marking the arrival of new rules intended to revolutionise the racing.

Some things have changed, yes, but others (Ferrari incompetence for one…) have stayed very much the same.

这是我们今年迄今为止看到的主要结论……

新规则（主要是）享有待遇

And so they should have, really.

毕竟，2022年的法规是F1历史上最彻底研究的规则变化，几年来，一群知识渊博和经验丰富的工程师精炼了几年。

If these rules somehow didn’t have the desired effect, where to turn next?

当马克斯·维斯塔彭（Max Verstappen）和查尔斯·勒克莱克（Charles Leclerc）在萨基尔和沙特阿拉伯壮观地比赛时，确认很快就可以近距离比赛，能够紧随其后的汽车曾经在前面的汽车被湍流的空气掩盖的地方，到目前为止，这些规则的签名时刻是多人的。汽车破折号到Silverstone的领奖台。

The revised regulations have finally resolved F1’s long-term aesthetics problem (the Ferrari F1-75, in particular, is potentially the most elegant design of the last 30 years), but the new cars are not without their issues.

Complaints from those prone to porpoising may be dismissed as the sour words of sore losers but must be heard when drivers – and not just those in梅赛德斯overalls – express fears over long-term risks to health.

As well as making the cars more raceable, the new rules were also sold with the promise of levelling the playing field in this budget-cap era, yet only two teams have won in the first 13 races and only one driver outside of the top three teams has reached the podium.

After a crazy couple of seasons in which seven teams won a grand prix and only two failed to make the podium, the party is over and the great barrier between F1’s haves and have-nots has been rebuilt.

Verstappen似乎可以很好地描绘一个时代的橙色

Verstappen 2022竞选日益reminiscent of Michael Schumacher’s 1995, Sebastian Vettel’s 2011 and Lewis Hamilton’s 2015.

This is The Year After The Year, when the serenity and self-assurance that comes with winning a breakthrough title the previous season elevates a driver and team to a whole new level of performance.

After winning his maiden World Championship last year, Max has matured further still in 2022 and – able to win just as convincingly from 10th on the grid as he is from pole position – is now close to completion, a driver without weakness.

It has become plainly obvious this season why Red Bull were so determined to accelerate Verstappen’s ascent to a front-running car in the early days, positioning him perfectly to dominate the post-Hamilton era.

As his contemporaries were still negotiating the junior categories, Max was already racing at the front, winning grands prix and building an impenetrable bank of experience to complement his talent.

24岁时，他已经获得了28场胜利，并获得了第八名 - 在历史名单上，杰基·斯图尔特，吉姆·克拉克和尼基·劳达等名字领先。他这一代最接近？Leclerc与…五。

像Leclerc，George Russell，Lando Norris和其余的那样才华横溢，他们是否能够完全弥合这一差距？没有清晰的汽车优势，谁能在直接战斗中超越他并压倒他？

这是一个令人恐惧的想法，但麦克斯可能已经太强壮了，而且 - 红牛回到了他们的栖息处，并将在2026年由保时捷加入 - 看起来很适合将Era Orange涂成时代。

如果2022年上半年在刘易斯之后提供了生活，那么上赛季可能被视为最艰难的测试Verstappenwill ever face.

Leclerc都像Max和Lewis一样有才华

如果有一位司机可能只有在未来几年内以维斯塔彭的方式站立的需要，那就是他，莱克莱尔。

It is remarkable to think there were still doubts over his ultimate potential before this season, but that hesitancy to embrace Leclerc as a member of the elite was understandable. His burst of success during his breakthrough year in 2019 was simply too brief for definitive conclusions to be drawn.

Well, now we know.

Two years in midfield machinery – of scrapping for every position, of detonating explosive laps at the climax of qualifying to put his法拉利在某些地方，它不值得 - 使Leclerc成为更完整的驾驶员。

他自己可以感觉到它一旦season-opening victory in Bahrain and his 2022 peaks – including a glorious weekend in Australia and his streak of six poles in the first eight races – have been quite astonishing, but deep reservations regarding his maturity and temperament persist.

他在伊莫拉（Imola）和保罗·里卡德（Paul Ricard）的昂贵旋转提醒说，莱克莱克（Leclerc）与维斯塔彭（Verstappen）在2019年的职业生涯中完全是同一阶段（五个赛季） - 能够扩大巨大的高高，很少有人能匹配，但他的才华仍然太过驯服，他的边缘有些略有匹配，他的边缘有些略有。太粗糙了，这些峰成为标准的。

There is still much developing to do and some harsh lessons to learn – but all the talent for a spectacular future is there.

法拉利仍然是自己最大的敌人

In hindsight, the worst thing to happen to Leclerc and Ferrari this season was opening a lead of 46 points over Verstappen at the Australian Grand Prix.

Winning two of the opening three rounds provided emphatic confirmation that Ferrari were back and turned doubters into believers but, like the underdogs scoring an early goal against the overwhelming favourites in the cup final, it also gave them something to lose.

Keep attacking or defend what you have? Whichever you choose, you’re no longer acting naturally.

It is no coincidence, then, that it was at the moment the Prancing Horse looked most poised – Leclerc’s pole-to-flag victory in Melbourne on an afternoon Verstappen retired for the second time in three races – that they began to wobble.

仍然可以说是2022年最快的（或至少是最驾驶和通用的汽车），法拉利将回顾并哭泣，哭泣他们的季节如何通过不可靠性，驾驶员错误和策略的混合而崩溃，每个错误都会繁殖下来。

Leclerc has not taken it well and was fiercely critical of the team after losing his home race in Monaco and retiring from the lead for the second time in three races in Baku.

他可能会在Silverstoneand Budapest had he not been collared and reminded of his responsibilities by team principal Mattia Binotto straight after climbing out of the car in Britain.

法拉利（Ferrari）的冠军头衔挑战的方式不可避免地激发了人们对比诺托（Binotto）未来的猜测。

When he was appointed as team boss in January 2019, the only thing you could have guaranteed was that, unless he somehow masterminded a return to Ferrari’s glory days, Binotto would not hold the same position a decade later.

Which makes you question why they put someone so valuable to the team’s success in the line of fire in the first place…

梅赛德斯made the right call to replace Bottas with Russell

If you think Mercedes have had a poor season so far, imagine how much worse it would have been if the second seat was still occupied by Valtteri Bottas.

Without wishing to denigrate Hamilton’s former wingman who has been reborn as Alfa Romeo’s team leader in 2022, even in the days of Mercedes dominance博塔斯was prone to blending into the crowd of the midfield.

几乎可以肯定的是，凭借其为他掌握的气质W13汽车，他不会复制拉塞尔在他完成的每场比赛中排名前五的记录。

一条处女杆随后是2022年的第五个领奖台，罗素（Russell）在他的第一个赛季的上半场以梅赛德斯司机在匈牙利蓬勃发展。

Would it be a stretch to suggest he has simply handled Mercedes’ fall from the front better than Hamilton?

大概。

But it is true that while Lewis is experiencing the worst of both worlds – denied an eighth title in controversial circumstances and then the requisite machinery to strike back – George, having served his F1 apprenticeship in a woefully uncompetitive Williams, knows no different.

With Russell within striking distance of second in the Drivers’ standings and Mercedes only 30 behind Ferrari in the Constructors’, the move to replace Bottas has been vindicated.

But what if Mercedes’ upward trajectory continues and Russell and Hamilton find themselves fighting for victories over the remaining nine races?

年轻人对傲慢的地步有信心，感觉有机会击败既定冠军并开始使梅赛德斯的团队成为他的团队吗？

这可能被证明是本赛季下半年的决定性故事……