F1的操作沟渠DRS将不得不等待

Date published:April 28 2022-Jon Wilde

皮埃尔·加西(Pierre Gasly)ahead of Lewis Hamilton during the Emilia Romagna GP. Imola April 2022.

如果一级方程式日历上有一个电路证明,可以完全有可能在没有丰富超车的情况下进行出色的比赛,那肯定是亲爱的旧伊莫拉。

It was at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, after all, where those memorable battles between Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso took place in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006.

在'05届满七届世界冠军一直到终点线之后,Fernando在蓝色和黄色的雷诺中 - 在接下来的赛季中,迈克尔只能在法拉利站稳脚跟。

Not once, on either occasion, did a pass for the lead occur in front of the tifosi – but it did not matter. This, as two of the greatest drivers in history twice went eye to eye, was F1 at its glorious, gladiatorial best.

The thrill? That was very much in the chase.

It was as though F1 had stepped back in time in Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, in which the DRS overtaking aid was disabled for more than half of the 63-lap race.

As is standard procedure, the device was rendered off limits in the wet at the start of the race, but even though every driver in the field had switched from intermediate to slick tyres on the drying track within 20 laps it was not until lap 35 that Race Control finally activated DRS.

The delay has yet to be fully explained, although some speculated the memories of the high-speed crash at Tamburello in 2021 – when George Russell, all DRS’d up with nowhere to go on the narrow track, took to the grass before spearing into the side of Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes – had left Race Control erring on the side of caution.

Tell that to the television commentators – and indeed the many fans – who adopted a frustrated and at times apologetic tone in the laps before DRS entered the equation.

At points, as they agitated for DRS to be enabled from the comfort of the commentary box, they began to assume the air of addicts searching for their next fix.

For those of us hopeful the arrival of the more ‘raceable’ 2022 cars would signal the demise of DRS, the stampede for its implementation at Imola only offered a dispiriting reminder of how challenging it will be for F1 to eventually wean itself off the drug.

并不是说,当它最终被激活时,Drs的影响很大,凉爽的条件以及赛道周围各个点的悬垂树木 - 确保它仍然相对危险地脱离了赛车线。

Even with his rear wing wide open, Charles Leclerc struggled to make an impression on Sergio Perez’s rocket-ship Red Bull in the fight for P2, while皮埃尔·加西(Pierre Gasly)刘易斯·汉密尔顿发现自己被困在亚历克斯·埃尔Williams.

关于DRS的最大抱怨之一是,它使驾驶员曲目的某些元素沉闷了,损害了攻击和使真实,坚韧的防御驾驶的创造力 - 舒马赫和阿隆索在大约二十年前展示的技巧 - 一项失落的艺术。

也许这不是偶然的,那么比赛的亮点之一都包含两者,并且在转换为Slicks和Drs激活之间的超现实插曲中长矛漫步受到攻击Yuki Tsunodaon lap 25.

在第九位的Tsunoda和P15的Daniel Ricciardo之间的七辆车中排名第二,一阵沮丧的漫步将自己定位在Tsunoda的外面的一条湿轨道上,在下坡跑到Rivazza的湿润上播放了他的光滑。

Tsunoda judged his defence to perfection, crowding Stroll’s right front tyre to the very edge of the track into the braking zone to retain the dry line, with the absence of DRS ensuring Stroll – faster at that point of the race – could not simply zip past on the main straight.

暗示纯粹赛车的时刻并不夸张made Tsunoda’s afternoon, Stroll soon fading as Tsunoda edged away, later using DRS to passKevin Magnussen和Sebastian Vettel to mark his most complete performance since last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a P7 finish.

Yuki Tsunoda在Emilia Romagna GP期间超过了Kevin Magnussen。伊莫拉2022年4月。

There is a sense F1 is approaching a crossroads when it comes to DRS usage, for while the 2022 regulations have evidently succeeded in their primary aim of making it easier for cars to follow each other, there remains a strange reluctance to act accordingly and seize the victory.

以最初在最近的澳大利亚GP上有前所未有的四个博士区域的决定,尽管阿尔伯特公园巡回赛自2019年上一次上次访问以来,但最初决定在最近的澳大利亚全科医生中做出了前所未有的四个博士区域的决定。

The rationale behind the move, with Melbourne consistently near the bottom of the overtaking charts in the previous era, was perhaps understandable.

But at a time when F1 has an obvious opportunity to begin to reduce its reliance on DRS – which should have been a key metric for the success of the 2022 cars – stretching to four zones (later reduced to three following safety concerns) seemed counter-intuitive.

“我们有选择,” F1首席技术官,2022年规则的主要建筑师帕特·西蒙兹(Pat Symonds)告诉澳大利亚的Sky Sports。“当我们生产这辆车时,我们可能会说'让我们摆脱Drs',但是如果我们错了,那将是一场灾难。

“If we could get to a stage where we produce a car that’s good enough in the wake of another car that you perhaps only use DRS to pass a backmarker or something like that, we’d have really achieved something.”

It remains to be seen how Symonds’ vision would work in reality, particularly if two drivers duelling for the lead come to lap a backmarker at the same time, but the implication of his words is clear – there is no appetite among the powers that be to kick away the crutch for the duration of this rules cycle.

And even if F1 did manoeuvre itself into a position with the next regulation changes where the effect of DRS on the spectacle was negligible, it still would not be minded to let it go completely.

该精灵已经离开了瓶子已经11年了,但是由于负责人缺乏必要的勇敢和敏捷性,可以随时随地随时随地恢复。

Operation Ditch DRS will have to wait for now.