马克·普里斯特利（Marc Priestley）认为建筑商中的P2为梅赛德斯

Former McLaren engineer Marc Priestley believes Mercedes are in with a shout of finishing P2 in this year’s Constructors’ Championship.

在本赛季早些时候，这样的想法似乎很古怪，而统治者的冠军未能以去年的成功为基础。

But while the team has struggled with performance issues, there has been no such problem with reliability. In 2022, just once has a Mercedes car failed to cross the finish line and even that was a result of George Russell’s crash with Zhou Guanyu in the British Grand Prix rather than a parts issue.

事实证明，W13的可靠性远大于赛道上的大多数汽车迈凯轮和阿斯顿·马丁（Aston Martin）在两个DNF上最接近。

相比之下，法拉利一直是最不可靠的人之一，车队未能在七次结束时将两辆车结束，这是只有阿尔法·罗密欧（Alfa Romeo）的纪录。

这意味着尽管法拉利的步伐优势，但它们在第三位的梅赛德斯比首先更接近梅赛德斯，而仅30分将它们与追逐银箭头相距。

法拉利（Ferrari）的领先优势已被削减了连续的P2和P3的梅赛德斯（Mercedes），前往暑假。工程师转过评论员普里斯特利（Priestley）说，他可以看到梅赛德斯将法拉利（Ferrari）送到P2standings到本赛季结束。

普里斯利在格纹旗播客中说：“我认为（匈牙利大奖赛）对于刘易斯·汉密尔顿（Lewis Hamilton）重新踩踏他的权威是非常重要的一天。”“在昨天的所有炒作之后，乔治·罗素（George Russell）（在他的第一个杆位之后）。

“当然,伟大的球队,伟大的for George but if you’re Lewis Hamilton, you just want to get your elbows out a little bit and say ‘hang on a minute, I’m still the man. I’m still here’.

“虽然他做到了。他做得很好，梅赛德斯，如果他们能继续这种形式，那么他们实际上有可能在建筑商的冠军赛中排名第二。”

海豚，抗议和点：梅赛德斯季节到目前为止的故事

If there is any team principal with a few more wrinkles underneath his eye this season, then it is Toto Wolff. Having masterminded a period of dominance never before seen in the sport, Wolff and co were presented with a whole new challenge in 2022.

沃尔夫（Wolff）表示，为他们的倒台做准备是该团队一直在做的事情，但即使他们也不会预测其范围。当W13揭幕时，缺乏侧脚架有些担心梅赛德斯的统治地位将持续更长的时间。

但是相反的情况发生了，一个不可预见的海豚现象成为球队和汉密尔顿背部的敌人，因为在每场比赛中驾驶员都猛烈地摇动了驾驶员。答案很简单，提高了骑行高度，但是这样做，他们将失去捕捉法拉利和红牛的任何机会。

相反，梅赛德斯抗议。据报道，沃尔夫利用他在这项运动中的相当大的力量游说国际汽联进行变革，并以保护驾驶员的安全性，理事机构屈服了，并引入了一项新的技术指令，该指令将限制允许每辆汽车的弹跳数量来忍受。

While a civil war rages as to whether another updated rule will be allowed for next year’s regulations, Mercedes can at least be happy with the plaster that has been applied for the remainder of this season.

All the while this was going on, Mercedes were picking up points. They may not have been race wins but Russell’s record of top-five finishes in all but one race this season has meant that even while the mechanics and engineers were tearing their hair out, they were within touching distance of Ferrari.

阅读更多：找出刘易斯·汉密尔顿（Lewis Hamilton）和乔治·罗素（George Russell。

It was a different story in the garages of Maranello. The Ferrari car is quick but almost as unreliable as the team’s strategists meaning as we enter the summer break, Mercedes are within 30 points of the Italian outfit.