*HEIDFELD ‘MASSIVELY ENJOYING’ RALLYCROSS DEBUT – AND LEARNING FAST

*海費(fèi)“超級(jí)享受”場(chǎng)地拉力首秀，并且進(jìn)步迅速

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Nick Heidfeld arrived at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya?with no prior rallycross experience and having not raced anything at all in more than four years. The German faced the steepest of learning curves on his debut in the FIA RX2e Championship – yet by only the second heat, he was posting lap times on a par with the series front-runners. And clearly having an absolute blast.

在抵達(dá)加泰羅尼亞前，尼克·海費(fèi)爾德從來(lái)沒有駕駛過(guò)場(chǎng)地拉力賽賽車，而且他也已經(jīng)四年多沒參加過(guò)任何比賽了。德國(guó)名將不得不在他的RX2e首秀中，用最短的時(shí)間，適應(yīng)所有新技術(shù)新規(guī)則。不過(guò)，快速尼克只用了兩場(chǎng)計(jì)時(shí)賽，就開始大展拳腳，展現(xiàn)了足以匹配組別領(lǐng)跑集團(tuán)的速度。

It should perhaps have come as little surprise that Heidfeld so quickly got down to the pace in RX2e. This is, after all, a driver with 13 Formula 1 podium finishes to his credit, eight more in Formula E, class victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours and – for 20 years – the outright record up the famous Goodwood hillclimb. But with its dual-surface nature and ever-changing track conditions, rallycross is something else entirely – something completely out of his comfort zone.

不過(guò)，對(duì)于海費(fèi)在RX2e中“即插即用”的表現(xiàn)，我們似乎不必大驚小怪，這可是一名擁有13次F1領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)臺(tái)，8次FE領(lǐng)獎(jiǎng)臺(tái)榮譽(yù)的車手。他還曾在勒芒24小時(shí)大賽奪得過(guò)組別勝利，并且在長(zhǎng)達(dá)20年的時(shí)間里，保持著古德伍德爬山賽的紀(jì)錄。話說(shuō)回來(lái)，場(chǎng)地拉力賽賽道條件多變，路面有鋪裝有沙石泥地，是一項(xiàng)完全不同的賽車運(yùn)動(dòng)，這都不是海費(fèi)所習(xí)以為常的賽事環(huán)境。

Admitting to finding it more difficult than he had initially expected, the 45-year-old was over two seconds adrift of the benchmark in free practice on Saturday morning, but by dint of adopting a ‘look-and-learn’ approach, he progressively improved his lap times. By heat two, he had reduced the deficit to just nine tenths-of-a-second, on a par with Patrick O’Donovan – winner of the most recent two rounds.

在周六早上的自由練習(xí)中，海費(fèi)還距離領(lǐng)頭羊有兩秒的差距，45歲的德國(guó)人也承認(rèn)，這比他原本預(yù)想的要困難的多。好在他一邊觀察一邊學(xué)習(xí)，最終大幅提高了單圈成績(jī)。在第二場(chǎng)計(jì)時(shí)賽里，差距只剩下了0.9秒，這還是和最近兩場(chǎng)的獲勝車手帕特里克·奧多諾萬(wàn)的對(duì)比結(jié)果。

“I’m enjoying it massively,” he enthused. “Coming from a completely different type of racing, the car is certainly challenging to drive and the level of competition is high. When I was sat on the grid waiting for the start of both races, I felt my heart pumping faster than I had done for many years – and it’s been great to get that feeling back."

“我太享受這比賽了，“海費(fèi)激動(dòng)得說(shuō)，“賽事類型和我過(guò)去的經(jīng)歷的完全不同，賽車駕駛起來(lái)極具挑戰(zhàn)性，競(jìng)爭(zhēng)也十分激烈。當(dāng)我在發(fā)車區(qū)等待起跑的時(shí)候，我有一種久違的心潮澎湃的感覺，能在體會(huì)到這一切真的太棒了?！?/p>

原文地址：

https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/world-rx/news/rx2e/2022/heidfeld----massively-enjoying----rallycross-debut/