After finishing ahead of teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship last year, much was expected of Russell in F1 2023.

Particularly since the introduction of Mercedes’ sidepod upgrade in Monaco, Russell has been no match for Ha♒milton.

While the points differღence is only 49 to Hamilton, Russell is on the backfoot going into the second half of the season.

Speaking before the summer b🐓reak, Wolff add♛ressed Russell’s difficulties with the W14.

“These cars ♏are on the knife’s edge,” Wolff expla💧ined.

“You can quickly fall off it and lose the confidence. On the other side, if you’re within that corridor of sweet spo♋t… having said t🐭hat, that car [W14] has no sweet spot!

“But being more in that zone of understanding what it will do next, I think ther🔯e’s a big difference and you can quickly be in either one of these 🐠situations, and obviously it goes against you.”

Technical director Mike Elliott is confident Rusܫsell will turn it around soon.

“I ๊think these cars are hard to drive and theyꦓ’re running close to the ground,” Elliott added.

“And i🍌t’s tricky to sort of find that right balance through the corner. It’s tricky to do [that] with the stiffness of ▨the cars.

“George is a fanta🎐stic driver so I’m sure he’ll get what he needs to get out of the car fairly quickly.”