Lewis Hamilton and George Russell fear early qualifying exit for Mercedes at F1 Italian GP
Russell ended Friday practice only ninth in the timesheets and the best part of a second down on the benchmark pace set by Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.
Things were worse for H🧔amilton, who complained of a significant performance deficit in his W14 on Monza’s long straights and languished a lowly 17th.
After a difficult secon💫d practice, Hamilto🅠n said he was “hoping” to reach Q3.
"I'm hoping to get into the top 10, getting into Q3 would be♏ nice, and then we'll see where it goes from tౠhere,” said Hamilton.
"With our current pace, I don't know how easy it will be to ge♓t into Q3. That's what we'll be working on overnig♌ht.
"I'm just going to keep my finge🐎rs 𓃲crossed and hope that we can get there.”
Russell, who was fifth-fastest in FP1 and two places ahead of Hamiltoဣn, acknowledged🐠 it will be a “tight battle” to make it into Saturday’s top-10 shootout.
"I think it's really close, as always at the moment, between McLaren, Aston, Ferrari and even Williams are ge𒁏tting in the mix, especially on Saturday.
"So♛ we're going to have to really 🎃nail it, I think even to get to Q3 is going to be a tight battle.
"If you nail it, you could be second row of the grid, if you just don't quite nail it, you could be down in P8, P10 region, so that's exciting🧔.ꦜ"
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