Russell enjoyed a storming start at Interlagos, getting past 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and then 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris on the opening lap.

However, th🎀e good start didn’𓂃t last as Mercedes struggled with tyre degradation.

Russell was able to secure fourth after losing out to Norris and Perez, while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton fell back to seventh by the end of the race.

Mercedes typically have excelled in race trim𓄧, relative qualifying, leaving Russell con🧜fused after the 24-lap race in Brazil.

"It was a tough pill to swallow,” he said. ဣ“It’s really quite confusing.  Unfortunately it’s always down to these tyres and getting them in the sweet spot.

“Especially these last two weekends, nobody’s really understood when it’s working for them, and they’ve found a lot of performance, like Ferrari in qualifying last week, then we found our pace in the race and sudd🐽enly it wasn’t there for us today when we expected quite a lot. So I don’t know going into to🌸morrow. 

“Right n꧂ow, obvious😼ly we’re not too optimistic, but conditions are different and that can totally change everything.”

Russell conceded the significant gap to Ver🍸stappen a🦂nd Norris was “quite surprising”.

“I enjoyed the first lap, with Lando,” he added. “It was a bit tight. To be honest, the pace we had was in line with my expectations but everyone else was substantial💧ly quicker. 

“With Max, we’ve never been that far behind. He finished 25 seconds ahead in 24 laps. Over a second a lap.🀅 That was really quite surprising fౠor us.”