George Russell puts doubt on Lewis Hamilton’s F1 Bahrain GP set-up claim
George Russell has challenged Lewis Hamilton's claim that he went in a different set-🌊up direction in Bahrain.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has questioned Mercedes F1 teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s claim the🉐 pair went in different set-up directions over the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.
Russell qualified third on the grid behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, while Hamil꧟ton ended up a disappointing ninth, 0.225🧔 seconds behind his Mercedes teammate.
The seven-time world champion revealed he went in a different direction ꧟with set-u൲p compared to Russell in a bid to have a better race.
"Thursday, was really good. Me and George🎀 were on the same ꦡset-ups but he went 'left' and I went 'right'. 'Right' was definitely not good for a single lap but I felt more comfortable with more fuel, so I hope that reflects in the race," Hamilton explained.
"I've definitely sacrificed more than I hoped to and I hope it pays off. It's a lot of work to do to get past all those quick car🔯s ahead of me but it will be fun.”
Russell slipped back to fifth in the grand prix, two places ahead of Hamilton who could only recover to seventh as both Mercedes drivers were hampered by unexpected power unit tempera🔯ture issues.
After the r🌜ace, Russell challenged Hamilton’s set-up claim.
“Many people have♒ said this,” Russell said of Hamilton’s set-up choice🌄.
“I don’t really know the big differences, to be ho♊nest, because as far as I’m aware with the cars we’re pretty simila𒐪r.
“I don’t really focus too much on his set-up. Mine was actu💮ally more set up for the race than the set-up he ran. At least it was on Friday [for qualifying].”
Hamilton reported several issues during the race including pow🐠er issues a♉nd a broken seat.
“For a while like my battery was dead, so down the straig🌠hts I was just derat༺ing the whole way down the straight,” he explained.
“So I lost a lot of ground to the McLarens. I w💛as fixing that out for some laps, and that took a good 10 laps, and I lost plenty of seconds through that.
“And then, after that, was just really trying to get back on it, and catch up, as soon we got that fixed. And tꦐhen there was a bit of overheating of the brakes. And then in general, the performance was so-so.”
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