Mercedes clear up George Russell’s last lap radio message and puncture concern
George Ru✃ssell reported he had a puncture on the final lap of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell feared he had a puncture on the final lap of the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix but it turned out to be a fals🦄e alarm.
The Mercedes driver finished sixth in Jeddah, three places ahead of teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton, but reported he had a “front right puncture” on the last lap ಌof the grand prix.
Mercedes’ data showed no sign of any problem with🧸 the tyre and Russell was able to take the chequered flag without drama.
“He ca🎃me on the radio, as you’ll have heard and said, ‘front right puncture’. So he was concerned that he did,” Mercedes trackside engineering dir🃏ector Andrew Shovlin said.
“Now, what he was feeling was a vibration that suddenly appeared. He was concerned that it was the tyre that was losꦬing air about to fail. But we can just look at our data and we can see that the tyre was fine in that sense.
“We can see the pressure on all four tyres liveꩵ. So we would spot a puncture normally before even the driver sees it. Certainly,🅠 if it was a relatively slow puncture we'd say it before the driver.
“So we reassured him that that was fine. He said he could still feel a vibration🌞. We checked the level of the vibration was not𝕴hing to concern us, we could see something, but it wasn't out of the ordinary.
“We were able to che🍸ck that the brakes are all fine, which is obviously one of the key things. So we went back again and said, well, car looks fine for us.
“We told him the gap🎶 to the car behind just so that he knows he does🦹n't need to push. There's no one within four seconds, and he can actually take it easy for the remainder of the lap.”
Shovlin ꦏsaid Mercedes will have to wait for Pirelli to carry out their own investigation to discover whether there waᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs any damage to Russell’s tyre.
“When we got the car back, checked everything. That all looks fine,” he added. “Now the tyre, we can't check because that belongs to Pirelli. So they'🏅ve taken that off for analysis. But as I said, everything we can see, it looks okay.
“There was vibration data, but that can be as little as you just get some of the rubber pick up can get stuck o🐓n a tyre, can actually put it quite out of balance.
“So we'll let Pirelli ♏do their investigations. But ♕certainly from our side from the point of view of the car, there's nothing that we can see that's a problem.”
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