168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has shed light on why Mercedes have reverted back to an older specification of floor for the remainder of the Belgian Grand Prix F1 weekend.

Russell could only secure seventh in qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps, three places behind Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton.

Still, it was an improved level of performance relative to Friday practice for M🌟ercedes.

Mercedes had tried out a new floor - but ditc🅷hed it for Friday practice.

With the wet w🙈eather in play - and a poor showing on Friday - Mercedes made this decision.

Speaking after qualifying, Russell explained the deꦕcision further.

“We just wanted to double check,” he said. “We did the Friday on the new floor, going back to the race 💟on Sunday, see where the race falls out. In F1, the fluctuation of pace, circuit to circuit, is massive.

“Yesterday, wasn’t a great day for us and we just w🌌ant to double check it wasn’t the upgrades. I am pretty conf🐽ident it isn’t.

“We definitely have not really s🐓truggled in the last 12 months, when we’ve brought upgrades they’ve generally worked. It will give us more time to assess the new floor.”

Mercedes were expected to far꧅e well at Spa after they were the fastest team at Silverstone - another circuit with similar track c💦haracteristics.

However, Russell conceded Mercedes need to “understand why” they continue to struggle at Spa, citing their lack of performanceও in 2022 and 2023.

“I mean, it's been three years in a row that we've been very quick in Silverstone,” he a🐲dded. “Obviously, this season, exceptionally quick, and struggled in Spa. And on paper, you'd say, yoﷺu know, we're not exactly the same at the circuit, but it has high-speed here, a bit of low-speed same as Silverstone, we need to try and understand why that is.

“You know, there 💜seems to be something inherent in the cars that work at certain circuits. You know, Red Bull are always lightning, as an example.

“Th🅘is is always probably their strongest circuit in the season, along with Austria. And for us Silverstone, you know, Barcelona, they're the sort of circuits that we tend to go very well at as well. So, yeah, we need to understand that.”