George Russell says “that’s the beast we’re dealing with” amid Mercedes headache

"🦩We’re all on this emotional rollercoaster," George Russell says

Hamilton, Russell
Hamilton, Russell

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes reacted with frustra🅘tion at their weekend to forget in Texas.

Russell crashed in qualifying for the F1 Uni💧ted States Grand Prix, wrecking the upgraded parts on his🦋 W15.

Mercedes had no spares, so he reverted to a prior specﷺ and started fᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrom the pitlane. Russell rescued a P6 finish.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who qualified💮 19th, spun out of the grand prix on Lap 3.

“Definitely pleased with [Sunday], no doubt,” Russell ꧂said.

“Starting from the pitlane, not r𒈔eally sure what we were going to have during the race, and especially going back to a floor that we ran in Canada 10 races ago, more I guess.

“To end up P6 ahead of a Red Bull as we♎ll, that was🌼 really great. Obviously you always question what could have been, but we’re dealing with a difficult car at the moment.

“Lewis never really makes any mistakes and you s▨aw [on Sunday] he had the exact same thing as what happened to m😼e [a day earlier]. That’s the beast we’re dealing with right now.

“I’m looking forward to things being a little bit calmer or consistent because you just don’t know what you’re going to get every time you go 🀅out. We’re all ওon this emotional rollercoaster.

“Clearly the car has the potential to be fighting right at the front, but when 🍸we are in that position we don’t really know why 🅰we are.

“When we’re not, we also don’t really know why we’re not. It’s just a real challenge to unpick it and 🤪understand it.”

Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director, said: "Given that we had one car starting at the back and one in t𒁃he pit lane, we had realistic expectations as to what could be achieved.

“Lewis made🌞 a good start and was quickly up to P12. Unfortunately, that didn't last long as he lost the rear in turn 19. We're still investigating what caused that, but in any case, his race was over.

"George was making steady progress through the field in his first stint, buജt it still took him until the halfway point to get any clear air to judge pace.

“Enꩵcouragingly, the car was hanging on to its tyres well and that was allowing us to extend. P6 was the best he could have achieved, and he drove a good race 💯to get there.

"As a team we have u🌠nderachieved across the weekend and are under no illusions that we need to do better.

“The update kit has shown some promise, but we've not had a single clean session, and we'll leave here no✅t knowing what we could have done if we'd started near the front with a car in our latest aero specification.

“We 𒁃will look to answer that question next weekend in Mexico."

Team principal T𝔉oto Wolff added: "It has been a tough weekend overall here in Austin.

“We see that there is pace in the car, as was shown on Friday aౠnd with George in the race, but we are still d🍬ealing with its inconsistency.

“That is not something unique to us though. 🎉Different teams have come into and out of form throughout the season, but it is something we will be working hard to improve over the final five races of the season.

"The positive was that George was quick throughout and produced a good fightback fr🐬om his pit lane start. The team in the garage worked hard to get the car ready for the race, with a large workload to get through as we had to revert on specification.

“George drove a strong race and was particularly quick on the Hard compound. That enabled us to extend his first stint and ultimately claim P6 in the f🅘inal few laps.

“Unfortunately, it was a disappointing day for Lewis. He wa🍌sn’t pushing at all but a gust of wind, combined with the dirty air from the car ahead, and he lost the car.

“We need to look at that, and what happened with George [on Saturday], to understand why the caꦬr reacted like that.

“Lewis Hamilto𝓀n is not a driver that loses a car like that on lap two of a race, so there is something there that we need to understand."

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