George Russell said he avoided feeling frustrated with Williams over the team's delayed start to Formu💦la 1 pre-season testing, only finding it "annoying" to see other cars on-track while he waited to debut the new&n🎃bsp;car.

Williams was forced to miss the opening two days of pre-season running in Barcelona this week due to delays with the final build of♒🌳 the FW42 car, which only arrived at the track on Wednesday morning.

The team eventually got out on Wednesday afternoon, but could only manage a total of 88 laps prior to the end of test running on🥃 Thursday evening.

"It was very importan♍t to get some mileage under our belt and just get a feel for the car," said Russell.

"Also I’ve only done abou🅰t 11 proper laps in the car, but it gives us a good understanding of where we are at and the limitations 𒁃and what we need to work on."

Asked ꦗabout the wait to finally get on-track, Russell said he had avoided getting frustrated with the team, instead praising the efforts made bܫy the crew to get the FW42 on-track.

"It has been quite annoying watching e🌟veryone on-track, and obviously as a🍬 driver you just want to get out there," Russell said.

"It has passeไd quite quickly because I have unders൩tood how much work has been going on for all the people building this car.

"It hasn’t made me frustrated. I understand that we haven’t got in this situation on purpose. Everybody is obsessed about i🐲t and they are working their socks off to make it right. That was refreshi🐼ng for me.

"It made me quite proud of the guys and how much they are working. They have🐼 been up since yesterday at 2:30 in the morning working on the car to make it ready.

"It is a privilege to be part of this team."