George Russell slates Mercedes strategy at F1 Dutch Grand Prix: “How did we mess this up?”
Russell stayed out on soft tyres when the rain fell in the early stages at🦩 Zandvoort, allowing him to lead the race ahead of Lando Norris.
Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen had pitted for intermediate tyres sh🐽ortly before.
Russell’s teammate Lewis Hamilton, who al⛎so did not pit, said via his team radio: "We should've come in man, it is very wet.”
🔯The reply was: "We're going to stay out. We're going to have to brave this.”
Russell eventually pitted after 11 laps, losing 🍷the lead 💛and re-emerging in 18th.
And he wasn’t happy.
"I was forecast a potenti꧋al podium,” he raged to his race engineer.
“How did we mess this up?”
He b𝕴attled back to eighth by the🌌 66th lap but his race ended early with a retirement to the pits.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from🗹 American sports, to football, to F1.
