After the rꦇed flag period, Sainz was forced to defend against Russell into Turn 1

Russell🥃 complained over team radio that Sainz had been ‘weaving’ while defending on the start-finish straight.

Sainz ultimately resisted Russell’s attacks, retaining fourth, while the Mercedes driver dropped to sixth after losing out to168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris.

Sp𒆙eaking about the battle with Russell, Sainz said: “Well I was moving once and right before braking, which is what the rules allow.

“You cannot move on the braking but you cꩲan move right before braking and that's what I was doing. 

“When you're behind you open the radio, you complain about the gu🎶y in front and [hope] he gets a warning or a five-second penalty because it benℱefits you. 

“It's the same as always, eဣveryone does it. George does it a lot.”

After qualifying on the front-row of the grid, Sainz immediately lost out to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and then 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton through the pit stop phase.

Given thei෴r race pace advantage, Sainz felt it was inevitable he would drop back anyway.

“Looking at the pace that Max and Lewis had, it was honestly a matter of ꧙time before they finished ahead or in front,” he added. 

“They simply are a lot quicker than us in race pace, we kind of expected going into the race that they have some extra pace in there and we had to manage a lot of temper🧔atures. 

“I had a weird stint on Mediums and I struggled 🎐with that front tyre that was grained almost on the formation lap, so we will have to take a look at that. 

“Once we put the Hards on, I thi🔯nk we were just fol🍒lowing the pace of the car.”