George Russell’s alarming “getting slower” admission about Mercedes
George Russell makes alarming Mercedes admission after finishing sixth in Saudi A🐽rabia.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell says Mercedes are “getting slower” as F1 weekends develop following another disappointing performance at the Saudi♛ Arabian Grand Prix.
Russell made an🎶 encouraging start to the weekend as he took fourth and second in Thursday’s practice sessions, but Mercedes’ competitiveness fell away as the weekend drew on.
The 26-year-old Briton only qualified seventh, with teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton eighth, and went on to finish sixth inꦆ Saturday’s race as Mercedes were outperformed by customer teams McLaren and Aston Martin.
After a simiꦬlar showing in the opening two rounds, Russell believes Mercedওes are “getting slower” across the sessions, rather than rival teams improving.
“We're still really trying to understand this car because we have shown true performance at points over the lꩲast two we🌸ekends,” Russell said.
“FP1, straight out of the box, we were top of the timesheets and always in the top three. FP2, P2. Then, both weeke🍸nds, the pace just falling away from us.
“That hasn't been our🍌 competitors getting faster; that's been us getting slower. So, we need to understand why that is. But it's fine margins now.
] is just a smidge ahead. We just need to tap into it a bit more.”
Hamilton called on Mercedes to make “big changes” to their﷽ W15 challenger after being left frustrated by a return of previous bounc🍸ing issues and a general lack of performance in high-speed corners.
"The car is relatively good in the low speed and not so bad in the med♍ium [speed], but in the high-speed we are mi💮les off," Hamilton said.
"It was like I was in a different catꦗegory when I was going through the high-speed betw🔴een the other guys around me.
"It's frustrating for sure to be in three years in a row in almost the same position. It's definitely toug൲h bu♛t we will get our heads down and keep working away, and I know everyone back at the factory is pushing as hard as they can."
Russell suspects there is a wider explana🔯tion to Mercedes' current lack of competitiveness.
“I think there's more to it. It's so complex these days. These cars are so complicated,” he said.𒐪
“When you couple tha💫t with the tyres, the tyres are very difficult as well. Right now, I don't have the an💛swers.”
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