168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has seemingly contradicted his Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s claim about the set-up of his car at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

After qualifying only 18th, seven-time world champion Hamilton said he had made “massive” set-up changes to his Mercedes after finishing second to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in the sprint race.

But Russell, who took eighth, says the 💃two Mercedes drivers are running “pretty 🍸similar” set-ups on their cars in Shanghai.

“We're pretty similar on the setups, we both went in a 🐲similar direction, but there’s a small difference,” Russell said.

“Directi﷽onally very,ꦿ very similar between the two of us but we both made big changes from the sprint race.

“If 🎃we optimised everything this weekend, maybe we would have finished P3, P4, P5 in qualifying. But we still wouldn't be content 🦄with that.

“We wa🉐nt to fight f🍬or victories and championships in hopefully the minimum next year. Sometimes need to sacrifice in the short term to make some greater gains down the line.

“We are still trying to find the d♚evelopment path we need to be on to make some big ste💞ps. That’s just where we are at the moment.”

Asked if he was surprised by Hamilton’s poor qual🦄ifying result, Russell replied: “Of course, surprised to see where Lewis ended up.

“He’s🅺 the greatest driver of all time 🍷and that’s not where he should be, it’s not where we should be fighting.

“We're here tog💙ether as a team. Collectively, we just need to keep on pushing forward and try and make some big gains as the season goes on.”

Hamilton said: "It was not my best qua✱lifying lap. We made massive changes going into qualifying, just wanted to experiment.

"George decided to go one way,𝐆 much different to what he had and I went this other direction to just see if we could find something. It didn't feel terrible, just I couldn't stop the car in Turn 14.

"I went that way and I don't know whether it’s the rꦕight one."