168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has revealed that Mercedes had prepared to do a “coin toss” to decide who would run the upgraded front wing at the Monaco Grand Prix before 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton made the decision for himself.

Mercedes hadౠ♒ just one of their new front wings available for last weekend in Monaco.

It transpired in Friday practice that it would be💟 just run on Russell’s car, leading to a raft of the✱ories about why that was the case.

Typically, teams tend to give whichever driver is ahead in the champion𒁃ship standings priority in term🐓s of upgrades.

However, some speculated that it was Mercedes favouring Russell given Hamilton is leaving the te🀅am next year.

Speaking to Channel 4 after the race on Sunday, Russell set the record straight by confirming that Hamilton snubbed the coin toss after trying the new front wing in the simula🌱tor.

“There was one front wing this weekend and it was agreed🃏 on Tuesday that we’d do a coin toss and see who got it,” he said.

“Lewis said he’d tried iꦅt on the sim and was happy for me to use it꧋ this weekend, because it doesn’t go without risk. If we made a mistake in qualifying and damaged it, obviously that’s one front wing that we won’t ever be able to use again and you’d have to start from the pit lane.

“I was happy to take that risk using𒐪 it and I t💯hought it was a belated birthday present he gave me, saying I could use it.

He concluded: “No, we didn’t do the coin toss.”

Despite Hamilton taking the decision into his own hands, the seven-time world champion still refe๊renced it in his reaction afte💟r both qualifying and the race.

The 39-year-old made a remarkable claim after q🧔ualifying that he doesn’t expect to out-qualify Russell at all in 2024, particularly in Monaco, as he didn’t have the “upgraded component”.

“So I anticipated it would be difficult to out-qualify George because he has the [upgraded] component. It’s great to see that we are bringing upgrades,” Hamilton sai𒀰d on Saturday in Monaco.