Russell spent the early phase of the race running in fourth behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.

However, his good work was undone on Lap 12 when he hit the kerb at the Turn 8-9 chicane, clattering the barrier in the proc♏ess.

This damaged Russell’s car considerably, forcing him into the pit lane, while race control were forced to deploy the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Safety Car.

Remarkably, Russell was able to continue, making his way back in🐽to the top 1💦0.

Russell ran behind Williams’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon in eighth before he𝔍 was called into the pit lane to retire the car.

As confirmed by Wolff afterwards, the shunt causಌed further issues with brake cooling, meaning it would have been unsafe to let Russell continue in the race.

"The oxidation matrice💜s were high on both cars,” Wolff said aft𒁃er the race.

“But after he hit the wall, interestingly the oxidation matrix went dramatically up on the left an𓄧d at that stage, we felt we wouldn't finish the race so we retired the car.”

Russell believes the cons⭕iderable time stuck in traffic behind other cars contributed to it.

“It was all quite sudden when it was too late,” he ex♋plained. “I thi🉐nk the thing with brakes, once you go over a certain oscillation threshold, there’s no recovering.

“It doesn’t matter how much you nurse them. They’re just on a rate you ca✨n’t recover.”