After the red flag period, S🐽ainz was forced to defend against Russell into Turn 1

Russell complained over team radio that Saܫinz had been ‘weaving’ while defen🔯ding 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.

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

“You cannot move on the braking but you✨ can move right befo꧒re braking and that's what I was doing. 

“When you're behind you open the radio, you complain about the guy in front and [hope] h✤e gets a warning or a five-second penalty becaus🌜e it benefits you. 

“It's🍒 the sam꧙e as always, everyone 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 their race pace ad💜vantage, 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 time before they finished ahead or in front,” he adde๊d. 

“They simply are a lot qꦦuicker 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 temperatures. 

“I had a weird stint on Mediums a🦩nd I struggled with that front tyr🤡e 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 think we we🎃re jus🍌t following the pace of the car.”