Russell has secured eighth in the drivers’ championship with one round to go, well behind teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who has third-place sewn up.

Th🦹e British driver has finished 𝔍on the podium just once this season - the same amount of times as the two Alpine drivers.

Russell threw away a guaranteed podium in Singapore on the final lap when chasing down 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris, while Las Vegas was another missed opportunity after contact with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Reflecting on the year, Russell described it as a “very strange season”𝔍.

“It’s been a very strange season. It’s been a season where we’ve had a lot of pace at times but we’ve never 🐼achieved results that were deserved or possible,” he said. Need to try and unde🌟rstand why there’s been a huge amount of missed opportunities. 

“Really hasn’t been a s🦹mooth season but I think when everything is flowing, when ♈everything is working right, luck tends to be on your side, and when you’re on the backfoot, you tend to have bad luck. We just need to be faster and lady luck will be with us.”

Despite struggling for overall results, Russell feels he’s improved relative to last year even though he out-performed teammate Hamilton in ⛎the standings.

“It’s definitely something I am going to look at over the winter because the results were so smoot🃏h flowing last year,” he added. “I think we finished in the top five more than any other driver and this year, I feel that I have upped my game, upped my pace in my quali pace, race pace. 

“We’ve 🤪definitely been on the backfoot. We have more competition this year with McLaren joining the fight, Aston being there at the start of the season. Ultimately we’re looking to get through this weekend, trying to cement P2 in the championship.”