168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell says Mercedes are left “scratching their heads” after making an unexpectedly strong start at the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton topped both practice sessions on the first day of running in Sin City and headed a Mercedes 1-2 in FP1, with Russell third-quickest behind McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris in FP2.

Russell admitted that no one knows what was behind Mercedes’ impres♏sive performance.

“Yeah, incredible day. I'd love to tell you why, to be honest, we are scratching 𝓡our heads a little bit, why it was so, so positive,” Russell said.

“Obviously, it was only practice. Lewis did a really great job out there as well. He's been really on it 🔯since lap one, but the ca𝕴r has just been working. But you know, we're on a street track. It's really dirty.

“It's getting faster and faster every lap. Because൲ we were fast today, it doesn't necessarily mean we're going to replicate it tomorrow, when the track will be probably three seconds faster. So, ꦓpleasantly surprising.”

Asked if he fears Mercedes could lose performance as the weekend unfolds, Russell replied: “It's definitely not a fear. I think the perception of us losing performance i🐻s maybe not quite fair.

“I think it's more of a function that our competitors don't use their high power. They might be running a bit more fuel than us on a Friday, so they're kind of historically, t🍒hey've been sandbagging a little bit more, and when they take it off they go into their normal position.

“There's a possibility that will happen again to🍰morrow, 𝓀but the gap we showed this morning and this evening has been pretty substantial.

“But I'm sure the other riv🌳als are going to work hard ov𝓰ernight and close that gap, but I just hope we can continue the form.”

Speaking between the practice sessions, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff joked: “I think we are dirty track ꧃champions.

“FP1 is always great and t📖hen the moment the grip kicks in, we've seen that the performances deteriorate. Having said that, I think the gap was pretty big.

“It's the biggest that we've seen so far in FP1, so we've got to spray some dust for all the sessions tomorrow, in quaꦰlifying or something.

“But I don't believe this kind of advantage to the other teams is going to last. I would very much hope that we're not f🍌alling behind like we did in the past on some of the tracks, but remain competitive, fight in the front.”