George Russell reveals bold car changes to cure F1 race pace woes

Mercedes have attem🌌pted to fix their race pace issue, says George Russell

George Russell
George Russell

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has revealed that Mercedes have made “a lot of changes” to try to improve their race pace ahead of the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Russell’s strong qualifying form continue💜d at the Circuit de Barcelona-Cataluny𝓡a, securing fourth on the grid for Sunday’s race.

The British driver has consistently qualifiedꦜ in the top five this year, with Monaco the only weekend he hasn’t.

However, Russell have tende♓d to struggle on race day, particularly when teꩵmperatures are high.

With track temperatures exℱpected to be scorching🐽 on Sunday, it could be a difficult day for Mercedes.

Reflecting on qualifying in Barcelona, Russell said: “We know that on a Saturday our car is anywher💃e between P2 and P5. That’s where it’s been all season and again today.

“It’s goo🐬d we managed to get into Q3 on only two ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsets of tyres so we have a new soft tyre for tomorrow which is a valid race tyre - that’s a positive. We know that the car isn’t quick on Sundays.”

Russell notes “silver lining” for Mercedes

Mercedes have made a number of changes to൲ its car setup in a bid to cure their Sunday woes.

Despite the🐻se changes, Mercedes’ qualifying pa🌳ce was unaffected.

Russell is hopeful that Pirelli’s tyre allocation being on the harder side (C3-C2-C1) will work in their favour as it did in Bahra♉in.

“I think so. We also made a lot of changes to the car this weekend to try and improve the race pace 💛so to see that we haven’t really hindered quali pace is a positive but then also it may mean it’s not goi🍌ng to improve the race pace,” Russell added.

“Tomorrow🍸’s going to be an interesting one for us. We struggled a lot when it was the soft compound of tyres when it was hot but when it was the hard compound of tyres in Bahrain and it was hot we finished second there.

“When the tyres overheat by 10 degrees on a C4, it’s much more punishing than 10 degrees on a C1 tyre. That’s the only slight 🐻silver lining to give us a bit of hope for tomorrow.”

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