George Russell’s alarming “getting slower” admission about Mercedes
George Russell makes ala🅰rmin🍎g Mercedes admission after finishing sixth in Saudi Arabia.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell says Mercedes are “getting slower” as F1 weekends develop following anoth💟er disappointing perforඣmance at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Russell made an encouragꦅing start to the weekend as he took fourth and s💯econd in Thursday’s practice sessions, but Mercedes’ competitiveness fell away as the weekend drew on.
The 26-year-old Briton only qualified seventh, with teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton eighth, and went on to 💜finish sixth in Saturday’s race as Mercedes were outperformed by customer teams McLaren and Aston Martin.
After a similar showing in the opening two rounds, Russell believes Merce🌌des are “getting slower” across the se🐭ssions, rather than rival teams improving.
“We're still really trying to understand this car because we have shown true performance at points over the last two weeken♌ds,” Russell 🍌said.
“FP1, straight out of the box, we were top of🗹 the timesheets and always in the top three. FP2, P2. Then, bꦰoth weekends, the pace just falling away from us.
“That hasn't been our competitors getting faster; that's beenꦕ us getting slower. So, we need to understand why that is. But it's fine margins now.
] is just a smidge ahead. We just need to tap into it a bit more.”
Hamilton called on Mercedes to make “big changes” to their W15 challenger after being left frustrated by a return of previous bouncing issues and a general lac💟k of performance in high-speed corners.
"The car is relatively good in the low speed and not so bad in the medium [speed], but in the high-speed we are miꦬles off," Hamilton said.
"It was like I was in a different category when I was going 📖through the high-speed between the other guys around me.
"It's frustrating for sure to be in three years in a row in almost the same position. It's definitely tough but ✨we will get our heads down and keep workiﷺng away, and I know everyone back at the factory is pushing as hard as they can."
Russell suspects there is a wider explanation to Mercedes' current lack of co൲mpetitiveness.
“I think there's more to it. It's so complex these days. Th⭕ese cars are so complicated,” he said.
“When you couple that with the tyres, the tyres are very difficult as well. Right nಌow, I don't have the answers.”
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