168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has seemingly contradicted his Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s claim about the set-up of his car at the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

After qualifying only 18th, seven-time world champion Hamilton said he had made “massive” set-up changes to his Mercedes after finishing second to Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in the sprint race.

But Russell, who took eighth, says the two Mercedes dri𓆉vers are running “pretty similar” set-ups on their carsꦍ in Shanghai.

“We're pretty similar🃏 on the setups, we both went in a similar direction, but there’s a small difference,” Russell said.

“Dire💟ctionally very, very similar between the two of us but we both made big changes from th🀅e sprint race.

“If we optimised everything this weekend, maybe we wo🌠uld have finished P3, P4, P5 in qualifying. But we still wouldn't be content with that.

“We want to fi🐻ght for victories and championships in hopefully the minimum 💧next year. Sometimes need to sacrifice in the short term to make some greater gains down the line.

“We are still trying to find the development path we need to be on to make some big steps. That’s ꦉjust where we are at the moment.”

Asked if he was surprised by Hamilton’s poor qualifying result, Russell replied: “Of course, surprised to ꧅see where Lewis ende𒊎d up.

“He’s the great༺est driver of all time and that’s not where he should be, it’s not where𒈔 we should be fighting.

“We're here together as a team. Collectively, we just need 🐓to keep o꧙n pushing forward and try and make some big gains as the season goes on.”

Hamilton said: "It was not my best qualifying lap.✅ We made massive changes going into qualifying, just wanted to🥂 experiment.

"George decided to go one way, much different to what he had and I went this other direction to just see if we could fi🐼nd something. It didn't feel terrible, just I couldn't stop the c🧸ar in Turn 14.

"I went that way and I don't❀ know whether it’s the right one."