Marko Hanželic
In his first race for Mercedes, as a replacement for covid-19 sufferer Lewis Hamilton, Yippee George Russell dominated on the track and had the whole situation under control until Mercedes completely turned the races upside down with both of their racers with a comedy of boxing messes.
V Mercedes boxes they prepared for double stop, but were quite slow in changing tires on Russell's race car, which was fitted with tires intended for it Bottas, The Finn therefore had to put back the tires with which he actually brought them to the pits.
Russell he therefore had to go into the pits again to have the tires fitted to him, which he should have received at the first stop, punctured tires had to box again, but the three points he eventually scored are still in question as he took the lap to Bottas set of tires.
"I am disappointed. I have already experienced races where in the end I did not win a practically won race, but it has not yet happened to me that this has happened to me twice in any race so far, ” he said after the race disappointed Russell and added: “I can’t believe what actually happened. I drove as if it were a matter of life and death, I had everything under control on the track, especially at the beginning of the race, and then a safety car came on the track, which is always inconvenient. ”
“Even after all the mess in the pits, I still felt good behind the wheel. I overtook and I already had Sergio practically in range. I believe I could have overtaken him by the end, but something unpredictable happened again. It's nothing, that's just racing."
The Briton admitted she was the whole experience at Mercedes in recent days a real flood of emotions and after the race he quickly called his parents to make it easier to gather for interviews: “If you told me at the beginning of this week that I would score a few points, I would tell you that this will be a really good weekend. But if they told me I was going to run the race and then finish like this, hm… I admit, it hurts, it hurt like hell when I got out of the race car.
"I talked to my parents and they told me I could be proud of my show today. Toto, James and Bono told me similarly. I hope I threw a glove at Toto anyway so he will remember me in the future when they need racers, ” he concluded in a more serene tone George Russell.
