George Russell shared a photograph with an uncommon standpoint on the Friday of the Mexico Grand Prix. After taking a photograph from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez grandstands whereas sporting a lucha libre-style masks, he posted the shot to Instagram.
With the caption, “Haven’t watched F1 automobiles on observe in years, so discovered a approach to sneak into the stands whereas Fred was driving my automobile,” the picture confirmed him sitting alongside followers as he went undercover to benefit from the first follow session whereas Frederik Vesti drove his automobile alongside Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Every group should allocate two follow classes to a rookie driver, with the Brackley outfit handing Russell’s W16 to Vesti this weekend in Mexico Metropolis. This freed the Briton to look at the motion from the grandstands earlier than returning to the cockpit for FP2.
He definitely seemed the half within the packed Foro Sol grandstands amid the standard carnival really feel of the occasion. And the picture gained substantial numbers sitting at over 210,000 likes on the time of writing inside an hour of it being posted.
Streams of feedback accompanied the put up.
“OMG legendary,” one commenter wrote, with one other including: “You are so iconic omg.”
“Think about sitting there & George Russell was subsequent to you,” a 3rd wrote.
George Russell, Mercedes
Picture by: Clive Rose / Method 1 by way of Getty Photos
Regardless of relinquishing his automobile to Vesti for FP1, he is prepared to provide his all this weekend come Saturday’s qualifying.
“I believe it is so shut between the highest 4 groups, to be trustworthy, and are available qualifying, you see the gaps are fairly small. Clearly, you have at all times acquired one group who’re performing higher than the remainder at a given weekend. You already know, Purple Bull final week, that was us in Singapore, however we all know we’re within the battle and in the event you do an amazing job in Q3, you could be on the entrance row or high three and then you definitely’re within the battle for the rostrum.
“So the reality is, I do not actually have any expectations, entering into with an open thoughts.”
With follow persevering with at this time within the high-altitude situations, Russell will now deal with making up for the misplaced time.
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