Mercedes crew consultant Bradley Lord has mirrored on George Russell’s “irritating” Mexico Grand Prix, claiming the British driver was “frolicked to dry on lap six”.
The beginning of the race at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez has come underneath scrutiny after a number of drivers left the observe and both saved or gained positions with out receiving penalties. After conserving it inside the white strains on the chaotic begin, the British driver claimed he needed to take avoiding motion on lap six when Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen had been in an intense battle, which prompted him to lose extra positions.
“The opening laps didn’t go our approach; George was one of many solely drivers within the high 5 to remain between the white strains, and misplaced out in consequence, then was frolicked to dry on lap six and misplaced two extra positions,” Lord defined within the Mercedes debrief.
“He felt rightly aggrieved on the final result, as this finally formed the end result of his race. Kimi profited the place George misplaced out and was managing his tyres to a deliberate one-stop technique behind Bearman when George and Piastri closed to inside DRS vary.
“After a number of laps, we determined to invert the vehicles to present George a chance to assault the Haas, as he felt he had tempo in hand, however he was unable to make inroads as a result of the tyres had been previous their finest after the laps within the soiled air.”
Russell completed the race in seventh behind his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli in sixth.
“That was a irritating afternoon,” he mirrored. “At first, three drivers reduce over the grass at Flip 1 and both saved or gained positions with out penalty. I stayed on the observe however misplaced out, sadly.
George Russell, Mercedes
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“That additionally occurred when Lewis and Max had been battling; when the Pink Bull got here again on the observe, I needed to take avoiding motion, go off observe, and misplaced a number of positions myself. These two moments had been finally the undoing of our race.
“From there, it was tough being caught in a practice of vehicles and specifically, with the soiled air. We inverted the vehicles to try to maximise the crew outcome however finally we simply didn’t have the tempo to struggle our approach ahead.
“We’ve received 4 races to go and must regain some momentum if we’re to emerge forward within the battle for second within the constructors’ championship. We’re relishing that struggle and searching ahead to Brazil.”
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