Former Method 1 driver and Sky Sports activities analyst Martin Brundle has argued that there’s presently “nothing to decide on” between George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.
Following a frantic Canadian Grand Prix dash race, by which Antonelli accused his Mercedes team-mate of pushing him off the observe, the pair later resolved the difficulty earlier than persevering with their tense on-track battle in the course of the grand prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
“There’s nothing to decide on between Russell and Antonelli in the intervening time, expertise and knowledge appears to match unbridled velocity and enthusiasm completely, and that is why they preserve assembly in the course of a nook,” Brundle defined in his Sky Sports activities column.
“They continually gave the impression to be aspect by aspect particularly when both driver ran a contact deep on the brakes into the Flip 10 hairpin. That’s till Russell’s Merc expired for good with a uncommon technical failure someplace within the energy unit. And he was out.”
After a number of laps of an thrilling rivalry between the 2 team-mates, Russell was compelled to retire attributable to a battery failure. Antonelli went on to assert his fourth consecutive win and prolong his lead within the drivers’ championship to 43 factors over Russell.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
Photograph by: Andy Hone/ LAT Photographs by way of Getty Photographs
Antonelli was joined on the rostrum by seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton in second and Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen in third. “Three completely different groups on the rostrum, and whereas not an all-time traditional this was a totally gratifying and memorable Grand Prix so far as I am involved,” Brundle added.
“George Russell is now 43 factors behind his teenage team-mate, that is equal to a primary and second place, and he has to imagine that what goes round comes round. There’s nonetheless a really lengthy method to go however McLaren, Ferrari and Purple Bull usually are not going to face nonetheless both.”
The Monaco Grand Prix is up subsequent on 5-7 June.
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