Two-time Components 1 champion Fernando Alonso has defined why George Russell options on his telephone case.
Heading into the Mexico Grand Prix weekend, the British driver was noticed on the again of Alonso’s telephone in a photograph of the paddock board by which the 2 drivers are positioned subsequent to 1 one other.
“What?!” Russell stated to Mercedes when advised about his uncommon function. “Is that this actual? Or is that this… What me solely? No, one thing’s not… I imply, me and Fernando, we have a superb relationship, however telephone case relationship? No…”
As Alonso and Russell each arrived on the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for Friday’s observe periods, the Aston Martin driver defined how Russell got here to grace his telephone case.
“You wish to signal it?” Alonso joked as he approached the Mercedes driver. “My niece took a photograph in Miami and also you’re sadly there,” he stated, laughing.
“I am completely happy to signal it for you for those who needed me to,” Russell responded. “I used to be certain it was pretend.”
Alonso sits twelfth within the drivers’ standings with 37 factors forward of the Mexico Grand Prix. Alonso’s 37 factors, collectively together with his team-mate Lance Stroll’s 32, place Aston Martin seventh within the constructors’ championship.
“I imply, we’re very important with ourselves,” the 44-year-old advised the media in Mexico. “We’ve been underperforming for principally the entire of 2025. I believe if we set a bar in February or March within the first race of the 12 months and we predict that it is going to be the season we had and a few low factors as a workforce we’ll suppose that that was a foul season.
“So we do not cover from the truth that we aren’t fast sufficient. However on the similar time we strive each weekend to do our greatest with the issues we’ve got accessible right here on trackside. We attempt to ship. Austin was tenth and we take that time. Typically it is a few factors however I do not suppose it is nothing to have fun. It has been a troublesome season and it is going to be all the time like that.”
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