"My engineer said three laps before, 'they’re fighting really hard'"
McLaren’s Norris was vying for victory but his race ended early after contact with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
“But it’s a bit of a strange one to win a race like this, for sure. But as I said, it’s racing. Sometimes it goes against you.“Montreal was won, arguably Singapore, things could have gone very slightly differently last year and today it went for us. So it’s how the cookie crumbles.” “So I knew, I just sort of said to myself, do what you do best, no heroics and you’ll win this race.”Russell said about the final laps with Verstappen and Norris no longer in the mix: “I think the difficulty was we were approaching a lot of backmarkers and we were interacting a lot with them.
"And when there was only two seconds between Oscar and I, that was probably the most nerve-wracking.”“Yeah, without doubt. I think we really executed everything really well,” he said.“Race starts have been good. P4 in the race yesterday was the maximum. P3, realistically, was the maximum and the deserving result today.Russell was offset strategically and ran a medium tyre in the middle of the grand prix. He was asked if it aided him against Piastri in the closing stages.
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