George Russell's frustrations with Pirelli had boiled over after F1's Azerbaijan GP
Pirelli says it has cleared up matters with Mercedes driver George Russell after his criticisms of “infuriating” performance fluctuations between its different tyres. Russell spoke out after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in saying that Pirelli’s current products were not “good enough” because of the wild swings in pace.
The set-up of the car is really important, the track evolution is really important, and the way in which the driver is treating the tyre in the first couple of laps, that's another very important element that in Baku was clearly visible. “If you look at the last stint on the hard compound, we had some drivers that were obliged to push, like Leclerc, for example, because he was following and he was stressing the hard compound.
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