'I've had a bit of a scrappy last three races on my behalf, too many incidents, too many mistakes. That was probably a factor of taking it too cautiously.' 💬 George Russell believes he was too circumspect at the start of the F1 MexicoGP ⬇️
Russell started second, but after giving space to Hamilton he emerged from the opening sequence of corners on the first lap in fourth place, a position he still held at the end of the race.Carlos Sainz“I knew I wouldn't have been able to overtake Max [Verstappen] on the outside,” said Russell when asked by Autosport about his first lap. “But having Lewis on the inside I didn't want to be too aggressive, obviously him being my team-mate.
“So yeah, that's the way the game works sometimes. I'd like to think it would have been the same had it been the other way around. Maybe, maybe not, I'm not too sure. Expanding on the strategy choice, he said: “There was no real thought about starting on the soft, but there was definitely a thought of extending the medium, and going into the soft.
“So seeing Ricciardo's performance is a little bit disappointing as well, because I really felt like I could have continued on that medium at a good pace, and we would have been flying at the end on that soft.”Russell made it clear on the radio that he wasn’t happy with the hard tyres, but there was nothing that the team could do. In the end he made a late extra stop just to secure fastest lap.
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