George Russell says Mercedes’ performance in the Sao Paulo sprint race was a “tough pill to swallow” after he finished over 25 seconds behind race winner Max Verstappen.
says Mercedes’ performance in the Sao Paulo sprint race was a “tough pill to swallow” after he finished over 25 seconds behind race winnerMercedes typically have excelled in race trim, relative qualifying, leaving Russell confused after the 24-lap race in Brazil.
"It was a tough pill to swallow,” he said. “It’s really quite confusing. Unfortunately it’s always down to these tyres and getting them in the sweet spot. “Especially these last two weekends, nobody’s really understood when it’s working for them, and they’ve found a lot of performance, like Ferrari in qualifying last week, then we found our pace in the race and suddenly it wasn’t there for us today when we expected quite a lot. So I don’t know going into tomorrow.
“Right now, obviously we’re not too optimistic, but conditions are different and that can totally change everything.”“I enjoyed the first lap, with Lando,” he added. “It was a bit tight. To be honest, the pace we had was in line with my expectations but everyone else was substantially quicker. “With Max, we’ve never been that far behind. He finished 25 seconds ahead in 24 laps. Over a second a lap. That was really quite surprising for us.”
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