The Mercedes<\/a> driver managed to get back ahead after the timing of the Safety Car didn\u2019t work in Leclerc\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n Russell was caught napping at the VSC restart, losing out to Leclerc again, who pulled off an ambitious overtake.<\/p>\n The pair had contact, giving Russell damage as a result.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Russell eventually finished fourth, benefitting from Kimi Antonelli<\/a>\u2019s collision with Leclerc and Lando Norris<\/a>\u2019 DNF.<\/p>\n \u201cI take zero satisfaction in finishing P4 after that race to be honest,\u201d Russell said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a bad start, poor driving from my side. Then Charles passed me, then the pace was bad, then obviously the damage after the incident with Charles. Because of the damage I lost one second per lap, so it was just really not fun at all, and very lucky to finish in P4.\u201d<\/p>\n Russell \u201clucky with everything\u201d<\/p>\n Russell acknowledged that, unlike Leclerc, luck was entirely in his favour.<\/p>\n Russell, Leclerc<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n The British driver conceded that he hoped the first race back after the summer break was \u201cmore plain-sailing\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou hope when you return [from summer break] that it\u2019s going to be a bit more plain sailing but Formula 1 is never like that. But it just wasn\u2019t a good race in many regards, and we just need to look at that, why that was,\u201d added Russell.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the fact is the gaps between a lot of the teams now are very tight, and when you come to a track like this where overtaking is very difficult, that track position is vital, Qualifying is important and the pit stop strategy is very important. Luck \u2013 you know, Charles was unlucky with the Safety Car timing, and we were lucky with everything else that happened.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I need a day to assess it.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell was unhappy with his performance at the Dutch Grand Prix despite coming away with fourth. Russell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,817,3875,945,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-112027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-george-russell","tag-mercedes","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Russell,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/xpb_1369304_hires.jpg\")
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