George Russell has explained his confusion over not being fitted with medium tyres for the Q3 session at Monza, insisting he is also to blame for the miscommunication.<\/p>\n
As the cars peeled out of the pit lane for the final segment of qualifying, Russell was heard voicing concern over the team radio.<\/p>\n
Having been equipped with the soft tyres, Russell told his team: \u201cI thought I said I wanted the mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russell’s request came after he topped the Q1 session running the yellow-walled compound while the rest of the field had the softs.<\/p>\n
The Mercedes driver went on to qualify in sixth place but will progress up a position in the order on Sunday due to a grid penalty for Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Russell explained the situation arose due to a miscommunication within the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was quickest in Q1 with the medium,\u201d Russell told media including RacingNews365. \u201cWe were one of the only teams with two mediums.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a miscommunication with me and the team. They’re not really to blame, probably I’m as much to blame [because] I didn’t make it clearer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought, with the lap time I showed, I just presumed. I said after Q1 \u2018the medium feels great, we should consider it for Q3\u2019. Then I said in the middle of Q2 after my first lap, \u2018I’d like to run the medium in Q3′.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I said in the garage, \u2018Are we sticking to the plan?\u2019 And they said \u2018Yes\u2019. I thought the plan was medium, but the plan was soft.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s why it was a surprise. As I said, I’m as much to blame. We should have discussed it more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tRussell got what he deserved<\/p>\n
Russell ended the session almost half a second down on pole-sitter Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
The Briton admitted it is difficult to know where he could have progressed to with the medium tyre, but hinted it would have been a stronger effort than his soft tyre run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t know, to be honest. The gap was pretty large in the end, but I just felt much more comfortable with the medium tyre,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t really do good laps in Q3. I only improved one and a half-tenths from Q1 on the medium to my fastest lap in Q3.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormal improvement is probably five or six tenths, and bearing in mind the lap in Q1, I did two laps on the tyre.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at those numbers, you would think it would be substantially faster than what I did achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut anyway, P5 is probably a deserving position\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has explained his confusion over not being fitted with medium tyres for the Q3 session at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-124287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124287","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=124287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}