he was surprised by the volume of upgrades the Italian outfit has introduced<\/a> in recent races, a sentiment echoed by Russell.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\u201cThe car has been extremely consistent every single race so far,\u201d Russell told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been surprised at how many upgrades some teams are bringing. Maybe they’ll pay the price towards the end of the season.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell\u2019s comments refer to the financial constraints imposed by F1\u2019s budget cap, with teams facing severe penalties for exceeding the spending limit.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As Mercedes looks to maintain its position at the front of the field, Russell insisted the team will not rush into a decision over when to introduce its next major upgrade package.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know what we’re planning [with] our upgrades. It’s not this side of the break.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we can just review during the summer break, if we pull the trigger slightly earlier on those upgrades or not.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s just a balancing act, but as Toto said me, we have been a bit surprised with how many that some other teams have brought.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has suggested F1 teams could \u201cpay the price\u201d later in the season for their aggressive approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774816,"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-774815","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\/774815","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=774815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}