George Russell believes it is “easier said than done” to go back to basics with a “huge load off my mind” after his recent F1 struggles proved not to be his fault.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Across the British and Belgian races, Russell struggled with straight-line speed issues in his Mercedes, which was initially thought to be related to his driving style.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, it was proven ahead of the Hungarian GP that the issues were actually in the Mercedes power unit and that there was nothing Russell could do.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Briton finds himself 59 points behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli in the standings as F1 reconvenes from the summer break at the Dutch Grand Prix, with Russell believing the issues not being his fault was a big lift.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It is a huge load off my mind, but also while I’m driving, through Silverstone and the majority of Friday and Saturday at Spa, I think about how I needed to drive to make the power unit fast in the straight,” Russell explained to media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“How I pick up the throttle, the gear usage, how early I am on the throttle, and the data was telling us that this was probably the reason [I was struggling], but it turned out it wasn’t the reason.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So all of that effort over the course of three sessions, trying to re-optimise my driving around a new technique, was kind of for nothing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“If I focus on the simple things, I know that is when I perform at my best, but we’re not in a simplistic sport, so saying let’s just solely focus on the simple things is easier said than done, sometimes.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell believes it is “easier said than done” to go back to basics with a “huge load…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843312,"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-860785","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\/860785","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=860785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}