George Russell admitted he was \u201clost for words\u201d after suffering a crushing retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell arrived at Sunday\u2019s race looking to build on the momentum he generated over the weekend, having secured maximum points in Saturday\u2019s sprint race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The opening half of the grand prix featured a fierce battle between the Mercedes team-mates, with Russell and Kimi Antonelli exchanging positions on several occasions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, Russell\u2019s race came to an abrupt end on lap 30 when a major power unit issue forced him to retire.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The setback handed Antonelli a significant 25-point advantage in the championship battle, with the Italian going on to claim victory.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Explaining the failure, Russell told Sky F1: \u201cEverything turned off, all of a sudden as I went into the corner.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe engine stopped, no electronics, no proper braking. A bit lost for words right now.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell now sits 43 points down on Antonelli in the drivers’ standings after the Italian bagged a fourth successive race victory.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Despite the setback in the standings, Russell asserted he is still proud of how he navigated his race weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m proud of my weekend, pole the sprint, won the sprint, pole in qualifying,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI was leading when I stopped. I had a good battle with Kimi.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my side, I don’t feel like there was anything more I could have done this weekend, so I’ll leave satisfied.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I’m pretty damn frustrated with what’s happened but what more can I do.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell admitted he was \u201clost for words\u201d after suffering a crushing retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2476,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,43,932,1885,2475,44,582,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-691852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}