At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, Mercedes driver George Russell finished a creditable second after starting from second on the grid. Nevertheless, he wasn\u2019t really in the mood to laugh afterwards. His team-mate and rival Kimi Antonelli won ahead of him \u2013 even though he had started the race from 19th on the grid due to an engine penalty. A humiliation for Russell, despite scoring 18 points. <\/p>\n
Boos on the podium<\/p>\n
During the trophy presentation on the podium, George Russell was then booed by the Italian (Antonelli) fans. Russell didn\u2019t let it bother him, as he later said: \u201cWhen you\u2019re racing in someone else\u2019s home country, that\u2019s to be expected. I took it in my stride with a grin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russell to get his own grandstand at Silverstone<\/p>\n
Russell will have all the more to smile about at his own home race in 2027: next season at Silverstone, he\u2019ll have his very own fan stand for the first time, the \u2018GRandstand\u2019 (not a typo, but a play on Russell\u2019s initials, GR, in the English word for grandstand). <\/p>\n
Russell and the Silverstone circuit announced this after the Monza race \u2013 a welcome boost for the Englishman. Russell: \u201cThe grandstand is here at the exit of Turn 1. So you can see Turns 1 and 2 and the good overtaking spot from Turn 3 to 4.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lando Norris has also had his own grandstand at Silverstone for some time now, the \u2018Landostand\u2019. Lewis Hamilton even has his own straight, the Hamilton Straight \u2013 which, incidentally, leads straight to the \u2018GRandstand\u2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, Mercedes driver George Russell finished a creditable second after starting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-888184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888184","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=888184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}