George Russell felt that his end result in the Sprint at the British Grand Prix was \u201cnot ideal\u201d, with the Briton stating that P3 \u2013 rather than P4 \u2013 is \u201cprobably where I should have finished\u201d.<\/p>\n
Russell<\/a> started the event from fifth place on the grid, having struggled to match the pace of Mercedes<\/a> team mate Kimi Antonelli<\/a> \u2013 who started from P2 \u2013 during Friday\u2019s Sprint Qualifying.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old made a good launch when Saturday\u2019s event got underway and overtook both McLarens<\/a> in the early stages, moving himself up to third. However, he later slipped backwards when Lando Norris<\/a> retook P3 before Red Bull<\/a>\u2019s Max Verstappen<\/a> also moved ahead to P4.<\/p>\n As the 100km dash progressed, Russell chased down Verstappen and got past the Dutchman to return to fourth \u2013 and while he tried to catch Norris for third towards the end, the Silver Arrows driver crossed the line just under one second away at the line.<\/p>\n Asked after the Sprint if he was disappointed at how it all unfolded \u2013 particularly given that he was running in P3 on the first lap \u2013 Russell responded: \u201cYeah, Lap 1 was great and I did two great overtakes in two corners, then I got a bit left vulnerable.<\/p>\n \u201cOn the next straights I got overtaken by the McLarens, so I need to understand how I managed to pull the moves off but then how I lost positions again anyway.<\/p>\n \u201cP3 is probably where I should have finished \u2013 I finished in P4, one point less. Not ideal, but main focus is on Quali now.\u201d<\/p>\n Mercedes Deputy Team Principal Bradley Lord spoke positively about Russell\u2019s progression, however, when reflecting back on the Sprint while chatting to F1 TV.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always better to finish higher up than you started \u2013 he went from P5 to P4,\u201d said Lord. \u201cIt looked like he had the pace to catch Lando as well \u2013 he was closing in on him pretty quick at the end, so that suggests that the deg is good on both cars which is good for tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s also, when you get stuck in battles at the start of the race, with these rules \u2013 and on these circuits where the energy management is so difficult \u2013 and it goes back and forth and you find yourself leapfrogged by three cars somehow, and then you work your way back.<\/p>\n \u201cHe stayed calm with that as well and just worked at it methodically, so clearly was the quicker of the cars. Could\u2019ve got Lando, but hopefully we can start from a better place tomorrow and then go forward from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell felt that his end result in the Sprint at the British Grand Prix was \u201cnot ideal\u201d,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-524966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}