Toto Wolff has described himself as “not happy” after another Mercedes problem affected George Russell, this time in the Hungarian GP.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell started sixth in Budapest, but bogged down off the line after triggering anti-stall and dropped to 21st and last, with Sergio Perez having started from the pit-lane.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell then mounted a strong recovery drive, scything through the midfield to climb into the top 10, and take seventh place – the last finisher of the top four teams after Oscar Piastri’s DNF, to score six points.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This, coupled with Kimi Antonelli hauling 15 for third place means Russell is now 59 points behind his team-mate, meaning the earliest Russell could overhaul is at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, with Antonelli having scored 40 points in the last two races, to Russell’s six.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The issue with the start sequence was the latest in a catalogue of problems affecting Russell in 2026, including a DNF with engine failure in Canada, and the straight-line speed issues in Britiain and Belgium, and left Wolff not impressed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It seems another problem has happened to George,” Wolff reflected to media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It looks like he gave it about 10% throttle, and the thing revved to the maximum, he went off throttle, and it bogged down.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So I am really not happy about the mistakes that are happening, so that was the reason.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“After that, he drove very well; he went through the traffic easily, and then recovered the maximum points he could have recovered.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has described himself as “not happy” after another Mercedes problem affected George Russell, this time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-546478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}