George Russell has demanded changes to the Madring circuit layout after a “not pleasant” experience in the Spanish Grand Prix left him with a “sore head.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The new 22-turn circuit in the Spanish capital was limited in its overtaking opportunities, with the only realistic place to make a move being at Turns 5 and 6 at the end of the longest straight on the circuit.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, the curved arrival into the braking zone leads into a fast left-right-left chicane which does not create overtaking opportunities for drivers with no big stop as cars clatter over the kerbs.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Following a fifth place finish which saw his points deficit to race-winner Kimi Antonelli balloon to 81 points, Russell was keen for changes to be made for the 2027 event.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“They need to do something, they need to make a change,” Russell told media, including RacingNews365 of the track layout.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Because every circuit needs to have an overtaking opportunity after a bit of a straight, and this one has a tight chicane and the corners that are a real challenge, but it is not pleasant.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“After 60 laps smashing those kerbs, my head was a bit sore at the end.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tRussell reflects on “far better” Spanish GP<\/p>\n
As for his race, Russell laboured to a fifth-place finish, having started on the hard tyres and running long, losing a further 15 points to team-mate Antonelli.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The hard tyre was by far the superior tyre, and it would have been a big gamble to stay out on the medium, and I thought I had nothing to lose in the end,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think I would have ended up where I ended up anyway, so it is a bit of a shame; it is a very tough track to overtake, which I guess was a bit annoying for everyone.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The performance was far better than the result, and I think the pace was really strong, among the strongest of everybody out there, so I take those positives, but this was Monaco-esque in terms of qualifying [being important].”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has demanded changes to the Madring circuit layout after a “not pleasant” experience in the Spanish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600354,"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-600353","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\/600353","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=600353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}