Toto Wolff<\/a> hailed Russell\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n\u201cVery impressive considering on Friday morning it was nearly Valtteri (Bottas) in the car and it was George himself who said \u2018I\u2019m not sure I can do it\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing a one-and-a-half hour race here in Baku, not putting a single foot wrong. That was a super-merited P2.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercedes enjoyed a strong weekend on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with under-pressure Kimi Antonelli coming home fourth.<\/p>\n
There were jubilant scenes for Williams as Sainz delivered their first podium in over four years and only their second since 2017.<\/p>\n
Sainz, a four-time race winner with Ferrari, almost doubled his points tally for the entire season after a mixed start since his move from the Scuderia.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard, who told the PA news agency recently that he believes he can become world champion with Williams, said the podium underlines their progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot describe how happy I am, how good this feels. This is even better than my first ever podium that I did,\u201d Sainz said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been fighting hard all year and finally today, we just proved that when we have the speed \u2014 we\u2019ve had it all year \u2014 and everything comes together, we can do some amazing things together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are on the rise; we are in the right direction. Unfortunately, with me, we\u2019ve had a lot of bad luck, a lot of incidents \u2014 very difficult to convert all that pace into results.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut now I understand why it all happened, because the first podium needed to come like this.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just life, you know? Life just sometimes brings you those bad moments to give you a very nice one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}