{"id":178290,"date":"2025-10-04T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178290\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:18:08","slug":"russell-deems-crash-in-singapore-practice-a-weird-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178290\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell deems crash in Singapore practice &#8220;a weird one&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01a3c0_5a8501cfb8f94f7694bc18c7d0313acd~mv2.png\" alt=\"Credit: Formula One\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.dive-bomb.com\/article\/russell-deems-crash-in-singapore-practice-a-weird-one\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/01a3c0_5a8501cfb8f94f7694bc18c7d0313acd~mv2.png\/v1\/fill\/w_3392,h_1908,al_c,q_95\/01a3c0_5a8501cfb8f94f7694bc18c7d0313acd~mv2.png\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-so3f38908\">George Russell found the barriers around the Marina Bay circuit not long into Friday&#8217;s second practice session. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-y7fic9214\">The British driver has been having perhaps his best season in Formula One so far, performing with remarkable consistency and making very few errors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-f07bc11077\">However, his crash at this very circuit two years ago still lingers in memory. More recently, the Netflix series Drive to Survive\u00a0captured him battling the extreme heat after the 2024 race, raising questions over his comfort at what is often regarded as the most physically demanding event of the calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-t0omn9837\">When asked about the crash in practice, Russell said: &#8220;It was a bit of a weird one to be honest. I&#8217;m not too sure what happened. I braked a bit earlier, went in a little bit slower, then just lost the rear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-a5sua13797\">In regards to the rest of practice, Russell added: &#8220;FP1 was challenging. In those early laps [of FP2] I had a much better feel with the car, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-wwe5y16084\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t complete any [full] laps, so there was no sort of real lap time on the board, but at least the laps, if you took the sectors together, felt better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-y640c18008\">Despite his efforts to stay positive, the British driver ceded: &#8220;It&#8217;s not been our best Friday by a long way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"fxTZ7 fvFfv lRgAI xFml2\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-4bfmo19813\">He will now look to regroup ahead of qualifying, with hopes that Sunday\u2019s race will bring better fortune than the past two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell found the barriers around the Marina Bay circuit not long into Friday&#8217;s second practice session. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178290","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\/178290","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=178290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}