{"id":638559,"date":"2026-06-14T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638559\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:19:09","slug":"f1-live-lewis-hamilton-fights-back-tears-as-george-russell-demands-showdown-talks-f1-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638559\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 LIVE: Lewis Hamilton fights back tears as George Russell demands showdown talks | F1 | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Russell<\/a> has demanded answers from his Mercedes team over their strategy at the Barcelona Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The Mercedes man started on pole position but entered the last few laps of the race in third.<\/p>\n

He gave up the race lead to eventual winner Lewis Hamilton and was eventually overtaken by team-mate Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n

The Italian’s engine failed late on, meaning Russell would get P2 in the end, but the Brit wasn’t happy.<\/p>\n

Speaking post-race<\/a>, he said: “Firstly, congrats to Lewis as well because he had a really impressive race. I don’t think we expected to see that sort of pace from him and Ferrari. It’s special to see him back on the top step.<\/p>\n

“From my side, it was not straightforward. In hindsight, the three-stop would probably have suited my style a little bit better because I was struggling a lot towards the end of the stints. I’ll just take the positives away: It was a clean Friday, clean Saturday and I came away with 18 points. That’s 18 more than I’ve done in the last two races.<\/p>\n

“Lewis probably would have come back through anyway, but without the VSC he would have pitted behind us and who knows what would have happened? I was just struggling towards the end of the stints. I need to review why that was.<\/p>\n

“On the first stint I felt really comfortable on the mediums. I felt we pitted really early. Lewis had committed to the three-stop and we should have committed to our own strategy.<\/p>\n

“It’s something I want to pick up with the team, because I was managing quite a lot at the start and still eking out that gap to Lewis, and then I thought we’d actually converted to a three [stop]. When they told me we were staying on the two [stop], yeah, that was a challenge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has demanded answers from his Mercedes team over their strategy at the Barcelona Grand Prix. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215559,1687,3008,26571,215560,59,9307,19579,832,3006,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barcelona-catalunya-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-updates","tag-formula-one-news","tag-gb","tag-george-russell","tag-kimi-antonelli","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638559","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=638559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}