Antonelli<\/a>, with both Red Bulls and both Ferraris splitting them on the grid.<\/p>\n\u201cI don’t think I could have fought for pole, but I think top three was definitely on the cards for me,\u201d he said after the session. \u201cI went slower in Q3 than I did in Q2, so that says enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Briton was also at a loss to explain the reason why he was so far off, while conceding that everything snowballed after a slide during his lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not too sure to be honest,” he added. “I think from my side, it’s two bad laps in Q3. As simple as that, really.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was feeling very good at Sector 1, feeling good, but then in low speed I was struggling, and yeah, just didn’t get it together in Q3.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust one slide around Turn 12, and then it was just a snowball. Lost it all in Sector 3, and yeah, simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wind around the Circuit of The Americas made it tricky for everyone during the session, but changing track temperature could also have played a part in affecting performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cloud cover was having quite an impact as well,\u201d said Russell. \u201cSo I don’t think anybody improved on that last lap. The sun came out but, unfortunately, my first lap was not good enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust for everyone, the track temperature raises by a couple of degrees, and when you get to Sector 3, that has a huge difference in the tyres and the window.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to Sunday’s race, Russell noted: \u201cI don’t think anyone expected Ferrari not to be in the top three. They looked the dominant team this whole weekend, so it will be interesting for the race pace, how that translates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell\u2019s slim hopes of keeping the pressure on Kimi Antonelli in the title battle suffered a blow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-476018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}