George Russell says Mercedes have ‘questions that need answering’ after F1 Miami GP qualifying
Mercedes struggled for pace in qualifying but Russell was able to sneak through into the top-10 shootout on his way to securing sixth on the grid behind Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly.
Russell’s teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton suffered a sho﷽ck Q2 elimination and will start down in 13th.
The 25-year-old Briton admitted the result, aided by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc’s session-ending crash, was “very flatteriꦬng”.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say quite pleased,🌄 of course I’ll take the result, it’s a very flattering result for the performance that we showed,” Russell told Sky.
"I did a really decent lap in Q2 to just scrape through, just to get into Q3 and that’s not where we sho🙈uld be.
“Everybody is 💯working so, so hard to bring more performance t♚o the car, it’s definitely not for a lack of effort and it’s just not coming to us at the moment.
“So there’s a lot♕ to think about. A few questions that need answering.”
Russell stressed that Mercedes “need to think about the bigger picture” in their bid to close their substantial deficit to Red Bull, who have dom♏inated the start of the season.
“It’s a theme of us that we gener🦋ally have a better Sunday than we do on Saturday,” he added.&nb🐬sp;
“Obviously got the Alpine and Haas around us, ho♐pefully we can get past them, and Ferrari tend to struggle a bit more on Sunday.
“We’ll focus on tomorrow, but we need to think about t🐠he bigger picture and how we’re gonna bring that fight to the guys at the top.”
There is a strong possibility that Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen will cross paths one week after their spat following꧒ a collision during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint race.
The world championship leader will start only ninth after making a rare mista𒉰ke in Q3 before Leclerc shunted and brought qualifying to a premature end.
Asked how quickly he expects to see Verstappen in his mirror🦋s, Russell said: “Pretty quickly I’m sure.
“I don’t know. It’s 🏅difficult for everybody. Everybody is working so hard to get up 🐠there.
“We’ll tr🍎y and put in a fight with whoever is around us, but we’ll see what we can do.”
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