168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell says the high-speed deficiencies of Mercedes’ 2024 F1 car are particularly “exposed” during low-fue☂l runs in qualif🥂ying.

Russell could only qualify ninth for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix and was outpaced by Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton for the first time this season at Suzuka.

The Briton, who admitted a mistake in Q3 cost him a potential🔜 top-five𒁃 starting grid slot in Japan, revealed Mercedes are trying some “drastic” test items in a bid to cure their mean weakness.

"We know the strengths and weaknesses of our car. The weakness is high-speed corners,” ❀Russell said.

"When you get to qualifying, you take the fuel out, the corneཧrs are becoming faster and faster and faster. So, the pace naturally sort of goes away from us a bit in those corners.

"We're definitely doing more drastic test items at the moment🐷 to try and get on top of this 🦂high-speed performance. The car is correlating well in low speed and medium speed.

"But we're a long way off in the high speed compared to what we're seeing back at base. So💮, we need to get on top of thatও.

"When you get to qualifying and the fuel comes out, the speeds are only g꧟oing higher, higher and higher and that sort ⛄of runs away from us slightly.

"Whereas in the race, you're probably going around the corners 30km/h slower in a🐎 high speed, which brings it back into more of a medium-speed corner rather than a high-speed corner.

"So, we need to understa꧙nd that. And it's good it's been exposed this early in the season.”

Russel🌼l believes that the start of the 2024 calendar has only exacerbated Mercedes’ problems.

"Unfortunately, just with the nature of this calendar, we've had three circu🐽its in a row that are all high speed," he added.

"If we started the season at Bahrain, Baku and Singapore, we'd probably be꧙ talking a very diffe𝕴rent picture for us."