168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell was criticised for being “aggressive” and “desperate” by Damon Hill despite being cleared of wrongdoing for his battle with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Russell attempted to overtake Piꦏastri into Turn 16 with a smart dummy.

The pair had tyre๊-to-tyre contact in th🍷e middle of chicane, with Piastri cutting it to keep the position.

Russell w𝕴ould have to wait until the final lap to overtake the McLaren driver to secure seventh.

Both drivers were cleared by th𝄹e stewards following a post-race investi🌠gation.

1996 F1 world champion Hill felt it was a "risky" move🍒 from Russell in the first place.

"I thought it was an aggressive move, and a risky one,” Hill said. “It🙈 required Oscar to take evasive action.

“A bit desperate from George.”

Giving his view on it, Rus🧔sell said: “It was a late move, from my side. I was down the inside, made contact. I think there was enough room for us both to stay on the track. And he obviously continued.

“I would’ve been a little more upset if I finished the ra🌠ce behind him. Inไ the end, nothing gained and nothing lost.”

Mercedes were the only team inside the top 10 to start on the hard tyre following t🌟he red f𝄹lag period.

It didn’t quite work out as Mercedes abandoned their one-stop stra📖tegy for a two-stop.

Russell felt tha⛎t starting on the hards “was the right decision”

“It was the right decision, starting on the hards,” he added. “Because it gave us the flexibility to do the one-stop or the two-stop. If you start on the medium after the🦩 red flag, you are committed to the twoꦏ-stop.

It was a challenging first stint. I was behind Lewis, he was struggling a bit with the fronts. It would have been good to have been in the fight ahead. Because, after the first pit sto🐽p, we were in line with Lando and Charles ahead.”

It was 🍎yet another poor weekend from Mercedes, who caꦛme away with seventh and ninth.

Looking ahead to the 🍒rest of the season, Russell remains confident the next races will suit🎀 the W15 better.

"When you look how close those three manufacturers are - with Oscar and Fernando within a couple of seconds - it’s extremely close between those four teams," he explained. "It will come down to qualifying. It was two tenths between P3 and P8 on the grid. It was the same in Bahrai🅰n.

"Whoever manages to qualify at the front of that pack will finish at the front of that pack. We know that we have work to𒁃 do. None of us are content with fighting for second-best. China, and theꦏ tracks coming up, will suit us better than the last three."