Mercedes are still unclear as to what exactly happened to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s F1 car during the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Russell turned in a brilliant drive to claim second place behind McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri in Sunday's race desp🍃ite suffering from a plethora of electrical gremlins which cꦺaused Mercedes’ systems to go awry.

The Briton lost brake-by-wire in his W16 and experienced transponder issues which saw him repeatedly 🔜vanish from the timing screens. This🐽 also impacted his automatic DRS activation system.

At one point Russell incorrectly activated his DRS which led to a post-race investigation, but he 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:escaped punishment having immediately backed off th🏅e thro꧂ttle in order to close the flap.

Mercedes team pr☂incipal Toto Wolff admitted he is unsure whether the fault was theirs or an issue on Formula One Management’s end.

"It has happened before back in 2018," Wolff explained to me💛dia after the race.

"There have been examples of needing to manually override and inadvertently opening being no further action. It doesn't mean that's the case here, but there ar🍌e precedents for it.

“It opened and closed.🎃 There wasn’t any benefit. The system failed and we hope it will be alright.

"We don't know the [cause] yet. Maybe some wiring looms in the car, or maybe it was trigg🌳ered by the F1 system failꦚure and it caused our system to go bananas."

Mercedes hail ‘unbelievable’ George Russell drive

Wolff was left impressed by Russell’s ability to fend off the faster McLaren of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris to secure P2 while contending with a m🍃ultitude of issues inside his cockpit.

"The brake-by-wire failed sudd♑enly, and then it took a while to find the settings to kind of reset it,” he said.

“But we did that, and then, to be honest, him managing the system coming in and out while having Norris behind him. It's just an unbelievable drive, to be honestඣ.

"What he di𒈔d today. He secured this podium on top of that. Tak😼ing the soft for such a long time was also created between managing and then attacking when he needed to.

“And I think it's probably whoever, if you haven't driven a race car that has a BBW or conventional brake, it's like on a road car when the power 💛assisted steering fails.

"And then imagine you ജhave to adjust🧸 between one corner having it and the next one not having it, that was just a very good skill.”

Wolff confirmed that Russell lost brake-by-wire👍, GPS, on-board and DRS.

“Iജ think on the dash we did🐈n't have all the things that we expected,” he added.

“We also feared that we would lose the whole das𝔍h, which would have meant no buttons, no ways to run any of the settings and obviously he had it in the shift lights, and he had it in the back of his mind and it didn't take his concentration away.”