George 🐎Russell says he felt like former Williams and Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado with the number of oversteer mꦇoments he suffered during the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Russell ꧂made a comparison to his attempts of overtakin♏g at Portimao to Maldonado’s attempts of overtaking Max Verstappen at the 2015 Austrian Grand Prix, where he nearly lost the rear of his Lotus into Turn 1 while trying to overtake the Dutchman.

“It was a good race,” Russell said. “The⛎ car felt great, the pace was good. I had some massive moments when I was behind Ocon when I was trying to overtake him and Alex. 𒁃I had another behind Giovinazzi later in the race when I tried to overtake him into Turn 3.

“It was a bit of Pastor Maldonado... like in the Red Bull Ring [in 2015]♔, with Verstappen when he massively l💙ost it. So I felt a bit like Maldonado then. Not something I was expecting to say after this race.”

Despite running well inside of the top ten for much of the race, the Mercedes junior could only manage 14th in the final🔯 classification.

Russell still hasn’t scored a point since🔯 making a debut at the start of 2019 and rued a lack of retirements at Portimao which would have allowed him to break his duck.

“It’s just bloody typical every time we have a good result there’s no♔t this crazy, chaotic race,” Russell added. We’vꦏe yet to score a point this year but the races we do great - Silverstone finished 12th, another race we finished 11th.

“Today, we finished 14th but 19 people finished and✤ you don’t have five r🐼etirements of drivers that are in the top ten. It will come but plenty of positives to take.”