“[I’m] simply shocked by the dearth of tempo, actually don’t know the place that disappeared to,” he mirrored afterward. “Friday was good, Saturday was cheap and regarded on target for kind of a cushty fourth or third previous to the race, and all of the sudden [we] simply went backwards and I don’t actually know what occurred.”
Quizzed on how a lot the consequence had damage following on from Mercedes’ optimistic momentum of late, Russell responded: “Yeah, it actually does. First off weekend for us because the upgrades, however I’m not too involved – if you happen to take the final seven races, we’ve been actually robust in six of them.
“We’ve been forward of Ferrari in all of them and all of the sudden in the present day they regarded actually aggressive. We have to perceive what occurred as till in the present day we regarded on target for a fairly half-decent weekend. As I stated, all of it went away from us and I don’t know what occurred.”