In an effort to defeat Lando Norris and Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, who qualified third and George Russell, fourth in the Spanish Grand Prix, has turned to his Mercedes teammate for assistance.
At the forthcoming Spanish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton has publicly urged colleague George Russell to work together in an effort to surpass their competitors.
This request follows a heated exchange during the last qualifying round in Barcelona, where Russell used a heated radio remark to vent his frustration with Hamilton’s track behavior.
“What the f*** was Lewis doing, prepping that lap?” was Russell’s way of expressing his frustration. His racing engineer responded by telling him to focus on the current task at hand, saying, “We’ll talk about it.”
t later, focus on the game.”
Following this advice, Russell qualified for the race in fourth place, but Hamilton took third, just beating Russell. This is just the second occasion this season that Russell has been outqualified by the seven-time world champion.
Given that Lando Norris and current points leader Max Verstappen are leading, Hamilton is confident that working together with Russell will be essential to catching the top McLaren and Red Bull cars.
“Position is everything, so I think… also, there are two of us, so hopefully we can apply pressure as a team to both of the cars ahead in order to play out something in strategy and slowly climb up,” Hamilton said while outlining his plan. It’s all about
degradation tomorrow and how you maintain the tires, so we won’t be aware of it until after the initial run.
Hamilton hinted that Mercedes is getting closer to the front-runners as he expressed his pure happiness at earning his best qualifying position of the year. “This is another encouraging result for us as a team,” he beamingly said. Over the course of the season thus far, everyone has been putting in a great deal of effort to upgrade and improve the automobile.
It is really important to us that we are beginning to become more reliable as well. That is a result of each team member working extra hours, and for that, I am really grateful. Driving the automobile is becoming more fun.
The difference today was three tenths, but since we didn’t get all out of the car on the final lap, I believe it was actually less.
“My goal for tomorrow is to attempt to fight for the victory. With a lengthy run down to turn one, we are off to a strong start. Tomorrow, degradation will also be crucial, and our practice runs appeared to be strong in that regard. I’m hoping it holds true on Sunday so we can enjoy a pleasant time together.”
Russell, though, thought they could have accomplished more. “A second-row lockout is a decent result, but we were a little bit off in our estimate on the gap to Norris and Verstappen,” he said. Lewis’s and mine both
The difference today was three tenths, but since we didn’t get all out of the car on the final lap, I believe it was actually less.
“My goal for tomorrow is to attempt to fight for the victory. With a lengthy run down to turn one, we are off to a strong start. Tomorrow, degradation will also be crucial, and our practice runs appeared to be strong in that regard. I’m hoping it holds true on Sunday so we can enjoy a pleasant time together.”
Russell, though, thought they could have accomplished more. “A second-row lockout is a decent result, but we were a little bit off in our estimate on the gap to Norris and Verstappen,” he said. Lewis’s and mine both
set some nice lap times, but neither of us felt like we were making the most of them. It’s really hard to get the tires precisely in the window on a demanding course like this one. Perhaps we didn’t accomplish it today, but I believe those who came before us did.”
