F1 Sao Paulo GP: George Russell expects no team orders in Lewis Hamilton battle, Mercedes to split strategy
Russell and Hamilton will share the front row of the Interlagos grid for Sunday’s grand prix after Russell caught and passed Max Verstappen to&nb꧂sp;win the F1 sprint race, with Hamilton recovering to third behind Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz, who wil🌳l drop five positions for an engine change.&nb♔sp;
The Briton said Mercedes find themselves in a “luxury position” and expects the team to split st♔rategies in a bid to end their winless stre🦋ak amid a challenging 2022 season.
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“There definitely won’t be any team orders but between the two of us, we will definitely be strategic t🦋o try and get that win,” Rus☂sell said.
“As we saw in Mexicoꦅ, we both did the same strate🍌gy and it ultimately affected us both. Sitting here right now, we probably don’t know what the right strategy will be.
“We will race each other fairly for sure and I’m ♓sure we will probably be s♏plitting the strategies to try and cover all options.
“Hopefully one🌃 of us comes away happy tomorrow. But I think we recognise, base🐷d on recent experiences, we’re probably going to have to go two separate ways.”
Russell claimed P1 and eight points for winning the third and final sprint race of the year f𒁏ollowing a thrilling battle with Verstappen.
After two unsuccessful attempts at overtaking Verstappen, Russell finally blasted past the world champཧion on the run to Turn 4 with 10 laps remaining.
Russell’s charge to his first F1 wi💫n was aided by starting on soft tyres, while Verstappen was one of only two drivers who favoured mediums.
“I think we were confident that we cou🌳ld finish second, and we thought Max would probably have quite an easy run, to be honest,” he added.
“He knew tha�🅷�t if we weren’t ahead of him at Turn 1 it was going to be very difficult to stay ahead of him. I started attacking in the early laps and thought, once he gets some temperature in his tyres, he’ll be away.
“As much as I wanted to win this race today, it’s only [eight extra points] and it’s obviously setting you up [on 🎶the grid] for tomorrow.&♑nbsp;
“So, you have to be a little bit careful and I knew Max has got nothing to lose, so he was going to be driving aggressively. Definitely, it was plea🍸sing to get the move done in the end.”
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