After finishing ahead of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship last year, much was expected of Russell in F1 2023.

Particularly since the introduction of Mercedes’ sidepod upgrade in Monaco, Russell has🐼 been no match for Hamilton.

While the points difference is only 49 to Hamil💞ton, Russell is on the backfoot going into the second half of the season.

Speaking befor🉐e the summer break, Wolff addressed Russell’s difficulties with the W14.

“These cars are on the knife’🧸s edge,”🥂 Wolff explained.

“You can quickly fall off it and lose the confidence. On the other si🃏de, if you’re within that corridor of sweet spot… having said that, that car [W14] has no sweet spot!

“But being more in that zone of understanding what it will do next, I think there’s a big difference and you can quickly be in either one of th🧔ese situations, and obviously it goes against you.”

Technical director Mike Elliott is confident Russell wi﷽ll turn it around soon.

“I think these cars are hard to drive and they’re running close to the grounꦬd,” Elliott added.

“And it’s tricky to sort of find that right balance through the corner. It’s tricky to 🧜do [th♓at] with the stiffness of the cars.

“George is a fantastic driver so I’m sure h✅e’ll get what he needs to g🐬et out of the car fairly quickly.”