George Russell slates Mercedes strategy at F1 Dutch Grand Prix: “How did we mess this up?”
Russell stayed out on soft tyres when the rain fell in the early stages at Zandvoort, allowing him to l♋ead the race ahead of Lando Norris.
Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen had pitted for intermediateꦫ tyres sh🐲ortly before.
Russell’s teammate Lewis Hamilton, who also did not pit, said via his team radio: "We ♔should've come in man, it is very wet.”
The reply was: "We're going to stay out. We're goin🦹g to have to brave this.”
Russell eventually pitted after 11 laps, l♔osin🍌g the lead and re-emerging in 18th.
And he wasn’t happy.
"I was forecast ༒a potential podium,” he raged to his race engineer.
“How did we mess this up?”
He🎶 battled back to eighth by the 66th lap but his race ended early with a retirement to the pi🦂ts.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade cover🌜ing everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
