168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell has admitted he was overruled when deciding to pit just before the red flag at the F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Russell led the first half of the race at Interlagos after taking the lead ahead of McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.

With the conditions worsening, Russell and Norris came in for fresh intermediates, allowing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon to inherit the lead of the race ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

With visibility poor, the Safety Car was deployed which was soon turned into a red fla♔g after Franco Colapinto’s crash.

This gave Ocon, Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly a free change of tyr♎es, and crucial tra🌠ck position.

Reflecting on the decision to stop, Russell 🐎said as quoted by Motorsport Week: “Yeah, very painful, all things considered.

“It was ‘box’. I said ‘stay out’. It was ‘box’ again, it was ‘stay out’, I said💞. And they said ‘box▨’ again.

“As I said, ‘I want to stay out’. And then the last onꦡe, you’ve got to go for it…

“Sometimes you have to trust your𒈔 gut. Last time I truste𓄧d my gut, it went down pretty well.

“Today, who knows if we could have🍌 won the race? But if we didn’t pit, we would have been leading at the restart and the first 30 laps controlling the pace.

“With Lando behind us, we had very good straigꦅht-line speed as well. P2 would have been a minimum.”

Russell revealed Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes’ trackside engineering chief, overruled his engineer to p💙it for 𒁃new tyres when conditions got worse.

“From a team’s perspective, it’s no🍷t obvious at all,” he added.

“From the cockpit, it was very clear it was going t🌼o be a red flag or Safety Car, because the conditions were 🔥undriveable.

“The rain was not easing. I could see the big black cloud abo🍌v🌠e me.

“And then I had Shov jump on as, likeౠ, overruling my engineer to say ‘box’. We’re working as 🌄a team, we’re trying to make the best decisions in the time.

“Clearly the guys who didn’t pit, they🦹 finished 1-2-3 and we finished the highest of the drivers who did. So I would take a small slice of satisfaction from t🌼hat.”