George Russell has said he has "nothing to lose" in his ******* le bid against Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli, returning to track action feeling "way more relaxed" after F1's summer break and pipping the Italian to the front row of Sunday's Dutch GP grid.
Russell's campaign to catch his teenage teammate began with a victory from Pole in the Sprint Race on Saturday, taking him to within 56 points of Antonelli, and closer to Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton in second place. Russell's strong Zandvoort weekend continued later on in the afternoon,beating a frustrated Antonelli to P2 by 0.03s behind pole sitter Lando Norris.
Asked on whether the Dutch GP could represent a turning point in his championship hopes - having suffered a string of bad luck with DNFs and power unit struggles for much of the season's first half - a measured Russell replied: "I'm just going to take it race by race. I'm not going to come away from this weekend and say all issues are resolved.
"I do think I made some big changes going into the Barcelona weekend, and as I said earlier this morning, I had some good races, Barcelona and Austria. Then Silverstone and Spa, we had the PU issue, and Budapest was just not a competitive weekend on my side. So, I think it just hasn't been a clean run this season. It has not been a clean season whatsoever with all of the issues that we've had."
Photo: Race Pictures
#dutch #Barcelona
Russell's campaign to catch his teenage teammate began with a victory from Pole in the Sprint Race on Saturday, taking him to within 56 points of Antonelli, and closer to Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton in second place. Russell's strong Zandvoort weekend continued later on in the afternoon,beating a frustrated Antonelli to P2 by 0.03s behind pole sitter Lando Norris.
Asked on whether the Dutch GP could represent a turning point in his championship hopes - having suffered a string of bad luck with DNFs and power unit struggles for much of the season's first half - a measured Russell replied: "I'm just going to take it race by race. I'm not going to come away from this weekend and say all issues are resolved.
"I do think I made some big changes going into the Barcelona weekend, and as I said earlier this morning, I had some good races, Barcelona and Austria. Then Silverstone and Spa, we had the PU issue, and Budapest was just not a competitive weekend on my side. So, I think it just hasn't been a clean run this season. It has not been a clean season whatsoever with all of the issues that we've had."
Photo: Race Pictures
#dutch #Barcelona
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