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 hi♔m to lead the race ahead of Lando Norris.
Sergio Perez and 💖Max Verstappen had pitted for intermediate tyres shortly before.
Russell’s teammate Lewis Hamilton, wh🥃o also did not pit, said via his team radio: "We should've come in m🌌an, it is very wet.”
The reply was: "We're going to s🐻tay out. 🌺We're going to have to brave this.”
Russell eventually pit🔥ted after 11 laps, losing the lead and re-emerging in 18th.
And he wasn’t happy.
"I was forecast a ಞpotential podium,” he raged to his race engineer.&🍃nbsp;
“How did we mess this up?”
He battled back to eighth by the 66th lap but his race ended early w⭕ith a retirement to the ꧟pits.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything fro🎐m American sports, to football, to F1.
