George Russell admits Max Verstappen is “on another level” and urges Mercedes to ‘raise game’ for F1 2024
Verstappen wrapped up his third world championship in a row with a second-place finish iꦍn the Qatar Grand Prixꦆ sprint race on Saturday.
The Dutchman’s sheer dominance w♏as underlined by the fact he has put the championship out of reach with six grands prix remaining, having won 13 of the 16 races so far.
Russell acknowledged Verstappen and Red Bull’s superiority th🦂is year and admitted Mercedes have a lot of work to do if they are to turn things around next season.
“A huge congratulations to him and Red Bull,” Russell told🎉 Sky after finishing fourth in the spꦆrint.
“From the outset, Red Bull were far superior to everybody else and then Max has then obviously been on another level recently. So we can only congra♎tulate him.
“We’ve got to look at ourselves in the mirror and raise our game to give🃏 th♛em some trouble next year, because nobody likes to see that dominance.
“And we want to be t🌼here in the fight and putting them under a bit of pressure.”
Earlier in the weekend, Russell stated he is "extremely confident" that Mercedes won෴'t "trip up" in their pursuit of Red Bull.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has already st🐻ressed that Mercedes need to p♑ull off the greatest six months of development in their F1 history to challenge Red Bull next year.
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