The Mercedes driver outpaced teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton in qualifying on his way to securing fourth place, which will turn into third on the grid thanks to168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Carlos Sainz’s penalty. 

While Russell was happy to get the maximum out of his W14, he revealed he is more worried about how the ty🌞res will perform, a factor he believes will dominate Saturday evening’s race. 

“It came down to confidence,” Russell told Sky. “I felt good in the car. In the qualy runs we knew Ferrari were a step ahead of everybody𓃲 else. We ended up P4, close to P3 with Max, was defin꧋itely the maximum.

“Going into tomorrow, it’s a total unknown. These tyres are just not working around this circuit in race co🌺nditions. They are totally falling apart because they are so cold. 

"They are not designed to work in these cold conditions. The team that comes out on top w༒ill be the team that manages to keep them alive. If you’re able to keep it within a threshold, it’s an easy one-stop. 

“As soon as you go above that th♛reshold it’s unrecoverable. And you might need to do two or three🦩 stops. Right now, we’re all scratching our heads. 

“How are we going to approach the race? We haven’t run the hard tyre yet. Maybe the hard tyre he🍒re is just much better than the medium and you won’t be entering the graining.&ဣnbsp;

“You have to push the tyre to find out, but if you push it and go 🔯over the limit, you’re pretty doomed! Right now, it’s a strange one. I really don’t ⛦know how to approach the race.”

On his hopes for Saturday evening’s race, Russell added: “I just want a clean race, to be honest. It’s been the scrappiest season of my life. 𒁏;

“Every clean weekend I’ve had, it’s been when the car is slow. When the car is quick, it’s when everything was up in th🅰e air - whether mistakes on my side, or unfortඣunate strategy, or DNFs. 

“We have to keep an eye on Ferrari, they are only 20 points behind us. They should be on for a one-t🌟wo, Charles is definitely the favourite. It’s damaged limitation but, if there’s opportunit♎y, we’ll go for it.”