'I had to look into his data' - George Russell reveals Lewis Hamilton influence for Canada pole
Geo🐟rge Russell has explained how Lewis Hamilton's telemetry helped him get pole in Canada.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has revealed that he was forced to look into 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s data༒ during FP3 after struggling for pace at the Canadian Grand Pr🌄ix.
Russell clinched his second F1 career pole position, taking it ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen after the pair set identical lap times.
It capped off a remarkable resurgence for Mercedes, which showed outstanding pace through🏅out practice.
Hamilton topped the timesheets by nearly 0.4s, leading Russell to look into the seven-time wor🤪ld champion’s telemetry to understand how to get faster.
“This morning Lewis was ab🧸solutely flying and he was well ahead of me,” Russell said.
“I had to look a lot into his data to try to understand what he was doing differently. And, to be honest, that helped ജme a huge amount.
“So ahead of this qualifying, I’m 𒐪just so glad that we could ꦬpull it off, because I feel like we really deserve all of this hard work we’ve been putting in.
💜“And the car has been feeling awesome this week❀end.”
It’s♛ been a tough year so far Mercedes, with the t🌠eam yet to finish on the podium in 2024.
Russell was pleased to show that Mercedes’ hard 🧸work back a🌟t base is finally paying off.
“Such a buzz,”𒀰 Russell added. “It’s been a while since we’ve experienced t𒁏his feeling.
“There is so much hard work going on behind the scenes back at Brackley and Brixworth and it’s been a l꧂ittle while to be able to sort of get back in the fight. It almost felt like all of that hard work hasn’t been paying off.”
Russe𒅌ll believes Mercedes 🍸are finally finding a “sweet spot” with their car.
“I think we str🔜uggled a lot with understee🦹r before,” he explained. “Last year, we had a lot of oversteer, and we’ve sort of been just trying to find the halfway house between what we had last year and what we had this year.
“And it fee🐈ls like we’re sort of dialling in that sweet spot right now. It feels like it’s something we’ve been saying for a long time, in all honesty. But really, there is a sense of relief to actually see it translate into pole position.”
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