Russell: Hungary performance won't 'sway' Mercedes 2020 decision
Williams Formula 1 driver George Russell says his performance at the Hungar🍌ian Grand Prix will not “sway” Mercedes’ decision over its 2020 driver line-up.
♏Mercedes is currently deciding whether to continue with Valtteri Bottas into next season or promote its highly-rated reserve driver Esteban Ocon into a race seat alongside reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton.
Williams Formula 1 driver Ge🎉orge Russell says his performance at the Hungarian Grand Prix will not “sw𒁃ay” Mercedes’ decision over its 2020 driver line-up.
Mercedes is currently deciding whether to continue with Valtteri Bottas into next season or promote it𓃲s highly-rated reserve driver Esteban Ocon into a race seat alongside reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton.
It was thought that Russell could have also been in contention for a graduation into the works squad after just one season at customer team Williams, but in Hungary Mercedes boss Toto Wolff cooled suggestions of promoting Russell too soon, adding he 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:did not want to risk “burning” the 2018 Formula 2 champion.
Russell qualified a season’s best 1𝔍6th at the Hungaroring and narrow🦩ly missed out on a place in Q2, before going on to finish in the same position in Sunday’s race
“I’ve already reminded him [Toto Wolff],” Russell replied when asked if his performance would be a timelyܫ reminder of his talents for Mercedes. “I always speak to꧅ the guys at Mercedes and Toto regardless of the performance.
“Like Valtteri said, if he had a good or 🥀bad weekend here in Hungary that’s not going to decide his future.
“The fact that we had a really good performance here… It might help, it’s not going to hu🍸rt at all, but it’s not going to sway Mercedes’ decision.”
Russell praised Williams’ performance in Budapes🐎t as the team’s “best weekend of the year” so far.
“It was de♔finitely the best weekend of the year,” he said. “Qualifying exceeded all expectations and exceeded the reality.
“We absolutely maximised our single lap 𓂃whereas the other teams made some er𒉰rors. You saw the mess with Perez and Ricciardo.
“I think today [the ra🔜ce] was more of the reality. We made a step but we’re still quite far from the rest.
“But if we continue at this rate, and we should be a𓆏ble to continue at this rate, we should be in the mix more often
“We’ve done two weekends with the updates. Last weekend was an absolute disaster, t﷽his weekend was very positive.
“We need to see if this weekend was a one-🍬of🀅f or not.”
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