Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has revealed that George Russell was “compromised” during his final stint in the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Briton started from pole in Barcelona and led the opening stint, managing his pace well with Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli behind.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, a two-stop strategy proved to be the wrong approach, with Hamilton securing Ferrari’s first victory of the season on a three-stop strategy.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
While the seven-time world champion capitalised on a well-timed virtual safety car, the pace he possessed looked more than enough to secure victory regardless.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As for Russell, his pace suddenly dropped during his final stint, to the extent that Antonelli overtook him with only a handful of laps remaining.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Fortunately for the King’s Lynn-born driver, Antonelli suffered a very late retirement following a mechanical issue, allowing Russell to finish second.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Following the grand prix, the Brackley-based outfit revealed that Russell’s loss of pace was caused by an “incorrectly adjusted” front wing, which affected the balance of his W17.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It was great to see George, after a difficult run of results in the last few Grands Prix, back at his best, taking pole, fighting for the race win,” Lord commented in Mercedes\u2019 post-Barcelona debrief video.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“[He was] doing that notwithstanding the fact that in our final pit stop, we actually incorrectly adjusted the front wing, owing to a problem with the adjuster gun.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It meant he was driving with a very, very oversteery balance that certainly compromised his pace in the final stages.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has revealed that George Russell was “compromised” during his final stint in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,17886,17889,17887,17890,17888,11454,315,13765,17609,13755,801],"class_list":["post-43007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}