George Russell qualified 6th for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix to come up and secure 5th position. The Briton outpaced 7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton during the event. In terms of his performance, he stated that he had been delighted with his efforts this season, despite Mercedes’ troubles. While his pre-season aspirations of winning are yet to materialize, the Briton feels he has optimized the outcomes given the conditions.
“If you told me prior to the season that we’d be seven races in and I wouldn’t have a victory to my name, I would have definitely been a bit disappointed with that. But I think given the pace of the car and given where we’ve been as a team, I’ve been reasonably pleased with how I’ve performed.” Russel said ahead of the 2022 Monaco GP.
“I think the results have been maximized. I don’t see many races where we could have achieved better results.” He added.
The twenty-four-year-old took over from Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes this season after three seasons at Williams, usually at the rear of the grid. With high expectations from both fans and his team, the rookie driver has provided great performances, finishing in the top 5 in every race this season.
George Russell during the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix 2022, Sunday – LAT Images
George Russell’s accomplishments have been heightened by the troubles of his legendary colleague, Lewis Hamilton. The former presently has 74 points, while Hamilton has only 46.
After Mercedes appeared to have resolved its proposing issues, allowing it to reduce the gap to the front-runners last weekend in Spain, Russel stated that there’s still more to come from the side.
“I want to fight for this championship. We’ve got to go against the likes of Verstappen at Red Bull and obviously Lecler is doing an extremely good job at the moment with Ferrari.” He said in a statement.
As a team, we just need to keep on pushing, I need to keep on pushing personally. So, more to…
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