George Russell shared a photograph with an uncommon standpoint on the Friday of the Mexico Grand Prix. After taking a photograph from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez grandstands whereas carrying a lucha libre-style masks, he posted the shot to Instagram.
With the caption, “Haven’t watched F1 automobiles on monitor in years, so discovered a solution to sneak into the stands whereas Fred was driving my automotive,” the photograph confirmed him sitting alongside followers as he went undercover to benefit from the first follow session whereas Frederik Vesti drove his automotive alongside Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Every group should allocate two follow periods to a rookie driver, with the Brackley outfit handing Russell’s W16 to Vesti this weekend in Mexico Metropolis. This freed the Briton to observe the motion from the grandstands earlier than returning to the cockpit for FP2.
He actually regarded the half within the packed Foro Sol grandstands amid the standard carnival really feel of the occasion. And the photograph gained substantial numbers sitting at over 210,000 likes on the time of writing inside an hour of it being posted.
Streams of feedback accompanied the submit.
“OMG legendary,” one commenter wrote, with one other including: “You are so iconic omg.”
“Think about sitting there & George Russell was subsequent to you,” a 3rd wrote.
George Russell, Mercedes
Picture by: Clive Rose / Components 1 by way of Getty Pictures
Regardless of relinquishing his automotive to Vesti for FP1, he is prepared to present his all this weekend come Saturday’s qualifying.
“I feel it is so shut between the highest 4 groups, to be sincere, and are available qualifying, you see the gaps are fairly small. Clearly, you’ve got at all times obtained one group who’re performing higher than the remainder at a given weekend. You already know, Pink Bull final week, that was us in Singapore, however we all know we’re within the battle and in the event you do an amazing job in Q3, you will be on the entrance row or prime three and then you definitely’re within the battle for the rostrum.
“So the reality is, I do not actually have any expectations, moving into with an open thoughts.”
With follow persevering with right now within the high-altitude circumstances, Russell will now deal with making up for the misplaced time.
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