Having picked up flooring harm throughout his battle with Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, Mercedes racer George Russell was left accountable the Monegasque as “the chicane just isn’t a spot you see many individuals overtake.”
Ranging from fifth on the grid, George Russell misplaced a spot to Charles Leclerc at first. The Briton then regarded to wrestle to comply with the Monegasque as he began to fall again.
Nonetheless, the security automobile introduced out for Lewis Hamilton’s crash enabled Russell to leapfrog Leclerc because the Monegasque had accomplished his tyre change a lap earlier.
The pair then battled it out on the observe, and Leclerc accomplished a sensational, however aggressive manoeuvre on the chicane. Nonetheless, Leclerc and Russell made contact in the course of the battle, and the Mercedes man picked up automobile harm which led to him letting his team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli by means of.
Issues obtained much more sophisticated when Antonelli pitted within the later levels of the race, and Ferrari introduced Leclerc in to counter. The Monegasque rejoined the observe forward of the Italian, however the Mercedes driver obtained it improper and tagged the facet of Leclerc when he tried to ship it up the within into Flip 3.
The incident pressured Leclerc to retire from the motion whereas Antonelli suffered a puncture and was handed a 10-second time penalty earlier than additionally receiving a five-second time penalty for rushing within the pit lane. As for Russell, regardless of his harm he climbed to fourth when these two tangled.
Commenting on his race within the Netherlands, Russell was left to rue the contact with Leclerc which resulted in him selecting up a major flooring harm.
“Right now was a tricky race for us. After the contact with Charles (Leclerc), I picked up loads of flooring harm. The chicane just isn’t a spot you see many individuals overtake as a result of the racing line naturally takes you in direction of the apex and the gravel.
“It was an optimistic transfer, and the contact successfully introduced my race when it comes to combating for the rostrum to the end. I used to be shedding near half-a-second a lap after that so to complete P4 was most likely higher than anticipated.
Reflecting on his weekend at Zandvoort, Russell famous: “With all that stated, we didn’t have the strongest efficiency this weekend and a podium would have been unlikely. Isack (Hadjar) ran an excellent race, and he utterly deserves this podium.
“P4 just isn’t the place we wish to be, however we could be blissful that we gained factors on Ferrari within the Constructors’ Championship. Onwards to Monza,” the Briton concluded.
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