From working late on a terrible day, to Russell’s post

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“is incredible. I’m on a cloud”, exclaimed George Russell (February 15, 1998, King’s Lynn, United Kingdom), after winning his first pole position in F1 at the age of 24, the first for Mercedes throughout this first campaign of the new ‘Great Circus’ era. On the 13th appointment, the pole of stars came. They seem to have crashed at first with a very risky concept car that they were sure had enormous hidden potential. But they could not find it and suffered many problems.

In Barcelona They solved a part, and with the package they brought SilverstoneThey stepped forward again. They continued, working relentlessly on a car that was very fast at race pace, but whose drivers couldn’t get the tires into the right window of use in qualifying to set a good one-lap time. they sink’quality‘ and they have to come back on Sunday. But they were developing and, suddenly, when no one expected them, they rang the bell with a Russell signing a sensational course in his first year at Mercedes.

He arrived in Hungary, after surviving a terrible Friday. “Friday I think was the worst of the season. Everyone works at night. They know in which direction they will work. The lap time was coming and I finally found the first place on the wheel, it was incredible”. Russell pointed out after getting out of his car, still in disbelief of what happened. Unsurprisingly, he revealed that the concern was only the day before, that the whole team remained working until 11:00 pm at the circuit to understand what was happening.

“I’m not thinking about myself now, but the team. For them it was unbelievable. This is the toughest Friday of the season. We all stayed up until 11:00 pm wondering what was going on. We were demoralized and lost. And to come back and do pole position 24 hours later is amazing because I know what we went through yesterday. They don’t give points for the classification but I think getting this result for everyone is incredible”, commented the Briton, who still has many doubts to be resolved.

A surprise and many questions

The first unknown to leave this post is the sa find out if his car will have enough speed to defend against Ferrari this Sunday in the race. In his favor, how difficult it is to overtake at the Hungaroring and the good pace that Mercedes has always shown throughout the year. Against him, the good pace of Ferrari on Friday, although it is not known if it will be repeated.

Due to the rain on Saturday, the track conditions changed as it cleared the track. And just as it could take away Ferrari’s huge advantage on Friday, it could also change things for Sunday. No one can guarantee that the Ferrari has the tremendous speed and excellent tire management that it had in Free Practice 1 and 2. But in turn, in Mercedes they don’t know what speed they race after his tough long run on Friday.

“We changed the car, it will be colder tomorrow, the high fuel speed was very bad on Friday and the Ferrari speed was exceptional. We are behind, but we are going for it. Victory is what we want”, George said about it, passing favoritism on red cars.

Is Mercedes back?

The second question, and no less important, is obvious: is Mercedes back? “I do not know”, he replied between laughs. No one dared to prove it. It could be a work of art by George Russell, because Hamilton is 7 tenths, a world. This may be something isolated. Or the beginning of the return of the silver arrows.

“We have to see where that lap time comes from. We have some ideas., but do not award points for qualifying. We had a good race pace but the Ferrari seemed very fast. We are going for it, but whatever happens it will be a very special day, without a doubt”, he declared in this regard.

“I think we got into that perfect window on the last lap. In the first corner to reach one and a half tenths, in the second to three tenths, and everything was completely in that window. And when you’re at that speed and the that time… I think everyone had a problem with the tire. We tried everything to understand it and we hit the head in the last round”, added the new poleman in a press conference, who won his qualifying duel with Hamilton going 7-6 in his first year at Mercedes.

“It was the best qualifying lap of my career. I never imagined the feeling of this position on pole and that lap at Spa… (at Spa 2021 he was second with Williams in the rain in qualifying) I think nothing ‘deserves’ is close to what I’m feeling right now. It’s obviously the first and with Williams we’re so far away to get the second that’s something amazing. That’s the race and that’s why I wake up every morning, for the feeling this and become world champion”, he concluded. Notice to sailors. He has the makings of a champion, seen for miles and years. it was clear week after week that Mercedes should have given him a chance sooner.

Source: La Verdad

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