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Russell Reveals 2023 Performance Boost and Quest for Answers During Winter Break

1 years ago By Sports Desk

The Mercedes driver George Russell recently disclosed that there are lot of questions to be answered in the winter break after his 2023 FW campaign ended up miserably with a big point gap between him and and his Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton.

While both the drivers at a same pace during the qualifying rounds, Ending the year 11-11 in their head-to-head, It was the race days where his counterpart Lewis Hamilton lead with a 15-6.Russell suffering four DNFs and describing his clash with Max Verstappen in Las Vegas as “the story of my season”.

Due to this, the British driver George Russell ended up eighth in the drivers’ standings, 100 points down on what he managed in 2022, with seven-time world champion Hamilton five places and 59 points ahead.

Recently the driver was asked to compare the season he had in 2023 compared to the previous year, when he also claimed his first Grand Prix win in Sao Paulo, Russell offered a philosophical response.

In the interview he said “It’s been a season where we’ve had a lot of pace at times, but never achieved the results that I felt were deserved, or were possible, so we definitely need to try and understand why that was,”

He further continued saying “There’s been a huge amount of missed opportunities, in many regards. It really hasn’t been a smooth season, but I think when everything’s flowing, when everything’s working, luck tends to be on your side.

“When you’re on the backfoot, you tend to have bad luck. I’m not one for believing in luck, I think you make your own luck, so we just need to be faster and Lady Luck will be with us

Looking back at the 2023 season he stated they he feel that he upped his game in the quali pace also upped game in his race pace and they have not been on the backfoot.

As for 2024, Russell admits Mercedes and the rest of Red Bull’s rivals face a “massive” task to reel in the team that has comfortably won the last two constructors’ championships – and three drivers’ titles with Verstappen.

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