Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Sunday, May 18, 2025, 20:59 / Updated Sunday, May 18, 2025 21:00
George Russell, 27, was very unhappy with Mercedes's race rhythm in Formula 1 race from Imola. The British left the third, but only finished the seventh in the Grand Prize of the Emilia-Romagna region.
“We are simply terribly slow,” Russell complained after the race in which he lost 4 positions.
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It was a nightmare day for Mercedes, given that the other team's pilot, Kimi Andrea Antonelli, was forced to abandon.
George Russell, hard reaction after a nightmare race for Mercedes: “I was lucky that I finished seven!”
“When it is hot we are slow, when it is cold we are rapids. This was it last year. We do our best with the settings of the car to find a solution to this problem, but obviously there is something fundamentally in a monopost that prevents us from doing this.
It is not the first race of this season in which we are slower than Ferrari, even slower or the same rhythm as Williams, but so far, in these cases, we have managed to achieve good results. Today, however, I was lucky that I managed to finish seven, to be honest.
I would not say that our ideas to manage the tires have been exhausted, but obviously we have a problem. Do you remember what happened to Ferrari a few years ago? Were super rapids in qualifications and slow in races. Now they have made a full return, and they don't know how and why this happened.
We need to find a better compromise, just before the next race. Summer is approaching and that doesn't sound good to us. We need to think quickly“, Were the alarming ideas of Russell, quoted by Sportal.bg.
Pilot ranking in Formula 1 after the Imola race
- Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – 146 points
- Lando Norris (McLaren) – 133
- Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – 124
- George Russell (Mercedes) – 99
- Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) – 61
- Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) – 53
- Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) – 48
- Alexander Albon (Williams) – 40
- Esteban Ocon (Haas) – 14
- Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) – 14
Builders ranking in Formula 1 after the Imola race
- McLaren – 279 points
- Mercedes – 147
- Red Bull Racing – 131
- Ferrari – 114
- Williams – 51
- Haas – 20
- Aston Martin – 14
- Racing Bulls – 10
- Alpine – 7
- Kick Sauber – 6
