The return to the top tier took almost four months, from March 8 to June 28, but now George Russell has started winning again. The Mercedes British driver, who took a long break and almost always got his ‘paycheck’ from teammate Andrea Kimi Antonelli, returned today to occupy the top step of the podium. After yesterday’s controversial pole position, everything went well for Russell today. Bad luck went in Antonelli’s favor and he was left in a difficult situation by the timing of the Virtual Safety Car after Sainz stopped on the main straight on lap 23. “Kimi is unlucky and Max is too fast,” Russell commented into the Sky Sport F1 microphones, “It was Kimi who was unlucky this time” because he came back from the Virtual Safety Car a lap later, but this is motorsport. However, it was a completely smooth race. But I was very impressed by Verstappen’s pace. The British driver added: “If we look at the gap between McLaren and Ferrari, we can say that Mercedes had an excellent race, but if we look at Verstappen’s race pace, Max put a lot of pressure on me and forced me to pit when I had 28 laps to finish and that was really difficult.”
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