Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s hard battling and team radio disagreements was an intriguing sub-plot of the F1 Japanese Grand Prix, but could it be a sign of things to come?
Both drivers made an obvious attempt to diffuse the situation after the race, with Hamilton revealing that he plans to sit down with Russell ahead of the next round in Qatar.
"Well, for sure, we'll talk offline,” he said. “That’s the best way to do it. Our ultimate goal is to try and get ahead of the Ferraris and that's what my goal was today.”“It’s just hard, fair racing,” he insisted. “Of course we lost a bit of overall time fighting one another, and again you get a bit frustrated on the radio but it’s something that’s a part of racing.
“We aren’t going to give up the position easily to one another, it was still early on in the race and I had more pace but he was the car who was ahead. “As I said, it's part of racing and there’s nothing to discuss [with the team]. We’ve got bigger fish to fry which is how do we make our car faster.”
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