Lawrence Barretto says George Russell got caught up in the 'top dog' battle with Lewis Hamilton and failed to 'execute' his Japanese GP.
Lewis Hamilton will ‘irritate’ George Russell in Mercedes ‘top dog’ battleMercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell pose for a selfie at the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix.
From there Russell fell back through the pack, to the point where Hamilton and the charging Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, irked to have been undercut by Mercedes with Hamilton, were now all over Russell’s rear wing. “So I can see why George would have probably been very pro on the one-stop, but the thing is, as I mentioned, with his fight with Lewis, I think it’s just a racing driver mentality that you’re with Lewis and you’re battling him, and the sensible thing to actually beat him is not to fight him.
“And I think often, particularly in this scenario, you can’t prove both those things in one go. Or you prove it by executing the strategy that you said you were going to do and that is how the team view it, you know, you’ve thought about this race. “I mean, it’s all ifs, what’s, maybes, but I think that he didn’t execute that race. And I think when he goes back and he looks at it, that will be the greatest frustration I think from that Grand Prix.”F1 points all-time rankings: Where do Hamilton, Verstappen and Alonso feature?
“I didn’t really understand the whole DRS thing,” Barretto stated. “Because George’s tyres, even with DRS, he was always going to be at risk, even if Lewis was helping him.
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