George Russell admits that COTA has become a 'bogey' track for him after he was outperformed by Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton over the course of the US GP weekend.
However, he insists that there were signs of speed that suggested that the race represented a missed opportunity for him. Russell started Saturday's sprint from only 11th place after running out of new tyres for the sprint shootout and picking up a three-place penalty for impeding. He managed to recover to seventh, and then repeated that result in Sunday's Grand Prix, having qualified fifth on Friday and then lost three positions at the start.
' Photo by: Steve Etherington / Motorsport Images George Russell, Mercedes F1 W14, Pierre Gasly, Alpine A523 Expanding on that theme, he added: 'When I look at the pace today, I think that last stint was a really good example of what the potential was. 'It's often fine margins. I was off the pace in qualifying, and come Q3, the pace was there again, and then on the medium tyres in sprint qualifying, I was ahead in SQ1, SQ2, and I didn't have a new tyre in SQ3.
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