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After a difficult Miami Grand Prix FP2, George Russell says Mercedes has “got the time to make improvements overnight”.
After Mercedes topped the Miami Grand Prix FP1, in FP2 Lewis Hamilton dropped down to P7, and George Russell to P15.
Afterwards George said it’s hard to say how the car will perform in the race.
“We’ll go into Sunday a bit of an unknown,” the Briton said.
“The track’s been resurfaced. It’s still not performing like any other circuit, so it’s a true outlier here, which is cool in some regards.
“I think is going to be really difficult to race because you can’t drive offline, and you’ve seen a few people, myself included, you put one wheel off and there’s no grip whatsoever.”
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George then said Mercedes suffered a similar drop-off in performance in Miami last year.
“It was a similar thing last year. We were quickest on Friday, and then were knocked down in Q2 on Saturday. The car just changed a little bit, even from the medium [tyre] run in FP2, I felt strong.
“I was on a lap that was a good couple of tenths up which would have put me inside the top four, and then put the soft tyres on, and the car just wasn’t working for me.
“I think we understand a little bit why that is, and fortunately, we’ve got the time to make improvements overnight,” Russell concluded.
