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After encountering car issues and bad luck at the Japanese Grand Prix, George Russell concedes: “Sometimes it goes for you, sometimes it goes against you.”
George Russell did not have a good time at the Japanese Grand Prix. Not only did his car encounter “a bug in the electrical system”, but his race was also compromised by an ill-timed safety car.
“Yeah, obviously our starts, as normal, poor,” Russell told reporters after the race.
“Safety car, one lap different and we would have won the race. So, that’s part of racing. But thereafter, it was just issues after one another.
“I couldn’t recharge my battery at the safety car restart, so Lewis just flew by me. And then I had the issue later in the race with Charles and the battery, and I just had no speed, and he passed me. So, yeah, just one thing after another.”
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However, ultimately, the Briton conceded that sometimes in racing luck is just not on your side.
“I need to look at it. I don’t really know why I pitted at that point, I think Charles was coming. But, what can you do? That is pure luck.
“If that was one lap later, we would have won the race. And if there was no crash, we would have regretted not pitting at that point. In racing, sometimes it goes for you, sometimes it goes against you.
“It’s just at the moment, it feels like the last two weekends every issue we’re having is on my side and I’m the one going through that pain,” he concluded.
