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George Russell discusses his close on-track battle with Lewis Hamilton at the Canadian Grand Prix, and says “when you’re racing with one of the greats, you know that you can trust them”.
After finishing the Canadian Grand Prix in P3, George Russell said he believes Mercedes’ progress is not track-specific, but actually “true and real”.
“I think Red Bull have struggled a little bit the last couple of races, yet they’ve still won two of the last three.
“So I expect them to probably take a small step when we go back to the European races on more conventional circuits.
“But I really think our performance step is true and it’s real. And I think we can be in this fight with McLaren.
“Let’s hope we can continue being in the fight with Max. And let’s see with Ferrari, they obviously had a bit of an off weekend.”
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In the last laps of the race, George was involved in a close battle with Lewis Hamilton for P3, and later when asked to comment on it, he said:
“Definitely those last three laps, I was so focused to get back on the podium because I felt like I let the team down a bit, just losing sight of Max and a few mistakes that put me in that position in the first place.
“And always with Lewis, it’s really hard and fair. When you’re racing with one of the greats, you know that you can trust them.
“And that was really great to see at the end,” he concluded.
