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After being eliminated in Q1 of Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying, George Russell says he is “quite angry”, because “we’ve got such a fast car and we can’t be throwing away opportunities like this”.
After two successful weekends for Mercedes, George Russell surely wasn’t expecting to be eliminated in Q1 of Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying, but unfortunately that is exactly what happened.
After the session, the Briton was understandably disappointed.
“Well, it was on me at the beginning,” Russell said.
“I didn’t think it was going to rain again, so I just thought the track would get quicker. I took an easy lap one and suddenly it starts raining.
“That was the most important lap, but it didn’t matter. It was quickest at the end and we had no fuel in the car to finish the session.
“I have no idea how that happened. It was a total disaster.”
George went on to say that despite its newfound performance, the team can’t let itself get distracted and make errors.
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“You can never take your eye off the ball. We need to have a proper sit-down as a team to understand what’s going on.
“We’ve got the car to be fighting for the top three. We shouldn’t be standing here out of Q1. Lewis only just went through into Q3.
“Really quite angry right now because we’ve got such a fast car and we can’t be throwing away opportunities like this.”
As for the race tomorrow, George said:
“[It’s going to be] a difficult race. [I] still expect to come through, maybe fighting for top 6.
“But from P17 it’s not going to be easy,” he concluded.
