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Back in 2020 at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix George Russell crashed behind the Safety Car while running in P10. He describes it as “a dark day”.
At the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, after a year of struggling at the back of the grid, George Russell was in a great position to score Williams’ first points since 2018.
The Briton was running in P10 when the Safety Car came out, and then he crashed out while warming up his tyres. In a recent interview, George looked back on “one of the biggest mistakes” he has ever made.
“That was a dark day, that was a day I learned how brutal a Formula 1 car is,” Russell said.
“When you’ve got 1,000 brake horsepower underneath your right foot, you’re gone in a second and you can’t even control it.
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“I hit a bump just as I was accelerating, and the car just went. Within a second, I was in the wall.
“I was in P10 at the time, we had obviously not scored any points… I was pretty mortified with myself. I felt like I had massively let the whole team down.”
Ultimately, the Briton says this incident helped him grow.
“Without a doubt I grew as a person. In an ideal world you want an easy path, you want things to come to you naturally.
“I’m so passionate about racing and that was probably one of the biggest mistakes I had personally made ever, but it made me stronger and more resilient,” Russell concluded.
