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George Russell says in free practice “Lewis was absolutely flying” so he “had to look a lot into his data to try and understand what he was doing differently”.
Lewis Hamilton’s performance through Canadian Grand Prix free practice sessions has been great, and he even topped FP3.
However, in Qualifying, while his team-mate George Russell managed to put his car on pole, Lewis couldn’t do better than P7.
Afterwards, George explained Lewis’ FP performance actually helped him in qualifying.
“To be honest, this weekend’s been really challenging to know because of the conditions yesterday,” the Briton said.
“You know you’ve had rain around all weekend and then this morning Lewis was absolutely flying and you know he was well ahead of me.
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“And I had to look a lot into his data to try and understand what he was doing differently. And to be honest, that helped me a huge amount.
“So ahead of this qualifying I’m just so glad that we could pull it off because it, you know, I feel like we really deserve it for all of this hard work we’ve been putting in and the cars been feeling awesome this weekend.”
Asked if he thinks he can keep Max Verstappen behind in the race, George said:
“Why not? Of course. Let’s go for it. I think the car has been feeling amazing. Since we bought some upgrades to Monaco, we’ve sort of really been in that fight now.
“So, we’re going for it tomorrow,” he concluded.
