Russell sees Monaco as far from ideal to assess Mercedes’ improvement – Formula 1 News

Russell sees Monaco as far from ideal to assess Mercedes’ improvement – Formula 1 News

George Russell (Photo: Mercedes)

George Russell (Photo: Mercedes)

George Russell had an embarrassing Friday (26) inside Monte Carlo. the british Mercedes closed FP2 only in 12th place, 0s729 behind the leader, Max Verstappen.

Update package W14 it’s the most anticipated news of the weekend, but the driver didn’t think much of what the car brought again.

“We already knew this over the weekend: Monaco it is unique, however, it is not the best for evaluating the improvement of the car. Our aim is to improve this circuit and obviously qualifying is the most important part of the weekend.

George Russell was 12th in FP2 in Monaco (Image: Mercedes)

George evaluated his performance on Friday and talked about a small step forward, but the track makes any assessment very difficult.

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“Normally, we do well on Sundays and we have problems on Saturday, we need to change that here. There were positive signs, we made a lot of changes throughout the day and the car improved TL2. We will work hard tonight to see what we can do tomorrow.”

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