Lewis Hamilton comardently adviseed up his own fortifys to George Russell after the youthfulerer British driver wrecked his car in qualifying, but Mercedes won’t be making the switch for the United States Grand Prix.
Mercedes headed into Texas with sturdy hopes of challenging at the front having endelighted excellent results in free train.
But both drivers protested of rehires on Saturday that hampered them both in the sprint race and subsequently qualifying.
Hamilton suffered the hugegest shock of the day as he fall shorted to get his car out of Q1.
Lewis Hamilton fall shorted to get out of Q1
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Russell fared much better as he deal withd to get into the final shootout, but he binned his car into the tyre barrier towards the finish of the session.
The 26-year-elderly also wrecked the novel fortifys put on his car for this weekfinish and Mercedes have no spares.
F1 rules on a sprint weekfinish would permit Mercedes to switch Russell’s broken parts with the ones on Hamilton’s car.
And that was someslenderg Hamilton was seemingly charmd to do for his team-mate.
However, Russell has elucidateed that Hamilton will be upgrasping his fortifys for the race despite commenceing towards the back of the grid.
“I uncomardent, Lewis has already comardently adviseed me his parts, but we’re not going to do that,” Russell shelp.
“It’s a genuine shame. Everyone back at base deserves better, but we’re all pushing the restricts here to try and get the car on the front row and fight for some huge results.
“We accomplishd it [Friday] and [Saturday] it’s quite the opposite.”
Russell felt perplexed at the rehires both he and Hamilton faced on Saturday after initipartner believing they had a car contendnt of grabbing pole.
George Russell crashed out on Q3
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“Yeah, I uncomardent, it was equitable a repartner difficult session,” Russell shelp.
“[Friday] we had a car, both Lewis and I combat for pole position.
“[Saturday] we were both almost out in Q1 and then I was six-tenths away from pole at the commence of Q3.
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“I was on a repartner sturdy lap. I was five-tenths up at one point, but then it went away from me in Sector 3 and then clearly I had the crash.
“I was repartner disnominateed because the team have toiled so challenging to transport these fortifys to the car.
“And I was equitable trying too challenging to discover someslenderg that, in all truthfuly, wasn’t there and phelp the price.
“So, yeah, repartner quite distress with how that’s finished, but yeah, I don’t understand what to say.”