Russell spent the early phase of the race running in fourth behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso and teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton.

However, his good work was undo🔯ne on Lap 1🦹2 when he hit the kerb at the Turn 8-9 chicane, clattering the barrier in the process.

This damaged Russell’s car considerably, forcing him into the pit lane, while race control were forced to deploy the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car.

Rem🏅arkably⛎, Russell was able to continue, making his way back into the top 10.

Russell ran behind Williams’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon in eighth before he was called into the pit lane t🃏o retire the car.

As confirmed by Wolff afterwa🅰rds, the shunt caused further issues with brake cooling, meaning it would have been unsafe to let Russell continue in the race.

"The oxidation matrices were high on both cars,” Wolff sai﷽d afte🍷r the race.

“But after he hit the wall, interestingly the oxidation matrix went dramatically up on the left and at that stage, we felt we wouldn't finish the rac♚e so we retired the car.”

Russell believes the considꦆerable time stuck in traffic behind other cars contributed to it.

“It was all quit♒e sudden when it was too late,” he explained. “I think the thing with brakes, once you go over a certain oscillation threshold, there’s no recovering.

“It doesn’t matter how🧜 ꦉmuch you nurse them. They’re just on a rate you can’t recover.”