Russell enjoyed a storming start at Interlagos, getting past 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez and then 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris on the opening lap.

However, the good start didn’t last as Mercedes struggle🐬d with tyre degradation.

Russell was able to secure fourth after losing out to Norris and Perez, while teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton fell back to seventh by the end of the race.

Mercedes typically have excelled in race trim, relative qualifying, leaving Russell confused after the 24-lap race💖 in Brazil.

"It was a tough pill to swallow,” he said. “It’s♌ really quite confusing.  Unfortunately it’s always down to these tyres and getting them in the sweet spot.

“Especially these last two weekends, nobody’s really understood when it’s working for them, and they’ve found a lot of perform✤ance, like Ferrari in qualifying last week, then we found our pace in the race and suddenly it wasn’t there for us today when we expected quite a lot. So I don’t know going into tomorrow. 

“Right now, obviously we’re not too opღtimistic, 😼but conditions are different and that can totally change everything.”

Russell conceded the significant gap to Verstappen and Norris was 🍸“quite su💦rprising”.

“I enjoyed the first lap, with Lando,” he added. “It was a bit tight. T💙o be honest, the pace we had was in line with my expectations but everyone else was substantially quicker. 

“With Max, we’ve never been that far behind. He finishe♊d 25 seconds ahead in 24 laps. Over a second a lap. That was really quite surprising for us.”