Russell has secured eighth in the drivers’ championship with one round to go, well behind teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, who has third-place sewn up.

The British dr༺iver has finished on the podium just once this season - the same amount of times as the two Alpine dri🦂vers.

Russell threw away a guaranteed podium in Singapore on the final lap when chasing down 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris, while Las Vegas was another missed opportunity after contact with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

Reflecting on the year꧋, Russell described it as 𝕴a “very strange season”.

“It’s been a very strange season. It’s been a season where we’ve had a lot of pace at times but we’ve neꦛver achieved results that were deserved or possible,” he said. Need to try and understand why there’s been a huge amount of missed op🅠portunities. 

“Really hasn’t been a smooth season but I think when everything is flowing, when everything is working right, luck tends to be on your side, and when you’re on the backfoot, you tend ꦕto have bad luck. We just need to be faster a♍nd lady luck will be with us.”

Despite struggling for overall resuﷺlts, Russell feels he’s improved relative to last year even though he out-performed teammate Hamilton in the🌼 standings.

“It’s definitely somethinꦍg I am going to look at over the winter because the results were so smooth flowing last year,” he added. “I think we finished in the top five more than any other driver and this year, I feel that I have upped my game, upped my pace in my quali pace, race pace. 

“We’ve definitely been on the backfoot. We have more competition this year with McLaren joining the fight, Aston being there at the start 🉐of the season. Ultimately we’re looking to get through this weekend, trying to ce༺ment P2 in the championship.”