168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell says the high-speed deficiencies of Mercedes’ 2024 F1 car are particularly “expo🍨🦩sed” during low-fuel runs in qualifying.

Russell could only qualify ninth for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix and was outpaced by Mercedes teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton for the first time this season at Suzuka.

The Briton, who꧂ admitted a mistake in Q3 cost him a potential top-five starting grid slot in Japan, r🥃evealed Mercedes are trying some “drastic” test items in a bid to cure their mean weakness.

"We know the strengths and weaknesses of our car. The weaknes🌠s is high-speed corners,” Russell ꧃said.

"When you get to qualifying, you take the fuel out, the corners a𒆙re becoming fa▨ster and faster and faster. So, the pace naturally sort of goes away from us a bit in those corners.

"We're definitely doing more drastic test items at the moment to try and get on top of this high-speed performance. The car is correlating well in low speed and medium spe𝔉ed.

"But we're a long way off in the high speed compared to what we'reꦦ seeing back at base. So, we need to get on top of that.

"When you get to qualifying and the fuel comes out, t🎃he speeds are only going higher, higher and higher and that sort of runs away from us slightly.

"Whereas in the r🎐ace, you're probably going around the corners 30km/h slower in a high speed, which brings it back into more of a medium-speed corner ratꦑher than a high-speed corner.

"So, we need to understand that. And it's good it'ಞs been exposed this early in the season.”

Russell believes that the start of ཧthe 2024 calendar has only exacerbated Mercꦦedes’ problems.

"Unfortunately, just with the nature of this calendar, we've had three ciꦡrcuits in a row that are all high speed," he added.

"If we started the season at Bahrain, Baku and Singapore, we'd probably be talking a very different picture fꦏor us."