George Russell said missing out on what he felt should hꦺave been a first Formula 1 points finish in the Tus🦩can Grand Prix was “heartbreaking”.

Mugello delivered a thrilling, incident-filled race on F1’s first ever competitive visit to Tuscany and Russell looked to be in a strong position to capitalise on the chaos and score Williams’ first poi🌠nts haul of the 2020 season.

The Bri❀ton sat in ninth place after the second🦋 and final red flag period triggered by Lance Stroll’s massive shunt, but a poor getaway at the restart cost Russell multiple positions.

Russell ultimately fought back to 11th but was unable to beat ♑Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to claim the final point on offer.

"It is heartbreaking🐓 almost," Russell said. "The whole team had worked so hard, got ourselves in an amazing position P9, and it was well and truly under control and sealed.

"The car was feeling great. I was matching the pace of Sebastian and Charles behi💙nd me on the same life tyre. And that red flag just ♐threw it all away really.

"We made a really poor start just꧂ off the line. We don't know why yet because procedural wi🍷se everything was spot on.

"Then having Kimi [Raikkonen] and [Romain] Grosjean, they obviously had an extra lap to warm the tyres up and 🧸they both made mega, mega launches, which didn't help things.

"Nevertheless, just bitterly disappointing because we deserved it and it should have been ours. Two re𓄧d flags in one race is ridiculous."

R♒ussell conceded he had no explanation for why he suffered a poor launch, having pra⛦cticed the start and clutch drop procedure “100” times without encountering an issue.

“I don’t really ๊know what ha🧔ppened,” he added. “Everything seemed to be on target with the procedures.

“Th💮e other starts were okay, nothing special, but that last one with soft tyres I just went into wheelspin and got hit by Kimi and then yo🍬u can’t do anything from there. I drove my heart out.

"I sat in the gar𓃲age ❀10 minutes before practising my starts for 10 minutes, and I must have done a total of 100 clutch drops over the course of those two hours. And every time I was within 2-3% of the target, which is normally not an issue at all.

"So we just need to look into it🐻 and see what went wrong because to be fair, aℱll of our launches were bad today."