George Russell says he doesn’t perceive the explanation for his heavy crash in FP2 on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix that left Mercedes with a significant rebuild in a single day.
For the second successive weekend, Russell crashed closely and needed to be cleared from the medical heart on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez as a result of measurement of the impression. He was quickest within the first follow session however then misplaced management over the curb at Flip 8 early in FP2 and spun into the wall at excessive pace.
“Actually, don’t know what occurred,” Russell mentioned. “The automobile began bouncing on the bottom and earlier than I had an opportunity to catch it, I used to be already spinning.
“Quite a lot of work for the blokes tonight once more. It looks like it’s one factor after one other in the intervening time. It’s irritating. [In] FP1 we had been very sturdy, very quick. Tried to take the identical line, chopping that nook, and for no matter purpose on this event in FP2 the factor simply began happening me.”
Regardless of the crash, Russell believes it wasn’t as expensive as typical as a result of elongated tire check format of FP2, and he hopes to have the ability to get well throughout the closing follow session on Saturday.
“I imply FP2… as a result of it was the Pirelli tire check, it wasn’t massively priceless when it comes to what you be taught for the race weekend,” he mentioned. “Clearly missed out on laps. FP3 goes to be essential; simply hope we are able to get the automobile mounted.”
Teammate Lewis Hamilton additionally didn’t have a traditional begin to the weekend as Kimi Antonelli drove in his place in FP1 after which the tire check took over FP2, however he sees some encouraging indicators from the working he accomplished.
“It’s a tire check so we couldn’t change something on the automobile – it was the identical from the start to the tip,” Hamilton mentioned. “I do know what we have to repair. Whether or not or not we are able to really do this, we’ll see. However it didn’t really feel horrible; little bit off the entrance guys. Acquired some work to do tonight.”
