George Russell has said Mercedes must understand the “black magic” of Pirelli’s current Formula 1 tyres after they once again dictated the team’s performance in Brazil.
Russell qualified fourth for Saturday’s sprint at Interlagos, and after a good first lap got up to second, having passed Sergio Perez and the Lando Norris. But he couldn’t maintain that form and lost out to both drivers as he dropped back to fourth, eventually finishing over 25 seconds shy of sprint winner Max Verstappen. Russell said the drop-off in performance had not been anticipated by the team: “Yeah, really unexpected.
Photo by: Steve Etherington / Motorsport Images George Russell, Mercedes F1 W14, Lando Norris, McLaren MCL60 “We're the slowest on the straight at the moment, so we're very vulnerable if anybody gets DRS behind us. We knew that was going to be the case. “But that wasn't the reason for our lack of pace. If anything, being on a bit more downforce than everybody else, we were expecting to have less tyre deg. So we really need to understand what went wrong.
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