George Russell insists Mercedes is not getting carried away with confidence after displaying strong pace at the British Grand Prix last weekend.
While Russell retired from the Silverstone race on the opening lap after being involved in a frightening crash with Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu, team-mate Lewis Hamilton showed good speed throughout.
The seven-time World Champion looked to be in contention for the race win, before a late Safety Car neutralised the race.
He crossed the finish line in third place, capping off a strong weekend for Mercedes, who has not been a race-winning contender for much of the 2022 campaign.
However, Russell asserts that Mercedes knew Silverstone would be a track that suited its package better than others.
“I don’t think we want to get too carried away, because I think Silverstone is a very unique circuit in the sense of the speeds you’re going through all of those corners,” Russell said.
“We clearly have a lot of downforce and good potential at a circuit like Silverstone.
“We’re going to another circuit here that’s, I’d say, more medium-speed as opposed to high-speed. We need to keep on evaluating.
“I think Silverstone was a really good step in the right direction and we’ve taken some really good understanding from there. But we’re sort of going to go again this weekend and see how we get on.”
Russell was unable to restart last Sunday’s race at Silverstone as track marshals touched his car during the red flag period that followed the opening lap collision.
The 24-year-old believes he could’ve brought home a solid result for the team, had he not received outside assistance to restart his car.
“The race was red-flagged and seeing such a horrific incident… I thought at the time as well my car was probably game over.
“And as it turned out, it wasn’t. So I think that just added to the emotions, the frustrations, because we definitely could have got going again and probably could have scored a strong result.”
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