George Russell shared a photograph with an uncommon viewpoint on the Friday of the Mexico Grand Prix. After taking a photograph from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez grandstands whereas sporting a lucha libre-style masks, he posted the shot to Instagram.
With the caption, “Haven’t watched F1 vehicles on monitor in years, so discovered a technique to sneak into the stands whereas Fred was driving my automobile,” the picture confirmed him sitting alongside followers as he went undercover to benefit from the first observe session whereas Frederik Vesti drove his automobile alongside Andrea Kimi Antonelli.
Every workforce should allocate two observe periods to a rookie driver, with the Brackley outfit handing Russell’s W16 to Vesti this weekend in Mexico Metropolis. This freed the Briton to observe the motion from the grandstands earlier than returning to the cockpit for FP2.
He definitely appeared the half within the packed Foro Sol grandstands amid the standard carnival really feel of the occasion. And the picture gained substantial numbers sitting at over 210,000 likes on the time of writing inside an hour of it being posted.
Streams of feedback accompanied the publish.
“OMG legendary,” one commenter wrote, with one other including: “You are so iconic omg.”
“Think about sitting there & George Russell was subsequent to you,” a 3rd wrote.
George Russell, Mercedes
Photograph by: Clive Rose / Components 1 by way of Getty Pictures
Regardless of relinquishing his automobile to Vesti for FP1, he is prepared to offer his all this weekend come Saturday’s qualifying.
“I feel it is so shut between the highest 4 groups, to be trustworthy, and are available qualifying, you see the gaps are fairly small. Clearly, you have at all times bought one workforce who’re performing higher than the remaining at a given weekend. You recognize, Crimson Bull final week, that was us in Singapore, however we all know we’re within the struggle and if you happen to do a fantastic job in Q3, you will be on the entrance row or high three and you then’re within the struggle for the rostrum.
“So the reality is, I do not actually have any expectations, moving into with an open thoughts.”
With observe persevering with right now within the high-altitude circumstances, Russell will now give attention to making up for the misplaced time.
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