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Russell says Las Vegas ‘dream of a weekend’
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Russell says Las Vegas ‘dream of a weekend’

By Miles Cooper November 24, 2024
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Russell says Las Vegas ‘dream of a weekend’

George Russell says his victory on the Las Vegas Grand Prix was “a dream of a weekend”.

Russell took a dominant win from pole place forward of Mercedes team-mate and fellow Briton Lewis Hamilton, who fought again from tenth on the grid.

Mercedes had been quickest in each session of the weekend and carried out properly within the cooler circumstances of the Las Vegas evening race, which began at 22:00 native time.

“I don’t understand how we’ve been so fast however I’m simply driving this wave proper now,” Russell stated.

“Vegas is only a loopy place and once you’re driving and also you see all of this within the background, I can’t describe this place. To get victory right here, pole place and a dominant weekend, one-two with Lewis as properly, we couldn’t have chosen a greater place to make this occur.”

It was Mercedes’ fourth win of the season nevertheless it has been an inconsistent 12 months and they’re set to complete fourth within the constructors’ championship, having been third in 2022 and second in 2023.

Russell is assured of one other good outcome subsequent weekend in Qatar, the penultimate race of the season.

“I feel we’ve received a very good shot in Qatar,” he stated. “Going into this triple-header, I had my sights set on Qatar even to the purpose the place I wished to take my earlier engine out and put an previous engine in and save my finest engine for Qatar.”

Seven-time world champion Hamilton appeared set to place his automotive on pole in qualifying however made errors within the ultimate session, which meant he began on the fifth row.

He got here by the sector in Las Vegas and handed world champion Max Verstappen to take second earlier than narrowing the hole to Russell within the closing levels.

“If I would achieved my job yesterday it might have been a breeze at this time,” stated Hamilton.

“If the automotive drives like that within the subsequent couple of races then I feel we’ll be in a great place to problem the fellows up entrance. The championship’s achieved, so now it’s simply all out, struggle for one of the best positions potential.”

Mercedes crew principal Toto Wolff stated: “At the moment we actually crushed everybody, we might have gone simply quicker, at occasions we had been two seconds faster than everybody else.

“We appear to be superb when it’s excessive velocity and on a little bit of the chillier facet with much less grip and that’s one thing we may be proud about. However when it’s getting scorching that’s when the automotive just isn’t performing so properly.”

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