Russell was encouraged by Mercedes' progress in SaudiArabianGP qualifying, claiming the team has found 'more performance in a week than we found in almost a month over the winter'.
But, while Russell still qualified behind a car from each of those teams in Jeddah, setting the fourth-fastest time six tenths off polesitter, the Briton was buoyed by a much-improved performance from his W14 after doing plenty of experimental set-up testing on Friday, in conjunction with overnight work back at home in Brackley.
"And when you come to a track and as a team deliver something more than you could have hoped and expected, that's incredibly satisfying. "We've got a lot of good tools. We've got a good simulator back at base, we've got a good group of people. And I think the work we did overnight, the work we did this morning, we got it in a really, really decent window."Earlier this week Mercedes decided to change course on its development path after team boss Toto Wolff said the team realised it was wrong to stick to its 2022 concept.
"I think it's probably four or so races before we can see a bit of a difference," he explained."We're already making good steps, good progress and I think it's sort of validated the incorrect direction we took over the winter.
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