🗣️ “We’ve got to go for it, haven’t we?” George Russell says Mercedes will focus on beating Max Verstappen and Red Bull to AusGP victory after nearly matching it in qualifying ⬇️
, a somewhat surprise result for the Black Arrows squad after its difficult start to the new campaign and having been 0.6s off the pace in both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Although Verstappen heads into Sunday’s race as the heavy favourite for victory, Russell indicated that after its strong qualifying result, Mercedes’ expectations of a successful race could be altered given the chance to attack the polesitter early-on. “We’ve got to go for it, haven’t we?” Russell said in the post-qualifying press conference in Melbourne. “We’ve got to go for the win.
“Max is going to be extremely fast, there’s no hiding that. I think it’s difficult to overtake around this circuit, so the start, lap one, is going to be vital.“But, let’s see how we get on. We’ve got to do our race. But if the opportunity is there, we’ll go for it.”
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