Poor George Russell. Poor, because he thought something that was not. Which clearly couldn’t be. The English of Mercedes, the best of his team in Miami both in qualifying and in the race, he finished fourth in Florida but for a moment he dreamed of something more. With something that his team told him no. What was it going to be?
‘Cause the young Brit, mate by Lewis Hamilton, He suffered from a lack of vision from his helmet when he observed the evolution of Fernando Alonso. Because he thought that in front of the Asturian, the ‘fight’ he was watching was for second place.
But not. It was not. And in Mercedes they confirmed it, leaving their illusions of being third in nothing… and to know if something else.
“Who is the one in front of Alonso? Are we so close to Pérez?”, he radioed to his team.
The response from his box was simply lapidary….
“No, no. Excuse me… It’s Logan Sargeant.” They confirmed him in Mercedes.
because Alonso was With the Williams, folded, to get rid of it and continue on his way to a new podium.
In front of him, almost 15 seconds away, It was where Sergio Pérez was, who finished second behind Max Verstappen.