George Russell might need out-qualified his illustrious group mate but once more in Abu Dhabi, however he couldn’t stand up to Lewis Hamilton’s late assault as the 2 Mercedes drivers went wheel to wheel on the ultimate lap of the ultimate race of the season.
Hamilton pulled off a classic overtake, hanging it out across the exterior of his group mate into Flip 9 and sneaking previous into Flip 10 to seize a fourth-place end in his last race for Mercedes. The seven-time world champion had recovered from P16 after some unhealthy luck in qualifying, working an alternate technique that left him with lots to do within the closing laps to chase down Russell.
That left Russell to return residence fifth, after what had proved a tricky weekend the place he appeared to lack tempo from phrase go, the Briton usually confused as to what was occurring together with his automotive.
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“To be sincere, I’ve not had the tempo all weekend and I used to be fairly intrigued at this time to see if the tempo would come, and it was as we anticipated,” mentioned Russell afterwards.
