Toto Wolff has praised George Russell for staying in “touching distance” and profiting from a collision between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, which in the end handed Russell his second profession win in Formulation 1.
Russell’s win in Spielberg was his and Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Crew’s first since 2022 São Paulo Grand Prix and Wolff took time to reward his driver’s efficiency when chatting with Sky Sports activities F1 after the race.
“I feel he’s accomplished at nice job to maintain himself nearly in touching distance. It was third place, that’s what it was on tempo, that’s stable and we’re pleased with that. Clearly when the 2 began to tangle in entrance, we had a thought that this might go flawed!
Mercedes have traditionally struggled on the Crimson Bull Ring and with it being Wolff’s house Grand Prix, he was delighted to get a great outcome and get again to profitable methods. The Mercedes group principal and CEO believes the upcoming British Grand Prix will swimsuit the group, maybe hinting that extra good performances are on the playing cards.
“That is observe the place we’ve by no means gone on effectively in the previous few years and Flip Three was at all times a poor nook for us. It’s a aid as a result of within the subsequent tracks, that are extra ours, we must always have much more tempo.
“That is the primary house grand prix gained for me right here after which we go to the subsequent one. We love Silverstone, it’s at all times been a contented place. It’s excessive pace, the vehicles at all times been good there. We have now two drivers that love the circuit and hopefully with the motivation and the power we’ve got now, we are able to actually make it a spectacular race.
“On actual tempo, we have been 15 seconds behind after 70 laps so it’s round 2 tenths. It’ll be troublesome however we’ve got many nice issues within the pipeline by way of growth and we’re gonna carry extra till the top of July and let’s see how a lot lap time we are able to extract from there.“
