The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was the type of full efficiency we anticipated to see much more of from George Russell this season. It was an exciting race to look at as two drivers went toe to toe within the remaining dozen laps, however Russell’s nerve held as he put in his greatest efficiency of the 12 months to maintain Verstappen at bay.
For a lot of the weekend it appeared as if Russell had the race within the bag. His tempo was typically robust and he had crew mate Kimi Antonelli on the ropes for as soon as within the Mercedes comparability.
To be truthful, Antonelli had began nicely in first observe earlier than a hydraulic failure price him monitor time in each of Thursday’s periods and it appeared the championship chief by no means recovered from it.
