How Russell turned Mercedes ‘disaster’ into shock F1 pole

“I came across the line, looked at the screen and saw we went P1 - and that was an incredible feeling.”Russell’s lap was made all the more impressive because it came completely out of the blue. It was a huge shock given where Mercedes found themselves after the opening day of running in Hungary.

“To come back and grab pole position 24 hours later, it’s just such a feeling because I know what we went through last night. Getting this result for all of us, is pretty huge.”Mercedes’ head of trackside engineering Andrew Shovlin had put the team’s competitive struggles in FP2 down to car experiments that went wrong, and hinted at significant changes overnight.

“I think today we just got it in the perfect window on that last lap,” he added. “I went around Turn 1 and I was a tenth and a half up. I went around Turn 2 and I was three tenths up and everything was just perfectly in the window. “Everybody struggled in the wet with the tyres and we’ve been going all over the place to try and get our heads around it, but fortunately we sort of nailed it on that last run.”

And the sand bags are coming off they’re going to bounce there way to the front good luck tomorrow

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