Emag wrote: ↑08 Jun 2026, 22:15
I read the interviews today and I am going to be honest, I don't like the way George is responding to this. He basically tried to boil it down to just "poor luck". He was unlucky only in Canada with the PU problem, but everything else? Way off the pace in Miami. Like way way off. And his only excuse was that the track did not suit him. The problem is that the gap was too big for that to hold any water. Then you can argue the safety car in Japan, but he wasn't on Antonelli's pace anyway. Even in Canada, props for getting pole but he was not the faster Mercedes driver in either Sprint or Feature Race. Too many mistakes in the race itself where it was actually hard to distinguish who was the rookie and who was the veteran between the two.
In Monaco? No excuses at all. Your teammate puts it on pole, at the very least you need to be on the second row. Track position basically takes care of most of these "unlucky" situations George refers to.
Lando talked sh*t as well, which damaged his PR almost irreversibly, but at least the guy is humble enough to accept when he doesn't deliver.
George needs to stop focusing on the missfortune, but rather focus on what he can control. And what he can control is his pace, which coincidentally has been his biggest problem since China really.
Actually I'll play devil's advocate and say that his pace was, especially in the races... I don't know what it is but he always struggles for some odd reason? Very Good Qualifier, but his race pace was never "other worldly" vs the likes of Lewis, Max, Lando, and now coincidentally Kimi.
Now I know Russell fans don't like me saying this and frankly you guys have every right to defend him, but the moment I seen Kimi was catching up to George at a rate of knot in his first race, made me be extremely worried for him in the future!
