What bad luck for George
The retirement in this Canadian GP by George Russell left its mark, and it couldn’t be otherwise. The Englishman, stopped by a failure on his W17, had already appeared furious at the moment of the forced stop but even in front of the TV cameras he barely managed to hold back his disappointment. Russell, understandably from his point of view, blamed bad luck for a start of the season that could see him tonight fall 43 points behind teammate Kimi Antonelli.
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“Nothing is going right for me at the moment – Russell said to Sky Sport microphones – it would have been better if [this problem] had happened to me in Miami when I was sixth, not here in Montreal when I was leading. Even in Japan the Safety Car entry could have happened one lap earlier, or the failure in qualifying in China. Even the red flag in Q1 in Melbourne, without the red flag Kimi would have started last. Something is not going right for me at the moment. I don’t want to wish bad luck on anyone else, I just want to fight and be able to play my cards fairly, to have the same opportunities. At the moment luck is definitely not on my side.”
