Russell to take a deep look in the mirror

George Russell said on media day for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix he will review his season after only six of the 20 races were clean, after a ten‑second penalty in Mexico City. "These issues constantly keep popping up but unfortunately this always seems like it's on my side of the garage," he said. He added that a technical glitch at the Mexico City race forced him to miss his media duties.

"We concluded we've only had six races from the 20 where we've had a clean weekend. So to think 14 of those weekends have had issues is unbelievable." "We need to look to understand why that is, if there's something we are overlooking or if it's just pure misfortune. At the moment it does seem like it's more misfortune than anything." "In a normal season you might have two weekends or three weekends where there are issues.

We've had three quarters of this season and that has been incredibly unfortunate." He said the power‑unit's electrical part failed on the run to the first corner, leaving him vulnerable, and later collided with Isack Hadjar's Red Bull at Turn Six, earning a ten‑second penalty that left him sixth and dropped him from second to fourth in the drivers’ championship behind Antonelli, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.

"In racing you always pick yourself back up and for me the best way to pick yourself back up was getting out of there," Russell said on media day for this weekend's Sao Paulo Grand Prix. "It was as simple as that, really. I was just very upset with missing out on the chance of a good result because the championship for me was already over but I just couldn't believe how things had panned out again.

"In that moment, yeah, I just wanted to get out of there. "I think I'm 99% of the time a true professional and I try not to spit my dummy out, but sometimes missing out on doing the press – OK, it's not ideal but not the end of the world. "Moments like that you don't really want to deal with it.